Jesus, all you guys got closed beta invites for Wildstar? I wonder why I only get beta invites for games I really don’t have much interest in, like ESO. Its like these bastards know what I will pay money for to beta test.
The first time I played Wildstar was this weekend (beta weekend 1 for pre-ordering) and I had an absolute blast, and I dislike almost everything so found this odd. Combat is twitch based, but it has a pretty in-depth character development system in that you get ability points to plus up a limited ability skill set (I think nine active abilities total, but you have extra hotbars for item use, etc). You also have the AMP system which is somewhat like Path of Exile, but just one circle with three tiers and 6 sections. Tier 2 and 3 have far more significant choices and cost more points.
The difficulty level is higher than in any MMO I’ve played in a long time, and I am no fan of twitch action (my top 20 games all have TB combat besides Darklands), it is actually fun in this game. It’s less twitchy than TERA or Neverwinter.
Besides the classes they also have a path system which is like a class enhancement giving players more of whatever crap they like. They have settler, that builds buffing crap. They have explorers, which go out of their way to look at crap and do jumping puzzles. They have scientists which scan crap for lore and to read crap. And then the only path that makes sense to me – soldier. You get challenges to kill crap. Every sane person plays games to kill crap. Not build crap, read crap, or jump on or look at crap. I am not explaining this well but there is a video on it at their site here-
http://www.wildstar-online.com/en/game/paths/
They also have a lot of housing options, but I don’t care about that either. I guess you get unique missions for building like mines or forests on your sky house plot thing. I don’t care either way as long as the game doesn’t force me into the housing nonsense.
I also like the setting. I occasionally go back to AO to get my sci-fi fix and have been waiting for a good sci-fi mmorpg. This game seems to me to be WoW during the Burning Crusade days, but better with a better setting and far more humor.
My favorite part is they will have an arena and 2v2 and 3v3 brackets. That is why I loved wow before they gutted all hybridization. From the forums the PVE players are happy about all the PVE crap, like 40 man raids and other such tripe that holds no interest for me.
And for the ESO fans – it has real PC GUIs developed for the PC. A real, honest to goodness inventory with a graphical representation. No lists. Pure civilization just like it is 2014. I don’t understand how this is not a bigger deal to people. DCUO was released on consoles and had a real inventory. Why or how does the list not bother you? Especially with the hordes of loot and lootables that ESO had? People like what they like, and more power to you. I’d just feel a lot better if people said they love the game
despite the inventory list and the drastic overabundance of lootables. I don’t know what bothers me more – that they have a list for an inventory or that I seem to be the only person in the world up in arms about it. Maybe I’m just getting too old, I don’t know. I'd really appreciate if at least one other person was mildly miffed. Something.
