Looks amazing. Insta-buy for me. Putting this on my calendar right now.

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Quoting: EikeBut we're talking about turn "timers", not, ermm... real-time timers, right?

From another play-through I saw (Total Biscuit), the timers are turn-based. Very like the "defuse the bomb" missions from the first game.

Can't wait for this, but been stung too often to pre-order. It's a day-one purchase for me and I'll put up with the lengthy download times happily.

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I really tried to get into this about a year or so ago, but gave up in the end. Loading was too slow and if you don't get a decent commander, it's just a bunch of soldiers running around being mowed down relentlessly. The aliens left me a bit cold too.

Insurgency is where it's at for me at the moment.

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Quoting: GuestUnfortunately this isn't something which can be fixed by BI or TFAR/ACRE teams. This has to be addressed by TeamSpeak. And this isn't likely to happen.

When I played Planetside 2, we used TeamSpeak radio in a configuration that allowed commander->squadleaders and also squadleader->squad chat just by pressing a different button to speak. What does TFAR/ACRE2 do above this?

Also, why do you say that TeamSpeak need to fix this, if it's TFAR/ACRE2 that are using DLL plugins? Is it that plugins only work on Windows? Because I'm not sure that's the case - I have (or had, stopped playing after a re-install last year) a plug-in to display an overlay of the name of the person speaking in-game. So some plugins certainly seem to be supported.

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As usual, I went to buy this based on the glowing review, only to discover that I'd already bought it. I'll have to get around to installing it and playing it now... although I'll have to tear myself away from Insurgency and D:OS first!

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Quoting: LukeNukemBundle Stars bundles...?
Yeah I just recently removed *all* of previous BS games from my Steam account. Most (not all), are fucking horrible, unfortunately.
And that sucks for the devs...

I bought a couple - some are decent. How do you "remove" games from your steam account? Do you mean you deleted them?

Just checked again. You're crazy dude. I got Secrets of Raetikon, PixelJunk Shooter, Knights of Pen & Paper, Ibb & Obb double pack, and a heap of others I've yet to try (or are admittedly not very good) in just two purchases - for pennies. I paid £2.50 for one bundle and £2 for the other. Just over a pint of beer then.

Most bundles have a star or two - which I reckon is where they came up with the name...

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Quoting: burzmaliI haven't seen these allegations, but I've read the investment information on fig and talked it over with some finance and investment folks and the long and short of it was crowd fund if you want but stay away from the investment opportunity. Basically, best case, you break even in 5 years maybe even make some money in a decade or so. Worst case, fig folds before Psychonauts 2 ships and you get nothing and you have no recourse. Most likely, you never break even and shareholder lawsuits against fig bleed them dry over the course of the years.

No serious investor would consider this opportunity, the return is pitiful, and the risks are very high.

I think there's a few people commenting here that haven't watched the video, not just yourself!

I thought the video was superb. It's a real shame it's made by a GamerGate supporter (and general misogynist judging from his twitter feed - assuming not all GamerGaters are misogynists, I suppose).

But yeah, the video makes it clear that some extremely shady practices are at foot here. You can't compare this to Kickstarter, because a) Kickstarter is up front on the risks and b) Kickstarter equates to a pre-order, whereas Fig is hyping itself as a share vehicle. Two very different things.

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Insurgency is absolutely superb. Great graphics, engaging maps, nightmodes, loads of game types.

I primarily love it because of the co-op modes. My days of PvP ended with CS 1.6, but the co-op modes really encourage teamwork and use of the microphone to communicate. Get a good server with some communicative players and you'll have a blast.

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Quoting: nattydreadI think santa might be bringing me one for xmas :D

Santa delivered mine a week ago, but I'm not allowed to open it until the big day arrives. :-(

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Quoting: flesk

The game itself was likely covered by one of the past Funding Crowd articles, but here's a refresher.

Doesn't look like it was. I can't even find it in the crowdfunding wiki muntdefems maintained. They announced Linux support [External Link] one week into the campaign, so that's probably why we missed it.

It does look gorgeous though.

Munts did move this one into the completed section, but nope, we never covered it, at least when I was writing for TFC. In fact, we've barely covered any of Ynnis' titles [External Link] for some reason, although I notice HadBabits covered Kill The Bad Guy a few months ago.

[Edit: Just to say, god I loved Naruto on Xbox360 back in the day, so really looking forward to this!]

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