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Direct link to the ongoing livestream - http://www.twitch.tv/wildstar
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Nov 23, 2013 21:08
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This is looking pretty fun.
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Nov 23, 2013 21:45
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He slipped and said engineer. So that looks like the actual class name.
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Nov 23, 2013 21:50
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Also, while they were talking about armor healing, they mentioned another healer class. Sawbones confirmed.
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Nov 23, 2013 22:27
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Sonj posted:Also, while they were talking about armor healing, they mentioned another healer class. Sawbones confirmed. We already knew that the last ranged class could heal (they all can).
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Nov 23, 2013 22:44
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Do we know that it's a ranged healer and melee engineer rather than ranged engineer and melee healer? Because more games need melee healers, they're awesome fun, especially when they have a damage -> heals focus like Carbine have strongly hinted at.
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Nov 24, 2013 00:50
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hampig posted:Do we know that it's a ranged healer and melee engineer rather than ranged engineer and melee healer? I guess technically we don't I just find the thought of a ranged tank somewhat difficult to understand.
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Nov 24, 2013 01:11
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SWTOR had a "Ranged" tank. I don't think you can really make a class that tanks at range, you can make a tank with good ranged abilities. So instead of the Warrior's mobility with leaps and stuff, it would just have good ranged abilities and maybe some snares and stuff. But, yeah, I think a true "ranged tank" would basically require some sort of pet or else a game where everyone has good ranged, because otherwise a mob is always going to want to get up into the tanks face. I think they said in one of the streams that the remaining healer is supposed to be the "least similar" to traditional healers in other MMO's.
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Nov 24, 2013 02:10
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Manifest Dynasty posted:SWTOR had a "Ranged" tank. I don't think you can really make a class that tanks at range, you can make a tank with good ranged abilities. So instead of the Warrior's mobility with leaps and stuff, it would just have good ranged abilities and maybe some snares and stuff. But, yeah, I think a true "ranged tank" would basically require some sort of pet or else a game where everyone has good ranged, because otherwise a mob is always going to want to get up into the tanks face. Melee healers are pretty unique, and a ranged tank would work fine without pets. Yeah, stuff would just walk up, but a ranged tank that revolved around hitting things with skillshots and maintaining threat with cones and ranged abilities could be cool. As long as their abilities are based on doing threat instead of ridiculous amounts of damage, and if your ranged threat abilities were all skillshots you couldn't just mindlessly tab target ranged targets. You would have to move your character around the melee mobs to always face them while you line up skillshots on both them and ranged mobs. Like if you had some sort of power armor with flamethrowers and charged lasers. But what kind of a class would have that?
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Nov 24, 2013 02:19
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If there was one thing SWTOR did well, it was having legitimately interesting healing classes. Ranged DPS would use healing guns and could even "ubercharge" to go on a mega-healing spree, the rogue-ish class would fire medicine at everyone and used a pseudo combo system. Having a sci-fi setting like that game or Wildstar does allow for some creativity in how you approach class roles, so I'm really interested to see what endgame content here will be like.
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Nov 24, 2013 02:28
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miscellaneous14 posted:Having a sci-fi setting like that game or Wildstar does allow for some creativity in how you approach class roles, so I'm really interested to see what endgame content here will be like. Bullets made of healing nanites 
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Nov 24, 2013 02:30
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Right, I'm just saying they wouldn't be keeping a mob at range while they were tanking them without some other sort of mechanic being involved. Or else they would pretty much just be "kiting," not "tanking."
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Nov 24, 2013 02:33
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Manifest Dynasty posted:Right, I'm just saying they wouldn't be keeping a mob at range while they were tanking them without some other sort of mechanic being involved. Or else they would pretty much just be "kiting," not "tanking." Well tanking just means they're holding aggro. The ranged tanks in SWTOR tended to end up shooting guys at point blank range anyway if the mob was primarily a melee type. All you really need to do is also give them ways to deal with and/or punish that (power armor backhand knockback/stun ability?)
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Nov 24, 2013 02:42
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It's not like anything is stopping MMO devs making some bosses and mobs with ranged attacks. Melee tanks tank them just like normal, ranged tanks tank them from afar. Or close, whatever works.
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Nov 24, 2013 08:29
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For those who have been playing, how demanding is this game for PCs? I wouldn't assume a whole lot with it being an MMO, but I'm looking at new desktops in the next month or so and this game would be one I'd be planning on running so I want to make sure I get a good enough setup going.
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Nov 24, 2013 19:28
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Kingtheninja posted:For those who have been playing, how demanding is this game for PCs? I wouldn't assume a whole lot with it being an MMO, but I'm looking at new desktops in the next month or so and this game would be one I'd be planning on running so I want to make sure I get a good enough setup going. Even if someone wanted to break NDA to tell you this, it would be inaccurate. Optimization is one of the last things done to a game in beta, and any closed beta will be optimized and unpredictable therefore impossible to accurately judge performance and hardware needs. Wait until an open beta (if there is one) or much much closer to release.
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Nov 24, 2013 20:54
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Am I allowed to whine like a little bitch to the fact that keys are being sent around, with friend&family keys attached, while alot of stress testers have received poo poo so far? Thank you!
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Nov 24, 2013 22:16
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Grouchy Smurf posted:Am I allowed to whine like a little bitch to the fact that keys are being sent around, with friend&family keys attached, while alot of stress testers have received poo poo so far? You are allowed to whine; it does suck and I'm sorry it had to work this way. We're in these weird pre-beta weeks where we are heavily focused on specific metrics so we had to invite people based off that survey that's been passed around. As soon as we go "wide" in December (like the Classes Ultra Drop tease trailer promised) we're going to try to get all the stress testers in. It'll still have to be in waves because there's too many to add at once but we haven't forgotten the promise we gave. Sorry dude. 
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Nov 24, 2013 22:32
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CLAM DOWN posted:Even if someone wanted to break NDA to tell you this, it would be inaccurate. Optimization is one of the last things done to a game in beta, and any closed beta will be optimized and unpredictable therefore impossible to accurately judge performance and hardware needs. Wait until an open beta (if there is one) or much much closer to release. I don't think it's against the NDA to say "the game runs pretty good for me"
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Nov 24, 2013 22:35
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Most NDAs are pretty wide ranging and the whole point of them is to keep people from giving impressions of the game, so yeah I think it probably is against the NDA.
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Nov 24, 2013 22:41
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Macaluso posted:I don't think it's against the NDA to say "the game runs pretty good for me" Technically speaking it's usually against NDAs to even say you are IN a beta, let alone say how it runs and giving impressions. It's also inaccurate and misleading to say how it runs at his point even if you're allowed to, because it will result in speculation and unnecessary conclusions being jumped to based on an unoptimized game. It's better to wait.
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Nov 24, 2013 22:42
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My character's hair is brown. ~*gently caress da NDA*~ Subscribe to my youtube channel for more Exxxclusive W* leaks and prizes.
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Nov 24, 2013 22:42
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Did anyone ever figure out why some of us aren't getting any emails, not even in spam folder?
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Nov 24, 2013 22:46
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^^^^^ It should be because carbine changed email providers, and the new one looks fishy as gently caress. Probably the server filters remove them even before having your standard spam/filter protection. Last email I received was November 16th with Gmail. Pryce posted:You are allowed to whine; it does suck and I'm sorry it had to work this way. We're in these weird pre-beta weeks where we are heavily focused on specific metrics so we had to invite people based off that survey that's been passed around. As soon as we go "wide" in December (like the Classes Ultra Drop tease trailer promised) we're going to try to get all the stress testers in. It'll still have to be in waves because there's too many to add at once but we haven't forgotten the promise we gave. I still love you <3 Grouchy Smurf fucked around with this message at 23:15 on Nov 24, 2013 |
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Nov 24, 2013 23:13
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Was there ever any mention of a dungeon finder in this game?
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Nov 25, 2013 00:32
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Lyer posted:Was there ever any mention of a dungeon finder in this game? There is going to be one. You can pick whether or not to roll with people from other servers, to appease people with horrible opinions.
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Nov 25, 2013 00:37
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^ Only got a passing interest at this game but there are some genuinely good reasons for being able to select server-wide LFG. You actually get to meet people on your server and befriend them, this is how I met some of my long lasting friends in WoW. Mostly the people up to their game in dungeons back then (and now?) were generally nice people too. ...That being said, restricting LFG to server wide to appease people who are frothing about "SERVER COMMUNNIITYYY" is a terrible thing. I guess that means I kinda agree with you then? Just like the option being there  fake edit: Now you're going to say that this game has kind of infrastructure that renders servers completely trivial as a form of border between people
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Nov 25, 2013 01:27
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Nov 25, 2013 14:59
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Have you ever tried signing up for the beta again? I know my beta application from around the same day was deleted when they launched the new beta application around February this year. Edit: Or rather, I don't know if the new one was launched in February, that's just when I re-applied. And I've been getting very infrequent emails/newsletters since then.
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Nov 25, 2013 15:15
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Honestly, that's 10 kinds of awesome.
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Nov 25, 2013 15:22
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Is that a hamster wheel? 
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Nov 25, 2013 21:48
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Noirex posted:Is that a hamster wheel? It's like a combination of a hamster ball and the uni-wheel contraption from South Park.
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Nov 25, 2013 21:56
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Mine is Dated the 9th of October 2011 and i haven't got an invite either, i feel ya (resigned up a little while back though).
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Nov 25, 2013 22:01
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Seraphinent posted:Mine is Dated the 9th of October 2011 and i haven't got an invite either, i feel ya (resigned up a little while back though). Got into the ESO beta, wish it would have been WildStar. I logged like 60 bugs; I'm a good tester. WHY WON'T GOD HELP ME.
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Nov 25, 2013 22:58
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Loose Ifer posted:Got into the ESO beta, wish it would have been WildStar. I logged like 60 bugs; I'm a good tester. WHY WON'T GOD HELP ME. Same here. At least I have a better idea of which new MMO I'm going to play next year. Pretty sure ESO is out of the running.
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Nov 26, 2013 07:25
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Seraphinent posted:Mine is Dated the 9th of October 2011 and i haven't got an invite either, i feel ya (resigned up a little while back though). I've re-signed up like 50 times with the same email. Pretty sure if you signed up back then, you need to redo it.
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Nov 26, 2013 07:53
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Vex Thunder posted:Same here. At least I have a better idea of which new MMO I'm going to play next year. Without having looked too far into it, TESO seems like yet another mediocre MMO with a popular brand's sticker slapped on it. e: spellin' rap music fucked around with this message at 15:50 on Nov 26, 2013 |
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Nov 26, 2013 13:29
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rap music posted:Without having looking too far into it, TESO seems like yet another mediocre MMO with a popular brand's sticker slapped on it. Not to de-rail this into a ESO conversation, but having played it this weekend it was completely uninspired and frankly boring. It felt like Vanguard and Conan had a bland baby together with a Skyrim UI overlay on top of it.
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Korlac posted:Not to de-rail this into a ESO conversation, but having played it this weekend it was completely uninspired and frankly boring. It felt like Vanguard and Conan had a bland baby together with a Skyrim UI overlay on top of it. I actually had fun playing it, just the polish isn't there, but i feel like the flow of it was pretty fun.
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