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Which is why it needs a high speed CPU over cores.
Though when I fixed my settings to bring my 3 core CPU back to 4 core (its an old AMD Phenom II that was "sold" as a 3 core but you can open the 4th) my performance improved.
The truth is nothing ever makes sense. But you will likely max out anything GPU related on a much cheaper graphics card while needing a pretty high speed processor to have the best experience.
Then there is also the fact that with all the loading times, a fast SSD will also be a pretty significant boost. The game seems to do lots of loading even after you are out of a loading screen, which keeps the framerate down till its done. At least for me, I can enter any location at 15-20 fps then after a little while I am 40+.
And finally, there is some hideous memory leak in arenas in our version for some reason. If you remember me complaining about losing fps to the point of hitting 6 fps on the last few betas, you have to periodically leave the arena lobbies and reenter to prevent that.
42,403+ names reserved in North America.
26,621 names reserved in Europe.
I think they sold a lot of founders packs.
21.04% Blade Master
16.80% Assassin
16.12% Force Master
14.54% Kung Fu Master
10.63% Summoner
10.46% Destroyer
10.41% Blade Dancer
Also, Hilariously when name reservation launched someone took the name "NCSOFT" (which somehow wasn't on a banned list) and got their name changed to "Bad Doggy" after the first maintenance.
42,403+ names reserved in North America.
26,621 names reserved in Europe.
I think they sold a lot of founders packs.
21.04% Blade Master
16.80% Assassin
16.12% Force Master
14.54% Kung Fu Master
10.63% Summoner
10.46% Destroyer
10.41% Blade Dancer
Also, Hilariously when name reservation launched someone took the name "NCSOFT" (which somehow wasn't on a banned list) and got their name changed to "Bad Doggy" after the first maintenance.
50.46% Mushin (Hahahaha, the queues)
10.52% Jiwan (Apparently both the "RP" and "Brazilian" server)
09.27% Poharan (Our lovely server, also one of the two unofficial "Oceanic" servers the other being Mushin)
07.09% Old Man Cho
06.21% Master Hong
04.80% Soha
03.91% Yehara
03.63% Iksanun
02.30% Hajoon
01.81% Juwol
Obviously, the numbers will be different once the actual game launches and people fill in. But seriously, it looks like Mushin, being the 'popular' server, will have half of the game population unless they close it off.
Looks like Poharan was a good choice. It's clearly not going to be dead, but it's not going to be omg crowded.
Plus, our server is named after a midget evil villain with twintails, carrying a giant minigun twice her size, with two huge giant tiger pets.
:redface: ... Didn't realize this was going live TODAY and not live TONIGHT. Gonna quickly update the OP with our faction choice and then finish the update proper tonight.
Kai_SanCommonly known as Klineshrike!Registered Userregular
Yeah I expect a lot of spillover into poharan once people see how bad getting into mushin will be.
I mean based on the math before, that puts about 25k characters on mushin. While some of those are people who could make 2 characters, you also can factor in both people who made their second char on another server and all the people who bought the base pack that will still be starting today.
Mushin will be downright ugly come Monday night.
Of course all things considered the overall numbers for players even before the free players get in are looking pretty solid for what this game might have expected.
:redface: ... Didn't realize this was going live TODAY and not live TONIGHT. Gonna quickly update the OP with our faction choice and then finish the update proper tonight.
(I don't wanna work 9-4 today waaaahhh).
I feel you man. I'm hoping we get let out at least a couple hours early in the spirit of the 3 day weekend.
How's this game with high ping (and do you know if the NA servers will be East or west coast?) I'd like to be able to play with all of you, but since I'm EU, playing on stuff that's NA west coast is rather hopeless.
Either way, an MMORPG based around punching things is definitely my kind of things and I've been waiting for this for a while, so excitement!
I'm hoping I can scrounge up a headstart key from somewhere because waiting for Tuesday is going to suck, especially when I think about people playing it over a long weekend. :<
I wonder how far some players will get before the gates open and the masses get to create their characters on Tuesday.
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If your ping is over 200, you are gonna have a bad time.
And really, it depends on the class. Some could get away with it at 200 ping but it really kills one of the more enjoyable things about the games combat which is animation canceling.
As far as being able to just play, it will mildly affect your PVE gameplay (you will have trouble timing the sidesteps for enemy skills so you might die a lot and get mocked by your friends), but it would really hurt you in PVP where that ping might mean the difference between a win and loss on its own.
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I'm hoping I can scrounge up a headstart key from somewhere because waiting for Tuesday is going to suck, especially when I think about people playing it over a long weekend. :<
I wonder how far some players will get before the gates open and the masses get to create their characters on Tuesday.
How would you "scrounge up" a key?
Because I am having the same issue, and it is killing me. But there is no way to justify spending 25 bucks to play 3 days early, there just isn't
I'm hoping I can scrounge up a headstart key from somewhere because waiting for Tuesday is going to suck, especially when I think about people playing it over a long weekend. :<
I wonder how far some players will get before the gates open and the masses get to create their characters on Tuesday.
How would you "scrounge up" a key?
Because I am having the same issue, and it is killing me. But there is no way to justify spending 25 bucks to play 3 days early, there just isn't
They were giving them away on a stream yesterday, no idea if they have plans for another
I'm hoping I can scrounge up a headstart key from somewhere because waiting for Tuesday is going to suck, especially when I think about people playing it over a long weekend. :<
I wonder how far some players will get before the gates open and the masses get to create their characters on Tuesday.
How would you "scrounge up" a key?
Because I am having the same issue, and it is killing me. But there is no way to justify spending 25 bucks to play 3 days early, there just isn't
They were giving them away on a stream yesterday, no idea if they have plans for another
They are giving more away on stream during the launch party, as well as streamers that are playing the game have been given keys to hand out as well.
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How's this game with high ping (and do you know if the NA servers will be East or west coast?) I'd like to be able to play with all of you, but since I'm EU, playing on stuff that's NA west coast is rather hopeless.
Either way, an MMORPG based around punching things is definitely my kind of things and I've been waiting for this for a while, so excitement!
NA servers are in Dallas, Texas.
EU servers are in Frankfurt, Germany.
So, I bought one of the founders packs for this back on Monday. Now, though, its launch day, so I figured I should stop lurking. I'd been keeping an eye on it for a few months now, but was unsure. So, I did what I always do in those situations, and started lurking in the PA thread. Everyone here should totally get a commission from NCSoft, because you sold me on the game.
I'll be rolling a Blade Master when the game opens today. I'm working from home today, so I'll be able to use my lunch to get my character made and ready to go.
Right at the top is the link for the stream. As far as what streamers have keys to hand out, I have no idea.
Your best bet will be to go to Twitch as the headstart opens and look for streamers playing. Most of the time they'll put something like "Giveaways" in their titles if they're doing em. Otherwise look for the larger viewer numbers. As you might imagine the streams giving away keys will get more viewers so it's a good advertisement point.
Sounds like it'll be doable. On LoL I've had around 140 when on NA, so hopefully this will be around the same.
Is it possible to have characters on different servers? Because I'd be totally fine with making a character with a lag-friendly class for NA shenanigans, while picking something more intensive to play by myself on EU.
Have been heavily invested into games like vindictus (Evie main) and dragon nest (acrobat). Also Tera and such but that combat was pretty shallow compared to scythe Evie dash cancelling.
Any comparisons to other games combat wise? I've seen enough to know the quests are fairly generic but I've only seen very early combat or very spamtastic boss rush stuff.
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Thanks for the info, I guess I will be scrounging about myself at 1:00 EST when the streamers start.
Would make my weekend to be able to get in, but otherwise I will be limping into the party late on monday night!
:redface: ... Didn't realize this was going live TODAY and not live TONIGHT. Gonna quickly update the OP with our faction choice and then finish the update proper tonight.
(I don't wanna work 9-4 today waaaahhh).
I feel you man. I'm hoping we get let out at least a couple hours early in the spirit of the 3 day weekend.
~5 mil if the vast majority of reservations were from the highest tier and nobody bought the lowest tier... Or is this a number they annoinced? My estimate was more like 7-8 based on the name counts.
Have been heavily invested into games like vindictus (Evie main) and dragon nest (acrobat). Also Tera and such but that combat was pretty shallow compared to scythe Evie dash cancelling.
Any comparisons to other games combat wise? I've seen enough to know the quests are fairly generic but I've only seen very early combat or very spamtastic boss rush stuff.
Unlike Terra, this game breaks the holy trinity and takes main healers out of the equation. Defense is all on the player themselves to dodge as the dps and to block/dodge as the tank and using CC abilities to interrupt attacks.
There are no global cooldowns, meaning that combat is combo focused limited on resource management.
Have been heavily invested into games like vindictus (Evie main) and dragon nest (acrobat). Also Tera and such but that combat was pretty shallow compared to scythe Evie dash cancelling.
Any comparisons to other games combat wise? I've seen enough to know the quests are fairly generic but I've only seen very early combat or very spamtastic boss rush stuff.
Well, I love(d) DN and Vindi at various points in my life, but both of those games always had little facets that bothered me a lot. Vindi I can say the cash shop model is dumb AS F. Maybe not pay 2 win, but definitely pay 2 not lose your mind.
My 2 cents.
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Yeah, it's basically reddit given flesh
A nightmare realm
Dank memes for days. Kappa123 for miles. Kappapride your every mistake.
Twitch chat is a thing to never have open. There is a reason it collapses to the right. Also a reason I loathe when streamers have it display on their overlay.
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// Switch: SW-5306-0651-6424 //
Though when I fixed my settings to bring my 3 core CPU back to 4 core (its an old AMD Phenom II that was "sold" as a 3 core but you can open the 4th) my performance improved.
The truth is nothing ever makes sense. But you will likely max out anything GPU related on a much cheaper graphics card while needing a pretty high speed processor to have the best experience.
Then there is also the fact that with all the loading times, a fast SSD will also be a pretty significant boost. The game seems to do lots of loading even after you are out of a loading screen, which keeps the framerate down till its done. At least for me, I can enter any location at 15-20 fps then after a little while I am 40+.
And finally, there is some hideous memory leak in arenas in our version for some reason. If you remember me complaining about losing fps to the point of hitting 6 fps on the last few betas, you have to periodically leave the arena lobbies and reenter to prevent that.
26,621 names reserved in Europe.
I think they sold a lot of founders packs.
21.04% Blade Master
16.80% Assassin
16.12% Force Master
14.54% Kung Fu Master
10.63% Summoner
10.46% Destroyer
10.41% Blade Dancer
Also, Hilariously when name reservation launched someone took the name "NCSOFT" (which somehow wasn't on a banned list) and got their name changed to "Bad Doggy" after the first maintenance.
// Switch: SW-5306-0651-6424 //
That's some serious investment there.
3DS: 0473-8507-2652
Switch: SW-5185-4991-5118
PSN: AbEntropy
Personally I was thinking HungWangStyle, but I doubt that'd last long (before we get told to change it, I mean).
And I think people are going blue.
"...only mights and maybes."
When I get the NA client, how do I use this screenshot during character creation?
You wanted to click the Save Apperance button, which creates a image file that has your character creation information presets as hidden data in it.
It's one of the options in the box that shows up when you click on that button below your character.
// Switch: SW-5306-0651-6424 //
// Switch: SW-5306-0651-6424 //
Might need to establish who is even starting one.
Also I would think a name more along the lines of the Tube would go better. Seems a number of people have moved on from all the wangs and such.
50.46% Mushin (Hahahaha, the queues)
10.52% Jiwan (Apparently both the "RP" and "Brazilian" server)
09.27% Poharan (Our lovely server, also one of the two unofficial "Oceanic" servers the other being Mushin)
07.09% Old Man Cho
06.21% Master Hong
04.80% Soha
03.91% Yehara
03.63% Iksanun
02.30% Hajoon
01.81% Juwol
Obviously, the numbers will be different once the actual game launches and people fill in. But seriously, it looks like Mushin, being the 'popular' server, will have half of the game population unless they close it off.
Looks like Poharan was a good choice. It's clearly not going to be dead, but it's not going to be omg crowded.
Plus, our server is named after a midget evil villain with twintails, carrying a giant minigun twice her size, with two huge giant tiger pets.
// Switch: SW-5306-0651-6424 //
(I don't wanna work 9-4 today waaaahhh).
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I mean based on the math before, that puts about 25k characters on mushin. While some of those are people who could make 2 characters, you also can factor in both people who made their second char on another server and all the people who bought the base pack that will still be starting today.
Mushin will be downright ugly come Monday night.
Of course all things considered the overall numbers for players even before the free players get in are looking pretty solid for what this game might have expected.
I feel you man. I'm hoping we get let out at least a couple hours early in the spirit of the 3 day weekend.
// Switch: SW-5306-0651-6424 //
Either way, an MMORPG based around punching things is definitely my kind of things and I've been waiting for this for a while, so excitement!
I wonder how far some players will get before the gates open and the masses get to create their characters on Tuesday.
And really, it depends on the class. Some could get away with it at 200 ping but it really kills one of the more enjoyable things about the games combat which is animation canceling.
As far as being able to just play, it will mildly affect your PVE gameplay (you will have trouble timing the sidesteps for enemy skills so you might die a lot and get mocked by your friends), but it would really hurt you in PVP where that ping might mean the difference between a win and loss on its own.
How would you "scrounge up" a key?
They were giving them away on a stream yesterday, no idea if they have plans for another
They are giving more away on stream during the launch party, as well as streamers that are playing the game have been given keys to hand out as well.
NA servers are in Dallas, Texas.
EU servers are in Frankfurt, Germany.
// Switch: SW-5306-0651-6424 //
http://www.bladeandsoul.com/en/news/launch-event-host-and-caster-announcement/
Right at the top is the link for the stream. As far as what streamers have keys to hand out, I have no idea.
I'll be rolling a Blade Master when the game opens today. I'm working from home today, so I'll be able to use my lunch to get my character made and ready to go.
Your best bet will be to go to Twitch as the headstart opens and look for streamers playing. Most of the time they'll put something like "Giveaways" in their titles if they're doing em. Otherwise look for the larger viewer numbers. As you might imagine the streams giving away keys will get more viewers so it's a good advertisement point.
Is it possible to have characters on different servers? Because I'd be totally fine with making a character with a lag-friendly class for NA shenanigans, while picking something more intensive to play by myself on EU.
Have been heavily invested into games like vindictus (Evie main) and dragon nest (acrobat). Also Tera and such but that combat was pretty shallow compared to scythe Evie dash cancelling.
Any comparisons to other games combat wise? I've seen enough to know the quests are fairly generic but I've only seen very early combat or very spamtastic boss rush stuff.
Would make my weekend to be able to get in, but otherwise I will be limping into the party late on monday night!
~5 mil if the vast majority of reservations were from the highest tier and nobody bought the lowest tier... Or is this a number they annoinced? My estimate was more like 7-8 based on the name counts.
3DS: 0473-8507-2652
Switch: SW-5185-4991-5118
PSN: AbEntropy
Unlike Terra, this game breaks the holy trinity and takes main healers out of the equation. Defense is all on the player themselves to dodge as the dps and to block/dodge as the tank and using CC abilities to interrupt attacks.
There are no global cooldowns, meaning that combat is combo focused limited on resource management.
// Switch: SW-5306-0651-6424 //
Well, I love(d) DN and Vindi at various points in my life, but both of those games always had little facets that bothered me a lot. Vindi I can say the cash shop model is dumb AS F. Maybe not pay 2 win, but definitely pay 2 not lose your mind.
My 2 cents.
Yeah, it's basically reddit given flesh
A nightmare realm
Dank memes for days. Kappa123 for miles. Kappapride your every mistake.
Twitch chat is a thing to never have open. There is a reason it collapses to the right. Also a reason I loathe when streamers have it display on their overlay.