Comments on: Re-trying Champions

By: Jeromai

Jeromai — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:35:58 +0000

I wanted to like it on Blood Moon weekend. I suffered through every patcher crash in the book, gave in to updating my ATI drivers to the most recent version, managed to make it past the login screen and play for a bit.

On queueing up for the zombie pvp instance, the client crashed and crashed irrevocably three more times on restarting the launcher and attempting relogging, necessitating a complete reboot and some repatching before login success once more.

That’s not to mention the times when it just seemed like the login or account server was just down, and no one could get through.

On the bright side, I quite enjoyed the public quest *ahem* open mission incorporation. The combat was quite fun, even if the builds threatened to look tank-magey – part of the appeal, I think, to see who can make the most gruesome self-sufficient build. Having four or more colors for each part of the costume creator was spectacular.

And I was in dastardly love with the bestial run animations and the acrobatics travel power animations plus its sheer flexibility and kiting ability.

The above kept me logging in during the free weekend.

Unfortunately, I lack any and all confidence in Cryptic as a reliable MMO provider to take up a subscription. Technical issues, balance issues, endgame issues and content issues. These are things you’d want addressed and addressed quickly and to a customer’s satisfaction if you’re paying a monthly fee. I don’t think they can do any of that in a decent amount of time.

Maybe in a year or two, if they haven’t crashed and burned yet, or turned their attention to STO.

By: Monday Morning quick thoughts « Hardcore Casual

Monday Morning quick thoughts « Hardcore Casual — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:40:45 +0000

[...] Aventurine is opening up EU to NA transfers soon in DarkFall, which should create some massive chaos on NA shortly. I know many players have been sitting on the sideline waiting for this event to get back into DarkFall, and it will be interesting to watch just how many new/returning players will be wandering around in Agon. Pure speculation here, but I think the plan is to see how transfers play out, release the expansion and stabilize it, and THEN release some kind of trial/buddy program. The next few months will be crazy enough in DarkFall without a trial, and when you do launch one you want your game in at least decent shape. At least, most studios do. [...]

By: Bronte

Bronte — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:13:19 +0000

My thoughts on Blood Moon:

http://arewenewatthis.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/bleeding-moon-or-bill-roper-is-lazy/

By: Randomessa

Randomessa — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:20:10 +0000

Yeah, this, basically. I hope CO can start to get its act together before people stop trying to even give it a shot in the first place, as I’ve had a blast in the time I’ve been playing it (downtime aside).

By: Feycat

Feycat — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:26:51 +0000

This is what my husband and I discovered this weekend. It basically plays like a “rip-off” of CoH (and yes, I’m aware of the CoH/NCSoft/Jack Emmert history, I’m a 5-year CoX vet ;) ) and the lag… wow. I wouldn’t pay money for a half-finished “improved” version of CoX when CoX is still improving itself and plays great.

By: Zubon

Zubon — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:19:54 +0000

It’s not a bad tutorial at all. It does its job well. It’s just not something I feel like running more than once in a day, and after it failed to save the first time, the urge to repeat it is not there.

By: Hess

Hess — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:11:59 +0000

In the end I had more fun playing with the character creator than I did actually playing the game. It’s not a terrible game imo but the appeal wore off rather quickly.

By: Sente

Sente — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:13:07 +0000

I don’t think the tutorial itself is bad necessarily, it does provide the basic game information and compared to many other MMOs I think it does a decent job.

The problem is rather that up until recently, you could not skip it. While I think the tutorial zone is ok, it is not the type of content that most people want to play multiple times. It is too basic for that.
And it takes too long time to consider it negliable (perhaps 30 minutes or more).

By: Thallian

Thallian — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:44:27 +0000

I tried it out too and was nonplussed, they need to work to get it to City of Heroes level, let alone surpass it.

By: We Fly Spitfires

We Fly Spitfires — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:36:07 +0000

My excitement for CO has all but gone recently. I dunno why, I’m just not that into the whole superhero MMO genre.