Memories of a battle long gone..

A time to mourn and there is a time to dance.

Just a little video i made over 4 years ago, i still miss this game...

I always had the intention of making a follow up, showing most of the locations in the game, but yeah, the game shutting down kinda made that impossible. This was actually the first movie i ever made :)

I really had a passion for that game, i was making movies, took tons of screenshots, had a community website and even did a podcast, hasn't happened since for any game, nor do i feel any passion like that for any game.

Infinite Rasa is no more.

The community effort to bring Tabula Rasa back is no more.
Apperantly NCSoft, who never cared for Tabula Rasa, cared enough to shut them down with a cease and desist order.

Personally i never really liked NCSoft (their TR team was awesome though) and after they shut down TR i started boycotting their products and stuff like this really pisses me off.

Unless they plan on bringing back Tabula Rasa (maybe as a free to play??) they should just back the F off and let the community have their fun playing the game, i mean what's the use of having a great game like this just laying around on a shelf, besides collecting dust?.
This all just sounds like a (bitter) little kid telling everyone "no you can't play with my toys, they're mine". Anyway, it was fun while it lasted, thanks Infinite Rasa team !

For the memories!

Last night i spend 3 hours just walking around on maps, currently there is nothing else working on this server (it's not even in alpha yet), and it's amazing i still remember were to go ater 3 years and all the memories coming back..
I would come across a spot and suddenly remember battles/fights that i had there or remember what happened the first time i got to or found a certain spot, fun moments or especially frustrating moments :)

I didn't even realise i had spent 3 hours just walking around, although it did feel kind of wierd walking around and not see any dropships dropping off enemy patrols, they always turned up anywhere you'd go :)
It also felt wierd to walk into bases that would always be attacked/defended by enemy forces and not see anyone there fighting for it (or any NPC's at all for that matter) and remember how much fun i had fighting for those bases.

Fun times!

It never felt so good to be back!

So far it feels great to be able to log back in to Tabula Rasa.
Of course i tried recreating my old character, Cynheiddon Endelienta :)

At the moment it doesn't seem like you can do much (at least i couldn't).
When i logged in i ended up in Divide and all i could do was walk around, which itself is awesome to be able to do.
I only saw one enemy NPC, which i wasn't able to attack nor did it attack me. I had no ammo so couldn't shoot. I didn't find any gates to move to another planet or any other NPC's to interact with, like vendors to buy ammo from.

Really can't wait to see what these guys can do and to see what features will be implemented.

And here's a little video of my first steps back in Tabula Rasa :)


Ah, it feels good!!

It's Tabula Rasa time, i mean Infinite Rasa!

Just found this today, but it looks like there is some effort in bringing back Tabula Rasa!!
It's called Infinite Rasa and it's is a community driven effort to put a public server up for anyone who wants to play the game.

You can find the site here: http://test.infiniterasa.com/

Right now i am downloading the game (apperantly you need a specific build of TR) and will hopefully be able to tell you what's going on..
According to the site it's really alpha stage and very buggy and a lot of stuff doesn't work (yet).

I am definatly excited, just the idea of maybe playing TR again :)

Anyway i am really hoping this effort will be succesfull, so that people who never played TR have a chance to see how great a game TR was.

Anyway if you really liked Tabula Rasa or always wanted to check it out this might be your change.

Just for old times' sake

I don't know what brought it on but lately i really wanna play Tabula Rasa again, but of course (or i should say unfortunately)i can't, that's the downside of an MMO that closes down.
I have always wished this game had an offline/singleplayer part to it like Hellgate London so that i could still occasionaly play it, but alas..

Anyway just for old times' sake i am going to post a couple of random screenshots :)

Damn i really miss this game...

That's not a bug, that's a feature!

There has always been one thing in MMO's that anoy the heck out of me, i would be out exploring or doing some quest, you would come across a named mob or someone askes for your help killing a mob and you kill that mob.
Later you get a quest to kill that excact same (named) mob, i see this happen a lot in WoW, but it's not only WoW, i see it happen in most, if not all MMO's.
Eventhough i am not a hardcore roleplayer, i still feel it is wrong, afterall i allready killed that specific mob so why make me do it again??

There has been one MMO to date (that i played and loved) that got it right: Tabula Rasa!
There were several times where i would join some people in defeating a mob or i would be out exploring and encountered a mob and killed it, than later when i would be out questing again and get a quest to kill a mob i allready killed before, the quest would just auto complete, almost like the quest giver would say "ah i see you allready killed him, good job".

I would say that's one heck of a feature and i would love MMO developers to take note of that and implement it, afterall most MMO's log everything you do in game, in WoW for example the game knows if you kill a boss in a dungeon, it shows up in your armory feed, (heck they even know what you're looting) so to me it would only make sence that if i would recieve a quest later on to kill that same boss in a dungeon or the world the quest would complete, because you allready did "the job".

To me it's not a major thing but it still anoys the heck out of me, having to go back and kill the same mob again and like i said it makes no sence to me, maybe it's just the little roleplayer in me, but it just feels wrong.

From beginning to the end

Sometimes i really enjoy going through my screenshots folders, and i really enjoy looking at Tabula Rasa, i still miss this game..
Anyway i decided to share my TR screenshots and upload them all to AFS Soldiers, it may take some time but i will try to put them all up, i am not going to look and select, just upload all of them good or bad.

I added them to an album called "From beginning to the end", basicly the screenshots start in Beta and go all the way through to the server shutdown.

So if you wanna take a look, http://www.afs-soldiers.com/photo/photo/listForContributor?screenName=2o6m8k7q2tnbq.

Tabula Rasa was awesome!

Video says enough.
I would give up all of my current MMO's to play TR again..

Farewell Tabula Rasa

Well it's over :(
Spend the last few minutes wasting ammo, and then came that feared last message "You have been disconnected from the server"...



I am really gonna miss this game!

Tabula Rasa Forever!!

The end is near..

A sad day today..
Tabula Rasa will be closing down.

I am not doing much gaming, mostly just hanging out enjoying my last moments in TR.

Will definatly be taking part in the "endgame" events.
Feels wierd, knowing there will be no more TR after today :(

The future of AFS Uplink and AFS Soldiers

Recent announcement about Tabula Rasa has lead me to some decisions about the podcast AFS Uplink and the website AFS Soldiers, you can read more on my blogpost over at AFS Soldiers here.

It's a sad day :(

AFS Uplink #9

Uplink number nine is out with a little delay.

Topics for this week:
The battle of the 2nd November
Tabula Rasa 101 for new recruits
Special Feedback friday

AFS Uplink #8 is out

A short show this week but packed with some exciting news!

Topics this week:
Feedback friday gives us some tricks and treats
AFS High Command issues a Red Alert
Deployment 14 on PTS


Deployment 14 full patchnotes

AFS Uplink #7 is out now

AFS Uplink #7 is now available on iTunes.

A short show this week with the following topics:

Deployment 13.6 fixes issues
AFS Transmission from General British
Deployment 13.8 hits the live servers
Classified AFS Transmission
Feedback Friday talks "Earth Day"

AFS Uplink Episode 6 is out

Episode 6 of AFS Uplink is now available on iTunes.

In this weeks episode:
Tabula Rasa Goes YouTube
Deployment 13.4 hits the live servers
Live server problems
All out server war
Feedback Friday
Trick or treat

Changes to the Irendas Penal Colony

Just a little video i made showing some of the changes to the Irendas Penal Colony after the Bane attack (event).

Fun event on Centaurus, Gangus Outpost & Irendas Colony

Had a lot of fun yesterday, saw the message on the oficial website about the Irendas Colony when i got home from work, logged in immediatly, found myself at Gangus Outpost (where i logged out previously) only to find (dead) level 60 stalkers laying around and Exo's running around with bane.
Apperantly i just missed the fun (if only i didn't work overtime i would have had some fun there), but decided to stick around a little when i heard Avatea was going to give away some black and white armor paint, so i just went in line with the others there and got some armor paint (20 black and 20 white), awesome!!

After a little chatting Avatea logged off and i went off to check on Irendas Colony, only to find there were still mobs spawning inside the base (probably the aftermath of the event).
Was lots of fun, although most of the lvl 50 mobs that were spawning where almost impossible to kill (solo was impossible for me as a sniper, hardly did any damage), guess that after a while we just didn't have enough people on anymore, when i started there we could still take them down as squads, but later on they would even come in to the hospital to attack us there some of these mobs would kill me (lvl 50 sniper) in 3 shots, so around 4am i decided to call it a day and go to bed as i was getting killed more than actually doing damage :)

Can't wait to see what's going to happen to either Gangus outpost or Irendas Colony, from what Avatea said, it looks like something will change to either one of them, so i am pretty exited to see what's going to happen.

Bummer i missed the event, but glad i logged in to check things out, at least i got some cool paint :)

I did take some screenshots and posted them over at AFS Soldiers

Ding!! level 50..

Finally reached level 50 on my main Cynheiddon (sniper).
Only have a few missions/instances left that i still need to complete.

Starting to wonder what alt to level up next, kind of like most classes, but of course i like sniper the most.
Think it's going to be either my sapper, exobiologist or commando that i am going to level, or maybe just play whatever i feel like at that moment and see when they reach 50.

Think i am actually having way to much fun to worry about leveling them :)