Vivendi have announced F.E.A.R. Combat - a new FREE online multiplayer game:

F.E.A.R. Combat is the complete multiplayer component of F.E.A.R. and includes all the updates, additional official maps and additional official game modes all in one downloadable file. F.E.A.R. Combat users will be able to play against the owners of the retail version of F.E.A.R. as well as the other F.E.A.R. Combat users.

F.E.A.R. Combat features:
• 10 Multiplayer Game modes.
• 19 Multiplayer Maps.
• 12 different weapons.
• Punkbuster support for anti cheat support.
• The capability to download user generated content.

Awesome news! You'll need to head over to www.joinfear.com to sign up for a key. The game will be released on August 18.

holy s*** thats awesome

might reinstall for this

F.E.A.R was one of the best LAN games I have ever played.

With the right teamwork, you could have some of the most epic and rewarding narrow-corridor battles in bullet-time :P

Thumbs up!

might reinstall for this

You don't need to - it's a free, standalone game.

Oh really, when you said free I thought you meant free with game. Like as if those bf2 booster packs are the standard these days.

are there many GA servers for this trog?

are there many GA servers for this trog?

It's not released for another 8 days

this thread delivers

boba i mean are there many current GA servers?

considering this new Fear COMBAT is identical to retail im guessing it will run on the same servers

i'd assume more servers would be put up when it's released

fear seemed boring sp
is mp worth it? even when free

is mp worth it? even when free

Yes, yes and YES!

I have noob question whats the minimum specs

only got amd 2600 with a geforce 4

will it run??

this is very f***ing cool news.

TiT, nope.

is mp worth it? even when free

most said no at the time for what I can only guess came down to 3 reasons:


- Q4 and HL were still new at the time, and automatically more popular

- the game couldn't be warezed and played online.

- system specs were quite high. Pre-NVidia 6600GT videocards won't play FEAR well, so playing competitively is a no-go. If you bought a second-rate motherboard or videocard this game would chew it up and spit it back to you. I found it funny FEAR ran so bloody well on Intel-based computers for some reason :P


the guys who are making this free sure look to be spamming us till the end of time.. but that's what random yahoo/gmail/hotmail/work accounts are for :)

there's an unsubscribe option there. but yeah, FEAR rocked. and whoever said that SP was boring was playing it at the wrong pace :)

but yeah, the multiplayer was hella cool

MP was pretty fun for a while.

Oh, actually just discovered they added new gamemodes in patch 1.05. That's pretty cool. This could be quite a lark.

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- Q4 and HL were still new at the time, and automatically more popular

- the game couldn't be warezed and played online.

- system specs were quite high. Pre-NVidia 6600GT videocards won't play FEAR
well, so playing competitively is a no-go. If you bought a second-rate
motherboard or videocard this game would chew it up and spit it back to you.
I found it funny FEAR ran so bloody well on Intel-based computers for some
reason :P



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Half Life 2 was released in Nov 2004
F.E.A.R. was released in Oct 2005
Quake 4 was released in Oct 2005

System Specs - http://www.whatisfear.com/us/news.html
Fear Retail & MP Demo works on GF4ti and ATI 9500 pro or higher fine


Fear Retail has been warezed:

F.E.A.R. First Encounter Assault Recon *DVD* *FLT*
http://nforce.nl/index.php?switchto=nfos&menu=quicknav&item=viewnfo&id=96838

F.E.A.R. First Encounter Assault Recon *CD* *DVN*
http://nforce.nl/index.php?switchto=nfos&menu=quicknav&item=viewnfo&id=97022

yay i can play!!!