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[The Secret World] - Cthulhu is all over this
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Swords blood .... something. Swords for dps, blood to heal....
dark theres like 30 give aways this weekend?
You can use google translate to nab one off the foriegn websites.
Go check out -> http://www.reddit.com/r/thesecretworld/
Many redditor types are just collecting foriegn beta keys and giving them away. If you want in and all.
Edit: I think I got one from http://www.gamesaktuell.de/The-Secret-World-PC-200536/News/The-Secret-World-Wir-vergeben-10000-Beta-Keys-fuer-das-naechste-Beta-Wochenende-jetzt-sichern-883941/ but I am not 100% sure that it worked, does it say on the account page somewhere?
Ah, sorry.
Earlier this week they said they had 10,000. I didn't think they'd actually run through it all.
When I get the posts that the beta keys are up at the various places next week, I'll post in here.
hammers share most followed by elemental and pistol.
Via @tricon from this thread
My understanding is You want things that have the most similar stuff so that there lots to combo off of. So each thing you want the left most as its most compatable. And lower to the right.
Blades and blood are meant for each other....
I am interested in trying out some other combos though, you only really need one synergy for it to work so perhaps blade+chaos for some frenzy synergy that blood lacks.
So basically your friends shouldn't be trusted because they decided "lolfucktheNDA"
From what I've heard the PvP is decently fun, you can give it a go in the Fight Club over in London. And as for the game not being "Funcom'd" well, no MMO is bug-free. None of them, not a single one.
Most people in betas these days will at least give general impressions to their friends.
Pretty much WvWvW.
Inner circle has to be filled (to a point?) pre outer circle Outer cirle is where the more specialized cooler better stuff is.
The green and blue are pointing you at skills that play off each other.
This exists, there are two battlegrounds that act like... well, battlegrounds. They are just matches, but there's a third much bigger one that is persistent. Corehealer noticed it while dicking around with the UI last weekend.
If you need more information about the skills, read the post from SP3CTREnyc hydrainitiative.com/?page_id=13
Plus the site has 2 videos from the first polaris dungeon.
I managed to play through the Beta 2 weekend. For anyone on the fence, I'd say its worth a good look. Game reminds me of a pleasant cross between VtM: Bloodlines (flavour, atmosphere, good npcs dialog) and SWG (at launch - the freeform skills system). Still a bit rough around the edges but the basic workings and gameplay are fun indeed. A nice breath of fresh air.
I did not get into the crafting myself. I love the voiceovers and design and the questing is interesting and doesn't seem grindy. I did most of the quests in Kingsmouth that were available until a little voice told me to stop and save something for launch (so I left out the airport and junkyard area quests).
My main quibbles are:
- game needs chat bubbles. The game has a minimal UI and really needs attention to the screen, not a chat box.
- spell animations are a bit stiff and unpolished. Some work here is needed. Not a huge deal breaker, though.
- better tooltips on how abilities affect your character, some of them are a bit vague or don't show the right stats (such as stacks of an effect increasing damage).
- a bit more in the combat physics - shotgun blasts and stuff don't feel terribly visceral.
Blood magic + blades = pretty darn awesome. I wish I could find a firearm set that worked as well as a tank/heal set. Any recommendations?
London is very atmospheric. Any in-game benefit for finding those achievement glowies scattered about? I wasn't able to determine.
Overall, I'm still undecided on faction, guess it really depends on who the hell is on late nights/Pacific. Seems the population runs on Eastern or Greenwhich and the West Coast is hosed.
Anyway, I'm pre-ordered. And I have a Beta 3 weekend key, just hoping they open up another location both to 1) dispell any Tortage fears and 2) so I don't exhaust my newbie experience in Kingsmouth.
I did not like double healing with assault+fist or double tank with hammer+chaos. Seems for me you can get more out of it with other combinations even if the have good synergy.
BTW I hope you all know that the crucible in London works like the powerhouse in champions online.
First pickup your first weapon and then talk to the quest npc after that you can enter the room again, anytime you wish. You can get your 2nd weapon this way and more important you can train and untrain anything there.
I am digging blades and blood.
geforce.com
I has a sad.
I was *one* day off from getting the "participated every day during the campaign" achievement.
COME FORTH, AMATERASU!
l3cdn.funcom.com/funcomportal/pdf/investor/2012/funcom_1Q12_presentation.pdf + forums.thesecretworld.com/showthread.php?p=811233#post811233
BTW beta keys from geforce.com the-secret-world/deals-promotions will work for the June 15th weekend, you can ignore now the June 1st date, confirmed by a moderator (Lumartist)
I guess they realized that the game needs a little more bug fixing and retuning, can't complain about that.