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It really sounds more and more like vanilla WoW, but with updated systems. That is a good thing.
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Pawl posted:It really sounds more and more like vanilla WoW, but with updated systems. That's probably because they have quite a few of the original WoW decision makers on the team.
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I signed up for this with multiple e-mails but can't remember which. I decided to sign up again for the beta and it let me instead of saying I already did. Rats. I have no clue which of my ~15 emails I used and I can't remember how to log into half. Really want to play this game!
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Draynar posted:Yay new video. (vid part 1) Thanks for that. I'm always glad to stare at in-game footage. Here's part 2. [link taken down by TB for editing purposes, see a few posts below for new link] Midrena fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Apr 14, 2013 |
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Apr 14, 2013 09:33
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Carbine has been answering questions about the beta on Reddit. Some snippets:CRB_Gaffer posted:Waves go out approximately every 5 weeks. Some times we might miss a wave (this probably means we screwed something up and got negative feedback and are waiting to fix it before adding new testers. Or we got busy. Or drunk.) quote:To clarify: Every 5 weeks (roughly, barring us mucking with the schedule) we'll send out several new waves of invites. on pre-purchase for beta posted:Yes, we'll have access to different parts of beta via pre-purchase under current plans.
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Apr 14, 2013 13:07
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I havent played WoW for a lot of years now, and really no MMO with this level of, well, polish since. It just looks good, and I'll definately give it a go.
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Have they mentioned anything about whether housing is character or account bound? Personally I'd rather have all of my characters building off of the same house rather than each one having their own. Or at least the option to choose. edit: and yes, i know you can share your house, but i'm sure there are some downsides to it not being "yours" when you go in, otherwise everybody would be staying over at rich guy's house for all the neat things.
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Eryxias posted:Have they mentioned anything about whether housing is character or account bound? Its character bound.
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Dracula Factory posted:Looks like 40-man raiding isn't necessary and is only for the groups who can manage to herd 40 cats at once, which I think is just fine. I'm not sure where you're getting that it isn't necessary? It wasn't 'necessary' in vanilla WoW either and you still had 5 man dungeons and such to do at level cap. But anybody who played vanilla WoW knows that if you didn't do raiding then you were missing out on all the cool endgame stuff (awesome boss fights, vastly superior loot for stats and looks, cool dungeon environments, etc...) I have no idea how they're going to make raiding not feel mandatory if they're copying the vanilla WoW model. If they don't offer vastly superior loot then nobody will do them, if they do give them all the best stuff then the other 90% of your player base gets bitter at being second class citizens and leaves. It's not like we don't know how this is going to end up, this is exactly what happened in vanilla WoW and Blizzard had to change accordingly. Not sure why they think Wildstar will somehow be immune to this. My other issue is that 40 and 20 man raids take a lot of development time to create and tune. Not counting creating items and art assets for them. Spending massive amounts of time in between content patches to develop content for < 10% of your player base seemed like a bad idea when Blizzard did it and it seems like a bad idea now. If Blizzard with their bottomless pit of money couldn't develop Raid and Non-raid content simultaneously at a decent clip then I'm not sure what hope they have. I guess we'll see how it develops but the raiding thing has me a bit worried, and I raided 40 mans back in Vanilla. I just kind of figured the MMO developers had realized that most players don't want to do large cat herding raids anymore.
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Its weird but, i blurbed about the 40 man raids and at least two of the people i knew were all "hey, this has put this game on the map for me now!". Myself? Pass. But the rest of the game looks compelling enough anyway. 
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Apr 14, 2013 18:30
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TB has a vid up for Wildstar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeUbXJZPkd0
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Apr 14, 2013 18:34
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Part 2 was linked a bit earlier, but unfortunately the video was made private and then taken down. However, it is now back up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2_ggHgbuKs
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Eonwe posted:Part 2 was linked a bit earlier, but unfortunately the video was made private and then taken down. However, it is now back up. Well color me cautiously interested in this. I'm looking over the thread, but if I didn't go to PAX East is there even a way to sign up for testing yet?
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Apr 14, 2013 22:49
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Ciaphas posted:... is there even a way to sign up for testing yet? Here: http://www.wildstar-online.com/en/beta/
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Apr 14, 2013 22:54
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Neat, thanks. Asks about online gaming groups we're affiliated with that might want to participate. Don't suppose anyone wants to volunteer to represent the Something Awful Forums? 
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Apr 14, 2013 23:05
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Eonwe posted:Part 2 was linked a bit earlier, but unfortunately the video was made private and then taken down. However, it is now back up. I know they've said there won't be an autoattack, but I really hope you can set the 1 skill to a toggle or something. It's essentially an autoattack, so requiring you to mash the 1 key all the time seems a bit pointless, especially if you're trying to dodge poo poo with WSAD etc.
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Apr 14, 2013 23:06
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Ciaphas posted:Neat, thanks. Asks about online gaming groups we're affiliated with that might want to participate. Don't suppose anyone wants to volunteer to represent the Something Awful Forums? This raises a good point. Will we have our own guild? Goon Star And we should play Exiles because you know everyone will be playing Dominion because that is the hip thing to do now, to be evil.
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Apr 14, 2013 23:16
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Dominion aren't evil, they're trying to run a galactic empire. The Exiles are a bunch of treehuggers and edgy teenagers who are rebelling against The Establishment because it's like, totally evil and stuff, man!
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Pawl posted:Dominion aren't evil, they're trying to run a galactic empire. That's fair, actually that is why I like the sides so much. They aren't black and white. Either way, I vote exiles because bunny people.
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Apr 14, 2013 23:28
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Personally I don't care as long as I can be a nine foot tall robot!
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Pawl posted:Dominion aren't evil, they're trying to run a galactic empire. gotta agree. 9 foot tall robots. But gotta see about the unveiled races. There might be space zombies!
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Assuming there will be pvp and pve servers, goons will be split into 4 groups. The biggest group will be dominion pvp because goons love open world pvp, griefing, and being the bad guys. Despite the fact that open world pvp is always terrible and griefing rarely ever happens. After the initial rush of people, the 3 other guilds will struggle along. It's why games have gotten away from splitting up groups of people like that, and why I was pretty disappointed to see Wildstar would be doing it.
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Eltoasto posted:Assuming there will be pvp and pve servers, goons will be split into 4 groups. The biggest group will be dominion pvp because goons love open world pvp, griefing, and being the bad guys. Despite the fact that open world pvp is always terrible and griefing rarely ever happens. After the initial rush of people, the 3 other guilds will struggle along. It's why games have gotten away from splitting up groups of people like that, and why I was pretty disappointed to see Wildstar would be doing it. You've apparently done Swtor with goons and every other mmo ><
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Dominion get their own kind of bunny people.
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Almost as adorable as the smoking dogs and cat kings from Tera. I've been getting their newsletters and did that little side survey but I can't remember if I actually signed up for beta, ugh.
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Bardlebee posted:This raises a good point. I wouldn't worry much about it, as goon guilds are mostly comprised of pubbies now, and most goons are in fact pubbies. That being said, I doubt there are going to be any real "faction balance" issues with this game, as others have stated, considering the lore of both factions have a history of ill repute.
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Bardlebee posted:This raises a good point. Im going Dominion and Space humans because they are a parody of everything warhammer 40k. Then im going to find the RP realm, and do what every good goon's duty should be, roleplay being in warhammer 40k but being way too loving jolly & happy about it.  On a serious note, any info about servers at all? The server infrastructure side of things is way more important to me nowadays with MMO's. I was spoiled by playing with american goons with TSW and actually having a guild that lived. Hoping for one server with zone shards as need be system.
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Shadowmorn posted:Im going Dominion and Space humans because they are a parody of everything warhammer 40k. Then im going to find the RP realm, and do what every good goon's duty should be, roleplay being in warhammer 40k but being way too loving jolly & happy about it. I'm looking forward to running a Mechari named Bender. I'll need a space human Fry to accompany me for antics.
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raingwc posted:I havent played WoW for a lot of years now, and really no MMO with this level of, well, polish since. Rift is pretty much better at being WoW than WoW itself, but it has no active dodging and other neat actiony stuff. I agree that a themepark MMO with (well made) active combat seems interesting, even if I probably won't play it because I absolutely despise the very idea of gear progression. RottenK fucked around with this message at 13:59 on Apr 15, 2013 |
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drat those videos really do make it look like WoW in space, but in a pretty cool way.
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Shadowmorn posted:Im going Dominion and Space humans because they are a parody of everything warhammer 40k. Same. Cash money shop for a commissar outfit will take all my money. BadLlama fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Apr 15, 2013 |
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This game looks really promising. Hopefully none of the hype gets ruined once launch happens.
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I think I saw a screenshot of Draken in commissar outfits.
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There was a beta patch notes leak that happened a day or two ago. Carbine decided to run with it and has officially posted those beta patch notes themselves! Of the incident, and the reason they are putting the patch notes up, they say:Carbine posted:The beta patch notes for WildStar were leaked by a current beta tester. Our core fansite supporters have, out of respect for Carbine, opted not to share that leaked information, knowing it was a violation of our mutual trust. Which I think is a pretty cool thing, as it gives people stuff to chew on and discuss (or maybe that's a bad thing ). The notes are quite long and there's a ton of stuff in a number of areas, including classes.Official link to the patch notes: http://www.wildstar-online.com/en/news/m30_patch_notes.php I like this a lot (always enjoyed the quest inventory when games had it):
This had me going "Oh?" since I thought they'd said there weren't any:
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This game actually looks cool. To drat bad NCSoft is associated with it. I've sworn off NCSoft, no matter how good their product is.
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Midrena posted:and apparently there will be 3v3 PvP Arenas already at level 22. Arenas are only going to be available at the final level cap, but they've temporarily moved it down to the current beta level cap so they could start testing it earlier.
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Pryce posted:Arenas are only going to be available at the final level cap, but they've temporarily moved it down to the current beta level cap so they could start testing it earlier. Yeah, that makes more sense. Silly me.  Though, it would be pretty fun to actually have arenas at that level, simply to see how your skills and your team evolved as they level.
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Tommy 2.0 posted:To drat bad NCSoft is associated with it. I've sworn off NCSoft, no matter how good their product is. I've seen several people say this. What did NCSoft do?
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Midrena posted:This had me going "Oh?" since I thought they'd said there weren't any: Thats sounds like "white attack" that just doesnt cost any resources.
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CzarTim posted:I've seen several people say this. What did NCSoft do? For a lot of people, I believe it's due to NCSoft shutting City of Heroes down.
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