Did not get it to work myself. But I did get the new CE with the riding spider. That thing is pretty sweet and greatly enjoying Rifts.
I’ve been playing this for a few hours this week. It seems like a lot of little improvements have added up to a much more engaging game (especially combat, which seems more responsive). But damn this thing crashes a lot. I’ve sent more “error reports” to Rift in 3 days than I did to WoW in 3 years…and Rift doesn’t even have add-ons to screw things up. Also, anywhere with more than 10 or 12 people is basically a stuttering mess. Meridian is particularly awful.
They should really work less on gameplay now and work more on improving basic performance.
I’ve played this the last week but didn’t have the any crashes on my laptop & desktop. Totally agree with the performance. I have to enable the ‘low renderer’ for my laptop :<
I really liked all those nice little improvements over WoW but in the end, it only served to rekindle my interest in MMOs and i’m now back at WoW. However, i keep remembering Rift because of all those little things it did like AOE Looting, public quests/events, triple tradeskills and the class system.
It’s not even because of one being better than the other, it’s more that WoW has my old guildmates and they’re not playing Rift :(
Yeah, I’ve been giving this another whirl as a bardish rogue and it’s entertaining, I guess. PVE is still about as fun as watching paint dry, so I’m trying to stick to rifts, dungeons, and the world events and it’s working out okay.
You do indeed need a beast of a machine to run it at max settings, which is kind of annoying, but not that surprising.
I probably won’t be sticking around after the 30 days are up, especially with SWTOR so near.
I may give it an extra month to see what the endgame is like. I played at launch, but only got to the mid-40s. I’d like to see what high-level raiding and rifts are like.
Fortunately I’m in the ‘Fuck Star Wars’ camp, so I don’t have to worry about that. The next MMO of any interest to me is Guild Wars 2.
Actually, I’m really anxious to see the end game of Rift as I only got to around 35 my first go around. Currently I’m level 25 after 3 days of play, so maybe I’ll make it farther this time.
I was in the ‘Fuck Star Wars’ camp up until the release date was announced and then my crack addict MMO sensors went off and then I had to have it. :P
Something I’ve found that (knock on wood) has fixed most of my performance problems is forcing it to run DX9 graphics by adding “-dx9” to the shortcut target. It’s about 200% smoother now. I can even turn on AA without much of a performance hit, yay.
The endgame was a lot of fun for me. Expert dungeon boss fights were for the most part interesting. The raid encounters are definitely challenging. The downside for me, as a warrior, is that Trion seems to hate melee. There’s very few fights that don’t require a lot of movement. Calyx the Ancient and Konstantin in particular can die on a fire, eat a bag of dicks, or whatever other similar statement gets my feelings through.
Unfortunately for me, as with a number of other folks in this thread, none of my friends new (Drop Bears!) or old were playing so I stopped as well.
It’s more they ‘hating’ dps warriors, i’d say.
Seems that rogues are pretty OP now. And warrior tanking is just ez-mode. Also, rogues can tank raids now. And clerics too.
Man, the soul system is really great. Translated to WoW, I was running around with a Prot-Warrior that had the DK diseases(WTB Plaguebringer spell for my DK) and Paladin spells.
So what is end game PvP like in Rift?
For me, it would be getting steamrolled by a bunch of max-rank opponents :)
Eh, rogues were the preferred tanks of a number of high-end raiding guilds since Greenblight, due to not needing resist gear sets.
I can’t speak for endgame PVP since I’m not at endgame yet, but lower-level PVP is pretty fun. I’ve been playing mostly warfronts, but I’m on a PVP server (Seastone) and I’m itching to get to level cap and take part in the world PVPing that apparently goes on every night: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFoQg3ULjyk
I’ve read all the QQing on the forums about lack of balance at endgame. It’s been my experience that people who complain about balance are usually pretty bad at PVP.
Are you using the PvP soul? If so, where have you spent points in it?
Kal
Nah, I haven’t bought it yet. From what I understand the PVP souls don’t really come into their own until you start gaining PVP ranks at endgame. The first couple of tiers are supposedly pretty weak.
1.6 today. Patch notes.
I’m still playing on my free month, but it’s coming to an end soon so I’ll have to decide if I want to pay. I’ve been playing quite a bit though. Got my cleric up to mid-30s and been having quite a lot of fun in PVP and artifact collecting, surprisingly.
I’ll eventually re-subscribe to RIFT, but that 1-year WoW offer for a free copy of D3 is tempting me to return to WoW after many years away. Hmm, perhaps I’ll ask for it for Christmas!
Ultrazen
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I’ve gone back to playing wow lol. My rogue is sitting at 100k points away from rank 8 PvP, and I just can’t bring myself to do it.
End game PvP in Rift is absolutely horrible. There is such a huge gear gap between a rank 8 and a rank 1-5 that it’s laughable. You will literally die before a stun wears off, repeatedly, all day long, for months. The worst PvP of any MMO I’ve every played.
The sad thing is, the PvP could be great, and is great at certain levels. 1-49 are actually pretty fun for PvP.
Rift released way too many PvP levels far too early. The game should maybe be on about P3 right now instead of 8. They really shot themselves in the foot by making the level 50 PvP game 100% pointless for new players. Given how much of a grind it is to rank up in PvP, the thought of being fodder for months can’t be very appealing to many people.
Shame really, in many respects Rift was the best MMO I’ve played, it just fell down in a few major ways that sunk it for me.
kerzain
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Considering picking this up from the Steam sale. Believe it or not, this irks me enough to be one of the deciding factors for me: Are there a ton of gold spammers sending you tells all day long?
Nope. I usually, at most, received one per session right when I logged in, and simply clicked on the spammer’s name and then ‘Report Spam’ (or some such). User’s ignored and reported as a spammer.
Yeah, whatever methods they used to make sure I never saw those awful gold sellers worked fantastically.
