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    Beware.. the complete death of productivity lies within.


    "Beware.. the complete death of productivity lies within."


    InstantAction is a browser-based content delivery system similar to OnLive. With a variety of games and play styles, there's something for everyone. From a highly unique FPS, to MechWarrior, to sports games, RTS, and more, it boasts some pretty good graphics for a browser-based system.

    Each game has different modes. The FPS - Fallen Empire: Legions - for example has capture-the-flag and Deathmatch modes, in which up to thirty-two players can team up against each other on maps of awesome scale.





    For players who want a bit slower-paced war action, there's Ace of Aces for up to eight players. Form up in teams and attack the enemy's base, dodging flak and enemy planes, fight to the death in the deathmatch mode, or play a new twist on an old classic: Fox and Hounds.






    If you want a game requiring true teamwork and skill, try RokkitBall. This Sports-Game-Turned-FPS involves rockets, magnetic beams, jetpacks, and a ball. Need I say more?





    Another fun, simple game is GalCon - a space RTS for up to eight players - this game is as fast-paced or as slow and tactical as you want it to be, since you can set the number of planets and how fast they produce ships. Quite fun to annihilate everyone or try to see how long you can survive against overwhelming odds.





    For you MechWarrior fans, Lore Aftermath might be what you're looking for here. Again for up to eight players, this game is fast-paced and fun as teams of Mechs square off against each other.





    Think Tanks is a fast-paced, cartoonish-but-fun Tank Warfare Game. Drive around the Brain Tank of your choice and blow up others in the (team/)deathmatch mode or capture the flag for yourself -- and try and keep it(I dare you) -- in the free-for-all CTF mode.




    There are several other games on top of these to choose from as well, but I won't go into detail on those.

    To point out a few of InstantAction's downfalls here, there's the simple fact that barely any true teamwork exists amongst the greater amount of public players. Use of the built-in, half-broken VoIP system is very small. But, as we've seen on our occasional Event Nights, when TacticalGamer's astounding players and a simple TeamSpeak channel are thrown in the mix, the gameplay is simply .. epic.

    Different players may find that different browsers work the best for them, but I've found the most success with using Firefox to connect.

    Most of the games can be sent into beautiful full screen by tapping ALT-ENTER and most of them have single-player components as well.

    Give it a try! We can be found typically in our user-created (at the moment) channel normally one day out of the week (Saturday or Sunday usually) in the mid-late evening (EST).

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    Re: Beware.. the complete death of productivity lies within.

    I was looking for a link or an url in the post...did I miss it or is it missing?


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    Re: Beware.. the complete death of productivity lies within.

    Quote Originally Posted by Atomic Dog View Post
    I was looking for a link or an url in the post...did I miss it or is it missing?
    http://www.instantaction.com/



    I signed up, but cannot seem to get the games to work in either IE8 or FireFox. The FPS game starts to load, then I get an external error saying that "This build can only be ran from instantaction.com". The Mech game, the application window pops up for a second then closes. I can't find any good help to fix this.
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    Re: Beware.. the complete death of productivity lies within.

    That mech games looks mighty tempting. I'll try it out when I can get my main rig up and running.
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    Re: Beware.. the complete death of productivity lies within.

    I probably could've put a link in the article. *facepalm*

    At least it's obvious. But anyway!

    As for the technical issue, I'm going to assume you're running Windows 7, which is not supported by Instant Action yet. So you're out of luck doing it the normal way.

    A fix, however, does exist here:
    http://forum.instantaction.com/smf/i...c,13990.0.html

    To save you from looking, the Legions EXE is here:
    C:\Users\[USER]\AppData\LocalLow\GarageGames\IAPlayer\products\ww w_instantaction_com\102\install

    The Mech game actually isn't my favorite but I'm not a MechWarrior fan, so don't hold me to whether it's good or not :P

    Legions is my favorite, and I think a close second would be MarbleBlast/RokkitBall.

    EDIT: A quick note, if you guys get in and start playing send a friend request to zenntheadmin, which is my username there, so I can keep track of who all's playing it and maybe organize events/ play times better.
    Last edited by Startrekern; 10-22-2009 at 02:05 PM.


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    Re: Beware.. the complete death of productivity lies within.

    oh my oh my... star u have unleashed something upon the community that I can not comment on. ^^ This will be very interesting seeing TG incorporate this.

    *The only real drawback i see from IA games is that the smoothness of the game depends on the internet of the host. If the host if lagging like hell, then the game basically will lag and no one can play. Other than that its ok.



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    Re: Beware.. the complete death of productivity lies within.

    Nice find, I tried the Mech game and the little tank game last night, both were fun!


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    Re: Beware.. the complete death of productivity lies within.

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    Re: Beware.. the complete death of productivity lies within.

    Yeah, that fix isn't worth using, as it wants you to actually enable UAC, no thanks.
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    Re: Beware.. the complete death of productivity lies within.

    Quote Originally Posted by UnDeaD77 View Post
    Yeah, that fix isn't worth using, as it wants you to actually enable UAC, no thanks.
    IA support here!

    We're finding that most users don't need to enable UAC and this is an unnecessary part of the fix. However, if you're doing all the other steps and are still having problems you can enable UAC (at full setting), go to play the game, allow InstantAction and the included .exe files, turn the UAC back down and it should work from there on.

    We're working on direct Windows 7 support to save everyone the headache!

    Glad that you guys are enjoying the games - let us know what you think


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    Re: Beware.. the complete death of productivity lies within.

    Have you added any official support for Windows 7 yet?
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    Re: Beware.. the complete death of productivity lies within.

    Going to be running an event tonight.


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    Re: Beware.. the complete death of productivity lies within.

    Quote Originally Posted by UnDeaD View Post
    Have you added any official support for Windows 7 yet?

    Quoted myself there.
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    Re: Beware.. the complete death of productivity lies within.

    They are now undergoing a major site upgrade. They'll be putting up some more Torque games (it's owned by the creators of the Torque engine) and will hopefully be adding Win7 support.


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