Yes it is beautiful, and the combat system is fun. But, it's the old saying of putting lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig. I'm not bashing it by saying this, but they have such a wonderful foundation for a game and they stuck it with the same old questing system.
I"m bored and feel like I'm forcing myself to play because I bought it...
I disagree, the more zones you explore the more diverse the mobs are some models are just creative and amazing and each new zone still blows me away, I'm in my 40's.
I've read the same Tera complaint posts here about these boring quests and I can always tell they don't have any time invested. This being that it's not as much about the lack luster quest chore more or less learning the new mobs combat tell tale signs. Some of areas you complete your quests along with mob ai's are challenging as hell, that I believe in my opinion is what it's all about.
My biggest gripes are non movement combat and the damn stam system. I know taking the least amount of damage is the ticket but when it happens who the hell wants to stand around a camp fire to regen.
There is a npc in almost every town that regan stamia and you can buy stamia pots from specity stores. Honestly unless its to charm or in dungeons i never used a single camp fire. Most of the time when i regan stamia i'm already back in town or i just afk at a outpost with a fire when i go use the rest room or something.
Yes it is beautiful, and the combat system is fun. But, it's the old saying of putting lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig. I'm not bashing it by saying this, but they have such a wonderful foundation for a game and they stuck it with the same old questing system.
I"m bored and feel like I'm forcing myself to play because I bought it...
I disagree, the more zones you explore the more diverse the mobs are some models are just creative and amazing and each new zone still blows me away, I'm in my 40's.
I've read the same Tera complaint posts here about these boring quests and I can always tell they don't have any time invested. This being that it's not as much about the lack luster quest chore more or less learning the new mobs combat tell tale signs. Some of areas you complete your quests along with mob ai's are challenging as hell, that I believe in my opinion is what it's all about.
My biggest gripes are non movement combat and the damn stam system. I know taking the least amount of damage is the ticket but when it happens who the hell wants to stand around a camp fire to regen.
There is a npc in almost every town that regan stamia and you can buy stamia pots from specity stores. Honestly unless its to charm or in dungeons i never used a single camp fire. Most of the time when i regan stamia i'm already back in town or i just afk at a outpost with a fire when i go use the rest room or something.
this is all known, pricey potions, scrolls, campfires and trips back to town for restore npc's just to top you off is still all an inconvience and sucks game time all I'm saying. It's cool you don't take damage, I do and like to keep the fight up and not break the mood by some sort of slow stam regen system.
Well, if you look at it from a different perspective, it's an elaborate way to make you take a break, whether it's for a short bio or just stretching your legs. I think they were looking for a way to make the players take these short breaks, that usually occur once per hour or more of gameplay, especially considering the original demographic this game was made for.
I don't think that standing up and streching your legs once every 1h, 1.5hrs is such a hindrance to gameplay. You can always alt-tab if you really don't want to stand up and just check your mail or your favorite web page for a minute or two.
I don't recall ever standing by a campfire unless I wanted to, through questing it takes a long time to go below 70 stamina, I rarely ever fall below that, and if I die its a 5 second trip to the cleric of restoration in every city, I also have arunic panceas so if I die in a dungeon and rez, insta full stamina.
The few times I actually do use a campfire if I have no other method it always motivates me to go do what i'd been putting off, things like going the washroom, grabbing a drink or snack.
Well, if you look at it from a different perspective, it's an elaborate way to make you take a break, whether it's for a short bio or just stretching your legs. I think they were looking for a way to make the players take these short breaks, that usually occur once per hour or more of gameplay, especially considering the original demographic this game was made for.
I don't think that standing up and streching your legs once every 1h, 1.5hrs is such a hindrance to gameplay. You can always alt-tab if you really don't want to stand up and just check your mail or your favorite web page for a minute or two.
I don't think that feature appeals to the western demographic at all. It seems like a pretty easy fix too.
Well, if you look at it from a different perspective, it's an elaborate way to make you take a break, whether it's for a short bio or just stretching your legs. I think they were looking for a way to make the players take these short breaks, that usually occur once per hour or more of gameplay, especially considering the original demographic this game was made for.
I don't think that standing up and streching your legs once every 1h, 1.5hrs is such a hindrance to gameplay. You can always alt-tab if you really don't want to stand up and just check your mail or your favorite web page for a minute or two.
I don't think that feature appeals to the western demographic at all. It seems like a pretty easy fix too.
There's the odd complainers but most people like it/don't mind it... I made a post why it's not a big deal just before yours.
On a side note it always adds life to the game when you run through one of the smaller zones and see a bunch of people afk by a fire or just sitting there while they go do something irl, sometimes people are even having conversations. They don't have to, there's a cleric right in the city but they do, myself included. When I go afk I usually go beside a fire or place on down myself... it's some kind of habit now lol.
Well, if you look at it from a different perspective, it's an elaborate way to make you take a break, whether it's for a short bio or just stretching your legs. I think they were looking for a way to make the players take these short breaks, that usually occur once per hour or more of gameplay, especially considering the original demographic this game was made for.
I don't think that standing up and streching your legs once every 1h, 1.5hrs is such a hindrance to gameplay. You can always alt-tab if you really don't want to stand up and just check your mail or your favorite web page for a minute or two.
I don't think that feature appeals to the western demographic at all. It seems like a pretty easy fix too.
There's the odd complainers but most people like it/don't mind it... I made a post why it's not a big deal just before yours.
On a side note it always adds life to the game when you run through one of the smaller zones and see a bunch of people afk by a fire or just sitting there while they go do something irl, sometimes people are even having conversations. They don't have to, there's a cleric right in the city but they do, myself included. When I go afk I usually go beside a fire or place on down myself... it's some kind of habit now lol.
I think your argument works both ways. In that respect, I would say it's so pointless that it should be removed. I don't think you "need" the campfires for the zones and towns to feel alive. Zone-wide chat means there's usually no shortage of conversation. There are plenty of people running around Velika as well as Lumbertown and all the other major outposts in each zone.
It's a good looking game, but you can definatly feel the limitations of the engine in the zone design. Also, it has some of the most bizarre art choices I have ever seen. You can start fighting a mob tthat looks completly bad ass but it comes at you with what appears to be a raging pack of homicidal tinker bells, or raggedy anne dolls. It's both very adult and completly fucking childish at the same time.
One thing I really can't stand about the graphics is the "depth of field" effect in the background. It really detracts from the over all look of the game. It's a shitty effect in every game that has it, but almost all of them allow you to turn it off. Tera doesn't.
1. it's a game, it's childish. All games are. There is nothing mature about judging a childrens thing in how adult it measures.
2. The DOF was bugging me too. It's actually not the DOF that was the problem however. It's the default 4x Anisotropic Filtering. Just go into S1Engine.ini and change maxanisotropy to 16 and save it. Cleared up my issues with DOF which was giving me motion sickness specifically.
The animations are neat too. When you jump, then the clothes fall up and down (not in one of those "one image for flying clothes, one image for clothes when standing still" ways, but smoothly animated). Some of the player models, after climbing a wall or something, wipe dust off their knees or catch their breath. And, as far as I met them now, the bosses are nicely animated too.
So I was killing some of the earliest actual outdoor group quest guys yesterday (before doing the mistake and trying to log into D3). And they're really well animated. When they lose their balance and slowly topple over while trying to keep standing. When they start to charge up some powers somehow and lighning sizzles over them. It's neat.
Sure, the progression and quest system is generic, but so far, the game is still fun for me.
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There is a npc in almost every town that regan stamia and you can buy stamia pots from specity stores. Honestly unless its to charm or in dungeons i never used a single camp fire. Most of the time when i regan stamia i'm already back in town or i just afk at a outpost with a fire when i go use the rest room or something.
this is all known, pricey potions, scrolls, campfires and trips back to town for restore npc's just to top you off is still all an inconvience and sucks game time all I'm saying. It's cool you don't take damage, I do and like to keep the fight up and not break the mood by some sort of slow stam regen system.
Well, if you look at it from a different perspective, it's an elaborate way to make you take a break, whether it's for a short bio or just stretching your legs. I think they were looking for a way to make the players take these short breaks, that usually occur once per hour or more of gameplay, especially considering the original demographic this game was made for.
I don't think that standing up and streching your legs once every 1h, 1.5hrs is such a hindrance to gameplay. You can always alt-tab if you really don't want to stand up and just check your mail or your favorite web page for a minute or two.
I don't recall ever standing by a campfire unless I wanted to, through questing it takes a long time to go below 70 stamina, I rarely ever fall below that, and if I die its a 5 second trip to the cleric of restoration in every city, I also have arunic panceas so if I die in a dungeon and rez, insta full stamina.
The few times I actually do use a campfire if I have no other method it always motivates me to go do what i'd been putting off, things like going the washroom, grabbing a drink or snack.
I don't think that feature appeals to the western demographic at all. It seems like a pretty easy fix too.
There's the odd complainers but most people like it/don't mind it... I made a post why it's not a big deal just before yours.
On a side note it always adds life to the game when you run through one of the smaller zones and see a bunch of people afk by a fire or just sitting there while they go do something irl, sometimes people are even having conversations. They don't have to, there's a cleric right in the city but they do, myself included. When I go afk I usually go beside a fire or place on down myself... it's some kind of habit now lol.
I think your argument works both ways. In that respect, I would say it's so pointless that it should be removed. I don't think you "need" the campfires for the zones and towns to feel alive. Zone-wide chat means there's usually no shortage of conversation. There are plenty of people running around Velika as well as Lumbertown and all the other major outposts in each zone.
1. it's a game, it's childish. All games are. There is nothing mature about judging a childrens thing in how adult it measures.
2. The DOF was bugging me too. It's actually not the DOF that was the problem however. It's the default 4x Anisotropic Filtering. Just go into S1Engine.ini and change maxanisotropy to 16 and save it. Cleared up my issues with DOF which was giving me motion sickness specifically.
The animations are neat too. When you jump, then the clothes fall up and down (not in one of those "one image for flying clothes, one image for clothes when standing still" ways, but smoothly animated). Some of the player models, after climbing a wall or something, wipe dust off their knees or catch their breath. And, as far as I met them now, the bosses are nicely animated too.
So I was killing some of the earliest actual outdoor group quest guys yesterday (before doing the mistake and trying to log into D3). And they're really well animated. When they lose their balance and slowly topple over while trying to keep standing. When they start to charge up some powers somehow and lighning sizzles over them. It's neat.
Sure, the progression and quest system is generic, but so far, the game is still fun for me.
Let's play Fallen Earth (blind, 300 episodes)
Let's play Guild Wars 2 (blind, 45 episodes)