CrimeCraft

[Tbone]

CrimeCraft
www.crimecraft.com

This is an MMOFPS currently in open beta. You can download and play it now. Just go to the website.

It's kind of interesting. I'd say it's 90% FPS and 10% MMO. After loosely customizing your character, you start in a small mid-townesq area. The graphics aren't that bad. The first thing you'll notice is that you can't shoot anything. You'll get quests that let you talk to different people, but soon the tutorial will give you a quest to kill someone in an instance. This turns out to be pretty simple. You click "u", choose the map, load in and start killing things.

In this way it is very much like an FPS. The starting area is even called the "lobby". So you run around the lobby upgrading skills, crafting weapons or ammo, or receiving quests, then you choose a server and either kill bots or other players. I haven't done a PvP map yet, but that'll probably be the next thing I do.

Each level you get an SP point. After a certain number of them, you can buy a sniper rifle skill, rocket launcher skill, etc. etc. So leveling is mostly getting better weapons, better armor, upgrades, or health stuff.

The game is a pretty decent FPS. You spawn in and start killing things. You get points for everything you kill and more points for headshots, double kills, etc. If you die, you lose 5 points and respawn in about 5 seconds. At the end, points are converted to xp and cash. There are also cases you can find that will give you crafting mats.

A lot of the job/missions will work like achievements. For instance, "Kill 5 enemies carrying SMGs with a pistol" or "Kill 5 players carrying a pistol with an SMG". I accepted a lot of these at once. So far the game has kept my attention, but I've only played it an hour or two. So far it seems like an FPS with a virtual lobby and economy. Hopefully some more of you will log on and we can take a look at the Gang aspect (guilds).

By the way, CrimeCraft is a play on words for "World of Warcraft", as well as a tie-in to the crafting side of what would otherwise be an FPS game.

[Tbone]

I've played some PvP now, and I must say it's a lot of fun. They have different game modes like capture the flag, etc. I'm also a tailor, and trying to build that up. This game kinda has potential...the instanced FPS fights satisfied the competitive, shoot everything side, and then the crafting satisfies the "learn everything about the game" side. Not much room for RP, but in terms of a temporary game to keep us occupied for a bit, I think we could do worse. I recommend checking it out. My in-game name is Tb0ne. I need at least two of you to try it out so we can make our Gang!

[Erathaol]

Downloading the Beta Client now, boss!

[Tbone]

Log on TS as well. Ana and Jeyk are also playing. We're trying to get enough cash to start the faction.

[Manic Velocity]

Downloading now.  3.2gb and I'm only pulling 116k/sec.  

[Tbone]

We were able to form the guild with me, Jeyk, Ana, Yotogi, and Lith. Fun times.

[Anamodiel]

Addicting, to say the least.

[Manic Velocity]

The fuck?  17 hours of download time and I get an empty goddamn zip folder?

Am I missing something here?

EDIT: Tried re-downloading and I get a "Forbidden" error when I try to select a public download server.  Could we maybe host the beta client on our server?

[Tbone]

I would set up a torrent, but I'm overnight at a hotel again for work. I won't be back until tomorrow night. Maybe I can set up something then if the files didn't auto-extract...

[Lits]

That would be awesome T... my download keeps freezing at 3%. I'll reload it and try again only to have the same result.

They say insanity is the repetition of the same actions expecting different results.

[ArchNemesis]

Already signed up... i'm fed up with file planet and their shit downloads so i'll wait for a torrent to go up to download.

[Lithium]

Fileplanet blows, with there downloader and shit. Wouldn't even work on Windows 7. So I had to download it on my laptop and send it over my network to the desktop.

[Tbone]

http://followtheangel.org/ccopenbeta.torrent

[Manic Velocity]

Sweet.  Downloading now.

[Broin]

downloading