Rift: Planes of Telara

[Scythiroth]

I wasn't really paying attention to the character animations, but this game just feels extremely boring to me. The soul trees trying to make this game less of a WoW clone just aren't cutting it for me.

Oh well, back to waiting for other MMOs coming out this year.

[Hyan]

Don't be a Hyan and/or mioko who defend the defects of a game just because it doesn't bother them.

Woah now, and here I was thinking you can still have an opinion around here. The animations don't bother Lucavi, which he oh so often likes to tell us. That's all there is to it.

What he has failed to realize is that stating your opinion on a discussion forum is a no-no.

They also don't bother Alderaan, fyi.

[Insanecyclone]

I never noticed the animations in the past 4 betas until it was brought up. Too much fun to give a shit.

[Rivero]

The hair choices for Male Human are total fucking shit. 9 types of Bald and one that looks like a lion's mane...

[Rulke]

My char is a dwarf, he's pretty cool looking. Played a bit at lunch, feels ok but nothing overly special for me personally. I'll enjoy playing the Betas, thats for sure, but just to pass some time.

[Alderaan]

They also don't bother Alderaan, fyi.

Hey now!

The only MMO's animations that i liked was Aion. While i love the fluidity of WoW's, i cannot stand the animations there either. I don't think any MMO has gotten animations right without going over the top Korean style.

[Katlan]

whats wrong w/ over the top good looking animations? They dont make a game, but they sure help envelop you in what your doing since you will be staring at that stuff for endless hours while playing

[Senji]

Korean chars/animation/char creation and this game will be set. Aion took things a bit too far, but from a few Tera videos they got it right.

Lacking hairstyles/option I'm hoping is just due to beta.

[Lucavi]

Aion did push it too far, but I'm more of a fan of "medieval" fighting than high-flying couching tiger in a MMO. Just doesn't look right with armor, and it certainly doesn't give off a war vibe.

On topic, there must be close to 2,000 people just in the Silverwood region on my server. Trion's getting some serious stress-testing done.

[Priran]

couching tiger

http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/2...4bbd7d1578.jpg

[Eanae]

Some first impressions; Patcher is awful, animations are awful, storyline is awful, voice overs are awful, lag around rifts in 10-15 level range is awful. Animations wise, it feels like whenever I use an ability I just swing my weapon. Nothing really abilityish about it. Attack animations for 1h weapons aren't super bad, but still kind of meh. Running animations are terrible. The soul-tree system is confusing and there is NO point in having 3 souls before you're even level 10. The planer system seems kind of stupid. Rifts are fun until the lag kicks in and you start lagging and coming out of it dead. Armor models look terrible, 1h weapons and shields look kind of cool, and 2h weapons are WAY too big. Warfront lag is awful and enemies teleport around like crazy. The game isn't overall ugly but I feel like there was ALOT more work put into the world than character models.

[Shnaklaha]

Some first impressions; Patcher is awful, animations are awful, storyline is awful, voice overs are awful, lag around rifts in 10-15 level range is awful. Animations wise, it feels like whenever I use an ability I just swing my weapon. Nothing really abilityish about it. Attack animations for 1h weapons aren't super bad, but still kind of meh. Running animations are terrible. The soul-tree system is confusing and there is NO point in having 3 souls before you're even level 10. The planer system seems kind of stupid. Rifts are fun until the lag kicks in and you start lagging and coming out of it dead. Armor models look terrible, 1h weapons and shields look kind of cool, and 2h weapons are WAY too big. Warfront lag is awful and enemies teleport around like crazy. The game isn't overall ugly but I feel like there was ALOT more work put into the world than character models.

honestly i kinda feel the same after playing it to 12 so far.....But i mean, they still have a month and a half, and with the recent changes a LOT could happen.

Idk why, but even with those complaints i'm still starting to enjoy it a little more...maybe it was because i finally read the skills and saw that i could actually kill things FASTER than i already was....I wouldn't say the storyline is horrible quite yet...but there's no incentive to read the chat honestly. it's not just the animations that need to be improved, it's the sound effects to go with it. I'm an audio guy and i can honestly say....this game is a giant turn off sound wise. WoW has the same problem but on the opposite side which is: Too much grunting and noise that work well for the abilities, but when put together hurts to comprehend....WoW's ambiance soundtrack sucks horribly, put so much time and money into an orchestra to fail on the presentation hardcore. Rift seems to have little in "Umph" when it comes to sounds. They could be placeholders since its beta, but since we're in phase 5 (out of 7?) we're getting kinda late into the game to go back and redesign from the ground up with sounds. The background music is HORRIBLE aside from rifts so far...but i give them brownie points for changing the music when battles start. it's at least showing effort audio wise. i hope it changes, i really do, but unless i see major improvement between now and release, i'm not spending a dime on this game. I have ffxi, aion, future gw2 and all other kinds of games that occupy me.

Game has potential, and it's somewhat enjoyable. It's just frustrating to see them get "The big picture" but still mess up on the little things that ruin the experience in the long run. (If i have to listen to my own music, and i mean HAVE to, during a game for reasons outside of hearing the same music/sound 100 times, something is wrong with a game, which is 50% reason why i quit wow) oh well, my 2 cents

[Lucavi]

Downloading it over my brothers and I keep running into a 1003 error during the last 10%. Glad I didn't have this problem at home. Anyone found a workaround yet?

[Alderaan]

This was the first beta phase that had any lag, i had mobs warping all over my screen. I think with the free 25 keys everyone got, there were way too many people trying to get on servers to be with friends that were already packed.

[Cjskater]

Yeah, the lag is from stress testing. Yesterday while I was on, they brought up like 8 servers, all of which were full within an hr. Rifts are a lot more fun without the lag and 8 billion people killing mobs. I tried to show a friend some, so he could experience what I had hoped, but every time we got there they were already on the 5th round and shit was dieing in like 5 seconds.

[person2007]

Some first impressions; Patcher is awful, animations are awful, storyline is awful, voice overs are awful, lag around rifts in 10-15 level range is awful. Animations wise, it feels like whenever I use an ability I just swing my weapon. Nothing really abilityish about it. Attack animations for 1h weapons aren't super bad, but still kind of meh. Running animations are terrible. The soul-tree system is confusing and there is NO point in having 3 souls before you're even level 10. The planer system seems kind of stupid. Rifts are fun until the lag kicks in and you start lagging and coming out of it dead. Armor models look terrible, 1h weapons and shields look kind of cool, and 2h weapons are WAY too big. Warfront lag is awful and enemies teleport around like crazy. The game isn't overall ugly but I feel like there was ALOT more work put into the world than character models.

I agree. It feels like a standard mmo, the rifts are a nice idea but they are very uninspired atm. The characters are clunky are awful looking, i havent experienced much lag but it sucks when you're trying to kill a mob during a rift and you have 87592837523475 people killing it in one second.Though i do like the landscape/graphical aspect of the game.

[Rulke]

Downloading it over my brothers and I keep running into a 1003 error during the last 10%. Glad I didn't have this problem at home. Anyone found a workaround yet?

Is your brother connected to a router? I had that same problem and the email I got from TRION said its related to firmware issues. I actually just updated my router firmware this morning and it solved the 1003 issue completely (was bringing my machine into work to bypass this previously, heh).

[Lucavi]

I got it about an hour after I posted it; just plowed through and it got the broken file on the next attempt.

Thank you, though.

[Kuya]

Are there are guides that tell you about all the features in the game in a detailed manner? I'm kind of at a loss after diving through so many menus, and i just noticed taht i really suck at pvp and at rifts cause i can't target, chase, and use my abilities on things all at the same time.

[Cjskater]

and at rifts cause i can't target, chase, and use my abilities on things all at the same time.

Tab for enemies and Ctrl+Tab for friendly, add Shift for tabbing back. I usually just hit tab and start unloading on whoever I target, usually picks something claimed for you.

I have no idea of the most efficient way to heal though, clicking health bars is kind of inefficient when they are so gigantic.