Section 8 dated, clan and stat portal detailed

by Richard Mitchell on Aug 28th 2009 8:00PM

First off, as the headline eloquently suggests, Section 8 has been blessed with a release date. The game will hit North American shelves on September 4, the UK and Asia / Pacific regions on September 11 and the rest of Europe on September 18. So there's that. In other mechanically enhanced soldier news, TimeGate has announced its plans to open a clan and stat portal for the game.

The clan portal will allow users to access lots of special features, including automatically updating clan tags, establishing clan hierarchies, and reviewing the stats of new applicants. Meanwhile, the stats page will (obviously) list comprehensive stats for the game, including career statistics, records achieved in a single "life," as well as the number of badges earned and feats accomplished. Leaderboards can also be organized by overall stats or restricted to just those within an individual clan. Finally, both Xbox 360 and PC players will enjoy "mutually exclusive" stats, which should hopefully avert any potential "mouse vs. keyboard" flame wars.

The stats page, located here, will launch next week alongside the North American release of the game.

Tags: Action, Microsoft, section-8, southpeak, Southpeak-Interactive, timegate, TimeGate-Studios, Xbox-360

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Was anyone in the beta? How is it?

I did not like my experience with the 360 version.

Care to elaborate?

normally im all over console versions, but playing the pc beta; holy shit it's like they didnt even try to optimize the 360. The aiming is sooooo sloppy, the ideas are really solid and the gameplay is pretty sweet, but please please get the PC version.

360 demo made me cry bloody tears

My PC can barely run The Sims 2, so I think I'll sit this one out. Thanks guys.

I say skip it entirely.

I wasn't expecting that much from this game. But when i played the demo... it even fell below those expectations. Like Wayne said its got sloppy controls. The ideas are cool but in the end they don't come together well. Not for me at least.

yea it blew

I've been working on my backlog that I've accumulated over the last 3 years. I haven't bought a retail game in months. Except for star ocean 4. I tried not putting it down before I got 100%. It's impossible to not get sick of it. I've been playing nothing but RPGs for months, so I picked the orange box back up, god I missed ravenholm. So unless section 8 is a blockbuster, it can wait.

ADD moment: it's amazing how halflife2 still holds up after all these years. If I'm not mistaken, Black Mesa should almost be ready. Can't wait for that. Never played halflife 1 before.

Reactions are mixed, but personally, I liked it. The mouse-look is properly done, making it feel like a PC game, and the performance is solid. The 'victory point' system adds an interesting dynamic to the game, keeping battles spread throughout the map instead of concentrated in a single area. The customizable classes are another aspect that makes the game dynamic, letting you switch your weapons and reassign attribute points in response to the situation. Oh, and drop-in aspect of the game is great. You can drop in at any location which isn't covered by an AA turret (which are fairly easy to take out) and yes, you can kill somebody by dropping on them.

I played the PC beta, a real fun game but it takes a whole clips to kill someone, which sucks. (Even with the gun perks)

This game is not really an FPS, IMO, but more like a slightly faster paced Mechwarrior game. The combat is very dull, and the game seems to be more about teamwork, strategy, and tactics than your typical FPS. It has a Tribes meets Mechwarrior feel, to me. The Tribes elements comes from how you can plop down things on the ground, you can equip radar jammers, and you can run around blowing up enemy stuff.

I played the 360 demo first and thought it had awful controls. I then tried the beta for PC and thought the game was 10x better. So if you really want to try this, don't bother with the console versions, you'll be dissapointed. PC is the way to go.

I don't think this game will be well received by the public. It will likely have a small, hardcore following though.

@Charlie_Six

I don't know what your experience with MechWarrior is like, but I really wish you hadn't used it in that context.

Ive been in the beta. It is kinda meh really. I would'nt recommend this game to anyone.

Gamestop is selling it today

@OP quote:' "mouse vs. keyboard" flame wars. '

Pretty sure you probably meant mouse & keyboard vs gamepad flame wars...

@Alton Brown : It is a really solid shooter, it has got many options and I tried it both with
an Xbox 360 controller and keyboard and mouse combination. The mapping of the Xbox 360 controller is very similar to that of Call of Duty Modern Warfare / WAW so I got really used to that fast. The keyboard and mouse combination felt a little weird, I had to keep on tweaking my dpi settings and bindings to find the best suitable one and still couldn't.
Also the last couple times I played the Beta started crashing on me for no apparent reason (couldn't send the reports either dunno why) so I just went back to Quake Live =9

I once "dated" a "section 8"...with mixed results.

I was married to a section 8 honors student with mixed results!

Oh let me add to my above comment that both tests were done on the PC Beta (Xbox 360 USB controller and Microsoft Sidewinder X5 gaming mouse, generic keyboard), so I wouldn't know about the Xbox 360 one.

The more and more this game inches towards being like Halo. The stats page preview image reeks of it.

I liked the game, however. Tried the 360 and it quite impressed me. Enough to make rent it out.

the game is completely different from Halo. COMPLETELY. There's only like, 5 primary weapons, at least in the beta, you can have vehicles air lifted in, you choose your equipment, everything from sensor blockers to grenades or knives, then customize passive options like shield penetration, speed, aim lock charging or sensor evasion, and the base gameplay is much different, much spacier environments, even compared to big ones like valhalla or sandtrap, and a lot of other big differences like shifting objectives mid game, aim locking. Vastly different

Yeah gamestop is already selling it, my friend already has 270 achievements for it... but i played the demo and decided not to get it, im getting ODST instead.

Same. We're selling ours today.

I know. I have played the game. I am talking of the exterior outlook the game has to those who have never played the game. Didn't we all slammed it for being too similar to Halo before playing the demo/beta?

The game is extremely different with a plethora of options to customize your gear. I hope the MP picks up on this one.

I was in the beta and it got really boring really quick : /

Also.. shouldn't it be Controller vs. keyboard flame war?

one of the games demo'd recently which I thought would be at least somewhat good and yet sucked yak balls. (hello wet & dirt2..)

What are you talking about? DiRT 2 was probably one of the best racing games i've played in a long time... (but i kinda agree with you on Wet)

TimeGate blows. I tried to get a job there and they were extremely unprofessional during the hiring process. I'm glad it didn't work out, seeing how clumsy their product turned out.

Gamestop has this game INSTOCK NOW and SELLING IT NOW!

I actually enjoyed the demo. Shame that I don't see this game catching on though.

You did? I thought it was Grade A shit. =(

Intro was all kinds of awesome though...

Tribes 2 is like my favorite game of all time, and this is the closest thing to it in modern times.

I'm with you man, I really had fun with it

meh game is meh

demo played like ass......this company will go under soon.

why is everyone complaining about the controls? they seemed almost exactly like cod4 in the xbox demo.

As a few others have noted, it should be at Gamestop, they even featured it in this weeks flyer:

http://www.gamestop.com/gs/weeklyad/current/082809/olfsi_082809-2.aspx

Look at the top left of the "Now Available" box.

To clarify the release situation: Gamestop released it today, as they were told to, conflicting with the date. If you pre-ordered it, you get all your pre-order bonuses. Timegate has servers up and running, so consider it released.

As far as my thoughts, I thought the single player was the single most disappointing FPS single player I've played. The final level made me want to shoot myself. The multiplayer is genius. Innovative, fun, and definitely good. Reminiscent of Halo in some ways, but distances itself from the pack with unique ideas. Overall, I'd recommend renting it and trying out the multiplayer. If it clicks with you, buy it. The multiplayer is the single best part of the game.

I don't know about you guys, but at my GameStop, this game is already on sale for both PC and Xbox 360.

After playing the demo I thought it was still in alpha...

Not worth typing comments about either.. (doh!)

section 8.... the prequel to district 9?

YES.

Uhm...show of hands, how many clicked because they saw "Portal" in the title? Good, cause I totally didn't either...*shifty eyes*

*blatently glaring eyes* No, I stopped playing that after I beat it almost 2 years ago

Bah I never check my email. Rather, I meant a squeal, Portal 2 or Portal: Revenge of the Toasters...you know, something along those lines.

I was at GameStop today, and like other people said, the PS3 Slim is on sale there. Kinda like Section 8 I guess.

section 8 = command and conquer renegade a la call of duty.

I played the Demo on the 360 this weekend.

The game looks really nice and I found the spawn system to be pretty cool. You can pick where you drop. Im not sure what the point of having the break is though, other than to not crush your skull in. Does it make a difference if you stop later rather than sooner?

Other than that, I found it pretty 'meh' across the board. It felt like I was walking everywhere, running is so slow. There's a lot going on, but I never got the sense that I knew what or where. Very confusing at first. Aiming sensitivity needs work. I'd like to be able to tweak my vertical apart from my horizontal. I could never really find the 'right' setting. Or at least something I found manageable.

I didnt get much feeling that there was much difference in the classes, other than what weapons you were loaded with by default. Granted, I only played the Guardian and I think Assault. Whatever the first choice is.

I only played about 45 minutes of the Demo, but I have to say it wasnt an interesting 45 minutes. Pretty much came away thinking that it was an Unreal Tournament Halo.

Oh i hope its like tribes.

I'm gonna get it tomorrow cuz im sick of everything else.

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