FEAR Extraction Point Demo Tomorrow!

[avatar_58]

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/43819

Noon CST. :cool: Demo for an expansion pack? Wierd.

[MAT]

Cool. Let's hope it's under 500MB. please.

[big fat lazy]

And over 15 minutes long. please.

[Phayzon]

:woot:

[The Deadsider]

Supposidly, it's going to be around 550 mb.

[0marTheZealot]

Let's hope its longer than FEAR's 3 minute demo.

[Orochi Avlis]

F*ck Yea!

[Nessus]

I already played the demo, it was called F.E.A.R!

[Yatta]

Whoa, a demo for an expansion? This is great news. :)

[Llama Gibbz]

Im playing through fear again.:love:

Is it just me,or is the game still easy at extreme difficulty?
Perhaps i should try not using slowmo.:)

[The Deadsider]

Yeah, slow-mo makes it almost too easy. Try completely unbinding the button and playing. Feels like a new game...

[Water12356]

!!!!!1111 :love: :love: :love: \o/ :woot:

[avatar_58]

Yeah, slow-mo makes it almost too easy. Try completely unbinding the button and playing. Feels like a new game...

I don't know about you, but I play games for the fun of it....I don't care whether or not the game can hand me my ass or not. I get great satisfaction going slo-mo and doing all sorts of sadistic things to the soldiers.

[Water12356]

^Agreed X 4^ How can you not enjoy going in slowmo blowing someone's torso in half with a shotgun?!?!?! Explain this!!!!

[Micki!]

This is cool... But how will it be like..?
Is it like FEAR's demo..? many different levels, fused together to one big level..?
Or will it be like the actual levels from the full game..?

[hell-angel]

I don't know about you, but I play games for the fun of it....I don't care whether or not the game can hand me my ass or not. I get great satisfaction going slo-mo and doing all sorts of sadistic things to the soldiers.

Yeah, like pinning them to the wall with the needle gun and a headshot http://forums.3drealms.com/vb/images/icons/devilish.gifhttp://forums.3drealms.com/vb/images/icons/devilish.gifhttp://forums.3drealms.com/vb/images/icons/devilish.gifhttp://forums.3drealms.com/vb/images/icons/devilish.gif

[avatar_58]

Yeah, like pinning them to the wall with the needle gun and a headshot http://forums.3drealms.com/vb/images/icons/devilish.gifhttp://forums.3drealms.com/vb/images/icons/devilish.gifhttp://forums.3drealms.com/vb/images/icons/devilish.gifhttp://forums.3drealms.com/vb/images/icons/devilish.gif

I pinned a guy to a ladder once as he was attempting to flee. :D

[Micki!]

I pinned a guy to a ladder once as he was attempting to flee. :D

I pinned someones head to the ceiling (!!!) while he was jumping over something from a higher point...
The moment he was in mid air, in the middle of the jump, his head was close to the ceiling, and i gave him a headshot... Damn that was cool...

What's cooler..? i did it with 2 other person right after this one, so i made 3 guys hanging from the ceiling... :D God that was so awesome...

(SP FEAR, not the expansion demo)

[SyntaxN]

This is cool... But how will it be like..?
Is it like FEAR's demo..? many different levels, fused together to one big level..?
Or will it be like the actual levels from the full game..?
Yeah maybe they will pack the best parts of the levels in the demo again.
I hope that the expansion pack has better level design than the original FEAR with it´s combat arenas :mryuck:

[Dukefrukem]

ive never heard of a demo of an expansion pack before... could this mean the full version is pretty long?

[Malgon]

Sick. Luckily I've been replaying through F.E.A.R. again on extreme difficulty, so I'm pumped for EP now. :cool:

How many new weapons are being added to EP?

[hiob]

man can´t wait to play it, now that i got a good system, i´ll finally be able to see all it´s particle-effect goodness :D

[big fat lazy]

There have been demos for expansion packs before people. :dopefish:

[Dukefrukem]

for what?

[Micki!]

Damn, i'm still waiting here...
10 AM in US... It's about 16:41 here in Denmark... Shouldn't it be available by now..? I can't find it... :(

or is it me, reading the time differences wrong..? :o

[Tang Lung]

Most recently, both Dawn of War expansions had demos.

[crunchy superman]

This was a no-brainer purchase for me anyway, but it nice to see them doing this.

[MAT]

How many new weapons are being added to EP?

I think there are 2 new weapons in the EP. One of them is a minigun, second is a sci-fi one.

[The Deadsider]

I don't know about you, but I play games for the fun of it....I don't care whether or not the game can hand me my ass or not. I get great satisfaction going slo-mo and doing all sorts of sadistic things to the soldiers.

No one said I don't enjoy having fun with a game now. Afterall, why would I have this here mod for infinit slow-mo. Besides, I played through with no slow-mo because I thought it was, well, fun!

Anyway, Demo's out!
http://www.gamershell.com/download_15481.shtml

Edit: Mirror with US Download. (http://www.sierra.com/publish/sierra/en/home/games/game_info.tab-downloadtab.prod-L2NvbnRlbnQvc2llcnJhL2VuL3Byb2R1Y3RzL2ZfZV9hX3JfX2 V4dHJhY3Rpb24%3d.platform-global.html)
FileFront Mirror: http://fear.filefront.com/file/FEAR_Extraction_Point_Singleplayer_Demo;69600

[big fat lazy]

for what?

AoE 2 expansion, Age of Mythology the Titans, Postal 2 Share the pain, and CoD United Offensive to name a few I've played.

[MAT]

The demo is available for download on several sites now.

[ZuljinRaynor]

I got it in my PC Gamer. F*cking short... took me like 8 minutes. :( But it was awesome... maybe...

[Micki!]

maybe...

:o :tinyted:

What am i supposed to believe now..? Good, not good, maybe even bad..?

[ZuljinRaynor]

The demo was awesome at first... but then it just ends and that leaves a meh feeling. DAMN SHORT DEMOS TO SOME EVIL WORLD!

[MAT]

I just finished the demo and it took me about 10 minutes. It was short, but the worst thing is it wasn't that immersing and I didn't feel like I was forced to leave a wonderful game as I felt like while playing the first FEAR demo.

I can't say I'm impressed by this as much as I was impressed by the FEAR demo. The same things over and over again. New enemies are boring as hell and they simply didn't fit in the combat. I felt like playing Condemned and it is a much slower game, a different game.

The scare tactics like lights turning off, distorted radiowaves and Alma's whispering are present but they don't work anymore. We have seen these before.

The minigun which is really devastating is a cool addition to the weaponary though. The AI is still good but I didn't notice any difference except maybe crawling soldiers. I should spend some more time on combat AI to see it properly.

[Tang Lung]

Could it be Primal Hunt all over again? :insomnia:

[MAT]

I hope not.

Maybe it's the density of the demo that messed things up and in a complete experience things might look alright. I hope so. Or I'll be very dissappointed.

[Orochi Avlis]

I think there are 2 new weapons in the EP. One of them is a minigun, second is a sci-fi one.
They added a 3rd one to the list. Can't remember ATM.

[avatar_58]

:woot:

*Downloads*

[Orochi Avlis]

I played the demo and I loved it.
The shadow creatures freak the hell out of me. And going by where they are by their shadow makes it even more frightening. I just started spraying bullets everywhere hoping I'd hit one.

I thought the ending of the demo was pretty cool.

All in all, I will be buying it.

[avatar_58]

I've no doubt I'll be buying it, just want to play more FEAR ;) I'll be trying the demo in a sec.

Love the blue icon for some reason. :o I like it better than FEAR's.

[hanged_man]

so this expansion does it require the original game ?? or is it much like hl2:episode one ?? stand alone ?

[avatar_58]

Nice, it was pretty good. I love that new machine gun. :D

[Micki!]

Nice, it was pretty good. I love that new machine gun. :D

Minigun..?:o

[Water12356]

Played it, here is my tke

Good:
-More FEAR!
-The Chaingun is freakin awesome. The sound of it silences pretty much all other sounds you can hear, and its powerfull enofugh to easly blow limbs off! And it holds way more than 200 rounds. (you find 400 rounds and thats about half the ammo gauge \o/) I nearly cried first time I used it. :D
-The new ghost things are cool.
-Enemies are still smart, they are using flares now. neato.

Bad:
-ITS TOO FREAKIN SHORT! Even shorter than the previous, because this didnt take me as long to complete as the other one did.
-The Shotgun's range was reduced... and there was only 30 rounds in the demo. :(
-When you crouch, you gota push it again to get back up instead of just holding it down and letting go. (full version might fix this)
-The site now has a dot in the middle when you crouch and zoom in. For me as a personal prefrence, I dont like it.
No Chaingun enemies as you see in the CGI movie at the begining of the demo...

More to come...

[ZuljinRaynor]

-When you crouch, you gota push it again to get back up instead of just holding it down and letting go. (full version might fix this)
That's how it was by default in FEAR too, since I never changed anything and it always did that I'm guessing. There is probably an option like [Crouch] and [Toggle Crouch].

[big fat lazy]

Overall the demo was OK. Though one cool part, I went in the room with the shadow guys and they all started coming at me, and I sprayed the whole room with the minigun and killed them all at once.
Then I said to myself "DON'T **** WITH THE MAN WITH THE MINIGUN!"

[0marTheZealot]

The demo was awesome at first... but then it just ends and that leaves a meh feeling. DAMN SHORT DEMOS TO SOME EVIL WORLD!

Yea, I hate short demos too. Prey's demo length was perfect. Of course, that demo was front-loaded to all hell, but w/e.

FEAR's original demo was the worst, with Dark Messiah coming in a very close second. The demo for FEAR was like 10 minutes tops. Dark Messiah was maybe 15 minutes. How the hell am I supposed to make a decision to buy based off of 15 minutes of play??

Company of Heroes' demo was the shit. Two full single-player missions and 1 skirmish mission. At least 2-3 hours of gameplay.

[avatar_58]

I personally love the new enemies, they caught me off guard thats for sure. I also noticed in the install pictures and intro that a church and subway are levels....which is really a change of pace from the office buildings of FEAR.

They seem to be going heavy on environmental damage, lots of computers and things to get in your way while mowing down enemies. When they first handed me the minigun I was spraying everywhere on purpose just to watch everything fly around the room :D

Performance was extremely odd. For some areas I was clearly getting far beyond the framerate of the original, while other scenes dipped (the blood room for instance). Either way it ran nicely, and I would even say better than the original for me anyway.

[Water12356]

Oh yea avatar, the preformance needs tweeks. I was lagging like crap in the blood room.

But a good thing could be, the physics I think where slightly adjusted. The ragdolls seemed to have a different weight than the orginal FEAR did. (was using the shotgun to experiment...)

[Orochi Avlis]

The performance really bogged down in the blood room and the room where we have to turn off the gas fire.
I also like how the interact more with the environment. The rocket launcher mech pushed aside some boxes. What was also cool was that a pillar fell over when he shot it with his rockets.

I forgot to mention it, but I did notice some AI issues. I was right in front of one soldier and then he said "Where is he?".

[Jiminator]

yeah, it didn't seem like they tweaked the ai at all. the soldiers were yelling the same stupid things repeatedly right from the beginning. thanks and all that, but stealth would be good from them also.

[Water12356]

Knoticed another thing... the slide kick has been redone, it looks a little different, and you cant slide under doors anymore (well some anyway) :( thats sad because I always loved sliding into vents and stuff.

[hanged_man]

It's an expansion so im not expecting something revolutionary and new in it

[avatar_58]

Knoticed another thing... the slide kick has been redone, it looks a little different, and you cant slide under doors anymore (well some anyway) :( thats sad because I always loved sliding into vents and stuff.

The part I found odd (and this might be in the latest patch, didn't check) is that ducking and melee will slide even if you aren't in motion. It looks really odd, and I'm not quite sure I understand the reason for the change.

[Orochi Avlis]

yeah, it didn't seem like they tweaked the ai at all. the soldiers were yelling the same stupid things repeatedly right from the beginning. thanks and all that, but stealth would be good from them also.
They did.
You can see it. I'm saying the tweaks brought up a bug or two in their behaviour because they never had those problems in the actual game.

And who cares if they say the same thing? Switching script isn't going to make the game better.

[FrozeN91]

OMG... there's a Fear EP demo and I didn't find out until now? :p
Either way I'm downloading now in 700 kb/s and I'll get it in about 10 minutes :)

[hiob]

very cool, i really like the new enemys, the first time i got in the room i was shooting constantly at their shadows, while they punched me in the ass :D
the minigun rocks....

but i wonder, have they improved the graphics, because sometimes when i go into a new room the game freezes for a few seconds, i don´t tink it´s the fault of my Geforce 7800 GS with 512ram, I played without soft shadows and at lower resolutions, but i still have the problem. :confused:

[FrozeN91]

Don't know what your prob is, but there's a HUGE difference if I change the texture resolution to medium.

Finished the demo twice now. It was pretty cool, I guess. Felt like Fear :)

The ending is awesome, especially if you walk up close. I got a hug!!

[The Deadsider]

Anyone else looking forward to taking on one of these guys?
http://space-kitten.org/ds/FEARBigGunDude.jpg

[ADM]

Oops forgot about this.. grabbing it off 3DGamers now.. be done in 15 mins.

[Jiminator]

Is it me, or did the character models appear to be a lot bigger in the demo?
I also did notice that the enemies did have some better ai. ok, the comments are the same, but the actions are different. They are now flipping tables and using cover more effectively.

[FrozeN91]

Hmm. I don't know.. Going for another round now :)

[ADM]

Ok just finished it.. VERY short.. don't know what to think to be honest.. I know it's an expansion pack but I was hoping for something different.

It kicked ass but it felt too similar.

One thing though.. the subway sections totally reminded me of Strat's work, did you work on those sections Strat? Very similar to Katana :D

[StratonAce]

He he. ADM, you always were a quick study. ;)

[FrozeN91]

Well, I have completed it three or four times now and I have to say it just keeps getting better and better! That's exactly how I feel with the (L) original FEAR (L).

I just noticed the destructible enviroments, which are awesome btw!

And instead of killing the robot instantly before he even fires a rocket, I took the Sub-machinegun and played around a bit :) Dodging rockets and watching it destroy everything is cool. :D

[Kinslayermds]

To me it felt like a bad Duke3d map. No flow, lots of forced boogey man moments. Small. The Mini-gun segment was lame, while I love the effects of the gun, a hall way office with nothing to look at while two or three guys show up to get mowed down. Long story short it was bad

[ADM]

He he. ADM, you always were a quick study. ;)
Hehe nice :D It was easy to see, had your charm in it :D

[Water12356]

Anyone else looking forward to taking on one of these guys?
http://space-kitten.org/ds/FEARBigGunDude.jpg

OH GOD /o\

/hides

[avatar_58]

To me it felt like a bad Duke3d map. No flow, lots of forced boogey man moments. Small. The Mini-gun segment was lame, while I love the effects of the gun, a hall way office with nothing to look at while two or three guys show up to get mowed down. Long story short it was bad

The levels were patched together for the demo, exactly the same as the original demo. Or did you miss the part where you magically transported from a building into a subway? Of course it didn't flow...

[StratonAce]

Exactly. ;)

[Damien_Azreal]

Okay... back in town and ready to download. Been out of town, dad had surgery, but now I'm back and this is a welcome site to come home to. :D

Downloading now...

[Kinslayermds]

Be that as it may at least the original demo felt like one level. This felt like a bad VH-1 Clip show

[avatar_58]

Be that as it may at least the original demo felt like one level.

And...? It wasn't one level, it was parts taken from a bunch of levels. You aren't making any sense. The first demo splashed areas together to not spoil anything, and it was meant as a preview.

This demo is doing the very same, because it needs to showcase the different areas. It is especially needed here, because many people complained FEAR had too many office buildings, this expansion is supposed to be moving away from that and the demo had to show this. I think it was mission accomplished, because these areas were quite new.

I'm sure this expansion will just be more FEAR, but considering how much I enjoyed it I'm already sold. Extra hours in new locations + new guns and enemies is a win win for me.

[Jiminator]

anyone notice how you can now blow huge chunks of plaster off the walls? Cool!

[ADM]

anyone notice how you can now blow huge chunks of plaster off the walls? Cool!
That was always there.

[hiob]

i wonder, at the beginning you have to fight one of those big mean mechs with a Rocketlauncher and while fighting a lot of the area was destroyed, was that scripted or realtime.

[Travis]

this thread makes me want to play FEAR again.

i haven't downloaded the demo but i probably will soon

[Orochi Avlis]

i wonder, at the beginning you have to fight one of those big mean mechs with a Rocketlauncher and while fighting a lot of the area was destroyed, was that scripted or realtime.
It's only scripted when he bursts through the wall.
I fought him several times, and each time it was different.

[Theonewayman]

Exactly. ;)

Hey StratonAce is any of the small map bits any of your work, the Subway part made me remember Katana as i knew that you were working in this game. (when i saw that i thinked, hum this must be work from StratonAce. :D )

[ADM]

Hey StratonAce is any of the small map bits any of your work, the Subway part made me remember Katana as i knew that you were working in this game. (when i saw that i thinked, hum this must be work from StratonAce. :D )
Read a couple of posts up ;)

[StratonAce]

Hey StratonAce is any of the small map bits any of your work, the Subway part made me remember Katana as i knew that you were working in this game. (when i saw that i thinked, hum this must be work from StratonAce. :D )

Yeah, you guys got good eyes. ;)

[FrozeN91]

Hahaha, I can barely stop myself from starting up the demo and playing through it again! It's so god damn fun!

The robot-fight is extremely fun.
And the first room you enter when you have a 400 bullet machine-gun, wow, just WOW! I just hold down the trigger until everything is destroyed and the smoke is so dense I can't see sh't :)

[Micki!]

And the first room you enter when you have a 400 bullet machine-gun, wow, just WOW! I just hold down the trigger until everything is destroyed and the smoke is so dense I can't see sh't :)

Minigun; the way it's meant to be used...:cool:

[Theonewayman]

Read a couple of posts up ;)

:doh: I didn´t saw your post, now i fill like peaple will think i just said that because you did :( , but is just because as you said that Subway as Stron carisma.

By the way StratonAce was it very dificult to pic up the fear editor, as it is just so diferent from MaxED?

[Damien_Azreal]

Love it. :love: I had faith in TimeGate and I'm glad I did. The new minigun and Shadow enemy are awesome.

I've been shooting the power boxes and watchign the destruction. :D

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/9218/screenshot005zu8.th.jpg (http://img220.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot005zu8.jpg)

[Orochi Avlis]

I've been shooting the power boxes and watchign the destruction. :D


The printers have a new interaction to them. Shoot one, it's pretty funny.

[avatar_58]

The printers have a new interaction to them. Shoot one, it's pretty funny.

Do they? In the original they fluffed stuff everywhere, I didn't think to try it in the demo.

[Damien_Azreal]

They spark for a second or two then puff paper everywhere. It's pretty cool.

[Orochi Avlis]

EDIT: Damn, Damien beat me to it.

[Damien_Azreal]

HA! :D I'm so damn bored.

[avatar_58]

They spark for a second or two then puff paper everywhere. It's pretty cool.

Isn't that the same as FEAR SP? I do that to them whenever I saw them in the original.

[Orochi Avlis]

Never notice it.
Got to try it out......

[avatar_58]

Well I tend to break everything in FEAR.....not sure why. I just go around smacking everything with the end of my gun. If you hit certain bottles they burst into flames due to being flammable :D Always cool to see.

[Damien_Azreal]

I remember shooting a bottle of somehting in a storage room and setting a baddie on fire. Thought that was really cool.

[kylemf88]

Is it just me or are the graphics not as good as they were before? Maybe its just been to long since I played and my eyes got used to oblivion... Fun demo though, very short sadly. Also its ending was just kind of like... meh. Those shadow things were crazy though, made me jump and get nervous for the rest of the demo.

[Damien_Azreal]

I think the graphics look great, just as good as FEAR. They just appear different because we're not running through a office building anymore.

[Ruger]

I dunno, I actually got the same impression as kylemf88.

I just assumed they must not have included the high res textures in the demo, to keep the download size down or something.

[Phayzon]

Started DLing it earlier today, got to about 80% done and it lost its connection. :( Ill just buy it, demos usually suck anyway.

[Spartan_234]

This demo is included with the latest PC Gamer (which I got in the mail today), and I love it! It's even better than the original game IMO. I'm a huge fan of F.E.A.R., so you know I'll be one of the first to buy the expansion pack when it comes out ;)

[ShadeEX]

Ive downloaded it and im installing it later..

[kylemf88]

Its no different than normal FEAR. If you have played the old one and dont have high speed internet don't bother. If you liked FEAR you'll like this. (Other than the small down grade in graphics Ruger and I have noticed, but like he said its probably just for the demo to be smaller)

[Malgon]

I'll probably try it out, unless the full version is coming soonish. Any word on the release date yet?

[jimbob]

played the demo for a bit and i quite liked it so far, the enemies seem pretty smart from time to time ( unless they "hide" in the middle of my view )

[Denz]

I prefered the first demo. The first demo felt like it had more action.

[jimbob]

finished the demo, the chaingun is pretty cool :) i hate the shadow things though they are goddamn annoying :(