Please Read: Upcoming Dirty Bomb Name Change and A New Partnership

(rookie1) #21

is it settle do you have few days to confirm the name ? give us a try :slight_smile:

(.FROST.) #22

When I read that I immediately had a cheesy, end 80’s, martial arts flick poster before my eyes, that stars Cynthia Rothrock and Billy Drago:wink:

(INF3RN0) #23

I was thinking “Extraction Point” or “Extraction Team” made the most sense lol.

(rookie1) #24

‘Hostile Ground’ or just ‘Hostile’
give lots of narrative possibilities

(Pytox) #25

Dirty Bomb Extraction ? :rolleyes::eek:

(.FROST.) #26

Hey, or this; “Extraction Zone”, or short EZ? Would also make sense since it’s a established military term.

(rookie1) #27

All good imo but what i dont like is that like DB ,Extraction(…) is too specific

(Raviolay) #28

Kinda makes me think this was the plan all along, classless objectives, change the name (not bothered about the name) yep cheated is how I feel. Should of just trusted my prejudices and steered clear, F2P AND from the makers of Brink. Now I am £205 in the hole on a game I am no longer interested in playing, as there is no whiff of a “classic” mode from the powers that be (not profitable I guess). This Nexon company must be rubbing their hands together with glee, as all their FPS games look like cheap cobbled together rubbish.

I could not care less about this constant babble about being not Pay to Win, you will (and have done so) dilute(d) the game as so to encourage expenditure. As already seen with the classes objectives (by a better wrench no doubt) & and the proposed change to gun loadouts “so players don’t feel locked out of characters” my Arrse. This is not a trend that will not suddenly or ever reverse (a given with the PAX announcement), Dirty Bomb pre-agnosic patch appeared to more like a fully fledged AAA boxed title.

Now that’s all it is going to be a AAA alike game has the production values plays like nothing of the sort…

“Min (their CEO) is already pretty good at DB already… I’ve loved working and socialising with him – he’s a huge hardcore PC gamer himself, and also nuts about board and card games. His alias is MoneyPenny, so now you know who to shoot!”

MoneyPenny figures…

Also I went for that “founders” package because I liked the Dirty Bomb Hoddie doesn’t look too gamey, I could actually put it on outside without looking like a knob. Also it give you guys some more (at the time if felt) deserved hard earned cash. Now it’s highly probable I will not like the look of Extraction (extortion would be more apt for the game TBH) hoodie, suppose I can video myself burning it like a Palestinian with a Israeli flag so I guess no big loss. Unless you count the 205 earth pounds…:rolleyes:

(ailmanki) #29

So I guess there will be only a very limited version of private servers? Or will there be a variant, where a community can rent/host such a server and have full control over what the game gives to control?

Custom maps are being made, how are they going to be working with this system of free-to-win.
What rewards does a map maker get?

Minecraft really shows that people like to mod, while minecraft afaik is still being recompiled… Will you guys have some kind of API? SDK?
And then again, how will servers and the match making work with that?

Well these are serious concerns… there is still plenty of time, but it looks like you guys have already made some contracts… And you guys are in control of the game, not how its going to be used as it seems.

Lastly, Extraction - I like that new name. Dirty Bomb.has a good chance to get police attention - just cause of talking about the game at the wrong place.

(INF3RN0) #30

Raviolay your posts make absolutely no sense tbh. If your mad that all classes can do objectives that’s fine, but you sound seriously foolish speculating that this game can’t be AAA or is suddenly completely focused on monetizing just because it doesn’t fit your preferences to the detail. Grab a box of tissues and learn to enjoy other games debbie downer.

(Bloodbite) #31

As much as I liked the name Dirty Bomb, it honestly gave me the ****s to read on sites like Gamespot all the idiocy of today’s uneducated gamer crowd immediately thinking “fart… FART FART FART FART FART!”

Morons.

Extraction doesn’t seem as colourful a title in terms of imagination, but as far as marketing is concerned I’m going to agree with you guys in the office, it’s the smarter move. It screams FPS and tactical. I have no doubt you guys will come up with a slick logo to give it class as well (and acronym… kinda sick how important references like “DB, CS:GO, CoD” are to gamers when you think about it). Dirty Bomb in hindsight is “too smart” for the industry… and the obscene longevity of CoD 4.whatever is a testament to how influential the stoopid quotient is.

As for Nexon… they do Combat Arms. I vaguely recall trying Combat Arms years ago (like when it came out)… I remember it being heavily pay2win back then, though I’m not sure if it was in Nexon’s hands at the time. Regardless, as much as I too would have liked to have seen WarChest pave some new ground, I’m far more interested in having DB succeed and be what I want in a multiplay experience… a solid community with plenty of people online whenever I have a chance to log in… downtime/lag free (or as much as is possible) as well. If Nexon improves those chances, I’m all for it.

All of what I read about these changes point to increasing the odds this game will be embraced quicker, and more widely, and we all know how important it is nowadays to establish that first wave of a multiplay community (or fade away for good in the blink of an eye). And none of it at the expense of the gameplay design/content… so thus far, it’s all thumbs up from me.

(Nail) #32

silly little people all butt hurt, Splash Damage is in the business to feed their families, not our egos. They make game, feed children, we bitch and moan that it’s too accessible . Somehow we all have fun

(.FROST.) #33

[QUOTE=Raviolay;465238]Kinda makes me think this was the plan all along, classless objectives, change the name (not bothered about the name) yep cheated is how I feel. Should of just trusted my prejudices and steered clear, F2P AND from the makers of Brink. Now I am £205 in the hole on a game I am no longer interested in playing, as there is no whiff of a “classic” mode from the powers that be (not profitable I guess). This Nexon company must be rubbing their hands together with glee, as all their FPS games look like cheap cobbled together rubbish.

I could not care less about this constant babble about being not Pay to Win, you will (and have done so) dilute(d) the game as so to encourage expenditure. As already seen with the classes objectives (by a better wrench no doubt) & and the proposed change to gun loadouts “so players don’t feel locked out of characters” my Arrse. This is not a trend that will not suddenly or ever reverse (a given with the PAX announcement), Dirty Bomb pre-agnosic patch appeared to more like a fully fledged AAA boxed title.

Now that’s all it is going to be a AAA alike game has the production values plays like nothing of the sort…

“Min (their CEO) is already pretty good at DB already… I’ve loved working and socialising with him – he’s a huge hardcore PC gamer himself, and also nuts about board and card games. His alias is MoneyPenny, so now you know who to shoot!”

MoneyPenny figures…

Also I went for that “founders” package because I liked the Dirty Bomb Hoddie doesn’t look too gamey, I could actually put it on outside without looking like a knob. Also it give you guys some more (at the time if felt) deserved hard earned cash. Now it’s highly probable I will not like the look of Extraction (extortion would be more apt for the game TBH) hoodie, suppose I can video myself burning it like a Palestinian with a Israeli flag so I guess no big loss. Unless you count the 205 earth pounds…:rolleyes:[/QUOTE]

Wow, that was kinda emotional. I’m not sure if we all here are still only talking about the mere change of a game’s name and the selection of it’s distributors. Don’t get me wrong, 205 earth pounds are definitely not small money, but with all due humbleness, you should’ve known before, that maybe not everything in the process of making DB and later in the final product will be to your personal liking.

And again, this is an alpha, the updates are updates, NOT patches for an already released game. Meaning, that everything that was changed 2steps forward can easilly be changed 2, or 1step(-s) backwards, depending on the (hopefully reasonable) feedback of the testers and our beloved Big Brother, Echo.

And the potential burning of swag reminds me of a guy, who had posted a picture of a Brink copy, that was lying in a trash-can. It should be clear, that something like that has nothing to do with reasonable critique, but only reflects the mind of a somehow confused person, with some deeper personal issues, wich are not necessarily linked to the shortcomings of a particular videogame. The other extreme would be people who’d get themselfs tattoos of iconic stuff from their most favorite game, all over their chest; preferably done by the most inexperienced tattoo-artist they can possibly find.

(acQu) #34

Indeed. Always when i typed Dirty Bomb in google i had this feeling … told myself, comon’ guys, you know i am not searching for how to make dat bomb, i am searching for dat video game, you know, dat Dirty Bomb game, i hope you know this lol <INDEXED FOR LIFE> :smiley: …

At new name: well, does this remove me from the index :smiley: No joke, sounds ok. There are more serious things in the game you need to address though, primarily to make a nice movement system which is fun to use.

I also think that, yeah, the Nexon info, whatever it means, i am probably not going to know how everything is operated exactly, but sounds good. Retaining creative control over the game is a good thing.

(Bangtastic) #35

Nexon was expected, also good for comp gaming since Nexon kinda revived some combat arms competition.

dirty bomb didnt fit that great as it caused some misinterpretation to the game.
tbh I didnt like the name at all, Extraction better captures the essence of the game is about. There might be better names, but as long its catchy :slight_smile:

Its a reasonable change. SD is doing their thing, I like :wink:

SD is informing us about their plans but thats also not good enough. a customer can rly never be satisfied^^

As long you give it the game one name and not 5 different ones for different regions^^ Like Soldier Front 2 and Special Force 2 : SKILL (what a retarded name^^)

Cheers

(Demanufacturer) #36

I wanna say thanks for the post… letting us know first.

Extraction is a good name imo.

Re: Nexon - I’ve never heard of them or their games. Which isn’t a good sign. I’m no F2P expert or anything… but I held out a hope here that we’d see Extraction as it is now called on steam.

That’s not going to happen now is it? -_- It was purely an assumption… or hope on my part…

(eiM) #37

Definitely a nice move to let us know early. Here is my opinion on the topic:

The name change seems good and DB troubled me from the start for the many reasons given here already. Extraction is not really catchy, but in the end I honestly do not care about the name too much :smiley:

I am a bit troubled about the system of operators of XT (Extraction). On the one hand I am very happy that Nexon provides the service to most relevant areas for gameplay. I think they are a good choice. On the other hand it will be a big loss if the services of Nexon and CIS countries were truly seperated from each other. That would be a major flaw in the architecture and according to the posts you guys made so far, it is unlikely to be resolved (or at least very hard and thus my expectation).
On top of that I truly hope that you guys do not lose sight of the goals/orientation you keep announcing. Do not get me wrong, I am not here to judge you “yet”. But I was also under the impression that with the whole Warchest, Fireteam, SD setup you guys would give less out of hand. So this rather major partnership came as surprise (Also my knowledge of the extents needed to run such a service are very limited and it might have been a very unrealistic attitude to begin with).

How it all turns out is yet to be determined but I hope for the best :wink:

(Kl3ppy) #38

[QUOTE=eiM;465269]
On top of that I truly hope that you guys do not lose sight of the goals/orientation you keep announcing. Do not get me wrong, I am not here to judge you “yet”. But I was also under the impression that with the whole Warchest, Fireteam, SD setup you guys would give less out of hand. So this rather major partnership came as surprise (Also my knowledge of the extents needed to run such a service are very limited and it might have been a very unrealistic attitude to begin with).[/QUOTE]

Maybe someone (badman :smiley: ) can explain the correlation of Fireteam, WarChest and Splashdamage. I thought this 3 companies are here to create an independant infrastructure. tbh, it looks for that fireteam and warchest are not really needed because all the Stuff they could do is now in the hands of 3rd parties.

(Loffy) #39

They’re taking it step-by-step Shifty :slight_smile: Fteam and WC are probably just a handful of guys, albeit brilliant ofc, a bunch of computers and a coffee machine/tea kettle. They are in the beginning of developing these parts of game development, administration/distribution and promotion as you know and my guess is that it is too early to do it all so that US company (nexus) is a needed help/assistance. Still, a short explanation about the companies would be an interesting read, coupled with some additional info perhaps, e.g., where can I buy myself a Fireteam/WarChest t-shirt :slight_smile:

(Demanufacturer) #40

In a weird way I just wanted to settle down and get my gaming fixes via rad soldiers and db. At a guess rad soldiers is moving to pc via nx?

I wish rad soldiers was a bit grittier, but as far as accessible atmospheres go, I think is really good.

I’m just worried things might get diluted a bit too much. Not having any xp with nx however my fears may be very much unfounded.