MAG - FPS

[kilroy0097]

Has anyone seen or are currently talking about this game?
256 players at once on a map! OMG!

http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/plugged-in/mag-promises-playstation-s-biggest-firefights/1385898

[Kernel Error]

yep i picked it up last night.. so far its fun i played until around 3 am after picking it up at midnight and again this afternoon for a bit. To me the progression is slow, i may not be following squad orders right because some ppl will get xp in the hundreds but i have yet to get more than like 80 or so.... havent gotten to the map with 256 players yet but i have played with 128 and that was pretty wild.

[atomicbob]

I saw the ad for the first time yesterday and thought 256 would be badass!

Back in the day I played Warbirds and there would be hunnerts of people playing at once. That was awesome.

[Fovos]

looks nice but it is only on PS3!!! :(

[Kernel Error]

yeah well apparently healing/reviving is a big part of your xp gains. I restarted may toon and have almost caught back up from where i was from about 4 hours of play in about 30 minutes with healing.

[kilroy0097]

Now only if it would come to the PC and become a badass mod. Oh if only PR was 128 vs 128. My God the military actions that would come outta that.

[Kernel Error]

I would have to think that this is in our (PC gamers) near future. I'm just a little dissapointed that a console was the first to do it.

[EdrrakNolat]

I think I might pick this up.
Maybe we can get some WiH nights, like we were doing with MW2 on 360!

[Crotch-Rot]

How does that work with 128 or 256 players on a map? Is the world persistent or does it change maps like in BF2?

[Kriv]

Tempted to pick this up......

[kilroy0097]

From the in game videos I've been watching the best I can say is it looks like BF2 as far as the size of the maps goes but then a feeling of CoD4 as far the shooting and moving about goes. Not sure from just the videos.

[Crotch-Rot]

I just saw a review of this game on ign.com. It looks cool but has some balancing issues such as the winning side gets lots of bonus which their players can level up and upgrade. New players are put onto the dominant side which then snowballs their domination. The graphics looks pretty cool though. i'm tempted to give this a shot, but it's going to be hard to get away from BC2.

[kilroy0097]

NSFW due to language. But you get a good idea what the multiplayer looks like in MAG.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27CbmJo6M2s

I was cracking up while they were talking because it reminds me of my OG Clan days when we would get online and completely terrorize battlefields. We would talk shit like this all the time late at night killing peeps online. Ahh the good days.

[EdrrakNolat]

So I've had this a few weeks now, have to say I'm a little dissapointed. You only end up playing the same 4-5 maps over and over and over. The best way to get XP is to heal and repair, not kill the enemy.

However, 256 players on one map fighting each other is AWESOME when you see tracers flying back and forth.

[kilroy0097]

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/1/6/

[EdrrakNolat]

Sadly, that's fairly accurate Kilroy.