Originally posted by allegria

2. The hook of LOTRO is the epic storyline ( imo ), the fact that a major MMO has a questline/storyline that takes you from level 1 to 50 is something new.

The story is really the difference for me. Playing an MMO and not worrying or caring what my level is, is something i have never experienced and always wanted to.

 

-Allegria

Originally posted by Radueriel
Well at first I had thought it could be a ram issue as that I only have 512. However... 2 of my friends are also trying the beta one has just recently upgrade to a dual core and he tells me that he lags /stutters when there is alot of effects going on and when there are others around him lagging. My 2nd friend has roughly the same specs as my own comp but with more ram (1gig) and he gets lag in the city and in areas outside of town.

I also had already tried the slider option and everything else as I mentioned before. Heck i even updated my drivers, well two anyway. So then I tabed out to see how much memory this game sucks back, and omg what a pig! lol  

Oh well back to trying the beta again.

Originally posted by Angelbound

Actually after trying hobbit minstrel, I tried elf ranger and it was even worse close combat atleast to me. I love eq2 combat,  to each there own. But I still think lotro can improve there combat quite a bit including animations on some things.

Originally posted by Fifthred

Originally posted by Radueriel
I decided to go with one of the new servers and found that in the cities and out in the wilds I had lag, stuttering and some choppiness. I logged off and checked some of my other online games and had no problems. I even rebooted and loaded up Lotr and still had the same experience. I played with some of the settings and still no change. I asked in channel and others said they experienced the same. For a new server with potential low population, I don't find this very inspiring, however even in open beta I would have hoped for better. I currently use the Pcgamer cd and speculate that there using the low res client, so with that known this performance issue is kinda nerving. My rig easily passes the requirements for this game and I'm on cable internet so I know that it's not on my end.

Hopefully this will be fixed apon final release.

Did you try "Troubleshooting" and slide max frame rate to 15 ?  Please give it a try

Originally posted by Mars505
Cities are a centralized hub, there will be lag no matter what is done. I've yet play any mmo game where over 100+ people in a centralized city , didn't lag.
If you had the lag out side of the city , I would see a point of posting, but having lag inside of a city is nothing to complain about, imho. You would have to have a internet connection  on a lan line sitting beside the server to not lag in a city.

Originally posted by JonMichael

Let me just say how much I appreciate the honest, non-trolling posts. 

To those of you who don't like the game, I hope one of the upcoming MMO's will suite your tastes better.

I've been in beta since January and can say I have actually found a game that's fnally immersive, beautiful and entertaining, along with great customer service and a company that actually listens to it's customers.  I think I'll be here a long time.

Originally posted by Angelbound
Hmmm im afraid to reactivate without the discs for the game, how exaclty does this work? I dont have eq2 installed on my cpu.

Originally posted by Meridion
I guess every single soul with a bit of understanding can see what happened here: There were too many complaints about the character-structure of Lord of the Rings. WHIIIINE, I cant play evil, I cant play Aragorn, I cant even have a mage, BWAAAAAAAAAAAH...

Its that simple, most of the stupid Fantasy followers these days give a s**t about consistency of fantasy universes. Ever been to a LARP or a medieval reenactment festival? People just dont care, they want to get away from their 9-to-5-bohoo-I-lead-a-boring-urban-life-with-no-excitement-experience; the more bling bling, the better... Its REALLY that simple...

So if a dev team tries to respect the ideas of a double PhD in germanic languages and philology that spent the last 30 years of his highly successful, academic life in the wonderful lands of mid-England;.... Dude, they have to REINVENT the word compromise...

So back on topic, no, I already appreciate how they conserve all the given lore as good as possible while still making this game attractive for non-care-non-life-basement-geeks that obviously swarm every MMORPG, every tabletop, every P&P you can possibly think of. So Loremaster is fine I guess, they couldve screwed up much more stuff in this game...

And yes, I think there are plenty of exceptions from this rule, but the vast majority wants the "jerry springer Lord of the Rings"....

Meridion

Originally posted by Fifthred
Worked for me and 100,000's of others
you must be 1/100'000's
You are wrong about "slowing the game"
What it does it tells the hardware not to over compute, and brings the game engine / frames , to a better speed for you computer to render. Even though I use 15 as my max frames, it plays like 60fps.  I run on High setting and it is awesome , with Frill distance at ultra high.
But I can tell you are a guy that will say "I tried that" and really haven't and no matter what someone posts it will be wrong, specailly on a OPEN forum here on mmorpg, instead of taking your issue onto the official forum.
Good day to you

Originally posted by RAF-dood
Two words... Electronic Arts, if that doesn't make you go screaming off into the night then you're either new or you've never run afoul of their handling of online games. Be afraid, be very afraid.

Originally posted by Silens_Neco
What I have to say about all this debate is, who cares?  The original question was how they play.  So they are here to please any caster lovers and to add a support class in the game.  Big deal, if you guys are looking for realism in an MMO than you will be sorely disapointend.