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Ort
Jul 3, 2005

Proud graduate of the Andy Reid coaching clinic.
I thought it wasn’t out yet? What’s the pre-launch date time frame and early access, etc look like?

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Ort
Jul 3, 2005

Proud graduate of the Andy Reid coaching clinic.
I didn’t realize how many classes this game has once you include the advanced versions or whatever, plus disciplines. Feels like there are a ton of ways to tweak your character. I am not huge on pvp games but did enjoy shadowbane some back in the day. There’s a dearth of content videos and stuff to watch due to the quiet launch and server issues though so it’s hard to know if I’d like it.

Ort
Jul 3, 2005

Proud graduate of the Andy Reid coaching clinic.
How does combat feel? Does the engine feel snappy for lack of a better word?

Ort
Jul 3, 2005

Proud graduate of the Andy Reid coaching clinic.
Same, classes looked cool enough to play for a couple weeks at least. Already made the mistake of going on the general chat of the crowfall discord and found many a toxic fellow. “Can’t wait to slit your throat” to some random person. Place could use some moderation, I know these types of games attract people like that but ugh I am too old to have patience for that poo poo.

Ort
Jul 3, 2005

Proud graduate of the Andy Reid coaching clinic.
These frostweaver mechanics seem very confusing with all of the ice types and having to ground target for all of my damage, is that ground targeting the basis of the entire class even in promotion classes?

Ort
Jul 3, 2005

Proud graduate of the Andy Reid coaching clinic.
There is also hardly any build info out there and, being a pvp mmo, unlikely to have a ton of top tier builds publicly shared, so that’s another reason to play now. Everyone except beta testers are on the same level of knowledge and total noobs so fights may feel more balanced.

Ort
Jul 3, 2005

Proud graduate of the Andy Reid coaching clinic.
Who are you imagining this economy would even be for? Why would you sell raw materials or gear to another guild? I don’t think this game allows you to really succeed as an independent gatherer so I’m having trouble imagining the point of a global economy.

Ort
Jul 3, 2005

Proud graduate of the Andy Reid coaching clinic.
Guilds exists almost entirely to fuel their crafters, aside from sieges and stuff. Without that, there would kind of be nothing to do outside of siege windows and stuff wouldn’t there?

Ort
Jul 3, 2005

Proud graduate of the Andy Reid coaching clinic.
For all of the “releasing an unfinished game” stuff I saw, this game is much better than I expected. It feels mostly complete from a mechanics point of view, and really does feel like a modernized shadowbane. The world and animation style are cool, rotations are unique (holy poo poo blight bombs on arch druid are gimmicky but the most fun I’ve had in a video game in a while), nothing really feels incomplete to me. I hope this builds them some steam to do a proper launch rather than the soft launch they did.

My only issue is that it seems like you pretty much have to be in a group to do anything at all, especially in the dregs. Maybe it will change since I’ve only been playing two days.

Ort
Jul 3, 2005

Proud graduate of the Andy Reid coaching clinic.
Every role has glaring weaknesses by design from what I can tell, which is very different from other games where you can be somewhat self sufficient. Healers are weak so you need your team to protect you, etc. not sure how well dependencies like that will last as people get more geared.

Ort
Jul 3, 2005

Proud graduate of the Andy Reid coaching clinic.
I am in the guild Corvus Citadel which seems to be quite large. Usually 10 people in groups even at off hours. I’ll stick with it for a bit but I much prefer smaller scrums than huge zerg fights.

Ort
Jul 3, 2005

Proud graduate of the Andy Reid coaching clinic.
Keep defense last night apparently went poorly, had like 150 of our alliance logged in and the map queue got jammed up so no attackers could log in. Hopefully they can figure out a solution to that.

Ort
Jul 3, 2005

Proud graduate of the Andy Reid coaching clinic.
I think this was just a zone population issue unrelated to a crash. We were defending and nobody could log in to attack because zones cap at 200 people. So basically whoever can log in hours ahead of time to get a number advantage has the upper hand unless they can solve that core issue.

Ort
Jul 3, 2005

Proud graduate of the Andy Reid coaching clinic.

BadLlama posted:

Does anyone have any idea what the human racial Hero's blood does?

It says it increases the power bar by 1.. but I don't know what a power bar even is.

It gives you an extra slot on your power bar. Like another skill to slot, 11 instead of the 10 everyone else gets.

Ort
Jul 3, 2005

Proud graduate of the Andy Reid coaching clinic.

NeurosisHead posted:

I'm having way more fun than I thought I would with this game.

New thread title could be this, I feel most of us trying it felt the same thing and posted something similar.

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Ort
Jul 3, 2005

Proud graduate of the Andy Reid coaching clinic.
What dregs are all the goons on? I’m on USWest

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