Wildstar Launch Thread - Server: Stormtalon | Faction: Dominion
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NDA is officially liftedWildStar Release Date and NDA Lift! | WildStar MMORPG
looking forward to see what was done in todays ~4GB patch
looking forward to see what was done in todays ~4GB patch
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I got in a few weeks ago but haven't put a lot of time in. I enjoyed what I played but it kind of felt like the quest delivery was lacking cohesiveness. I'm hoping polish passes iron this out. It felt like if I sneezed I was picking up an item, doing this, doing that, just getting hit with tasks. Items in bags triggering quests and my communicator going off etc. I realize I'm the odd man out these days for wanting to read the quests and get into the lore. I hope they do something with the quest dialogue/chat bubble location as well. Neither of these are deal breakers and I'll be picking it up. I'm looking forward to patching up today and seeing whats changed. Fingers crossed for the UI improvements hitting.
My praise to them for raising the NDA 3 months out. Outside of Blizzard most games these days hide behind their NDAs until the last month or so. They are clearly confident in their product and that speaks volumes to me. Now its up to them to deliver.
EDIT: I should add I'm specifically talking about the snowy area which is the primary Granok starting zone after the pseudo tutorial (which I felt was well delivered on both sides.) Many probably don't know it but while you start out either faction/race/class combo on your respective factions ship you can choose between 1 of 2 zones upon completing the tutorial on both sides by hopping in a different pod to Nexus (the planet the game takes place on.)
My praise to them for raising the NDA 3 months out. Outside of Blizzard most games these days hide behind their NDAs until the last month or so. They are clearly confident in their product and that speaks volumes to me. Now its up to them to deliver.
EDIT: I should add I'm specifically talking about the snowy area which is the primary Granok starting zone after the pseudo tutorial (which I felt was well delivered on both sides.) Many probably don't know it but while you start out either faction/race/class combo on your respective factions ship you can choose between 1 of 2 zones upon completing the tutorial on both sides by hopping in a different pod to Nexus (the planet the game takes place on.)
Tearofsoul
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I enjoy the game as well.
Specially the telegraph system, It makes the combat (both DPS and healing) very interesting. You have to aim, not just target in order to DPS/heal. This makes the raiding aspect of game a bit different than whats out there today.
Specially the telegraph system, It makes the combat (both DPS and healing) very interesting. You have to aim, not just target in order to DPS/heal. This makes the raiding aspect of game a bit different than whats out there today.
Woefully Inept
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I really like Medic healing. You can heal without needing to look at UI boxes since most (all? mine is only lvl 25) heals are telegraphed heals.
Haven't played in a few months. Have they changed sprint yet, or is it still finger cramp awful?
I'm in. Haven't played the beta yet.
I like they dropped the NDA this far out, you know.. like a typical release is supposed to do. That shows confidence that these big problems that I've been reading are under their control.. at least in their minds. Plus it seems like a reasonable amount of time to fix whatever given it's a themepark.
The beauty of those are you don't have to fix everything out of the gate because people can just go to another part of it while those rides are down. Besides, most people don't care about The Mad Hatter's Teacup ride. As long as the Space Fucking Mountain Roller Coaster is working, they'll stay in the park.
I like they dropped the NDA this far out, you know.. like a typical release is supposed to do. That shows confidence that these big problems that I've been reading are under their control.. at least in their minds. Plus it seems like a reasonable amount of time to fix whatever given it's a themepark.
The beauty of those are you don't have to fix everything out of the gate because people can just go to another part of it while those rides are down. Besides, most people don't care about The Mad Hatter's Teacup ride. As long as the Space Fucking Mountain Roller Coaster is working, they'll stay in the park.
Woefully Inept
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Huge patch today. Apparently the patch notes were 98 pages long in Word. Trying to load them now but the forums have grinded to a halt.
no rush as the server recently died.
few observations before it died - some ui changes are already in (las/amp and the codex window), a graveyard was added behind the illium mount vendor, performance seemed increased - had ~30fps at max[email protected]/* <
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No, it works the same way as before.
NDAs are such a useless waste of time these days. Thankfully another dev studio apart from Blizzard is adopting the 'drop it early enough' philosophy.
Same as before. Game cripples my hand after an hour. Binds are all fucked up for shift-1 etc also. Even if you move sprint to a different key.
Cinge
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Was not expecting NDA drop.
Will be interesting to read about raids now, since I haven't leveled my medic to 50 yet.
My only real complaint from my time playing though were server crashes(where you get network errors) , especially when in the middle of something(like a shiphand, challenge etc) because it would reset when you logged back in.
I've never really had performance issues, even when I did that event in the newbie area with like 30 others around or in BGs. I think the main test for me personally will be the first time I do a warplot. Probably helps I have friendly detrimental telegraphs turned off.
Will definitely be pre-ordering. I have had a lot of fun and the only reason I haven't dumped so much time into the game is its beta(I know the character will be gone soon) and RL time.
Will be interesting to read about raids now, since I haven't leveled my medic to 50 yet.
My only real complaint from my time playing though were server crashes(where you get network errors) , especially when in the middle of something(like a shiphand, challenge etc) because it would reset when you logged back in.
I've never really had performance issues, even when I did that event in the newbie area with like 30 others around or in BGs. I think the main test for me personally will be the first time I do a warplot. Probably helps I have friendly detrimental telegraphs turned off.
Will definitely be pre-ordering. I have had a lot of fun and the only reason I haven't dumped so much time into the game is its beta(I know the character will be gone soon) and RL time.
Tearofsoul
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Cinge
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Their forums are really working slow for me today, but what does this mean " For those who wish to continue playing after March 19th, check the website to pre-order WildStar and get access to all the remaining beta weekends before we launch on June 3, 2014!"?
Barab
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yes from what I gathered from the dev post. 4/16 is the last day of closed beta, moving forward there will only be the four beta weekends in March and April ( seems odd nothing in May ) and to continue in beta you must pre purchase. Those with lv 32 closed beta toons will keep them but if not you will lose all your characters. Seems like a cluster fuck but whatever. Couldnt they have told us this weeks ago ?
Tearofsoul
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Cinge
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Yeah, they are going to be creamed in the press for that. While pre-order + beta access isnt new, almost every MMO that did it , from what I remember, still kept their CB testing going on the side(teso and FFXIV being the most recent I've been apart of). But just shut off CB this early and turn everything into just weekend events , if you preorder, is crazy.
36+ content hasn't even been out a month. They really should keep the CB server going all the way to launch(or as close as possible) and just put pre-order/weekend on their own servers.
36+ content hasn't even been out a month. They really should keep the CB server going all the way to launch(or as close as possible) and just put pre-order/weekend on their own servers.
