Global Agenda

Just started in the beta, bought the game yesterday. Playing as a robotics, its nice and quick to level. Its low on the MMO aspect, the armours are just aesthetic (although very very cool), there are upgrades you can craft and 3 skill trees per character.
There are hubs for players to go about their business, sell and buy from the auction house, buy dyes and stuff. The server set up is similar to guild wars.

The pve and pvp is instanced, but the game really is all about the pvp aspect being a twitch game. The AvA (Conquest) aspect (which you subscribe for) does look very interesting, they were running a conquest test last night and was looking at the map there were alliances fighting for territory and resources although i didnt enter it, not sure how . Its all instanced but its a lot of fun, very fast paced.
Will have to see if its worth subscribing for, but certainly worth the purchase for me so far.

There is plenty of info on the Conquest part of the game, it seems quite complex, unfortunately its within the official closed beta forum so im not sure if i could post it here, seems a bit ridiculous to hide something so complex in the closed beta forum. Theres actually very little info on the game on the site, strangely enough. But I got into the game due to a few guys i know playing it.


Plenty of info on Tentonhammer, interviews about the classes and pvp mission types. good stuff.

No unfortunately they dont give out other codes. Its a bit of a gamble all right to whether one will like it. Its more of a shooter than an rpg as i said previously.

Its going a similar way to Guild Wars though, you do need to have premade teams going into conquest games, my agencies alliance lost our territory last night to a premade game in about 30 seconds .

Im loving it at the moment, i would be slightly worried about the depth of the game but the developers are ambitious about it, they are adding a casual racing game to the social hub to give you something to do if youre waiting for matches, they will be adding more social areas as well.

So it looks like it will be well supported and will expand frequently. Id love to recommend the game whole heartedly but i think due to the conventional nature of most peoples thinking due to the domination of the market by games such as modern warfare or WoW a lot of people cant think outside the box.
€41 isnt too bad though, im well happy with the game.

The NDA has been lifted so i might post some game info later, the website is very very lacking about the game, i have no way to find out about skills besides ingame tooltips, nothing on the site really.

well it sounds amazing specially about those controlled territories, but just one thing...


if it will be all instanced like hellgate or AOC it will fail alot... as i cant imagine how territories will work in instanced game...


i have huge hopes for it, it will be so sad if it will be crap like the rest of mmorpgs out recently: AOC,AOIN,WAR...

ShadowHearth wrote: »

well it sounds amazing specially about those controlled territories, but just one thing...


if it will be all instanced like hellgate or AOC it will fail alot... as i cant imagine how territories will work in instanced game...


i have huge hopes for it, it will be so sad if it will be crap like the rest of mmorpgs out recently: AOC,AOIN,WAR...

Eh no the game works perfectly fine as an instanced game. Its not an MMORPG its an MMOTPS (i hate pushing games into a typecaste but its vogue eh) with RPG elements to be accurate.
Agencies bid for the right to take a hex of territory, you can get AvA (agency v agency) vehicles and structures for use in the territory you are attacking or defending.

You dont have to sit in the instance permanently only when you need to be there will you. You will get a message your territory is under attack, you bring up a map see which hex of territory it is, go in and defend with a strikeforce.
Or you can get a strikeforce together and attack another agencies territory, not so sure how that works, ive only beein involved in one defence never an attack.

Unfortuntely the game is lacking in large european agencies at the moment, mine is huge but never any officers on to organise a strikeforce.
Then there is the standard pvp which is great fun, its 10v10 again with different objectives. The first available PVP style game is a little dull (as a robotics player, very defensive) its a control point type game ala bf2 with 3 capture points.
The next available type of pvp match is a huge cargo thingy on rail tracks which one team must return to their base and the other must defend, that is brilliant, much more of a flow to it. I havent checked out the other matches yet, theyre gated to levels. Although over level 15 the third mode becomes available (im level 18 or 19)

Ah i wouldnt think theyre anything new, Guild Wars players would be rather familiar with the setup with regards instancing.

Ya we will see how the Conquest works with regards territory, right now there are a few alliances (numerous agencies) controlling most of the map, but they have plans to expand on conquest mode continually after launch.
They need to make the method of joining the conquest matches easier as well.

The game is far from perfect but i think they have a brilliant concept and a great game to build on, they will need to expand though.

Is Steam the only place you can buy this? I know it is available to US customers on amazon. I was hoping for a bit more choice.

Was thinking about getting it over the weekend to get access to the beta but then one of the ram modules in my pc died putting me down to 2GB and it looks like you need 3GB with windows 7.

Anywhere else to get this game other than STEAM ? Its fairly pricey :eek:

http://www.globalagendagame.com/TheGame_Conquest.html

Watching that makes me want to try it out

does anyone else have to sit through the .net install every time you launch?

anyone got a decent agency i can join? L20 recon and a L14 Assault so far.