Rift: Planes of Telera Beta

You're both right I guess, just read this:
"To receive the Well Spun Hat, players must complete the new “Riftwalker” achievement. After applying the code on their Trion account page, Rift players will receive the hat in their in-game mailbox beginning with the game’s headstart period on February 24th.

Steam Exclusive pre-order item: Blazing Sourcestone Rune Weapon "
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Steam does say available March 1st though.
 
im getting about 45 fps on ultra setting but had to put on supersampling AA since i updated to 11.1 drivers with edge detect AA otherwise i couldn't see my character or anything else.
 
preordered probably wont play any more of the beta as come the 24th ill be bored already lol, the community in this game is quite terrible ive seen so far (one RP server and one normal server), all sound like people coming over from WoW (although RP servers on wow were fine ime), and the forums are a joke just loads of people arguing like children.
 
tom91x91 said:
preordered probably wont play any more of the beta as come the 24th ill be bored already lol, the community in this game is quite terrible ive seen so far (one RP server and one normal server), all sound like people coming over from WoW (although RP servers on wow were fine ime), and the forums are a joke just loads of people arguing like children.
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I think that is due to the game being polished. I mean you look at good polished big games like for example WoW and it has a rubbish community. However if you look at a MMO that has had lots of problems like WAR and it has a very good community.

When everything is going wrong with a game people who keep playing generally group together and become a lot nicer whereas MMO's that aren't buggy messes the players have no need to be nice, or so atleast from what i have experienced.
 
This game is pretty ugly :( It definitely looks like warhammer online at times. I think I'm burnt out on mmos anyways but I can't see the appeal of Rift right now.
 
tom91x91 said:
preordered probably wont play any more of the beta as come the 24th ill be bored already lol, the community in this game is quite terrible ive seen so far (one RP server and one normal server), all sound like people coming over from WoW (although RP servers on wow were fine ime), and the forums are a joke just loads of people arguing like children.
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There are A LOT of kids that have come from playing WoW and see Rift as a kind of WoW 2.0. You see them spamming in-game chat and posting the useless threads on the official forums. Hopefuly most of them will get fed up with Rift after a very short time and then go back to WoW, leaving a slightly better community.

tom91x91 said:
This game is pretty ugly It definitely looks like warhammer online at times. I think I'm burnt out on mmos anyways but I can't see the appeal of Rift right now.
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It's hardly ugly is it? :rolleyes: Do you really consider it unpleasent to look at? I'd say it's certainly one of the better looking MMOs i've played, and I've played quite a few.

Once you get into the zones a bit and start exploring, there are some very nice enviroments. I've found myself a few times just pausing and taking in a nice view. I think the artsyle is pretty good too. Some of the buildings are cool. They got that 'Ye Olde English' feel to them.
 
haha quote fail.

I think the only bit i find especially "ugly" about the game is the names above peoples heads, big bold horrible font green and blue writing, surely there's a better way to do it? When you're under a rift it's like being in a funny coloured command prompt with enough people there! :p
 
Yeah I think so anyways. The world and the models are low poly and has low res textures but without style to overcome that. As much as some may hate on wow it overcomes those two problems by stylizing? the world.

I've been running it on ultra before anyone accuses me of running on low settings like in general chat :rolleyes:
 
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Almost everything about the game is feeling very average, graphics, sound, animation, really really cheesy low budget intro's :( The community is terrible, general chat is a straight slagging match between frame rates, other MMO's and hardware. The WAR beta seemed to have a much better community but maybe it was just less people being in it.

It's really not brought anything new to the game, there's no really technical parts like say the traps in DDO and no new fight mechanics like AoC tried. It's just run here, read generic Q text, kill/collect 5 turnips, fight Rifts and Invasions in a faceless mob with no real use of tactics. Does it offer anything else later on?
 
324 PvP kills today and counting, and to think I used to like the Ettenmoors !!! :p !!!

shame these char's get wiped, 24th feb can't come quick enough..
 
tom91x91 said:
erm that second one wasnt from me im sure lol
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lol! Sorry about that! I copied the quote tags from the one above and forgot to change the names. What's even more n00bish is that ive only just noticed there's a feature to multi-quote posts anyway. I'll use that next time :D
 
DanF said:
Almost everything about the game is feeling very average, graphics, sound, animation, really really cheesy low budget intro's :( The community is terrible, general chat is a straight slagging match between frame rates, other MMO's and hardware. The WAR beta seemed to have a much better community but maybe it was just less people being in it.

It's really not brought anything new to the game, there's no really technical parts like say the traps in DDO and no new fight mechanics like AoC tried. It's just run here, read generic Q text, kill/collect 5 turnips, fight Rifts and Invasions in a faceless mob with no real use of tactics. Does it offer anything else later on?
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Same feeling here, and I've played most of the mmo flops over the past 5 years.
 
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