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Exteel

PostPosted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 7:58 am
by Shadowman
This is, by far, my favorite MMO. It's a kickass mech battler. Unlike other MMOs, this one is twitch based, with SOME RPG elements. The downside? It's servers are down, for maitenence, before Open Beta Starts.

Here is the site for the game.

Also, Exteel is Free to Download, Free to Play. Unfortunately, to get the higher-end weapons, mechs, and maps, you have to pay a fee.

I've played it. The game is kickass-awesome.

PostPosted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 10:09 am
by TheMuffin
It's gonna suck soooo badly when the open beta starts. Although I guess we can use them for cannon fodder.

PostPosted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 10:29 am
by Spoon
So any word on when to expect the open beta? I wanna kill kill kill!

PostPosted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 2:46 pm
by UnitedJazz
Spoon wrote:So any word on when to expect the open beta? I wanna kill kill kill!


Well as they show it it on gamefaqs.com it's in the first quarter, because you arent' the only one who want kill. 8)

PostPosted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 3:02 pm
by Shadowman
Xion wrote:
Spoon wrote:So any word on when to expect the open beta? I wanna kill kill kill!


Well as they show it it on gamefaqs.com it's in the first quarter, because you arent' the only one who want kill. 8)


No, that's when Closed Beta started. First Business Quarter started in October last year, around the time the game opened up to Western gamers.

I checked the Exteel boards. There's gonna be something called Exteel Smashfest. Basically, every user is supposed to log on at the same time, and get a crap-ton of matches going.

Also, an NC Coin givaway. So that's cool.

Open Beta is supposed to start a few days after this, and all registered accounts are going to get an e-mail about it.

One more thing, in the Open Beta, we'll FINALLY get a CLan system! :D

EDIT: Oh ****. I just checked another topic. When Open Beta starts, all Gamer Accounts will stay active. Everything else will be wiped. You have to create everything again, starting with Callsigns. Training will have to be done over, all stats and ranking will be wiped.

It's bad for us, but good for those who haven't started yet, and need to catch up quickly.

PostPosted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 5:34 pm
by Spoon
Shadowman wrote:
Xion wrote:
Spoon wrote:So any word on when to expect the open beta? I wanna kill kill kill!


Well as they show it it on gamefaqs.com it's in the first quarter, because you arent' the only one who want kill. 8)


No, that's when Closed Beta started. First Business Quarter started in October last year, around the time the game opened up to Western gamers.

I checked the Exteel boards. There's gonna be something called Exteel Smashfest. Basically, every user is supposed to log on at the same time, and get a crap-ton of matches going.

Also, an NC Coin givaway. So that's cool.

Open Beta is supposed to start a few days after this, and all registered accounts are going to get an e-mail about it.

One more thing, in the Open Beta, we'll FINALLY get a CLan system! :D

EDIT: Oh ****. I just checked another topic. When Open Beta starts, all Gamer Accounts will stay active. Everything else will be wiped. You have to create everything again, starting with Callsigns. Training will have to be done over, all stats and ranking will be wiped.

It's bad for us, but good for those who haven't started yet, and need to catch up quickly.
Reading that I noticed that I didn't made an account yet.
This mistake has been corrected.
And good, this way the newer players won't get butchered right away. (although the experience of the close beta will pay off no doubt, despite of mech equipement)

PostPosted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 7:56 pm
by TheMuffin
Well. That sucks. I want my damned beam saber. Took me forever to earn it.

PostPosted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 9:11 pm
by UnitedJazz
Shadowman wrote:
Xion wrote:
Spoon wrote:So any word on when to expect the open beta? I wanna kill kill kill!


Well as they show it it on gamefaqs.com it's in the first quarter, because you arent' the only one who want kill. 8)


No, that's when Closed Beta started. First Business Quarter started in October last year, around the time the game opened up to Western gamers.

I checked the Exteel boards. There's gonna be something called Exteel Smashfest. Basically, every user is supposed to log on at the same time, and get a crap-ton of matches going.

Also, an NC Coin givaway. So that's cool.

Open Beta is supposed to start a few days after this, and all registered accounts are going to get an e-mail about it.

One more thing, in the Open Beta, we'll FINALLY get a CLan system! :D

EDIT: Oh ****. I just checked another topic. When Open Beta starts, all Gamer Accounts will stay active. Everything else will be wiped. You have to create everything again, starting with Callsigns. Training will have to be done over, all stats and ranking will be wiped.

It's bad for us, but good for those who haven't started yet, and need to catch up quickly.


Well that sound great, so maybe we can make also a clan full of Transformerfans.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 12:06 am
by Tweezy
Sounds good to me. I can't wait for open beta to start!

PostPosted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 7:13 am
by Shadowman
TheMuffin wrote:Well. That sucks. I want my damned beam saber. Took me forever to earn it.


Really? Took me only a few days.

There was a week where I was never off for more than a few minutes. That game is like crack mixed with caffeine.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 11:52 am
by TheMuffin
Shadowman wrote:
TheMuffin wrote:Well. That sucks. I want my damned beam saber. Took me forever to earn it.


Really? Took me only a few days.

There was a week where I was never off for more than a few minutes. That game is like crack mixed with caffeine.


I don't have time to play it that much. If I can get in 3 hours a week I'm doing good.

PostPosted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:45 am
by 1337W422102
Crikette, Exteel Community Manager wrote:To our closed beta testers:

We want to thank you for your patience during this extended game downtime. Currently, we are still in-between phases (between the closed beta and a more open beta) and we wanted to provide you all an update as to what is going on:

Right now we are working on two new systems that will enhance the new patch: the clan system and the web ranking system. We feel these will add greatly to the Exteel experience, and we can’t wait for you all to see them. We’re preparing an extensive set of invitations for the next phase of the beta, which will include all current beta accounts, just to make sure we cover everyone we’ve ever invited. On top of that, we’re going to be adding a lot more new players!

We’re also working on an NCcoin giveaway. These coins are part of our micro-payment system, allowing players to purchase in-game items. We’ll be distributing these for free - for a limited time. Accompanying this giveaway there will be a special event for testers, the Exteel Smashfest. The idea behind this event is to get everyone into the game in the same time, and get a *lot* of matches going. It’s going to be a blast! On top of that, the player database will *not* be wiped between this NCcoin giveaway and launch. So this is an excellent opportunity to earn some coin, attain new rank, and get your Mechanaught all jazzed up before launch. This is a special thank you from us for all your hard work and dedication.

Open beta will officially begin a few days after this event has ended. We’ll be sending out emails to both new and existing registered account owners with all the juicy details–it will include information regarding the event AND open beta.

We will provide specific dates and other details at a later date, but we do hope that this status update has proved to be helpful. As you know, we're now out of February, so please keep an eye on your mailbox during this month of March.

(Note from myself: On behalf of Exteel I wanted to apologize for the delay in this announcement. Many details had to be finalized. Posting partial information not only would have been confusing, but rather misleading.)

PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2007 5:57 am
by Spoon
Big bump for great justice

Any news on that open beta?
I mean I signed up some months ago now but I never heard anything about it anymore.

PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2007 9:43 am
by TheMuffin
Far as I know it's still closed. But to be honest I haven't played in probably 6 months so I haven't been keeping up.

PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2007 12:09 pm
by 1337W422102
D'oh! Stupid me, I forgot to post the update! Hold on, I'll be right back.

EDIT: These are the announcements on the Exteel Message Boards.
Crikette, Community Manager, posted on March 23 wrote:For those who have been checking their emails, I'd like to say that your email isn't broken - these emails have not been sent out. I hope to pass on additional info as soon as possible.


And the latest post:
May 21st Post wrote:I got a little update that I would like to pass on: we’ve added some additional staff members for Exteel, but we’re not done just yet. More staff members are on the way.

I want to thank you all again for being so patient with us. The biggest question I get is “So what’s the timeline looking like now?” I wish I could answer that, but we don’t have a date set just yet. But I can stay that we are still in the planning stages.

We’ll get things kicking again once we’re fully staffed up and ready to go. And don’t worry about missing any news; once we reach that point we will send out an update via email In the meantime I'll try to pass on additional updates as they come in!


I'm beginning to wonder just how long it takes to translate a game from Korean...

PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2007 1:07 pm
by UnitedJazz
I start to think that NCsoft International does just care like **** sorry to say that but this sucks man, I like to play with my XionDB character again.

PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2007 1:08 pm
by 1337W422102
Xion wrote:I start to think that NCsoft International does just care like **** sorry to say that but this sucks man, I like to play with my XionDB character again.

Honestly, I was so tired of waiting that I even tried to make a Korean account...

PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2007 1:12 pm
by UnitedJazz
1337W422102 wrote:
Xion wrote:I start to think that NCsoft International does just care like **** sorry to say that but this sucks man, I like to play with my XionDB character again.

Honestly, I was so tired of waiting that I even tried to make a Korean account...


Yeah, but I think that doesn't work becase I got downloaded also long time ago the japanese Gunz version and it doesn't work. But if it works by Exteel please send us how to register in the korean game.

PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2007 1:16 pm
by 1337W422102
Xion wrote:
1337W422102 wrote:
Xion wrote:I start to think that NCsoft International does just care like **** sorry to say that but this sucks man, I like to play with my XionDB character again.

Honestly, I was so tired of waiting that I even tried to make a Korean account...


Yeah, but I think that doesn't work becase I got downloaded also long time ago the japanese Gunz version and it doesn't work. But if it works by Exteel please send us how to register in the korean game.

The registration is the problem. You need to have a Korean Social Security Number to register, so unless you have a korean friend who is willing to help you out, you're fresh out of luck. Man, if it wasn't for this registration thing I'd be playing KExteel right about now!

PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2007 1:18 pm
by UnitedJazz
1337W422102 wrote:
Xion wrote:
1337W422102 wrote:
Xion wrote:I start to think that NCsoft International does just care like **** sorry to say that but this sucks man, I like to play with my XionDB character again.

Honestly, I was so tired of waiting that I even tried to make a Korean account...


Yeah, but I think that doesn't work becase I got downloaded also long time ago the japanese Gunz version and it doesn't work. But if it works by Exteel please send us how to register in the korean game.

The registration is the problem. You need to have a Korean Social Security Number to register, so unless you have a korean friend who is willing to help you out, you're fresh out of luck. Man, if it wasn't for this registration thing I'd be playing KExteel right about now!


My friend, you wouldn't be the only one. 8)

PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2007 1:41 pm
by TheMuffin
So the closed beta doesn't work anymore? Like I said I haven't been keeping up to date on it.

PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2007 1:43 pm
by UnitedJazz
Nightwatcher wrote:So the closed beta doesn't work anymore? Like I said I haven't been keeping up to date on it.


No I tried already many times...

PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2007 1:45 pm
by 1337W422102
Nightwatcher wrote:So the closed beta doesn't work anymore? Like I said I haven't been keeping up to date on it.

It's been down since New Year's.

PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2007 1:46 pm
by TheMuffin
Well. Glad I didn't get too into the game then or I'd be pissed.

PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2007 1:47 pm
by 1337W422102
Nightwatcher wrote:Well. Glad I didn't get too into the game then or I'd be pissed.

...then you can understand why Xion and I are so mad! :HEADHURTS: