F.E.A.R. Combat is almost here

[John]

So here's the deal: Tomorrow, Vivendi Games is releasing the multiplayer of FEAR as a free download, and is free to play.

We're playing, bitches.

http://www.joinfear.com/us/

[Eusis]

Wish my computer could run it beyond setting the graphics to 'shit'. :P

[Marshmallow]

What's a good estimate of the specs needed to run this? I don't think my laptop would live up, but I'd totally play if it did . . . somehow.

[Dade]

They couldnt have picked better timing. A few nights ago really late, I logged on to WoW....and got bored in about 10 minutes. I looked at my desktop and all the icons I have there and realized.....Steam wasnt there. I pulled it up, reinstalled Counter Strike and started playing again. I'm hooked all over again.

FEAR will be my bitch. And the bitch will do my bidding.

[Superflat]

I'll be playing. I played the original FEAR MP at my friend's house a few times and it was a pretty damn solid MP shooter. The bullet time mechanic is a bit weird with 16 people, but the guns have a visceral feel to them and the pistols actually don't suck like they do in most other FPSes (which is fun, because dual pistols are always awesome).

[Sazabirules]

I'm downloading it right now and maybe I'll be lucky to run it on the lowest settings with this 5 year old computer.

[John]

Unfortunately, the torrent for this is slow as all get out - Only about 12 seeds at this point, and none of the direct download services are letting me get it via a download manager.

[Superflat]

I'm currently downloading it from fileshack.com and I'm getting roughly 330 KB/sec, and while it doesn't work with download managers, it's still pretty damn fast compared to some of the other download sites.

EDIT (an hour later): I've been having download problems tonight, so I'll try again tomorrow.

[Eusis]

Decided what the heck and am grabbing it since after reading the bit about the torrents, I figured I may as well take advantage of GameSpot's bandwidth while I can.

Holy shit, this is going faster than I thought my cable capable of - 750-ish KB/sec.

[Superflat]

I finally finished my downloading and played a few rounds of TDM, which is really fast paced (I don't even want to imagine what regular DM is like). I'm playing as Noodle. Anyone else start yet?