I'm making this thread as more of a general FPS discussion, but centered around this upcoming game.
The five or six of you who truly know me well know that I've played Combat Arms since OB launch and for the most point I've enjoyed it. I started a clan two months in and now we've been on the top 100 for almost two years. Unfortunately, last week my Ventrilo subscription expired and I had no money to renew it, which was the nail in the coffin for my clan. CA has been getting progressively worse by which I mean a ton of nonsense updates, consistently broken promises to the players, and little or no improvements against the overwhelming amounts of hackers.
I'm trying to get my Vent back up ASAP, but it looks like my clan is done in CA. Only a few of us actually enjoy playing it anymore. We're looking for a new game for us to embrace, and we've tried a couple of MMORPGs in the past but they just don't click for us as well as shooters do. The closest we came was Project Blackout, until SGI made the Cash Shop weapons greatly overpowered.
So anyway, enough of my whining. I've watched the trailer half a dozen times and while I'm a bit leery, I'm thinking this game could be the one that replaces my three years of Combat Arms. Historically I'm not a fan of futuristic shooters, but at this point I'm willing to try anything. The release date is slated for "Q4 2011" which means that it should be here in the next couple of months.
First post will be updated as more info on BL:R appears.
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