Early days, but what are your initial thoughts

btk2k2

ive only played for about 5 hours total but so far i think considering the early stage of beta, it is showing a lot of promise, the quest systems seems to be quite good and the skill systems is the best ive seen in any of the MMO's ive played and its not even finished yet, lag does not seem to be a problem and it adds a lot to immersion when you can walk into a house or bar and not have a load screen.

Ive only messed around with melee combat so far but from what i can tell, it seems to be a lot more fun than the melee in most mmo's and the pathfinding has been pretty top notch so far.

well, what do you think?

zensaber

I dont't know I can't play because I havn't got me email yet. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr. But when I do I will drop fo few lines on what I think about the game

zoey121

bt,

 did you stick with mele cause the tutorial didn't offer you even a basic weapon?

Or the weaponsmith didn't have the recipe? How was the speed of combat to you?

Like daoc? or wow/eq 2 ? Did you see any speicals from the others around you?

were you albe to /consider

 

RemyVorender

well if i could play the damn game for more than 30min at a time without the server coming down i could tell u lol...

A.K.A. Wrython Hellsong, lvl 31 Erudite Dirge -- Befallen

Squitty

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Originally posted by remyburke
well if i could play the damn game for more than 30min at a time without the server coming down i could tell u lol...

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I know what you mean. They brought up the server from like 2 hours of downtime and I was able to play a good 2 minutes. But hey, it is beta.

sygmas

This game sucks and no im not one to quickly jump to conclusions based on a beta, but I feel as amateurish as this is looking -- ...just....no.

btk2k2

combat seems alright, the tutorial gave me a weapon, a recipe on how to create a fire pit, a recipe on how to cook meat and some tools to start lumberjacking *i was a human* dunno if its different for different races, i aint checked yet,

As for the blacksmith, in the town i was in there were some recipies, and there were some for the weaponsmith, it depends when you go to them though cuz if another player buys the recipies, i think they have to wait for a 'virtual' delivery before they can sell them again, or for another play to come along and sell one, not 100% sure on how that works though.

As for the servers going down, i was playing in the middle of the afternoon *GMT* and i was able to get a good 2/3 hours play time before i logged off, without any lag problems or glitches or crashes, im guessing it depends when you play and im sure they are still sorting out the load balancing to handle a lot of players, hence why they wont activate all accounts straight away, and ill mess around with some necromancy today, just gotta get some money so i can apprentice under one and learn spells. :P

I dont know if you can /consider, i havent tried it, but there is a rough gide as to how easily a mob will aggro you, if the name is green, it will very rarely agro you, even if you attack one in a big group, others will be less inclined to come and attack you, but if its yellow, orange or red, it goes up so red obviously practically attack on sight, and if u attack one of species, any of the same in the viewable area will come and attack you,

I havent seen any specials or anything yet, but i have only stayed around the town and the outskirts, i havent really explored so im still in the fairly new areas, but if i do see anything cool, ill be sure to post here

Finduilas

I am interested to see what you think of all the other posts on this board which seem largely negative.

Saranum

Well my thoughts:

Yes at the beginning the PnC System of Wish needs really some training, even if you are a pro PnC like me.
But after a while you get the knack of it and it does very well. And yes it does have quite the best pathfinding.

Graphics: Hmmm, I think the graphics are very well overall, I don't have a high end system and I still can play smoothly I don't really have that lag some people mentioned. The Overhead effects of the number of damage and the misses and parrys are a little strange I must admit, but I easily get over it, you can disable it also in the option and just watch the combat chat window.... and yes I think the graphics are better then wows, and I think nicer even than those of eq2 except some small things which can be improved, and as I see Mutable Realms they do it constantly.

Combat: Normal weapon combat is quite funny and better thought out than in other games, you can't just start an attack and let your character fight and put in an occasional special abillity, in Wish you have to select constantly the desired moves you want to make, I just begun Staff training and already have 5 different moves, which all look nice while fighting, the character moves look very real.

Crafting: Extremely complex and very nice, Theres so much to craft and everything has a complex production tree, like : hemp - refined hemb fiber - hemp yarn - hemp cloth - hemp robe. While every step needs a different tool and a different workstation (if any)... etc

You can Examine Monsters for some basic information, and theres also a basic con system (white - green - blue - red etc) but not much more.
You have to know your enemy, or avoid them or risk your live and try...

Town Guilds are a very nice idea, at the moment they are mostly missused as help channel but it leaves plenty of place for the RP's

Standard Quests are at the moment just basic tasks, but there are already live events going on, etc but I havn't participated in such things because I'm still getting the basics...

Skill System is great You have the freedom to use almost every basic skill, if you want to learn special things you have to take a apprenticeship and use ability points you gain while gaining skill points ;P, to buy them .... you can take max 3 such proffessions, be it combat or crafting/harvesting orientated

Well just some basic info, but all in all to me this Beta has showed me that Mutable Realms and their Baby have a great potential, to release a wonderful game....

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Evil UO has doomed my poor soul, and now I'm wandering restlessly through all MMORPG's desperately searching for a place to rest in peace.....

aeric67

I'm not sure I will be able to get past the graphics without judging this game unfavorably, but I will give it a shot anyway. I just got my invite this morning, but alas, work has me for 10 hours.

Saranum

I agree that I'm not very graphical oriented therefore my opinion could be very biased... ;PPP

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Evil UO has doomed my poor soul, and now I'm wandering restlessly through all MMORPG's desperately searching for a place to rest in peace.....

Pi--

I just got my account activated, but i can't log in. Apparently the server is down. It starts good...

-Pi
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"Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently."
-Anon.

Saranum

The Beta Server often goes up and down, normal... so you should be prepared...

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Evil UO has doomed my poor soul, and now I'm wandering restlessly through all MMORPG's desperately searching for a place to rest in peace.....

Harafnir

Got activated today, taking me up to four betas at one time (DnL, MxO, CoH Euro, Wish). So far I hate it...

Because my computer burned last week and I can not play any games at all... Hate hate hate my computer. Worst timing since time was invented.

Kane

Your in DnL AND Wish...and your computer died? You poor bastard...