WoW starts Stress Test Beta

[Deleted member 4013]

Nope, England. Used a US proxy to sign up. Hopefully there are no IP scans to actually access the servers, no idea how to tweak that

Gimp

 

[Cyradix]

Bleh, Blizzard decided to change their DNS on day the stress test starts

 

[Cyfr]

fuck. I lost my email access so if I got registered it prolly bounced back
and they closed beta now so I prolly can't get it resent

Anyone know how?

 

[Deacan]

Yey, even with the lagfeast, still be worth it.

 

[tRoG]

If you any of you norty people manage to play for more than 10 minutes without going linkdead, please tell if the game's any good

 

[Cyfr]

*spanks tRoG*

 

[mts]

30 minutes till account creation pages are up and i can log on, i'll let you know what its like in a bit =)

 

[Dillinja]

*jealous*

 

[harebear]

*didnt get Yussef's proxy thing* all the free websites work till you try log in to fileplanet then they say you gotta pay or some shit.

 

[Aoln]

Traded acc again harebear? :d

 

[harebear]

Pft I dont do trading, thats just the only char I play and I wanted to change sig :S

 

[Escape]

Couple of links to get started: thottbott, newbie guide.

Character creation has alot of options, you won't see daoc "clones" running about

Haven't played much yet, the starting areas are zerged by newbies and kill-stealers. It doesn't have the "instant addiction" factor that daoc had... but time will tell

 

[mts]

been levelling an orc warrior.. it's alot of fun stable as fucking hell too. will give more details when i pass out from too much levelling ^^

 

[Deacan]

The quest system is great, best one so far is i had to get a dwarf his brew in 5 mins before it went cold hehe.

The game runs very smooth aswell, even on the computer am using, thats 3 years old.

Very impressed so far

 

[harebear]

I want to play ;<

 

[Tilda]

Can someone help me, I have CD key from file planet courtsey of someone very helpful, but when I try to download, Fileplanet kindly informs me that the beta's closed

 

[Tilda]

/edit ok sorted it.
Basicly, theres a link on the fileplanet FAQ which takes you to the account creation page, assuming you have your CD key for this, you can sign up, and then get the files off Blizzard without needing to use fileplanet at all

Tilda

 

[harebear]

Someone help me with this proxy bull please

 

[Tilda]

ok, for IE: Tools, Internet options, connections, lan settings.
You should see a proxy server bit at the bottom, put the IP or address in the address and make sure the ports, right etc, then click ok, that should enable you to access the fileplanets pages, however there are only spots left for people how have paid now

Tilda

 

[Skaven]

Im VERY impressed with it. Rolled a tauren druid and loving it. They get a few neat tricks and at lvl 10 shapeshift into bear form . The quest system is brilliant, you can pretty much deck yourself out in decent armor just doing em, and as far as I know theres no lvl limit - so you basiclly do each quest at your own pace.
Tradeskill system looks quite good, even saw some dudes trying out fishing which looked a laugh.
Have to roll a few others before the weeks out me thinks.

8/10 from what ive seen so far

 

[mts]

Im VERY impressed with it. Rolled a tauren druid and loving it. They get a few neat tricks and at lvl 10 shapeshift into bear form . The quest system is brilliant, you can pretty much deck yourself out in decent armor just doing em, and as far as I know theres no lvl limit - so you basiclly do each quest at your own pace.
Tradeskill system looks quite good, even saw some dudes trying out fishing which looked a laugh.
Have to roll a few others before the weeks out me thinks.

8/10 from what ive seen so far

quoted for truth

really liking what im seeing so far.. realm is down for a restart now, can't wait to log back in

 

[Cyradix]

This game is GREAT!!
Got to lvl 8 with my rogue last night.
The quest system is very nice. At the moment I have 7 open quests

The game engine can handle a lot. I was running at 1280*1024 with all setting maxed. 30 people on screen beating the crap out of mobs in the newbie zone without any slowdowns .

 

[harebear]

This thing is only like 1 week long? :S maybe there shall be a euro one soon

 

[Tilda]

Soo, while im 70% through the download, what should I roll?!!

 

[harebear]

Shaman or some caster thing (forgot their name) :<

 

[Cyradix]

Mages seem to be leveling fast...

 

[Escape]

Druid is quite easy to level. You can nuke, melee and heal yourself mid-combat!
There're no spell interrupts either(only minor ones), so you can break melee and start casting immediately... or keep on nuking while the mob is beating you.

The graphic's engine is very smooth. I'm playing at 1024x768 on a GF2(yes, ancient Geforce2 32MB ) 1.4Ghz, 512MB setup. There's no lag when I walk through towns with 40+ people around me. And it loads new areas without you feeling it, unlike daoc which punishes my hardisk everytime I move.

 

[Saggy]

And it loads new areas without you feeling it, unlike daoc which punishes my hardisk everytime I move.

Your hardisk, fingers, head, arms, legs, cat, car and basically everything that is connected to you deserves to get punished, imo.

Gameplay was weird so I got bored after one hour of playing (US-beta) The game has potential and much depends on how good the PvP-system will be.

 

[Revz]

I was really impressed by the whole game. It felt slick, busy and most importantly it recaptured that sense of awe I had when starting EQ for the first time. The quest system with the coloured icons above peoples heads indicating that they have something for you is really, really good. Quite often I was running around the land just investigating places while also picking up quests left, right and centre. Getting between zones irked me because it wasn't always obvious where the connection points were located but the maps helped somewhat.

I will definitely be playing this upon release

 

[Cyfr]

How do you all have the cdkeys, damn you all to hell! Mine hasnt come or it got bounced back when my email broke /cry

*ehem*

when you are finished using the proxy could you please set it back to direct connection so not all the proxy spaces are used up