An outstanding online gaming experience gone wrong

There is this game, Shattered Galaxy (www.sgalaxy.com) which I have spent the last 2 years dedicating my life to. However, it pains me to think of the asians ruining this game. The company who produces the game, Nexon USA, is a sub company of Nexon Asia, who produces a game called Tactical Commanders which is the same thing as Shattered Galaxy only it's worked on much harder due to it having the main company behind it. Frankly put, Nexon USA is Nexon Korea's bitches and Nexon Korea could give a rat's ass about the US and Singaporean players who play Shattered Galaxy. We have bugs that go unfixed for weeks if not months. Nexon Korea barely support their US counterpart and don't allow Nexon USA to make changes to Shattered Galaxy until the Korean producers fix it themselves, however they are always working on Tactical Commands. Nexon USA claims that if they had the money they would go ahead and get this game on track. My reason for posting this is to ask you all to download the free 2 week trial and try the game out. It is probably the best RTS game ever, I think easily surpassing StarCraft, and deserves much more respect. The SG player base has been quickly diminishing due to the Nexon's bullshit. If we can get a steady player base up and running again, and some of you like the game and buy it, we can make some changes with the fansite community. If you do decide to DL the free trial at www.sgalaxy.com, and need some help with anything, you can always ask for a friendly helping hand from me in game under the name DIESELone. I hope you all consider giving this game a shot and take advantage of it's 2 week free trial.
-Rich :jest:

:edited to remove ads: -.- :jest:

haha, thank you =P, figured I might as well endorse ourselves. But I started out in a fit of rage at Nexon. I had calmed down towards the end of the posting and was talking to people from SGCity and figured hey, why not get us some more people at the site AND the game. :lol:

Just edited my topic post to remove endorsements. :D

well, don't buy it! So easy to find copies in p2p networks and cd keys on google.com =) Only thing is, what do people see in FPS? =P
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I just find a FPS as banal and bland.They don't require all that much thinking, which is why I'm a big fan of strat and rpg, get to think =P. The only FPS joy I ever got was Goldeneye 4 player back in the day of N64. But you say yuou wasted 3 months of your life, I'm on 2 years now with Shattered Galaxy, since beta, and it sucks to see it all going downhill.
-Rich :jest:

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Originally posted by Rich
I just find a FPS as banal and bland.They don't require all that much thinking, which is why I'm a big fan of strat and rpg, get to think =P.

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Ah! FPS requires no thinking!? Stop, my ears are hurting! FPS games can require quite a lot of thinking. I played single player Quake 2 and Quake 3 at pretty high levels. Keeping up with the different stuff can get complicated. For instance, on a map with 1 Red Armor and 1 Mega Health, you absolutely must time their respawns. You'll have to keep up with when they are picked up and how long they have until they come back, because whoever gets either of those items will have a large advantage. In Quake 2, weapon respawns were also very important. You could keep your opponent from getting certain weapons if you knew what was going on (this is true in Quake 3, too, but to a lesser extent because of the very short weapon respawn times). You also have to constantly keep up with where your opponent is, which will require you to know the map very well and listen for sounds. Very few top players will pick up armor shards if they don't want the opponent to know where they are, because the opponent will hear the sounds that the armor shards make when you pick them up, and if they know anything about the map, they will know exactly where you are.

I never played team games at high levels, but I know what it takes to make a good team. The team has to know each other pretty well, and they have to all know what they need to be doing at a given time. Both teams have to keep up with when the Quad Damage respawns, and they also need to control certain rooms to prevent the other team from powering up too much.

I think a lot of people seem to have a problem with FPS games because they think they are completely reflexes and all skill based, no strategy/thinking involved. I can see why people would think this if they play a lot of deathmatches, where it is just all skill based. In a large free for all, there's really not a whole lot to think about since it gets pretty chaotic. It pretty much is all how well you can aim your railgun in a big chaotic game like that. But in a more controlled game like a 1on1, or a team deathmatch where both teams have practiced, these games definitely look much different, and it's easy to see real strategies and thinking, and you'll need to actually think to win.

I was actually thinking about picking thi sup the other day. I keep telling myself I need to try out PC gaming, and this really grabbed my attention. My question is, does it have a solid single player experience? Missions and whatnot? I mean, I used to love playing Total Annihilation multiplayer on my friends computer, but I still like doing the single player strat thing.

Z-roe

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No, really, you're a very skilled salesman. :)

As for the game.......my pile of shame is way too large for me to even think of doing the online game right now. The only one I've been pondering lately is Counter Strike, and that's only because every single person on the entire planet has asked me to play it with them.

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... Counter-Strike owns everything...

... did me, you and Totalstuff play together a few times back on Gamefaqs? or was that Andy787?

Z-Roe, if your talking re: Shattered Galaxy, the game is standardly 4 countries/factions as labeled in game where people fight 16v16 (or if another faction wants to join in, 16v16v16) battles for land. In order to win the land, you need to win majority of the pocs (little tickers that a land unit has to stay on for 40 seconds. and each map has a different number of pocs ranging from 3-5) However, at the moment, there is a special even going on where the standard 16:40 battles have been reduced to 8:20, poc times are now 30 seconds, and only 10v10 in a battle. however this should be changed by the weekend after the event is over. And if you weren't talkign to me, this is a wasted post lol
-Rich:jest:

I'd say teamplay FPSes require the most thought.

In fact, Tribes 2, when you aren't playing on a public server full of idiots, is better than the majority of RTSes out there. The armor classes, the items, the generators, the vehicles, the sensor network, the command screen...

...Bliss.

Yeah, I was talking about Shattered Galaxy. Thanks for explaining. Is there no single player though? No diffrent modes?

Z-roe

i'm so lost when it comes to Tribes 2... i mean... i try to play on public servers... and it's basically just "grab a scout and fly towards the enemy base... die... repeat"

... i'm sure it would be much better if there was actually some evident teamplay...

Well you can go fight aliens in caves by yourself, but it's no where as fun as pvp. And you still need the internet connection for that. And the game revolved totally around the unit devolpment. You put your stats into 1 of 4 categories (mechanical aptitude gives you more weight to equip more things, education gives you access to higher tech levels and sooner, tactics gives you more units to play with, and clout gives you access to higher chassis designs and more hp on your units. Also, there are other things that the stats give your but they aren't all the relevant. Like clout lets you see what units other people have with lower clout and tactics lets you control the flow of reinforcement etc. And as I said, the best part is unit development, 50 units, with more coming each patch, and you can make each unit designed to fit your liking, more hp less dmg, high dmg less hp, evened out, more sensors etc.
-Rich :jest: