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05/11/09 at 04:59:08
 
I don't make topics often, so when I do, it's FUCKING IMPORTANT.

A long long time ago, when I was in 5th grade I found a game called Magestorm developed by Mythic Realms (Dark Age of Camelot, Warhammer, etc).  It was two dollars and hour but my mom let me rack up hundreds of dollars on the AOL bills just to play this game.  After a few years, they canned it and Mythic had its own game server thing.  You could play all of their games unlimited for 10 a month.  Fuck yeah, I paid 30 a month for 3 accounts, 9 characters, just to play Magestorm.

Electronic Arts bought Mythic Realms (now called EA Mythic) a few years back and closed down the games servers.  Someone, a dear kind soul, is remaking Magestorm and its currently in ALPHA.  The weapons don't work yet but the game is supposed to be in fully working beta at the end of May 2009.  So therefore, I am announcing my leave of TMA, 360, and PS3 gaming for a good while, because quite seriously...

Magestorm > Gears 2 and Killzone 2.

And if you think graphics are important to a video game then you really don't know anything about video games.

If you want to play the best team game ever devised (think of it like Resistance 2 on crack), you can play it free at:
http://forums.sorien.org/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=1072

You have to sign up for an account (second link) to play it.  Its only 10 MB and its awesome.  I have six characters ready to rock.  You can jump in game and shoot things, but your weapons do 0 damage and you cannot keep any experience until the beta starts.

My prayers have been answered.

EDIT - A few friends I used to play with and I are remaking our ALPHA guild, FA.  We were ranked 2 overall out of about 20 or so guilds.  I've played MS for over 8 years total and I can train you pretty quickly.
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Reply #1 - 05/11/09 at 12:25:14
 
Trying it when i get home. If you say its that good.
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Reply #2 - 05/11/09 at 19:33:27
 
Try it out, you can run around and shoot right now at level 1, but you can't gain exp or do damage to anyone, so the game isn't as fun as it will be toward the end of May.  There is a post on the forums that has a complete status update for the server.

http://forums.sorien.org/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=1060

Everything should say 100% toward the end of May when beta starts and exp can be earned.

Heres how to play:
First thing you should do is go to the globe and change your keyboard settings, because you can use mouse or KB, I prefer KB, but you can also do various hybrid combinations as each function can be mapped to any button you wish, on the KB or mouse.

4 bars to watch for.

Health-green bar, self explanatory
Fatigue-yellow bar, goes down if you RUN or cast a spell.  Refills by itself, refills while strafing.
Power-blue bar, it's basically mana for casting spells.  The amount of "ley" you have determines how fast your power bar replenishes.
Ley-purple bar, Ley determines how fast your power bar refills, depending on your class different things manipulate your ley.

Ley dependencies
Cleric-Clerics get ley from their home shrine/base.  The closer they are to home, the more ley/powerful they are.  They get 0 ley in enemy shrines, unless the shrine is destroyed then they get 50%.
Magician-Magicians get ley from owning manapools sprawled throughout the land.  Clerics, Mages, and Ments can bias pools to make their magicians more powerful, but Mages bias super fast compared to all other classes.
Mentalist-Ments get ley from their own mind.  Their ley is at a constant 70%, with no variation whatsoever.
Arcanist-Arcanists get their ley from pools, any pool.  They cannot bias at all, but they are offensive powerhouses with full ley.  With the right spells picked at 30, an arc can take on whole teams.

There are four classes, levels 1-30.  Each level you can research into more spells, with tons of varations.  You cannot have all of the spells, so you will have to choose your paths carefully.

Magicians can fire Ice, Fire, Earth, and have a Protection (Armor) list.

Clerics can call ghosts, raise dead, heal teammates/self, destroy/raise shrines, and build near impenetrable walls.

Mentalists can jump super high, fly, use lightning bolts as a weapon, or use "mind spells", spells that do instant damage from far away and can even go through walls.

Arcanists can jump super high, drop "signs", which are basically runes/traps, shoots the most devastating weapon in the game, Mana, and has the unique ability to drain power from enemies with "Void".

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It's a game heavily focused on teamwork, with great depth.  You could have 6 characters and still not have every spell in the game, even if you have 6 level 30s.

Magestorm has easily eaten up 8 years of my life.  Now that it's free I'm going for 16!
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Reply #3 - 05/12/09 at 20:22:09
 
As soon as I get the internet up and running on my computer I'll be sure to give it a spin ... doing pretty much ANYTHING on this Vista running pile of laptop shit that I'm on right now sucks major ass chunks!

I'm still not having any luck getting my internet working...
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Reply #4 - 05/12/09 at 23:55:31
 
Youre on the internet dumbass!

I may look into this Magestorm game but I highly doubt it would hold my interest. Im not much for retro gaming. Saying it is the greatest team game of all time is quite a claim though.
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Reply #5 - 05/13/09 at 00:49:55
 
It's in ALPHA, so if I were you, I'd wait till beta.  Small pun, but seriously, the weapons don't work.  The weapons at level 1 aren't anything spectacular.  But level 15-30 is a fucking mazing.

Plus its free.

And I stand by it being the best team game ever.  Every class has a specific role, there is no mic support though, but Ventrilo works beautifully for guild matches.  I would say by the beginning of June it should be working.  He only made the server April 25th, and he already got so much done all by himself.  He's either a really good programmer or he works on it 24/7.  He got people to finally see each other in game, bias pools, got chat working, map working, all auto aim spells working.  All he has left is shrines and projectiles hitting/damaging.

There are a few bugs still from when it was taken down, but he also plans on fixing them as soon as he gets it running.  Download it and run around in it.  It's not Halo or anything close graphically, but I promise the gameplay, mainly team gameplay is there.  You can be an assassin, rogue, one-man army type, or work as a team, it's all in what class and spell layout you choose.
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Reply #6 - 05/13/09 at 03:54:02
 
XIZOR wrote on 05/12/09 at 23:55:31:
Youre on the internet dumbass!

I may look into this Magestorm game but I highly doubt it would hold my interest. Im not much for retro gaming. Saying it is the greatest team game of all time is quite a claim though.


I'm not on **THE** internet ... I'm on someone elses internet! I want MY internet back. I fucking hate this laptop.

If anyone can help me please... by all means. I'm running Windows XP 64-Bit on my new setup and it like ... really hates wireless internet.

I ran through a bunch of troubleshooting shit last night. Found out that my computer didn't have a Default Gateway and some other settings working correctly. We went in and manually figured out the IP Address, Subnet Mask, Default Gateway, and set up some DNS Server Addresses and ...

... got the thing to connect to the internet. Or so it seems. Even though I open up my Network Connections and it clearly shows my Wirless Connection is CONNECTED through my Netgear card and it is technically ON the internet ... both IE and Firefox cannot display any pages.

I also couldn't activate windows through the internet either ... so it seems the problem goes deeper than just an IE problem like I was hoping it was. I think maybe the Netgear USB thing I have is a pile of shit .... so I went online and bought this new card that has really high marks, especially from people running XP-64

If anyone happens to know WTF the problem might be ... by all means.
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Reply #7 - 05/13/09 at 04:00:07
 
You dont own teh intranets bitch! Theyz everybodies!
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Reply #8 - 05/13/09 at 04:09:39
 
It sounds like a compatability issue.  The only time I ever ran a wireless set up I bought one LinkSys router and 2 LinkSys wireless plug ins, one for desktop and one for laptop.

I never heard of NetGear so maybe it's just the company.  But I prefer wires when it comes to internet (so far).  Just so many side effects when wireless.
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Reply #9 - 05/13/09 at 04:36:45
 
XIZOR wrote on 05/13/09 at 04:00:07:
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LOL!!!! nice..

it was nice knowin ya Scold..
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Reply #10 - 05/18/09 at 20:32:34
 
This thread cannot die!   Roll Eyes

Check out this short little video we made of us playing Magestorm in its ALPHA testing phase.  This video was recorded like 30 mins ago.  And I'm in the alpha test because I'm fucking ALPHA.  It's open to everyone, and you get free 30s of any class while in alpha if you want to check out all of the spells you can use.  I am "Luther_FA"  by the way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOZDJmmEIhk
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Reply #11 - 05/18/09 at 21:03:18
 
Yeah...Im going to have to go with a no on that one. No offense but thats just to old school for me. I just cannot retro game much at all. I wish I could but I know I would get bored with that within 30 minutes. However it probably plays better than Gears 2 online so that may be a deciding factor.
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Reply #12 - 05/18/09 at 23:01:49
 
LMAO! Gears 2. I normally try these things out but I know I won't stick with it. There are very few games that I will play from my own past let alone someone elses. If everyone were willing to give it a shot together I'd try it though.

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Reply #13 - 05/18/09 at 23:23:09
 
You fucking graphics whores.

It wouldn't work out between us anyway.  I'd have to make 5 or 6 characters just so I could play with you because I'll be level 6 on day one.

You're still a graphics whore, a free game and you won't play it.  And you call yourself a gamer?  WOW, I played MUDS (text games) for years.  Sheesh.

You guys need a new hobby    Grin

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Reply #14 - 05/18/09 at 23:46:44
 
Fine. Fuck. I'll try it just to see. Send me an AIM or something so we can play together instead of me having to spank my magical penis so tornado's fly out on my own.
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