F.E.A.R. Multiplayer to be FREE!

Dyre Straits · Aug 12, 2006, 05:25 AM

http://www.fearfans.com/newsitems/103/

08-08-2006 - Sierra Entertainment today announced that the multiplayer component from the award winning PC title F.E.A.R.™ (First Encounter Assault Recon), has been renamed F.E.A.R. Combat, and will be made available to the public as a free download on Thursday August 17th, 2006.

F.E.A.R. Combat is the complete multiplayer component of F.E.A.R. and includes all the updates, additional official maps and additional official game modes all in one downloadable file. F.E.A.R. Combat users will be able to play against the owners of the retail version of F.E.A.R. as well as the other F.E.A.R. Combat users.

F.E.A.R. Combat features:
- 10 Multiplayer Game modes.
- 19 Multiplayer Maps.
- 12 different weapons.
- Punkbuster support for anti cheat support.
- The capability to download user generated content.

To play F.E.A.R. Combat, consumers simply go to www.joinfear.com and register to obtain their free, Combat keycode. When the file is made available for download on Aug 17th 2006, consumers can install, enter their keycode, and get ready to join F.E.A.R. Combat! F.E.A.R. Combat will be available for download on August 17th 2006.

**MIG-31** · Aug 12, 2006, 05:51 AM

The is also a few more comments Here.

it's one on my waiting list.

dissposablehero · Aug 12, 2006, 07:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dyre Straits

http://www.fearfans.com/newsitems/103/

08-08-2006 - Sierra Entertainment today announced that the multiplayer component from the award winning PC title F.E.A.R.™ (First Encounter Assault Recon), has been renamed F.E.A.R. Combat, and will be made available to the public as a free download on Thursday August 17th, 2006.

F.E.A.R. Combat is the complete multiplayer component of F.E.A.R. and includes all the updates, additional official maps and additional official game modes all in one downloadable file. F.E.A.R. Combat users will be able to play against the owners of the retail version of F.E.A.R. as well as the other F.E.A.R. Combat users.

F.E.A.R. Combat features:
- 10 Multiplayer Game modes.
- 19 Multiplayer Maps.
- 12 different weapons.
- Punkbuster support for anti cheat support.
- The capability to download user generated content.

To play F.E.A.R. Combat, consumers simply go to www.joinfear.com and register to obtain their free, Combat keycode. When the file is made available for download on Aug 17th 2006, consumers can install, enter their keycode, and get ready to join F.E.A.R. Combat! F.E.A.R. Combat will be available for download on August 17th 2006.

I wish theyd have released that before i bought the freaking game.
I dont play it online as much as i should but it is a beasting game

Voxxis · Aug 17, 2006, 09:58 PM

Awesome. I loved the first F.E.A.R.

The_Neon_Cowboy · Aug 17, 2006, 10:18 PM

Glad I didn't buy it then lol only wanted the MP part... woot

RattyCakes · Aug 18, 2006, 05:55 AM

Anyone got their Validation Key yet ? :/
Why you need one when its free confuses me.. but hey.

**MIG-31** · Aug 18, 2006, 06:08 AM

yes i got mine within two minutes after my registration was submitted.

niceguyrichy · Aug 18, 2006, 07:24 AM

thank goodness they give a torrent file, I'm forever shutting down and losing downloads without thinking.
@ Ratty , usual things, check spam filter junk etc. I got mine pretty quick too

Matth · Aug 18, 2006, 10:31 AM

So what's the catch? spyware, nasty protections, email upgrade nags for ever more ???

HawgsHead · Aug 18, 2006, 10:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dyre Straits

http://www.fearfans.com/newsitems/103/

08-08-2006 - Sierra Entertainment today announced that the multiplayer component from the award winning PC title F.E.A.R.™ (First Encounter Assault Recon), has been renamed F.E.A.R. Combat, and will be made available to the public as a free download on Thursday August 17th, 2006.

F.E.A.R. Combat is the complete multiplayer component of F.E.A.R. and includes all the updates, additional official maps and additional official game modes all in one downloadable file. F.E.A.R. Combat users will be able to play against the owners of the retail version of F.E.A.R. as well as the other F.E.A.R. Combat users.

F.E.A.R. Combat features:
- 10 Multiplayer Game modes.
- 19 Multiplayer Maps.
- 12 different weapons.
- Punkbuster support for anti cheat support.
- The capability to download user generated content.

To play F.E.A.R. Combat, consumers simply go to www.joinfear.com and register to obtain their free, Combat keycode. When the file is made available for download on Aug 17th 2006, consumers can install, enter their keycode, and get ready to join F.E.A.R. Combat! F.E.A.R. Combat will be available for download on August 17th 2006.

GEEZ!!!COOL!!!!!....Thanks for letting us know Dyre!

CDsDontBurn · Aug 18, 2006, 12:56 PM

awesome

Flexkill · Aug 18, 2006, 06:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matth

So what's the catch? spyware, nasty protections, email upgrade nags for ever more ???

I agree....so what is it then???

CDsDontBurn · Aug 18, 2006, 10:49 PM

for those of you who d/led it, how large is the file? i was at school when i made my previous post

The_Neon_Cowboy · Aug 18, 2006, 11:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RattyCakes

Anyone got their Validation Key yet ? :/
Why you need one when its free confuses me.. but hey.

well they will have a data base your name, your email ,
your adress and D.O.B. as well as IP info. Wich is worth quite
alot to them marketing wise, the data from the survey again
makes it better.

The other reason you need a CD type key or how would punkbuster
ban/kick cheaters?

**MIG-31** · Aug 19, 2006, 12:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CDsDontBurn

for those of you who d/led it, how large is the file? i was at school when i made my previous post

around 1.8Gig.

niceguyrichy · Aug 19, 2006, 09:04 AM

good god, anybody know of a reliable mirror with decent download speeds?

I was hoping to play this before the weekend was up, but at this rate....

I'm getting around 10kbps at gamespot, useless

dsdsdk · Aug 19, 2006, 10:06 AM

try gamershell.com

anyways.. people in this game look like a bunch of michael jacksons moonwalking all over the place!!

**MIG-31** · Aug 19, 2006, 12:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by niceguyrichy

good god, anybody know of a reliable mirror with decent download speeds?

I was hoping to play this before the weekend was up, but at this rate....

I'm getting around 10kbps at gamespot, useless

I got mine from fileshack in around 2 hours (10mb conection) even though i am only registered with them for free which is capped at 5mb.

As mentioned Gamershell's server are usually good.

Randomletters · Aug 19, 2006, 12:15 PM

Mine took a while to dl through no fault of gamershell, im currently on a wireless connection and only connected about 1/3 of my 5mb connection.

Installing now.

niceguyrichy · Aug 19, 2006, 01:09 PM

well thanks for the info guys, but it looks like windows isn't happy

booted linux, and I'm getting decent down speeds (6 hours instead of six days lol), but same servers on my windows installation slower than a mofo

gonna set one of the other comps downloading (gamershell seems to be pretty fast

) and start virus scanning this pile of..

SFOSOK · Aug 19, 2006, 02:13 PM

Filefront Is always the best and fastest place to download from. No lines and fast DL.

HawgsHead · Aug 19, 2006, 02:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SFOSOK

Filefront Is always the best and fastest place to download from. No lines and fast DL.

Yep,File Front rules!

CDsDontBurn · Aug 19, 2006, 10:13 PM

thanks for the filefront link

. i was getting a connection speed slower than dialup on sierra's servers

(was too lazy to register to anybody else, and from the looks of it, probably a good thing i didn't)

The_Neon_Cowboy · Aug 19, 2006, 10:28 PM

the free link at the bottom of the page @ 3dgamers gave me no wait and 200-300K
the bit torrent was slow despite a ton of sharers

Al_Vampyre · Aug 20, 2006, 03:09 AM

I used the torrent link, about 7 hours altogether, started off really slow...(2Mb connection), when are we getting a game going??? Haven't installed it yet so don't know about servers and things but we should get a DH game going. Just all put DH infront of our nicks so we know who we're fragging.