Do you still have to download Frontiers from Fileplanet, or is it on the patcher now?
I’m guessing door #1. Frontiers just went live on Tuesday, and I haven’t heard anything about it being folded into the free trial yet. Check camelotherald.com for that sort of info.
It is too big (~130mb). It will never be put on our current patchers.
-Walt
It is too big (~130mb). It will never be put on our current patchers.
-Walt[/quote]Will it be boxed in with DAoC Platinum?
Ah hell, I didn’t realize that there would be a combined DAOC/SI/TOA pack so soon. It would make more sense for me to buy that than to get SI and TOA seperately… If I snag the platinum pack, could I upgrade a basic account with them, or would it have to be used to start a new account?
Also, does the platinum pack come with a free month? and would you get that free month if you could use it to upgrade a basic account?
I’m not sure about the upgrade process, but I do know that the platinum pack is only $27 shipped from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00025ALAW/qid=1088033418/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl63/102-8427616-2364152?v=glance&s=videogames&n=507846
It’s probably a time-limited deal, listed retail price is $50.
Ok, I rolled up my Runemaster on Merlin/Midgard. Name’s “Turnhoff.” I’m a kobold. Send me a tell!
(btw: the servers are going down again from 4pm-6pm EST to fix some lag problem)
I’ll be on from around 7 or 8 EST until I go to sleep. Do a /who BURN to find guildmembers online, I’m not sure if they are aware of the impending influx of Qt3ers yet so you may not get much out of them. My thane is “Strokerwins”, I’m a dwarf and I pretend to be a healer.
This is a blatant lie. As I wrote elsewhere the new BGs up to level 44 are mostly a new toy for already experienced players:
1- Not enough players to fight to cover all the ranges up to level 44 (and here awaits the great idea of instancing the BGs to make them completely server-undependent, so you balance the numbers and also always offer players to fight).
2- No way to earn equipment and money without a massive grind.
Obviously, you cannot expect to do anything in PvP without more than good equipment and money to afford spellcrafting at latter levels. It’s a very good idea with a broken implementation: a commonplace in DAoC’s design.
About the rest of the game is hard for me to comment without filling fifteen pages so I’ll just say that they could have done a lot better. But this is again about me being never satisfied.
The worst part of the game is the boat code and I expected this. I’ve never seen in the game a more bugged and unpolished system. You have these laggy boats moving awkwardly, melting together, crashing against shores and flying on the air. In general everything happening in the water is the worst part of the game and I still wonder why they haven’t simply planned everything on the ground since they knew that the implementation of sea-related stuff was horrible.
About the rest it’s still too soon to judge. I’ve played for about six hours the first day and four the second and I really wanted to log off to go play WoW. My experience has been terrible from the “fun” point of view and not considering the technical difficulties:
Basically 90% of those six hours has been about swaying in front of a keep to wait I don’t know who or what. 8% was about riding on hyperlagged bugged boats. 1% running freely in enemy territory till a random tower to attack. And the last 1% about getting zerged by 80+ enemy players (and here the client dies due to lag and the server crashes).
This is still not enough since I think a lot will change. Peoples leading are clueless and I expect the “fun” to improve considerably with the time. That’s why it’s too early to judge how consistent is the improvement over the old RvR. For now I can say that I had more fun with the old flavor, mostly because I already played all this in beta so I don’t “suffer” the “ohh, shiny” effect of who sees all this for the first time (like the players astonished about the new boats before discovering how laggy, bugged and unfun they are).
For me the very best thing with this patch has been the full respec. I was able to forget my biggest mistake about expecting Mythic to fix earth wizards. Now I’m full fire and I can forget the nightmare.
About the rest I say that, if the RvR is improved (I think it is, and a lot), I’m still not able to enjoy all this.
Let’s not consider the festival of crashes and the twelve second of delay during battles, since I expect Mythic to fix this soon. The real problem is that I simply cannot play. The client run worst than shit on my pc and I’m starting to really believe it’s just a personal plague since I’ve tested different hardware with no changes and other players seem to not have my problem. As I log in the game the framerates are acceptable but the performance dies soon due to the memory leaks and after a bit I have a yellow mark (means less than 10 FPS) even looking at an empty screen. Think when I have two huge zergs, a level 10 keep plus various siege engines and spell effects on screen.
The conclusion is that the expansion could be the best game ever, but I’m not and won’t be able to enjoy all this due to the client problems.
Anyway, the game has still huge problems and I consider “New Frontier” a collection of missed opportunities and some bad ideas (sea, death system, population balance and rewards tied to keep ownership). Still, it’s an excellent expansion unmatched in the market.
Mythic has demonstrated that these game can be completely transformed to grow in a positive direction and continue to compete easily with brand new products. Not only, they demonstrated that the “age” of their game isn’t a problem but a solid strenght and an advantage over others.
The work they put in supporting and expanding the game is unmatched by far. I see a huge gap on this aspect between them and any other company, even the biggest ones.
It is too big (~130mb). It will never be put on our current patchers.
[/quote]Will it be boxed in with DAoC Platinum?[/quote]
Yes, it is.
-Walt
Wow. Way to make yourself instantly come across as an asshole to someone who was making an accurate statement about the game.
Now it’s my turn
Nobody cares. Go away.
You should quote better:
This is a blatant lie.[/quote]
“Without ever leaving PvP”. That’s a lie, however you put it. DAoC is an item-based (and money) game. There’s no way to have access to that part without involving yourself in PvE. And since I know the game quite well I can also say that you’ll have to grind a whole lot to afford the equipment you need. BGs are a digression over the standard PvE, not an undependent path.
You could not like how I write and present my ideas but in this case I simply explained a fact. Not a point of view.
HRose, perhaps you would have a better experience on the European servers?
bullshit. You could ebay cash, have it given to you, have it from another character, whatever. The point is you could XP there given the equipment.
Heck, if people still had it, you could get free suits of epic armor!
good point, I remember giving mine away to a guildie when I was playing my warrior.
This is a blatant lie.
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But this is again about me being never satisfied.
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Just out of utter curiosity, have you ever considered remembering the latter of these two statements, realizing that that’s the case, and simply shutting the fuck up?
I have plenty of things I think I’m right about that I’ll get into conversations about at the drop of a hat, but I at least try to realize that there’s some point at which I’ve said everything I have to say, multiple times, and simply decide that folks who still don’t see things in the one true and proper way simply aren’t going to ever do so. I generally at least try to shut up at that point. I would really, really like to suggest you look into the possibility of doing the same.
I generally tend to find HRose’s posts interesting. He has some good ideas and seems to really have a good discriminating view of the inner workings of most of the MMOs.
An aside: I did the math on a friend of mines combined “played” time in DAOC recently to try and break the addictiion.
6months * 30days * 24hours * ~9.00 hr = $38,880 if he’d just worked a part time job instead.
Boy seriously needs an intervention.
The big issue with NF now is lag and stability. The frontier zones died at least twice last night, usually when there were some fairly massive keep siege action going on (i.e., the fun stuff :)) The servers are being updated yet again this morning to deal with that, in addition to limiting things like the number of Animist and Theurgist pets in a given radius to try to alleviate the clogging. The lag and stability is fine at first then both slowly degrade until the zones drop, at the moment. Obviously Not Good, but also obviously something Mythic is working on.
Cheating/exploiting is still an issue it seems. Last night a Mid group got a player into an Alb tower (Percival, Bold 3) through the door before the door was brought down; this isn’t supposed to be possible. That player took the keep, and then miraculously the keep went from level 3 to level 10 instantaneously…quite suspicious and many appeals were filed, but to what avail I know not. But this sort of thing happens occasionally and may well be a result of exploiting lingering glitches in the NF update.
Fixed that this morning. As I understand the issue, was not the player doing anything suspicious, just a mis-sync on the server side.
-Walt