Wildstar Launch Thread - Server: Stormtalon | Faction: Dominion

The stress tests seem to be highly limited and initial impressions of the game seem to be highly favorable.

Really I think the NDA exists mostly because they want to keep the discussion of the beta on their beta boards (where they can read them more easily) than scattered around dozens of web sites. They do seem to be interested in feedback.

I mean to a point. You still have theorycrafter armchair devs that don't understand what their job actually is all over the beta boards, and I assume that carbine probably skims their thoughts at most. But you have that everywhere, even in live games.

I did enough in stress test to get the hoverboard but didn't want to do any more than that in the unlikely event I get in real beta.

so i traded a hearthstone key for a wildstar key, is there anyway to see what kinda beta i actually have? my gfs brother brought it up to me that i may only have like a winter beta key or something, is there a way to tell through the email you get when signing up?

i wont be to bummed if its only for the winter beta or w/e honestly game isnt that great.

If there's a spring beta, we're all screwed. Either you have a raw winter beta key, a friend winter beta key (you are tied to other keys for the purposes of banning), a stress test key, or a raid test key.

Date: Dec 10 2013
Game: WildStar
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Type: beta

this is the email i was sent, so im assuming its raw beta, trying to figure out if i have a shot at friend keys, for the saturday thing and getting friend keys, do you just need to play on a saturday? or play for a certain amount of time? or do they pick certain people who are on, and send friend keys.

Guess I need to read them more often. The old one passed, there is a new one, go read about it.

huh?

log in next saturday between noon and 5pm PST and youll get a friend key, and a chance in the draw for a second friend key (about 1 in 10 get it from last i heard).

Nija_sl said:

Ugh, the PVP streams are really disappointing.

I don't want another PBAOE spamfest that brings back the days of DAOC, Anarchy Online, and most recently GW2.

Enable friendly fire. Make your hits on friendlies reflect damage back to you.

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^ things to never do in your pvp games

Nija_sl said:

Enable friendly fire. Make your hits on friendlies reflect damage back to you.

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There is no superlative that reflects exactly how awesome this idea is.

By god I want to watch my pug team gib themselves.

Would take greifing to a whole new level. Oh just about to cast that AE, me and my buddies are going to run into it and take the dmg so you die.

I could see it maybe being cool if everything was single target damage with the occasional AE, but that shit would just be a nightmare in a game where the vast majority of abilities can hit multiple targets at once.

pugs would be insane. insanely funny. as compared to what pug pvp usually is. insanely painful.

If you include some sort of ranking system for friendly fire kills then the worst of the pug griefers will filter to the bottom.

"Now you're talking Crazy" "Crazy Generous"

Big W Powah!_sl said:

"Now you're talking Crazy" "Crazy Generous"

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This stress Test was way more stable than previous one, at least from a Europe player point of view. Last time couldnt stay online for more than 2 min before getting some weird connection error, this time was able to play for a decent amount of time, with only 2 crashes. Play time on a stress event is too little to make a conclusive opinion of the game, but two main point stood up (at least for me ofc).

1) combat i found it really responsive (when not lagging, if under 100 ms its awesome, if over 200 is awful), fun and engaging. Since wow only tera had a decent and responsive combat system (gw2 to a degree too), but this imho is better.

2) Quest thing levelling found it really detached from the game. Hard to explain, maybe is cause of swtor levelling experience, but , as i read in this thread before, it's hard to really care bout whats going on, or even read the quest itself. Not sure if its a matter of fonts used on the quest's text, no voice over or its just me (could be). That aside tho, i rly dont care too much bout that, as i had way more fun doing challenges, killing stuff to see how big kill chain i could get, exploring and folllowing paths's quest.

Levelling experience for me its not a decisive factor. For me what matter is a good PVE enviroment, both in 5man and raid, good Pvp, Character progression (i really miss eq AA,it gave ppl a reason to keep playing, and your character took way more time to reach its power ceiling), and combat fluidity. So i am kinda hopeful for this game. We shall see i guess as we know (i guess) very little bout PVE raids/dungeons at this time (except those 2 low lvl dungeons they shown)

On another note, i have an hearthstone beta key and willing to trade for a wildstar beta key (not stress as im already flagged for it). PM if interested.

TecKnoe_sl said:

so i traded a hearthstone key for a wildstar key, is there anyway to see what kinda beta i actually have? my gfs brother brought it up to me that i may only have like a winter beta key or something, is there a way to tell through the email you get when signing up?

i wont be to bummed if its only for the winter beta or w/e honestly game isnt that great.

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There are no more beta phases like CBT3, Winter Beta etc, it's just closed beta now : no more character wipes or weeks of server downtime. Also if you want to know if your key is Stress Test or CBT, register it on a NCSOFT account, under Account Management you'll be able to see what kind of beta you're on.

yeah it just says beta all arond, nothing like winter beta cbt3 etc.