Wildstar Launch Thread - Server: Stormtalon | Faction: Dominion

TecKnoe · Mar 9, 2014

asfastasican_sl said:
It's been mentioned several times in different places and it's been talked about on the beta forums. Basically if you have been in the internal beta (not weekends) and you dont have at least one lv 32 character by a non-descript date, you will get purged. I'm guessing their reasoning behind this is to have semi-serious testers to test later content that have some idea of how to play their class.

Nothing is set in stone but that's what they have said. To the best of my knowledge, weekend testers can't no-life their way to lv 32 during a weekend beta to hail mary their way into beta, but who knows.

On a side note, I've collected a number of spare keys I might hand out to my friends. I have around 4 to 6 spare keys atm. If any of you guys weren't able to get a key for this weekend, PM me now until tommorrow. Probably sometime tommorrow afternoon I might dump the spare keys on you that I haven't used on a first come first serve basis. I'll pm you back to double check if you still need one.

think they will re-consider this when they realize they have like 50 testers over 32.

Flipmode · Mar 9, 2014

I'm running in exclusive full screen and after about 3 minutes, my characters attack outlines stay permanently on the screen until I reboot. It's annoying. Other than that, the game runs smooth on my computer.

Cinge · Mar 10, 2014

TecKnoe_sl said:
think they will re-consider this when they realize they have like 50 testers over 32.

A lot more then that.

Del · Mar 10, 2014

Did my first dungeon tonight. All I can say is, awesome.

ESPECIALLY when you consider it was just one of the first 2 dungeons in the game.

Byr · Mar 10, 2014

assuming no server issues, a weekend tester could no life it to 32 without much trouble. It should take in the neighbourhood of 20 hours.

Woefully Inept · Mar 10, 2014

Flipmode_sl said:
I'm running in exclusive full screen and after about 3 minutes, my characters attack outlines stay permanently on the screen until I reboot. It's annoying. Other than that, the game runs smooth on my computer.

Go into options and toggle self telegraphs. That will fix that bug.

Flipmode · Mar 10, 2014

Tred_sl said:
Go into options and toggle self telegraphs. That will fix that bug.

Thanks

iannis · Mar 10, 2014

Flipmode_sl said:
I'm running in exclusive full screen and after about 3 minutes, my characters attack outlines stay permanently on the screen until I reboot. It's annoying. Other than that, the game runs smooth on my computer.

That's a bug that happens if you're mousing over an ability when a mob dies -- I think.

Exclusive fullscreen is buggy though. It probably depends on your specific card or whatever, but when I switched out of exclusive my stability and performance went up.

Not way up. But it went up.

spronk · Mar 10, 2014

state of wildstar
The current state of WildStar | GameZone

Interesting number I thought was having 800k beta signups in the last whatever months, but only 160k accounts created. That is a shocking number to me. I always assume the number of people who buy the game is a fraction of the beta signup (since who doesn't wanna try something out for free), which can't be good news for Carbine.

I feel bad for them, they seem to be trying really hard to make a good game but it just isn't coming together very well, I can't imagine the game selling enough to make any money at this point.

yeahs_sl · Mar 10, 2014

160k beta accounts created, as in that is how many they have given out. Can't have more when those are the only invites they have given out.

Abefroman · Mar 10, 2014

I'm a little surprised there is no talk of optimizing the engine in that article. It's in pretty bad shape.

ThunderCougarFalconBird_sl · Mar 10, 2014

1.4 million beta account sign-ups. Doesn't say that they got selected, just signed-up. Only 160K have actually played the beta. Whether that is due to Carbine limiting selection or players signing-up but choosing not to participate the article doesn't really make clear.

If Carbine thinks its a problem, then they need to readjust how they're going about Beta access. Right now closed Beta is cut off, and getting a weekend beta key is just stupid.

gogojira_sl · Mar 10, 2014

Abefroman_sl said:
I'm a little surprised there is no talk of optimizing the engine in that article. It's in pretty bad shape.

Not sure if it just doesn't play friendly with my specs but I've got a pretty beefy PC, the graphics aren't great, and the shit doesn't run very slick at all.

Abefroman · Mar 10, 2014

gogojira_sl said:
Not sure if it just doesn't play friendly with my specs but I've got a pretty beefy PC, the graphics aren't great, and the shit doesn't run very slick at all.

I've played it on 2 different very good pc's and a 3 year old laptop. The pc's have to constantly reload the ui to get the framerate back to playable. Even then it's not maxed settings. The laptop is unplayable getting 20fps in ideal conditions on the lowest settings. The capital cities just rape all 3 machines. For comparison all 3 machines can play TESO, Landmark, FF, Blade and Soul perfectly, with the laptop having the settings turned down to medium.

They better do something, the beta community is obnoxious as fuck with the debug code, it's not optimized, re-install or whatever bullshit excuse they can come up with to defend it.

gogojira_sl · Mar 10, 2014

Abefroman_sl said:
I've played it on 2 different very good pc's and a 3 year old laptop. The pc's have to constantly reload the ui to get the framerate back to playable. Even then it's not maxed settings. The laptop is unplayable getting 20fps in ideal conditions on the lowest settings. The capital cities just rape all 3 machines. For comparison all 3 machines can play TESO, Landmark, FF, Blade and Soul perfectly, with the laptop having the settings turned down to medium.

They better do something, the beta community is obnoxious as fuck with the debug code, it's not optimized, re-install or whatever bullshit excuse they can come up with to defend it.

Yeah, 7970 ghz edition gpu and i7 3770k and this fucking game wants to chug for some reason. I know there are more powerful cards in the past year but Wildstar shouldn't be the game to get my rig all framey.

Del · Mar 11, 2014

Abefroman_sl said:
I'm a little surprised there is no talk of optimizing the engine in that article. It's in pretty bad shape.

Polish = optimization. Polishing is mentioned more than once.

Draegan_sl · Mar 11, 2014

I've never had any client issues, but then again I don't think I've played long enough to have any issues for a while.

Carl_sl · Mar 11, 2014

I don't know if it has been mentioned but as far as beta accounts go only 3% of the people who have signed up have gotten in to the beta due to them only giving out that many keys.

Godankeys 40k keys were gone in no time at all.

If the game fails its gonna be because people leave after a month and not from lack of initial interest.

Flight · Mar 11, 2014

yeahs_sl said:
160k beta accounts created, as in that is how many they have given out. Can't have more when those are the only invites they have given out.

It's not just that. I've had a permanent beta invite for months yet never bothered registering it or logging in after playing over beta weekends.

Quaid · Mar 11, 2014

Flight_sl said:
It's not just that. I've had a permanent beta invite for months yet never bothered registering it or logging in after playing over beta weekends.

Same. I have a couple friends in the same boat.

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