Free PC Games: Epic Games’ Holiday Sale Limited Time Giveaway Event (Dec 16 to Dec 30)

Free PC games! Epic Games has launched their Holiday Sale! They’re giving away free games every day from December 16to 30. Instructions are in the video.

 

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FREE GAME: Realistic Military Tactical RTS Wargame: Red Dragon (LIMITED TIME FREEWARE PROMO)

Wargame: Red Dragon, a realistic military tactical real-time strategy game, is free for a limited time.

Take note that this is a limited time promo; the game is only free until March 12 12am Eastern Time. Claiming the game before this deadline binds it to your account, making it yours forever.

Instructions here:

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Free PC Games: Ubisoft’s Happy Holidays Ubisoft Free Games Giveaway Event (Dec 14 to Dec 18 2020)

Hang on to your hats! Ubisoft has just launched their Ubisoft’s Happy Holidays event! They’re giving away freebies every day from December 14 to 18. Instructions are in the video.

The vid:

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Free PC Games: Epic Games’ Holiday Sale Limited Time Giveaway Event (Dec 17 to Dec 31)

Free PC games! Epic Games has just launched their Holiday Sale! They’re giving away free games every day from December 17 to 31. Instructions are in the video.

The video:

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FREE GAME: Resource Management Base Building Simulation Evil Genius (LIMITED TIME FREEWARE PROMO)

Evil Genius, a resource management base building simulation game, is being given away for free by Rebellion! A word of warning though: this is a limited offer and they've been pretty mum about when the promo will end.




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FREE GAME: Online Multiplayer First-Person Shooter Destiny 2 (LIMITED TIME BLIZZARD FREEWARE PROMO)

Online multiplayer first-person shooter video game Destiny 2 is being given away for free by Blizzard! A word of warning though: this is a limited offer; you’ve to claim it on or before November 18, 2018.

News shared to me by my dear friend Stoic. Check out his channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbXJiHacFPwwbi3-f2ZKR-Q.

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Chariot Drive's "Freeman Chronicles," a Half-Life Live Action Series, Is Now on Steam!

This is the next best thing to a Half-Life 3 launch: ChariotDrive's excellent live action Half-Life series is now on Steam!




Nothing after the jump.

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Freeware PC First-Person Shooter (FPS) Mod Black Mesa: Source Xen Picture Surfaces

I am not really sure about this but Black Mesa: Source forum member Rx33gundam posted several screenshots of the project.



[UPDATE: this from Raminator, one of the devs/forum admins:

It's not actual media or a hoax. It was a texture test that Abe did on his own, we're not using any of those assets in Black Mesa. Our art direction for Xen is drastically different.

While it's not actually going to be used, it's still from one of the developers. Here's hoping they finish it.]

What is Black Mesa: Source? Why should I care? The rundown after the jump.


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Freeware Flash-Based Tower Defense Review - Cursed Treasure

So I got hooked to this tower defense demo that I downloaded from Steam.

Defense Grid: The Awakening is a sci-fi TD game that pits you (and a talkative AI) against hordes of aliens bent on stealing "cores." Fail to stave off the invaders and the defense grid shuts down. I got so addicted to the concept that I searched the Net for the best Flash-based tower defense game.

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Almost all sites agree that one of the best is Cursed Treasure: Don't Touch my Gems, a free-to-play strategy game developed by Iriysoft. And while its Flash-based nature renders it unable to compete with Defense Grid: The Awakening, the game does pack enough features to hook anyone into beating all its levels.

I did. After two gaming sessions.

The review of the freeware strategy game---and a gameplay video---after the jump.

The tower defense niche is a saturated one. No Flash developer would expect his game to attract a significant following if it doesn't have features that elevate it from the competition. In addition to sporting graphics that make it tower (no pun intended) above its peers, Cursed Treasure does have innovative features:

- Three types of towers - while this is nothing new, the skill point system (see "Skill Point system", below) brings a twist to the usual tower defense. Orc towers ("Dens") throw projectiles. An orc tower can be upgraded either to increase its critical chance or become a ballista (slow; splash damage). Undead towers ("Crypts") unleash spirits to harry invaders. They can be upgraded to cause fear or to generate mana (see "Mana-based skills", below). Demon towers ("Temples") incinerate foes by emitting a continuous beam of eldritch energies. They can be upgraded to become spires that reduce the armor of creeps or towers that abandon the focused beam for a more devastating (but slower) explosive attack, which damage all within its blast radius.



- Skill point system - you can assign three skill points after each level. These grant you incremental improvements like gold generation, lower mana consumption, and critical chance and damage improvements.

- Mana-based skills - you have three of these. The first one clears trees, allowing you to build towers on otherwise unavailable terrain. The second one greatly increases your tower's rate of fire for a brief amount of time. The last one calls down a volley of meteors, killing all but the most hardy of minions within an area.

- Minions with skills - Cursed Treasure features minions with skills. Bards have haste spells, priests heal themselves, warriors have damage reduction attributes, and rogues have a 5-second invisibility skill.

This freeware strategy game wraps all these with an impressive user interface. The art style is distinct and the music and the sound effects are powerful --- my wife got creeped out by the demonic laughter every time I upgraded the temples. The minions---warriors and bards alike---bawl out like newborns every time the undead towers strike fear into them, drawing out sadistic chuckles from me.

The amount of time I poured in the two gaming sessions it took to finish the game however, was nothing to be amused about.

Play this addictive game. On a weekend. Yes, a weekend.


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Freeware Strategy Games Update: UFO: AI v2.3 Released

The developers of UFO: AI, a freeware turn-based PC strategy game, have finally released the long-awaited version 2.3 of their endeavor to replicate the gameplay of X-Com (albeit with a storyline that's unrelated to the PC classic). I've been following the development of this free turn-based game for two years now and for this version to finally surface is exciting news. The gameplay of its predecessors has been perfect except for two glaring flaws: the lack of an ending and aliens not being able to launch attacks on your headquarters. This freeware version fixes these and more.

This game may be based on an ancient game engine but its gameplay aspects are nearly unparalleled even compared to retail games (small surprise given that the game it tries to emulate has been hailed as one of the greatest games of all time by several reputable websites). I'm even more psyched with this news than Mektek's freeware release of Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries.

Classics: The game engine that put doom and gloom in Romero's heart coupled with X-Com gameplay = epic. (Picture credit: UFO: AI official site)

The link to the freeware game after the jump.



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How to Install Mechwarrior 4 Using Mektek's MTX

A lot of people have been asking me about how to install the free PC shooter game Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries. The problem lies with MTX, a software developed by Mektek to act as a "centralized distribution and patching point" for the downloadable PC games it distributes.

While it proves buggy for some, the predominant issue lies in the somewhat lengthy procedure the software requires. Gamers who don't usually tinker with their PC may find the process confusing.

If you are sure you've done things right and you're still experiencing problems, please go to the official forums and post your questions there; you'll get more detailed answers. Please take note that I am in no way connected with Fasa, Microsoft, or Mektek. I did not develop MTX. I'm just another gamer who's putting out guides and reviews in the hopes of helping other people.

However, if you're just simply curious or confused about how to install Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries using Mektek's MTX, read on.

A friendly Bushwacker scans the terrain for enemy mechs

>>>I hit my head with a rock and can't remember what Mechwarrior is. Give me a quick recap on the history of the franchise.

The guide after the jump.


Before reading the guide, I would like to point out two things:

1. This game is really free. Microsoft cleared Mektek to release Mechwarrior 4 as a downloadable free PC simulator-shooter/strategy game.

2. As mentioned before, I am in no way connected with Fasa, Microsoft, or Mektek. I did not develop MTX. Install at your own risk. If you encounter problems using the software, I cannot offer technical support.

Ok with those two things cleared up, here's the guide:

1. Download and install MTX from HERE.


2. It will ask where you will put your Mektek games. I chose the same folder where I've installed MTX:


2. Since I've heard a lot of people were experiencing problems with MTX in downloading the free PC game, I used Mektek's torrent links:

As of this date the latest FULL install is v.0021.

Downloaded using uTorrent):



(Don't mind the patches, I thought I'd be having problems patching with MTX but it turned out downloading the patches using uTorrent was unnecessary.)

3. I put the downloaded .mtx file in a folder I created:


(Don't mind the second and third files; those are the aforementioned patches.)

4. Launch MTX and click Open File.


5. Find the free Mechwarrior 4 .mtx file that you downloaded.
6. MTX will copy the .mtx file.


7. Once it has finished, wait for it to patch the free PC mech shooter.


You can launch the game from your Start menu.

Enjoy!

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Play a World of Warcraft Clone for Free: Runes of Magic, a Free MMORPG

Years back, I used to regard the MMO bandwagon as a novelty that was somewhat getting old. Grinding and the hefty subscription prices they had when they first came out turned me off. Then came World of Warcraft.

Blizzard’s flagship project has effectively changed the way MMOs are designed: it has an epic, overarching storyline, engrossing non-quest activities, and quest-centric gameplay. The last intrigued me. I knew it was only a matter of time before some companies would emulate (and hopefully improve and innovate on) Blizzard’s work of genius.

Nearly a decade later, out pop all these free-to-play World of Warcraft clones that try to cash in on Blizzard’s wildly successful formula. Their gameworlds may not be at par with Azeroth but as I have been fond of saying, hey they’re free.


The following review is one in a series of reviews of World of Warcraft clones.

Interested in playing a World of Warcraft clone for free? The review of Runes of Magic, a free to play MMO role-playing game, after the jump.



Runes of magic, a free online medieval fantasy game, thrusts players into the world of Taborea, a world where humanity---after suffering grievous losses from titanic powers they have unleashed on their world---is getting a second wind. Assuming any one of the multitude of classes the game provides to its players (Knight, Mage, Scout, Rogue, Priest, Warrior, Warden, and Druid), users embark on a string of quests that soon make it apparent that all is not well in the new realms they have chosen to call home.

Innovative features

The class system is one of the MMO game’s strong points. While it does give players the usual stereotypical character classes in a fantasy RPG, it also innovates on the ages-old concept: it introduces a dual-class system. With this, players can choose a secondary class when they reach level 10. They can then switch between these classes according to the needs of a party.

More importantly, each class has two groups of skills that are classified as "general” and “class-specific." General skills can be used even if the player has shifted to another class while class-specific skills, as their label suggests, can only be used if the player is currently role-playing the class that those skills are native to. More importantly, a player using this innovative system can augment the repertoire of skills of his primary class with that of the secondary one.

A Priest activating Enhanced Armor, a "general" Knight skill

For example, a Knight player can pick the Priest class as his secondary. While playing as a Knight, he won’t have access to resurrection spells (which are Priest-specific) but he can cast the “general” Priest skills like Urgent Heal and Regeneration, making him Runes of Magic’s version of the ubiquitous Paladin. In a similar manner, Scouts (the game’s archers), can pick the Mage class as their secondary class, further bolstering their ranged combat capabilities. Players wanting to be relentless melee masters can pick the Warrior class as their primary and the Knight class as their secondary. Or they can pick Rogue second and add lethal bleed and blind effects to their attacks.

Wort wort wort!

The dual-class system has more to it than the above; upon reaching certain levels with both your classes, you can opt to pick elite skills from various NPCs. Different class combinations have different elite skill rosters. Each one further complements the game style you have chosen. For example, Knight-Priest players have elite skills that specialize on protecting party members and smiting enemies using Light seals --- dormant debuffs that cause certain effects when activated. Knight-Rogue players on the other hand have access to elite skills that increase the probability of landing critical strikes.

These combinations---along with the addition of the elite skill system---refine the gameplay style conferred by the classes one chooses, providing more control on how one chooses to play his/her character.




Click your heels three times

Another improvement Runes of Magic has over most online games is its quest log system. Most quest descriptions have objectives highlighted in blue. Players simply click on the monsters’/NPCs’ names and an automatic movement system will direct their characters where they need to go. Still hopelessly lost? The game can show you the Quest Receiver’s/Giver’s Position with just a single click on the respective buttons --- a red flag will indicate where they are on a pop-up map.

Stoned

Regarding the title, the game’s developers didn’t choose the game’s name arbitrarily. When they chose the label “Runes of Magic,” they really did intend players to play around with archaic hieroglyphs and arcane gobbledygook engraved on stones. Runes are a primary element in this MMORPG. Using runes, players can fuse them into their equipment, boosting several or all of their attributes. Each class can take advantage of a certain attribute better than others. Knights benefit more than all other classes from Stamina bonuses, for example.

Another feature that takes the whole rune-and-socket system to a whole new level is the game’s Arcane Transmutator system. With this, players can meld weapons and armor with attribute-copying catalysts called Fusion Stones. The results are Mana Stones. These come with the lowest six bonuses of the equipment fused with the Fusion Stones. Three Mana Stones can then be fused with a player’s prized equipment, imbuing it with six of the bonuses the three Mana Stones came with. What with the six-attribute limit, the whole system demands some amount of forethought, lest players end up with equipment possessing little of the attributes they wanted imbued. It goes without saying that this encourages hoarding and trading between players, providing a community that has robust interaction. This feature is so engrossing that it’s like there is a trading card game going on in there, with your character serving as your “deck.”

Similarities to WoW

While the above features set Runes of Magic from World of Warcraft, its gathering and crafting systems (along with items that soulbind) make it firmly a clone. Sure, it’s just two systems but, like the runes, they are integral parts of the game. From armor sets to potions, every equipment type can be crafted in this free mmorpg. Crafters out to make some money can go to the nearest auction house and sell their latest produce.



There’s also something WoW-ish about how the game’s engine renders Runes of Magic’s gameworld. Vibrant primaries color the world, swathing it in a color scheme that’s striking without appearing garish. Where World of Warcraft strives to be cartoonish in an effort to emulate the design scheme of Frozen Throne and Reign of Chaos, Runes of Magic’s game engine departs from this cartoonish style, rendering environs in a more realistic manner. As a result, the world of Taborea is beautiful: rustic villages, massive cities, crystal-clear lakes, burbling streams, and peaceful groves dot the world. And while the maps are massive, crossing from one map to another on foot (or on a mount) doesn’t involve a loading screen, providing a nearly seamless experience to players.

“Nearly” is a word that needs to be emphasized though; Runes of Magic isn’t perfect. One of the things that bother me is the way light bounces off characters in certain situations. While it’s not game-breaking, sometimes it shatters the suspension of disbelief. The specular effects for example, are not perfect: sometimes your character looks as if he/she is covered in sweat or has slapped on a prodigious amount of foundation. In areas where there is insufficient light (in dimly-lit caves or when you’re standing under a shadow of a large tree), the game oddly does away with subtle lighting effects on your character; so much so that your character looks as if it’s pasted on the surrounding terrain, shrugging off the laws of light and shadow.

The game also suffers from the usual MMO limitations: in what may be an effort to cater to a wider player base, Runes of Magic does cut down on polygon count. Thus, you will see ridges in your equipment that look convincing but upon closer inspection, reveal themselves to be flat things with no dimension whatsoever. Nonetheless, the free MMO’s engine does get the job done with eye-candy options providing breathtaking sunsets and light-suffused landscapes that tempt you to just stand still and take it all in. While flawed, Runes of Magic is one of the more graphics-intensive MMOs out there, requiring at least 2Gb of RAM and a GeForce 9500 GT (or its ATI equivalent) to ensure a fairly stutter-free experience. (It goes without saying that it is playable with PCs having the game’s minimum specs but you will have to turn off most of the game’s visual effects.)

The ridges in this character's armor are nothing but drawings; they're not really bumps and... hey! Just like the quest says, pay attention!

The symphony in C

The audio is superb ---sepulchral tones in the Forgotten Abbey; idyllic tunes in the town of Logar; haunting music in the steppes of Tagena---the background music tracks are powerfully soothing or disturbing when they need to be.

Runes of Magic, unlike most MMOs, has a main storyline that players unravel as they roam the lands of Taborea. For a game that mimics World of Warcraft however, it disappoints me that it presents it in an anemic manner. While Blizzard’s game has this epic storyline involving three races and a ravenous, star-spanning demonic race, Runes of Magic has a plot that struggles to surface from the glacial sheet of filler quests that the game throws at players. Sure, you get ominous rumors of a conspiracy by Zuridhon disciples and wizard conclaves studying gigantic monoliths left behind by powerful magi of a bygone era but the game disappointingly buries these time and again underneath petty go-fetch quests. The story is there and while it is indeed intriguing, the game unfortunately meanders too much.

I am halfway through “Runes of Magic Chapter 1: Rise of the Demon Lord” so I’m suspecting the plot will thicken once I get to the game’s second and third chapters. I’m also hoping that the developers will introduce powerful, recurring NPCs. The game badly needs important heroes and villains with the same caliber as that of Uther Lightbringer or Maiev Shadowsong. Epics do need certain constants that players can easily attach to a franchise. In this Runes of Magic is lacking.

While it just teases players with (what is hopefully) an epic storyline that lurks beneath its pool of run-of-the-mill quests, Runes of Magic does have impressive audio, a capable (but relatively resource-heavy) game engine, and myriad engrossing features that will rivet players in the world of Taborea. It may not be as impressive or as grand as World of Warcraft but with more than two million players, an impressive game engine, immersive audio, and solid and innovative features that provide heightened character customizability, Runes of Magic is a must-play.


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Free Full Version PC RPG Game Review: Dark Disciples 2 (Guest Post by Captain D)

Fellow writer Dave Seaman has sent in a guest post about Dark Disciples 2, one of the free full version RPG PC games I've been curious about these past few days.



The review and the download link after the jump.



It's often a good sign when I start playing a game one day, and feel able to review it the next because I've not been able to stop playing it. That's what happened with Dark Disciples 2.

Don't expect anything impressive graphically - you just get a basic tileset generated landscape and very simple animation. This doesn't really matter though as it's easy to see what's what and as the game is turn-based anyway, it doesn't really matter about the lack of animation. The game is pretty much a Rogue-like; though there is a storyline that you can follow, you can go anywhere and do anything you want, as long as your character is levelled up enough to try. This is a strength in that you can explore the huge game world at will without feeling the constraints of a linear structure; it's also a weakness in that finding out what you can actually do without being killed instantly takes a lot of trial and error sometimes.

The game is certainly no pushover, but care has been taken to make it possible to complete most things - in one way or another - no matter what type of character you develop. The keyboard shortcuts and style of the game take a little getting used to, but once you do it's a satisfying experience. There are side-quests galore and hundreds of characters to talk to. Despite the limited graphics the game creates a game world that feels as if it could be a real place.

The level-up system is well implemented; perhaps it feels like it shouldn't take quite as long as it does to level up, but you'll certainly feel that you've earned it when it happens. All in all, Dark Disciples 2 is a very challenging and immersive game.

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Downloadable PC Free FPS Multiplayer Shooter - Full Game Warmonger: Downtown Destruction Review

Back in 2002, a company named Ageia surfaced, bringing into the PC industry avant-garde hardware designed to offload physics calculations from the CPU. The hardware, a dedicated physics card (much like a separate sound card, only this one calculated physics, not audio) didn’t do so well, considering that enhanced physics didn’t produce game altering changes back in the early part of the decade. In 2008, Nvidia acquired Ageia, fusing the innovative physics technology with their video cards. Ageia might not have survived the decade, but their legacy, the hardware and the middleware PhysX, continues to live on in several games.

One of these is Warmonger: Downtown Destruction, a game developed by NetDevil. Now released as a downloadable free PC FPS game, Warmonger was made to fully integrate physics-related gimmicks into its multiplayer-centric gameplay. I couldn’t find any information on how Warmonger found its way into Nvidia’s downloadable Graphics Plus Power Packs but the free PC FPS multiplayer shooter now acts as the flagship of the bunch of freebies, giving players the whole nine yards of what it feels like to have a physics-intensive game.

The full review, gameplay videos, and the download link after the jump.


In fact, the downloadable full version shooter does this so well that I feel the developers focused on this too much and ignored the other gameplay aspects. The game's features are so sparse: there are only two gameplay modes, Team Deathmatch and Capture and Hold, two modes that are so simple they don’t even need explanation.

What the free multiplayer FPS was designed to do however, it delivers in spades. The game is riddled with elements that flagrantly announce it to be a PhysX game. You turn a corner, a banner blocks your way, undulating and flapping in the breeze. You brush it aside and find yourself in an open area, cinders floating past you in a realistic manner as you run towards the sound of a firefight. You arrive at the scene and hastily take cover behind a concrete barrier as a hostile opens up with his chaingun. The concrete cover you ran from breaks apart in chunks. You take a bead, alt-fire, and launch a grenade. The thing sticks on the chaingunner. He runs towards you, in a desperate attempt to take you with him but blows apart several feet away, chunks of meat flying in all directions. These little things thoroughly immerse you in the urban-themed arenas of this free PC first-person shooter.

The game’s audio too, which by the way, supports surround sound systems, is impressive; the weapons are a joy to shoot.



There are only three weapons in the game: the aforementioned assault rifle that can also launch grenades, a rocket launcher, and a chaingun that has the mother of all recoils. The chaingun requires you to activate a force field that stabilizes the thing. Encased in a force field, a player is all but invincible to all attacks except rockets and grenades. The catch though is that the force field takes about two seconds to fully come up, making the weapon a support armament; the assault rifle, with its accuracy and no-frills approach, is simply better. The rocket launcher? Without tanks and other heavies in this FPS game, this weapon is next to useless. I don’t even know why it’s in the game except to blow up barriers and show off the Unreal 3 engine’s PhysX capabilities.

Yes, it is powered by the Unreal 3 engine.



As such, it is easily one of the most gorgeous free PC multiplayer shooters. Everything in the game screams modernity. Physics doodads aside, the shaders of the game are impressive. Textures are convincing, shadows play around walls, the lighting---coupled with the game’s art design---really delivers.

Despite its technological prowess however, Warmonger is a failure in two fronts. One of these (the other being its anemic gameplay features) is its multiplayer aspect. There is no one playing. There are mediocre freeware games out there that have robust player bases but not this one. This can be attributed to the fact that the game forces players to utilize GameSpy’s Comrade matchmaking system to find online matches online. Either that, or you have to know the IP address of the server you want to join and type it in the field the game provides when you click on the “Join Server” choice. Now there is NOTHING wrong with Comrade, but the designers’ choice not to implement a native matchmaking system really pulls this free PC game down.

Recent matches: two years ago.

The above problem kills this multiplayer-centric PC game. Warmonger: Downtown Destruction is one awe-inspiring game for people who haven’t seen PhysX and the Unreal 3 engine in action before. Its audio is impressive, the graphics are immersive---the whole package really paints a dystopian place where mercenaries in combat gear duke it out--- but without a player base to speak of, this game gets relegated to being just a tech demo of Ageia’s legacy.

If you haven’t seen PhysX effects, download this full version free FPS multiplayer shooter, play it, and get a taste of the merged power of the Unreal 3 engine and PhysX. You can get several of your friends to play it in a LAN party, but they might refuse; with the myriad freeware PC FPS games out there that offer more in terms of gameplay, Warmonger is a hard sell.




System requirements from the Warmonger: Operation Downtown Destruction page: 

2.13 GHz dual core processor with 2 MB L2 Cache
2 GB RAM
1.8 GB hard disk space
Nvidia 7900 graphics card or equivalent
PhysX capable hardware, i.e. Nvidia GeForce 8 series or better or Nvidia 100 series
Windows XP/Windows Vista

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Free PC FPS Full Spectrum Warrior Lag Stutter Framerate Problems and How to Solve Them

[Note: Full Spectrum Warrior is not a first-person shooter. However, instead of making a new category for third-person shooter games, I decided to incorporate this into my "Free PC FPS" category.]

Video uploaded by Wozu999

I recently came across the news that Full Spectrum Warrior had been released as a downloadable free full version shooter game years ago. I downloaded the installer, installed the game, and... got confounded. The game ran alright --- except that my mouse lagged big time, the intro stuttered, and the free PC FPS game produced abysmal framerates.

I scoured the Internet for a solution to the frames per second problem and found the solution. It can be found after the jump.

The remedy: disable your Internet connection AFTER you launch the game.

How this is done:

1. Launch the game.
2. Alt-Tab and access your PC's Control Panel.
3. Go to Network Connections.
4. Disable your connection to the Internet.
5. Alt-Tab back to the game (or click on the free PC FPS game's tab on the taskbar).

Full Spectrum Warrior should run flawlessly.

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Downloadable PC Full Version Freeware Real-Time Strategy (RTS) Game Ground Control

[UPDATE: This article now has a working link to the downloadable game]



While the years following 1992 saw a whole slew of PC real-time strategy games trying to out-innovate each other while following the formula laid out by Dune 2, Massive Entertainment opted to go a different path with their then-revolutionary release, Ground Control. Utilizing full 3D graphics that allowed players to zoom out for a panoramic view of the battlefield or zoom in to see the finer details of the game, Ground Control had no problems setting itself apart from the usual slew of PC strategy games.

Image taken from FilePlanet

The full review and the FilePlanet download link after the jump.




Massive also introduced a twist with their project: their PC strategy game had no base building elements. Instead it gave players units to deploy for every mission in its lengthy singleplayer campaign. It also threw in levels that had rugged terrain --- canyons, plains, hills, and entire mountains filled Ground Control’s maps. These geographic formations imbued the game with a tactical aspect that was unparalleled in its heyday. Even now, whenever I play it, I can't help but feel that this is the Ghost Recon of real-time strategy gaming for the PC.

There is no fog of war in this free PC strategy game but LOS (line of sight) mechanics impose themselves heavily on the gameplay. This results in gameplay that demands infantry-reliant tactics --- hidden units in this RTS game can wreak havoc on your tanks and support units. Used wisely, recon units or regular power-armored infantry can act as effective pre-emptive countermeasures as they scout valleys and promontories and provide overwatch for your lumbering war machines.




In fact this whole new level of importance this free full version PC strategy game places on footsoldiers is one of the aspects that make Ground Control exceptional. Infantry units, while considered insignificant in most strategy games, are a critical component here --- anti-tank units can decimate tanks with near impunity while footsoldiers armed with the right special weapons pose as hard counters to those anti-armor troopers. The emphasis is really thought out and you’ll be glad those power-armored marines are along for the ride (you’ve no way of chucking them out in the pre-mission unit selection screen); you’ll find out in the first minutes of the game that they are important assets, not liabilities. Among a plethora of infantry-based tactics you will churn out, you will order them to traverse kilometers-long canyons, spot for your artillery units, and lay down suppressing fire on heavy armor if the opportunity presents itself. You will also feel the void an infantry squad leaves behind if ever one gets wiped out; units in this real-time strategy game gain awards and experience whenever they complete missions. As a result, veteran squads have better accuracy, perception, stealth, and damage ratings than rookies.

You can also outfit your squads before missions. The military equipment you have at your disposal, while limited to 2-3 choices in each category (“Special Weapons” and “Equipment”) are as indispensable as the aforementioned infantry. Different kinds of units also get different choices: marines can choose between rifle-mounted anti-infantry mortars or anti-tank rockets while air superiority aerodynes can be outfitted with two types of air-to-air rockets. Units can also be outfitted with equipment like deployable radars or repair kits.

Did I mention air superiority aerodynes?

As you progress through the game, the campaign gives you more units to command and these include artillery, rocket vehicles that can hit both air and ground targets, recon planes, and the ponderous AV/U-45 SRBA “Condors.” Seeing the latter obliterate targets of opportunity---like enemy recon infantry that have gone beyond the shelter of friendly AA emplacements---is awesome to watch. The earth kicks out flame and debris with such fury that sometimes you forget this game was made in the early part of this decade.

The graphics department of Ground Control is no slouch. Tanks kick up dust and leave furrows in the dirt, artillery shells kick out a short distance, shed platings, and gracefully arc up in the air, while---if the map is awash in sunlight---sun flare effects add a level of atmosphere rarely in games created in the year 2000.

While the deliberate, realistic pacing may put off some players, Ground Control is a triumph in gameplay over dated technology, delivering a tactical experience rarely seen in real-time strategy games both old and recent. If this was a game bearing his name, Tom Clancy would have been proud.

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League of Legends Tips and Strategies

[UPDATED: Dec 12, 2k9]


This is by no means a complete guide. I've posted this as a list of things that I keep forgetting ingame. Hopefully others will find this useful as well.

I'm using Kayle the Judicator at the moment and usually equip her with tanker/support items. (Others break away from this usual build and use tanker-DPS items.)


League of Legends tips and strategies after the jump.

* This is the most annoying: people insisting on Champion kills when your team has already dominated the match. People overconfident in their powers continually go solo, traipsing across the maps and wiping the terrain with any enemy Champion they see. Oftentimes, the opposing group will then form up and push from multiple locations. They win, your team loses. KNOW WHEN TO END THE GLOATING AND PUSH! Two people pushing while the other three are playing Chuck Norris is a disaster. Someone will get ganked and/or they will outpush you. I've almost forgotten why I quit DotA a year back. Again: KNOW WHEN TO END THE GLOATING AND PUSH!

* Support heroes should not waste their time healing/tanking for newbie feeders. Stick with the heavy hitters of your team. You will ensure that they get more kills between shop trips.

* When using Kayle, remember that Reckoning slows down enemies while Divine Blessing speeds up you or your target ally. This is useful for chasing down dying enemy Champions or helping a dying ally flee.

* Don't even so much as touch an enemy Champion while you're in range of their turrets. Be careful of AoE spells and abilities --- if they harm your adversary, the turret will start to fire on you.

* When playing DPS Champions, don't invest too much on Health items. I once had a teammate who bought two Ruby Crystals for his first items. He was controlling Ashe.

* Use the ping feature (hotkey: G)! It confers a greater tactical advantage when used wisely. Ping if you need help. Ping to warn teammates they are in immediate danger of getting ganked. If an enemy hero goes into the jungle to escape/take a roundabout route to ambush one of your mates, ping the vicinity where he vanished or where you think he will appear.

* In a large battle, take note of who your mates mark (the ping feature can double as a target marker; simply ping the enemy champion you want focus fired).

* Focus fire! Enemies go down faster if your team does.

*If possible, go after the squishes (low armor and/or HP champions) first before taking care of the tanks. Tanks, by their very nature have enormous amounts of health. It takes a very long time to kill one. In RTS PC games, skirmishes are decided in seconds, not minutes. You may well lose a skirmish if you target a tank.

* For the love of God, don't try to teleport back to your base alongside or in front of your tower when low in health. I take absolute glee sniping low HP champs with a one-shot kill from a nuke. Really if this happened to you, you just gave the enemy a ROFLNuke moment. Get some distance between you and your enemy before teleporting.

* Above. Get some distance between you and your enemy before teleporting. Many times in mid/late games I've hunted down for teleporting enemies after a battle. When you're low in life after a battle, find a safe place before teleporting. Don't assume that a battle is over just because you've killed one or three champs. A zealous nuker might be hunting for you.

* Gank! Early game, try to see if someone's dying. At level 4 or so, if you an enemy on an adjacent lane who's hovering on the brink of death, mark that champion and arrange for a gank. The first team that goes on a ganking spree holds a great advantage for most of the game. I can gauge the chances of success for a particular match by observing teammates. Getting killed by towers a few times? That's fine, everyone makes mistakes. Everyone doggedly pushing separate lanes and ignoring pings even at level 6-8? Disaster. Expect your team to be owned. (Unless the opposing team is equally idiotic and mimics the same asinine behavior.)

* This tip isn't mine; I'll have to search who wrote this. Word to this effect: It's your responsibility to observe the minimap; if you're at the front lines (or worse, across the river) and the enemies have gone missing, don't wait for a warning from your mates. GO BACK. There's at least a 75% chance they're all playing Booboo and have brought their friends along. Your mates are not your babysitters.

* Play the babysitter. Ping and warn your mates of an impending gank if you sense it. Call out "MIA" whenever you notice enemies are missing.

I'll be adding more League of Legends tips and strategies here.


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League of Legends "Server UNAVAILABLE Are you Connected to the Internet?" Problem - How to Solve

One of the prime reasons I go out and buy a PC strategy game is if I see that the video game gets massive support from its developers. League of Legends, one of the best free PC strategy games I've come across, gets periodic patches from the Riot staff (whose ranks include the creators of the Warcraft strategy mod DotA). This downloadable freeware PC real-time strategy game gets balance tweaks, additional champions, and other doodads like skins from time to time.

Unfortunately, sometimes there are problems with its patcher.

So are you getting this?

It's downloading and the error message is driving you nuts.

The solution after the jump.




Select the launcher then press UP DOWN LEFT RIGHT UP UP DOWN DOWN. Enjoy the free PC strategy game. You also will have 30 lives and the megashells power up.

Contra never looked so good.

Seriously though, it works.

The solution was provided by the devs themselves.

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Downloadable PC Full Version Freeware Real-Time Strategy (RTS) League of Legends - First Impressions

Well I don't think now is the time for a review. Clearly, the game is not yet finished, given that the game has only two maps at the moment (one in beta phase) and that the Runes gameplay feature is still a "work in progress." Giving it a review right now will be unfair for the developers seeing how this Warcraft DotA clone shows much promise.

It's again downloading updates right now (a VERY good sign) so I can't play this free PC multiplayer strategy game. What with my shift coming up, I might as well sit down and write about my first impressions.


The impressions and download links after the jump.

League of Legends: Clash of Fates is a free-to-play real-time strategy game that is being developed by Riot Games. Part of the dev team are Steve "Guinsoo" Feak and Steve “Pendragon” Mescon, two people who were directly involved in the development of the highly-popular Warcraft: The Frozen Throne mod, DotA.

League of Legends: Clash of Fates is a clone of the original Defense of the Ancients, in it, two teams still defend their base, which are connected by three lanes that are lined with turrets. Just like DotA All-Stars, both bases continuously spawn a steady stream of minions. It is up to you and your team to help these minions destroy the enemies' base.


Whoa, this is turning into a review. Crud. Ok, first impressions:

• Game has a retail version. Did you know that? Yep, it has. Buying the retail version speeds up the process of unlocking the game's various unlockables. Then again, I'm not sure if the retail version comes with all the unlockables unlocked. I have yet to check on this.
• It has an account system. Playing more games grants you "Mastery" points that you can purchase to give whatever Champion you choose infinitesimal boosts like 0.66% Critical, etc. They may not be game-changing benefits, but they sure are handy.
• Yes, your account "levels up."
• No heroes here. Kidding. The game names them as "Champions." You are the "Summoner" of these champions.
• There is also a Rune system. It's not clear to me yet, as I've got to do some reading (IT company work and gaming websites don't mix well lol!), but it looks like you can unlock certain Runes as your account levels up. You can then (I think) choose from your collection which Runes to use for a certain match.
  
• The audio is awesome.
  
• Oddly enough, while the audio is awesome, the game makes me feels as if I'm "floating" above it. It's not immersive enough like that of DotA's. With Warcraft, when I walk a character, it really feels like I'm there gallivanting across the hills and dales of the terrain. With this game, I feel detached. I don't know, but there's something lacking that I can't put a finger to. Let's hope they fix this.

• The graphics are toony. This could be a good or bad thing depending on your preferences. It's not exactly a bad thing for "grit lovers" though --- at higher video settings, the game really shines. One can just look at all those Youtube League of Legends: Clash of Fates gameplay videos. At lower video settings, it reminds you of those cheapo, free-to-play MMO PC RPG games.

• The game has recipes and items --- this massive collective absolutely swamps, floods, drowns, buries, and obliterates that of DotA. Newbies (wait. Edit: "Fellow newbies.") need not be alarmed however; the game presents suggestion weapon and items for your Champion of choice. Here's more: clicking those items will bring down, recipe trees, enabling you to easily see which items are needed to create them. Expanding on that innovative twist, the developers have even made the recipe trees interactive --- click on the components, and the "Buy" button lights up, giving you the option to immediately buy that item from the tree without going back to the main, relatively labyrinthine "Health-Defense-Critical-Movement" menu.

All in all, this is one of the greatest freeware release the free-to-play world has seen. Warcraft and DotA players, take heed: League of Legends: Clash of Fate is something you need to get into. Even in its WIP state, it's still is awesome.



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Downloadable PC Full Version Freeware Real-Time Strategy (RTS) League of Legends

[Placeholder post for my review of this game.]

This DotA clone is from Steve "Guinsoo" Feak, one of the creators of DotA All-Stars.



Download links after the jump.

The installer installs the latest DirectX components and Adobe AIR. After installation, the game automatically searches for updates. Cool.


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