Alright - well for whatever reason I like TSW more than GW2 so I will roll with it.

Is there any plans for changes to combat - i.e. making it easier s.t. I don't have to spawm my builder 5 times in a row? Is there a PvP overhaul in the works? Are they really planning to stick to patch once a month? What is the plan for CS now that a whole lot of you got fired - does it mean that wait time for us will be a lot longer? How far off is group finder tool?

Thanks!

Originally posted by Johnnymmo
You guys who finished the game can you link chronicle?

+1

Would love a to have a spare key if anyone has one!

Thanks in advance!

Originally posted by Rednecksith

Originally posted by Urza123

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Wow, that's just a really.... crappy and elitist thing to say. Please delete the game off your hard drive, because I sure as hell don't want people like you in it.

Folks, this guy does not represent TSW's community, please don't act as though he does. As long as you don't act like a complete n00b (as opposed to a newb) you'll find it to be very friendly, helpful, and mature one.

Elitist - what is so elitist about wanting people to do basic research themselves. If he narrowed it down to "I have read about pistols and shotguns having pets, and I wanted to know if it is viable" I would be more than happy to answer that. However he just said that he didn't read anything and he wants me to 'educate' him about the game w/o spending any effort himself. 

As far as not wanting people like me in it - too bad you going to have to deal with it. As far as community goes - they are actually more less lined up with my point of view and most of the time if you just straight up ask for answer w.o any effort on your part people will tell you to figure it out on your own (at least from my expirience).

Originally posted by Terronte

Originally posted by Urza123

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Pompous? Hardly. I am just tired of seeing "what is the number of a song priest wanted to sing?" or "what are the coordinates for dead air?" etc. Sure I ask for help as well - but I don't ask people to just give me the damn answer. Just like OP who said - I haven't done any research or reading on it so just give the answer. I am annoyed at people who are always looking for piggy back off of knowledge of others without doing any basic work themselves.

Tomorrow night? Downtime - fixing whatever they will break tonight.

There is already enough biggotry on the internet. What you are doing is just adding gas to the fire, why? As others already said that character creator wasn't kind to any specific race but even if it was - there is no reason to start throwing rasist conspiracy theories because  I am pretty sure that Funcom's schedule didn't look like this:

-Make character creator.

- Add a ton of awesome models for white people.

- Add 2 butt ugly asian and black faces.

So please next time do us all favor and keep your desire to broadcast that you have been somehow discriminated against by big bad world to yourself.

After a weekend of playing the GW2 beta weekend I feel that there is a lot of confusion of what was expected vs what was received. Most people on these boards have played a lot of MMOs before, myself included. I am going to focus more on what stood out among all the other things (good and bad). I am not going to give a rating  mostly because ratings are extremely subjective and are based largely on perception of the reviewer.

Guild Wars 2 is an interesting piece of work that brings a some of new gameplay elements to the table while also refining a lot of the game features that have been largely left out by mainstream games (WoW and SWTOR). Where the PvE style of gameplay resembles some of the older games (EQ, DAoC, AO), preconstructed PvP is comes directly from original GW and WvW is nearly identical to DAoC.

Only thing that is really new is the combat system and new is a strong word considering Tera is already out. Now that is not to say that this is bad - it is fast paced and requires you to pay attention every step of the way. Even in lower level area if you will stop paying attention you will become food for local PvE wild life quite fast. One thing that was said multiple times and I absolutely agree with is melee vs ranged. There are no 'tanks' in conventional sense - so you can't just stand there and take the hits. That said you can evade 3 - 4 times before your endurance bar is out. As any melee class you need to get into the melee range of a mob (which can easily kill you in 2 - 3 hits) smack it once or twice and then get out. Even though your damage is much higher than that of a ranged class risk of going into melee range vs staying out far and blasting it with your rifle far out weights the reward. That said every class - will have to learn how to kite/evade, w/o this you will simply not last in GW2 combat. You have to pay attention and you have to be aware of what mob is doing in order to get out of the way in time. Overall I like combat quite a bit, but kill mobs will never be trivial even if you are in a low level area as a high level.

After playing quite a bit of SWTOR one thing that really stood out to me was the world of GW2. If you crank up the setting all the way to the max it is extremely beautiful (from purely graphical perspective). However even without maxed out graphics world feel alive - mostly because of the amazing design work, attention to details and style. I think GW2 took lessons learned in WoW - that you don't have to have realistic graphics to look amazing. It is the level designer that makes the level come to life rather than the polygon count.

For those of you who have played Warhammer - you will be glad to know that public quests are making a comeback - in a big way and I found that it was one of the biggest contributors to my leveling exp.

Another big point that I think deserves some focus. Most of games since WoW focused mostly on quest driven leveling - as in there are enough quests to level you from 1 to level cap. GW2 takes a very different approach - there are enough 'conventional' quests to get you probably 25 - 50% of your level. The rest of exp will come from world exploration, public quests, crafting, gathering and killing mobs. I am sure some of you will not be too excited about it but GW2 will not hold your hand all the way from start to end - most of the hand holding was done by level 10.

World vs World and Pre-Con PvP. If you played DAoC/Warhammer and participated in sieges, taking keeps, etc. this is the same thing - no surprises. As far as pre-con pvp goes - it is very much exactly what you expect it to be.

Overall I was pretty happy with the game - and I think they are off to a great start. There are definately issues with lag and melee combat that have to be fixed before release. It also needs A LOT of polish. I will say again - IT NEEDS A LOT OF POLISH. Now it was beta and I understand it that not everything will work right and there will be a lot of improvements. Things like draggable interface is a must, I should be able to rebind keys to any key combination as in 'Shift + Q' is a valid key binding, graphical evade glitches, stuck combat animations, lag spikes followed by insta death, etc. I can keep going and this list will be quite long but you guys get the picture.

Now I know some of you might disagree with some things - which is fine everyone is entitled to their own opinion so please keep pointless flame to yourself, and I am sure there are a ton of grammatical and spelling mistakes - well English is not my first language so if you have a problem with it fuck you too.

WAIT IS FINALLY OVER!!

Had to re-read that link 3 times to make sure I am not mis-reading something.....BUT IT IS TRUE AN OPEN TO EVERYONE AND THEIR AUNT BETA WEEKING IS COMING TO SWTOR!!!

Originally posted by Illyssia

I think you haven't read the full web article, The information they posted was info to be given out by Blizz at Blizzcon

 

 

 

1. Diablo 3 Release Date will be announced

2. Dates are tentative: November 24, 2011

3. Backup Q1 2012: Jan 17, 2012

 

What you are telling us here is that the first two will be wrong, but the last one will be right? Come on It could really be anytime in 2012. 

 

However everything else in the leak is correct. Do you really want to announce two date at the converntion? Probably not and it makes no sence to announce Jan 17th date because sky may rain fire and the seas will turn as blood and the date will be missed, thus you can simply announce it when you are closer to the date.

Granted all of this is pure speculation however at the very least I think this this gives a very strong guidance on what expected days are.

Apparently they inteded to announce the release at Blizzcon, however info got pulled last second. For full info read artcile in GameFront. For those of you who just want the the date - Jan 17 2012. Enjoy!

http://www.gamefront.com/diablo-3-release-date-leaked-january-17-rumor/

Edit: Made sure that link worked.

What happened is a direct result of lack of support from player base. Further more CCP leadership dared people to vote with their wallets. If everyone recalls an email from CEO right after NeX store release. Saying that basically people who disagree will quite down and those that really don't like it can GTFO. 

Well guess what, we did (myself included). So now all of the sudden he is interested in listening to what we were saying all along. It is sad that my peers (software developers) are being let go because another CEO climbed up too high on the ego pole but I think this is best for the game.

Personally I will wait a little and see how things unfold before I will make a decision of weather I will come back to EVE or not.

I am with you OP, I don't get the whole MOBA, RPGish RTS scene. I want my RTS to depend on how well I can manager my economy, base locations, unit combinations, strategies, and terrain a lot more then how well I can micro a single unit around the field.

Great, lets beat this dead horse one more time just for good measure.

Like all good stories one has to finish before another one can start. If they will keep Shepard around he will be fighting some other threat next and then some other and then some other. Nah hero needs a heros death, so we can see a new hero rise.

WOOT!! Less than 5m from my house, I will be there

WoW will live for a very long time. UO and EQ are still alive and breathing and it has been 14 years since their launch.

Nah WoW will slowly fade into obscurity. Btw 7.5% over 6 months is huge if you extrapolate that is 15% lost revenue a year.

I love this idea!

I loved raiding back in my high school and collage days. However times have changed, got this thing called a job and this other thing called a girl friend. I just will not be able to run a dungeon 50 times over to get all the gear needed to go to tier 2, tier 3, etc. So this system pretty much gives me a chance to get some pieces of gear if I run a dungeon 3 - 4 times and then I can use badges to buy pieces I am still missing.

I understand why hardcore people are pissed at this, and I would be too if I was still in HS or collage but SWTOR is aimed to at casual players which is me (kind of sad to admit that after doing 8 hour raids in EQ). Bioware would do well to appease hardcore crowd by maybe allowing a super rare items appear in bag if it is done on hardest difficulty and only give them maybe 5 to 10% stat increase and give them a unique look. That way hardcore people can still get thier 1337 look that they want.

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That is a really good question, although I think it will vastly depend on what aspect of Star Wars do you define as the 'Star Wars'. I personally enjoy the Star Wars universe and I could care less about the epic storyline. I want to see a living breathing world, where I can see how my character will fit in. 

I am a standbox fan and I know that SWTOR will not be that but I am still very excited about the game from the perspective of creating my own decisions throughout the storyline. Aside from that Bioware is known to breath life into worlds and give you the feel that world you are in is real and I am hoping for same here.