08-29-2008, 09:07 PM
Quote:One reason I think our plan will work is the way WAR does classes, each race has unique classes, and because of this you can roll both sides on any server. There are no PVP/PVE servers, since its largely a players play style that will determine how much of each they can get into.
This will not necessarily be the case. Mythic is still deciding on how to handle the two rulesets they will have, Open and Core. Its likely that you won't be able to have both Order and Destruction characters on the same server. We'll have to see how that plays out during the Open Beta.
Quote:Also the AI at this stage was silly at best, mobs would run around buildings to get me, rather than turn around, and aggro ranges were non-existent it seemed on some mobs.
The AI wasn't silly. It was broken. Something they did in setting up the servers for the Preview Weekend broke the NPC AI (and the Pet AI). They admitted this, and are working to correct it before the Open Beta.
Quote:Still it looked good, the animations that were in (I think many are still missing) were impressive. Since I was playing on a system that was clawing at the minimum reqs, I had a few fun errors, but once I got the settings right it looked nice. Nice looks aren't enough though, D&D online also looked beautiful, but the gameplay was unbearable to me.
Yep, they are still adding animations. The graphics for the Closed Beta client, and the client used during the Preview Weekend, are still being worked out. Supposedly there will be significant improvement before Launch. Have to wait and see on that.