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Ragnarok1978
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Well I fell in, was at the local PC store today and right there on the shelf, US SI expansion was standing. I just couldn't help myself so I bought it
Reactivated the old US account, downloaded 60 MB worth of patches. Installed and activated Si, followed by another 20 MB download, and then I was ready to get going.
I knew what I wanted to make, a kobold savage. First I logged on to palomides, and my 1 year old chars were still there. Managed to scrape together 30g and had an old friend help me transfer it to my little blue guy in the SI area.
So I had my first hours of SI, and I thought I'd share how it was to me:
Graphics: Way smoother running than on the old client, however I don't find it to be all that much better graphics wise. The water is allmost too pretty to fit the world, but the general animations of chars as well as monsters has take quite a bump for the better. Spells look nicer, again it's nothing mindblowing but it is an upgrade. The new race, Valkryn or whatever, are rather funny to look at, especially the male who runs like a hobgoblin, was laughing out loud when i first spotted one running past me.
Given I didn't make it higher than 5, I have yet to see very much of the world. I did experiment with settings and I really like the choices you have of UI now, but most of all I really like the way you can tweak your settings while playing, not having to log out and do them, only to log back in to find out that didn't really help much at all.
I've run past alot of BDs, and I gotta say those pets are really awesome looking, and it seems to be a pretty strong class, at least for PvE from what I could see. Savage is the most fun char I have yet to play, given I have only been a svage for 5 bubs of exp, it is still alot of fun. The "boxing" kinda fighting animations look way cool, especially on a kobold, and eventho yellows can be hard a times he has absolutely no problems mowing thru hordes of blue cons before needing to rest. The few spells I already have are actually nice. A fight you could go and loose when caught offgouard is easily turned by sacrificing some health on a haste and finishing off the mob that would otherwise have killed you.
Light effects and shadows seem to work ok, as I already said the water is very beautifull (like quicksilver really) generally all structures and landscape look less rough and the game ran very smooth on my machine (Given it is a p4 2.53 with a gf4 ti4600 tho).
So far I am very impressed with SI, there are alot of things I have to get used to, but I will most likely be toying with it up untill the time we are about to get SI in europe. Everything is so new to me there now, so I would be jumping to conclusions by saying there is a TON to look forward to in SI, so I won't go that far just yet. But I do think there will be something to look forward to for everyone around the 20-25th of february if GOA can keep their timeschedule
If you have a question you're dying to ask, or wanna request a screenshot of something, feel free to reply or toss me a PM, I'll try my best to answer.
Well I fell in, was at the local PC store today and right there on the shelf, US SI expansion was standing. I just couldn't help myself so I bought it
Reactivated the old US account, downloaded 60 MB worth of patches. Installed and activated Si, followed by another 20 MB download, and then I was ready to get going.
I knew what I wanted to make, a kobold savage. First I logged on to palomides, and my 1 year old chars were still there. Managed to scrape together 30g and had an old friend help me transfer it to my little blue guy in the SI area.
So I had my first hours of SI, and I thought I'd share how it was to me:
Graphics: Way smoother running than on the old client, however I don't find it to be all that much better graphics wise. The water is allmost too pretty to fit the world, but the general animations of chars as well as monsters has take quite a bump for the better. Spells look nicer, again it's nothing mindblowing but it is an upgrade. The new race, Valkryn or whatever, are rather funny to look at, especially the male who runs like a hobgoblin, was laughing out loud when i first spotted one running past me.
Given I didn't make it higher than 5, I have yet to see very much of the world. I did experiment with settings and I really like the choices you have of UI now, but most of all I really like the way you can tweak your settings while playing, not having to log out and do them, only to log back in to find out that didn't really help much at all.
I've run past alot of BDs, and I gotta say those pets are really awesome looking, and it seems to be a pretty strong class, at least for PvE from what I could see. Savage is the most fun char I have yet to play, given I have only been a svage for 5 bubs of exp, it is still alot of fun. The "boxing" kinda fighting animations look way cool, especially on a kobold, and eventho yellows can be hard a times he has absolutely no problems mowing thru hordes of blue cons before needing to rest. The few spells I already have are actually nice. A fight you could go and loose when caught offgouard is easily turned by sacrificing some health on a haste and finishing off the mob that would otherwise have killed you.
Light effects and shadows seem to work ok, as I already said the water is very beautifull (like quicksilver really) generally all structures and landscape look less rough and the game ran very smooth on my machine (Given it is a p4 2.53 with a gf4 ti4600 tho).
So far I am very impressed with SI, there are alot of things I have to get used to, but I will most likely be toying with it up untill the time we are about to get SI in europe. Everything is so new to me there now, so I would be jumping to conclusions by saying there is a TON to look forward to in SI, so I won't go that far just yet. But I do think there will be something to look forward to for everyone around the 20-25th of february if GOA can keep their timeschedule
If you have a question you're dying to ask, or wanna request a screenshot of something, feel free to reply or toss me a PM, I'll try my best to answer.