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How is your beta testing going Fraser?Fingoniel wrote:ello
there's still some stronghold folks playing daoc but not a lot (most seem to have moved on to lotro)
myself I'm beta testing WAR (rah)
How is the population now? Doesn't a low population make RVR etc. very difficult/boring?Dervish wrote:I'm playing DAoC still and looking forward to the coming changes that make getting any item in the game dead easy.
They are planning something for UK servers but won't say what. Most of the dweebs on FH go on at length about how stale the UK servers are and how wonderful it is on german/us servers but lots keep reappearing on UK servers for months at a time because they realised that trying to be big and clever and bleating with the rest of the FH dross isn't actually a smart thing after all. For those of us that find DAoC hasn't run it's course and can actually demonstrate control of our own minds and not bleat like all the other FH dross we still enjoy DAoC immensely.
RvR has themes - it goes through patches of small group ramdomness to like it is currently which is all out zergfest iRvR with Hibs in Berks and Mids in Eras or vice versa. The stealthwars, which is where I play, is in a sense largely unchanged except the rule of the day now is "red is dead". Apparently at some point in the games history the 8v8 crowd would leave the soloers/duoers alone etc although personally I was rolled every single time. Now though you add on everything, hit everything, kill everything and die lots in the process. It's actually a blessed relief in many ways because you don't need to mentally maintain all that bulls**t whitelist/blacklist/"kill on sight" list rubbish about who is an honourable player or not so can I add on them stuff. It can get tiresome (like last night in fact) when it is so al out zergy that the stealthwars are near impossible but hey it goes in cycles.Sturgis wrote:How is the population now? Doesn't a low population make RVR etc. very difficult/boring?Dervish wrote:I'm playing DAoC still and looking forward to the coming changes that make getting any item in the game dead easy.
They are planning something for UK servers but won't say what. Most of the dweebs on FH go on at length about how stale the UK servers are and how wonderful it is on german/us servers but lots keep reappearing on UK servers for months at a time because they realised that trying to be big and clever and bleating with the rest of the FH dross isn't actually a smart thing after all. For those of us that find DAoC hasn't run it's course and can actually demonstrate control of our own minds and not bleat like all the other FH dross we still enjoy DAoC immensely.
Dervish wrote:Sturgis wrote:How is the population now? Doesn't a low population make RVRDervish wrote:I'm playing DAoC still and looking forward to the coming changes that make getting any item in the game dead easy.
They are planning something for UK servers but won't say what. Most of the dweebs on FH go on at length about how stale the UK servers are and how wonderful it is on german/us servers but lots keep reappearing on UK servers for months at a time because they realised that trying to be big and clever and bleating with the rest of the FH dross isn't actually a smart thing after all. For those of us that find DAoC hasn't run it's course and can actually demonstrate control of our own minds and not bleat like all the other FH dross we still enjoy DAoC immensely.
etc. very difficult/boring?
RvR has themes - it goes through patches of small group ramdomness to like it is currently which is all out zergfest iRvR with Hibs in Berks and Mids in Eras or vice versa. The stealthwars, which is where I play, is in a sense largely unchanged except the rule of the day now is "red is dead". Apparently at some point in the games history the 8v8 crowd would leave the soloers/duoers alone etc although personally I was rolled every single time. Now though you add on everything, hit everything, kill everything and die lots in the process. It's actually a blessed relief in many ways because you don't need to mentally maintain all that bulls**t whitelist/blacklist/"kill on sight" list rubbish about who is an honourable player or not so can I add on them stuff. It can get tiresome (like last night in fact) when it is so al out zergy that the stealthwars are near impossible but hey it goes in cycles.
The strange thing is the worst zergers by FAR are the hibs - they never, EVER solo/duo they only go out in opted high RR groups or 2 groups and last night even 3 FGH zergs.
At least PvE is much, much easier now and with coming changes even easier to get all ToA stuff including being able to buy all the rare ML drops with new gems that will drop of ToA mobs and using bounty points to buy XP, realm points, scroll, arti credit etc. Hell with all the new quests they keep adding I was able to solo level my Infiltrator from 29 to 50 in 10 days playing 4 hours a night and then not every night.
Basically Mythic are finally stopping with new expansions which nobody wanted and actually addressing all the games shortcomings which is what people wanted all along. It's far, far, far, far too late for me and those of us left to be able to enjoy it with all the people who left because they couldn't (quite rightly) put up with the crapness of it all for so long. Hopefully they will cluster UK servers with someone (anyone) so we can die a slow but fun death until Warhammer.
