i was totally bumbed out when i found i had missed the beta weekend so i took my time watching the vids people were posting from the the weekend.
It looks really promising all the way from the original setting of the game, to the "Guild Wars"ish battle system.
My favourite part of the game is the crafting systen. Though i don't play it, ppl say it's similar to minecraft but better with 4x3 grid to place your mats.
It allows you to easilly dismantle items you don't need into mats, though it seems tricky to learn how to craft without a set of recipes like you'd expect in an MMO with crafting.
The only cost for the player in order to make something is the cost of the corresponding kit and then place the mats in the grid with the format of the weapon you want, press a button and if the shape matches a recipe, you get an item. Just hope that if you mess up and the shape doesn't match a recipe, it won't consume the kit.
Also love the fact that the cloths you wear have no impact whatsoever on what your char can do or what stats it has. Of course you still have items that determine that but those are unrelated at all to the way you look. So you can have a character with a tank looking like a ballerina and a healer looking like SWAT has long has you manage to get those cloths if they are available in game.
From the three factions only Dragon doesn't have a intro video yet or if it does it was locked.
Speaking of videos it's strange that any character has the same intro video before joinning the faction of their choise. The diferences start with the way each one is recruited and from that point on due to the "modus operandi" and beliefs of each group.
During this weekend people were able to try out the Templars startzone and got to checkout an area plagued mostly with Zombies and some other more interesting creatures. There were still some skill sets unavailable at that time but maybe on this next weekend they'll let us catch a glympse of what's like to have the full freedom to create a char like we want to.
The only downside i could notice was an excess of cutscenes and certain bugish animations during those, like when a character suposedly picks some sort of device and it shows his hand empty.
Just hope they'll let the people that got a serial at gamespot after the event had ended still participate on the next weekend that way i can check some stuff for myself ^^
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