The beta for this game is pretty awful. I couldn't understand all the NDA junk they have kept on the game until I actually played. Some of my impressions of the game so far.
The game looks awful! I understand most of the graphics options have been kept out of the beta (a mistake) but good lord the game looks about 6 years old and runs like crap. Some video lag combined with how unstable the servers are makes me wonder how this game is going live soon. Go out and try and some HD gameplay videos, they don't exist.
There are only 2 trade skills so far. One of which isn't even in the beta. Potion making and Talisman making (not in yet). There is however 4 gathering skills. What a joke!
Pathing is so very awful. I hear this is due to some bug recently introduced but mobs run around everywhere and often phase into objects to attack you. The AI on some of the pet summons is pretty bad as well. Combined with summons being locked into a summon circle (you could call it organic sentry gun building) I was convinced not to touch any of the summoning/builder classes. I had to set my pets to aggressive to even get them to do anything but it often came down to me making them manually attack a target 3 feet from them. In events/quests where you are juggling 4-5 mobs at once on a constant basis this became so annoying I didn't see a point in using the summon spells.
No forums! Have you seen the website for this game? It hasn't really changed in about a year. Where is the game info? Spells? Talent trees? Tradeskills? I have heard information about a beta forum that some of the early testers had access to but none of the people within the last month or so have had access. They are really going out of their way to make sure no one talks about this game.
I could go on all day and nitpick but really the game just doesn't have any PVE focus. It seems to be a very PVP focused game. The PVP isn't even all that impressive. Combined with the pathetic tradeskills I can't even imagine how the economy is going to play out. Gold will become worthless
The game needs alot of patch work and additions. I only hope the game has enough momentum at launch to make them release new content. Otherwise it becomes another DDO in 6 months and gets new content 1-2 times a year till it dies.
All that aside... I'm still going to check out the launch. Anyone seen a server list? Would be nice to run into some other CAGs if we can pick a server
The game looks awful! I understand most of the graphics options have been kept out of the beta (a mistake) but good lord the game looks about 6 years old and runs like crap. Some video lag combined with how unstable the servers are makes me wonder how this game is going live soon. Go out and try and some HD gameplay videos, they don't exist.
There are only 2 trade skills so far. One of which isn't even in the beta. Potion making and Talisman making (not in yet). There is however 4 gathering skills. What a joke!
Pathing is so very awful. I hear this is due to some bug recently introduced but mobs run around everywhere and often phase into objects to attack you. The AI on some of the pet summons is pretty bad as well. Combined with summons being locked into a summon circle (you could call it organic sentry gun building) I was convinced not to touch any of the summoning/builder classes. I had to set my pets to aggressive to even get them to do anything but it often came down to me making them manually attack a target 3 feet from them. In events/quests where you are juggling 4-5 mobs at once on a constant basis this became so annoying I didn't see a point in using the summon spells.
No forums! Have you seen the website for this game? It hasn't really changed in about a year. Where is the game info? Spells? Talent trees? Tradeskills? I have heard information about a beta forum that some of the early testers had access to but none of the people within the last month or so have had access. They are really going out of their way to make sure no one talks about this game.
I could go on all day and nitpick but really the game just doesn't have any PVE focus. It seems to be a very PVP focused game. The PVP isn't even all that impressive. Combined with the pathetic tradeskills I can't even imagine how the economy is going to play out. Gold will become worthless
The game needs alot of patch work and additions. I only hope the game has enough momentum at launch to make them release new content. Otherwise it becomes another DDO in 6 months and gets new content 1-2 times a year till it dies.
All that aside... I'm still going to check out the launch. Anyone seen a server list? Would be nice to run into some other CAGs if we can pick a server
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