All Posts by Caldrin

Logged in with my free time sony gave all the old accound for xmas..

I must say there does appear to be a lot more to do and a lot more people playing.. it still has bugs, have only came accross graphics bugs at the moment, trees vanishing, trees coming through houses, snow inside.. so on...

the game runs better than it used to :)

This game should have been at this state on release it migth have kept a nice player base then.. sadly with all the new games on the horizon, POTBS, WOW, Conan I am unsure if people will stay..

I know i wont stick around after my free time is up, maybe if it was cheap but my cash will be gonig on POTBS for a while :)

there have been quite a few films that have not been quite as much of an action film as they made it out to be..

but there we go..

I dont think sueing SOE would get very far.. its a silly idea.. ah im gonna stop here i can see how this could go no forever..

its a sad thing in our day and age that people can sue for anything they want.. even silly little things..

cool.. i guess this means i can sue the company behind that film i watched the other day that really sucked...

I think ill be playing pirates of the burning sea when thats released... lets just hope its not pushed back

nope sorry Matrix is a pay monthly game.. so you have to pay to play..

both

perfect world looks like another L2 clone using the unreal 2 engine... plus its asian so its prob a grind fest... Nearly all asian mmorpg games i have palyed have all been a lot liek L2..

OK I could be wrong with Perfect World I may download it and check it out as its free...

Entropia is skill based.. tho its not everyones cup of tea... I oput $10 in last week and i have already made double that from jsut hunting. Anyway thats skill ased with player housing and cities, quite a big world to explore..

http://www.entropiauniverse.com/en/rich/5000.html

Im sorry. But your not very realistic if you think buying a sword will be any cheaper

yeah your right about that i was just being silly..

the game is really fun tho.. yeah sure you do have to put $10 maybe $20 at the msot in each month but I think its worth it...

so mi gonna be sticking around for a while.. only issue i can see at the moment is lack of quests..

yup yup no tweaking or anything .. but when you get frame rate drop in games there aint much you can do about it.. plus at the end of the day your all jsut waiting for those 3 nice red lights to pop up..

PCs are capable of so much more than a console its silly really..

now dont get me wrong i have consoles as well.. its good for fun when u have ya mates around and have a few beers or somthing.. but they are nothing compared to PCs now let alone PCs in a few months time..

You dont have spend a penny if you dont want too, will just take you a bit longer to get a wepaon.. So yes this game is totally free to play.. yes its hard but if you save up enough for a sword you wont need to sink money into ammo.

Plus this is just as much fun as any other sci-fi mmorpg out there at the moment and reminds me a lot of swg pre-cu..

as for not understanding everything about the interface that is kinda my fault as I never read anything about it.. as soon as it was expalined the interface is fine.. and very easy to use.

I think maybe with the delay with AoC players woh started playing VG to pass the time might stick around longer, and if SOE keep on liek they have then yes this game is going in the right direction.. it just needs more players

Started playing last night.

Was easy to download and setup an account for free, updated the game pretty quick as well. I had tried this a few years ago when it was first released but was distracted by SWG at the time.

1. Character Creation - You can change quite a bit of what your character looks like, slide bars for most of the main parts, size, wheight, face, hair etc.. lots of options so i was quite happy with that. Sure its nothing compared to EQ2 or anything but the game is a bit older.

2. Game engine and interface - Right so I started the game up, the graphics are looknig a bit dated but remined be a bit of SWG infact some things where more details than SWG. I had everything turned up and the game ran without any issues. The interface seemed your standard type.. Chat box, skill box at the top, map and health bar bottom right, option bar top right. There was a breif tutorial telling you the basics and then tips seemed to be available everytime you did somthing new. I checked out al lthe different screens, from the invetory to the character skill sheet all seemed easy to use and get too.

3. In game - Ok then so you start out with nothing but a orange boiler suit and i mean nothing else, no cash, no wealons. This is mainly because they want you to buy ingame credts, $10 will get you 100 in game creds, there are a few other things you can do to get cash but it takes ages. You can gather sweat from animals or somthing but I have been told you can be doing that for a long time before you save up for anything.

Moving around seemed real bad to start with, it was WSAD or so I thought, but A and D where strafe and the mouse would not turn the screen :(, so i asked on open chat and was soon told how to get it working properally, need to go into options and turn on aim mode, now the mosue would turn the screen if i hit space, soon got the hang of movement. Also as I was chatting on the open chat someone offered to mentor me and provide me with a weapon and ammo :) hell i could not turn that down. So the guy met up with me showed me the ropes, he took me out to kill my first mobs hehe :), I equipped the pistol he gave me and started to attack. The combat seems quite basic at least to start with, its aim and fire with the mouse, could not see any special attacks or anything tho im not sure if you get any at a later stage. Your skills go up the mroe you use a weapon, please note this game si not LEVEL based, you just get better at skills the more you use them, i think some of the later weapons require you to have certain professions but im not sure there.

After killing a few mobs the guy ran me to another small town type thing, wel lran me half way there then we transported to the nearest revive point, you can do this whenever you like it makes it easier to get around the place as this world is massive and takes you ages to run anywhere. You can transport directly between cities but this costs credits around 60 by all accounts. At that point i had to log off to eat hehe.

Came back about half hour later and started to explore the enw small town, sadly I had ran out of ammo kills mobs befroe and my loot I had collected was not enough to buy any ammo.. well I was just short of being able to get an extra 100 clip, so I decided to buy some credits.

I went to their website and brought $10 worth of credits 100 in game :). I logged back into the game and my credits where there in my inventory :) very good hehe. Anyway i set out and got myself soem new weapons, got a basic rifle, basic 2 hand sword and some basic armour now i looked the biz hehe :) oh yeah got 1000 ammo for my rifle and my pistol :), I also got a med back and a load fo tools for mining and stuff :). Anyway off i went to kill and kill i did for about an hour got quite a few skilsl to rise up as well as my medic skills witch is somthing you wil lwant to do i guess. All in all from the loot i got I made jsut over 10 credits enough to buy an extra 1000 ammo clip for my rifle, I had used only 500 of the last clip. My advise here when starting out save up for a sword as you wont need to buy ammo all the time witch is gonig to me a money sink i would have thought.

Time to explore wandering around i found a few small out posts and then I came accross a player city well i assume it was as when i entered it said it was owned by a group of players or somthing :) first building I came too was a massive mall and i mean massive makes the SWG ones look tiny.. got myself a new sword there but there was so much more, auctions, crafting stations, many many many player shops.

Ok ill stop gonig on now this game seems like it is gonig to be fun reminds me a lot of SWG with the palyer cities but is much bigger so im gonna stick around for a while. People alway go on about having to buy credits to start with, but the way I look at it the game is free to play and free to download.. even if you spend $10 a month on credits thats less than what you usually pay for a game.

I have not taken a look at the crafting system but it looks good alost as good as SWG crafting was back in the day, the world seems massive so is gonna take a long tiem to explore. OK look can be hard to coem accross but they dont want people getting ritch from looting.

People you need to try this game out.. anyone who liked pre CU SWG will like this game, OK the combat is basic but everything else is awesome..

gutted and happy i guess...

if they need the extra time to develop then they have fonud a few bugs they need to work on.. its a long time i was hoping for a release before xmas but there we go..

Interesting note: Most of the animals I saw in the water as I was traveling around were land animals. Apparently they don't know how to prevent land animals from roaming to the bottom of the sea.

well thats bloody easy.. i have messed around with a few mmorpg engines and you usually just map out a zone where they can go.. problem with that is htat when you pull a mob it stops at the edge of its territory.. but there are ways to program exceptions...

its a shame a real shame the idea behid d&l is really good..

no idea yet too soon in the development stage..

i think they are still very much in the design phase.. on paper that is

lol

yup thats the tech demo for the engine..

their game crysis is out in november i think..

http://www.vigilgames.com/

nope not relic from what i have read..

i belive Vigil are on the case...