General => News and Announcements => Topic started by: Kilgore on August 29, 2014, 03:15:08 pm
Title: FOnline: Ashes of Phoenix release!
Post by: Kilgore on August 29, 2014, 03:15:08 pm
Release date of FOnline: Ashes of Phoenix has been announced - this is a great news, as it means some fresh air in our FOnline world. I was always convinced that more different FOnline games - the better, as it brings more variety for players, while forcing developers to not rest on their laurels. John Porno, one of FOnline: AoP developers, supplied me with some essential informations to share, and here it is:
Hello everyone!
After almost 2 years of intense development, time has come to present you a new gamebased on the Fonline engine, called FOnline: Ashes of Phoenix, a server with its focus on teamplay and realtime PvP.
In 2077, bombs of the Great War ravaged the whole planet, or almost. We're now in 2220, in Arizona. The center of Phoenix' city is one of the exceptions, spared by nuclear fire, isolated and ignored by the rest of the world for nearly 150 years.
Eventually, a rumor speaking of plentiful resources and intact buildings has been spread into the Wasteland. Locals and outsiders alike showed up, wishing to take over this new eldorado. In this chaotic and conflicting situation, dozens of lonely adventurers are seizing their chance as well.
You are a Wastelander who recently arrived in Arizona. Guided by your own instincts, you'll have the choice to join one of the four powers in place and take part in the conquest for the city.
FOnline: Ashes of Phoenix features an old-school gameplay, very close to the first Fallout games, but transposed in a massively multiplayer context with four distinct sides in which players will gather. The game is entirely in real time and works with a revisited action point system. Nearly all the Fallout 1 and 2 game systems are there, but reworked and improved. Plenty of elements and features have been introduced too, graphics, items, a random assignment system or a fame system summarizing your PvP accomplishments are some examples.
Here is a non-exhaustive list of what AoP has to offer:
- A new region of the Fallout world to explore around the city of Phoenix, a giant location with dozens of connected quarters where everything can happen.
- An advanced system of factions and reputation, including private bases for player platoons, merchants, assignments and more, regrouped inside faction headquarters where you can rest between missions and meet new friends to explore the Wasteland.
- A completely reworked character system with hundreds of viable profiles, guarantying that you can actually create any character you want and develop it on the long term, while still being competitive against other players. No level cap, but a soft cap at level 24, where evolving your character further will make it rather more versatile than strictly more powerful.
- A deeply revised combat system fully in real time with the introduction of a new Action Points system, new burst mechanics, deployable weapons, covers, squads and many more features implying personal and group strategies for an exciting and ruthless combat experience.
- A strong PvP system stimulating fair savage PvP and involving the control of Phoenix. Twelve quarters can be claimed, strategy and smart moves matter more than ever. Exploring Phoenix underground dungeons can also be the occasion for player groups to ambush each other.
- A huge diplomacy potential with the presence of four main factions: Jim & Jack & Joe Lawyer Agency, the Family, the Brahminboys and the V-Technologists. Player platoons will deeply influence the diplomacy of their faction.
- A vast equipment composed of hundreds of weapons and many armors. Multiple new items have been added, like new grenades, traps, spears, energy SMGs and many more. Those items bring a new dimension to PvP, like smoke grenades, Incinerators or the legendary Bozar heavy sniper rifle. Every player should find multiple suitable combinations of weapons and armors for his playstyle.
- A vast crafting system including the search for relics, exchanged with your faction for blueprints unlocking more advanced weapons through different tech trees. Your character is able to be fully independant without suffering from any power gap with other player characters.
- A strong economy based on player trades, smart scavenging and crafting where bottle caps and equipment in general are more difficult to stockpile.
- A number of developed PvE features available for single low level chars and groups of experienced players alike, like the randomized assignments, mining missions, a whole new scavenging experience and 2 huge dungeons with more to follow.
- A completely new interface optimized for PvP including a new Pipboy, called the Cheapboy and working both as an intel provider and an encyclopedia.
- Enhanced NPCs for a more natural and dynamic experience. Raiders roam the ruins of Phoenix, packs of wild animals are out for blood in the Wastes and friendly travelers might come to your aid. You never know what's hiding behind the next corner.
- A maximal randomization makes sure every journey in the Wastes is a new experience. Loots, mobs and even assignments you can get from your faction will lead you to new places and situations in which you have to adapt and quickly react.
- A mini-adventure tutorial will introduce some of the game mechanics and give you the occasion to play safely on your side before joining the actual game field.
General information
Friday the 5th of September, the public server will be officially open for everyone. That means you'll be free to download the game client and jump into Arizona with all of us and start the adventure!
In a couple of days, game rules will be posted on our forums and the installation procedure page (http://www.fonline-aop.net//site/index.php?p=download) will be updated. We'll post an announcement about it before launch day so you can perform the game installation already if you wish. The exact hour of the launch and some other details will be given at the same time.
On top of that, in order to allow everyone to take a look at raw footage straight from the battlefield, we will host a livestream on twitch.tv on August 30th, 8-10pm CET, showing live zone control in action.
Thanks for your attention, and maybe we'll see each other soon in the Wasteland!
Title: Re: FOnline: Ashes of Phoenix release!
Post by: Ed Wood on August 29, 2014, 03:48:15 pm
Is that you who talking in the video? Anyway thumbs up for the new project who knows maybe il make a junky character there for the lulz!
Title: Re: FOnline: Ashes of Phoenix release!
Post by: Violencia on August 29, 2014, 03:49:05 pm
Looks good, but this will mean "the end" here? What is your expectation? Like to have the opportunity to taste the first wipe on reloaded. You will remain standing?
Title: Re: FOnline: Ashes of Phoenix release!
Post by: Kelin on August 29, 2014, 03:59:24 pm
Title: Re: FOnline: Ashes of Phoenix release!
Post by: Gimper on September 06, 2014, 02:37:40 am
Yeah too much lag, big disappointment. Hopefully, tomorrow will be different because not everyone is downloading the client all at once.
Title: Re: FOnline: Ashes of Phoenix release!
Post by: John Porno on September 06, 2014, 03:26:13 am
the lag has been fixed, it was due to the amount of npcs spawned in by the hundreds of tutorials. Could have seen that coming but oh well, we're no professionals.
Title: Re: FOnline: Ashes of Phoenix release!
Post by: SedentaryCobra on September 08, 2014, 06:19:34 am
Absolutely LOVE the virus I got from AoP. Trying to make the game work when AVG tells me I have a nice Trojan Horse. Deletion of many files ensued.
Title: Re: FOnline: Ashes of Phoenix release!
Post by: Cerberix on September 08, 2014, 08:49:03 am
There aren't any viruses in AoP client, your antivirus tells you probably false message. I didn't get any problems with client, it's practically same client as Reloaded, I think it's TLA SDK client.
Anyway AoP is very interesting server, definitely worth to playing if you bored of traditional servers.
Title: Re: FOnline: Ashes of Phoenix release!
Post by: triqua on September 08, 2014, 08:57:09 am
I wasnt able to play that much till know, but something is very funny: they said it will be pure pvp server but the whole 4 faction setup and the tutorial and the assignments/quests bring much more pve to the whole thing as expected.
i wasnt able to start right when server was online.. i had a strange bug that the game didnt want to accept my master/critter.dat until i noticed i copied them from the fallout 1 cd -.- ^^
Title: Re: FOnline: Ashes of Phoenix release!
Post by: Wind_Drift on September 08, 2014, 05:19:14 pm
I was pretty amused at how much PvE there is as well. It's not a bad thing, it's just something I noticed also.
Nice game now that the lags aren't an issue.
Title: Re: FOnline: Ashes of Phoenix release!
Post by: the guy that is good on September 08, 2014, 09:42:06 pm
it still is just like war lagg,lagg never changes
Title: Re: FOnline: Ashes of Phoenix release!
Post by: Sperber on September 08, 2014, 09:54:35 pm
I can't even create a character due to the massive lag.
Title: Re: FOnline: Ashes of Phoenix release!
Post by: Strike on September 08, 2014, 11:27:15 pm
They restarted server earlier, and yet there is more lags than before :D
Title: Re: FOnline: Ashes of Phoenix release!
Post by: c_hieter on September 09, 2014, 12:59:44 am
"Very Nice of kilgore."
in my opinion the man is a class act.
i also agree that the more options in the fonline world, the better. different devs create different ideas. and ideas are like mushrooms. you tend to find them in clusters.
i don't even have the time to play here right now, that much. but i am downloading phoenix as i speak. and i will strap it on as i get the time to. my nik will be the same. and i will still be a target here. thanks for the heads up kilgore.
Title: Re: FOnline: Ashes of Phoenix release!
Post by: S.T.A.L.K.E.R on January 19, 2016, 10:22:38 am
The server came up randomly xD
I'm not sure for how long but it's up, or might be temporary. However if you've played before, you still have your things (no wipe has happened) and lots of changes since server "died"
Title: Re: FOnline: Ashes of Phoenix release!
Post by: mdgeist on January 20, 2016, 11:09:06 am
Well, yes, it looks pretty nice. But the last update was in september 2014... :/
Title: Re: FOnline: Ashes of Phoenix release!
Post by: FrankenStone on January 20, 2016, 11:48:58 am