Category: Everquest 2

[Everquest 2] I had to restart my scout as I just could not stand the high elf character model. I rerolled as a Ratonga, which is a rat-type of small humanoid character.

Ratongas have sonic vision. I did not really see any benefit to this, but I only tried it a little bit. Not sure how that is supposed to work. I’m curious to understand the point of these skills.

I had a lot of graphics problems, locking up on various occasions. Rolling back my drivers helped with that, but as a side effect I lost the red text outline on mob names which designates they will attack if you get near. Kind of sucked to lose that. I suppose I will do a full uninstall of my drivers and start over to see if it helps.

Continue reading Trial of the Isle: Scout

[Everquest 2] Trial of the Isle is a free trial introduction to Everquest 2. It is free to play so why not go get it. You should at least get a taste of what you are missing, then you can rest easier at night with your gaming decisions. I’m not sure how long they are going to leave this up, but they should make it a permanent feature.

Honestly, I’ve never been a fan of Everquest. I tried it and did not like it. I was an Asheron’s Call boy instead, and I never looked back. I guess that is why I didn’t give EQ2 much of a chance. Besides, everything I read about it said it would be too grindy and too group-centric for me. Well, I’ll find out.

Continue reading Trial of the Isle: Mage

I was going to play a little Everquest 2: Trial of the Isle tonight and I found out there was a patch. Waited for that to load up and install. Now when I log in, it crashes. It appears that the new patch broke many of the Trial accounts. What do you want for nothing? A rubber biscuit?

\eq2\framework\render\src\VeShader.cpp (8095): m_pPixelShader

SSDD.

– Ethic

[Everquest 2] More game testing downtime (servers offline) led me to create a Froglok in the Trial of the Isle. I wanted to see if I could enjoy myself enough to justify the $30 box cost for a month of goofing off.

The intro movie is good, the style was sort of like a set sketches. I really liked the voice they chose and the visuals used. After watching that, my Froglok appeared on a ship sailing on the ocean. A Froglok looks just about how you might expect it, like a frog. It even hops when you move. Well, except for when you jump it seems. I don’t know if the animation is broken, but when I jumped the Froglok just levitated up in the air and then back down. Anyway, I really enjoyed the effect they made of sailing on a ship.

The captain greeted me and through him I learned some of the basics of how to move around and interact with the NPCs. He had me go talk to another person on the ship. Through interacting with these various NPCs on the ship, I learned all the basics I would need to get started.

Then, as I was just about to kill ten rats on the ship, I lost all power in my house. After the power came back on, my computer would not power up. Oh oh.

This morning before work I thought about the power strip. Sure enough, it was dead. My computer was saved from damage. Now I just need to get another one and I’ll continue my tales on the next testing downtime.

– Ethic

[EverQuest 2] I was at Fry’s Electronics today seeing what games I could get for $9.99. I love those “Value Priced” games. Most of them aren’t that great, but I get my $9.99 worth of entertainment out of them ($9.99 is cheaper than a movie in LA nowadays). I came across EverQuest 2 for $19.99. They had a ton of these things. Some poor purchasing manager probably over estimated the popularity of these things.

DC

It seems that Sony is screwing with it’s EQ2 customer base. I’m not shocked but WTF? Can you do anything more stupid than leading people to think something is possible in game, causing them to spend lots of time trying to solve it only to finally tell them they are wasting their time? This is the sort of thing that guarantees I cancel a game.

My brother was over a few days ago and I was showing him some of the Everquest 2 free trial. I wandered out into a lake and attacked a fish, which caused a whole school to attack me. Retreating to the safety of land, I turned to see the school of fish following me. I ran through the gate into the courtyard, fish are still behind me. Finally a crowd gathers and we kill them all off.

We are laughing our heads off at the stupidity of this. I had to try it again to make sure it wasn’t a fluke.

Fish that fight on land, oh yeah nice work there.

Everquest 2 is offering a free trial for Fileplanet subscribers. I am a pseudo subscriber (friends in high places, hehe) so I downloaded the free trial and I have the key in my inbox. I’ll check it out this weekend because that is what I do.

My biggest question is this comment: “No need to rush, you have up to a year to try a variety of character types and experiment with various play styles.”

So, um, I understand that I cannot ever leave the “newb” island, but I will be able to play on it for a year? What is up with that? Odd.