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[Wildstar] Dawn of the Final Day: 24 Hours Remain. GET. HYPE.

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  • BonepartBonepart Registered User regular
    Has anyone who played in the Beta tried to run Wildstar on 2G of RAM?

    Me and the Wife plan on giving it a try, but her computer only has 2G and the installer complained. Just wondering if I need to bite the bullet and stick a bit more in.

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  • UncleSporkyUncleSporky Registered User regular
    edited May 2014
    Bonepart wrote: »
    Has anyone who played in the Beta tried to run Wildstar on 2G of RAM?

    Me and the Wife plan on giving it a try, but her computer only has 2G and the installer complained. Just wondering if I need to bite the bullet and stick a bit more in.

    I was able to run it with 2 gig of RAM and 2 gig page file on the hard drive. This is a terrible idea and it is not pretty, but it DID work!

    Actually looking in the task manager the game was usually hovering around 1.5 to 2 gigs used.

    It crashed to desktop regularly but a) my computer was really below minimum specs and b) that was during the bad weekend when everyone kept getting dropped, so I wasn't sure what to blame.

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  • KyanilisKyanilis Bellevue, WARegistered User regular
    Bonepart wrote: »
    Has anyone who played in the Beta tried to run Wildstar on 2G of RAM?

    Me and the Wife plan on giving it a try, but her computer only has 2G and the installer complained. Just wondering if I need to bite the bullet and stick a bit more in.

    While I didn't try only 2gb of RAM personally, the idea is actually painful. Chances are (even if you get it to work) she's going to have a very rough time trying to play the game with that. Are her other specs good? If her other specs match the requirements then her bottleneck will most definitely be the RAM. If you can, you should add at least another 2gb in there.

  • 3cl1ps33cl1ps3 I will build a labyrinth to house the cheese Registered User regular
    Bonepart wrote: »
    Has anyone who played in the Beta tried to run Wildstar on 2G of RAM?

    Me and the Wife plan on giving it a try, but her computer only has 2G and the installer complained. Just wondering if I need to bite the bullet and stick a bit more in.

    If your wife is running windows vista, 7, or 8 disabling aero will help eek out a little extra oomph, too.

  • UncleSporkyUncleSporky Registered User regular
    Mainly I would say do not be afraid by that message complaining about your RAM and give it a shot anyway, as it should run. If you want to actually play it for real, you will want the 4 gigs, but at least getting the game running might give you some indication if your video card or processor isn't good enough either.

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  • Zombie HeroZombie Hero Registered User regular
    I also tried it on 2GB ram machine. It was okay, although had put all the levels at minimum and the game wasnt particularly good looking. I buckled and spent the 22 bucks to put 2gb more ram in there.

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  • kavkav Medic NexusRegistered User regular
    edited May 2014
    Nexus server just went online, no access but at least something turned green. and its off again...wishful thinking...

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  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    You Dominion saps need to get to work on that Holomark?

    Perhaps there's a decent way to go about this...like a nice poll.

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  • JAEFJAEF Unstoppably Bald Registered User regular
    I have conducted a poll. All respondents surveyed have responded that they want to roll on the server whose name is closest to JAEF.

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  • BeezelBeezel There was no agreement little morsel..Registered User regular
    We already decided on hammer with caution background I thought

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  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    THE DECREE HATH BEEN MADE

    LONG LIVE THE BEEZ

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  • CorehealerCorehealer The Apothecary The softer edge of the universe.Registered User regular
    THE DECREE HATH BEEN MADE

    LONG LIVE THE BEEZ

    AND LONG LIVE THE

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    Am I doing it right?

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  • Kai_SanKai_San Commonly known as Klineshrike! Registered User regular
    I think we should just call raz flykins

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  • MarauderMarauder Registered User regular
    edited May 2014
    So my launcher just did an update but no patch notes and no realms up.

    Edit: Nice new cinematic intro though!

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  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    I had to agree to an EULA

    It is happening

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  • Kai_SanKai_San Commonly known as Klineshrike! Registered User regular
    Agreeing to a EULA is only new if it's not blank for the first 24 hours :)

  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    Also, someone at Carbine hinted that Sadie Brightland survived the starting zone.

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    Raid boss.

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  • RadiationRadiation Registered User regular
    The starting area was only a setback!

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  • Regina FongRegina Fong Allons-y, Alonso Registered User regular
    Zombie Sarah Brightland gave me the notion to google search "pregnant zombie" and sure enough, there are some really disturbing (but creative) halloween/con ladies who had that idea.

    Arden Canelo
  • BeezelBeezel There was no agreement little morsel..Registered User regular
    so she'll either be evil or grafted to something awful that Deadeye will have to (have you) put down to introduce more artificial tragedy into his life.

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  • KarozKaroz Registered User regular
    Will that be before or after we kill his dog?

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  • RoeRoe Always to the East Registered User regular
    edited May 2014
    I had to agree to an EULA

    It is happening

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  • UncleSporkyUncleSporky Registered User regular
    Beezel wrote: »
    so she'll either be evil or grafted to something awful that Deadeye will have to (have you) put down to introduce more artificial tragedy into his life.

    Then Deadeye goes evil and is the next raid boss and Cree Summer becomes the next leader of the Exiles.

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  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    The intro cinematic is just the open beta trailer.

    Man, I think even the three-year-old cinematic might have been better.

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  • DarkewolfeDarkewolfe Registered User regular
    Marauder wrote: »
    My biggest peeve with Engineer (which is what I had originally wanted to roll) was the bots are super buggy to command. If they fix that I may go engy again. But having my bruiser bot just kind of sit there after i told him repeatedly to attack the thing that is eating my face got super annoying quick. Also, that their abilities take up one of your LAS slots was too much of a negative.

    Has there ever been a game, ever, where the pets weren't buggy? Serious question.

    What is this I don't even.
  • 5xad0w5xad0w Lower Earth OrbitRegistered User regular
    edited May 2014
    Redundant post. Somehow missed the one a page back.

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  • EgosEgos Registered User regular
    The intro cinematic is just the open beta trailer.

    Man, I think even the three-year-old cinematic might have been better.

    Maybe they felt the cinematic was too exile centric? *shrugs*

  • JAEFJAEF Unstoppably Bald Registered User regular
    Does this game have achievements? If yes, are they cross-account?

    Because I saw that gold wasn't shared across characters and thought that was colossally stupid.

  • CorehealerCorehealer The Apothecary The softer edge of the universe.Registered User regular
    Egos wrote: »
    The intro cinematic is just the open beta trailer.

    Man, I think even the three-year-old cinematic might have been better.

    Maybe they felt the cinematic was too exile centric? *shrugs*

    It's also three years old and isn't as indicative of the feel they want the game to have as a whole. In addition to just being Exiles.

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  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    Achievements are in, but I haven't dug into them that deep. They do have title rewards and such, but no idea about account-wide or not.

    Also, I feel like the current intro is way too serious in tone to be the intro to the game.

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  • JAEFJAEF Unstoppably Bald Registered User regular
    http://nerd.tanklikeagirl.com/2014/05/27/wildstar-addon-corner/

    This little addon article seems useful for people who haven't paid any attention to the game like me.

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  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    Account wide achievements are nice, but definitely something that isn't 100% necessary. Account wide gold also seems odd, although thinking about it I can't come up with any downsides, but I feel that there should be. Hrm.

    That addon article will be great though @Jaef. I avoided them in Beta but in WoW I fucking love addons. I assume Wildstar will be much the same in that respect.

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  • CorehealerCorehealer The Apothecary The softer edge of the universe.Registered User regular
    Account wide gold has one downside that I can think of off the top of my head; if a gold farmer snags your account, they can scalp the money faster.

    That is pretty minor though because they would have gutted all your characters anyways and the authentication security going up at launch now will make hacking accounts harder.

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    Corehealer wrote: »
    Account wide gold has one downside that I can think of off the top of my head; if a gold farmer snags your account, they can scalp the money faster.

    That is pretty minor though because they would have gutted all your characters anyways and the authentication security going up at launch now will make hacking accounts harder.

    I love the account wallet setup on GW2. I just wish event tokens went in it too, but...

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  • kavkav Medic NexusRegistered User regular
    Various stuff I have been consuming in the lack of playtime:
    1) Beginners Guide
    2) Toon Builder
    3) DPS Esper Guide
    4) Wildstar Wiki

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  • DaimarDaimar A Million Feet Tall of Awesome Registered User regular
    Since this is the source of all knowledge, is the two factor authentication for smartphones only or will they be selling a fob for those of us who are still way, way, way behind the curve?

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  • BeezelBeezel There was no agreement little morsel..Registered User regular
    it's using the google authenticator like GW2 uses I think

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  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    They did say that they will have location checks similar to their forums. So if the account is logged into from a new location, then before you can play you'll have to enter a code Carbine will email you.

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