All Posts by ghaleonx128

I think a large majority of people aren't going to want to stay up until 3:30 for a raid if they are EST.  Even 2:30 for CST is a bit ridiculous, but I'm sure you'll have plenty of Red Bulls standing by so best of luck

I'd be interested, except for the late night raiding.  Looks like it'd be a good guild otherwise.

I'm enjoying the combat as well.  I'm a big fan of strategy games so I can only hope that more mmo's come out with a turn-based system.

I was playing it last night and I found it to be, surprisingly, very fun.  It's too bad though that the game wasn't developed by an American company with more funding, but it's still nice.  I think in the future it will be fun mixing the different classes together and finding the more powerful combinations. If they have a way of storing merchant classes at end game I can see a lot of people collecting the different classes to add some diversity.  The turn based gameplay is a lot better than pressing 1,3,11 and mob is dead, the strategic factor is what makes it interesting.  They could do some really interesting things with pvp and town sieges.

As for the questing, I don't see a problem with them telling you where to go.  I hate having to go search on the internet for the right cords, that's a real errand (or spending x8 times longer on a quest because you couldn't find the spawnsite).  Best questing I've seen imo. 

I agree with the OP, going to wait for trial at least as beta was a mess.

I'm not surprised, Tortage for me on a 5 month old computer took about 1 1/2 minutes to load.  Content of the game I really thought had potential but the technical side might be the downfall, what a crappy way to go out lol.

I have a 2.6 ghz phenom, 2gb ram, Radeon 3870 CF, 32 bit vista and it is unplayable for me.  The part in the review where it says if this isn't corrected will be the doom for this game should be in bold, that was one of my first impression when playing the beta.  I guess they didn't allow dual or quad processors or CF/SLI for the beta, which might explain the performance issues, why they would do that I have no idea. It's strange because even on the absolute lowest settings and resolution, it is still horribly unplayable.

I think the programmers really messed up, I bought a $1500 computer about 4 months ago and even at lowest settings I get horrible spikes of lag.  I can run Crysis fine, but even though this is a lot less graphics heavy it doesn't perform well at all.  My 4 year old computer actually ran it better than my new one, so something is wrong with their software.

Content aside, I would recommend that you don't buy it until you know for sure how well it will run on your computer, whether its an old or new comp.  It's a joke as far as I'm concerned, worst programming/performance I've seen from any videogame.

"We burned out some quantity of our beta-testers when the game wasn't yet fun. As we've begun to sell the game, the people who hadn't participated in the beta became our fast early-adopters. And the people who did participate in the beta, we've had to go back to and say 'look, look, we promise: we know it wasn't fun two months ago, but we fixed all that. Really, come try it again.' We've had to go out and develop free programs to invite those people back for free before they go buy it. So the beta process, which we used to think of as a QA process, is really a marketing process."

In the words of Richard Garriott. 

I will say the performance is indeed pretty horrid.  I seem to run Crysis fine, but this is a lot less graphics heavy and runs worse, even at the lowest settings.  Something is wrong, and it's not my hardware and drivers are fresh.  So really I'm waiting on Funcom to fix something, or ATI to release better drivers.  

So far, content is pretty fun.  Can't really talk about longevity though.  I can see why some think of it as a single player in disguise, but I don't mind it really.  Combat is pretty fun too, but the novelty will probably wear off.

Loading times are what kills the game for me.  Content aside, loading into Tortage for the first time took at least 2 minutes.  It's hard to believe that much of the technical stuff is what's bringing the game down, and an open beta isn't going to help fix it.

It's all for you, just don't expect any more favors

I don't have the game but I heard around 17gb?

yes they are, and very scurry to don't do it for the love of mmos!

Not sure if anyone actually reads this but I would love to give Vanguard a try now that my computer can run it.  Q6600 with crossfire 3870 HD Radeon, looking forward to seeing Vanguard on high settings

Some of the mods are deleting these kind of topics and issuing "warnings" lol.  Just thought I'd let you know from experience.  Hope you have fun :) 

If anyone else has a buddy key let me know, just got my new system.  Quad core with dual 3870 HD radeon

Originally posted by daylight01

the biggest downside was also the population to say I could play for 8hrs without bumping into another player as the world was so huge and the player base so low when i played is realistic.

Anyone else with experience on the seradon server, I'd like to hear how the population is.

Haven't seriously played L2 but exp loss in pvp is just a tad bit under what I would say is ideal.  Wouldn't want to know how much exp I would have lost in WoW if that were in there