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Taylor
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Taylor

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Have upwards of 10 hours played now on the new Jagex version and it's nice, but a few things need working on

First, it's far too unstable. The original AoS never crashed for me, yet the new version released by Jagex seems to crash after games are won, randomly, and also for the reasons below

After digging out underneath large structures(castle wars base, for instance) and dropping it, the majority of players clients crash

Playing capture the flag and winning by score instead of greater than the loser once the timer is up crashes the game

Compared to the original AoS, the weapons are sort of a joke. Miner class is way OP, his shovel is one hit and shotgun is not far from it. The only other class that comes close to being able to be as effective as the miner is probably the marksman, when doing perfect headshots

Hire a balancing team or wake the one you might have up and tell them to play the game once or twice, it's quite clear that the classes are nowhere near balanced

Connection issues to servers are another thing, people I play with notice it at the same time I do as well so it's not an issue on our side

It is fun, and it's a step up from the original in terms of graphics and gameplay, but it wasn't executed correctly as the main issue seems to be stability.

28-Dec-2012 06:07:32 - Last edited on 28-Dec-2012 06:08:54 by Taylor

YayItzTyler

YayItzTyler

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As many you have seen the new banner for the new game of Ace of Spades, I played this game back in the beta and was so happy to have a game made by Jagex that was actually good. The main reason behind why it was good? It was SIMPLE. Three classes and a spade, and you were ready to go.

Now that Jagex has finished it and completed the main version. It's of course, gone to ****. The game now is super complex, which in turn makes it confusing/less fun. The servers itself are terrible and have been super laggy since the day they came out. Jagex still doesn't know how to keep games simple and to leave them how they are. I had very high hopes for this game and unfortunately I had been let down.

Hopefully I can save you the 10$ on buying the game, because it truly isn't worth it unless Jagex simples it back down to the beta.

Yours truly, A Jagex Gamer since 2K4.

28-Dec-2012 06:44:43

Skcarkden
Nov Member 2012

Skcarkden

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I bought the 4-pack of this game. Already regret it and feel embarrassed to have even sent it as a gift to some friends.

Full of bugs, and unfair mechanics that are easily exploited.

In Zombie mode. as a human you can use rocket launcher to kill yourself, or hand grenade and hold it, and take out zombies with you, and then you respawn alive again. Once you die, you should turn into zombie. Not be able to kill yourself over and over again to ironically avoid death by dying by your own hand.

A few times now, when i enter, i get stuck inside the sky somehow. this is also annoying in zombie mode when someone stays up there the entire match.

The game is full of trolls who will demolish their own base constantly. I can appreciate this game has the possibility of map destruction, but there needs control over doing it to sneak past or doing it and ignoring the game mode setting.

The water floor makes it less fun imo. In the hiesville map for Capture the flag, just dig a tunnel from the water floor from both bases, and just jump and you manage to pick up the intel, then you just run to your base.. Really? Cool... defeats the point of a map if you just use water base, i think there needs to be reasons not to tear the map up completely, like, no floor, dig too far, you fall out and die, or atleast make that an option somewhere so people can have both styles for an option.

No way to even kick out trolls, if you're playing demolition they just destroy their own base, and if you're on their team it makes it annoying.

Also sadly no option to host our own servers so we stick to what we get... trolls.

I think there should be a sandbox mode, for people who just like tearing the map apart, that either has no timer or a much longer timer, if there's no timer, map vote to chnge map afterwards.

28-Dec-2012 07:46:42

Skcarkden
Nov Member 2012

Skcarkden

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sometimes in a game it just bugs out, in demolition, one base just randomly died instantly at the start, and this is just after it changed maps, so it isn't a case of me joining late and then it blowing up. it literally just dies after a new map.

in zombie, sometimes everyone gets stuck as only being able to pick zombie, and it stays that way till either the timer runs out, or (unconfirmed yet) someone joins or leaves and it triggers the human total check.

With Marksman, it seems broken when attempted headshots, not sure if distance is a factor, but i've had to shoot someone over 6 times to kill them, even then, it didn't count as headshot, and they weren't even moving. meanwhile i can be moving around and running, sometimes flying on jetpack and get headshot instantly. Sure, people will just say i just suck at aiming, or claim "it's because of your ping why you miss" maybe i am bad at aiming, but if the target isn't moving, and my ping is approx 20-27 and their entire head fits into the crosshair i don't see why it shouldn't count as a headshot, or why it still takes 6 shots but when i'm flying (which i believe creates a small angle of aiming for my head, with my body in the way) i question how people under me can pull it off.

28-Dec-2012 07:54:29

DarkBrassica

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Oh my gosh I am so brain dead from reading these posts from people who judge before they even try!

Let me get a few things cleared

1st. Not a MineCraft Rip-Off but before I go into that MineCraft is a rip-off of another game called infiniminer. Ace of Spades only comparision is that the map can change over course of the battle, that is the only simularity ace of spades and minecraft have besides being blocky.
MineCraft is a SandBox game where you build stuff and do other stuff, Ace of Spades is a creative First Person Shooter where you can manipulate the environment around you to defeat the enemy team.

2nd. Jagex has every right to advertise their own game that they bought the rights for and modified then published out of beta into a finished version on their own sites.

3rd. It is actually a decent game but I guess people are entitled to their own opinions.

4th. None of RuneScapes money is being poured into Ace of Spades and none of the team working on RuneScape moved over to Ace of Spades, componies have different teams for different games and gadgets and all sorts of other stuff.

5th. You ignorant I.Q lessening posters who just crap on and moan and whine and blah blah blah are just annoying and not needed, you guys are the reason why the RS community looks bad.

6th. What the flipping Jimminy Crickets does the EoC have to do about this? Besides EoC is good for the game to allow it to progress, albiet being a tad bit buggy and unbalanced at the moment.

Have a nice day!
So can we get a trimmed quest cape though?

28-Dec-2012 07:59:57

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