So servers ect are going to be up on the 24th at 10am PST
Has anyone brought the pre-order? If so what servers you lot going to be playing..
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So servers ect are going to be up on the 24th at 10am PST
Has anyone brought the pre-order? If so what servers you lot going to be playing..
I'm done with rushing into games on release days, etc.
Did it before, and the games just failed hard and were discontinued eventually.
e.g. [from own experience]
Tabula Rasa, Hellgate London, APB, WarHammer Online [seems to be dying], and others probably... can't think of em atm.
I'm waiting for headstart to get going, also waiting for this damn client link to pop up..
im ready to go, client sorted and everything.
Oi, sod. You've got the link to the retail client?
http://update2.triongames.com/patche...cher_setup.exe
live patcher.
I love you man!
Yeah, there were so many games that I've joined on release date which ended up simply closing down. Not to mention most of them highly underestimated how many starting players there would be, so their servers could never handle all of the players for the first week or so until they got more servers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daedius
Damn 8gb, wish the stores released a cd for headstart instead of downloading but.. meh i better get started :P
I played beta 5, 6 and 7. Already got the game. I'll be on Briarcliff PVP Defiant. There are times where it can get grindy and linear, but the rifts and pvp make up for it. At least I haven't played an mmo in a while and it's nice to start again with a game like Rift.
I'll be lurking....
Just heard of this game a few days ago...
Will it be worth paying $15 a month for?
Bro, WAR died so long ago. 2 months after launch they only had half of the purchasers as subscribers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daedius
It died the day the first king kill happened. Nay, it died the first time a BW used his aoe stun morale and nuked down a 5-man team solo, signaling a PvP style that was unbeatable if the other team didn't do the same thing, and then RvR just turned into farming runs. This signaled the end of the game; a PvP-oriented and marketed game that was not even complete a year after it was released and was NEVER even slightly close to balanced.
Grinding is so inefficient in Rift, you should never do it.Quote:
Originally Posted by The_Gatekeeper_
Dungeon runs, questing, rifts, events.
This remains to be seen. So far it seems like some of the same people responsible for balancing classes in WAR are working on the same thing in Rift. We see in almost every beta patchnotes multinerfs that ended up gimping souls hard, and we have 2 offensive souls out-HPSing *MOST* healing-centric clerics if played right (chloro & bard). We also have some imba CC with few ways to deal with it atm, some souls don't get good CC (they get a KB and a silence only, for instance) that make them less useful for PvP while others get very high DPS or tanking capabilities along with what looks to be a disgusting set of CC skills. And then there's mana drain which is likely the most imbalanced thing known going into release.Quote:
Originally Posted by DaCheat
A lot is needed, the devs aren't chiming in on the forums. WAR had this same feel to its PvP, too much offensive and AoE CC, not enough anti-CC skills, no clue about trinkets yet (and whether there are CC removing trinkets with 10 min cooldowns etc), etc. PvP feels dirty and broken. PvE feels like you don't need healing, ever, until 50 making clerics useless, so anyone who picks a DPS class is going to do far better. A bard, 3 DPS, and 1 tank can grind dungeons far quicker than 3 DPS, a cleric, and a tank. So PvE has its balance issues as well, a lot to do with the imbalance of souls and their roles in the game.
But the game is pretty awesome. I just hope someone who had nothing to do with WAR who's seen what can be achieved with some semblance of balance steps up, pulls out a bat and beats everyone from WAR in the head, then takes over balancing. We don't need WAR 2.0.
Also, ew @ briarcliff defiant. Already has vVv and Hate, probably more. Servers with really imbalanced factions are going to be boring grindfests. My guild (some WoW pros) are probably going guard, not sure what server yet. If it's briar, then we'll single handedly nullify Hate and vVv :D.
But avoid Seastone, looks like Ruin is there. If you don't mind a 700+ member guild that's literally a zerg mentality with 1 guy in vent while everyone else is muted giving orders (aka, the overmind).