Originally posted by: tsolin01
Originally posted by: Canai
Holy shit. What a terrible piece of crap game. alt-tab = black screen of doom, character's faces are transparent unless I turn anisotropic filtering off entirely, which makes the whole game look like a glitchy mess, 10 minute waits to get into the server all my friends are playing on, shitty character models, nothing but mash the buttons till things die gameplay, glitchy objects everywhere stopping me dead in my tracks till I can spam jump enough to get out, invisible walls forcing you down a narrow set path, the list just goes on and on.
I'm really surprised - I've heard nothing but "OMFG THE BEST EVER!" about this game so far from just about everyone. It's worse than AoC was at launch. By far.
alt-tab doesn't black screen for me, it just takes a few seconds to come back up. If uncheck fullscreen you won't get that and it runs just fine. Transparent heads is a known issue with ATI drivers, you need to turn off Adaptive AA not anisotropic filtering. There's also an issue with AA/AF not working if you have specular lighting enabled. I have mine turned off and it works great, I get 50-90 FPS usually. There are so many servers out there without any queues to them, blame your friends for picking an overpopulated server.
Although it would have been nice for the game to be perfect out of the box, with a little tweaking here and there it's all good. I found that Tier 1 isn't the best indicator of good PvP as people are still learning how to play. Tier 2 has been good so far with Order and Destro being pretty even on my server, sometimes we destroy Order and sometimes Order rapes us... overall I can't stop playing...
Were you able to find a "Show FPS" command in the game, or are you estimating your FPS? I didn't really try too hard, but I wasn't able to find anything to show it.
Just for a point of video card comparison: I've got an 8800gt, an e2160 OC'd to 3.0 running Vista 64 with 4 gigs RAM. The game runs smooth as glass 99% of the time; the only time I've had noticeable slowdowns were in T2 RvR with more than probably 50 or 60 people on the screen at once. Even then, it was still playable. I'd probably in the upper-teens to low 20's.
I pretty much always play the underdog side in games like this, so for the first time ever I ended up on the good side with the prettified characters. Kinda bizarre. Anyway, I've got a level 18 Swordmaster on Azazel and I have to say I've been having a blast. Even at these levels the PvP is fun and interesting, with good rewards and incentives to do it.
An interesting sidenote about this game I haven't seen anyone mention: unlike most of these games, there's no real incentive to just power-level your way to 40 asap. The only way to do that is to grind PvE non-stop, and if you do that you'll hit level 40 with no Renown Rank worth mentioning and someone a few levels lower will most likely destroy you with the stat bonuses and such you get from Renown points. I've been focusing on trying to keep my level and Renown Rank about the same, leveling almost entirely through PvP and Public Quests. So yeah, the game doesn't feel like you need to hit max level for the real game to start. You're playing it the whole way through, you just get a bunch of cooler, more interesting skills at higher levels. Fun stuff. Also, you can use all the siege engines (including boiling oil!) and such at low levels so you don't feel like you're just waiting for the real content.
(Edit) Some more quick PvP thoughts: as a tank, I actually feel like I can tank in PvP. With a good healer or two on me I can live through getting focus fired by at least 5 or 6 people (Hold the Line! is freaking awesome, more on that in a sec) and I also feel like I'm able to protect my squishies well between Guard (you take 50% of the damage they take) and the snares, knockbacks, and actual collision detection. Collision detection is pretty damn fun, too. As a fun example, I was in Stone Troll Crossing yesterday when two Marauders were chasing around the Rune Priest who was healing me yesterday, right up until the part I pinned them both up against a rock and held them there for a few seconds until the rest of the Order team got there.
Also, more on Hold the Line! to get a sense of how the skills are useful and also encourage smart player and skill interaction. Hold the Line! gives you a 45% chance to dodge or resist any attack or spell made against you while the ability is up. It also gives everyone up to 40 feet behind you a 15% chance to do the same, which stacks up to three times so the three tanks charging at the front of a group give everyone behind them the same 45% chance to avoid an attack that they get. There's no cooldown and it drains 20 action/second out of the 250 Action Points you get. Awesome ability and very balance.
This was not a game I had high hopes for (quite the opposite, honestly) but it's really been incredibly fun. Hopefully it'll continue this way.