8/10. I did not follow TSW at all until about 5-6 days ago I decided to preorder it and take a chance. The game was a lot better than I was expecting and I was suprised to see the PVP information (albeit unplayable) looking the the frontiers on DAOC.

I'd give it a 3-4 at best from my limited experience.

The epic-failure of this company not allowing Mouse 4 and 5 to be bound in yet another game is beyond my understanding.  This was a major turn-off for me in AoC and again in this game...  The "solution" is not to force players to re-map mouse buttons.  They should support mouse 4 and 5 like every other game ever released (just about).

As others have stated, animations are bad...  Climbing up a ladder and down is exactly the same (and slow).  When I was climbing back down and watching the climbing up animation I couldn't help but laugh and cry at the same time....

Targeting is pretty screwed up.  Maybe a special combination of settings fixes it but it should DEFAULT to a working state.  Imagine playing a Rogue in WoW (or any other combo point builder class) and having your target randomly switched around constantly... Makes it difficult to build and use combo abilities doesn't it?

Very, VERY, easy to gimp yourself.  Some builds are god-like compared to others.  One build I found myself mowing down everything in my path without issue while another I struggled to kill 1-2 guys before having to sit and rest for a while.  Also, the pre-built templates are pretty useless considering you have to basically be end-game level to create them.  They really should have suggested builds for leveling up not for endgame.  People who have maxed out several trees already know how to play and what they want to build... New players need the help.

Limited number of quests/tasks you can have at one time is pretty annoying.  The "Pause" feature when picking up a new quest (it claims to "pause" the quest you're currently on while you do the new one) doesn't work very well.  Found myself losing a lot of progress on past quests. 

Maybe I missed a key feature of the game, however I find it difficult to judge the difficulty of an enemy.  Some monsters I'd mow down by the 100's while others I could barely take 1 on 1.... all in the same area.  The only real way I could guess on difficulty was the targets HP number, however this wasn't very useful in most cases.

Chat is very buggy.  Either no one was talking ever, or I often found myself in a situation where no chat channels were working.  Relogging sometimes fixed this.  Finding players for group content is pretty bad.  This is probably biggest complaint in MMO's for me.  They're multiplayer online games and should make it VERY easy to find groups.  I know lots of the MMO community is against group matching tools but I personally don't care what they "think" is best for the game/community.  Not all of us want to join up with a Nazi military guild environment where we have to log in every night for 4 hours...  Ok maybe thats a bit extreme, but the idea still stands.  I want to log in when I want to and play when I want to... Find groups when I want to and not spend hours spamming chat channels to do it.    /endrant

Long story short, this game is Beta and still needs a lot of work.  It has a solid foundation but a lot of polish is needed if they want people to take it seriously.  I'd bet BIG money that any respectable review sit would give this game a lot of negative points for all the polish issues (animations, buggy this or that, lack of tutorial for complex things... IE crafting). 

P.S.  Forgot about crafting!  Yeah, I eventually managed to craft a few items that were useless to me after hours of messing around.  The interface for crafting and moving icons around is pretty bad as it is.  Let alone you really have no idea what the heck you're doing.  I'm all about complex and interesting crafting systems but at least make the UI good for it!  Try to combine 100 low quality materials into higher quality.. Each set of 5 you combine turns into a single higher quality that does not stack by default.  You have to manually stack each and every item you create....  *Cry*

Originally posted by Nibs

Originally posted by Adhesive33

4. I don't ever want to have to tab out to google in order to progress in a game...ever. 

I agree with most of what you said apart from this.

Press "B" to open a browser in game - there's no neeed to tab out at all.

 

Doh!

Originally posted by minocin

8/10. I did not follow TSW at all until about 5-6 days ago I decided to preorder it and take a chance. The game was a lot better than I was expecting and I was suprised to see the PVP information (albeit unplayable) looking the the frontiers on DAOC.

its more like a thindraki, but with 3 facilities(keeps) and a temple(another keep) in the centre.

instead of rams you capture anima wells that give you a charge you can take to blow the locks on doors, you need to escort 5 charges to open a door.  Inside there is a guardian, that you reprogram to fight for your faction when defating him.

Its fully persistent, with a society wide buff for each keep held and an additional buff if all 4 are held. 

Its late game only (must complete egypt)

It has a cap of 50 max per side, but if you have less than 50 - tough

theres a second simmilar zone in mid development.

heres the guardian dude

Originally posted by DarkDemon69

So cosmetic clothing is P2W? Please do us all a favor and dont play this game, we don't need your kind.

Seriously man? Guy even complimented the game overall just gave his honest opinion as to why he won't be purchasing it. I don't agree but no reason to go there. Can't say having "your kind" in this game is going to be a real thrill judging by your attitude towards things.

     I gave it a 6...I think the game is pretty mediocre for the most part...The cutscenes drove me insane after awhile.....Not much variety really.....Im glad I got in beta, would have been pretty upset had I bought it.

Originally posted by mrw0lf

Originally posted by Wickedjelly

Originally posted by mrw0lf

One of the best "beta"'s...[snip]...bastadidgery ways.

Why not just purchase it and not use the cash shop then if you enjoyed it so much. I mean long as there aren't p2w items in it what's the harm?

Because for me any item they could sell in the shop would be p2w. For me outside influences such as wealth should never have an influence on the game world, I disagree with the item shop model and the only way I can effectively make my protest is to boycott them. Ordinarily I wouldn't care but from the small amount of the game I got to see it was exactly what I was looking for, gutted tbh.

I agree with this. Think that once you buy the game and especially if you pay monthly.. you should have access to everything. Now if you got the game for free, or even B2P its different. But comon.. greedy! you take money monthly, I buy the box.. now if i want to be able to use a cool shirt I like I have to buy that for my ingame character too?? I dont care if it doesnt give me extra stats or not im vain damnit. :(

Originally posted by spiralpen

I agree with this. Think that once you buy the game and especially if you pay monthly.. you should have access to everything. Now if you got the game for free, or even B2P its different. But comon.. greedy! you take money monthly, I buy the box.. now if i want to be able to use a cool shirt I like I have to buy that for my ingame character too?? I dont care if it doesnt give me extra stats or not im vain damnit. :(

Then it's the price of vanity.

if the combat would have been good this would have been a day one purchase if not a pre-order for me. It was an amazing experience for me, except for 90% of the gameplay which is combat.

The combat is a deal breaker/game breaking mechanic for me. It is really bad. It feels like some of the worst combat I have seen in an MMO in a long time.

I really wanted to like it, in concept it sounds great, but I didn't. There was nothing horrible about it, it just didn't grab me. I'll be honest in saying after playing the GW2 Beta events not much else (game wise) has interested me, and this includes TSW.

On a real plus note though, I had some account issues with my beta invite (when i clicked on the link in the email it kept taking me to the Anarchy Online webpage) and my invite ended up attached to an account that could not play the beta. I used the on-line support chat and the GM who helped me was supper nice, managed to fix the situation, made sure I would have a good contact point to reopen my case from if it didn't work (but it did), and all at 12:30 a.m. my time. If all their customer support staff is as good as the GM who helped me, I envy those of you who do end up playing.

As far as I can tell the main determiner of score is how much importance people place on atmosphere and the harder investigation quests.

Without those two it sounds like alot of people would be rather unhappy.

Originally posted by gestalt11

As far as I can tell the main determiner of score is how much importance people place on atmosphere and the harder investigation quests.

Without those two it sounds like alot of people would be rather unhappy.

And the modren them, do not forget that.

Your right, with out these 3, it would be just like all the other MMO's out now and set to come out soon that have had any beta testing, so yes we like what makes it different form all the rest.

You understand  +1

5 in average  from me

biggest drwaback was the combat mechanic and the awkward animations . its really bad no excuse in 2012 they cant fix it 2/10.

On questing and story line especially investigate ones i give it 8/10

I really need to update my computer. That startie/ stoppie/ freeze, freeze, freeze is going to make my head explode! I thought the password quest in the newbie area was cute. It made me feel ess em arrr tee. (Yes, I left the 'A' out for comedic value.).