They wanted to push the game "Live" aka the f2p open beta after dropping a major game engine update just on the 9th that basicaly broke the game for many and made it almost unplayable after 5-7 mins into a match with insane lag and fps drops. THe game went from a very limited or feature sparse environment to just not ready and one day later said it's good enough lets announce open beta for the 16th...

Well needless to say Many in the closed beta went ape shit ranging from random flames to getting refunds on founder packages to threatening lawsuits. surprisingly the dev's actually decided to push back the open beta.

But before anyone gets there hopes up that they will push it back several weeks or even months to get in more features and content before going to "Live" or open beta, the devs pretty much said once the game is stable it's going open. At best we might get 3 more weeks on tweaks before this happens. At worst probably another week or so.

the combat is fairly fun and sound. yes there needs to be more balancing passes. but the gameplay modes are limited to exactly one, which is team deathmatch with base capture.

Originally posted by Brew-e

To each his own Rommello. To us old Battletech players this game plays very closely to the tabletop version and for anyone to say diffrently never played the tabletop. This is a true Mech "SIM" game straight up. It is not a twitch based FPS like "Hawken"  and if you prefer that then go play Hawken it is a good game in its own right but it is a true FPS not a SIM.

 

Actually one of the largest complaints about the game so far is how diffrent it is from the Table top rule set. from double armor and internal values to modified weapon values from dmg to heat to range to ammo per ton. Being able to equip massive weapons in slots ment for small weapons. boating specific weapon types and pushing mech's way beyond what anyone would of thought possible. Yes they have fixed and tweaked and improved things slowly and the game is definatly getting better as things move forward. but it is no where near or even close to TT rules at this point....

Originally posted by EvilGeek

I would be reading but waiting for the latest installment of The Malazan Book Of The Fallen to arrive :(

 

didnt that series end a few years ago ?

enjoying my founder status for mechwarrior online.... and thats about all i can say...

still wish gw2 was already out....

Originally posted by noseforauto

Originally posted by Daggerjaydo
Stress tests are a poor way to confirm one's notions, as they are inherently buggy as hell.

It's possible, but they also felt weird when I was in the betas. I just didn't really think about why or paid much attention to it. I didn't spend a whole lot of time playing in the betas, but after a while it started to grate on me. I'll see what happens when the game actually launches to make my final critique.

i've heard of some people feeling somewhat disjointed from their chars when they have had the height slider maxed out on some of the taler races, as the animations don't quiet match up to what your character is doing as fast. so this may of contributed to what you where sensing somewhat.

in the sheriff's office there is a vendor you can buy any weapon you want from it, including the blood magic weapon which seems to be bugged in the choose your weapon quest.

shotgun seems to be the best weapon early on as it does good dmg fast and is aoe frontal so you can hit things even if your straffing. and there is no slow down or long activation on the primary skill. most everything else seems clunky compared to the shotgun except some of the point blank weapons like fists or chaos magic but they have almost no range.

the truly long range weapons have a very slow activation on the primary attack which doesnt feel very fluid or natural when you are getting face stomped by a small swarm of mobs or getting hit in the face by an axe wielding zombie. to counter this tho they usally have a higher dmg per activation or some sorta secondary affect.

almost seems like shotgun is the best way to go for solo gameplay and then the rest of the weapons are for group play with various benefits and detriments... this is of course based of very low skill levels no clue what the weapons act like at high skill levels, probably not a whole lot diffrent for the most part...

Originally posted by adam_nox

2 years is old now? 

sigh.

the graphics card is closer to 4 years old and even then wasnt a high end card. more of a hybrid between a budget and mid range card at the time if i remember correctly.

the power supply should be fine for a single card setup i wouldnt try to sli it tho, or get a dual gpu card.

Aye, too bad we dont know when gw2 is gonna ship either, unless she's trying to get her system ready for the beta weekends.

if you can wait until the nvidia 660's come out then the price should drop more on the 560's and 560 ti's. tho there are some nice rebates on them allready, but as the next gen gets out the prices will drop further.

So my advice wait as long as you can and look for a really good deal or the next price drop on the current gen cards. unless gw2 comes out before said time then just get the best you can afford at the time.

tigerdirect has some great rebates on the 560's right now

160$ for standard 560 http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=555335&CatId=3669

can get a ti for around 200 tho the best ti's the 448 core one's are still around 250

Originally posted by RefMinor
Why they don't do the sensible option and do a $10 download with no free month, that might actually get new folks in rather than just lose a months revenue.

think they got a 1 week free trial out already....

extremely ridicioulus ? no not really... they should of added that they also dont have the license to sell to said regions and as such couldnt anyways even if they wanted to due to BHS owning the game and not en masse....

but thats a diffrent topic more or less... there is alot of cyber crime from some of those regions but it's not the only reason for the block.

Back in the day the main source of information for players was other players. this made for a much healthier and cohesive community. now adays if you havent read guide 1 2 and 3 or watched video a b and c people call you noob and get down right hostile. but then again it's now the norm to send people outside of the game to learn how to play it since the information is so wide spread and so comprehensive. a player can try to help a player but usally guide z42 on site y will usally not only answer the question but teach said player way more and show much higher detailed answer then another player in global chat or tells can allow for.

so i think that the lack of a reliance on other players has partialy contributed to this phenomenon. and of course then you add in the trolls flamers and haters and player interaction has just gone into the toilet for the most part in todays games.

Originally posted by Sephiroso

i'm just upset(minorly so, its not like in in ra3g mode or anything) that i cant put it on my ssd, i like having my games on my ssd but this one just cant fit, i might just buy a bigger one and sell off my 64gb one, ah well.

depending on your system you might just want to keep only the os ont he small 64gig ssd and put your high end games on the new one if your gonna go that route. that would remove almost all bottlenecks regarding file access on your games. after that it's all cpu and then gpu, well it's more likely cpu>gpu>hd for tera, unsure where ram falls in line. and if you do have a large storage drive for other stuff can just save your money and just install tera there. i dont think your going to see any real performance hit with this game on a standard drive.

Originally posted by Tirinas

scary ? really? i have an even worse pc then him and it runs fine, i even had some settings on high iirc.

Also storm; you hardly see any game that really makes good use of dual vid cards so you would be better of with one good one, just saying.

kinda yea, most western gamers go man my fps is low NEW graphics card time. for the first time in a long long time a game is coming out where a better processor is gonna give you more fps gain then a  better gpu. it's a new and frightening world we are stepping into.  tho i myself was getting ~ 30 fps everywhere with my q6700 and gtx 260 with everything on max minus AA. and ~20 in the capital city probably be 5 or so higher when the pet shops get thrown out.

haha looks like a giant CF which just about every day one new open world content is for the first few hours/days...

Originally posted by stormseekaz

Dude, how do you think I felt when I had to upgrade my 5 year old computer I built for Warhammer Online just to play TERA?

I had a q6600 quad core overclocked to 3.0 ghz.  Back then I never thought in a million freaking years MMORPG's would become so CPU intensive that a quad core 3.0ghz wouldn't cut it.  But TERA had my CPU bottlenecking me down to 15 FPS when I would fight those groups of mobs with 1 big boss and 10 little goomba type guys.  I have two GTX460's.  But I ended up buying and building a new computer with new mobo/cpu/ram and it cured the FPS issues with TERA.

yea tera is kinda scary on it's cpu req's probably has to do with asian markets being behind in gpu power for the avg user. most games from the asian market put alot more strain on cpu's then gpu.

the final install is around 25 gigs. the problem is with how the game installs... it downloads basically the whole game in an archive type format which is around 20 or so gigs in how ever many parts like 20-30 parts then once it has all of that on your hd it then extracts IE installs the game properly onto the hd so to install the whole game for the first time from a downloaded source it needs roughly twice the disk space. once it finishes the install it deletes the archive and free's up alot of space. so yes to install you need like 50-60 gigs free once installed it's around 25 gigs.

if you installed from dvd you would not have the issue as the archive is on the disk. not the most efficient method but it works and hd storage is cheap unless your using a ssd and trying to cram every game you play on one.

pretty sure everyone got it since it only applies to the digital edition bought through them directly. ie they still make more money with the offer then from a person buying a boxed copy from some other retailer.

Originally posted by rexzshadow

Originally posted by Entropy14

Originally posted by Xovas

No, it doesn't. 

Most new games that are p2p nowadays do not stand a chance anyway.

 

How so ? What f2p games are really scucessful ?? Yes many claim to have millions of players, but really how many are playing, how many even load the game or play it to max level, then how many really pay real money for the content ect....most f2p are massive flops and many are scams.

I have to say maplestory is the most successful f2p, its been around as long as WoW (?) and they still update it regular. Its been doing lot better since BB. It works coz its casual game people play it on and off. More hardcore game doesn't work as f2p because cash shop unbalance the game causing people to leave.

pretty sure league of legends is the most sucessful f2p out there but it isnt a true mmo. there's also those farmville games that made zynga millions hand over fist in there massive cash grab. the simple truth is f2p or rather micro transaction based games can do well with smaller player bases simply due to the fact that a few people spend way more then the avg joe who logs and makes the game have a higher profit per active user in most cases... which is why almost all content in said games is centered around the cash shop.

Originally posted by Kumapon

But I am kinda sad to see the pets go, they were an integral part of the end game. If you had a douche bag Vanarch that raised the AH taxes to super high lvl's in his zone you at least had pet shops to counter this.

 

ah man thats just wrong tax affecting the AH i thought it only affected npc merchants or atleast thats the impression that all the en masse interviews on the subject have given me. hopefuly there is a cap on how hight he tax can go and hopefuly it at the highest 10%. if it can go higher i can honestly see people just flat out getting fed up with it and rage quitting.