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Kinda unfair, but still, yeah this game is showing slow progress.People tend to forget but most popular mmo's out there took some time to get in gear. Even some very popular mmo's saw their first dev team completely replaced within the first 6 months of release.Did not stop them, I guess if you have a good fan base, popular theme, money will come in eventually and your game will grow. Not every mmo publishers have other projects and pile of money on the side to push development.It a scary world out there, competition is fierce. One can argue TR was released too soon, but we all know the development process was borked at some point, had they got the game right (not restart twice) the project maybe all those effort would have been put into PAU and end game instances... But here it is, so yep the game might reach its goal, but more slowly...I dunno how many players they need to break even, I think nobody outside NCSoft does, but judging from other mmo's numbers in the industry word is 10-30k depending on server required, bandwith staff, etc... But I guess the biggest hurdle was that lots of people were expecting this game to be a WoW with guns and 3rd shooter control, when it's a different beast. No flower picking, no beast to skin, crafting is just an aftertought.Screen shaking, fast mobs constent action make long hours of playtime kinda tough, I can't see someone hunting more than 90mins at a time, game plays too fast compared to reg mmo's. |
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Engineer can be a challenge too with turret deployment and shields.Shiled drones etc... I prefer guardian for the melee side but that's just me. |
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Yeah this game is weird, although you can solo most of it, I wouldn't play alone, I always play with a friend or PUG. |
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Theh bottom line is, if I'm having fun, I'll stick with it. (Zeus knows, I spent more time in WoW NOT having fun, and don't intend to do THAT again.)
Amen brother, I can relate, first tier 1 & 2 on WoW server, yep way back!Tier 1 was kinda fun to achieve but tier 2 was just the same frigging thing in a different instance...Not fun. I played CoX for like 4 months then left played a couple games (online-offline) then played back 1-2 months. I just love playing an mmo for 2-3 months then another one then back to first.Look at it this way, each major mmo companies add content every 2-5 months so a good rotation ensure me a great gameplay no matter which mmo I play! Another thing I learned, never play a mmo right out the door give it 6-12 months.
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Your PC is fine, you might want to check your video settings though. Very high or high setting should be fine my wife run this game with the same videocard as you have, a BFG 7950GT OC to be exact with 256MB, and 4GB of ram under XP64. One thing I notice is that the 7xxx series are pretty poor at shadows, compared say to a 8xxx or 9xxx series, you might want to keep your settings but lower the shadow distance a lot and probably disable specular.That should give you a tremendous fps boost. |
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Kinda weird reading these forums. On one side you have a new guy enjoying his new game, no matter his taste for beer women or mmorpg's. And on the other side you have this vet devoted to a game that was almost as important to him than real life career. No middle ground, no prisoners, I mean gee is it so wrong to purchase a game(mmorpg) play the game say for 2-3 months then be done with it and move to the next thing. Does every game have to be the "end of all", "I wanna play this title for the rest of my life", "yes honey you can divorce me but leave me my game account"? When I play an mmo I set myself some goals, a level to acheive a status, gear set, etc..Then if I have fun reaching my goal at my own pace, once I reach it I look around...Is this still fun? Is there another fun game around? Then I move on or not, it's that simple. If you ask me every mmo I played sucked in a way, none of them could compete in term of self accomplishment when compared to retail videogames, not only that they all cost more than your regular videogame... Just think about what kind of critics Crysis would receive if you had to grind herbs, if you had to do the same level 5-10 times before unlocking the next one.If you had to pay the game 50$+15$/month untill you completed the game :D |
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Originally posted by ianicusErmm... you mean great! no? I mean you got to pay less to play the game ain't that a good thing? MMO's I got for less than 20$ Eve, EQ2 +3 exp incl, VSoH, RG:TR collector, E&B, DAoC, PlanetSide, SWG, Archlord,CoV Collector...Guess what? They all closed down... No one plays EQ2, haven't you heard Eve Online is closing door, LOL I mean come on! Age of Conan drop from 59$ to 49$ at Futureshop last weekend, omg they're closing down for sure. |
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-Red VS Blue PvP is in the work released due on patch 9 or 10, I think it's on test server as we speak. -2 instances have been added, one more is in the tube for patch 1.9 -Engineer skills have been changed/revamp/nerf/balanced, so much that you can hear the cry babies in forums. -Spy have seen many changes -Sniper many changes and tweaks, basically they're trying to make the skills work as intended, the class wasn't supposed to one-shot kill almost everything in game. -Token system for CP is gone, now you get "Prestige" points, but you also get those points for finding rare items and killing bosses and mini-bosses. -Added respec skills/attributes -Bio and Mech Armor for both male and female avatars have been optimized. -Added "The CELLAR Arena" -Added couple "Flashpoint" missions since launch -Added a couple waypoints around maps -Hybrid and missions to unlock them -New abilities have been added to NPC, I can think of 4 of em other people might find more. All in all I see more new content in the first 6 months than most mmo I played in the past, but... This game was light in content to start with.If they can keep the pace 2-3 new instances every 6-8 months, move lvl cap to 60 by next x-mas this game might have a chance :) |
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Yes it does. |
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I got 3 toons at lvl 30 now, I play them mostly with my bud, we duo just about everything. Keep in mind we level up slowly and trying to complete just about every missions before moving to the next zone.If you're the kind of person to fly through levels and your main goal is to reach top, this might not be the right product for you. I used to love to run through lvls only to reach top and then grind the ultimate set/items... I heard you could in theory solo pretty much everything from start to finish in TR, but I alos did a few instances with grp of 4 and it was a blast, it was furious, very much like City of Heroes once you reach lvl 40+. Also one thing that is very hard to solo is to regain control of CP, you need a small team later on in game, pretty impossible to do once you reach 25+ It's a game for casual mmorpg'ers, it's not EQ, it's not Vanguard, it's a cross breed between WoW and HG:L. |
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I too enjoy this game as it doesn't require 25+ hours a week to get into and I am able to level up and complete instances, storyline with my bud. Sure I do enjoy grouping from time to time, but I deeply appreciate the fact that I don't HAVE to in order to fully enjoy a game I pay each month. Other MMO like CoH allow people to complete storyline/instances with smaller group.
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