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Posted: **Sat Jan 29, 2005 10:11 pm**

Since FOMK does get a few mentions around here, I've just had this through on my email.

Hello everyone,

I'll get straight to the point: the first Face of Mankind Open Beta download mirrors are up! Check the homepage for details:

http://www.fomportal.com

I'd like to take this opportunity to talk a bit about what open beta means for Duplex Systems and also for you. This is a big moment for all of us, the first time our creation will be revealed to the entire gaming community. We're exited, but also a little apprehensive. Only natural I suppose.

The major focus of open beta will be balancing; the servers, the economy, the weapons etc. etc. You have to understand that this is not retail- there will be server downtime, there will probably be wipes, and it will not always be an enjoyable experience. Please bear with us and, together, we can make this game great.

Let me emphasise one point: we value your comments, your crituque, your feedback. If you think we make a crappy decision, let us know. If you think we make a good decision, let us know also.

The gates will open on Monday (January 31st), and you will all take your first steps in the universe of the Global Dominion. Let's do this thing.

Sincerely,
Marko Dieckmann
Duplex Systems - Managing Director

P.S. Client is 765megs in size.

Posted: **Sat Jan 29, 2005 10:15 pm**

yea found it in my mail to lol.. aint gonna download it tho.. got nc ( qd's account

) and fallout 2 to keep me busy

Posted: **Sun Jan 30, 2005 4:13 am**

Opened up the email and downloading now. though i can not part with my precious WoW. I will give it a looksey >.<. hope to see all of you there. name will be BlackwooD ofcorse. DM meh.

Posted: **Sun Jan 30, 2005 11:41 pm**

I'll give it a quick shot, those looking, I'll be there with my usual name or something starting with that

Posted: **Mon Jan 31, 2005 4:23 am**

Have it downloaded and installed.

A few of exiles will be giving it a try too so maybe we'll see some of you on there.

Posted: **Mon Jan 31, 2005 12:59 pm**

Meh. See you there at half term (2 weeks to go

)

Downloading now, but can't run until i get home.

Posted: **Mon Jan 31, 2005 2:02 pm**

Yea got it installed but its not started yet :/
Will be playing with my standard nick so hope to see ya there

SiL ..:..

Posted: **Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:54 pm**

Seems the servers are heavily overloaded, got in once to create a character, but I've not got back in since.

Also it does something wierd to NC. I started NC2 up, and the login screen flashes at the top. Only cure is a reboot. :banghead:

Posted: **Mon Jan 31, 2005 10:58 pm**

for an open beta its not really that open is it?

*looks at the time*

Posted: **Tue Feb 01, 2005 1:41 pm**

lol ok i like the game when its working, but every 10 min i get a fecking
socket 10054 error.....vewwy evil.

Last night it restarted my comp and then it started screaming at me for some
boot disk....hasnt worked right since think i gotta format again :/

SiL ..:..

Posted: **Tue Feb 01, 2005 3:54 pm**

I havent had a problem with the game itself. Im just running around smoking and danceing because I feel like a lost puppy. A puppy lost in 1990 technology :/ .

Everyone post your names so i can add you to buddy list

mines something along the lines ..
Black wooD
nick- BlackwooD
>.<

so far, it doesnt feel like a keeper. Lets all get up and try to figure this thing out shall we ?

Posted: **Tue Feb 01, 2005 4:08 pm**

lol on the irc channel of ssx i see all kinds of problems

socket errors and hell knows what

Posted: **Tue Feb 01, 2005 4:18 pm**

socket errors.. bug where u cant interact with objects... login fails...u name it..

I dunno wtf i'm doing tbh, but the game seems kinda... interesting.
I accidently deleted my ingame mail so that didn't help me, gotta wait a silly 24hrs till i can remake a character.

Posted: **Tue Feb 01, 2005 6:35 pm**

sanityislost wrote:lol ok i like the game when its working, but every 10 min i get a fecking
socket 10054 error.....vewwy evil.

I've had that one. I've found out one of the reasons why FOMK is so overloaded at the moment, is becuase it got mentioned on Slashdot - http://games.slashdot.org/games/05/01/2 ... tml?tid=10

For those who have not heard of the slashdot effect, basically your traffic to your webserver and your webserver is going to be so pwned by the high volume of visitors.

Posted: **Tue Feb 01, 2005 7:41 pm**

yea slashdot.org has so much visitors that small sites can be killed in merge hours because of the number of people trying to get to their site or just pushing it over the limits hehe..

i heard there were plans to make copy's etc off the data of sites and the new posts to kinda releave the sites.. but with games like fomk thats kinda hard.

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