Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2025 16:06:18 +0000 From: Spalls Hurgenson Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: FREE GAME: Hell Let Loose Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2025 11:06:17 -0500 Message-ID: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 31 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-oP3mh4HmN2aIcX2mpmPfwk5RxooS8nl18RFB9KHSCzK8YyIzfy1nHWSRVyUezsVEvJospR8Wxd4coBq!rkzyHZF/szT+/F7RgTBLJP6H+bj70S/0OooBQbAzJQrrBMSs7E01VIvW/J78g2Ui3o3NRkBu X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2355 And, as all good things must, we come to an end. The end of Epic's holiday give-away, that is. Was it a good thing? Well, there were a lot of free games. Although maybe even calling it 'a lot' is being overly generous. Let's just say: there were some free games. But that's it for now. Epic's going back to their weekly schedule after this. Can't say I'm disappointed. It's exhausting making all these announcements! * Hell Let Loose https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/hell-let-loose-03f036 On the one hand, it's a realistic WW2 first-person shooter, the sort we haven't really seen in a while (honestly, the last one I remember was "Day of Defeat", anybody else play that?). Sure, it's an old trope, but it's been a bit since a game like that has come around, so I wouldn't mind playing it again, with modern bells-n-whistles. But on the other hand, it's online PVP only, and with quite a toxic community, so I'm in no rush to give it a try. What to do, what to do? Maybe... add the game to the library and just not play it? It's the best of both worlds, I tell ya! Is that a way to end a marathon give-away or not? No, really; I'm asking you. Is that how it should have ended, you think? Anyway, take your time on this one; you have a full week to claim it, if you want.