WildStar

[Katlan]

Serious question, has anyone experienced any kind of fatigue, dizziness, motion sickness or headaches while playing in certain areas for prolonged periods? It may not happen in all areas, but Its happened to me as well as some other people I know. I found it weird as Its never happened in any other game I have played.

The game is particle effect happy so that may cause it for you. There are many areas where they just throw particle effects around, just to make that location more flashy. I am not talking about ability/spell effects, I'm specifically addressing background/environmental particle effects.

One of the main culprits I have experienced is the 2nd area on Nexus if you picked Exile faction and went to Northern Wildlands when leaving the ship (I think). It's the area that looks like a mix between the Barrens and Ashenvale. In the background there are flashy light blue lights going off all over the place and random ground effects.

[Gulkeeva]

Serious question, has anyone experienced any kind of fatigue, dizziness, motion sickness or headaches while playing in certain areas for prolonged periods? It may not happen in all areas, but Its happened to me as well as some other people I know. I found it weird as Its never happened in any other game I have played.

Nope, averaged about 10-16 hours a of play per day during the stress test I got several weeks ago, just to see how it is. Only thing that sort of gives me a "woooaaah" kinda dizzy feel is when jumping up really high and trying to land on something, but that happens to me in any game I'm jumping like 500 feet into the air and trying to land on a tiny pad >.> Once I land I feel fine

[Koul]

Mabye I'm just tired from work but I can't get into the game lol I was super excited for it and I wanna like it but I dono. Might enjoy it more once it gets polished a bit better. Still feels pretty rough around the edges.

[Kiarax]

Yeah there's too many glaring flaws with the current build, I assume a lot of which are fixed in the new version but it's really holding me back from playing. Trying to play with anyone else is more hassle than fun so I've pretty much given up entirely, combat was really starting to click for me and it was fun destroying packs of mobs as Esper, but not enough to keep me hooked for now. Most of the systems in the game are pretty sweet, but the questing is shit you've seen in any other MMO (admittedly the phasing stuff is nice) and the leveling pace is really slow, hard to push myself to even get to the fun instances. Might give the game another look during OB to see if they resolved most of my issues but right now I am probably gonna give the game a pass, maybe I'll grab it once the retail price drops a decent bit.

[Katlan]

Yeah there's too many glaring flaws with the current build, I assume a lot of which are fixed in the new version but it's really holding me back from playing. Trying to play with anyone else is more hassle than fun so I've pretty much given up entirely, combat was really starting to click for me and it was fun destroying packs of mobs as Esper, but not enough to keep me hooked for now. Most of the systems in the game are pretty sweet, but the questing is shit you've seen in any other MMO (admittedly the phasing stuff is nice) and the leveling pace is really slow, hard to push myself to even get to the fun instances. Might give the game another look during OB to see if they resolved most of my issues but right now I am probably gonna give the game a pass, maybe I'll grab it once the retail price drops a decent bit.

It reminds me of XIV 1.0 in a way. Granted 1.0 had MANY MANY flaws, but the UI was really the #1 thing that prevented me from really trying because it was so awful in every respect. I have always played every mmo, including a lot of beta's (when I can), w/friends, and the UI is just plain awful. Not only is it hard to quest w/ friends, but its hard to see quest ppl on the map/mini-map among the 10000000 other things going on on-screen. Not to mention there is a popup for literally everything and a lot of the basic things are hidden to tiny buttons in the UI

And I agree w/ Kiarax. For how limiting you start out, levelign is super super slow to start out for no real reason. Leveling should slow down mid-high levels, but its so slow at level 5+ it makes me wonder how bad the end levels are. Is it gonna be like 20 hours of questing for a single level? lol

I hope in future builds the UI is more friendly and less distracting, but its a big hindrance to me. Also, I am not a fan of how you unlock abilities. Needing to go to a "trainer" is so outdated. But at least a "trainer" makes some sense.. but they just have an "ability vending machine" just for the hell of it.. why? Also only being able to use the number 1 key, then unlocking key 2-9 as you go along is bothersome to me. I like to be able to customize the button layout from my very first ability since i have a lot of stuff I map to my mouse. But I can't do that until I unlock like 1/2 of the keys.

The combat has potential and the game 100% knows what type of mmo it wants to be and has a great personality to accomplish that. But the UI and some other design choices (that surround the UI) are just very poorly thought out.

[Senji]

Stated by dev that will be tuned for 150 hours to cap for a first character.

[Kuishen]

I have no problem with leveling taking longer if the game is fun to play, and it is for the most part. It could use some tuning in certain areas though.

[Gulkeeva]

Stated by dev that will be tuned for 150 hours to cap for a first character.

Sounds pretty short compared to how long some people take in ffxiv lately.

[Takiwaki]

Leaked June 3rd release date as well as this floating around

[Senji]

Slyly confirmed by a Carbine dev

[Siya]

Wish it was coming out sooner, guess I'll have more time to kill with RoS and ESO.

[Krandor]

NDA lifted and June 3rd release date confirmed.

[Katlan]

Unless they fix the awful UI and related problems, not touching this game w/a 10 foot pole

[Guyverarmor]

Guess I can renew StarWars for two more months then off to Wildstar.

[Ambrosia]

I've always wanted my very own rocket house. I wish I could do House-PVP (shown 0:57-0:59). I wonder if there will be a CE version.

[Siya]

Unless they fix the awful UI and related problems, not touching this game w/a 10 foot pole

We already know they are fixing the UI

[Guyverarmor]

Only eyesore for me was the UI. Since we do know they are fixing it ( Which is why they were testing that other one ) then I have no problem giving Carbine my money. I do hope for
a CE edition, but so far it sounds like there won't be

[ringthree]

100% first day CR pre-order. I am hype for this game. And I don't normally get hype about MMOs like this.

[Senji]

In between pre-order going live and launch, there will be four beta partner weekends. While everyone else will be required to obtain a key to participate in the beta weekend, you will have immediate access to each event. The currently scheduled weekends are:

Friday, March 21st, 7:00AM PDT through Sunday, March 23rd, 11:59PM PDT
Friday, April 4th, 7:00AM PDT through Sunday, April 6th, 11:59PM PDT
Friday, April 18th, 7:00AM PDT through Sunday, April 20th, 11:59PM PDT
Friday, May 2nd, 7:00AM PDT through Sunday, May 4th, 11:59PM PDT

Head start begins on May 31st at 12:01am PDT.
Official launch on June 3rd at 12:01AM PDT.

[Senji]

I do hope for a CE edition, but so far it sounds like there won't be

It is pretty easy for them to throw together a Digital Deluxe Edition of the game, however. For an extra $15, or $75 total, Digital Deluxe purchasers will acquire the following bonus loot:

Eldan hoverboard
Eldan-tech costume
Eldan player title
Limited-edition Eldan dye set

That's in addition to the content of the Standard Edition, which includes:

Copy of WildStar for PC
30-days of play time
3 7-day friend passes
Eldan-themed Housing Décor item

Looks like Deluxe is the closest to a CE. EU deluxe copies will be a steelbook apparently >.>