It runs better from the downloaded client than in the browser, which was giving me lag. The client also gives you more screen real estate and removes the ad.
That said...holy crap! Furries are one of my top 3 phobias and I really like this game. It's f2p WoW, with some nifty additions, including a very cool player housing system, high drop rate on equipment, excellent dungeon rewards system, moveable UI (without mods!) and good art direction/world design.
Most importantly, it's not Korean, and therefore has wonderfully non-engrish text, clear and useful tutorials and generally lacks that "ugh..." factor that accompanies games from my ancestral homeland. /shame
Though it does have a couple issues, as a beta it's miles ahead of similar, completed f2p games.
Quick tip: click the red diamond on the left of your hotkey bar to open additional hotkey bars. Took me a while to figure that out.
Also, here's a list of keyboard shortcuts (including autorun!) and shortcuts: [www.eartheternal.com]
@DubSkins: It is the enemy that we harbor unknowingly. His name is mutant, furry and deviant. He is the foe that will destroy us as no other can. He leads us before a hellish throne to dance enfeebled and imbecilic for the lewd pleasures of dark gods.
Burn the furry and the heretic that shelters him! Burn the furry porn artist and those that worship him! Burn the deviant and those tainted by him! Let their deaths purify us so that in dying their bodies serve mankind as in life they never could.
@Outkastprince: "Browser based MMO" why would a mac have problems? the game should be O/S independent. Not sure how it would work on safari but it should still work.
@xcalibr: That's what I thought, I was more confused with what the game itself was telling me. They have a question and answer on how a Mac version will come out in the future, which doesn't make sense to me (now) but surely will after I download it for sure.
edit: Yup, it's a EXE file. So someone with a mac boot program might be able to run it but most likely some of my friends will have to wait for the mac version.
@Outkastprince: It uses an exe?
How fucking retarded is that.
So the game is gimped by the limits of being browser based, but doesn't use the strengths of a browser being platform independent.
Firefox - on all platforms, supports plugins, supports WebGL for 3D, free, not a hard equation to work out guys.
Edit: their site says it runs in Firefox, so don't get how/why they made it Windows based
@Yossarian: Except Flash (like WebGL) is platform independent. So Flash content works whatever the OS.
So instead of using DirectX, which the game doens't necisiarly need all the extra fancy bits of DX9 and above, it can use WebGL and been purely broswer based.
Quake Live managed it.
@deanbmmv: Flash and WebGL are only platform independent because they made executables for all the various platforms.
I agree that there *are* solutions, but if you don't pick one that has an engine built to run across Mac and Linux, you won't automatically get that functionality just because you are in a browser.
My random guess would be that they were developing for windows, and decided to use windows tools for their own ease of development.
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That said...holy crap! Furries are one of my top 3 phobias and I really like this game. It's f2p WoW, with some nifty additions, including a very cool player housing system, high drop rate on equipment, excellent dungeon rewards system, moveable UI (without mods!) and good art direction/world design.
Most importantly, it's not Korean, and therefore has wonderfully non-engrish text, clear and useful tutorials and generally lacks that "ugh..." factor that accompanies games from my ancestral homeland. /shame
Though it does have a couple issues, as a beta it's miles ahead of similar, completed f2p games.
Quick tip: click the red diamond on the left of your hotkey bar to open additional hotkey bars. Took me a while to figure that out.
Also, here's a list of keyboard shortcuts (including autorun!) and shortcuts: [www.eartheternal.com]
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Very nice, interesting and surprisingly non-creepy person. The exception to the rule, if you will, which I thought was pretty ironic.
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The embarrassment of the doctor's visits finally cured me, though.
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Burn the furry and the heretic that shelters him! Burn the furry porn artist and those that worship him! Burn the deviant and those tainted by him! Let their deaths purify us so that in dying their bodies serve mankind as in life they never could.
Edit: Also, a miserable little pile of secrets!
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Till then, I'll have to due with playing by myself and harassing new members with party invites. I Kid, but just a bit.
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edit: Yup, it's a EXE file. So someone with a mac boot program might be able to run it but most likely some of my friends will have to wait for the mac version.
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That's where the Window and Mac versions come to play.
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How fucking retarded is that.
So the game is gimped by the limits of being browser based, but doesn't use the strengths of a browser being platform independent.
Firefox - on all platforms, supports plugins, supports WebGL for 3D, free, not a hard equation to work out guys.
Edit: their site says it runs in Firefox, so don't get how/why they made it Windows based
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The plugin probably requires DirectX, hence the need for a port.
It is akin to having to install the Flash player in your browser.
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So instead of using DirectX, which the game doens't necisiarly need all the extra fancy bits of DX9 and above, it can use WebGL and been purely broswer based.
Quake Live managed it.
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To agree with deambmmv ... So laaaaame!
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I agree that there *are* solutions, but if you don't pick one that has an engine built to run across Mac and Linux, you won't automatically get that functionality just because you are in a browser.
My random guess would be that they were developing for windows, and decided to use windows tools for their own ease of development.
It does make the web part misleading, though.
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Web is nice, this one just isn't as universal as it should be.