Darkspore

[quote=Trojan995]EA games recently opened up the Darkspore beta, and I got in! Woohoo, I'm pretty pumped since I haven't been in many (any) game betas. Anyone else got into the closed beta? If so, I'm UrsusPolaris. [quote]The Beta will be open tomorrow, Feb 11th at 12pm, and run through Saturday, Feb 12th at 11:59. This will be the first of many open Beta periods. [/quote] Found this on the forums. I gotta wait til tomorrow, too bad I can't find the file right now. I'll keep you guys updated. 2/11/11 3:15PM update: I finally found the file, but it took a LOT of digging. I hope they improve that next patch and/or during release. That really bugged me. First patch (0.0.0.0, haha) is a big one, I'll probably play a few game types and then update this thread again. 2/11/11 4:45PM update: After nearly an hour of installing, darkspore immediately crashed upon opening. I'm talking double-click and the "darkspore has crashed" pop-up doesn't even hesitate. This bugs me to no end; I'll post in the beta forums and see what I can do. 2/11/11 10:21PM update: Still no response to my instant client crash on the support forums. I'm getting pretty pissed, this is only a 3-day thing. I want to play before this ends, so I can get a feel for the type of gameplay.[/quote]

[quote=Jebus McAzn]What is it? Can you describe gameplay, mechanics, etc? :D[/quote]

[quote=Trojan995]I haven't even installed, haha. I just finished homework though so I'll give a quick review once I've played a game or two. EDIT: I'm not quite sure if they've actually put out the closed beta, but I did receive an email claiming I had been chosen to participate. It's looking now like they've just chosen who's gonna be in it, but not released the beta? if that makes any sense. I can't get the whole email to load anyways so maybe I'll get more information once I get that working.[/quote]

[quote=caucheka]yeah i'd like to know what they did to spore. spore was awesome on its own and it didnt need some competitive multiplayer to hold it up. but we'll see.[/quote]

[quote=Trojan995]Update! I clicked the broken image in the email, and now it's installing darkspore.exe. It's a long download though, but I'll try and get something posted tonight.[/quote]