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Dcully

GHOST MGG wrote: »

It wont matter for you cully..you buy every mmo that was ever made:-p

Tell me about it, i think i have a problem.

You got me thinking so i got my boxed collection together for a photo
Add in all the digital ones like Rift,Aion,FF Online a realm reborn,GW1 have the box somewhere]and GW2,champions online and yes i have a problem, but hey im not subbed to any the last year or so :P

Lone Stone

dam i should really pay more to attention to these beta events, wouldnt have minded giving it a go! ah well.

Kirby

I played it for several hours this morning after leaving it downloading over night. It's excellent. It's like they took the best bits from Guild wars, Star wars and WoW and just stuck them in a blender. I love the "land grab" motif they have going on and the Firefly-esque western feel. Nice little touches aswell, like if you kill a boss NPC and then later pick up a quest to kill him.....you don't have to go do it again. The quest auto completes.

I picked the big stone golem looking guys and went Warrior as my class. Combat is fast and every class being essentially able to AoE is clever. Instant healing between fights means no downtime.

It's beta, so there is a lot of place holder icons and graphics. One of the cutscenes bugged out on me though which had a ship getting blown up.....but the ship never rendered so it was very odd looking.

Information overload is a problem though. There is a lot thrown at you in the first few hours. As a veteran, I understood it but I can see why people have been saying they felt overwhelmed.

As a side note I think its excellent that they have UI scaling facilities already. Most games played at 1920x1200 end up with tiny text and it's a pain to read. In this, you can make it as big as you want and it's refreshing as its something even AAA titles overlook.

I'm only able to play it for today because It's only a weekend key, but its impressed me so far. I'll be on the lookout for a permanent key.

The snow environment at the start reminds me a lot of the dwarf/gnome starting area of WoW. Heres a screenie and any WoW guys will see what I mean. Very blue!

KilOit

There's already tonnes of addons to change the UI and it's so simple to do.
i'm playing the game in glorious 2560x1440
The game has pretty much every environment you can think of. area's i've been to have snow/grass plains/desert/forest/jungles/moons/volcanic.
I've stopped playing now as i've reached 33 and i want to save the end game areas for when it's released.
No game breaking bugs encountered really so the game could actually be released now

Kirby

KilOit wrote: »

No game breaking bugs encountered really so the game could actually be released now

I wouldn't go that far. Leaving aside all the missing art assets, there are bugs aplenty. I've only been playing for a day and I've found some fairly severe ones. Some worse then others.

Lock up when changing zones.
When changing zones all abilities deleted from both the hotbar and abilities menu.....it took a restart to get them back.
Audio de-syncing during cutscenes.
Disappearing assets during cutscenes.
Random crashes to desktop....and my machine never crashes. I went through 30 hours of Arkham Origins which was supposedly a buggy mess without a single crash.
Those weapon lootboxes don't work at all either.

So as I said, very impressed but its definitely beta. Theres a good bit of work to do.

KilOit

Being stress test weekend didn't help, didn't play at all.
never saw the hotkey bug unless is it's new, very few cut scenes are ingame after the starting area so can't really recall

Big Knox

Got to do the Ruins of Kel Voreth tonight, the level 20 dominion dungeon and it's so good (Have done the Exile one already). The last boss is probably the best encounter I've played in an MMO to date. So excited for release now.

Noxin

Very much enjoyed my play over the weekend.
Got to level 13. Did some crafting. One pvp match. Good fun.

Had a few bugs but really only two severe. Whenever I killed more than one mob at a time, the game would freeze for a second. Not ground breaking but annoying. Also when I looted said mobs it would have a worse freeze that might last for 2 seconds and my character would end up quite a distance from where I looted. This was annoying as I would often end up in the middle of mobs getting my a$s kicked.

I played the Esper class. Biggest gripe I have with that is that you are very much stand and cast. You can't move and can become cannon fodder quite quick. Especially in pvp.

Look forward to trying out more if I can get into proper beta.

Completionist

Noxin wrote: »

Very much enjoyed my play over the weekend.
Got to level 13. Did some crafting. One pvp match. Good fun.

Had a few bugs but really only two severe. Whenever I killed more than one mob at a time, the game would freeze for a second. Not ground breaking but annoying. Also when I looted said mobs it would have a worse freeze that might last for 2 seconds and my character would end up quite a distance from where I looted. This was annoying as I would often end up in the middle of mobs getting my a$s kicked.

I played the Esper class. Biggest gripe I have with that is that you are very much stand and cast. You can't move and can become cannot fodder quite quick. Especially in pvp.

Look forward to trying out more if I can get into proper beta.

The Esper unlocks a "builder" that allows you to move and cast at level 15 which makes the gameplay much more enjoyable:)

Big Knox

Another stress test this weekend. No big give away like godankey as of yet but I'd expect something soon so keep an eye out.

Dcully

I know i said i wasnt going to play anymore but i think ill roll an esper when the servers come back online tonight.
Usually down all day Monday and back live @ 5pm GMT on Tuesdays.

Big Knox

Dcully wrote: »

I know i said i wasnt going to play anymore but i think ill roll an esper when the servers come back online tonight.
Usually down all day Monday and back live @ 5pm GMT on Tuesdays.

Damn midweek access hipsters!!

Eoin247

http://www.pcgamesn.com/we-have-200-codes-wonderful-weekend-wildstar-would-you-one

Just got a key off this site, so they still have some!


For other sites giving away keys:

http://www.wildstar-online.com/uk/news/weekend_special_access_beta_keys_now_available.php

Lone Stone

dam all gone, some coming out on mmorpg tomorrow or eh when ever 9am est is.
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/632/view/news/read/30184/WildStar-Beta-Weekend-Key-Giveaway-TOMORROW.html

Posted by Michael Bitton on Feb 25, 2014
If you're interested in participating in the upcoming WildStar beta weekend event, you'll want to check back here tomorrow at 9AM EST.

Dcully

Big Knox wrote: »

Damn midweek access hipsters!!

I didnt get on after mate, might do tomorrow night.

FunkyExige

Ive a couple of keys for this upcoming weekend beta, pm if anyone is in need!

BeerWolf

Dcully wrote: »

Tell me about it, i think i have a problem.

You got me thinking so i got my boxed collection together for a photo
Add in all the digital ones like Rift,Aion,FF Online a realm reborn,GW1 have the box somewhere]and GW2,champions online and yes i have a problem, but hey im not subbed to any the last year or so :P

Psh - newbie, I got collector editions for most of those...

/derp

FunkyExige

All gone now, thanks and sorry ive no more

Lone Stone

thanks funky, downloading the client now

Fnz

Have a spare weekend beta code if any boards regular wants it.

Claimed now.

Cina

Anyone know if my stress test acc from the last one is valid for this one too? Never got an email to confirm.

Eoin247

Cina wrote: »

Anyone know if my stress test acc from the last one is valid for this one too? Never got an email to confirm.

You need another key for this weekend, but your account remains intact afaik.

Cina

Fnz wrote: »

Have a spare weekend beta code if any boards regular wants it.

I'll take it

Fnz

Cina wrote: »

I'll take it

PM sent.

Cina

Fnz wrote: »

PM sent.

Excellent, thanks a mill!

Lone Stone

wooo like the look so far, just rerolling now as i can not stand this robot guys animations their killing dam my animators eye dam it !

Playboy

Would like a key if anyone has one to spare. Thanks

Eoin247

Got to play it for a few hours there. Mostly happy with what i saw so far. A few cinematic bugs and frame rate issues were present, but nothing too worrying.

Unfortunately that's the end of my play time for this beta test have to go to a wedding tomorrow.

Lone Stone

yea pretty happy with it, got to level 6/7 there on a stalker was fun to play, tried a warrior to 5. Doesnt feel very optimized at the moment, noticed a lot of problems with the cut scenes they just seemed to cut off or i would get a loading screen for a min it would play a scene then abruptly end it.

Definitely had more fun in it than i did with eso. So yea hope they clean it up a fair bit, could be a hit.

Eoin247

Finally getting home after the wedding. Might be able to try out the pvp/housing