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Is the first shot of a gun with both burst and single shot treated differently depending on which mode you use? I so far assumed the first shot is treated the same and just the rest of the burst recoils all across the horizon.

That works both ways though. I hate being rezzed, then waiting for the heal for like 5-10 seconds while trying to be near the medic without catching a stray bullet, but the heal doesnt come. Might as well have respawned then. Comedy option is getting the res and standing up to your recently...

Being blown up while learning to fly is the advanced class, first grade is not planting the thing is nearest building. One advice is to change the flight keybindings, default is crappy there.

People that tell you they'll do something and then they dont do it and never mention it again. Goes from doing dishes or taking out trash to picking up your insulin because your car is in the shop. If your're not going to do it dont say you will, or if you wanted to do it and something came up...

The ones I know are Planetside 1 around the time of DaoC and recently Planetside 2. Now you might say you want it in a fantasy setting with a strong RPG aspect. In that case I cant think of any. But really once you move into PvP/RvR/WvW only territory you have to make the game similar to...

I disagree on that topic. You can get the weapons for your prefered role in a couple of weeks, and theres no reason to unlock everything in the first month unless you want to "be done" with the game in an OCD must unlock all pokemons way. Its nice to not pile up useless certs 4 months from now...

I was actually giving Grim1 a nod when I read that post about WoW bias. Now some of points on the last few pages arent the greatest, but Draegan you come across as saying you want something different but argue for the status quo in most replies because "different doesnt work and here's why"...

Is this guy such a red flag? Only played WAR for a few weeks because of personal reasons, once I had time for MMOs again half a year later the game had already turned to ashes. The sucky European management didnt help.

The way you describe them your friends probably grunt, dress in furs and hunt the wooly mammoth. Anyway, you are right that for immersion first person is very important, and that's the game I'd want. I always played EQ in first person, as enchanter you needed a good overview of the situation...

I'd entirely replace most or even all leveling with a system like AA/certs/EVE skills where you can choose how to advance your character but the costs blooms up quickly if you want to focus something very hard. So maybe with fictional numbers +10 strength costs 1 point, the next +10 strength...

Well Vonador and Gecko I honestly hope you're right and SOE makes an EQ many in this thread want (me included). I guess I'm too old and bitter to keep up the hope for a real EQ successor that doesnt make concessions to the modern gaming population. One question though: Is not catering to the...

Dont get me wrong, I'm all for rare, hard to obtain items. Just playing devils advocate here, and in todays market making a choice that gives you negative customer backlash is not made lightly, especially when the upsides are fairly limited. EQ dealt with a very diffferent market and customer...

That kinda stuff worked in EQ but it wont work in a mondern game I think. The added cost aside, I think public backlash makes this a very difficult, maybe even impossible goal for a company. If you look at any special event in the last years you can see a very strong sense of entitlement in...

That's a retarded series of events, unless that warrior was actually the only player fighting that raid target. And I'll concede that in the rare nights where you're stoned enough to run your warrior to ToV and solo charge Sontalak but not too stoned to actually also try a CR, that then said CR...

Did the draw distance or culling get worse for anyone? The way I understand it they implemented some kind of priority system to help aircraft, or did that not come with this patch? I was trying to snipe the bridge southeast of the crown for a while but people literally dissapeared from sight...

That's my experience from EQ, yea. Outside of dungeons CR was easy and quick for every class i played more then a couple of levels, but they were all some kinda of caster or had FD/stealth. I noted that some had more trouble, warriors most of all. But thats up to a warrior player to comment on...

I agree that in WoW it was easier, but not the day and night difference everyone claims. Outdoors are the areas everyone is rushing past mobs, and EQ was similar in that regard. Post-wipe naked runs to Ssra with the breath timer going down doesnt exactly show respect for the mobs. Obviously it...

There were three times in EQ when I was sorta-kinda worried about not getting my corpse back: Cluelessly running through the gorge at level 10 with a human paladin (at night no less) because someone said "its safe if you go right side" or something to that effect and dying to an evil eye. level...

Yea, I havent actually bought into most of the hype in the last few years but the ones I picked out were worth the $60 if you just look at hours played. Not so much if you look at the wasted potential though (D3 and TOR come to mind). I'll probably sit this one out because Skyrim was/is really...

You're adressing the wrong part of his message there. Without going into an argument about content distribution in EQ 10 years ago, what he describes as missing in todays MMO, feeling that your character isnt a copy of almost every other character that picked the same class, is imo one of the...

For me a problem is that items boil down to +dmg or +defense for almost every slot. The game needs more build-specific itemization imo, similar to what runes do to the skills (those used to be items but were cut back into a skill feature due to bag space concerns). I want to tailor my items to...

Count me in for "moar random levels please!" ... I'd like some curiosity injected into exploring the dungeons while blowing up hordes of demons. Right now its just getting old really quick because compared to D2 Hell difficulty levels D? seems almost linear. If they threw in some dungeons made...

You can have quests you need to pick up first exist alongside objectives/tasks/quests that are always present. Whatever objective the designers put in just has to make sense. I'm not gonna scalp every orc without reason on the odd chance some dorf three zones over might want to make a new rug...

Concerns like that come down to coordination/communication between players really. Sure SOE could try to force a certain bahaviour (and they do here and there, see repair, heal and rez xp), but I think bads are gonna bad. You can do a nice defense with a some heavies actually shooting at the...

Maybe I'm strange but i like that the current Orr requires you to be careful when you cross the zones alone and greatly encourages to go as a duo instead. Its certainly better then blindly rushing from ori mine to ori mine with no regard to the world around around you, then they might as well...

Obviously any game that is designed as F2P has to carefully balance in-game advancement/loot with what they sell. PS2 has a very clear split of cash-only, ingame-only, and things you get for both. Cosmetic changes for $ only makes sense, they have no in-game advantage. In a shooter like PS2...

Gecko, what makes it into a huge failure in my eyes is the wrong choices at every friggin step of the way, from picking an engine that apparently cant do the stuff a star wars game should do, not having vehicles for multiple players while the game they otherwise copied had it (and a combat...

EQ could be easy or challenging (not saying "hard" here because of the tail-chasing argument on this page). You could do 40-60 in SolB and then Karnors and never visit another zone, oblivious to any challenge you couldnt zone. You could also do it at levels or in zones that were challenging...

To each their own, good on you if you enjoy the game. But your opinion of "its not that bad" is probably a minority. The F2P setup is a "win" compared to them shutting down the servers maybe, but not in any other context. I really wish this game would pull an EQ2 and at least somewhat improve...

Some aspects of DDO are a good addition to any upcoming game. Make dungeons feel like dungeons and not a badly lit walmart aisle where you scoop loot into your cart. Pit traps, invisible walls, confusing layouts, pressure plates, dangerous ledge jumps etc. Make the world seem more worn and less...

Since we're armchair developing here, I always liked factions and the relations between them, as well as the restriction your continuing choices in the game impose on where you can go and what you can do. EQ started strong and drifted away from it, in EVE standings are a backdrop that is not as...

I believe PvP in MMOs is a player minority. Theres always the demand for proof but where is the proof that PvP players are actually half the population let alone a majority? Most (all?) MMOs since WoW failed, its difficult to draw conclusions from those games, and WoW itself is not exactly a...

Is this actually a MMO (shared world etc)? Seems to me its more of a server-based design with shared main system lobbies or the like, say GW1 or D2 if you count the chat room? Systems are said to be instanced to a certain amount of players per side. Asking because I'd love for a new EVE-like...

I'm not giving any credit to EA and wish they would cease to be, but you cannot put the blame for this failure on the publisher who forked out 150-300 mill or whatever more it really was. The same way I'm sure Lucasarts had influence but I doubt they ordered them to hamstring the project. EA and...

It wont be their only revenue if they stick to their PS2 model (that is afaik the intention). PS2 offers a subscription for increased xp gain and some perks, similar to xp potions in various F2P games. As long as leveling isnt a race from A to B and xp is worthless afterwards, that's gonna bring...

I wish they had gone the EVE direction of only one world server with this game. Considering their PvE thrives on high player pop and they have very few barriers between realms anyway. Then we could have more persistant conquerables in WvW that draws players and it wouldnt seem so pointless.

Those patch notes sound nice. I'm a bit bummed that apparently the only way to save this from being too AH-centric is introducing no-drop, but alas. I suppose the "whee I crafted an upgrade" feeling might be close enough to the "whee I found an upgrade" feeling to have some fun with this. The...

Yea whatever the design mistake on how the plague spreads/rewards you, I have to second that the rakghoul event was the last time in TOR that I thought "hey, they do have some neat ideas, more of that might turn it around". Its been downhill for 3 months and then I quit in summer. Is someone...

DE do a decent job at making the zone seem alive, and their plan seems to be to expand them so you dont get as much repetition. I wish they would include longer, optional quests besides the mandatory main story though (yea you can stop doing it, but its the only one for now). Make them the...

As long as you have important reasons to keep gaining xp, a death penalty of xp loss or xp debt to be worked off sounds similar enough to me to go with the debt because it carries less baggage (level loss code, related minimum level issues with gear and skills, etc). And imo any game should have...