Under a rubble heap in LA
Yeah buddy, the Fallen Earth PTS (Public Test Server) is coming back.
I’m kind of excited about this since it means testing out the new faction control areas and the world events.
Hopefully I’ll have some time to jump into it.
It’s due to go live Wednesday (11/15). Check out the G1 webby here to find out how to set it up.
Stopping at the Stairway
OK if you want you can check out the patch notes for 2.1 here. 2.1 is mostly bug and bonus fixing with a couple of coolness features here and there.
3 BIG items
Progress towns won’t lose buildings via server restart.
Geology and Nature kits are no longer required (that clears up some room in the pack).
And all crafting facilities are now universal.
Now the really big news is the PTS (Public Test Server). According to the news on the FE website the PTS is due to return this month. No time set yet.
It will however have the World Events and Faction Territory Control. Evidently Faction Territory Control will actually have a new zone all to it’s self.
The details for both the World Events and Faction Territory Control sound pretty wicked.
Successful World Events will reward PVE players after they fight off waves of whatever or some giant monster. It does look like it’ll be a different mechanic than Progress Towns so that should be interesting.
Faction Territory Control will actually let a faction take over a town and set up in a keep within that town. While at first they sound like your normal progress towns, they really aren’t. Each one of these areas are going to have 13 points to capture with 7 inside a keep the players can defend, with the other 6 standing out in the open making them harder to defend.
There’s a lot more to it, but until it’s live I’m not going to worry about the details. You can check out the screenies and more over at the Fallen Earth Dev Blog.
Until next time, I’m gonna go get lost in the wastes.
Geistig/Kleineubel
Trick or Treat
Figured I’d put up a little post on what I’m up to. I’m still spending most of my game time in Fallen Earth. That’s not going to change (even changed out for a year sub). Thing is I also picked up WoW again to run around with Moms. Yes I play World of Warcraft with my Mom. Running around Azeroth getting lost, getting her killed, and having a good time while doing it.
Her system can’t handle playing Fallen Earth (trust me I tried a few months ago out of desperation, no bueno). It can play WoW though.
They also have a pretty interesting promotion going right now where signing up for a year gives you an in game mount Diablo 3 themed, a copy of Diablo 3, AND BETA ACCESS! I’m such a sucker for beta access.
They’ve announced the Panderia expansion and so I figured, what the hell. I know I’m gonna buy it unless I’m totally broke so I might as well just be ready to dink around in it.
I mean hell, Moms and I were hiding out during the WoW zombie apocalypse before Wrath of the Lich King was released. We also watched as Azeroth was changed forever when Cataclysm hit.
Why would we miss out on rolling a couple of fat and sassy drunken masters (Pandarian Monks). No no… I don’t care what it’s really called, I will call mine drunken master. End of story. Because it’s effing hilarious.
Safe to say I’m signed up for a year of WoW.
The bastards finally found a way to get a full year sub out of me. *facepalms*
Haunted....
It’s not Fallen Earth though. I still love FE. Oh and I decided to sub up for a full year of Fallen Earth too. I couldn’t sub up for a year of WoW and not sub up for a year of Fallen Earth.
Yeah it’s pricy, but seriously, I don’t have a whole lot else going on right now. I might as well take advantage of the situation and game like a mad woman while I still can.
OH!!! I’ve finally hit 180 cooking crafting on Geistig. I’m not too worried about getting it up too much further at this point and I’ll probably go back and research it soon.
Geistig is by the way, is full crafter capable (which means her tradeskills can get up to 196, the current cap). Sadly though cooking is the highest tradeskill I have at the moment.
With the new system I need to spend a lot of time digging in trash (scavenging/harvesting/mining) to 1) have crap I can sell on the AH for some chips and 2) have enough crafting mats to continue leveling. Personally I love just wandering around FE digging in trash all on my lonesome.
I think now I need to focus on Weapons Crafting and research. There’s not really a weapons crafter in The Reavers and since there’s a lot of Melee folks in the clan it’d just be a good idea to have a researched Weapons Crafter.
After that I figure I can work on Armor crafting, maybe even construction, who knows.
I still have a lot of work to do on Geistig and looking forward to it.
I am stepping out of PvP though. True dedication to PvP just takes more time than I can allocate right now. Even though I’d love to be a hard core player, I gotta face it, I just don’t have the attention span for that lol.
I did leave KAOS. It’s not because I don’t love the clan, I still totally do and all the guys/gals in KAOS, end of story, no questions asked.
I was just starting to spend more time with The Reavers, and I really feel like they could use another crafter. That AND I miss getting into crazy RP situations on Geistig. The community just isn’t the same without her throwing monkey wrenches in EVERYONE’s plans.
It’s just how she rolls. You never know what to expect from Geistig.
That AND right now there’s a kid in The Reavers (Canni Belle) who’s stuck in Lifenet. She’s randomly popping around from one cloner to another (using the new Fast Travel system) haunting whoever manages to end up in the cloner at the time.
Safe to say this close to Halloween it’s pretty freakin’ epic.
Yes it’s nerdy and silly, but it’s also creative and fun. Well if you’re a person that likes a good story.
Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo……
In World of Warcraft I’ll be on either Geistig the Unholy Death Knight (Uldam) or Geistig the Retribution Paladin (Rexxar). I know talk about a mix right?
In Fallen Earth, I’ll be on Geistig. There really is no description for this Geistig, so you’ll just have to roll with it.
Chilling in Citadel
On October 20th the FE team released a server side patch that, so far, has stabilized the server. For the last few days the game hasn’t totally crashed out. A lot of the low level areas are still pretty laggy with all of the new blood, but they’re not crashing. That’s a plus.
At this point I’m back on Geistig for a while trying to finish up her crafting, AP capping and so on. Good times right?
That and I want to get some higher end scavenging in to try to pick up some chips.
So if you’re hanging out in the wastelands and have any questions or just want someone to harass hit me up on Geistig. I’ll probably be digging in trash or raising hell somewhere.
Welcome to life Clone, Report for Duty
The rampant influx of new players is still clogging up the Fallen Earth servers. Sadly it’s a case of success killing a game. Boneclaw and Embry keep dying. Not surprising. Boneclaw is the most popular noob zone and once folks are done in either the crafting or support noob towns they pretty much get sent to Embry.
Guess what that means?
The login servers are also having issues and have been taken down again as well. Having so many new players creating accounts is probably clogging up the servers faster than a box full of hamburgers can clog your arteries.
I want to say this pisses me off. It should because I can’t get into a game I’m paying for.
Fortunately this week I’m sick enough that I can’t do too much other than dig in trash or annoy the usual RP suspects. That means I’m not bugging not being able to log in.
I’m actually kind of stoked. If all the noobs logging into the game stay on, pay for something, Fallen Earth might FINALLY get the props it needs to be a successful game.
Let’s just hope the servers and databases are able to handle the load.
*Fingers Crossed*
Here’s the current Server Issues thread in the official forums.
Until next time, I’m gonna be offline getting well while waiting for the damn server issues to be resolved.
Geistig / Sonja Blackheart / Kleineubel
