All Posts by sanicek

Some good and clever videos here.

...how come noone posted rickroll yet?

I will be spending it in work, actually volunteered as it gives me an excuse to skip extremely annoying activities like decorating the christmas tree or preparing the feast. I used to dislike christmas, but now I kinda like it, nothing really changes in my daily life, but there is less work to be done at work and for better pay due to holiday bonus.

Every complex RPG is plagued by bugs it seems, I remember Fallouts in particular, which were basically uncompletable without patches. NWN 2 had its share of gamebreaking bugs, some could be circumvented using scripts, setting flags, killing NPCs, etc, some not. But anyway, since Baldur's Gate one of the loading tips was always: Save often and in DIFFERENT  SLOTS.

Edit: Also, always patch your game to the latest version immediately after install before you start playing, vast majority of bugs disappeared from newer NWN2 versions.

Well, based on the news of how the publishers are distributed, it seems EU got split to 4 groups, France, german speaking, norhtern EU, the rest. First 3 being handled by 3 diffrent distributors on same server pool and the last one being handled by Acclaim along with rest of the world. It's far from being UK apart from other EU. If you look on all the countries Acclaim is going to handle, you may find out it is quite possibly going to have more EU players than any of the previous groups, so I really hope Acclaim will also have EU based servers.

I played WAR until the end of the free month and go to late 30ies of pve&rvr rank. The game was a blast first two tiers, then gradually got tedious. I endured hoping ORVR in the end was worth it, however that too proved to be less fun than expected. Also on EU Eltharion which was THE server for RVR. Game had many good ideas, but the whole execution and some of the design mistakes made it boil down to scenario grind or bland ORVR repeated ad nausea. Add in missing polish features and the fact it was plagued by technical problems its no woder its where it is now. I decided not to subscribe and give it some time for a possible second chance, but what I am reading on the forums everywhere only confirms my decision to leave. I guess its going to be the same fate as AOC.

I have to agree with Lobotomist here, but possibly that is not a completely bad thing. If the story and gameplay experience will be on par with single player games and the main satisfaction factor as opposed to mindless grindy repetition in WOW and other linear grinders where the gameplay is only obstacle in way to rewards, it might be a step to the better.

A step from combat focused boring grind to story focused gameplay. A different direction than going the sandbox way altogether, but we will see if it can be done. And if someone can do it, Bioware can.

WOW with glowbats.

I'll be there.

Free month, WOW WOTLK patch, everyone crashing to desktop like crazy since this mornings patch.

Well I currently play a DR zealot and the damage potential (its all AOE mind you) is second only to sorceress on destro side. Brother plays shaman and when I have him covering my back with healing I can wreck havoc to entire order groups, leaving half dead remains to be picked up and finished by single target DDs. And of course its still possible to be a fully capable healer with a simple tactics change.

If the lags are mostly during RVR, keeps etc, use Buff Throttle:

http://war.curse.com/downloads/war-addons/details/buffthrottle.aspx

wasd + cone of fire (swing/cast/whatever) +pvp = fps analogue pvp = circle strafing

As long as the satisfaction in MMOs comes more from the reward side of things (gear) than from the actual gameplay fun, this will be an issue. I'm a long time semi AFker in WOW, playing on one screen and just watching series or browsing or whatever on second one. If end game at max rank turns to renown rank grind for gear, I can see myself doing the same in WAR again.

its not that easy, now you have to wait for an email and confirm, thats 2 more steps when any of the goatesque systems can fail, mostly I'm really curious when will the emails arrive.

Will this happen for other parts of the body too if regulary surrounded by loose boundaries? So that's what these guys are doing!

I received the codes from EA about 3 hours ago.

I would suggest checking junk/spam folder as it got filtered as such for me, maybe people with more restrictive settings won't even receive it as it gets deleted as spam :)

Originally posted by Majestico

If you have not already, go old school and play Baldur's Gate 1 and 11 (Baldur's Gate 11 is argueably the best rpg ever).  Also, for a great storyline and plot, you cannot go wrong with Planescape: Torment.

Just remembered another older rpg that was little known but also excellent (and you can pick it up for next to nothing), a game called 'Divine Divinity'.

Agree on the Planescape Torment, very very good RPG, sadly underrated and less know for some reason, imo better than BG or IWD series.

I have to agree with most of the posts before, I expected something more tbh. It' fun for a while, but the interesting parts are the editors and the possibilities, I found the gameplay lacking and sometimes painfully prolonged by unskippable cutscenes.

Just got email from EA store:

"Good News!

As you may have noticed, EA Store UK are now offering Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning at £34.99 instead of £39.99. We are aware that you have currently pre-ordered at a higher price 8211; but don8217;t worry you will be charged at £34.99."

Well, as I already paid by paypal, I wonder... anyway, I dont care that much bout the price, just hope I get the codes in time, still, nice touch.

I think you are basically asking for solution on behavior resulting from human nature, which is simply not possible. Its in us and where better to reflect our nature than on an anonymous internet forum.

Asking for solution to forum flaming is kinda akin to some UN guy thinking "There's so much violence and wars going on, we need some kind of serious solution for this." ... I don't know dude, people been at this for millenia.

Any piracy protection is gonna be cracked in a matter of days at most and Spore's one wasn't anything revolutionary afaik, same DRM was applied to previous titles, ie Mass Effect.

Well at least there is something to entertain me untill WAR :)