It's always good to see people interested in new IP in this sub-genre of FPS. I don't know if I'd call it BF3, but it is promising.

1-18-08

I agree that they're playing around with a dangerous release period. The game needs as much refinement as possible with the level of competition they're facing too. That's why I keep saying, "good luck." :)

It looks like a good start though, especially for their first comercial game.

Yea.. January aint far away. I know for a fact they work some long hours though.. so best of luck with that. Personally, I hope that DICE does a good job with the inevitable BF3 as well, but the more competition it has the better, and I believe KAOS will be better to their core fan base.

The console version puts this in a unique position too. 32 players + dedicated servers.. they could have a winner on their hands. 360 demo isn't too far off either.

I *really* like some of the things they did to balance vehicles out. Like the no-lock free flight mode on the helos gives them a chance in the air. The 2nd gunner tank tag-team and countermeasures makes tanks balanced out against the trooper roles.

I don't find the aiming loose in FFOW at all, in fact, in a way, it's much tighter than it is in Call of Duty--there's less of a feel of instant accuracy--but then again, there's still very much an arcadey touch to the gun mechanics. I'm not sure I really enjoy infantry that much at all, which means, almost needless to say, I'm a bit disappointed by where the game is at right now. It's not the gunplay that does it (or in this case, doesn't do it) for me, there's something about movement that seems very rigid and mechanical, which is a bummer.

This is obviously more Battlefield than Call of Duty. I wouldn't want every games combat to feel like Call of Duty's personally.. that would be boring. But it is still very rough around the edges.. I'm very much looking forward to their release still but I feel like they have a long ways to go in a very short time frame, and I'm honestly a bit worried.

I was hoping that they would be the next Battlefield, and unfortunately as close as they have come I feel like they're still going to miss the mark. It's almost more surprising considering that the testing community is made up of so many high profile Battlefield players.

What is successful, is vehicle combat.. much more so than ETQW and other recent BF clones.. but I'm afraid that may not be enough to distinguish this from the pack, when there are so many other releases surrounding it.

I know this was a pretty critical message, but I still wish them the best of luck, and hope that they deliver an awesome game in their final product. I know I'll be buying it, I don't know that I'll drop Call of Duty league play in favor of it though. I find myself still wanting Battlefield 3, which is sad, because part of me is so out of love with DICE that it's not funny. KAOS is a much more appealing developer from the standpoint of community support and coolness.

Yeah.. I've expressed some concerns about the current state of ground pounding on the beta forums. It's actually worse in 0.3.0 than it was in 0.2.0--which I find quite discouraging. I keep hearing, "it's only a beta," from the community, but that excuse is running dry with only a month left in development. I'm still hoping that it improves dramatically by 1/18 but I'm not expecting much at this point.

Still, hoping for the best, but as is, "the next Battlefield" it is not. I wish they could push back the release another month or so and concentrate their efforts where they're most needed.

The game (I haven't played the SP demo) has some interesting mechanics that set it apart from the rest of the pack, but unfortunately they're overshadowed by the poor mechanics in other areas. I'm not sure if the demo makes the distinction between classes and rolls apparent, or the really goes into any depth into how the frontline mechanic works.. but they're both very interesting concepts that could be very compelling if the rest of the game were coming together in a better fashion.

I still have my eyes on this one, but at the moment I'm pretty disappointed with the release candidate. I find it especially discouraging that there are so many people in the beta community who are happy with its direction. They've had a great oppertunity to have a real impact on the development of this game, and instead many of them wound up being yes-men instead of being harshly honest when the development of this game most needed it.

I don't know why they bothered with a bugged out single player demo. They would have been better off waiting a few more weeks and delivering a more polished version of the PC release candidate (which is still in desperate need of more development time).

I think the infantry model is a little more arcady than past Kaos games. With CoD4 and QW on the market they find themselves needing to differentiate some. Personally I think DC had some of the best ground combat ever, so I am hoping they still fine tune things...

The gang at Outpostgamez had a talk with Brian Holinka, Lead Technical Designer for Frontlines:Fuel of War. He talks about consulting with the US military, about how friendly the modding will be, leaderboards and a lot of other good stuff.

OPG: What type of environments will a gamer experience, examples such as sand storms, rain, wind?

FFOW: The variety in the landscapes that our level designers, lead by Richard “Iggy” Cowgill of Desert Combat fame, and environment artists have built is tremendous. While we don’t have any in-game weather systems per se, they’ve been very creative in using environmental effects to build really immersive ambience. Coupled with some really powerful and impressive sound (I’ll be blatantly honest, I feel our sound superior to many of our competitors that I’ve played recently), it makes you forget your staring at a screen and draws you in. I’m really proud of what those guys have done and I’m just glad to have been associated with them on this project.

The interview covers plenty of topics and is a very interesting piece, so you should definitely go check it out.

Read on…….

http://outpostgamez.com/article-7-FFOW-OPG-First-I...