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The good, the bad, and the horrible (so far)
pizzamurai
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The Good:
The Bad:
The Horrible:
The Good:
- Combat is very fun so far. Animations are mostly fluid, dodging works like a charm. Overall, well done (when it's not lagging and rubberbanding me anyway)
- Overall lag has been minimal. Rubberbanding here and there, but mostly no lag whatsoever. Good job, hope it can hold up through the next two player surges.
- Environments are beautiful (when they're meant to be anyway)
- Armor dyes are well implemented from what I can tell and this is a perfect thing to stick in the zen store... sadly there's nothing decent to use them on. See the "horrible" section.
The Bad:
- Why is /em sleep still making you hunch over like you're about to hurl? Where is the laying down emote? I know you have it, I see NPCs doing it all over the place when they're hurt or dead. Give it.
- There's still no way to unsheathe/sheath weapons outside of combat.
- Crafting missions take far too long. Yes, I realize it's supposed to be an AD sink but 4 hours at a level 2-3 mission is simply ridiculous, these need to be lowered or all you're going to do is seriously disinterest your largest base of casual players.
- Auction house search filter is horribly broken. Minimum level simply doesn't work when you're searching by your class. You can't re-order the results by level or... anything really. Which means you have to mouse over... every...single... item...until...you...finally...find...what...you...want...or...find...nothing... at...all...which...makes...doing..so... a... very... unenjoyable...experience. Kind of like reading that sentence.
The Horrible:
- There is still no way to visually preview items through links, the AH, or the zen store in most cases (Sorry, pictures do not count). This needs to be added as soon as possible.
- Who dropped the ball on armor variety? I've gone from level 1-30 and had -MAYBE- 3 or 4 different armor looks. I'm talking CHEST armor. Everything else? Entirely identical. What is going on here? Did you guys just completely forget to design armor sets? Is all the armor sitting on 60 vendors somewhere? I haven't played another MMO with gear variety that is so utterly lacking. This is unacceptable as it is right now. Don't even get me started on pants. Do you remember the epic book series where Drizzt spent the first year of his career searching for quality pants? Yeah, me neither.
- Lair of the Mad Dragon, the dragon boss. This is like going from a normal dungeon (the boss before it, which was fun and challenging) to a heroic raid boss that stomps your teeth on the curb and then spits in your wound. Throwing a dungeon finder group that was expecting a fun experience into that is... I just... what? I'm not complaining about difficulty, I'm complaining about the placement of the difficulty. This kind of difficulty doesn't belong in a level 30 pug dungeon.
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As for 3, the number of AD it says is the cost to remove the enchantment. At least that's the way it was during the BWEs.
And you are correct, game must have bugged on one of the enchants as at the time of posting I was charged for slotting as well.
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I actually think Crafting times should be in the ugly category over variety of Armor sets. Game feature issue trumps cosmetic issue most of the time, IMO. Keep in mind I have yet to play, but if I were to rank which of the two were more important to me, it would be crafting over looks.
the Gateway takes care of this issue really its more like one of those facebook games, since you can do crafting from your phone or whatever it's not that big of a deal
Ah yes, forgot about the Gateway...
Aahahah so much win on this one XD
There's a difference between cosmetic fluff and "You are going to look exactly the same for 30+ levels". Crafting times is more of a personal gripe, and it doesn't break the game for the majority of people so I didn't list it as ugly.
This is a huge problem.
peeved about the no preview thing and lack of gear variety
Unfortunately you can't change appearance on stuff outside of your inventory. But if you want to check a gear before binding it, it's great too.
I knew this, but it does me no good with stuff I don't already own... which is mostly what I'd need it for
Yeah, somehow I doubt it.
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Maybe it's taking a GW2 approach to gear visuals where end game you find better skins, etc.
i respectfully disagree. beta's are for feedback and improving the game.
You forget the part where this is also the initial launch. No char wipes, and early access = Its Launch. However, Cryptic has decided to give us half a game and slap the 'Beta' tag on it.
Cryptic is a decent gaming company, but they're certainly bottom of the barrel.
Just found out you can dye your armor so i guess i ok with that depending on how hard it is to get dyes
Is dye one time use? Or is it like GW2 and you can use it infinitely?
One time use, and you choose which of 3 parts of an item you want to dye too. So it can get pretty expensive (especially since so far I only see dye in the Zen store...)
Aww, HAMSTER.
I've tested this game since Alpha, it's your right to call this half a game...but most rational people would disagree.
I really hope that Cryptic extends the Hero/Guardian package availability beyond the start of Open Beta (at least keep the packages around, completely intact at their current prices until the true launch), if there are plans to improve the game. I'd very much like to back and I'd like to see some improvement that would make me feel it is worth it to do so, especially in the area of roleplaying content!