Elder Scrolls Online

Seaneh

Just got a beta weekend invite for this weekends stress test. Anyone else here get one and planning on playing?

Lone Stone

wooo me to

Noxin

I'll be there!

jeawan

Likewise

Seaneh

Cool, maybe we could have a meet up somewhere?

Lone Stone

your place or mine :cool:

polarax

I have a code that I wont be using if anyone wants it!

Stokolan

Got an Invite myself

MarkJD

Got an invite myself. Would like to play with some fellow Irish players if possible. I have TS3 server if anyone needs / wants?

markbreen17

I shall too be on, I cannot wait!

KilOit

polarax wrote: »

I have a code that I wont be using if anyone wants it!

I'll take it if no one else wants it

polarax

PM me your email

Jofis

If anyone have extra key I'd like one, been waiting a year to test this game out.

Merger

I'll be there! :P

Dave_The_Sheep

I got an invite ... gave it away as I wasn't going to be able to play it. I'd be interested in seeing how it plays though. I likely won't get the game, unless it's pure quality, given the subscription model.

Noxin

Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »

I got an invite ... gave it away as I wasn't going to be able to play it. I'd be interested in seeing how it plays though. I likely won't get the game, unless it's pure quality, given the subscription model.

I'm happy to have a sub model providing it's worth it. A lot of games have gone FTP but none of them have held my interest. I seem to always end up back at wow. Am hoping this one kills that demon and gives me something new.

Dcully

Account made client downloaded ready to go

Dyr

i thought i was special

Lone Stone

hmm which faction are people thinking of trying ?
Torn between playing as a khajiit and a argonian, i do like how each faction
has a beasty race, havent really paid much attention to the game so i have no idea how factions will interact with each other.

Seaneh

Probably going to play as Khajiit myself, for bouncyness.

Lone Stone

Personally i just want to walk around meow'ing at people whilstfull filling my life long dream of being a man cat while playing lovecats non stop.

Lone Stone

keep getting stuck inthe fecking npc chat view if if i click through the txt befeore they are finished talking :mad:

Seaneh

I have't even got that far, I've been on the loading screen for 10 minutes!

Lone Stone

It keeps happening to me outside the starting zone, tbh its not great. The characters feel very lifeless to me, theirs no chat bubbles so i have idea who is talking, didnt like the khajiit starting zone so i switch to an argonian now its all snowy wooo.

When you jump its like you hit a brick wall above your character.Animations feel very stiff hmm yes i shall see how it goes. I did love the character creation though.

Seaneh

not gone on it so far tbh, will play later again, I couldnt find my mouse so was using the track pad on the laptop.

Dermighty

All I can say is:

No feeling of contact you you swing a 30kg mace at the enemy and hit them...lame

Dcully

Initial impressions, melee combat sucks just like Skyrim, ranged is okay.
Chat is full of similar thoughts and of weird animation.

Lone Stone

Unless their is some massive leap in quality between now and launch their is no way i would drop the box price + sub for this.

Noxin

Seems to be alot of people not liking it. Personally I'm actually enjoying it.
I agree with Dermighty on the contact thing. Not just with two handers. One handers just don't feel like they make contact most of the time.
The current chat bug thing is annoying. I've had it at least 8 or 9 times so far.
I enjoy the layout for the most part. Minimal UI is nice enough but I would like some options such as keeping chat window active (if you want)
Showing xp earned / needed etc... It's not that big a deal but it might be nice.
It looks great for an MMO. Very high quality.

So far overall I'm 70/30 in favour. I have no plans this weekend so I probably won't move from this seat and will make a final judgement on Sunday :P

Lone Stone

Yea kinda getting into it now, running around on my fat khajiit templar guy, just seems to be a case of a load of little things adding up so far that are kind fo annoying. But i like, just not entirely sure if i would be willing to pay the box price,

Stev_o

So far so disappointing, hell SWTOR at least had a great opening before you got to Tattoine and completely burned out.

Noxin

Lone Stone wrote: »

Yea kinda getting into it now, running around on my fat khajiit templar guy, just seems to be a case of a load of little things adding up so far that are kind fo annoying. But i like, just not entirely sure if i would be willing to pay the box price,

Understandable alright. But we're still a few months off what they plan on an official release. I say plan because if a mountain of problems are found during these betas, I hope they delay the release a while and fix them first.

Even since my last post. I'm really loving the main storyline more and more. It keeps me very interested.
I've not tried to craft yet but one thing I have noticed is that items require a lot of materials. That is not really a bad thing. I don't really like when things are complete pi$$ to craft. It takes away from the professions. I always felt crafted items should be hard to get. Even lower level stuff. And it should be better quality than quest items. I don't know if it is or not but I hope it is.

Noxin

Just after this I hit my first major problem in beta and it's a warning. I can't remember the name of the quest but orc -> You're checking out a dead kings past around level 6. Finish quest line. Girl comes running up saying bla bla have moar for you.
Game did it's whole non responding thing here except for the chat box.
I logged out. Logged in. Girl was gone. Had some random quest saying to talk to her. She wasnt there obviously and no quest markers so abandoned it. Still no girl. No other quest available except for story line which is in the next area (which I can't get to)
So basically I'm fubar unless they fix it tonight / tomorrow or I start a new character. It's one bug. But it's a big bug. Number of people in game with it. DOH!

Lone Stone

just after leaving the starting island area for the khajiit.
Basically what i found is at the moment every mission leads to some anti climatic pointless fight where you take no damage, kill very few enemies and activate between two and three switches which are generally on either side of some object.

Yeah looks nice, i can see how some people might stick with it some of the quest stories are interesting but actual combat and game play to me is kind of boring its just not pulling me in. Im rather disappointed i was really looking forward to this.

MarkJD

Where are we all playing folks? Completely forgot to login in the end last night! Woudlnt mind i was up to 3am playing FFXIV. Would like to hook up with some of you if anyone could let me know. Cheers

MarkJD

Noxin wrote: »

Understandable alright. But we're still a few months off what they plan on an official release. I say plan because if a mountain of problems are found during these betas, I hope they delay the release a while and fix them first.

Even since my last post. I'm really loving the main storyline more and more. It keeps me very interested.
I've not tried to craft yet but one thing I have noticed is that items require a lot of materials. That is not really a bad thing. I don't really like when things are complete pi$$ to craft. It takes away from the professions. I always felt crafted items should be hard to get. Even lower level stuff. And it should be better quality than quest items. I don't know if it is or not but I hope it is.

You have to be careful with this as this is the approach FFXIV took when it first launched and it was a complete piss take. A pair of shoes took special shoe nails and shoe glue and then a leather tongue and 2 sides or some ****. Was a bit mental just for a pair of shoes

d22ontour

Lone Stone wrote: »

keep getting stuck inthe fecking npc chat view if if i click through the txt befeore they are finished talking :mad:

When that happened to me i went into the addons option and reset the ui, worked the 3 or 4 times it happened so far.

Lone Stone

ah yea i found a quick fix when it happens just type in chat /reloadui

Cina

I'm largely underwhelmed by this. It's like they're trying to mix Skyrim with WoW and it just doesn't work.

Noxin

Very long load times at the moment. A bit annoying.

MarkJD

Not really doing a lot for me right now. Combat seems so meh just hack and slash with little need for actually timing my blocks etc. Stuck on a loading screen after getting out of the dungeon with the prophet for 10 mins now. Gonna give it a few more mins then call it ....

MarkJD

Noxin wrote: »

Very long load times at the moment. A bit annoying.

Have you been stuck on a loading screen for 10+ mins? Not sure if its the norm or im stuck or something

Noxin

MarkJD wrote: »

Have you been stuck on a loading screen for 10+ mins? Not sure if its the norm or im stuck or something

Yea it was taking up to 10 min to log in.
Servers down now I think for some fixing.

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/34441

Hamhide

I just got my beta key, spend all day downloading the client and only at 20%

Noxin

Hmmm, dunno what happened but overnight the sound is in my attacks now. Finally it feels proper. Like I'm actually hitting something.

Also those complaining of it being too easy, what level did you get to? I'm at 7 now and it has been a lot more difficult. I've actually died once or twice :P

Calhoun

Noxin wrote: »

Hmmm, dunno what happened but overnight the sound is in my attacks now. Finally it feels proper. Like I'm actually hitting something.

Also those complaining of it being too easy, what level did you get to? I'm at 7 now and it has been a lot more difficult. I've actually died once or twice :P

Is it just me or do hit registering feel a bit off, like it takes 5 secs to think about applying the hit.

Casting seems ok and you hit them just right, the hack and slash mixed with abilities is quite interesting.

I also died a couple of times due to healing staff dps being **** and harpies being bastards.

It's not a bad game and doesn't seem to be on rails which is really cool as tamriel is a big place. Not sure if I would play it tbh will have to checkout the guilds ect see what they are like.

Noxin

Calhoun wrote: »

Is it just me or do hit registering feel a bit off, like it takes 5 secs to think about applying the hit.

Casting seems ok and you hit them just right, the hack and slash mixed with abilities is quite interesting.

I also died a couple of times due to healing staff dps being **** and harpies being bastards.

It's not a bad game and doesn't seem to be on rails which is really cool as tamriel is a big place. Not sure if I would play it tbh will have to checkout the guilds ect see what they are like.

It did still feel a bit off yea. But being a beta stress test, I wouldn't be overly worried about that being fixed.
Overall as a beta stress test I was fairly impressed. Stable game bar a couple of logon issues on Saturday. Sure it had bugs but that's the purpose of a beta. Find bugs and iron them out. And there wasn't anything really ground breaking.
I found a solution to the bug where I bricked by character so was able to continue.
I'm still in favour of the game but will wait and see closer at how it has improved. I was playing as a tank class but never actually got to tank (didn't level far enough). I did hear the first instance is a bit*h though.
If I get invited to another I think I'll aim towards hitting 10 asap and trying out pvp.

Calhoun

Yah i agree, there wasn't anything really ground breaking but i suppose at this stage in the lifecycle of MMO as a genre is there much left to break ground on?

I did like the combat was kind of a mix between, GW2 and neverwinter and that theorethically any class can use any weapon.

Downside or maybe i just didnt get into it was the multi-player aspect, the game seems like it took a single player game and tact'd on communication, this was the core downside to SWTOR. Maybe i didnt see enough of the game but not having chat bubbles and unclear chat channels is a pain.

Noxin

Calhoun wrote: »

Yah i agree, there wasn't anything really ground breaking but i suppose at this stage in the lifecycle of MMO as a genre is there much left to break ground on?

I did like the combat was kind of a mix between, GW2 and neverwinter and that theorethically any class can use any weapon.

Downside or maybe i just didnt get into it was the multi-player aspect, the game seems like it took a single player game and tact'd on communication, this was the core downside to SWTOR. Maybe i didnt see enough of the game but not having chat bubbles and unclear chat channels is a pain.

I never got chat bubbles. Never used them in any MMO. But that's just me.
I know what you mean though. I didn't group once over the weekend. Even some of the harder quests are solo instanced. I read that people were having difficulty with some quests(they actually weren't hard, just required you to think about what needed to be done instead of mashing buttons).
Instead of thinking, they tried to gather groups and go in but it wasn't possible.
Devs did say they wanted content that would please solo players too and there are some harder areas that require a group or at least another player to come along and help out. Found this out the hard way when I tried to solo some level 10 elite mob who snatched half my health with one hit when I'm sword and board. Luckily a healer came along and got me back on track to help out.

Gonna keep an eye on what feedback we get from this weekend. Hopefully they at least listen to players wants / needs. Really want to try out pvp though. It sounds great.

Calhoun

Noxin wrote: »

I never got chat bubbles. Never used them in any MMO. But that's just me.
I know what you mean though. I didn't group once over the weekend. Even some of the harder quests are solo instanced. I read that people were having difficulty with some quests(they actually weren't hard, just required you to think about what needed to be done instead of mashing buttons).
Instead of thinking, they tried to gather groups and go in but it wasn't possible.
Devs did say they wanted content that would please solo players too and there are some harder areas that require a group or at least another player to come along and help out. Found this out the hard way when I tried to solo some level 10 elite mob who snatched half my health with one hit when I'm sword and board. Luckily a healer came along and got me back on track to help out.

Gonna keep an eye on what feedback we get from this weekend. Hopefully they at least listen to players wants / needs. Really want to try out pvp though. It sounds great.

Generally i use chat bubbles to see who is talking, gives a more animated feel to chars they arent just moving statues. For an mmo generally you do want it to seem like its a hive of activity but not as much as you see all chat no matter location in a zone. I could be just spoiled with the likes of wow and capitol city chat.

I did like the quests, they didnt seem to be all fetch this and fetch that. They had allot of the dynamic quests which were pretty cool. I didn't like that they didnt really explain much about the opposing factions why you were fighting ect, maybe something they will include in the full game.

Dermighty

Overall the game grew on me. The graphics improved as the zones changed and the dwemer cave I went into as part of a quest was the graphical highlight. It does look a little bland, there were not any vibrant colours that stood out and as a result it didn't have much contrast. Perhaps better armour with shiny and textured bits will improve the look. Not a big deal.

Crafting seemed to be good, in depth, broad range of options in one menu and deconstructing things to raw materials as a part of every applicable trade is great, no need to learn enchanting to access disenchanting (like warcraft).

The music was extremely underwhelming, beta isn't the finished game but I really wanted the music high and effects low and I got both low even with everything at 100%.

At one stage I swapped to a weapon with double the damage of the one I was previously using and noticed that I was very underequipped for the quest at hand, won't happen again.

I would buy the game.