Blazing the Trail to Horizons

ianubisi

Against my better judgement, knowing the horrors of a MMOG launch, I purchased Horizons last night.  I definitely experienced most of the account setup and server login/authentication horrors.  It was pretty bad, getting worthless error messages and even some scary ones (there was a period of time that the servers replied to all users with "your IP address is blocked", which doesn't sound good).

But after the dust settled and I was able to finally log in with a new character, I have to say the game performed admirably well.  There was very little internet lag, very little video lag (presuming I didn't try to amp out the graphics on my modest Ti640 ADM2.1 1GBRAM machine), and very few noticeable bugs.  By the same token, I can definitely see how people were complaining about the rather bland nature of encounters.  There isn't much variety, and there seems to be a bit of a linear approach to what you should be attacking, with maybe 1 or 2 variations on mob type.

I haven't had enough time to provide any kind of a solid review yet, as I've barely scratched the surface with character development, exploration, and testing the limits of the game.  But I have to say the underlying game has a TON of promise.  They'll very likely go through months of tweaks, nerfs, and class balancing...every MMOG does...but I think they've got a very solid foundation to work on.  I'll post my thoughts on the game after a month when I've had a chance to really get my fingers into it.

I really was on the line on whether to buy this now or wait a few months for the dust to settle.  I definitely would say to others it may be worth a bit of wait while Artifact deals with the crush of players trying to enter the game.  But from what I can see the game itself if pretty solid.

Kiamde

Well the servers have been down for the last 2 hours. Its pissing me off...

Kiamde

cedori

In all honesty, you would have been better off waiting a month or 2.  As of right now, the webpage to log into hasn't been letting people get in for over 7 hours now, not to mention other problems once ingame.

ianubisi

I traded a little stability for the chance to get in on the action in the early going.  I'm a bit too much of a MMOG junkie to let the chance go by

I figured that if I could suffer through the AO release, I could probably get through this one.  So far, minus yesterday's login problems, the game has performed admirably well.  I left one of my characters logged in all night last night.  I was amazed to come on this morning and see he was still in the world. 

Obiyer

Yeah, there was a problem with that. Like last night to many people tried to log on resulting in a Error:Unknown delima.

-Obiyer

Clever_Glove

ianubisi thank you for your first impression, I'd like to encourage others to do the same.

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