Ah well…

…another downtime helping me to find time to update the blog a bit^^

My main turned 41 inbetween while I added a 4th character to my group of chars – I just figured I’ll never get the high level mats which are needed for the architect if I play with an Engineer or an Esper :/ And I dont want to change professions on my main (Relic Hunter, Technologist), I heard it costs you 50 Gold every time and I have a hard time with money anyway :P Therefore another Stalker has been born, doing both mining and survival. She is currently at level 17 and my Esper – never expected, but probably driven by my needs for diamonds lol – turned 23 and discovers Whitevale. The poor architect Engi is left behind at level 15, but eventually I will try to get him higher. So here are my Aurin Esper and my second stalker, a human :)

The game sometimes really drives me crazy like when you get a quest at a certain level which has you fight against mobs up to 3 levels higher (???????), but I have to mention two huge facts that I really love – 1. Housing!!!! EXCEPTIONAL HOUSING!! SWG had the best housing features of all times, but Wildstar’s system comes very very close! and 2. I AM ABLE TO DO JUMPING PUZZLES. I am very grateful that this game helped me to get away from my „GW2 hate for JPs“ :D

Unable to connect o.O

Others have it too, so I hope its going to be fixed soon. Meanwhile here are some updates^^ My main char is level 33, playing on the surface of Farside. I now also have two twinks, both are level 15, one is architect with miner, the other took up mining and survivalist to help providing the architect^^

yeah great, thank you STUPID WORDPRESS, you just deleted 3/4 of my original text when previewing DAMMIT :(
not going to write all of it again sorry.

Have a picture of Hulkky, the engi (his bot is named Loki xD)

18!

Though I already saw one with level 47 lol… I am doing not bad considering how little I play (weather is too good to stay inside :P) and how hard everything was for me in Beta. I still die, but it feels less than in Beta xD If I would just remember the heal shots at those times, I almost never use them o.O I have my house (Pre Order Spaceship) and my mount now, chose the strange purple creature with the crazy face instead of the horse XD Screenshots are all on the laptop, since I play there. Need to send some over here^^

Headstart

Much to my own surprise I am playing a black haired, grey eyed female Aurin, Stalker/Settler and made it to level 14 already :D

I am also extremely surprised about the sudden grafic quality of the game, all my beta bugs are gone! The start wasn’t easy, cus the launcher didn’t work and it took me half of Saturday to figure out what was wrong (the support was no help, since they never answered. Wait – yes they did! AFTER I told them that I solved the problem myself. Ridiciously I got a survey afterwards to judge the support. HAHA), beta worked with DirectX higher than 9, but obviously now the game doesn’t like that anymore. But I found a fix online and it helped me :)

Next Beta Weekends

1. It’s over and I hardly played for an hour lol. This was the Easter Weekend and the weather was just too good to stay inside and also Flight Rising was so much more fun to play^^ Well, maybe next Beta :P Or I just wait until release, will keep me from getting bored when I do not know everything already ;-)

2. Bonus Weekend: I played around with character designs – there were a few new things: hairstyles and different body styles – and logged in my house, but the grafics are still bugged (have to choose lowest cluster and still see bugs) and I didn’t feel motivated to play.

3. 2nd May weekend – I do not see me playing much :P but I will check for new stuff xD

So,…

Since I was out of house all Saturday and working in the garden a lot on Sunday I had not as much time as the last weekend to play, but still enough to be able to say – it worked much better this time^^ I played all of my 6 chars (all classes) for a few, read a lot about the classes, changed abilities and AMPs and died a lot less. I could not say which class I like best lol. Stealth puts the Stalker a bit ahead of the others, which makes questing easier. Also I went on with the paths I had already chosen, besides Explorer, I deleted my Mechari that had it, but took it again on a fresh Aurin Esper who felt better at jumping. I still wouldn’t go for soldier, but it had definately more to offer than simple fighting quests. Settler makes most sense imo because of the buffs you give and get. Scientist is fun because of the robot pet, that’s about it for me so far. Explorer surprised me with discovering hidden places and secret paths (some came with special tricks to get you up on a hill), even jumping was manageable! The first scavenger hunt was frustrating though, when the third piece could not be found (perhaps a bug). I wonder if you have to fulfill every task to level your path, but I think (hope) not. That way I could leave behind unfinished what I do not like or wasn’t able to complete. It really should give normal exp though, otherwise I see more sense in skipping your path until reaching level cap and then go back do all the tasks^^

Beta Weekend April 4th – 6th

It will start in a few hours and I really hope I am doing better than last time with following some of the suggestions I got. I will not post anymore feedback in the forums though, since the Admins there do not follow their own forum rules, f. e.: „Being mean to any members of the community, berating those in need, or just being downright hostile is a sure fire way to find yourself on the outside looking in.“ As I see it, the mean ones, especially Dana S., have not been banned for what they replied to my post.

Okay, …

… there were a few positive things as well :P

I got me a house and my first mount (click to enlarge):

Deleting a char was quite funny rofl (afterwards they got burned in flames xD):

You get a helmet when you do outerspace missions :D

(and sometimes other things like a special suit when you are questing in contaminated areas)

I didnt like Aurin males, but the females got to me^^

My first taxi drive was so funny – all that brabbling from the driver and the details of the cab – awesome :D

Disappointed

The title sums it up – that wasn’t quite the Beta weekend I expected…

Reasons:

1. DYING – Have more revival points, so one doesn’t have to run for miles, and have NPCs there for repairing.

2. Quest Arrows – let them stay longer than 2 seconds or take them away and put markers instead.

3. Datachron calls – if one denies them, don’t have them show with each other next incoming call.

4. Network errors – bah! But at least we all suffered from them. Hope they get fixed for the next time.

5. Paths – tried them all:
EXPLORER: not for me, too much jumping.
SOLDIER: not for me, too much fighting.
SCIENTIST: not for me, too much fighting when it comes to scan living mobs.

so this leaves only the SETTLER for me… (running around picking up stuff and being able to build your own buff-stations is okay with me^^)

6. Crafting – seems to relate strongly on materials one cannot harvest. Have to try if salvaging helps.

7. Grafic errors – I posted those on the forums. I was not able to get rid of them by changing the game settings, so I do not know what to do about them. I played on my fairly new laptop which has 64bit Windows 8 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760M, 8 GB Ram and other good stuff. I just hope its not my PC and it will be solved until release^^

8. Character creation – my oh my, so little choices, so many ugly faces… There won’t be a male Aurin for me nor a male Human, I tried my best, even with face customizing I was not able to make them good looking. Also for female Humans or Aurins there is only ONE face nice looking,  the others are ugly or have ugly parts like an ugly nose that you cannot change to something good looking :(

9. Quest tracker – this system of changing the sorting of the quests depending how close you are to the area drove me nuts. Have to see if I can change that in the settings.

10. Fun? – I had not much fun this weekend, that is for sure. I am not sure if I will pay for not having fun^^ So I just hope all works out somehow, just because there is still a lot I really like (the comic style, the funny talking <- well, two reasons are not THAT many really :P).

 

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UPDATE: I posted this as a feedback in the forums (in a more detailed form), earning me the suspicion of trolling, many mean answers and a locked post. Carbine doesn’t want all-over feedback, they want you to open a post for each and every subject. Also they don’t follow their own rules: „Being mean to any members of the community, berating those in need, or just being downright hostile is a sure fire way to find yourself on the outside looking in.“ A few people stayed friendly and gave really good advices, which I need to try out next time possible.

(kudos to Dana S. Chase for proving that brainless jerks still troll MMO forums)

Awesome News!

We get to play this weekend! Carbine gives us another Beta Weekend, that was such a sweet surprise this morning. As many others I was already suffering from deprivation symptoms lol XD

Now I just hope my pre-order works for this, even though I pre-ordered a short while AFTER the forum news said the phase to be over o.O I’ll find out^^ Like 5 hours to go, of which I have to work 3.

Planning to get a char to 14 to try out housing and 16 is the level for mounts I believe. Overall the cap is at 20 now, no more 17. But I also wanna try the classes I haven’t looked into yet. Aaaaah, so much fun lying ahead! Hopefully :P No waiting for another week, so AWESOME *dances* :D