All Posts by Darth_Pete

Of course it has gotten better.. after NGE you can't really go any worse

But nope. I'm not going to play broken game and pay for it. Its 5 years old now and they aren't improving it very fast. If it was free-to-play then maybe but paying 15€ a month for that crap is just stupid.

Voted 0-5. No good (MMORPG)games to play so my 0-5 hours goes to simcity 4 and these Forums.

If there was good MMORPG I would use 15-25 hours a week.

Originally posted by Ollie77

 

Originally posted by Obraik

Sony did just have a major victory with BluRay though...

 

A "victory" they had to effectively buy. Gonna have to sell a lot of PS3's and discs to cover what they've promised to pay out to those companies that supported BR.

Too bad they don't have money left to fix SWG... just keep on milking the current players with minimal upkeep.

Originally posted by Toladin

Hello, I have been playing LOTRO on a 2001 Dell 8000 series computer for about 6 months now... This computer is very basic (40g hard drive, 768 MB RAM, no idea on graphics gard, but again very basic) and ran the game great on Low settings - very minimal lag and good frame rate.

Now.. yesterday I bought a brand new HP - 640G Hard Drive, 3G Ram - Nvida GeForce 6100 128mg Graphics card etc...

I am not very computer savvy but it was a huge upgrade from my old computer -

Needless to say , I was dissapointed when I got home and installed the game, and it still reccomended I run everything on Low - I've tried to increse the overall graphics to med/high, and the frame rate goes way down, and the gameplay is very choppy.

My question is, is this primarily due to the graphics card being average?  Would a better card significantly increase my graphics and "prettiness" of the world?  I feel like i am missing out on a lot with the graphics constantly on low..

Any info would be appreciated. TY

Yes! Your GFX card is bad just bad..  Integrated GFX cards usually are very weak. What kind of prosessor did you have ? You have more than enough RAM to run LOTRO.

You should find out if you have PCI-E slot on that PC and buy atleast Nvidia 9600GT or radeon 3850.

Originally posted by salvaje

Even if I treat it as a new game, it sucks.

SWG is by far the least polished, and most buggy MMO out there.  And it's nearing 5 years old.  UNACCEPTABLE.

 

I agree with salvaje. SWG should be free-to-play. I just don't get it why people pay for that crap and some have more than 1 account? Thats just nuts

Originally posted by Burntvet

 

Originally posted by Darth_Pete

 

Originally posted by Nerf09

My No List:

 

No #1)  Instances

No #2)  Instancing

No #3)  Quests

No #4)  NPC Loot

No#5)  Grinding

No #6)  Resource Grinding

SWG had it right, it just needed some tweaking and fixing.

 

Some things need to be instanced. SWG had Geo Cave or something where the acklay(or whatever?) was and it was just stupid when everyone and their mother was camping it. Same with places like deathwatch bunker etc.

One thing I also disliked was the doc buffs. You always had to have them to do anything really.

 

I am only about half way through this vet trial, and I'll wait until I finish it to do a full review, but one of the things now, in the NGE/post-NGE era is that the system for buffs and getting buffs is very much WORSE than it ever was before. There is no comparison, because at least before, you could GET all the buffs you needed, and everyone was more or less on a level playing field: one set of around 3k buffs from one doc (and an entertainer buff at different points) and you were good. And that is what EVERYONE had access to, and it was a level playing field.

What you have now, is something different. Buffs are ABSOLUTELY essential when going to PvP, and no you can't just get a couple and it's close enough. Under the current system, If you get a couple buffs and finish out with 17k or so health, and go up against mega buff monkey with 25-30k health (and I saw people with this much) chances are you are going to lose all most all of the time. This is an unbalanced, shortsighted and stupid design for the devs. Because now, not only do you HAVE to be level 90 to PvP, you also have to have done a whole ton of grinding for power bits for high end stated clothing, instance running for those buffs, as well as doing several of the collections to compete on anything close to an even level with the L33t kiddies. This is the way it is now, make no mistake.

In the Pre-CU days, it was very much different. Whatever skills you had, whatever weapon you had, you could see the doc, get your buffs, and be PvP (and PvE) viable from day 1. I think I PvP'd on my first day in SWG, and you could. This "new" NGE SWG is not that way, not when you HAVE TO grind to 90, grind for gear drops, grind for the 100-200 million credits needed to outfit yourself decently, run a bunch of quests, run a bunch of instances, if you can find the groups, to remain viable in PvP.

Yes, it IS like that now. I have seen it and talked extensively with the few remaining people I know that have stuck with SWG all this time. The accessibility that Pre-CU SWG had is now completely gone.

 

 

I'm no NGE defender or fanboy. I just disliked getting the doc buffs every time I wanted to do combat and I know the buff-wars are gotten even worse since NGE, thats only one of the many reasons I'm not even playing it anymore.. except free trial every 6 months or so.

Originally posted by salvaje

 

Originally posted by Nerf09

Originally posted by Darth_Pete

 

Originally posted by Nerf09

My No List:

 

No #1)  Instances

No #2)  Instancing

No #3)  Quests

No #4)  NPC Loot

No#5)  Grinding

No #6)  Resource Grinding

SWG had it right, it just needed some tweaking and fixing.

 

Some things need to be instanced. SWG had Geo Cave or something where the acklay(or whatever?) was and it was just stupid when everyone and their mother was camping it. Same with places like deathwatch bunker etc.

One thing I also disliked was the doc buffs. You always had to have them to do anything really.

Instancing is never a solution, something else could have been done.

 

They could have increased the spawn rates, and put a "lockout" on the mob for individuals/groups who got loot rights so that the next group/toon could have their turn.

Or done something like the DWB, where killing the overlord/completing a crafting run EJECTS you from the dungeon.

Instancing is the lazy way out.

I see nothing wrong with it (IMO) Some games use it right and some wrong. For example I liked how the pirate dungeon was done in WoW near the human starting area. Some games use it way too much like Guild Wars.

What do you mean by lockout? Like in WoW: Who hits first gets to loot it even if someone else kills it? Thats still campfest IMO :(

Originally posted by Nerf09

My No List:

 

No #1)  Instances

No #2)  Instancing

No #3)  Quests

No #4)  NPC Loot

No#5)  Grinding

No #6)  Resource Grinding

SWG had it right, it just needed some tweaking and fixing.

Some things need to be instanced. SWG had Geo Cave or something where the acklay(or whatever?) was and it was just stupid when everyone and their mother was camping it. Same with places like deathwatch bunker etc.

One thing I also disliked was the doc buffs. You always had to have them to do anything really.

Originally posted by eccoton

Well I went from a nividea 7950 gt card no hitching to a 8800 gt oc card I get a better frame rate in general and can max graphic and yes I know have a small amount of hitching. So those that have gone on and on about there is no hitching sorry but there is for me now. Not game breaking but surely annoying.

I have Soundblaster X-Fi.. maybe that causes hitching? I'm too lazy to test it out with old soundcard and don't even have LOTRO installed anymore.

I had hitching with my old graphics card (7900 GT) I have recently bought new card (8800GT) and haven't tried LOTRO with it. It may just be on NVIDIA cards? Possibly driver problem?

Originally posted by openedge1

3 Different computers

2 Different networks

3 Different video cards

Multiple hard drives, motherboards, memory, even OS (Vista, XP)

Still get hitching...as shown here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79_4VkR9kFA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjesCY0JB20

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K91UYM4wkYU

Please note, this is not caused by fraps software, but how it actually looks and plays in game

So...not any particular setup or OS, drivers, etc...it just exists...and people maybe just do not understand what it is..

Later

 

I had this same problem after book10 I think.

Originally posted by Gorair

capita ships were NEVER to be in the game ever.

There was a movie shown at a FF that was designed to show off the abilities of the new group of artists they had just hired that showed a tie landing in a SD hangar. And the guy said "how would you like to see that in the game!" meaning the detailed updated graphics not the cap ship.

Everyone who was NOT there assumed that video meant capital ships were coming anyway... but it wasnt.

 SOE even clarified it days later saying that the average space area could not HOLD a capital ship , the ONLY way to put in a capital ship was to completely rework ALL of JTL and they were not going to do that ever.

the cap ship isnt a lie SOE  told players its a lie the players told each other.

there is enough real reasons to be mad at SOE without making stuff up at this point.

 

Hmm.. I'm no game developer/coder, but how hard is it to greate empty space

Find a friend to quest with so you can for example chat while doing the quests. Alone it gets boring really fast

It is more like bears, undead, spiders, wolves/wargs, orcs and few trolls at 20-30 range. If I remember right.

There is no way around it, I took 2 month break back then.

Sounds like "oh noes my fotm class got nurfed! teh game suxx !" kind of post. Maybe add more details ?

Originally posted by Suvroc

 

Originally posted by admriker4

 

 

Unless ole George is planning on making episode 7-9, Id rather see an MMO post 6 over any clone war stuff. Even a prequel would be okay over clone stuff

Pardon my ignorance but has there ever been a post 6 game?

 

Seems to me to be an era that has been largely ignored, and an MMO in this setting could be unique and interesting.

I think Jedi Academy story is post episode 6

Originally posted by SioBabble

 

Originally posted by ArcAngel3

 

 

 

Another beauty from the SOE boards:

So here we are on the ISD, and all died horribly at the first boss (Bad luck). However we all cloned at the blackscale cloner and found ourselves (all of us) locked in the cloner. The instance hadnt reset like it was supposed to. Not only this, but grenades were somehow finding us in the cloner. So we all had no choice but to /unstick.

After getting back to the instance, we found that the boss guy had somehow got himself in the corridor between the cloner and the hanger force wall. So it still hadnt reset, he couldnt attack us and we couldnt attack him.

We spent the first hour sitting there trying to think of ways to unstick him, while taking damage from his grenades. Eventually he did come out, but we didnt have enough time to finish due to the usual long wait for the squad leader. We got to the second last boss with 1 minute remaining.

Obvious everyone isnt happy.

And the response from the GM when this was reported, after a 1-2 hour wait: "Whatever you did, don't do it again." 

Yeah...like I've been sayin'

What they did: pay $15 a month for this buggy game.

 

It's precisely what they should not do again.

LMAO

In SWG you just slap your mining facility on the ground and it mines for you the minerals?

LOTRO is not even close to perfect (IMO) for a PvE game it has too simple class and combat system.

OP said the crafting was "fun" in LOTRO. I don't know how some people find it "fun" to run around and grind million ore to advance in Metalworking. The actual mining does not bother me but when you have to run around like 4000 kilometers everyday after ore nodes, thats just stupid.

Tried the EQ2 trial few days ago and didn't like it. You have to start as fairy lol? After that I could start as some other race and I picked dwarf. Played 10-20 minutes and hit the exit. Graphics looked too "plastic" and somehow bit ugly.