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Originally posted by Ozmodan
What this game needs is fresh blood, not the previous dev team trying to fix it as it is quite obvious from the product they produced they do not have the skills to succeed.
As to the above comment, only the braindead would disable antivirus software in this day and age, you should learn to give better advice.

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Ok..get rid of anything that says "norton" "mcafee" or "AOL" and you should be fine.

Is that better?

D.
p.s. I say this because when I was doing computer repair, the first step I almost always had to make was to remove any of those programs that were on the computers. They are more virus themselves these days than anti-virus. YOu can get free programs that run better and catch more stuff.

Originally posted by katriell

 

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Originally posted by psyconius
I haven't been able to login in at all.. Keep getting errors about communicating with the server.. I can get to the screen that says it is loading character models and such sometimes. Other times just black screen :/
Any suggestions?

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Disable any antivirus software you have running. If that doesn't help, disable your soundcard via Device Manager.

 

While the antivirus thing doesn't bother me(I tried disabling firewall anyway), disabling soundcard is not worth it.. I suppose I will not check out Horizons again :/

Horizons is like a zombie. No matter how much you smash it in the head with a crowbar, set fire to it with barrels, fire shotgun shells at it and blow it up with a RPG. It still gets back up and shuffles on...

Yeah.. I am just frustrated that I can't get the client to run properly. The last hurdle seems to be getting stuck at "Receiving Character Essence"... It still shows the "..." 's for 30 seconds or so.. then they freeze..  Then after a minute or so, I can see the character screen faintly in the background(the loading screen still frozen in foreground).

If it gets that far, I have to hard reboot. If I get hung up earlier, I can sometimes end the process :/

After sifting through forums, it appears to be an issue with Audigy cards. The soundcard has to be disabled before playing. I really hope they get that fixed soon so I can come back and check it out.

Originally posted by psyconius

After sifting through forums, it appears to be an issue with Audigy cards. The soundcard has to be disabled before playing. I really hope they get that fixed soon so I can come back and check it out.

So no more Creative for me. I just can't take them anymore.

Well, after reading just about everything there is to read on this development I've decided to go ahead and pony up for the game. Once they get their billing back online (the current thought is the 27th or the 29th if I remember right) I'll happily support these new folks. They've already pushed two client updates to the Blight server for community testing, updated the base code for the forums, are working on the billing system, and best of all have demonstrated that they will both talk to, and listen to, the user base in the forums... Just for that last part I'd give them $20 - because to go infront of that crowd as the 4th owner of the game and make any sort of promisses, they have to either know what they're doing of have brass cajones the size if basket balls...

Originally posted by Rihahn

Well, after reading just about everything there is to read on this development I've decided to go ahead and pony up for the game. Once they get their billing back online (the current thought is the 27th or the 29th if I remember right) I'll happily support these new folks. They've already pushed two client updates to the Blight server for community testing, updated the base code for the forums, are working on the billing system, and best of all have demonstrated that they will both talk to, and listen to, the user base in the forums... Just for that last part I'd give them $20 - because to go infront of that crowd as the 4th owner of the game and make any sort of promisses, they have to either know what they're doing of have brass cajones the size if basket balls...

in fact they have already talked about a price increase.

They either know what they are doing or are trying to get a bunch of suckers to slap down prepaid monies while they run away.

I might give this company Vitrium a little time to prove themselves. what they pushed out to blight was nothing substantial. They have a bit more work to do before horizons as rebirthed anything but another sloppy mess.

I actually pre-ordered this game because my GF thought it would be interesting.

Remember they had this video (that looked like crap to be honest) about players building a town and having to defend it.

Oh the above isn't meant to be mean.. the video.. um I didn't want to buy it.

Anyway none of that of course was in the game but..

We did find it fun.  Thing was as most people know there wasn't a whole lot actually in the game.  Somehow we were having some fun.. joined a guild etc..

She moved quickly over to playing an elemental archer and was gaining levels like crazy.  I think I was messing around with hell I don't even remember what but I wasn't leveling to fast.. just trying stuff out.

then they nerfed the crap out of her toon and we left.  If there had been more to the game at the time we might have stayed.  Well actually when fun is sacrificed for balance I personally about always cancel.. I'm in a game to be entertained... not keep remaking my character due to forum crying.  I don't care if somebody else can harvest maggots off things they kill faster than me (oh if you weren't there .. some mobs dropped maggots as loot).  Oh wait that rant is for another time..

she never has tried it again.. I logged in during some trial.. but if I saw what looked like improvements I'd resub... because there is just nothing out right now that really holds my interest.