InstantAction Enters Open Beta - Kotaku Comments

InstantAction Enters Open Beta

LordMagnusMastah — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:42:03 MDT

I've been in the closed beta for a bit before this came out, and I have to say that I really like the way this is heading. Not a huge fan of ThinkTanks myself, although I do find myself playing that alot more lately. I think I may be addicted once Fallen Empires comes out for it in the near future, though. :D

LordMagnusMastah

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konchy — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:12:09 MDT

registration went smoothly with not problems for me though

konchy

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konchy — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:11:51 MDT

Doesn't work for me. All I get t do is watch that Loading button flashing away.Seems to load forever infinitely. using firefox

konchy

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BlindedFTW — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:20:10 MDT

Tank game sucks, marbles is OK and no one plays the jumper game.

BlindedFTW

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cybereality — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:44:49 MDT

This could be promising, I've been waiting a while for some browser based 3d games. Many plugins have come and gone (WildTangent, Anark, etc.) and some still clinging onto life (I'm looking at you Shockwave3d) but they never seem to hit the main stream like Flash. It will be interesting to see what comes of this.

cybereality

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xiphos — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:58:37 MDT

I've been playing on the site now for a while. The games are.. meh.. Think Tanks is majorly laggy, and the controls suck. Marbleblast Online is ok.

Fallen Legion does look promising though. And I agree with everyone else, no Linux/MacOS support sucks. But I betting the company is hoping for Inter-Office players (since most office environments only run on Windows Platforms). I'm also suspecting that there won't be Mac/Linux support because they fear cheating will occur (as if Windows is safer). I've seen a lot of Free 2 Play games go this route (ie: War Rock, Solider Front, etc). Funny how there are still cheaters on those games.

xiphos

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Fyren — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:48:26 MDT

I am making a prediction that "Empires" will induce massive employee cuts at your local business industries.

Tribes+web+no installation=Glimpse of the heavens.

Fyren

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Jackjoe500 — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:35:04 MDT

@Jesterhead369:

Same here

Jackjoe500

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LORDofDANCE — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:07:30 MDT

Does anyone have the web filter, Webwasher, at work? It blocks pretty much everything and I have no idea how to get around it.

LORDofDANCE

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LORDofDANCE — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:02:42 MDT

Does anybody else have webwasher at work? I

LORDofDANCE

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Taifuu — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:24:31 MDT

I've been following Legions for quite some time, got into the closed beta and poked around for a while, the concept is golden but it's missing heavy-hitting games so far. I think, or hope rather, that Legions will live up to the hype. I'll be there playing the first day, that's for sure.

Taifuu

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Jesterhead369 — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:12:17 MDT

jesus. i try to register and it tells me i have an unacceptable character in the Username field. only problem was that it was FINE. and available. looks good and all but if you're gonna give me problems during registration, i'm not holding high hopes.

Jesterhead369

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fridayalex — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:58:49 MDT

MarbleBlast was ok for the hour i played it. ThinkTank was a waste of time. When the game wasn't lagging it felt you had no control over the tank. Also everything work in firefox.

fridayalex

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Atheist Jew — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:55:16 MDT

@Xerxes3rd: Uh Legions is about as faithful gameplay-wise as you can get to Tribes. Have you seen gameplay vids? It's Tribes. Except it's not.

Atheist Jew

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Xerxes3rd — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:31:16 MDT

I absolutely adored Tribes 2; in fact, I still have it installed an play it occasionally. Needless to say, I'm really looking forward to Fallen Empire: Legions. Please, please, GarageGames, put a jetpack into Legions!

Xerxes3rd

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Ignatius — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:30:06 MDT

@TrekVogel:

Oh gee, I'm sorry. How about we all form a petition and MAKE developers waste time and money on a platform that has about 5% of the computer world by storm. That'll go over well.

Ignatius

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Emulated — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:20:38 MDT

I tried this over the weekend... all the games were pretty mundane but very pretty for a browser-based game

Emulated

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Bluecell — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:09:29 MDT

"no downloads involved" isn't entirely accurate as I was just prompted to download and install their activeX control.

Bluecell

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TrekVogel — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:57:21 MDT

Why only windows? You have all kinds of advantages when making web games and what do they do? They still tie it to Windows! Then you might as well make it a download since browsers were not designed for gaming and you're not taking advantage of the feaures it does have.

I'm not rebooting my Mac just to play some web games. If it runs well in Parallels I see myself using it every now and then but I highly doubt Parallels video performance will be good enough.

TrekVogel

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Jaysius — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:45:51 MDT

Any spyware present?

Jaysius

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ajay42 — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:26:34 MDT

(i just thought about it and realized it might be because i do not keep my firefox updated since everytime they introduce an 'update' it always causes some kind of FAIL somewhere else on my machine. last time it was goddamn Google tool bar which took forever to get off and which conflicted with Steam)

ajay42

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Stefanten — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:25:29 MDT

Marble Blast is great. That game is worth signing up for.

Stefanten

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ajay42 — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:25:12 MDT

Mine keeps on saying I need to install the app and restart firefox and I've done so about 5 times and it keeps saying it again. I don't really feel like putting any more effort than that into it.

ajay42

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edgefusion — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:20:48 MDT

If you're going to make a browser only game at least make sure it's compatible with more than just IE and Firefox and one operating system. I declare this fail.

edgefusion

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pylon_trooper — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:20:34 MDT

Bring on Fallen Legions.

pylon_trooper

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arepeegee — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:18:29 MDT

@ajay42: Hmm... I just played some Marble Blast and ThinkTanks without any problems and I'm using Firefox.

arepeegee

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JamesKilton — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:14:50 MDT

Wow, terrible user flow. I sign in, get the confirmation email, that all seems to go well. Then I log in, and get the "incompatibility page".

This page tells me to go to the forums to discuss, and refuses to log me in.

One problem:

You need to be logged in to view the forums.

I love the proverbial middle-finger to all non-Windows users. And come on, it's Flash!

JamesKilton

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ajay42 — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:59:59 MDT

Doesn't seem to like Firefox very much...

ajay42

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Priboi — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:57:02 MDT

fuck, i went through all the registration process and it tells me that my operative system is not supported!

so if anyone is using Linux or MacOS BEWARE!

Priboi

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Atheist Jew — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:54:31 MDT

I've been in on the beta for a bit now as well although the only reason I'm interested in it at all is for the new Tribes clone.

I got to play Legions for about half an hour at the GDC this year. If you're a fan of Tribes, you should really start building shrines to the deities at Garage Games for producing a game which so fantastically embodies the core gameplay mechanics of the franchise.

Atheist Jew

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Dauragon C. Mikado — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:53:33 MDT

god dammit. I really need a new computer. It can't even run this completely basic assortment of games.

Dauragon C. Mikado

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poser85 — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:47:32 MDT

Awful...

poser85

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Ignatius — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:42:16 MDT

Huh. The post got deleted. O.o;

Ignatius

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skaldicpoet9 — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:38:24 MDT

Well, I have been playing on the closed beta for a sec now and all I can say is that, while the concept is gold, the implementation seems a little basic. The games that are currently available make me feel like I am just playing a really big, fleshed out flash game. I hope that the arrival of Fallen Empire gives the site a little more variety. I am definitely hoping that this is successful, I just don't know if it will be possible if the current selection of games reflects the future of the site.

skaldicpoet9

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FlimFlaminus — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:38:15 MDT

I got an invite to the closed beta and didn't try it. Looks like I should have. I was disappointed that it didn't list the Fallen Empire so I guess I just let it go. I'm going to have to check it out now.

FlimFlaminus

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Dauragon C. Mikado — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:37:38 MDT

hmm, I should check it out then. This will hold me over until battlefield heroes :D

Dauragon C. Mikado

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Witzbold — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:37:18 MDT

I am so there!

Witzbold

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Ignatius — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:35:39 MDT

Might as well try it.

Ignatius