Originally posted by Fadedbomb

Game looks bad, not a true StarWars MMO :'(.

 

Animations are rigid and out of place.

 

Effects are over the top, and in some places just plain embarassing to see in a North American product.

 

Linear Hand-Held Questing, even with voiced interactions, is simply boring. Not to mention developement for new quests will take several times longer to produce because of all the different choices available, but in the end it's essentially the same outcome with a momentary "feeling" that you're actually effecting the end game goal. Needless to say the final outcome is something less desirable.

 

Arena based PvP is pathetic, and a redesign needs to be implemented. Whenever a developer allows for BOTH Open-Zone & Arena based pvp the player's focus is split causing one to become more populated in regards to the other. Leading to one audience being completely alienated over the other. Bioware, being new to MMOs, hasn't figured this out yet :(.

 

Crafting is a joke, and is completely uninspired. Allowing your companions to craft FOR YOU doesn''t make this any easier to stomach either.

 

On-Rails space combat & travel is also a MASSIVE downer. What's the title called again? PlanetWars? OH WAIT, doesn't it have "STAR" in the title indicating that HUGE SPACE BATTLES would most likely be found inside? No? My fault then :)!

 

If you loved World of Warcraft, you'll adore this game.

 

Just my two cents from being around MMOs, Alpha & Beta testing them, since 1998 :)

 

-Faded

 

ps: Please fix your damn edit-post option. It adds like 6 lines of space between each entry!

I agree with you 100% I was bored right away and hated the animations and graphics/color scheme of the whole thing, felt like WOW with lasers. The story did not hold my attention!!

Great news, very glad to see it go after what they did to the game. RIP SWG ...

All of my scores are with Windows 7 64bit and Nvidia graphics.

I just got 2338 High Res

Load time 12827

I got 2955 in low res

load time 13019ms

I just got 2338 High Res

Load time 12827

I got 2955 in low res

load time 13019ms

Originally posted by Dugath

When I attempt to go to the page to create a game account I get this error

 

An error occurred during a connection to account.mortalonline.com.

SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length.

(Error code: ssl_error_rx_record_too_long)

 

The page you are trying to view can not be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.

 

Login and account servers are being upgraded.... check back another time...

Originally posted by Raknar

The so called "light sources" don't even really provide light. If you are carrying a torch, yes you see better, but the is no dynamic lighting. The guy standing beside you does not get any benefit from your torch. He just sees a bright floating ball surrounded by blackness. Campfires give you a campfire graphic with no shed light.

Not yet they don't but they will, this is just the first very early pass at a day/night system. They know they have a long way to go before it's complete..

Originally posted by ste2000

The only mobs I found so far are animals, but I cannot find any monsters or humanoid mobs...............

Keep looking there are Ratmen, Skeletons, Lizardmen, Terrorbirds, and more.

Originally posted by ste2000

I don't understand why they do not allow the high rez in Open Beta.
The graphic look quite bad at the moment, nowhere near as good as in this trailer.

Anyone knows how to allow high resolution and high quality textures outside of the client option menu?

The graphics look the same on my computer as in the video, also you can edit the games .ini file to up the AF from 2x to 8x or 16x.

 Looks like they have started shipping the pre-order boxes... woot...

It seems there is still some confusion as to whether we started shipping or not.

We did.
Countries furthest off in relation to Sweden are being shipped first of course in oder to have the product arrive more or less at the same time to most customers.

Keep in mind that customers that bought a Full Loot Bag will receive those later (approx. around late January) due to the problem with the artwork book.
As you know, you are being compensated with additional free game time for that inconvenience.

Cheers,
Maerlyn

http://www.mortalonline.com/forums/29774-quick-update-boxes.html#post655926

Link for those interested...

Mortal Online lifted thier NDA today!

Enjoy!

 http://www.mortalonline.com/news/nda

http://www.mortalonline.com/forums/27227-lifting-nda.html

Originally posted by Amaranthar

They haven't been listening as well as you might think. I saw their post "We are listening to you".

Then they locked my post on this very subject of FPV and PvP. Just as they locked many others. So they are only listening to those who basically agree with them. At least that's the way it looks.

I'm sure it may seem that way to you but the truth is FPV is not open to discussion because it was a design descision and they have no intention whatsoever of changing it.

Originally posted by altairzq

See Tasos? this is how things are done.

If Darkfall had done this the players that pre-ordered and beta tested could maybe have had the game ready for a real release!

One word WINGS!!!

Originally posted by Pupuzu

It seems concerns about future change are well founded...for those of you excited about real pvp and the hype, expect MO to be a repeat of darkfall or worse. The funny thing is i was just expressing concern over losing the good qualities of the game should the carebears want to make it like wow. Apparently they didnt like those thoughts. I dont think i was being negative...Iwas actually excited about the game and its why i brought it up. Oh well needsless to say they attacked me for no good reason...

 

http://www.mortalonline.com/forums/10456-degeneration-potential.html

I really didnt see any attacks on ya...

I do think your concerns are invalid though...

Originally posted by joeballs

Seems like a big mistake to me. Who would want to be limited to just seeing what's in front of you in a game where your enemies can come from all directions? No peripheral vision makes no sense whatsoever. They should just add the whole zoom out, zoom all the way in option.

You really needed to make another thread for this subject??

Just so ya know this will never change this game was created around this core feature along with many others... FPV is here to stay!

Originally posted by adrala

 DarkPony pretty close but still untrue :)

 

The statloss system will most likely undergo some changes since the community was not happy with it.

They it was announced was:

Each player that has collected 5 Player kills when dies looses 10% of his skills. Permanetly.

However each kill count wears off with time. I think it was 5 hours per kill.

So is you kill 20 players always respecting these 5 hours you iwll never be flagged as murderer so you will never loose skills when killed.

In exchange the griefers that start killing as soon as logged will quickly loose skills and become an easy pray for PKKs.

 

Also it is important to know that if two guilds are in war the killin between these two guilds are not punished.

 

Adrala here is right, while this may be the system for now the devs have stated that this is going to be up for review during beta. So changes may be coming depending on how that all turns out!

Originally posted by DarkPony

Originally posted by adrala

 DarkPony pretty close but still untrue :)

 

The statloss system will most likely undergo some changes since the community was not happy with it.

They it was announced was:

Each player that has collected 5 Player kills when dies looses 10% of his skills. Permanetly.

However each kill count wears off with time. I think it was 5 hours per kill.

So is you kill 20 players always respecting these 5 hours you iwll never be flagged as murderer so you will never loose skills when killed.

In exchange the griefers that start killing as soon as logged will quickly loose skills and become an easy pray for PKKs.

 

Also it is important to know that if two guilds are in war the killin between these two guilds are not punished.

 

 

Ouch. Permanently? So you will have to train again to catch up and stand a bigger chance to win a fight, I suppose.

Pretty harsh, to be honest. Though I can imagine a certain crowd not giving a damn about statloss and going for the kill no matter what sanction. But I reckon that group will be a lot smaller than what you see in DF, for instance.

It's only permanent if you never raise that skill again.. You can simply start training the skill after losing some it.. it's not a big deal.... Just dont die as a PK with a murder count...

I am aware of what Henrick wants for MO, so yes it's all a mute point and I hope they never change thier minds. I understand that they may have to split the community with regional servers but that is as fas as I would like it to go. I dissagree with your idea that RP and PVE servers would be a different thing, while I agree that they require a different rule set they would both serve to split the community and that is why I would be against them both.

In my mind it takes all kinds of players to make up a really healthy gaming community and segregating the types of players is not something I would want to see for MO. 

Hell no dviding the community just for the sake of RP is simply not needed. I have heard all the arguments and I feel they all fall short, we have had this discussion many many times on the Mortal Online forums and none of what was said has changed my  mind.

RP players can with out a doubt play along side each and every other type of player, if we give you guys an RP server should we also give others a PVE server? Where does it end?

Anyways I vote keep the community together on one server....