NWO Multiplayer Beta 2

Honestly I don't think that all this is Termites fault. When Project 3 Interactive picke up Termite as the publisher, they said that NWO would be given an 'accelerated' production schedule.

I have a feeling that P3I has some MBA at the helm who knows nothing about the game industry, looking for a quick ROI on the money they've put in, and they want to get the game out the door, not realizing that these extremely poorly coordinated 'betas' are costing them zillions of sales at worst, and crapping up their reputation (P3I's and Termite's) hard at best.

That's all pure speculation of course, but I can't believe that Termite feels that the game is ready or even presentable in its current form. It's gotta be someone who doesn't care about games and has some influence over Termite.

And for the record, personally I don't care about NWO specifically, I think the engine tech they have is interesting, but no matter how good the game is, one more military squad shooter added to the sea of others looking to cash in on CS is going to go largely unnoticed on my radar. Just like Global Ops did. (for those interested, GO has less than 400 people playing it right now, according to gamespy - less people that are still playing Tribes 1 - yeah, that put a huge dent in the CS scene...)

Any where else to get this patch? Anybody have it that can post it? I couldn't get the first release to run, and I really would like to see this thing in action.... should run ok on a 2100+/GF4 ti4200, anyway.

Impressions (Just by myself running around on a LAN):
Graphics: Diz-am. Few things that are bothersome are; no bullet holes in glass/can't break glass, textures have that PSOne shifting prob (i think its a GF2 thing cuz my bro's GF4 128Meg doesn't do it), sparks on my GF2 are funk-e. Hell it plain chunks running around on my GF2 32MB card in 16bit 800x600. Runs beautifully on my bro's card and his 1.4Ghz tho.

Lighting: very nice for a FPS; downside is the environment lighting doesn't affect the player model =\

Models: overall, very nice. Some are plainly textured, others are nice.

Sounds: MP5 is the best sounding MP5 I've ever heard, hands down. The shells, ricochets, plinks, firing, etc are very nice.

Networking: Couldn't tell ya...(yet)
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Overall, if these guys can get another programmer onboard (1 programmer for this project is insane!), and keep fixing and updating, I'm all over this. The first beta was crap, this has come quite a ways. *I didn't install the DX patch to run around.

Specs:
AMD Athlon 1.2 XP
512 DDR
ATA66 HD
32MB GF2 GTS
SBLive
WinXP

I have to give them credit... they've made one of the fastest and most hassle-free uninstall programs I've ever seen. Woohoo!

Graphics are nice....Has potential (fucking good for one programmer).

Is there a mirror for that damn DX 8.2 thing? I've been trying to get into betaplace for like half an hour (In which time I could've downloaded the thing four times).

I did try the original beta, but it was horribly slow, and crashed every few minutes. It looked pretty nice, though, and I can't imagine the thing being any worse than the first beta was, so I'm giving it a whirl. Well, if I can get DirectPlay 8.2 installed, like, ever, that is.

Sound is totally fubar for me =/
BUT HOLY COW EXCUSE THE CAPSLOCK BUT THIS GAME LOOKS AWESOME!
That was well worth the download (fileshack is stellar btw) only for seeing what games can and should look like on my PC. This looks very promising to me, hopefully they'll fix these bugs soon.

Soooo, anyone who actually played the new demo/beta actually wanna post some impressions of it?

i am not installing a beta patch of direct x (wich you can't patch backwards) just to play this beta.

f u

Where's the seattle mirror?

the beta driver IS NOT NEEDED...only if you have lag problems online do you need ot get it. it is completely playable WITHOUT the beta drivers.

The first demo sucked the dogs bollocks. Why don't they just give up?

They are deleting any negative posts on the official forum. It's pretty funny. I see whole threads coming off as quick as they go on. LOL! The admin must be Colonel Steve Austin. LOL!

Dood! You can just Beta Test DX9! thats fucking SWEET

where the hell is the download link on betaplace? i filled out the damn survey and i see shit.

Ha i would post where to get this but it would get nuked like all the other beta posts I do ;-)

Is the betaplace.com site down for the rest of you, or just me?

I agree, any demo released by a company that requires downloading and installing a third-party program (that hasn't even been friggin' released to the public yet) is absolutely absurd.

poor guys...only one programmer and look what they have to read. sniff.

Can anyone please mirror the directx patch? betaplace.com == gh3y.

Truely pathetic, "they coulda been a contender" but this extra BETA download takes the cake, Back to Americas Army and SOF2, bahhh, too bad, I wanted to see this game in WORKING condition

Damn, I got excited for a moment there.

How the heck can they expect people to downloade a beta API for their game?
They must be pretty stupid.

This demo will bring my machine to its knees. The other demo ran at like 2 FPS. :(

Lots of bad oppinions even though noone here has tried the beta 2. I haven't either, so i'm waiting with the thumbs up, or down.

If DirectPlay 8.2 will improve gameplay in other games than NWO, why complain?

Wow, encouraging people to install a DirectX beta for your game demo, that's real smart.

In a month or two: OMG why is my DirectX saying it's expired, WTF?

Ill pass on this trash and keep playing BF1942. Im not downloading any beta shit from MS

sweet tities
go go go