This press release reveals some details about FOnline: 2238, one of the games slated to make use of the FOnline engine.<blockquote>The small indie development group, "Rotators", supported by the main developer of FOnline, A. Tsvetinsky "Cvet", are proud to present FOnline: 2238, the new massively multiplayer game, free of charge, based on the famous award-winning CRPG titles Fallout and Fallout 2.
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The game adds several unique features regarding the players and their interactions, be it with other players, their respective groups or NPCs. First of all, there are groups: factions, gangs - call them whatever you like, which determine the fate of the world. Some of them are more powerful than others, some are cunning and treacherous, some even hideous. But they are there, conflicting with each other, or aligning with the policies of the greater powers - those who have technological advances, political power, are just plain bigger, or any other advantages over them. Choose your way: join your favorite group and spread their agenda throughout the wasteland. Decide for yourself how to handle the resistance - with good will or stubbornness. Respect the authorities or lead a revolution to throw them off the throne - it is your world, you decide.
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From the technical point of view, the game will bring back the good old 2D isometric perspective. The engine supports several new features like object opacity and support for the PNG graphics format. The scripting language being used is the AngelCode Scripting Library (or simply AngelScript) created by Andreas Jonsson. The system requirements for the game can be considered minimal for today's mainstream computing: MS Windows 2000/XP/Vista, 56K or better internet connection and Fallout 2 CD. There are reports the game will run under Linux too (using WINE emulation), but generally we do not support it. English being the only supported language.</blockquote>Not in direct competition with FOOL, it seems. Which could be a good thing, or is it etc. Note that the site seems to be a bit slow, so don't panic if the link doesn't work the first five or ten times.
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The game adds several unique features regarding the players and their interactions, be it with other players, their respective groups or NPCs. First of all, there are groups: factions, gangs - call them whatever you like, which determine the fate of the world. Some of them are more powerful than others, some are cunning and treacherous, some even hideous. But they are there, conflicting with each other, or aligning with the policies of the greater powers - those who have technological advances, political power, are just plain bigger, or any other advantages over them. Choose your way: join your favorite group and spread their agenda throughout the wasteland. Decide for yourself how to handle the resistance - with good will or stubbornness. Respect the authorities or lead a revolution to throw them off the throne - it is your world, you decide.
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From the technical point of view, the game will bring back the good old 2D isometric perspective. The engine supports several new features like object opacity and support for the PNG graphics format. The scripting language being used is the AngelCode Scripting Library (or simply AngelScript) created by Andreas Jonsson. The system requirements for the game can be considered minimal for today's mainstream computing: MS Windows 2000/XP/Vista, 56K or better internet connection and Fallout 2 CD. There are reports the game will run under Linux too (using WINE emulation), but generally we do not support it. English being the only supported language.</blockquote>Not in direct competition with FOOL, it seems. Which could be a good thing, or is it etc. Note that the site seems to be a bit slow, so don't panic if the link doesn't work the first five or ten times.
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