Guild Wars!

[Sirian]

yes, her name is Miss Creant

I took the time to look over the website, "RTFM" so to speak. So far, I'm impressed. I may try it some today. If I manage that, I'll report something.

PS: Why is the wide-eyed smiley our default smile now?


- Sirian

[Hawkmoon]

*stamps foot* They started early??!! Without telling us??!! How rude!

Oh well, I couldn't have tried it yesterday anyway - had the Rogue Revival team game going on.

I'll probably be online by 8:30 US Eastern time tonight; I think my first char will probably be a warrior/monk or maybe a ranger/monk. In the interests of finding each other for co-op purposes, should we all use an "RBD" tag on our character names?

Looking forward to trying it out - the graphics look gorgeous!

Cheers,
Hawkmoon

[SoulEdge]

Gah! I wrote a rather lengthy post but it was eaten by the forum!

Oh well...

There is a handy guide for the World Preview Event:
http://www.guildwars.com/preview/guide/default.html

Other keys that I found handy:
alt - show NPC
ctrl - show player
W (twice) - autorun
the rest are in the keyboard setting under option.

So far I have only been playing solo with a NPC henchman, getting used to the controls and the 3D view. The initial impression is good, lag is non-existance, loading is brief after the first load when entering a new area, graphic is nice even though I am on GeForce2, the stated minimum requirement is GeForce3.

Combat is fast pace, the choice of skills and the possible combinations give plenty of freedom in strategy, I like it. Will only be more interesting and intense in team play, especially a team planned in advance so the skills work with each others'.

I suppose people familiar with first person shooter games will be familiar with the controls, for after some getting used to, I find that using WASD to move around is easier than using the mouse, YMMY.

Now that I am familiar with the controls, I feel comnfortable to play in a team. I guess I will find a party and continue with the mission instead of exploring the surrounding map solo.

Sure hope to run into you all in game, kindly send me a whisper.

Soul Edge The First - monk/mesmer
Soul Edge Da Second - elementalist/necromancer

Too late for me to add the RBD tag for the existing characters, I can create new ones though, but if we are to create a guild, then a tag will be assigned at the end of our names anyway, or so I heard.


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In the first mission, the tutorial, you will come across a pig named Oink, and it will tagged along after you found it, and do nothing but yelp "oink". Then you will come across a warrior henchman, join up with him to form a party and work your way to the gate. After passing the gate, don't talk to the person with "!" on his head first but explore the settlement until you come across a farmer and his father (who has funny conversation ). The farmer will claimed the pig back and you will see the "shield" that marks the end of a mission, the warrior henchman will be promoted to level 15 and will follow you into Lion's Arch when you talk to the person with "!" on his head. If you do not talk to the farmer, you will enter Lion's Arch alone, but that's alright, because henchmen are available in Lion's Arch as well.

[KingOfPain]

Just had a quick run with my naked sorcy Miss Saint Linc last nite. Hmm, wonder why some people thought she was a NPC and kept hanging around trying to strike up conversations.

Wasn't really doing anything other than to get a feel of the game. As always, I refuse to RTFM before I play a game, that's my way of testing a game difficulty level and how intuitive it is. I am impressed, enough to want to buy the game but we will see. It feels NwN-ish without many of its annoyance.

One thing I don't like, tho it may change at release, is you can only have 4 characters max.

Quote:The final number of characters per account has not been determined. At present, alpha accounts allow four characters and we estimate that characters per account will be approximately that number upon release.
End Quote

Edit: I guess I left the game running while I went to sleep last nite and the game was still up this morning. Nice

KoP

[Thenryb]

I downloaded it and logged on with a monk (Thenry Bold), ran around a little bit, saw no one I know and accidently hit my cursor on the "x" in the upper right corner of the screen. This instantly closes the game. The graphics were pretty good I thought. I bought one additional spell but was unable to figure out how to access it. Anyway, hope to see some of you around this weekend.

[Sirian]

OK, my first glimpse is on Saturday morning. 11AM EDT.

My game crashed on the initial run. Upon returning, I'm already in Lion's Arch. I read somewhere it takes 500 gold to start a guild? My character's name is Siri Anne. Elementalist/Monk. Uh... I am somewhat lost.


- Sirian

[Hawkmoon]

I played last night for about 3 hours (Friday night). I created a warrior/monk named Coremata Arctiid, made it to Lion's Arch, and did the first quest (the seacoast one where you have to save the Temple of Tolerance - gotta love the names! - from the undead). Used the henchmen instead of partying with others, because no one else seemed really interested in cooping (they weren't RBDers, so what can you expect? *shrug*). The game crashed a total of three times on me, but the good news was that it didn't seem to lose any data - there was no "snap back" in time like we've had with D2.

Some random comments - I find the Friends system bizarre. It looks like you have to add characters, rather than accounts, to your Friends list. That makes no sense to me - if one of your buddies creates a new character, you'll have no way of knowing that they're online (especially if you create a new char also! They'll never see you as being online, and so won't know to message you with the new character name). Also, I'm having a tough time figuring out the whole crafting/salvaging system. I "salvaged" a bunch of bones and ghoul collars off of corpses, but am sadly puzzled about what to do with them!

Finally, when you first get to Lion's Arch, you're given a quest to go report to some muckety-muck of the Knights of the Mantle, and you're supposed to go west across the drawbridge to the fort by the seacoast to find him. Well, when you leave by the west gate, you end up in the mission staging area for the seacoast mission - I have yet to find the fort, and have no idea where the heck it is. Sigh.

But I must say that I'm enjoying it a lot so far - the graphics are just beautiful, and I've had no problems with lag at all. Combat is really smooth, and once I started figuring out the skill system, it really made a difference.

I plan to play more today. I'll add Siri Anne to my friends list; please feel free to add my char to yours, all you RBDers, and post here with your char names so hopefully we can get together!

[SoulEdge]

Some random comments - I find the Friends system bizarre. It looks like you have to add characters, rather than accounts, to your Friends list. That makes no sense to me - if one of your buddies creates a new character, you'll have no way of knowing that they're online (especially if you create a new char also! They'll never see you as being online, and so won't know to message you with the new character name).

It's actually quite clever, as long as you added one character of a friend's account, all other characters of the same account will be recognized. Say if you added KoP as Miss Saint Linc, if he creates a new char and is online, he will show up as Miss Saint Linc ("new char name").

Also, I'm having a tough time figuring out the whole crafting/salvaging system. I "salvaged" a bunch of bones and ghoul collars off of corpses, but am sadly puzzled about what to do with them!

Haven't gone into crafting, but the Crafters in Lion's Arch let you craft armours, skills and weapons, and they require raw materials, those bones, iron, etc are raw materials.

Finally, when you first get to Lion's Arch, you're given a quest to go report to some muckety-muck of the Knights of the Mantle, and you're supposed to go west across the drawbridge to the fort by the seacoast to find him. Well, when you leave by the west gate, you end up in the mission staging area for the seacoast mission - I have yet to find the fort, and have no idea where the heck it is. Sigh.

That's actually the mission, by the end (or was it midway?) of that mission you will meet that muckety-muck of the Knight of the Mantle.

I plan to play more today. I'll add Siri Anne to my friends list; please feel free to add my char to yours, all you RBDers, and post here with your char names so hopefully we can get together!

I am constantly scanning here and adding RDBers to my friend list, but has thus far only mt KoP online. Kindly add me Soul Edge Da Second.

[KingOfPain]

The friends system works fine. Once you added someone's character it will update the list with all his other characters and shows which one is on.

I ran into Soul Edge the other day and Thenryb last nite, but SE seemed to be getting a keyboard face ;p
Thenry and I cooped for a short time until when he died and I already used up my res signet and we cant figure out how to get out of the game and restart in town. There weres no control for it - lacking the "restart in town" button" when one dies soloing.

So far, we know
Soul Edge the First, and Da second - Soul Edge
Miss Creant - Cyrene
Thenry Bold - Thenryb
Siri Anne - Sirian
Coremata Arctiid - Hawkmoon
Zedf Trialone - Zed
Maal Feaznc - TBC
Autumn Wind - Bam Bam
Smeeeg Heeead - Smeg
Chatelaine Thecla - Thecla
Miss Saint Linc - KoP

And in case anyone can't recognize a naked sorcy when they see one - Look for the bow with green aura





And, the game ran smoothly all the time without lag, until I met up with Izual ala GW. This guy was not, well, was just like Izzy in Lod... And the game GFX, not the game, crashed when Missy would have killed in another minute or 2. That's with 20-30 minutes spent on him already ;p





KoP

[SoulEdge]

Thenry and I cooped for a short time until when he died and I already used up my res signet and we cant figure out how to get out of the game and restart in town. There weres no control for it - lacking the "restart in town" button" when one dies soloing.

One can quit a mission anytime by clicking on the city icon in the map.


More handy controls:

ctrl = show enemies while in mission, other players while in town

ctrl + left mouse click = select and attack enemy with a message informing all in the party so they can press "T" to select the same enemy, handy to focus fire.

shift + left mouse click = select enemy without engaging (handy to check out their level)

alt = show npc, chests, signs (handy to find all those chests in mission)

select party member in party list + space bar = follow selected player, need to hit space bar again if the selected player stop running

C (default) = select nearest (or is it next?) enemy

space bar = default action, i.e. C + space bar = attack nearest enemy


I like to run with alt pressed to spot for chests, like item picking in D2. When there is red dots on the map, I use the ctrl + left click to engage so party members can easily focus on the same enemy using T.