F.E.A.R. Combat Announced

Damn, this is really cool of them to do.

It's hard to find a company that does this sort of thing now that everyone else is nickel and diming the consumer for everything they're worth..

KUDOS SIERRA

To all you Bethesda / EA fanboys: do you still think you should be charged for stuff like this? Do you still think playing $2 for a horse model, or $20 for a couple of multiplayer maps, is justified?

I'm not totally anti-commerce or something, I'm just against game developers and publishers trying to get money for every tiny little extra bonus feature they throw at us. I'm okay with full, proper expansion packs which really add loads of stuff to the game, not just a few levels, but also new features, to make the game as a whole significantly better. (I did buy HL2:Ep1 btw, and was a bit dissapointed by the amount of content - great quality, but too little. Hopefully Ep2 will make up for it with TF2).

Although some people would maybe pay a small price for FEAR Combat, how many people who haven't yet bought FEAR will be inclined to do so now? This free multiplayer pack will create buzz, and people will talk about FEAR again, and that'll make the game continue to sell. And the developer / publisher gets a good name. This is a win-win situation; free stuff for FEAR players, and free marketing for the devs/pubs.

This smells like U2XMP.

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Wow, so it's like Wolfenstein:ET then? Free multiplayer goodness? Nice. I own FEAR but I assume I might as well download this anyway since it has more gametypes and whatnot, or would I have the same content in FEAR's mp?

I am very pleased with the way they are doing this.

Release the SP game first, build the story / game style and then work on the MP LATER - much much better than delaying the game for MP which may or may not be even played

Way too many games lately have assumed you HAVE to have an MP portion, good to see this move.

Holy crap this is awesome. I DECLARE SHACKBATTLE

Just to clarify couple of things:

1. Do the owners of the full game have to download this to join MP games hosted with this release?

2. Can the owners of full games use their cdkeys for this release?

3. Will the FEAR expansion MP be compatible with this / vice versa?

Given the success of Enemy Territory and the lack of movement currently with FEAR multiplayer, this is a wise move to keep the franchise kicking. However, I wonder about the idea of requireing people to register and getting a key code. This seems to me to be counter productive. First, people will give false information (ok, the email address will need to be legit) diminishing the value of any marketing data, and secondly, if you really want to build critical mass for people playing the game, why not make it as easy as possible for people to play it?

sweet

i was so disappointed when i bought fear at release and it was really difficult to find good servers to join

the demo was really fun and was looking forward to some multiplayer :(

Gotta love stuff like this.. I already own the game, hopefully more people will give this a shot it's not bad.

That's awesome !! gg Monolith, one of my favorite developers.

Why not release it for free? The franchsie isn't really going anywhere.

To create a market share, you almost have to release things free-o-charge to get anyone to notice it. That, or have a kick-ass free demo (but they tried that and it didn't get very far).

So... ya have whatcha have - a lady on the corner saying, "Hey stud, I'm free now... so please play with me, I spent all this money on this dress!"

Actually, I'm waiting for the day that in-game advertising allows the publisher to PAY the player for using his game. "We'll give you 1-cent for every minute you play our game."

Awesome, I'll be looking forward to this and shooting certain shackers in the face.

The MP is fun its the original maps that were included that were really dull. They released an urban map that really livened things up later.

So....where exactly to you sign up?

I dont get all the confusion. The MP portion of the original FEAR is being released for free. No new content, just the MP part of the retail game. Is this correct?

Free...as in Enemey Territory free?

Wait, 10 modes? I know the latest patch added a few new modes or are they including Slo-mo DM , slo-mo TDM as modes as well?

wait... FREE? very cool.

This is a Good Thing To Dotm. Bravo Sierra.

Cool PR move.

so i assume you will need the fear disc(s) to play this?

That's really cool.

Can we expect mods to work with this? the mod scene for fear seems rather dead at the moment, but maybe this can revive it.

Nice community move.

First id with quake 4 and now sierra with FEAR.....its a great time to be a fps fan :0)

Smart fucking move. :) I'll check this out.

Why wouldn't they want to include that in with the expansion pack? Good for us, but I would think that would be a great selling point for the xpack.

Fuckin' kick ass. :D

Whoa that's pretty damn cool of them.

Shit, they're releasing this for free? Sierra is going against the tide a little there.

I'll reload FEAR to play multi again. Sounds fun.