Wildstar: Now baking cupcakes with the tears of pubbies.

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Anoia: Dec 31, 2003; "Sooner or later, every curse is a prayer."

I do hope they do a western release of B&S after wildstar gets scrapped. I enjoyed the combat but the translation patch only goes so far.

Oh, and I got into the wildstar alpha. Their original plan was much, much worse. That snowy starting zone for exiles? All the yeti around the crash site were originally hostile, and the environmental hazards did a lot more damage. You could get your rear end kicked right out of the gate unless you dodge rolled like mad (there was initially no cool down and you were expected to be doing it constantly).

Complaints of course let to "this is hardcore!!!1" and they only grudgingly changed it so you got eased in to things before the game started punishing you. Their hatred of players still shows in the raids.

I quit the alpha and didn't come back until late beta, where I told myself things would surely get better. :shepface:

The RP community is still going, but they're pretty much huddled in bunkers (their plots) loving like bunnies while outside the world is ending.

# ¿ Apr 26, 2015 05:06

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 04:37

Anoia: Dec 31, 2003; "Sooner or later, every curse is a prayer."

AlmightyBob posted:

Isn't B&S the game where the character designer is a famous hentai artist?

Yeah, thus the boobs with jiggle physics that put everyone at risk of getting black eyes by running. You can turn that and the baby oil skin off, at least.

# ¿ Apr 26, 2015 20:14

Anoia: Dec 31, 2003; "Sooner or later, every curse is a prayer."

GW2 is getting an expansion, that's more than wildstar can ever hope for right now.

# ¿ Apr 27, 2015 12:37

Anoia: Dec 31, 2003; "Sooner or later, every curse is a prayer."

If you missed the "shut up, it's beta, it'll get better" phase of wildstar goons, check out the skyforge thread. It's about the same.

# ¿ Apr 27, 2015 19:03

Anoia: Dec 31, 2003; "Sooner or later, every curse is a prayer."

It's really easy for gold farmers to hack it so their characters just teleport endlessly around nodes, and Carbine can't figure out how to put a stop to that, so the bots are probably still operating just as a matter of course.

# ¿ Apr 28, 2015 16:48

Anoia: Dec 31, 2003; "Sooner or later, every curse is a prayer."

my.com's other games are designed to milk money out of people via in game shops, with the games themselves being incredibly tedious if you don't buy in. I don't see Skyforge being any different.

The fact they've yet to reveal classes when it's already beta gives me flashbacks to WAR, too.

# ¿ Apr 28, 2015 23:49

Anoia: Dec 31, 2003; "Sooner or later, every curse is a prayer."

Anatharon posted:

You'd think but they apparently had tons of hilariously low RNG because that's how it was done back then.

They did the same thing with certain world drops, though I don't know if it was intentional to make a key spellslinger dps amp have something like a .0001% chance to drop ever. I saw one in all my time playing, on auction for a ton of money.

Yes I'm still bitter. Meanwhile you'd be buried in the same 4 warrior amps before you hit level 10.

# ¿ Apr 29, 2015 15:51

Anoia: Dec 31, 2003; "Sooner or later, every curse is a prayer."

SirPhoebos posted:

I didn't pay attention to Wildstar until this thread, but it's been informative because it's answered a nagging question I've had: "What would a game designed by John Waters and Tommy Wiseau look like?

There's a Skyrim mod in that vein, because of course there is.

# ¿ Apr 29, 2015 18:31

Anoia: Dec 31, 2003; "Sooner or later, every curse is a prayer."

The true believers thought Carbine had taken a bold new step in making it so warriors weren't the go-to tanking class, but really their threat generation was utterly broken until about six months after launch.

# ¿ Apr 29, 2015 18:55

Anoia: Dec 31, 2003; "Sooner or later, every curse is a prayer."

sword_man.gif posted:

really the funny takeaway imo is that there was apparently no way to copy your character over to the ptr before this

I think there was, but they had to disable it because for some strange reason it kept overwriting the live server character with the PTR one. :allears:

# ¿ May 3, 2015 23:09

Anoia: Dec 31, 2003; "Sooner or later, every curse is a prayer."

CoffeeBooze posted:

He still shows up at Eve meetups in Dallas too.

I'm guessing that leads to people awkwardly exchanging glances and saying nothing.

# ¿ May 6, 2015 13:17

Anoia: Dec 31, 2003; "Sooner or later, every curse is a prayer."

sword_man.gif posted:

actually you'll find he's still well accepted in online communities due to his talents of being able to spend upwards of eight hours a day grinding in an mmo

jfc I hate mmo nerds

# ¿ May 6, 2015 13:21

Anoia: Dec 31, 2003; "Sooner or later, every curse is a prayer."

And it only took a year for them to implement companion pets. At long last, you can have pre-existing models follow you around!

# ¿ May 7, 2015 12:38

Anoia: Dec 31, 2003; "Sooner or later, every curse is a prayer."

That's a pretty nice slide show of a bird.

# ¿ May 11, 2015 04:11

Anoia: Dec 31, 2003; "Sooner or later, every curse is a prayer."

Verranicus posted:

https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/125717-the-future-of-wildstar/

Wildstar will -never- go F2P/B2P. Also, Olivar has gotten meaner than I remember.

All the true believers are a lot saltier. The game's wearing them down. Kinda sad.

# ¿ May 12, 2015 05:23

Anoia: Dec 31, 2003; "Sooner or later, every curse is a prayer."

And going F2P is admitting defeat. This is supposed to be the WoW killer drat it!

# ¿ May 12, 2015 14:37

Anoia: Dec 31, 2003; "Sooner or later, every curse is a prayer."

noELrunes posted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/WildStar/comments/35pkl7/mod_post_i_will_no_longer_be_allowing_any_f2pb2p/?sort=confidence

Well theyre also sorting out posts for F2P/B2p posts so there's that too.

If/when this game does head down thst route i think it would be funny. Also is thst the same fran aka franbunny?

The one and only. She's a (self proclaimed) community leader, which says a lot about the community.

# ¿ May 12, 2015 17:19

Anoia: Dec 31, 2003; "Sooner or later, every curse is a prayer."

They've never even had sales, have they? Even this asinine ploy to get people to buy multiple boxes for in game crap is at full price.

# ¿ May 13, 2015 01:16

Anoia: Dec 31, 2003; "Sooner or later, every curse is a prayer."

If this game goes F2P I say we have a dance party in game

# ¿ May 13, 2015 08:53

Anoia: Dec 31, 2003; "Sooner or later, every curse is a prayer."

Demiurge4 posted:

I had a years worth of CREDD when I quit. I think I read somewhere it's supposed to expire though, Wildstar can get hosed

Yeah it goes poof after 90 days.

# ¿ May 13, 2015 13:52

Anoia: Dec 31, 2003; "Sooner or later, every curse is a prayer."

Just think, the server space that once housed your beloved CoH character was overwritten for this.

# ¿ May 13, 2015 19:00

Anoia: Dec 31, 2003; "Sooner or later, every curse is a prayer."

panda clue posted:

I tried, but she realized she had no case and just took her toys and went home:

threatening behavior lmao

this is kinda weird, dude

like ulillillia fan weird

# ¿ May 13, 2015 19:37

Anoia: Dec 31, 2003; "Sooner or later, every curse is a prayer."

^
Yeah, the code couldn't handle it. Some hellbanned users figured out that they could make tons of posts in a thread and though most people wouldn't see anything, it'd make the forums choke as it tried to rectify what to display. That was their way of reminding people they were still around.

panda clue posted:

what the gently caress did I just google?

it's better not to know

Anoia fucked around with this message at 19:51 on May 13, 2015

# ¿ May 13, 2015 19:48

Anoia: Dec 31, 2003; "Sooner or later, every curse is a prayer."

I think the exile capital city has an actual dumpster fire going somewhere.

I mean it wouldn't be out of place.

# ¿ May 13, 2015 20:08

Anoia: Dec 31, 2003; "Sooner or later, every curse is a prayer."

# ¿ May 13, 2015 20:22

Anoia: Dec 31, 2003; "Sooner or later, every curse is a prayer."

croutonZA posted:

I've been wondering. Since Carbine were making a #hardcore MMO, why did they go with the cutesy cartoon artstyle? I mean, you'd want it to look more like Dark Souls than Ratchet and Clank wouldn't you?

It's cheaper and easier to use a cartoony style. The game can barely handle the basic wow customization style with large groups, anything more would make it burst into flames.

# ¿ May 13, 2015 20:59

Anoia: Dec 31, 2003; "Sooner or later, every curse is a prayer."

Pretty much the only way any problem Wildstar has gets addressed is thanks to the thankless efforts of the true believers

# ¿ May 13, 2015 21:41

Anoia: Dec 31, 2003; "Sooner or later, every curse is a prayer."

Verranicus posted:

So can they not post on the forums when maintenance is going on, or is it just a really slow day over there?

Their old (at least it probably is now) forum model required you to have an active paid subscription to post, so they probably have to take that out.

Knowing carbine, trying to change that will probably lead to them accidentally destroying the forums. I don't think any of the original tech team is still around, they replaced a lot of their staff with fresh recruits who didn't realize their pay is poo poo.

# ¿ May 14, 2015 00:10

Anoia: Dec 31, 2003; "Sooner or later, every curse is a prayer."

Yes, the subreddit needs active Wildstar players to mod it, because said players are great at making good decisions. Yessiree.

# ¿ May 14, 2015 01:09

Anoia: Dec 31, 2003; "Sooner or later, every curse is a prayer."

B&S's combat is really fun and involves just a few buttons that rotate to new actions as you do combos, plus active blocking.

Best of all, you can do horrible, horrible things with character creation. Every race but the Amazon models and the pedo bait animal children has age sliders and an insane number of body sliders. My sword master on the Russian version was a little old lady with a wrinkled face and sagging tits, and this enraged people for some reason.

# ¿ May 14, 2015 17:14

Anoia: Dec 31, 2003; "Sooner or later, every curse is a prayer."

I forgot the best part about B&S: one of the universal hairstyles is a giant afro.

# ¿ May 14, 2015 18:32

Anoia: Dec 31, 2003; "Sooner or later, every curse is a prayer."

Playing on RP servers has made me infinitely more wary of small, cutesy races. Thanks, gnome and lalafell age players (read: pedos who try to act like playing a child to erp with is acceptable)

But even the weirdest erpers won't have that poo poo and will flood social media with warnings about such players. So people who play cat girls with dicks are more proactive about blacklisting creeps than goons.

# ¿ May 14, 2015 19:08

Anoia: Dec 31, 2003; "Sooner or later, every curse is a prayer."

The Moon Monster posted:

Making fun of pedophiles doesn't really matter either, tbh.

yes, if you're not personally kicking down their doors you might as well be diddling those kids yourself.

# ¿ May 15, 2015 12:22

Anoia: Dec 31, 2003; "Sooner or later, every curse is a prayer."

dear god is there nothing happening in wildstar news right now?

# ¿ May 15, 2015 19:32

Anoia: Dec 31, 2003; "Sooner or later, every curse is a prayer."

noELrunes posted:

The 1% of the 1% if you will.

Ive tried telling my friens thia game sucks and ia the reason i actually went back to better PC and console gaming and ahe fires back with "dont make fun of things I enjoy"

I also quote things from this threead to fuel the fire so...

Please ask your friend what she finds enjoyable about this game cause I just don't understand.

# ¿ May 16, 2015 13:38

Anoia: Dec 31, 2003; "Sooner or later, every curse is a prayer."

Anatharon posted:

For a moment I thought you meant Cyster and thought "Oh, that's nice!".

It's had its down spots but it certainly has had it's moments.

Speaking of WildStar being bad, I remember someone mentioning but not elaborating that there was a critical flaw with the flight path system. What was up with that?

Which was a big problem because everyone apparently walks really slowly and needs to use their limited sprint meter to get anywhere.

also mounts had a sprint so you had to constantly press that key to get decent speed

# ¿ May 16, 2015 23:05

Anoia: Dec 31, 2003; "Sooner or later, every curse is a prayer."

Oh that reminds me: the flight paths were taxis with robo cabbies that would say various bits of small talk that were pretty cute and made the trip a little more fun.

They accidentally made it so everyone in the area the cab passed over could hear the sound bytes too. They stopped being cute after you heard the same joke a thousand times while questing.

# ¿ May 17, 2015 12:22

Anoia: Dec 31, 2003; "Sooner or later, every curse is a prayer."

Hasn't mmo pvp kinda fallen by the wayside in general ever since mobas got big?

# ¿ May 18, 2015 19:14

Anoia: Dec 31, 2003; "Sooner or later, every curse is a prayer."

cthulhoo posted:

Indeed. Let us assume raids age like fine wine *rides into sunset on a cloud of farts*

*sheds a single tear*

# ¿ May 18, 2015 22:27

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 04:37

Anoia: Dec 31, 2003; "Sooner or later, every curse is a prayer."

Mercury_Storm posted:

Next thing you know they'll be giving out hundred-dollar dolphins to try to bring back players who had quit, ala Archeage.

Just wait...

And isn't that vanity pet just a regular mob with some random poo poo tacked on?

# ¿ May 19, 2015 00:57

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