Dungeon Siege 2 Public Beta

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http://www.fileplanet.com/betacent [...] e2/signup/

Warning: It's 1.6 gigs of download, and you have to sign up though
Fileplanet. I'm currently waiting in line to download the client. I'll
post my impressions after I play for a bit.

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On Wed, 18 May 2005 21:28:21 GMT, Ajay Tanwar <ajtanwar@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>I'll
>post my impressions after I play for a bit.


Uhm, I don't think you're allowed to tell anyone about your
impressions of the game:

"You agree not to disclose or provide the Product, documentation, or
any related information (including the Product features or the results
of use or testing) to any third party, for a period of one year
following receipt of the Product or commercial release of the Product,
whichever occurs first. However, you may disclose confidential
information in accordance with judicial or other governmental order,
provided you shall give Microsoft reasonable written notice prior to
such disclosure and shall comply with any applicable protective order
or equivalent."

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stoic wrote:
> On Wed, 18 May 2005 21:28:21 GMT, Ajay Tanwar <ajtanwar@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>>I'll
>>post my impressions after I play for a bit.
>
>
> Uhm, I don't think you're allowed to tell anyone about your
> impressions of the game:
>
> "You agree not to disclose or provide the Product, documentation, or
> any related information (including the Product features or the results
> of use or testing) to any third party, for a period of one year
> following receipt of the Product or commercial release of the Product,
> whichever occurs first. However, you may disclose confidential
> information in accordance with judicial or other governmental order,
> provided you shall give Microsoft reasonable written notice prior to
> such disclosure and shall comply with any applicable protective order
> or equivalent."

An open beta with an NDA? How odd.

I imagine it's there mainly to stop magazines and online publications
from using it as any kind of 'official' beta-test/demo, given that it's
an *open* beta, and therefore any and all information one could glean
from it is, in principle, publically available anyway...

.... aside from the fact that, as worded, beta-testers can't even talk to
*other* beta-testers about it, which is patently daft.

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Quaestor <no.spam@my.place> once tried to test me with:

> No biggie on the DL. Too bad about the fileplanet. When they only
> offer that for a DL service I consider the offer to be void. Screw
> fileplanet and all their kind. As a result of this I consider the game
> to be already dead.
>
> But that's just the way I am.

Thrasher, is that you? You sure are being Mr. Negative Pants lately,
Quaestor, IF THAT IS YOUR REAL NAME!!!!!1!11ONE!

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Quaestor wrote:
> No biggie on the DL. Too bad about the fileplanet. When they only
> offer that for a DL service I consider the offer to be void. Screw
> fileplanet and all their kind. As a result of this I consider the game
> to be already dead.
>
> But that's just the way I am.

I couldn't agree more. But every single time I've gone "FilePlanet only?
Screw that then!", the demo in question has been released to the world
at large a few days later. Looks like FilePlanet's sack of cash is only
enough to buy first dibs, not a genuine exclusive.

Cheers!
David...

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David Carson wrote:

> Quaestor wrote:
>
>> No biggie on the DL. Too bad about the fileplanet. When they only
>> offer that for a DL service I consider the offer to be void. Screw
>> fileplanet and all their kind. As a result of this I consider the
>> game to be already dead.
>>
>> But that's just the way I am.
>
>
> I couldn't agree more. But every single time I've gone "FilePlanet
> only? Screw that then!", the demo in question has been released to the
> world at large a few days later. Looks like FilePlanet's sack of cash
> is only enough to buy first dibs, not a genuine exclusive.


Maybe I'll look for it in that context.


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wolfing1@yahoo.com wrote:

> Is this a diablo clone?

Ya. Dungeon Siege was pretty, but you could basically walk away from it
and let the game play with it self....pretty masturbatory if you ask me.

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What's with all the Diablo clones? Beyond Divinity, Divine Divinity,
Dungeon Siege 2, etc. When will we be able to play a game without
having to smash the mouse button or have 20 speed *in my out of game
persona* to play? If I want to play a quick character, let it be the
character (and not me) who's quick.

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Thus spake "Sleepy" <nospam@here.com>, Thu, 19 May 2005 17:17:04 GMT, Anno
Domini:

>
>"Ajay Tanwar" <ajtanwar@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:Xns965AA82FFDFB1ajtanwaryahoocom@151.164.30.48...
>> http://www.fileplanet.com/betacent [...] e2/signup/
>>
>> Warning: It's 1.6 gigs of download, and you have to sign up though
>> Fileplanet. I'm currently waiting in line to download the client. I'll
>> post my impressions after I play for a bit.
>>
>> --
>> Ajay Tanwar | MCSE | ajtanwar@spam.yahoo.com
>> "Never underestimate the power of stupid people
>> in large groups." -Despair.com
>
>* WARNING * In the readme file it lists a host of graphics card
>problems ranging from minor glitches to lockups at startup. Radeons
>and Matrox owners steer well clear of this Beta. Its multiplayer only too.

Tx for the heads up Sleepy. Just in case I woke up on one morning possessed
by a demonic force that tried to convince me to d/l it & attempt to play it.


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"Sleepy" <nospam@here.com> thought that a good way to threaten
somebody was to light a stick of dynamite, then call the guy and
hold the burning fuse up to the phone and say:

>
> "Ajay Tanwar" <ajtanwar@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns965AA82FFDFB1ajtanwaryahoocom@151.164.30.48...
>> http://www.fileplanet.com/betacent [...] e2/signup/
>>
>> Warning: It's 1.6 gigs of download, and you have to sign up
>> though Fileplanet. I'm currently waiting in line to download the
>> client. I'll post my impressions after I play for a bit.
>>
>> --
>> Ajay Tanwar | MCSE | ajtanwar@spam.yahoo.com
>> "Never underestimate the power of stupid people
>> in large groups." -Despair.com
>
> * WARNING * In the readme file it lists a host of graphics card
> problems ranging from minor glitches to lockups at startup.
> Radeons and Matrox owners steer well clear of this Beta. Its
> multiplayer only too.

Haven't had any problems with my Radeon 9700. Then again, I haven't
played it for more than 30 minutes a set yet.

Tip: Never buy a house, it cuts into valuable play time.

About the multiplayer only thing, you can host your own local game so
it is effectively single player. It has all the dialog and cutscenes
as well. The graphics really don't look like much of an improvement
on DS1, but that's never really been that important to me. The
opening town is pretty extensive. I hope that you can either return
to it or there are other towns of similar size.

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"Never underestimate the power of stupid people
in large groups." -Despair.com

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Knight37 wrote:
> wolfing1@yahoo.com once tried to test me with:
>
> > Is this a diablo clone?
>
> Not really. Dungeon Siege 1 kind of has a diablo style interface.
It's more
> tactical than D2 though, and less actiony. You control a whole party
so you
> have to let them auto-attack and you just control the strategy of how
they
> do that and where they move, etc. On the easy setting though the game

> practically played itself and even on more difficult settings it took
a LOT
> of trudging through hoardes of monsters before the game ever got very

> challenging. Supposedly the developers have listened to some of these

> complaints but I'll reserve judgement until I actually see a demo
(may try
> and get this beta).

Is it pausable, like BG and PST? Or do you have to try and click on
your party members while they're running around?