New World

Also, for all the talk on visuals, I'm equally impressed with the sound. I can hear someone mining and pinpoint where/how far. Trees falling in front of me sounds realistic. 10/10 !

So basically the game is fun as hell and the base is there just not finished in the upper levels. I hope they finish that shit up quick because once the mass exodus happens and bad word of mouth, this game will never recover, or at least the chances of it recovering are slim. We all know how mmorpg players are.

RobXIII said:

That and the lower tier (ie iron) are driving me insane too.

One way to mitigate the reagent issue, is to use a faction item converter. That way if you need sand paper, but have like 200 sand flux instead, you can change it. SO I hear, I haven't tried it yet lol.

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Oh those converters work on stacks, too? It just said "an item" I believe, so I assumed it was a single item.

RobXIII said:

Also, for all the talk on visuals, I'm equally impressed with the sound. I can hear someone mining and pinpoint where/how far. Trees falling in front of me sounds realistic. 10/10 !

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Yeah, probably the best sound design I've heard in a game. Maybe Battlefield Bad Company 2 was better, but this game uses positional audio in a much more functional way.

Resource refining is painful enough without the goofy catalysts. I want to run around collecting logs, not opening chests. Also half the food mats come out of chests instead of harvest nodes.

Xevy said:

Crafting is the best gear in the game. End of list. Allowing everyone to get there in 3 days is a very shit plan, so it takes ~a month of casual play to get there if you focus one tradecraft or if you feed via guildmates with 5-10 people, you can do it in a few days. The thing is the best items are BoP so you have to make your own gear. It's a way of adding time to the game and it may in fact be too long for most people, but it's way better than everyone having 200 x 15 the first week.

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If you don't pvp, there isn't going to be enough 'other' things to do while you painfully slog out tradeskills as an artificial time extender. The population is going to stagnate quickly and if you care about the health of the game you'd be concerned. On /vg/ people are already showing servers where factions create mega-cabals that force the other factions to capitulate to them and then hike up all of the taxes to extreme. Then there is the automated banning nonsense where people are just mass reporting their enemies prior to a war, troons baiting people for bans in chat, etc.

If the game is already slowing down for the pvers, it'll only get worse next month (if any pvers are still playing then). There are better ways than forcing everyone to be an omni-crafter then throwing a bunch of grind on top of it. They could have just limited all tradeskills to 100 except for 2-3 that you specialize in or something. I don't know, I'm not a game developer but there has to be something better than this.

I like the game so far and it's worth $40, but it's clear that the vision/systems are muddy after their switch from pure forced pvp into whatever it is now.

OK, I still like the game but let me say this: This is some of the worst quest design in any MMO I have ever played. Visiting the same area to get different drops from the same mobs? Check. Visiting three different similarly named locations for the Azoth staff, all within a few meters of each other? Check! Has to be done in the exact right order, forget if you have just done all the same stuff. Check. I finally run the Amirine Excavation, only to find out the mob I was looking for to make the head piece for the staff of Ra isn't there, nope, I didn't read the quest text closely enough: He is in the Amirine Temple, Not Amirine Excavation, its another location just over the way, the number of which is three; three is the number of locations, not two nor four. But guess where the next piece is, though? In the Excavation, so back down to looking for a group I went. Then back to the fisherman, then back to yet another temple, then back to the fisherman again. I think in toto this quest line, which in fairness is central to the main story, is 5 or 6 trips back from various locations to the fisherman, who isn't quite what he seems. Probably more, so much they put a fast travel shrine right outside the man's fishing pier and house. After this the story seems to move from his house, so you maybe don't visit him at THIS location any more. Yet.

Another quest giver, in Brightwood, IIRC, was trying to back in the good graces of the Angry Earth, sent me 4 times into Angry Earth locations, back and forth, half a zone trek away in Brightwood, when the destinations were all right near to each other, to kill mobs I had already been killing for drops (one quest has you chopping young trees in the amazing cave but the spawn rate forces multiple fights with mobs you have to battle to get into the cave). These caves or caverns or whatever the hell they were finally calling them were all fantastic, beautiful, well designed locations, to kill mobs for a faction with which he was supposedly trying to mend fences. Then at the end, he offers me an elite quest to kill the head dude he had a falling out with. Also in an amazing locale with the giant Azoth Oak that has been seen the trailer. Double-U-TEE-EFF. Stop making me run back and forth. you miserable fucks.

In Cutlass Keys, a man has lost track of his wife: Well, the investigation will only take 4 trips to 2 locations, but hey, TWO locations this time. They added a second because this part of the map must not get used very much.

A Brightwood artist, Master Wolcott, wants to paint waterfalls? Guess how many. Three sets of three. Where are they? Who gives a shit, cut your ear off and run, you miserable piece of shit, I am the one giving the XP.

When people ask why Companies are exclusively running town boards, you will know why.