Aion

[mooSe_]

Damnit, I entered all the competitions and stuff that I could find for the closed beta key give-away and I didn't get a single one yet :/
I don't suppose anyone has a spare?

[Ctuchik]

got my promised beta spot because of being subbed to TR when it closed.... its not THAT bad i suppose.

not all that grindy like every other asian MMO, plenty of quests that give good xp and ok item rewards.

but those wings you earn cant be used in most places, and when you can, not for very long as your "endurance" run out in about 2 minutes.. so it makes having them pretty useless.

and EVERYTHING costs money. taxi, teleports. curing rezz sickness, binding at a spot, skills etc etc etc. and most of it isnt cheap either.

a couple of untimely deaths and your gonna be broke unless you wait for the rezz sickness to wear off by itself (and then you wont get the XP back).

gonna hold judgement a while longer because i really want to like this game, but i dunno...

[Tilda]

Anybody in this weekends CB?

How is it?

Ctuchik, if you dont want a beta spot, chuck it my way - the wings develop as you level, in the pvp zones they last forever so you can fly as much as you like.

[Ctuchik]

dont think i can do that. i'm not getting invites, i have a proper beta account attached to my ncsoft account, so i'd have to give that away and i have way to many games there for that

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im in, only played it a bit tho ;p

[Tilda]

I'm in now and loving it.
First 10 levels are the prologue the story writing is fantastic theres a huge plot and if you take the time you feel really involved, especially if you read the lore on their website too. At around 10 you choose your class and an important plot development takes place.

not tried pvp yet, but watch this space.

[Aada]

Originally Posted by Tilda

I'm in now and loving it.
First 10 levels are the prologue the story writing is fantastic theres a huge plot and if you take the time you feel really involved, especially if you read the lore on their website too. At around 10 you choose your class and an important plot development takes place.

not tried pvp yet, but watch this space.

Sounds good, does this have a firm EU release yet?

Also let us know how the flying is.

[Ctuchik]

dinged 16 on my spiritmaster today and now i'm really starting to struggle. pets doesent seem to have any useful taunt skill, all you get is a manual skill that tells the pet to taunt, wich cant be used if your already casting a skill as it to have a cast time.

actually you cant order the pet to do anything at all if you are already casting a spell. and the taunt is on a fairly long cooldown and isnt all that good, a nuke or 2 and i can generally out aggro it no problem. and the pets (all 3 of the ones i have) doesent have much of any defenses, so they die almost as fast as i do.

still lots of quests to do but they are starting to get to high level so they havent totally gotten rid of the oh so fantastic asian grindfest.

its still not that bad, but its starting to become bad enough. especially since there really isnt any good places to grind. you spend more time running between the mobs then killing them.

basically i have the same feeling about this game as i did with Auto Assault and Tabula Rasa, cool game on paper but probably wont have a healthy EU/US pop a year after release.

and then we have the small but really annoying things, such as you cant turn on autorun if you have mouselook engaged, and you cant use insta cast spells if you DO have autorun on because then you stop and doesent start running again untill you press forward or engage autorun again.

played a ranger to lvl 13 and was struggeling even more on that, 2 ranged skills and both on craptastic cooldowns. so you have to either wait for that or run up and start to melee in your uber leather armor >.<

unless you wanna kite it and risk bodypulling even more aggro that is. as theres tons and tons of "social aggro" in this game.

also tried a healer (turned chanter thats supposed to be a frontline healer) to lvl 10. and i just cant understand why healers were given a heal over time. at lvl 10 it heals for about 17 a tick ~8 times every 2 seconds, and with 750 - 800 HP its just a waste of cast time to use it. other then that its doing ok i guess, didnt play it that much after 10 as healers in any form isnt my thing.

havent gotten around to play warrior yet so cant say anything about that, but from what i've seen by watching others play its doing pretty good, and is also described as a "idiot friendly" class on character creation.

[Ctuchik]

Originally Posted by Aada

Also let us know how the flying is.

think CoH/CO but with a monstrous end drain its pretty cool but as its very limited WHERE you can fly its more fluff then useful at the moment. it will change later but atm its of no significant use.

/edit: as in you cant fly in any of the major quest zones. you CAN glide from high places, wich is slightly useful but still not so much as there really isnt all that many high places you can get up to

[rynnor]

Hey you know it has some crazy illegal protection system where it installs a rootkit on your pc right?

Its called GameGuard from Nprotect -

nProtect GameGuard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

NProtect_GameGuard

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I say illegal because in Europe it would require specific permission but it sneaks in like a virus - its the whole Starforce issue again...

Sadly enough it doesnt even work - doh!

[Aada]

Originally Posted by Ctuchik

think CoH/CO but with a monstrous end drain its pretty cool but as its very limited WHERE you can fly its more fluff then useful at the moment. it will change later but atm its of no significant use.

/edit: as in you cant fly in any of the major quest zones. you CAN glide from high places, wich is slightly useful but still not so much as there really isnt all that many high places you can get up to

Ah will take the game off my buy list then if you can't fly when you want then i see no point in wings.

[Ctuchik]

Originally Posted by Aada

Ah will take the game off my buy list then if you can't fly when you want then i see no point in wings.

no its pretty useless while leveling up.

tho you probably shoukd try the game first as it has some pretty nice moments, the storyline quests for example are pretty damn enjoyable.

[Ctuchik]

Originally Posted by rynnor

Sadly enough it doesnt even work - doh!

havent had any problems with gameguard yet. it says in the installation that its required to play, so it doesent "sneak in" at all. and if ppl dont bother to read it its not gameguard or NCsofts fault.

[rynnor]

Originally Posted by Ctuchik

havent had any problems with gameguard yet. it says in the installation that its required to play, so it doesent "sneak in" at all. and if ppl dont bother to read it its not gameguard or NCsofts fault.

Doesnt work as in its whole purpose is to prevent cheats and it fails at that - its easy to keep changing the cheatware so that its no longer recognised by this sort of approach so its pretty token but with possible nasty effects on your system.

It blocks steam for instance and doesnt always shutdown when you exit the game apparently.

[Ctuchik]

oh.