Seems like the infinite cinematic is a known issue according to Twitter you just have to wait 5 minutes to get in!
Heh, I was confused when I read their posts, because I logged on to EU perfectly fine before them (around 3:20ish, a few seconds after the BnSOps twitter said servers were still down)
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No idea why anthony101 thinks this launch is worse than WoW/Diablo launches, as a huge Blizzard fanboy even I think Blizzard are absolutely terrible when it comes to launching their games. Horrible queues, and then when you actually get in there's still somehow too many people on the server so you still get gamebreaking lag (people couldn't even start their garrison when WoD launched for upto a day for example).
Compared to Blizzard launches the queues have been great, with barely any lag. It hasn't been perfect obviously, and adding the AFK timer sooner (and having it kick sooner than it does, I think it's still pretty long, although have seen mixed reports on the length of time it takes), and making it so that if you dc/change to a character on the same server there's a small grace period where you don't have to requeue would have helped a lot.
For example, I was playing my main char earlier when my friend wanted to play with me, so I logged off and went and queued on my other char on the same server, we waited 30 minutes or whatever (where I could have just swapped when he got in) he got in and then dc'd and had to requeue again
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I'm really enjoying the combat in the game, the way the skills all interact with each other is fun, and it seems like the skill ceiling will be pretty high in 1v1s.
Not too keen on the whole "this is your weapon" thing (won't bother going into detail, but it's basically the same reasons as some people aren't keen on the Legion weapons), but they aren't even used in PvP, and I guess you still have soul shields that are sort of like gear.
Played Assassin and Kung Fu Master so far, assassin is definitely my favourite of the two, but kung fu master is pretty fun too (did play a small amount of blade master on US when EU was down, felt a bit slow, but it may have been partly latency based, so ignoring that for now).
