Rift: Planes of Telara

[LidenbokValour]

Damn them! so lucky I got on once but the servers where down...I know for now on to wait haha.

[Rulke]

Heh, I got a char made, but I forget which server, some PvE one. Snuck my machine back into work to set it up. Ran around for a few min then logged out right as severs were crashing apparently.

[Jinfire]

Seems to be working better now, and Braircliff has a loging queue now thinking of going elsewhere.

[Nightraid]

Thanks for your patience as we work to get you into RIFT. There many of you trying to get in at once and we are working out some kinks ^Z

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[Hyan]

There many of you trying to get in

Ohh, so that's why it crashed.

[Lucavi]

Seems to be working better now, and Braircliff has a loging queue now thinking of going elsewhere.

They all have huge queues right now. Seems to be a LOT more people in this beta than in previous ones.

[Jinfire]

Yeah they handed out Beta Keys like McDonalds hands out French Fries.

[Falisa]

I'm trying to like this game but god damn the character graphics and animations are baaaad.

[Siya]

Still unable to do anything, redownloaded client and moved it from my laptop (which worked) but I don't see any kind of character models or any of the background stuff. Is there an issue with ATI cards or something?

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[Lucavi]

They just released a mini patcher update (fixed my problem), and took my server down for 30 mins of maintenence. Such rapid responses.

[Kuya]

I'm trying to like this game but god damn the character graphics and animations are baaaad.

The UI is so good and the game easy to just in and get into but boy are the animations bad. I can also barely see my guy's face even though i actually made him look good.

[Cjskater]

Did you guys put it on "Ultra" or whatever? The game defaults to Medium I think when you first start it up. The character animations are bad, yes, but everything on highest during one of the zone-wide events (the rift effects in general I guess) is pretty amazing.

[Katlan]

I'm trying to like this game but god damn the character graphics and animations are baaaad.

I dont think I will be able to get past this fact. Even if i like a lot of the game, looking at a character run around all retarded like and animations so bad it hurts my eyes

[Lucavi]

I dont think I will be able to get past this fact. Even if i like a lot of the game, looking at a character run around all retarded like and animations so bad it hurts my eyes

That's why XIV is just for you! Perfect, high-quality animations!

[Kuya]

Let's not go overboard with our sarcasm!

[solracht]

I was playing on high-ultra and all I could think about (regarding graphics) was how my skeleton pet looked less awkward/dumb than me when it came to moving and attacking.

I may keep on playing for the beta but I doubt I'll end up playing when it comes out. The novelty of the game hasn't worn off and the animations are something that are already bugging me. I don't want to imagine how bad it'll be later when I have spent hours staring at my character.

[Lucavi]

Whoa whoa, I'm serious. You're not talking to Hyan, here.

I dunno, maybe I play the "one" class and weapon that has good animations, because I love leaping 40 yards over hills, water or whatever else is in my way to cleave someone in twain with my claymore. Maybe its just me. I haven't found a game yet outside of WoW that had a running animation that I actually liked, and that only applied to Orcs.

Then again, Orcs were just perfect in general. At least the men.

[Cjskater]

Maybe the rest of us are all Kelari females, their running animation is terrible.

Edit: Have to admit though, they are pretty good multi-taskers. They can run and do The Twist at the same time.

[Katlan]

Lucavi, you don't need good graphics to have good animations, those don't go hand-in-hand... And from this thread, beta forums, and other forums.... It should be pretty obvious the animations bother a lot of ppl.. Even if they don't bother "you". Don't be a Hyan and/or mioko who defend the defects of a game just because it doesn't bother them.

Animations suck, no way around it. That matters more to others while some don't care, but it's obviously a deciding factor in buying a new mmo when the first second you log and move around it's the first thing you notice. That, and it rly bugs me how when you zoom into your character you can see their skeleton and different polygons. It was the same way w/AoC and it bugged the shit out of me

[Falisa]

It seems like they tried to make the animations from hand instead of using motion capture for anything. Because I'm pretty sure when I run, I don't twist my entire upper body.

I'd say the character graphics would not be as bad, if they only had good animations to go with it. But the two of them together, it makes me nostalgia about Vanguard.