{"id":517,"date":"2010-03-08T15:52:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T05:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/?p=517"},"modified":"2010-03-08T15:59:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T05:59:11","slug":"massive-action-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/2010\/03\/massive-action-gaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive Action Gaming!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mag.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-518\" title=\"MAG_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/MAG_logo-300x112.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/MAG_logo-300x112.png 300w, https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/MAG_logo-150x56.png 150w, https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/MAG_logo.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOnce again, I buy a game, get caught up in it, and forget to post. This time the culprit is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mag.com\"><em>Massive Action Game<\/em> (MAG)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This was touted as being a new breed of co-operative multiplayer FPS&#8230; and in many respects it is. You do actually play games of 128-a-side (total player count: 256), and you are tasked with working together to attack or defend specific objectives in the same map.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On the service, MAG seems to be yet another modern\/near-future FPS. There&#8217;s a little futuristic tech, but it&#8217;s generally a descendant of Counterstrike, and is visually nothing to write home about. There&#8217;s still plenty of griefers out there, and though I have not personally experienced it, the forums indicate that teabagging is still an observed practice.<\/p>\n<p>Despite all this, and despite my preference for fast-paced high-action scifi FPS (like older generations of Quake and Unreal Tournament), I&#8217;m having a great time. Part of it is that there is an undercurrent starting to build in the culture. Players are starting to work together and use their headsets in a constructive manner. It definitely helps that a lot of the hardcore every-man-for-himself players are starting to drift back to games more suited to them.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still learning new things about how to play the game. It&#8217;s definitely clear that there is no single skill or equipment set, or strategy that will win the game.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re playing MAG and want to catch up for a round sometime, let me know. Provided, P isn&#8217;t already playing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, I buy a game, get caught up in it, and forget to post. This time the culprit is Massive Action Game (MAG). This was touted as being a new breed of co-operative multiplayer FPS&#8230; and in many respects it is. You do actually play games of 128-a-side (total player count: 256), and you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[395,101,394,357],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p149Qe-8l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}