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Does cryptic hate clerics?
bejita231
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In all the videos ive watched of party play, none of them had a cleric in them, everyone was at 30% health the whole time it seems, and no one was supporting each other just doing their own thing
There's still no cleric preview video yet, is cryptic scared cleric play may look boring as they are pushing action combat so hard? Is cleric really boring?
Do clerics play anything like the other classes, the healer probably isent going to get amazing twirl moves and teleporting assassin abilities, and more along the lines of supporting or otherwise "unfun" things
Is cryptic just all around scared to show cleric gameplay, cause they will have less herp derp action gameplay?
There's still no cleric preview video yet, is cryptic scared cleric play may look boring as they are pushing action combat so hard? Is cleric really boring?
Do clerics play anything like the other classes, the healer probably isent going to get amazing twirl moves and teleporting assassin abilities, and more along the lines of supporting or otherwise "unfun" things
Is cryptic just all around scared to show cleric gameplay, cause they will have less herp derp action gameplay?
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They tell you they will release this video next, then they start working on something else and completely forget what they were supposed to do.
Its kind of attention deficit disorder, nothing else.
I just hope NWO gets them right straight out of the gate, because they can be vicious for game balance. I really don't want to see videos a week after release of a cleric soloing or duoing the end-game dragon.
My experience with other Cryptic games has been that they tend to make very low difficulty, solo friendly, non-competitive casual games than tend to allow very self sufficient characters capable of handling every situation by themselves with little need for teaming. In CO most experienced players can steamroll through the vast majority of the content with relative ease and almost non-existant penalties for dying and no raids and very little that passes for high end content, though, the excuse there is that they're supposed to be "super" heroes. But my experience with STO hasn't been much different, though I've only played it very briefly. We'll have to wait and see to be really sure how they handle the D&D experience. Healing in CO can be strong at least, but then again that only makes things easier.
Even previous videos which they released had that low res server video capture tool bug. Even after it was corrected, their videos kept on showing those old videos.
So yes, they are lazy. If they had to make the videos just before releasing them, I would have doubted it though.
So, what you're suggesting is, they made a video for a class that they may not have finished balancing yet, and that the video reflects how it will play when it's done, not how it played at the time, and they're just not doing the last 1% of the work to release it because they're lazy. Not because it's not ready yet. Not because they're pacing the release of media out over time to ensure sustained buzz; just, because they're lazy.
Uhm, yeah, seems legit.
Actually yes.
And hope you expect classes to be different than what you have seen when you finally play them.
How, exactly, did they make a video in the PAST, that reflects gameplay in the FUTURE?
This would be a very handy technology for security cameras.
suggests this?
Instead of reading the points you are only trying to understand and interpret as how you want instead of how it is.
Because healing classes are harder to balance, and they want the videos to reflect the gameplay AS IT WILL BE, not as it was before they changed it. You don't know what changes may have been made or may be planned to be made, so you don't know if a video made some time ago would in any way illustrate the class.
And, again, there are very valid marketing reasons not to release all the videos at once, even if there's a video that accurately reflects the class gameplay in what is intended to be close to the final feel. Laziness doesn't make any sense as an explanation unless you can show that NEITHER of these things applies, and you certainly can't demonstrate either, much less both.
HAHA A.D.D. is the norm in North American society.... you have to expect that. LOL
Part of that may be correct. The GWF video was rather old, and my understanding is that they had actually changed things seen in the video, prior to releasing it. The basic build, and structure was solid, just some of the animations/effects were reworked. So, it's possible an old Cleric video is ready, but probably not true to final build.
Either way, I don't think the devs are sitting back, feet propped up, smoking cigars and enjoying 25yo scotch.
Devs are hardworking no doubt - the question here is about their marketing team.
Oh Marketing team for sure, and they're getting there feet massaged by oiled up hotties too! (male or female per your preference)
That's all.
I will say the final build is done for everybody and we'll see talking about the classes (cleric included) very soon.
I'm sure it's more that they have a 1000 different things they are working on, and with beta 4 days away, a video about Cleric's or the last part of the Siege is not the most important thing for them at this point, though I do think they should put out more info for the general public, especially if they want to sell as many packs as possible. We still have a long way to go before release, and will get all the info we could want as it moves forward. That being said, give us more!!!
A: As many as they need.
Q: How long does it take to make a functional cleric?
A: As long as they need.
Q: I want it nao.
A: That is not a question.
Stupid me, I meant to say that a video about either of those things are NOT the most important thing for them at the moment... fixed my post.
Thanks for the laugh!