Phase 5 Beta Open!

[Etrigan]

Oh I should say that after all is said and done, the game is only 17gb of file space, not the 20 everyone's been quoting. :p

[rellix]

ask us more questions

[Jogar]

Yay, fileplanet client FTW!! Patched and ready!

[Jogar]

Originally Posted by rellix

ask us more questions

Care to comment on the state of PVP? Also I seemed to have missed it in all my excitement but where are the beta forums(might wanna PM that if you can)?

[Etrigan]

Hey Rellix - if you have Beta Forum access can you copy & paste that Mort's Tweaks Guide people keep referencing in-game to these forums? I hear rave reviews about that.

Jogar: I didn't play PvP server, so I dunno. Honestly the PvP pop in Beta was like 1/10th the pop of the PvE server.

[Droj]

Originally Posted by Jogar

Care to comment on the state of PVP? Also I seemed to have missed it in all my excitement but where are the beta forums?

PvP is just that, straight PvP with no rankings,honor points or anything at this point. I am not sure if they have done any class balancing for PvP yet, I think they have been concentrating on PvE.

[Jogar]

well I'm stuck at connecting, server's down? BTW the music I'm hearing rocks.

[Etrigan]

Originally Posted by Droj

PvP is just that, straight PvP with no rankings,honor points or anything at this point. I am not sure if they have done any class balancing for PvP yet, I think they have been concentrating on PvE.

NO. NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO.

Class Balancing for PvP is shit. It's ruined a LOT of games. Honestly, I'd rather they take PvP out than balance classes for that. Do I think a couple classes could be toned down for PvE? Yes. But no way in hell do I agree that classes need balancing in any sort of way for PvP.

[Etrigan]

Originally Posted by Jogar

well I'm stuck at connecting, server's down? BTW the music I'm hearing rocks.

Probably. Beta servers go down a lot, and chunks crash like every 20m so be prepared. :D

[jayfyve]

Originally Posted by Etrigan

* Diplomacy. Yes, I know a lot of folks don't want to hear this, but as engaging and fun as I think Diplomacy is (generally all the good points listed out in my good section), the system has been overly simplified it seems. I can name 5 cards that I carried with me all the time that basically made winning any diplomatic situation a cakewalk, and really? It shouldn't be that way. I was hoping for a system that had a range of difficulty and in some cases it does; but for the most part when I can win every parley with the same five cards, something needs to be changed. THis is not to say that they have some plans for it in an upcoming patch or whatever, and I hope they do. =) Overall Diplomacy is fun, but this is the part that draws heavily from it.

I actually had several parleys in Tanvu that I had to swap my cards around for, ones that were not easily beaten the first try. But most of the parleys my reason cards would take care of. That was on my level 5-10 half-elf bard. I just came in last week on Beta4 so I didn't get too far. But I did find the diplomacy fun...