Right. First off, I originally thought their forum was so poorly-designed. Not only did it glitch out on me when I was going through the sections, but I was having to deal with a “You cannot start a new topic” thing instead of making a thread.
Basically, I had some questions to ask before I got into the trial, and I cannot. Bit annoyed. Turns out you have to have a game code to be able to post. Wish it told me this sooner.
There was also this questionable login screen. It was a basic button on a white screen, with a link in it. It was literally screaming “virus” to me. Turns out with this… Adblock was the fault. I had the websites in question blocked. When unblocking, the button went away and I got in.
Lastly, there’s also this stupid forced security thing, where you have to authorize your IP to access their site. And if your IP changes, you have to authorize that as well. A pretty tedious thing, and I wish it could be made into an option. Why so much security for a website? Bank websites should have this security, not this thing.
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Whatever. Installing the game now. It’s 18GB. Pretty small game compared to others. Still going to take awhile.
Had a bit of an issue with installing. Mainly, I was originally using Sandboxie to check the game out and stuff, and got the download from it. I had accidentally forgot to specify I didn’t want the game installed to my C drive, and when it tried, I got a few Admin errors telling me it can’t do it, yet it did it anyway. When I realized my mistake I managed to stop it. However, that wasn’t going to fix where the game would be installed. Not until I find a way to move the install over to my non-Sandboxie drive.
Thought I would be able to just reinstall it using my non-Sandboxie version of Firefox, but sadly I couldn’t. I got “Your Free Trial has already been used.” when I tried. I was screwed.
Played around with Sandboxie, trying to think of a way to move the file over. Finally got it. By default, it was supposed to do it automatically. But now I’ve reached Sandboxie’s “free trial” period. Claims I can still use it, but it puts an annoying 5 second timer before I can. Plus it doesn’t automatically recover the file to my non-Sandboxie version.
Anyway, getting it now. Managed to pick where I wanted it to be installed. Will re-edit once I get the game fully downloaded and in the game.
Near 50% complete. Almost done.
Mmk, I’m in. Showed a pretty neat climatic. And now I see the restrictions of this free trial. I can only choose two PvE servers. That’s… OK I guess.
As for classes, I can only choose one race. The strange thing is, going between the two factions, the race gets randomly changed. Strange. Also, both races seem to be locked with the Class being ‘Spellslinger’, and the Path being a ‘Settler’. Hmm. More restrictions. I guess the next one is I’m going to be locked when hitting Level 10? Who knows…
Ok, this is interesting. I left to go do my daily walk around the neighborhood. When I got back, it said I was disconnected due to inactivity. Yet there was no option to get away from the screen. I had to X out of the game to do so.
Also, when getting back in, the ‘Settler’ path has changed to ‘Explorer’. So this is basing it on RNG.
So I picked an ‘Exile Human’. You can set its first and last name, similar to Guild Wars 2. Customization is similar to how WoD is doing it. However, you can fully customize your face! Really like this. I was afraid there would be absolutely no customization at all. Very happy.
The ONLY thing you can’t customize are the ears. That’s a bit odd. But the rest, you can customize your Chin, Eyes, Eyebrows, Mouth, and finally your Nose. Yet not the ears. Hmm..
So my Exile Human will be named… drumroll please… ‘Benie theNoob’. Yes, I’m just so original. In we go!!
The game starts as you’re mistaken as someone’s wife. You’re in a Cyro Pod, and are woken up. You need to find this guy’s wife. I also noticed other players, so it’s not like the Personal Story quests in Guild Wars 2. It’s like the start areas of WoW. Except, all races of that faction show up here instead of separate starting areas.
Anyway, once you rescue this woman, she has Cyro sickness and is in need of a medic very quickly. You and the guy get her to Sick Bay, using a shuttle.
Here, you get your weapons, which are dual energy pistols.
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But really, the plot means nothing to me. As I cannot see NPC dialog wh en it l ooks li k e th i s…. not a great first impression.
So now I’m on the planet Nexus, which is the main focal point for the game. Did my quests as blindly as I could (as I have no idea what the fuck I’m doing). And now there’s this quest to help this guy… yet he isn’t fucking telling me where to go!
Another restriction I found of the trial, is no /zone chat. Yet, it’s not like anyone even uses the damn thing. I had to get someone to talk to me, in hopes he would explain why there’s no chat channels. And that’s the reason.
*sigh* Right… so this is what I know;
-There’s an AFK system, and it makes you well aware of that. Thankfully, just by simply moving your mouse, it takes you out of AFK. You don’t have to get up if you’re sitting somewhere.
-Restrictions of being able to pick races and classes of the free trial.
-Restrictions of being able to use /zone chat of the free trial.
-Hardly anyone talks or asks for help. Why is there even a /zone chat? All I’ve seen are people using /say.
-When clicking on a quest in the menu on the bottom right, it shows the direction of where you should go. However it’s not really reliable, as sometimes it tells you to go through a wall (or somehow manage to fly over a gap) to get there.
-The game looks and feels very sci-fi. You (and enemies) even have a shield.
-Enemies respawn within 30 seconds after you kill them. Why?
-Human run animation looks too stiff.
-When you crit an enemy before dying, it turns into a pile of bits. Very satisfying.
-Hilarious words said when leveling up. Like “Uh oh.. now your enemies are really shitting their pants!” Oh wow..
-Items do take damage overtime and must be repaired.
-Addons are allowed!
-You can get the “Provisionary Equivar License” at Level 3(though you don’t have access to the vendor until Level 8), which is that 24 mount lease. It’s only 5s.
-You can collect seeds that you can plant “in your farm”. Probably talking about the Player Housing thing. I’m going to hold onto these.
-The official forum feels… dead. Made two posts, and they haven’t got a response back in many hours.
-I manged to get my first gold piece before Level 5, where that would not be possible until.. Level 30 or so in WoW.
-There are flight paths like WoW, called “Taxi Vendors”. They seem to follow the same principle as a FP.
What I don’t know;
-What the four icons above my hotbar mean.
-Is there a bank?
-Am I ever going to get to a capital city? All I’ve been doing is questing, and no capital cities.
Overall, I don’t see myself wasting ANY money on this game, until I at least see that there’s a way to globally set the font size. Not just for the chat, but for the entire game. Because it’s just too damn small for my eyes.