I don't know who bob is and not to just defend the game for it's problems, but if this is the buggiest mmo launch he's experienced then he couldn't have played that many mmos.
Besides queues, this is by far the smoothest mmo launch I've been a part of, but maybe that more so speaks to the initial state of most mmos.
edit: oops late to the party. I see a few have said the same thing. Glad I'm not the only one though. I've actually been fairly impressed with this launch.
to be clear I meant the respawn timer bug, the rest of it is definitely hyperbolic
Little tip - if you run into a cave to fight a named bear with a gold outline who is 6 levels above you, remember to plop a camp down first, thus avoiding a long run back after you have your face pulled off.
Also, no queues in the EU last night, which was nice.
I need a few more levels in area rep and I get my first house !
Does anyone know where you buy the spirit bits you need to make jewelry ? I have silver, but need one more part to refine my gems into a usable part. The description says faction vendor.
I'm level 13, still in the starter town.
The elemental motes come from harvesting elemental plants and mining elemental ores.
Ah, good- I have a way to go before I harvest them. Thanks.
When I let go of the button, it instantly escapes.
You are definitely doing something wrong but I'm not certain what. You hold it down till it almost snaps, let go for a second to let it be less close to snapping, repeat.
Eh, I have no interest in a second toon. That'll just burn me out faster. I'd roll entirely on a new server but A. all east coast servers have a queue it seems and B. I'd have to move a group of people and the logistics are a pain.
What is this I don't even.
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I replied and he, um, "clarified" that he didn't mean least playable he specifically meant buggiest which is still pretty lmao, but I have no interest in arguing with someone whose first step is moving goalposts.
I feel like whether people are willing to admit it or not, there is going to be a group of people who refuse to like the game solely based on the developer.
Also, in regards to fishing in games, I feel like that's one of those things you either enjoy or don't. I'm personally a big nerd about fishing in games for some reason. It'd be cool to see them make it worthwhile like WoW does and introduce it's own set of rewards.
having fun with this game so far, it's an MMO in the same way that Runescape is an MMO. In fact there's a lot of parallels that could probably be drawn to runescape. Anyways without a subscription fee it feels like it'll be a fun game to play on the side off and on and see how things progress.
I swapped to fire staff/ice gauntlet after doing rapier/bow for the last few days and immediately found it 10000x easier to kill people lol
Fire is sort of rough because one of the primary enemy types is resistant.
Also, always draw your weapon before you use a skill (unsheath is X I think). Otherwise some ground target skills cast as an aoe centered on your character. Very frustrating.
Little tip - if you run into a cave to fight a named bear with a gold outline who is 6 levels above you, remember to plop a camp down first, thus avoiding a long run back after you have your face pulled off.
Also, no queues in the EU last night, which was nice.
I need a few more levels in area rep and I get my first house !
Does anyone know where you buy the spirit bits you need to make jewelry ? I have silver, but need one more part to refine my gems into a usable part. The description says faction vendor.
I'm level 13, still in the starter town.
The elemental motes come from harvesting elemental plants and mining elemental ores.
Ah, good- I have a way to go before I harvest them. Thanks.
@M-Vickers You can also get motes from salvaging staves and weapons that already have the ability granted from the mote. Life motes from life staffs, etc.
Little tip - if you run into a cave to fight a named bear with a gold outline who is 6 levels above you, remember to plop a camp down first, thus avoiding a long run back after you have your face pulled off.
Also, no queues in the EU last night, which was nice.
I need a few more levels in area rep and I get my first house !
Does anyone know where you buy the spirit bits you need to make jewelry ? I have silver, but need one more part to refine my gems into a usable part. The description says faction vendor.
I'm level 13, still in the starter town.
The elemental motes come from harvesting elemental plants and mining elemental ores.
Ah, good- I have a way to go before I harvest them. Thanks.
@M-Vickers You can also get motes from salvaging staves and weapons that already have the ability granted from the mote. Life motes from life staffs, etc.
Thanks !
I was actually close to being able to harvest them - I have a bunch, but none that match the one type of gems that I have.
I need Earth, and have everything but.
On the bright side, I made my first bag !
I also unlocked the ability to buy a house, and enough map rep to get a discount.
I’m short of gold, though, so that’ll take a while.
Fun so far, it’s just a shame Gamepass added a bunch of jrpgs today as I’m now spoilt for new games.
Little tip - if you run into a cave to fight a named bear with a gold outline who is 6 levels above you, remember to plop a camp down first, thus avoiding a long run back after you have your face pulled off.
Also, no queues in the EU last night, which was nice.
I need a few more levels in area rep and I get my first house !
Does anyone know where you buy the spirit bits you need to make jewelry ? I have silver, but need one more part to refine my gems into a usable part. The description says faction vendor.
I'm level 13, still in the starter town.
The elemental motes come from harvesting elemental plants and mining elemental ores.
Ah, good- I have a way to go before I harvest them. Thanks.
@M-Vickers You can also get motes from salvaging staves and weapons that already have the ability granted from the mote. Life motes from life staffs, etc.
Thanks !
I was actually close to being able to harvest them - I have a bunch, but none that match the one type of gems that I have.
I need Earth, and have everything but.
On the bright side, I made my first bag !
I also unlocked the ability to buy a house, and enough map rep to get a discount.
I’m short of gold, though, so that’ll take a while.
Fun so far, it’s just a shame Gamepass added a bunch of jrpgs today as I’m now spoilt for new games.
The first house you buy you get half off. There is some suggestion that you should wait to be the 20k gold house for 10k therefore, rather than get the 10k for 5k.
CorriganX on Steam and just about everywhere else.
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Besides the obvious disadvantage of not being in a larger group, is there any reason not to make your own one person Company just to have a fun name and neat logo attached to your character?
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HonkHonk is this poster.Registered User, __BANNED USERSregular
edited October 2021
It's good that they have added 8x the servers now after the fact but was there really no way to foresee demand a little bit better?
I queue now for three hours and get disconnected due to lag spike immediately as I enter. I think my character is stuck in some gamebreaking way but it's hard to troubleshoot when you get one attempt every three hours (unless you're kicked from the queue).
With the new servers - I would gladly switch but I spent 6 hours on that character and my 6 friends have even more time played on their characters on that server. We picked the lowest population server available on launch day...
They really really fucked this up. I'd rather just give up than spend time doing the same thing for 6 hours again on a new server.
I just played for a bit and suddenly the game is now running significantly worse. It's chugging no matter where I am, efven when I trun the settings down.
Some sort of pre-reg system for companies might have helped, and I think once a server got to like 3x capacity they should have done some sort of "you cannot create a character here" thing. It would have sucked to miss out rolling with friends, but at the same time if you spend 4+ out of 5 hours a night in the log-in queue, how much are you really playing with them anyway? Also, it would have kept servers like Valhalla from having queues 13+ full servers deep.
I'm on my third character now. I made one on Valgrind, hoping I could eventually join up/tag along with some of the folks here. But I'm not about that "wait 2+ hours to play a game" life, so I've made a couple others with low pop servers. The first one became another high-pop with a 1500+ queue. This last one on Dindymon or whatever that was added like yesterday has at least been no queue for over a day now, even during prime time last night. We'll see if it survives that way through the weekend.
Each one has gotten a different "starting zone" so at least it hasn't felt completely repetitive. Once things stabilize further and they open up xfers, hopefully I can join up with some folks.
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AxenMy avatar is Excalibur.Yes, the sword.Registered Userregular
MMO launches are almost always a mess, especially for one with any amount of hype behind it.
Shit I still remember FFXIV’s relaunch. They didn’t have queues! Nor did they have an auto-disconnect for people AFK! People got in and stayed in. I had to make a login macro and I’d start it before I headed to work and when I got back I wasn’t always in game yet.
Good times.
A Capellan's favorite sheath for any blade is your back.
I spent some time sieging a fortress. It's definitely very old school. Also I don't care what the guides tell you, you definitely need a ranged weapon if you want to PvP. It's so hard to actually kill someone with the survivability and running and healing.
Complaint: many abilities are very clearly PvE or PvP useful only, and there's no easy, inexpensive way to swap if you're changing what you're doing. I'm poor as shit and that Respec cost hurts if you're thinking about doing it a couple times a day.
What is this I don't even.
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AxenMy avatar is Excalibur.Yes, the sword.Registered Userregular
I've yet to buy the game and I'm not sure when I will. But I do want to touch on one thing.
I've seen people complain about how the game was over-hyped. I would strongly disagree.
I'd been following the game since I made the thread and pretty much everything that came out about the game since that time was what I would call Anti-Hype.
Everywhere I went on the internet the most common thing I saw people say about the game was that it'd be Dead on Arrival and I agreed.
The Closed Beta didn't inspire confidence and while the Open Beta was better the highest praise I saw was that it was "Fine".
I'm honestly amazed at how many people picked the game up at launch all things considered and I honestly believe Amazon is too.
A Capellan's favorite sheath for any blade is your back.
I've yet to buy the game and I'm not sure when I will. But I do want to touch on one thing.
I've seen people complain about how the game was over-hyped. I would strongly disagree.
I'd been following the game since I made the thread and pretty much everything that came out about the game since that time was what I would call Anti-Hype.
Everywhere I went on the internet the most common thing I saw people say about the game was that it'd be Dead on Arrival and I agreed.
The Closed Beta didn't inspire confidence and while the Open Beta was better the highest praise I saw was that it was "Fine".
I'm honestly amazed at how many people picked the game up at launch all things considered and I honestly believe Amazon is too.
It doesn’t break any molds, true, but it’s fun.
Part of the hype, I think, it’s that it’s been a while since a big mmo came out.
As always, the test will be how many people are playing in a month, three months, etc.
Time will tell, buy I’m enjoying it and I’m looking forward to buying and decorating my first house.
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AxenMy avatar is Excalibur.Yes, the sword.Registered Userregular
edited October 2021
Don't get me wrong, I know people are having fun and that is great. I've nothing against the game in general. I'm just personally amazed at how popular it turned out.
Hell, I've a buddy who is on the team and I had asked him about the game earlier this year and his response to me was, "Don't buy it".
So I can say with some certainty that Amazon probably did not have confidence in it.
Let's hope they can keep up the momentum because I know people love what they love about the game.
edit- If I got a problem with anything it is the people slamming the game for shit that is par for the course for MMO launches.
"They should have expected how many people would buy it and have enough servers!" Why would they have? Everything pointed to the game not selling well. They had plans in place to consolidate servers shortly after launch.
"They over-hyped the game!!!" Man, mother fuckers were shitting on the game every chance they got during the entirety of development for one reason or another whether made up or true. I don't think they even did that much marketing wise. Jesus! This thread is like 11 pages long and it was started in 2019! And I know full well how susceptible we PAers are to Hype.
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A Capellan's favorite sheath for any blade is your back.
They've been adding more and more servers and they keep filling up especially in EU. It seems like they underestimated how popular the launch was going to be.
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GnomeTankWhat the what?Portland, OregonRegistered Userregular
I think it's really indicative of how hungry people are for a new long term MMO. FF14 is doing great, but it's a very specific kind of MMO and has almost no PvP element to speak of. Destiny 2 is on a roll right now as well but it's not really an MMO, more of a shared world looter shooter. We haven't had a big, well received MMO, with a heavy PvP element in a while. I think it speaks less to how good or bad New World is (my opinion: it's fine, nothing great, nothing terrible), but more to the hunger a certain segment of the gaming crowd has for a game in this vein.
I think it's really indicative of how hungry people are for a new long term MMO. FF14 is doing great, but it's a very specific kind of MMO and has almost no PvP element to speak of. Destiny 2 is on a roll right now as well but it's not really an MMO, more of a shared world looter shooter. We haven't had a big, well received MMO, with a heavy PvP element in a while. I think it speaks less to how good or bad New World is (my opinion: it's fine, nothing great, nothing terrible), but more to the hunger a certain segment of the gaming crowd has for a game in this vein.
Agree'd.
I know some people have been saying the traditional MMO is dead and stuff like Destiny or Division or What-Have-You are the future, but I think New World disproves that. Actually I'm pretty sure people said this exact thing to predict New World's failure.
Turns out there is absolutely a decent market out there hungry for a new MMO. Any MMO.
A Capellan's favorite sheath for any blade is your back.
I think it's a little early to declare New World to be an unqualified success but it does seem to have a decent amount of launch interest
Long term success? Who knows.
But launch? Way beyond anyone's expectations I'd say. Presently it is topping CS:GO on the Steam Charts.
edit- It is a game that, near as far as I can tell, most everyone agrees is "Fine" and it is beating CS:GO for players at the moment. 800k last I checked on Steam.
That is a lot.
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A Capellan's favorite sheath for any blade is your back.
I think it's a little early to declare New World to be an unqualified success but it does seem to have a decent amount of launch interest
Long term success? Who knows.
But launch? Way beyond anyone's expectations I'd say. Presently it is topping CS:GO on the Steam Charts.
edit- It is a game that, near as far as I can tell, most everyone agrees is "Fine" and it is beating CS:GO for players at the moment. 800k last I checked on Steam.
That is a lot.
I'm not sure all those players have gotten to play or if the numbers are padded by people too afraid to log out or sitting in queus. :P
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its not particularly compelling but i don't recall it being that bad
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to be clear I meant the respawn timer bug, the rest of it is definitely hyperbolic
Ah, good- I have a way to go before I harvest them. Thanks.
You are definitely doing something wrong but I'm not certain what. You hold it down till it almost snaps, let go for a second to let it be less close to snapping, repeat.
Where are those free transfers they offered?
I feel like whether people are willing to admit it or not, there is going to be a group of people who refuse to like the game solely based on the developer.
Also, in regards to fishing in games, I feel like that's one of those things you either enjoy or don't. I'm personally a big nerd about fishing in games for some reason. It'd be cool to see them make it worthwhile like WoW does and introduce it's own set of rewards.
I swapped to fire staff/ice gauntlet after doing rapier/bow for the last few days and immediately found it 10000x easier to kill people lol
Also, always draw your weapon before you use a skill (unsheath is X I think). Otherwise some ground target skills cast as an aoe centered on your character. Very frustrating.
@M-Vickers You can also get motes from salvaging staves and weapons that already have the ability granted from the mote. Life motes from life staffs, etc.
Thanks !
I was actually close to being able to harvest them - I have a bunch, but none that match the one type of gems that I have.
I need Earth, and have everything but.
On the bright side, I made my first bag !
I also unlocked the ability to buy a house, and enough map rep to get a discount.
I’m short of gold, though, so that’ll take a while.
Fun so far, it’s just a shame Gamepass added a bunch of jrpgs today as I’m now spoilt for new games.
The first house you buy you get half off. There is some suggestion that you should wait to be the 20k gold house for 10k therefore, rather than get the 10k for 5k.
It's a fairly light content MMO among others. Lots of reused skins and content, small map. It was somewhat cheaper to produce I'd imagine.
CorriganX on Steam and just about everywhere else.
I queue now for three hours and get disconnected due to lag spike immediately as I enter. I think my character is stuck in some gamebreaking way but it's hard to troubleshoot when you get one attempt every three hours (unless you're kicked from the queue).
With the new servers - I would gladly switch but I spent 6 hours on that character and my 6 friends have even more time played on their characters on that server. We picked the lowest population server available on launch day...
They really really fucked this up. I'd rather just give up than spend time doing the same thing for 6 hours again on a new server.
Tons of input lag, too.
My Let's Play Channel: https://youtube.com/channel/UC2go70QLfwGq-hW4nvUqmog
I'm on my third character now. I made one on Valgrind, hoping I could eventually join up/tag along with some of the folks here. But I'm not about that "wait 2+ hours to play a game" life, so I've made a couple others with low pop servers. The first one became another high-pop with a 1500+ queue. This last one on Dindymon or whatever that was added like yesterday has at least been no queue for over a day now, even during prime time last night. We'll see if it survives that way through the weekend.
Each one has gotten a different "starting zone" so at least it hasn't felt completely repetitive. Once things stabilize further and they open up xfers, hopefully I can join up with some folks.
Shit I still remember FFXIV’s relaunch. They didn’t have queues! Nor did they have an auto-disconnect for people AFK! People got in and stayed in. I had to make a login macro and I’d start it before I headed to work and when I got back I wasn’t always in game yet.
Good times.
but i did watch a video of a huge pvp battle and it looks both very cool and very oldschool at the same time
watching a big throng of people footracing through the countryside and then smashing into each other evokes memories of SWG for me
I've seen people complain about how the game was over-hyped. I would strongly disagree.
I'd been following the game since I made the thread and pretty much everything that came out about the game since that time was what I would call Anti-Hype.
Everywhere I went on the internet the most common thing I saw people say about the game was that it'd be Dead on Arrival and I agreed.
The Closed Beta didn't inspire confidence and while the Open Beta was better the highest praise I saw was that it was "Fine".
I'm honestly amazed at how many people picked the game up at launch all things considered and I honestly believe Amazon is too.
It doesn’t break any molds, true, but it’s fun.
Part of the hype, I think, it’s that it’s been a while since a big mmo came out.
As always, the test will be how many people are playing in a month, three months, etc.
Time will tell, buy I’m enjoying it and I’m looking forward to buying and decorating my first house.
Hell, I've a buddy who is on the team and I had asked him about the game earlier this year and his response to me was, "Don't buy it".
So I can say with some certainty that Amazon probably did not have confidence in it.
Let's hope they can keep up the momentum because I know people love what they love about the game.
edit- If I got a problem with anything it is the people slamming the game for shit that is par for the course for MMO launches.
"They should have expected how many people would buy it and have enough servers!" Why would they have? Everything pointed to the game not selling well. They had plans in place to consolidate servers shortly after launch.
"They over-hyped the game!!!" Man, mother fuckers were shitting on the game every chance they got during the entirety of development for one reason or another whether made up or true. I don't think they even did that much marketing wise. Jesus! This thread is like 11 pages long and it was started in 2019! And I know full well how susceptible we PAers are to Hype.
They've been adding more and more servers and they keep filling up especially in EU. It seems like they underestimated how popular the launch was going to be.
Nintendo ID: Incindium
PSN: IncindiumX
Agree'd.
I know some people have been saying the traditional MMO is dead and stuff like Destiny or Division or What-Have-You are the future, but I think New World disproves that. Actually I'm pretty sure people said this exact thing to predict New World's failure.
Turns out there is absolutely a decent market out there hungry for a new MMO. Any MMO.
Long term success? Who knows.
But launch? Way beyond anyone's expectations I'd say. Presently it is topping CS:GO on the Steam Charts.
edit- It is a game that, near as far as I can tell, most everyone agrees is "Fine" and it is beating CS:GO for players at the moment. 800k last I checked on Steam.
That is a lot.
I'm not sure all those players have gotten to play or if the numbers are padded by people too afraid to log out or sitting in queus. :P