This will probably be a wall of text, ive just woken up so ignore the punctuation and spelling.
Well aftet testing here are my thoughts after playing for pretty much most of Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Gameplay- When i first entered the game i was not impressed, the graphics looked ok but nothing brilliant and the combat seemed very clunky. It looked like it was going to be one of them games that would come out and not impress me at all. I thought let's give this more of a go, seeing as im an MMO veteran and have played pretty much most of the big MMO's 13-14 years.
I started leveling up and as i got higher, i found the game to be getting better. I didn't watch the story lines, as i wanted to save them for release so i just spaced through them all. But i did find the story to be very good from the answers i gave and the replies i got back. I carried on and with leveling with a mate and using comms time flew by and i had finally got to 10 and went Assassin Advanced Class and was pretty much enjoying the game then.
After i'd done that, i started enjoying it much much more. I did the first flashpoint with a friend which albeit was very easy and we did it with 2 of us and companions was very good. It got a bit hairy at times but overall with a Assassin/Sorcerer duo it was good fun. I've heard it was just one to get you into Flash Points, but the higher level ones require a proper group and be harder which i hope is true.
In the end i had the following;
Sith Assassin Level 18 I loved this and this will be my main.
Sith Marauder Level 11 It was ok, but didn't enjoy this after playing the Sin.
Sith Sorcerer Level 13 Really enjoyed this and will probably be my alt.
Bounty Hunter Level 8 It was ok, but it had no lightsaber!
PvP - I really enjoyed this and felt the Assassin as a melee character coped well with what the class is given. I did find that Range ruled the battleground though and even the ones in full heavy armour that took the least amount of damage still did damage that matched mine while i could do similar if not higher but had to be behind the target where as the damage they did was from anywhere.
I also found Sages to be incredibly hard to kill, if it was a bad one i'd still struggle but kill them whereas a good one i'd probably only win 10% of the time as they would heal through my damage and smash me into the ground at the same time with really good damage considering they can heal.
I played all three battlegrounds but really only disliked the Void Star one as i think it heavily favours ranged. It takes to long to respawn when defending due to the spawn door being shielded and to long to plant the bomb especially if the other team is full of ranged as you could be 9 seconds in and get hit from a ranged thats just turned the corner with his long range. If you come up against a good team, i doubt you'll even break through the first set of doors by the time the round ends and if you do then you probably won't get any further.
I really enjoyed the others and thought Huttonball(sp?) was really good and with two competant teams would be amazingly good fun and very intense.
Beta Comments - I thought it was one of the better beta's that i've played in the last 4-5 years and albeit had bugs, it's overall gameplay and the way it was run was excellent. I did have a few problems with bugs, that kept popping up mainly these;
1. Running as if auto run was on, but not being able to stop.
2. Loosing all markers on the map and having to relog or move into a new area to refresh the map.
3. Not being able to click on the UI and having to relog.
4. Not being able to loot bodies, but found out using Seethe or whatever the self heal is stops it and enables you to loot again.
5. The one i had most problems with and might be my side, but having my view shoot up looking into the air at critical moments in PVP/PVE and also when moving around. It's kind of like having a mouse with high sensitivity and knocking your mouse forwards and the view shooting up, but i've never had that in any other game i've played.
Conclusion - I am defiantly keeping my pre-order and playing Assassin come release. I did enjoy the other classes i played, but overall had more fun with the above.
In the end the graphics grew on me and now i quite like the style of the game and the clunkyness i reported went away and it seems a lot more fluid animation wise and everything else.
Now i can't wait for headstart and really want the game to be out now and with a few bug fixes this will be a very good game. It will not surpass WoW as lets be honest it's been out for 7+ years and has a great following but i think it will be the biggest MMO since WoW and probably be the most played after.
Well aftet testing here are my thoughts after playing for pretty much most of Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Gameplay- When i first entered the game i was not impressed, the graphics looked ok but nothing brilliant and the combat seemed very clunky. It looked like it was going to be one of them games that would come out and not impress me at all. I thought let's give this more of a go, seeing as im an MMO veteran and have played pretty much most of the big MMO's 13-14 years.
I started leveling up and as i got higher, i found the game to be getting better. I didn't watch the story lines, as i wanted to save them for release so i just spaced through them all. But i did find the story to be very good from the answers i gave and the replies i got back. I carried on and with leveling with a mate and using comms time flew by and i had finally got to 10 and went Assassin Advanced Class and was pretty much enjoying the game then.
After i'd done that, i started enjoying it much much more. I did the first flashpoint with a friend which albeit was very easy and we did it with 2 of us and companions was very good. It got a bit hairy at times but overall with a Assassin/Sorcerer duo it was good fun. I've heard it was just one to get you into Flash Points, but the higher level ones require a proper group and be harder which i hope is true.
In the end i had the following;
Sith Assassin Level 18 I loved this and this will be my main.
Sith Marauder Level 11 It was ok, but didn't enjoy this after playing the Sin.
Sith Sorcerer Level 13 Really enjoyed this and will probably be my alt.
Bounty Hunter Level 8 It was ok, but it had no lightsaber!
PvP - I really enjoyed this and felt the Assassin as a melee character coped well with what the class is given. I did find that Range ruled the battleground though and even the ones in full heavy armour that took the least amount of damage still did damage that matched mine while i could do similar if not higher but had to be behind the target where as the damage they did was from anywhere.
I also found Sages to be incredibly hard to kill, if it was a bad one i'd still struggle but kill them whereas a good one i'd probably only win 10% of the time as they would heal through my damage and smash me into the ground at the same time with really good damage considering they can heal.
I played all three battlegrounds but really only disliked the Void Star one as i think it heavily favours ranged. It takes to long to respawn when defending due to the spawn door being shielded and to long to plant the bomb especially if the other team is full of ranged as you could be 9 seconds in and get hit from a ranged thats just turned the corner with his long range. If you come up against a good team, i doubt you'll even break through the first set of doors by the time the round ends and if you do then you probably won't get any further.
I really enjoyed the others and thought Huttonball(sp?) was really good and with two competant teams would be amazingly good fun and very intense.
Beta Comments - I thought it was one of the better beta's that i've played in the last 4-5 years and albeit had bugs, it's overall gameplay and the way it was run was excellent. I did have a few problems with bugs, that kept popping up mainly these;
1. Running as if auto run was on, but not being able to stop.
2. Loosing all markers on the map and having to relog or move into a new area to refresh the map.
3. Not being able to click on the UI and having to relog.
4. Not being able to loot bodies, but found out using Seethe or whatever the self heal is stops it and enables you to loot again.
5. The one i had most problems with and might be my side, but having my view shoot up looking into the air at critical moments in PVP/PVE and also when moving around. It's kind of like having a mouse with high sensitivity and knocking your mouse forwards and the view shooting up, but i've never had that in any other game i've played.
Conclusion - I am defiantly keeping my pre-order and playing Assassin come release. I did enjoy the other classes i played, but overall had more fun with the above.
In the end the graphics grew on me and now i quite like the style of the game and the clunkyness i reported went away and it seems a lot more fluid animation wise and everything else.
Now i can't wait for headstart and really want the game to be out now and with a few bug fixes this will be a very good game. It will not surpass WoW as lets be honest it's been out for 7+ years and has a great following but i think it will be the biggest MMO since WoW and probably be the most played after.
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