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Online service for Killzone: Shadow Fall, Killzone: Mercenary and RIGS: Mechanized Combat League will end August 12 (update: now dead)

JaseC64

JaseC64

Enlightened
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Oct 25, 2017
11,008
Strong Island NY
Fisty said:
Yeah seems to be a pretty good group going right now, and since it's not a super long grind people aren't going stir crazy so no complaints here. I'm thinking about trying to hand off this session to someone else to manage so I can stop the PSN notifications lol
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Fisty I def recommend to mute the notifications but keep them on so you can still see the chat.

I had to do it. My phone buzzing all the time was making me go nuts.

Thanks again for pulling in a bunch of people. Again, I happened to be on reserve but ended up with non Era PS members and man that was so cool just because there are so many nice people out there that aren't in this community. I will ask them to join of course. They need to be here with us. Sadly though most of their time is grinding trophies LOL.

If I finish this Evo Valkyrie trash trophy of rank 50, I will go back and help with RIGS. It's not so bad but you need a dedicated group for like 8 solid hours.
 
Fisty

Fisty

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Oct 25, 2017
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JaseC64 said:
Fisty I def recommend to mute the notifications but keep them on so you can still see the chat.

I had to do it. My phone buzzing all the time was making me go nuts.

Thanks again for pulling in a bunch of people. Again, I happened to be on reserve but ended up with non Era PS members and man that was so cool just because there are so many nice people out there that aren't in this community. I will ask them to join of course. They need to be here with us. Sadly though most of their time is grinding trophies LOL.

If I finish this Evo Valkyrie trash trophy of rank 50, I will go back and help with RIGS. It's not so bad but you need a dedicated group for like 8 solid hours.
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Trophy boosters are some salt of the earth gamers, met a lot of great folks through boosting sessions. I just LOVE comparing battle scars, during our RIGS boost everyone was talking about how bad Doom's boost was. Then I mentioned Bioshock 2 just to hear everyone groan loudly LOL

Also yeah definitely muted notifications since those EU folks love to get up early and start blasting the chat haha
 
Friender

Friender

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Sep 27, 2020
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In general, is it a big development lift to implement a peer hosting system? Sure would be nice to have that for when game official servers are taken offline, for any game.
 
SkyMasterson

SkyMasterson

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Oct 28, 2017
2,001
Just a heads up, both Killzone servers are still up, in case anyone is trying to get a last minute trophy.

I tried to get into Rigs online, but gave me a DNS error, so not sure on that.
 

pikachuizgod

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Apr 19, 2019
2,008
Ragnar Blackmane said:
Didn't Nintendo shut down Splatoon 1's servers barely 2 years after the game's release?
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No, they're still active and pretty populated for a Wii U game

The SplatNet stuff that shows stats and friends online status however has been closed, though the game is still fully playable online, just with a few missing features

and frankly I'd rather have missing features over a completely unplayable game
 
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APOEERA

APOEERA

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Oct 26, 2017
3,064
All the servers for Killzone Shadowfall/Killzone Shadowfall Intercept/Killzone Mercenary/RIGS are now dead.

Congrats to everyone who got the online trophies done for all those games - good night sweet prince to Killzone. Killzone Shadowfall was unfairly maligned and I found it to be a great game/campaign.
 
Nax

Nax

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Oct 10, 2018
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Got all the online done for Mercenary and Shadowfall. Buddy of mine got Aces High on the last update. Gunna take a break from video games this weekend haha.
 
Undrey

Undrey

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Oct 29, 2017
2,648
RIP Killzone: Mercenary, probably the most technically impressive Vita game, and a great game to play too. Botzone's still a bunch of fun (I farmed a 100 matches and had fun the entire time).

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Also, RIP Guerrilla Cambridge, I've only played three of their games, but absolutely loved two of them (MediEvil and KZ:M) and I can respect Primal for its originality.
 
BarcaTheGreat

BarcaTheGreat

The Fallen
Oct 27, 2017
4,041
APOEERA said:
... Killzone Shadowfall was unfairly maligned and I found it to be a great game/campaign.
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I am sorry but the campaign premise is so dumb I can't believe same studio gave us amazing HZD (I think they hired fallout Vegas writer for that?): you gave half your planet to the people whom you defeated... Lol
 
CubeApple76

CubeApple76

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Jan 20, 2021
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I wonder if Killzone ever gets a revival. Never has a huge fan, but Killzone 2 at least was solid. And PS can use a big first party FPS, especially post Acti-Blizz deal. I guess they have Destiny but that stays everywhere and doesn't feel like a first party game really.
 
shadowsdarknes

shadowsdarknes

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Oct 30, 2017
8,706
CubeApple76 said:
I wonder if Killzone ever gets a revival. Never has a huge fan, but Killzone 2 at least was solid. And PS can use a big first party FPS, especially post Acti-Blizz deal. I guess they have Destiny but that stays everywhere and doesn't feel like a first party game really.
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I just don't know how much mainstream appeal a franchise like that has.

There's a huge market for modern warfare combat clearly evidenced by COD and sometimes Battlefield.

There's a huge market for over the top cartoony/ hero shooters evidenced by Overwatch and Fortnite.

But Killzone is sort of a gritty, semi-futuristic aesthetic similar to COD Advanced Warfare. I just don't know if that appeals broadly. As cool as the Helghast are, their appeal to me also seems limited.

I'd rather SOCOM be rebooted and capture that Rainbow Six type magic of tactical team work while also appealing to that military shooter crowd.
 
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