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miscellaneous14 posted:I kind of wish all MMOs did what GW2 does for PvP where you're temporarily max level whenever you queue into it, except also do that for PvE. I am so goddamn sick of doing the same "pick up 5 quests, kill 2 dozen monsters, turn in quests, walk to next quest hub and repeat" leveling process in every modern MMO, it's both not challenging and really tedious. And it keeps me away from doing group content which I actually genuinely like because it requires me to pay attention to enemy mechanics, character builds, ability rotations, etc. I think the problem is when questing is done poorly. Going from zone to disconnected zone, helping people with their random problems and not feeling connected to what you're doing is obviously boring. SWTOR was the first MMO that engaged me with the questing, but even that had a bunch of chaff. Weirdly enough, some of the newer WoW zones have some of the best questing. Vashj'ir is great from Cataclysm and Pandaria has some amazing zones as well. Clever use of phasing and scripting really adds to the experience.
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Tezzeract posted:SWTOR was the first MMO that engaged me with the questing, but even that had a bunch of chaff. Weirdly enough, some of the newer WoW zones have some of the best questing. Vashj'ir is great from Cataclysm and Pandaria has some amazing zones as well. Clever use of phasing and scripting really adds to the experience. This is the kind of effort I would love to see more of in MMOs. Questing doesn't *have* to be boring and tedious. It's usually what I love the most, but I've grown up since vanilla WoW and so I expect more these days. I think most people do. It really all comes down to good writing. The actual mechanics are secondary, but if you use them in clever ways to help sell the story, it makes it that much better.
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Apr 8, 2014 21:45
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Patch notes! New UI is coming for the next beta weekend in two week's time, but what really jumped out at me was this one: "Character Creation now offers various body types for all races and genders." I am pretty excited to see how those look!
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Apr 8, 2014 22:05
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"Draken women can no longer swim vertically like a dolphin on top of the water because, well, they’re not dolphins." Huge nerf. Devs hate Dominion -- Confirmed.
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Apr 8, 2014 22:11
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floofyscorp posted:Patch notes! New UI is coming for the next beta weekend in two week's time, but what really jumped out at me was this one: "Character Creation now offers various body types for all races and genders." It's funny, but of all that patch notes, that's the one that stuck out to me as well. That will make a lot of people happy.
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Apr 8, 2014 22:13
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BQuietNDrive posted:It's funny, but of all that patch notes, that's the one that stuck out to me as well. That will make a lot of people happy. That and the hairstyles did it for me. New UI, neat, changed how breaking out of stuns works, yeah okay, but new hairstyles and body types?! YES PLEASE! 
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Apr 8, 2014 22:21
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floofyscorp posted:Patch notes! New UI is coming for the next beta weekend in two week's time, but what really jumped out at me was this one: "Character Creation now offers various body types for all races and genders." Notes posted:
The list of unfixed "I'm not playing because of X  " shrinks some more for X that were actually viably fixable things and not just disagreeing with Devs on what is right/wrong.
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Apr 8, 2014 22:24
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Why didn't people like pounding F to break out of stuns? I thought it was neat and made combat more interesting. I guess the new one is also going to be interesting, but why was it so hard to hit F about two times to break out of your stun? Too hard for "casuals" or something?
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Apr 8, 2014 23:27
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Reason posted:Why didn't people like pounding F to break out of stuns? I thought it was neat and made combat more interesting. I guess the new one is also going to be interesting, but why was it so hard to hit F about two times to break out of your stun? Too hard for "casuals" or something? Nice copy/paste from the beta forums 
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Apr 8, 2014 23:33
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I can't wait to see the new body types, that rules.
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Apr 8, 2014 23:37
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Here is a teaser of the new UI https://vine.co/v/M5M9MFDP29n Just pause it when they show the clip of it.
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Apr 8, 2014 23:38
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floofyscorp posted:Patch notes! New UI is coming for the next beta weekend in two week's time, but what really jumped out at me was this one: "Character Creation now offers various body types for all races and genders." Fat Chua is going to be all the rage.
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Apr 8, 2014 23:45
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sct posted:Here is a teaser of the new UI https://vine.co/v/M5M9MFDP29n Not to steal your thunder, but they also did a Livestream with the new UI: http://www.twitch.tv/wildstar/c/3809460
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Apr 9, 2014 00:26
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Manifest Dynasty posted:Not to steal your thunder, but they also did a Livestream with the new UI: http://www.twitch.tv/wildstar/c/3809460 Oh well that's even better. I was trying to find some other information on it.
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There's a whole EDIT: http://www.wildstar-online.com/en/news/wildstar_ui_20_preview_less_is_more.php/ clone on the phone fucked around with this message at 01:46 on Apr 9, 2014 |
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Apr 9, 2014 01:39
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Still no addressing the SLI issues. Tsk. Devs are listening, my rear end. That aside, pretty excited to test the Esper changes, and like everyone else see how pretty I can make my internet space barbie.
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Apr 9, 2014 01:40
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Kerrrrrrr posted:It really all comes down to good writing. The actual mechanics are secondary, but if you use them in clever ways to help sell the story, it makes it that much better. It's not just good writing. There is actually quite a bit of decent writing in a lot of video games (not just MMOs) which hardly get the amount of attention that it deserves. Writing is half the battle. The other half is content delivery. The way that the story is delivered to the player counts a lot. Reading text is fine for some aspects of these games, but the days of block after block after block of text is over. It takes more than just replacing blocks of text with voice acting too. Everything that happens while a story is being delivered counts whether it be camera angles, scenery, the distance the camera is from certain key visuals, the music selection and sound effects and the timing that both of these occur as the narrative is played out, etc. Everything matters.
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Apr 9, 2014 01:53
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Arcfade posted:"Draken women can no longer swim vertically like a dolphin on top of the water because, well, they’re not dolphins." Actually, we hate dolphins. Sorry.
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floofyscorp posted:Patch notes! New UI is coming for the next beta weekend in two week's time, but what really jumped out at me was this one: "Character Creation now offers various body types for all races and genders." Oh that could change a lot of my complaints about character creation. Hope we get some screenshots or video of that ASAP.
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Apr 9, 2014 04:38
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Cyster posted:Actually, we hate dolphins. Sorry. That swimming animation was just a test for a later Wildstar / GW2 content drop introducing a new, deadly race engineered by the Eldan: Quaggans
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Apr 9, 2014 06:33
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Waiting for the reveal that alternate body types for women are "Porn star with bigger boobs" and "Porn star with bigger butt". Maybe also "Pedobait", it really helped TERA and many other terrible korean games. Alright I know that i'm being too down on the game, but MMOs and videogames in general rarely give a reason to be optimistic about this issue.
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Apr 9, 2014 06:47
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RottenK posted:Waiting for the reveal that alternate body types for women are "Porn star with bigger boobs" and "Porn star with bigger butt". Maybe also "Pedobait", it really helped TERA and many other terrible korean games. Obese female aurins are going to be loving hilarious
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Apr 9, 2014 08:07
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^Are there any pics or descriptions of the new body types?
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Is there a way to make the camera always follow mouse without holding down right click? I might've missed it, but it really bothers me to not have that because past games I've played. vvvv: I'll give it a try next beta, thanks! Eigo fucked around with this message at 19:54 on Apr 9, 2014 |
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Eigo posted:Is there a way to make the camera always follow mouse without holding down right click? I might've missed it, but it really bothers me to not have that because past games I've played. There's a mod called Deadlock that does this. http://www.curse.com/ws-addons/wildstar/220103-deadlock-extended
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anyone know what this note is referring to?quote:Resetting Eldan Augmentations no longer requires being at an ability vendor. also - am I correct to assume that the Grimvault notes say that some of the previously forbidden areas are no longer forbidden? Deceptive Thinker fucked around with this message at 14:40 on Apr 9, 2014 |
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R.I.P. Medic. TO THE GROUND BABY. Any reason why Fissure was changed? Possible to make the procs off of the first tick only? FoolishLobster fucked around with this message at 14:41 on Apr 9, 2014 |
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Apr 9, 2014 14:39
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Well, add in a "Sell all junk" button on all vendors, and between the new UI, extra character customization and breakout changes, I'm more or less sold. I find myself anticipating it, but not in any way hyped for the game. Considering my past track record, though should mean good things for the staying power of this one. The stun breakout was one of the more visible annoyances I had in the beta. Still slightly worried about whether they can get the raids (and secondarily warplots) in shape before launch, but I'll likely be a month or two behind the level curve anyway, so from my POV they will probably be alright by the time I get to them.
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There's been a Sell All Junk addon for a good while. Hopefully they make it default though.
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RottenK posted:Waiting for the reveal that alternate body types for women are "Porn star with bigger boobs" and "Porn star with bigger butt". Maybe also "Pedobait", it really helped TERA and many other terrible korean games. What issue?
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I'm real shocked that they're overhauling the UI and adding new creation options and poo poo. That shows a lot of care being put into listening to complaints. That makes me more willing to accept things like the monthly fee and all if the devs are willing to, at the very least, take complaints into consideration.
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Mortify posted:Still no addressing the SLI issues. How much of Wildstar's potential consumer base is using SLI? Reason posted:Why didn't people like pounding F to break out of stuns? I thought it was neat and made combat more interesting. I guess the new one is also going to be interesting, but why was it so hard to hit F about two times to break out of your stun? Too hard for "casuals" or something? I honestly kinda enjoyed Champions Online's system of just mash any buttons on your keyboard to get out of stun as you could it was a viable strategy to quite literally roll your face across your keyboard. Also DDR minigame to get out of stuns please. Tezzeract posted:I think the problem is when questing is done poorly. Going from zone to disconnected zone, helping people with their random problems and not feeling connected to what you're doing is obviously boring. The usual problem is game developers swing it in the other direction way too hard and make content way too on rails. There's nothing wrong with helping people with their random problems so long as they're a path into some sort of interesting story or their random problem is entertaining enough. Would you say Morrowind is going from zone to disconnected zone? puberty worked me over fucked around with this message at 20:53 on Apr 9, 2014 |
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RottenK posted:Waiting for the reveal that alternate body types for women are "Porn star with bigger boobs" and "Porn star with bigger butt". Maybe also "Pedobait", it really helped TERA and many other terrible korean games. Oddly enough SWTOR had the most realistic balance of female model types, at least that I remember playing.
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Extra posted:How much of Wildstar's potential consumer base is using SLI? Enough that there are ~10-20 threads about 5 pages deep created every beta weekend since it went to weekends, and countless more before that during the closed beta that basically amount to "My text isn't rendering properly, or is disappearing," which have been shown to be exclusive to multi-GPU setups, and disabling SLI or forcing lower performance rendering fixes it. That sounds like a large enough segment of people that maybe what to have their hardware used properly.
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Mortify posted:Enough that there are ~10-20 threads about 5 pages deep created every beta weekend since it went to weekends, and countless more before that during the closed beta that basically amount to "My text isn't rendering properly, or is disappearing," which have been shown to be exclusive to multi-GPU setups, and disabling SLI or forcing lower performance rendering fixes it. It's still a minority though, so you can't expect work to be done on that before work that makes the game run faster for everybody (including the SLI people with SLI disabled)
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RottenK posted:Waiting for the reveal that alternate body types for women are "Porn star with bigger boobs" and "Porn star with bigger butt". Maybe also "Pedobait", it really helped TERA and many other terrible korean games. Hey know, only like 95% of korean MMOs have the near obligatory child like race. It just happens that the few that dont aren't played that much or haven't been released yet. Speaking about in depth character customization and korea look at this thing . I guess when you restrict classes to single race/gender options you can go hog wild with everything else.
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Mortify posted:That sounds like a large enough segment of people that maybe what to have their hardware used properly. It is definitely a minority, and we weren't planning to support it, but it's 2014 and we decided we shouldn't ignore a feature like this. We just bought an SLI setup for one of our engineers so he can start investigating what it'll take to add in support. Not clear yet if it'll make it in before launch or not though.
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Pryce posted:It is definitely a minority, and we weren't planning to support it, but it's 2014 and we decided we shouldn't ignore a feature like this. We just bought an SLI setup for one of our engineers so he can start investigating what it'll take to add in support. Not clear yet if it'll make it in before launch or not though. Pryce is there any plans to do a cool blogpost about the new body types?
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We only have 2 closed beta weekends to test out the new changes right? Seems like a pretty small amount of testing time for such huge changes.
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