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11 years ago
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It's Show Time!
So for the past few weeks i have had the pleasure of been invited and participate in the Wildstar closed Beta's. now I aint no world class game reviewer so this is all purely based on my opinion and so forth nor am I a a gamer that's ranked or anything of the sort, just your normal fuzzy noodle waking at the keyboard for enjoyment!.
So where to begin, Wildstar has had its fair share of bugs and hang ups but I feel they are going to be able to build up that game into something that is really quite special. I really enjoy their attempt to make the game light-hearted and comical and thus enjoyable to play. thought I feel the lack of actual NPC dialog outside of cinematics a huge setback and I know that is the one thing the team wont fix. Ah well, I need to do a bit more reading then expected... I'll live with the NPC's witty commentary.*nods*. Character customization although fairly basic, they do allow a little bit of freedom in terms of facial feature proportions. l would love to see more customization options. colour picker hair/eyes/skin and the likes as well as more hairstyles/faces for all the races specially more faces for humans... some of them just make your characters look... brutish or stupid. *pouts* I'm really enjoying the Chua and Aurin. but why the heck do Aurins have eyes the size of their heads * shudders* I always scale them down to a acceptable size... always!
The game play is fluent and you really get into the combat style. certain classes like the esper feel a tad bit .. slow compared to the others but they are enjoyable to play if your used to been a caster in other games.
their paths idea i think is pretty neat but the perks of each need a bit of tweaking, they dont server much of a purpose other then fluff in most cases or halving fall dmg for explorers if... "IF" the skill is active... thankfully you can cast it mid fall and possibly survive your mistake. ( has saved me a few times )
At the moment I believe there is a problem with players that have AMD cards but the team has stated this will be fixed and working by launch. I haven't had any issues in terms of my rig falling over during game playing. no terrible lose of frame rates.
Housing! oh, I like their housing and I spent an entire play session nudging furniture around my floating island. It's pretty in depth but I hope they do add more objects and building blocks in the future. more stuff is always welcome! hahaha.
i really like the fact that they put in mount customization and the wide selection of mounts i have seen running around is pretty impressive too. sadly the team has said no flying mounts v.v * le sniff * not that thats an issue. thier world maps are fun to explore and run around in. not just zooming over on a mounts back.
I haven't gone into pvp just as of yet as i was really looking at what the game can offer me as a player. (not a giant fan of pvp) but i hope you have enjoyed reading this and i hope to see some of you on planet nexus in the up and coming open Beta event!
-Nickel
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