The Furious Angels
FA Discussion => General => Topic started by: ZephixLeer (Zephic) on January 21, 2011, 09:46:14 pm
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I've been testing out a new MMO called Rift lately. They gave me a VIP key that works 25 times... so you guys have fun if you'd like to try it out.
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Also, it's not the normal fantasy MMO you've all probably become so jaded to. I honestly said I hated it after beta 3, but changed my mind in beta 4 after playing a bit more. Truth is, it's basically all the best parts of the other fantasy mmo's I've played.
They have the generic stuff like elves, dwarves, rogues, warriors, etc... but they also have some dynamic content. The "rift" system is very cool. They have these rifts that open up randomly around the world that you can party up and close. It promoted group content like no MMO I've ever played, though you can technically solo as well. You just likely won't close a ton of rifts solo.
They -are- implimenting a new auto-group feature, but it's opt-in. Seems cool enough.
Anyway, give it a try if you want something to play until SWTOR releases.
Reply if you decide to try it out, and I'll roll a new tool with anyone who plays. Level cap is 30 in beta, and it releases on March 1.
Again, beta key is:
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My in-game name is Zix and I play on Faeblight server.
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I have been in this for awhile but just cant get into it. In my opinion everything has been done before. The class system and rifts are pretty cool, but otherwise it can get really repetitive.
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Ill try it out, thanks
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Wanna try Rift?
No, but thanks.
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I refuse to play anymore games with elves in them.
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All essentially my own response when I first saw it. It just feels different. It's not pure high fantasy; they end up with time machines and guns and mechanical horses and stuff. :P Lots of fun.
Either way, it's there so feel free to use the code if you'd like.
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How would I download it if I wanted to try it?
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Looking at screenshots.
It looks the strength of the female armor sets must be inversely proportional to how much of the body they cover.
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I saw stuff about this on Steam. My girlfriend got a total boner for it but I was like... oh look dragons, oh look elves, oh look dwarves.
*close*
Blah. Here's the trailer: http://store.steampowered.com/video/91000/80459
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I used your key and downloaded the game. We'll see just how fun it is come Tuesday.
I, unlike these guys, have an undying love for fantasy that is only outweighed by my burning hatred of boring MMOs. I'll give it a chance, but it's not looking good for Rift.
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Sorry, I should have mentioned that the Beta starts this Tuesday afternoon. Essentially, you sign up and use the key I gave above in the account management screen, fill out your beta profile, then it will provide a "download client" button (once you get your invite) in the same area.
Although the key garantees access, it is still a manual process on the developer side to send out "batches" of invites to people with keys.
Check your mail shortly after entering the key, maybe a day later you should receive access. I'd do all this now, since the client is like 7 gigs and you'll want to get all three days in of game time, if you enjoy it.
Erathol, why do you say it's not looking good for Rift? Something specific you dislike so far? Just curious.
As for the rest of you... I urge you not to be put off by the fantasy setting. Gameplay is everything to me now days, much more than setting or graphics. This game has the gameplay I've been looking for. Specifically, it encourages grouping and has some pretty neat mechanics in the dunegons. As stated before, it's not necessarily anything never-before-seen, but it pulls a lot of the best features from other mmos together in a very polished way. It has hands-down the most stable beta I've ever played.
If you're against playing it for the simple fact it's fantasy, trust me when I say I went into it expecting failure to impress. It surprised me and really made me consider paying to play again. I hadn't anticipated doing any pay to play games until SWTOR, to be honest.
Either way, have fun if you choose to play, and if you dont' at least I tried! Hope you guys appreciate the gesture, at least. :P
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If anyone wants to try this and the vip code didn't work for them send me a pm.
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For those of us who are partaking in the Tuesday-Friday Beta event, which server and faction will we be selecting? I'm not even sure if there ARE multiple beta servers, so I have no suggestion there.
As for faction, I'd rather like to choose The Guardians. The defiant have a really cool symbol, but as I read the fluff I just hated them more and more. Every thing about them just sparked an illogical prejudice against them in me, but I was totally okay with the Guardians fluff.
Then again, I hardly care as it's a few-day long beta event. Regardless of which we choose, we should all at least be on the same team. Unless I hear otherwise from any of you, I'll be creating a Guardian Mage (Stormcaller) tomorrow. See you in game!
EDIT: I created my Mage on the Harrow server, as it's one of the two PvP-RP servers and the only one that wasn't full.
And then the servers crashed...
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I'm out of things to do, so I made an account and applied the key. Unfortunately, I guess this just gives me a "chance" to get invited, so now I have to wait and see if they send me an email.
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K, got my invite. Downloading now. At least I'll sound intelligent when I explain to people why SWTOR is better. lol
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I watched the opening cinematic on youtube. It was pretty predictably cheesy, with all the classic fantasy concepts played in nearly assembly-line sequence.
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I've played up until about level 10. So far it's predictably boring.
After viewing previously mentioned cheesy cinematic, you just sorta spawn in a building with everyone else. Tutorial tips pop up as you do your first mission. It starts getting repetitive pretty quickly. Click on the guy with the icon above his head, click accept, follow waypoint, kill or click stuff in waypoint, go back to the guy with the icon above his head.
The story didn't suck me in. I didn't feel like reading any of the text. There were corrupted things and goblins - your basic bad guys. And they were doing bad things to people. Eventually they led me into a "rift", a circle where the ground and sky get dark and you have to fight a mini-boss. The first one was instanced for a quest. The others are just random and kind of confusing.
For rifts, you'll get a notification that your area is under attack or that a rift has opened up. An icon will show up on your map, and if you go there, you'll run into a bunch of other people and it'll give you the option to just join a public party. Most of the time I wasn't even able to kill anything because by the time I got there, it was almost over and the remaining mobs had already been engaged. I did get to a rift at the beginning and just got insta-killed by the swarm.
In theory these rifts sound interesting, but so far they're just confusing. There was one where like 5 of them opened up, but I'm not sure why. And I think we lost the battle or lost one of them, but again I'm not sure why. The combat in the rifts are the same as everywhere else, only it's harder to see if you've targeted something.
I have yet to figure out how to auto-run or auto-target. The usual key binds didn't work. Targeting can especially be a pain as you left click to target, right click to attack, and then use abilities. However doing any of these things out of order can leave your character standing there looking confused. There's no simple tabbing between enemies that I've found so far.
The graphics were fine, though Aion's were better. Controls were ok, though lag caused a delay. Combat was pretty boring as a dual wield warrior - basically spammed the same two abilities. Story is non-existent unless you want to read the wall of text for the quests, so if you like doing that, let me know how the story is.
The soul system seems like a way of just never having enough skill points. I don't know if they want me to focus on just one or divide my points out between all three. New abilities aren't unlocked until you go high up enough through a soul (class), so I don't know why you'd spread them out and have a bunch of level 3 abilities that don't go along with each other when you're level 10. I ended up just putting most of mine into the dual wield tree and just one or two into the others.
In the end, I just don't think it has anything special about it. There's a soul walking thing you do when you die, which seems a little gimmicky. There are the rifts, that don't really do much except reward you with some items that I don't know what they do. I really am just ready for the cinematic, voice-acted quests to immerse me into the game. Or at the very least a virtual world that really appeals to me (a la Matrix). This game really isn't any different than EQ2, except not as polished.
I'll try to do some group stuff with those of you who are trying it out, just to see what that's like. I don't have anything else going on!
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Yawn...
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myself and a group of friends are jumping into this as a timekiller til TOR hit me up if you would like to join us. Got my Cleric up to 30 in beta so got a chance to see the game more fleshed out.I can expand on some of the concepts and features of the game to whoever is semi interested.
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Well, I managed to play through to level 25 on this, but I'm not sure... definately felt I would like it better than WoW, but once I got to Gloamwood, I fell into the tendency of chasing Rifts with the public groups rather than focusing on my 'Kill/Collect X number of Y' quests... I think I actually hit levels 24 and 25 on public quests alone.
It definately looks and plays better than WoW, but I don't know that I could see myself playing it for, say, a year. One of those 'same song, second verse' scenarios, I suppose.
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In general Rifting is far more fun than the questing so i did quite a bit of chasing Rifts myself, gloamwood was a pretty depressing zone, but the next area, Scarlet Gorge. more than made up for it. And if TOR doesnt come out for a full year i'll be sad panda.