Wildstar Launch Thread - Server: Stormtalon | Faction: Dominion

Xevy

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Valderen_sl said:
There are no group or pvp video right now.

As for balance from a gameplay video, it's hard to say...most of the video out there though are developers playing, and they are in invincible mode and not taking any damage.
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Most of the earlier videos are of a dev in invincible mode fighting mobs well above their level for the most part. The beginning of some have them in vuln mode fighting stuff that's actually their level and you'll see general trash quest mobs take like 5-10 seconds to kill.
 
Tmac

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Sure! Each one of their videos they're barely damaging the enemies or are completely rolling the enemies.
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I noticed this as well.

My reaction was, "The damage for this fight obviously hasn't been tuned yet...". I didn't think much deeper into it.
 
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DMK_sl

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If it were an issue we would have read it in the beta cake impressions. I can't remember anyone mentioning it.
 
Abefroman

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Damage compared to what? With no point of reference I don't see how that can be a concern atm. We don't know the level difference, type of mob. etc.
 
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Of the actual early-zone gameplay videos I've seen, I thought the mob balance was pretty interesting simply in the sense that people were having a moderate amount of difficulty killing same-level mobs right out of the gate. Get an add or 2 and you run the risk of dying. Played Neverwinter up to 30-something and never died. Never even got close, even pulling crazy aggro as a cleric in group dungeons. This... should I say, anti-carebear mentality of Wildstar devs has me more amped for this than I have been for an MMO since AOC.
 
Kreugen

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Yeah, I remember in beta wow, running around in small groups most of the time, with large areas of each zone being elite.

(none of that shit means anything until release)
 
Valderen

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There is a post on the betacake forums taken from the beta forums about combat balance. Long post about their plans for CBT2, CBT3 and CBT4.

The short of it, there is balancing left to be done in terms of difficulty and duration of fights.
 
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Draegan_sl

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That's typical of any MMORPG. They often go through several balancing patches that hits the whole game. It happens in almost every single alpha/beta I've been involved with.
 
Sulrn

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What am I missing?

Looking around at the videos and the website and this thing just screams WoW with a little SWTOR thrown in. I thought you guys were looking for something new?
 
Valderen

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It's the only thing to look forward to at this point.
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For me personally, I don't mind WoW clones all that much, as I still enjoy that type of gameplay.

Now, having said that, I think that this is less of a WoW clone, then it is an evolution of WoW. From all the info that was released, it seems that they've pretty tweaked, or modernized all of the systems. It is still very much influenced by WoW.

The problems with past WoW clones is that they were just that WoW clones with barely any new features...and in most cases they were bad clones.
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It might still be a piece of crap, but so far at least they been saying the right things and fairly open.

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Pironin_sl

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Second stress test wed 2-4 pst! If you guys want to get a 40 man group together, I'm game! Hopefully I'll get into the game this time around on this next test
 
Soygen

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Yeah, I'll be getting home from work with about 15 minutes to go on the stress test.
 
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Faiona_sl

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Pironin_sl said:
Second stress test wed 2-4 pst! If you guys want to get a 40 man group together, I'm game! Hopefully I'll get into the game this time around on this next test
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From Reddit "I believe these are only for people who were already in Stress Test #1. Since the email starts with: "Welcome back! We weren't expecting you so soon, please, give us a minute to slip into something a bit more. comfortable."

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...maybe they'll send out some more invites though...since that's kinda an odd time to do a stress test.

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Soygen

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Faiona_sl said:
From Reddit "I believe these are only for people who were already in Stress Test #1. Since the email starts with: "Welcome back! We weren't expecting you so soon, please, give us a minute to slip into something a bit more. comfortable."

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...maybe they'll send out some more invites though...since that's kinda an odd time to do a stress test.
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Yeah, from the sound of it, it may just be the first round again and with how short it is and the context of the email, I imagine they need to fix more crap before they open up a larger phase.

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Cinge

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Sulrn_sl said:
What am I missing?

Looking around at the videos and the website and this thing just screams WoW with a little SWTOR thrown in. I thought you guys were looking for something new?
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For me, all I care about is: Is the game fun. Is it fun playing. Is it at least worth playing through and seeing most everything. That's all that matters. Questions regarding "how long I end up playing it" or "Will it last longer then 2-4 months" are answered after release.

Game is entertainment and I treat it as such.
 
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