Final Combat(大冲锋), the blatant clone of Valve franchise Team Fortress 2 created by Chinese media-company Xunlei(迅雷) has just reached the second closed beta on 15th September. Many of you should still remember the firemen with rocket launcher in the promotional video, well aware of the fact that Xunlei has copied resources here and there to craft their "massive online shooting game". But how about Chinese gamers, do they know anything about that?


meet the rocket, the copy of meet the soldier by Valve.
Comparison video made by a Chinese gamer.

Although Xunlei is taking a strict approach to control the public opinion against Final Combat in China, you could still reach the unhappy TF2 community hidden behind the scene if you search for the right place. The official Final Combat forum in Baidu "大冲锋贴吧" (http://tieba.baidu.com/f?kw=%B4%F3%B3%E5%B7%E6) is not really the place you should go because it is already invaded by Xunlei. You may have a false sense of understanding that Chinese gamers do not know anything about the TF2 rip off because no one talks about TF2 and they ask for beta activation code like enthusiasts in the forum. A retired administrator of the board has revealed in another forum that he receives 50RMB a month from Xunlei to delete posts in Baidu and speak positively about Final Combat. So the board is pretty much abandoned by the real gamers and its popularity is maintained only by a few Xunlei employees talking to self with multiple accounts.

The refugees of Xunlei and Baidu forum who got banned for knowing too much are gathering in another Baidu forum board under the name of "大抽风贴吧" (http://tieba.baidu.com/f?kw=%B4%F3%B3%E9%B7%E7&pn=0). The pronunciation of "大抽风" is similar to that of Final Combat in Mandarin and the term "massive pirate practice" or a sickness "severe spasm". They chose an ironic name so Baidu could not ban them. It is the underground hideout for Valve supporters in China who hate Xunlei for copying TF2 for money and the place for them to discuss of ways to fight against Xunlei indirectly. At the moment, they are actively organizing different anti-Xunlei activities, including mass spamming attack against Xunlei and Baidu forum, making cheats for the game and use them in Xunlei Final Combat servers, and also creating video showing how shameless Final Combat is. Obviously, Chinese gamers hate Xunlei with a passion and care about the incident as much as Western communities do.

So if you are an angry TF2 fan thinking of ways to damage Xunlei’s reputation, sue Xunlei for copyright infringement or want to tell the Chinese gamers that Final Combat is a dupe, you can rest assured that many of them already know about the truth and are already doing what you have in mind. The TF2 community in China is not at all small and is not stupid enough to trust Xunlei that Final Combat is an original game. The majority of them who tried the game even claim that it is a piece of crap with abysmal control, graphic and class balance comparing to TF2, and the overall quality of the game is barely acceptable ten years ago. So I would say it is for the best to leave Final Combat alone and let it dies out itself. It does not look like Xunlei is going anywhere with this inferior product anyway.

Oh oh, more Final Combat stuff!

Final Combat Hitler: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1Lh2584SCE

The Firebat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7hd-BD4mzo

The Sniper: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbksikvtLKM

The Fatman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpqWiprWAAE

The Striker: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl2q-p2Jz5s

Also, please let me know if people on the BAIDU forums have managed to crack open the game's assets! I'm working on a project to port them into TF2!!

My goal in Final Combat is clear: To ridicule and satirise it to the best of my ability. I'm working on getting a beta code which has so far been unsuccessful. I have several tools with which to extract directly the game assets from the RAM. If I can run the game and get into a server at least once, I should be able to have some luck with ripping the game content.

Let me know if you have a spare code to throw around!

You can contact me via steam if you wish. For some reason HSP.hk isn't letting me log in. http://steamcommunity.com/id/Nanosheep

Well, I'm living in Hong Kong. The website is still 403 here, but I've found ways around it (=

Finding an activation code that hasn't already been used is proving quite taxing. The c point website that allows you to get points to unlock the beta pass is completely infuriating as the games are so horribly designed.

Sad, why tf2.

Yeah, I've made my case here: http://tieba.baidu.com/p/1225642298

Give me some help!

LoL, immediately got 'harmonized'.

Xunlei is not a normal IT company, there must be someone in the top tier of government authority behind. Xunlei is going to be listed in NASDAQ in this October, and Final Combat is a vital part of this. That's why Final Combat will end its beta testing on 14th October.

I think if we want to get a hand on a copy of the beta before the deadline, probably contacting the beta review movie maker and borrow his account is the easier way. But even he lends out his account, I can't be really sure that the game will work on a socksified or tunneled network environment.

Although they are just quoting Kotaku, Final Combat made its first appearance in Steam news today:

http://store.steampowered.com/news/?appids=440

Its filed on the date of 29th Sept., 2011.

Some comrades in Baidu registered a 2nd beta account:

http://tieba.baidu.com/p/1218414730

Nanosheep if you have access to Xunlei, this account may still work for a short while.

ID：****finalcombat (**** <-> fuck)
Password：81221602

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The western world seems to care about Final Combat very much because they thought that Chinese gamers would be fooled to believe that it is an original creation, and actually pay money to play it. But from what I see in the Baidu discussion board, many Chinese gamers do know about the existence of TF2 and express their hatred towards Xunlei for copying a great title. They also said that it is a very low quality game, for which they are not even interested in playing in long term even if there is not TF2 at all (while TF2 is now free and many Chinese gamers are playing it). So I am guessing many people are worked up on this issue for not much of a big deal.

We would like to test this thing out as much as you do, but chance is that we could not even have a chance to host or play it due to the fact that they would not release this game to public outside China.

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