05-12-2004, 04:15 PM
Hail fellow lurkers,
Gave it a shot today.
One thing first: Graphics are definitely good. It's nice to see such pretty realms, and the sky is brilliant...
Apart from that, I'm not much convinced. Played an Elementalist/Warrior. Connection quality wasn't fabulous I guess, but this game should be playable with a 50KB connection. Furthermore, I don't think that this all to modern 3D really is good for a game. At least not for my game, I should say B) . Must say that I didn't like it when Undeads attacked from behind.
Dying is very easy, and the interface isn't that self-explaining; they could have added a help page upon your first entering of the game (like DII had IIRC). Sometimes when joining a mission, I took a bit longer to load than the others obviously, because they were already fighting and dying when I entered the mission. When that happened I was swarmed by opponents at the mission entering point and died at once.
My char wasn't the melee fighter, yeah well, but I couldn't really do anything. I tried several spells, fire ones, I can't recall their names. They all did a bit of damage, but not enough. Furthermore I had to get close to foes for some of them, which mostly resulted in quick death. Sometimes I was able to flee and heal, though ;)
Interacting with others wasn't really possible (appart from heal other) or I may have missed it completely. Again, a tutorial help screen would have been helpful.
Walking around is still somewhat awkward, since you get stuck now and then and are put elsewhere when the game synchronizes you with the others.Above all, multiplayer games seem quite hard to me, maybe I'm just a noob... But these zombies are fairly hard to kill.
Played a singleplayer game for once, that was not bad, I even managed to kill a foe (whoa :o ). Well, I didn't manage to do it again, I somehow didn't find the option 'singleplayer'. Traveling on the map means loading for quite a time, and when you are there, next thing you know is that there are people over people everywhere trying to gather a decent party. If you embark one, eventually the quest may start (don't know what triggers it).
Perhaps it lagged to much on my laptop, but I think it's quite hard. Once my party tried a quest 4 times in a row and was defeated each time after about 1~2 minutes. Well.
In short: I like the great graphics, but I don't like the gameplay too much. But that could have been my crappy connection, or the fact that it's still a pre-alpha version.
Greetings, Fragbait
Gave it a shot today.
One thing first: Graphics are definitely good. It's nice to see such pretty realms, and the sky is brilliant...
Apart from that, I'm not much convinced. Played an Elementalist/Warrior. Connection quality wasn't fabulous I guess, but this game should be playable with a 50KB connection. Furthermore, I don't think that this all to modern 3D really is good for a game. At least not for my game, I should say B) . Must say that I didn't like it when Undeads attacked from behind.
Dying is very easy, and the interface isn't that self-explaining; they could have added a help page upon your first entering of the game (like DII had IIRC). Sometimes when joining a mission, I took a bit longer to load than the others obviously, because they were already fighting and dying when I entered the mission. When that happened I was swarmed by opponents at the mission entering point and died at once.
My char wasn't the melee fighter, yeah well, but I couldn't really do anything. I tried several spells, fire ones, I can't recall their names. They all did a bit of damage, but not enough. Furthermore I had to get close to foes for some of them, which mostly resulted in quick death. Sometimes I was able to flee and heal, though ;)
Interacting with others wasn't really possible (appart from heal other) or I may have missed it completely. Again, a tutorial help screen would have been helpful.
Walking around is still somewhat awkward, since you get stuck now and then and are put elsewhere when the game synchronizes you with the others.Above all, multiplayer games seem quite hard to me, maybe I'm just a noob... But these zombies are fairly hard to kill.
Played a singleplayer game for once, that was not bad, I even managed to kill a foe (whoa :o ). Well, I didn't manage to do it again, I somehow didn't find the option 'singleplayer'. Traveling on the map means loading for quite a time, and when you are there, next thing you know is that there are people over people everywhere trying to gather a decent party. If you embark one, eventually the quest may start (don't know what triggers it).
Perhaps it lagged to much on my laptop, but I think it's quite hard. Once my party tried a quest 4 times in a row and was defeated each time after about 1~2 minutes. Well.
In short: I like the great graphics, but I don't like the gameplay too much. But that could have been my crappy connection, or the fact that it's still a pre-alpha version.
Greetings, Fragbait
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