They did move too far towards easy in LK, particularly with the "round it up and AoE it" nature of almost every trash pull in the entire thing. They've moved back to a better place on both that and on fixing healer mana (which matters now, so tanks aren't constantly being two-shot) in Cataclysm.
[quote quoting="post"] Hiya folks, So quick plug. I just picked up WoW along with all of the expansions. I've been pretty hestitant to get into MMOs, but I'm going to give WoW a shot. If you have been curious about the game and would like to give it a shot with someone else that is inexperienced (and level at 3x the normal rate), respond here. I think it would be fun to play with some of you stardock board folks. Anyway, there is a free 10 day tr
[quote who="ZehDon" reply="16" id="2840137"]The Attunement requirements for Burning Crusade's 10 Man Raids and higher ruined the end game content.[/quote] And they were tuned, then removed, during BC (and don't exist in Wrath of the Lich King at all). [quote]While the 40 Man Raids were difficult, often requiring Guild Partnerships, attempting to attune 25 people through to the Black Temple was a bad joke.[/quote] Attempting to get people sufficient gear to run Van
In 1.0 it was given to every unit. I don't think this has changed.
[quote who="riadsala" reply="8" id="2840506"] AI WARS is a romper room type of game and has no AI. just cheat codes. Have you actually ever played AI War? It's pretty much the most strategic RTS out there, and it includes some of the best tactical AI routines I've seen in quite some time. You CAN'T play it as a "romper room type of game," if you did, the AI will cripple you. Why I'm bothering to try and discuss something with a troll, I
[quote who="kyogre12" reply="14" id="2839073"] Yeah, but he tried to contact them over a holiday weekend. You can't expect a lightning quick response. And it was in the middle of said weekend, so there were already days worth of emails to go through. Normally I find SD's response time to be pretty good, but then, I try to avoid contacting them on weekends, holidays, etc.[/quote] And it's been just about two weeks. If they don't have the staffing level to respond within two weeks
Yeah, seriously. The only thing "ruined" by Burning Crusade was for the few people who actually liked 40 man raids. The hardest part of Molten Core was finding 40 people to do it, 20 of which had to be paying attention. Good riddance.
So is there any kind of significant PvE play in Eve? It always reads like a PvP oriented game.
[quote who="FadedC" reply="30" id="2837949"] No the word I'm looking for is war, although there was an invasion as part of the war. And yes wars kill more people then terrorists but I'm not sure how that's relevent. Wars kill more people then murderers too, but we still try to stop murder.[/quote] War requires a declaration, which was never issued (although it seems nobody does that anymore). It also requires an opposing force, and the Iraqi military didn't fight back. That wasn'
[quote who="FadedC" reply="26" id="2837838"] Quoting coreimpulse, reply 24 States too engage in terrorist acts, like uhmm, illegally invading a nation bypassing all international treates. That ring a bell? Well no. That's an act of war, and depending on your perspective it may be viewed as immoral (I certainly did not support it). But it is not an act of terrorism.[/quote] The words you're looking for are "invasion" and "conquest". Far, far more
[quote who="Cruxador" reply="16" id="2835556"] I am not sure you understand what a beta is. If it was stable, there's be no point in making it a beta, it would be ready to go. And in order to get it stable, you would need to run a beta first. And there were plenty of stable versions after release, in fact the current (non-beta) version is plenty stable. So stability in general is not an issue. If you prefer a stable version, you may limit yourself to versions which are intended
[quote who="uga-bugga" reply="18" id="2834041"]ah man bummer. WoW didn't work when they released it. They even got rid of the people in the office that didn't want to release it because it didn't work @ the time. From what I've read here, I believe the programmers still care about Elemental and will be working hard on the product. I don't think they are blowing you off like some companies might when you find a bug and tell you to shut up and buy the next addon for a fi
In some ways it IS a game problem. If you make a competitive game, you have to expect players will take the shortest path to victory. Winning matters. That's just how it is. So if the game allows these kinds of strategies to be effective in the hands of players who aren't skilled enough to properly scout and counter them, that's what you'll see. I don't really play competitive games much anymore because of that. I used to, but in my old age I prefer to build stuff at a
[quote who="Nenjin" reply="34" id="2830930"] CD Projekt developed The Witcher. I grabbed it off Steam last time it was on sale, and never managed to get past the section where you have to battle "The Beast". Apparently, chosing any skill path bar one results in the fight being incredibly long winded and boring, taking around 20 minutes to complete. YouTube it if you'd like to see why. I'd advise reading up on it before you get that far - it left a bad taste i
Are they going to fix the godawful scaling nonsense? I played Oblivion once, and never picked it up again due to that BS.
[quote who="huminado" reply="67" id="2826993"]Is this demo beta closed to anyone who doesn't already own Elemental? I was expecting an open beta. But when I configure Impulse to show demos and pre-release betas, it still doesn't show up in any list I can find. [/quote] This is only for owners, yes. Apparently a demo will be coming out based on 1.1.
[quote who="vwp" reply="157" id="2826305"]I have no internet connection at home.I have to go to a hot spot to update and read the forum. Why the requirement to have internet access to test the beta? Changes sound great but I am disappointed that I must wait for the final patch. Thanks to you and the crew for the hard work.[/quote] This is why.
[quote who="misterhamtastic" reply="5" id="2825984"]That is sweet. I'm looking forward to trying it. I would like to give you some numbers though: Master of Magic-Over 150 spells (I counted 211, but wasn't sure how many were both combat and non-combat, besides disenchant. Bard's Tale series: Well, 1 had 7 levels in 4 books, average of 2 spells per level, that's 56 spells. 3 had 7 levels across 7 books with an average
[quote who="kenata" reply="17" id="2825395"] I disagree with your point about mutterings on the forums. At this point, a lot of people are past this point and are simply shelving the game. Recently, impinc posted on two of his mods a message to this effect, underscoring a real sentiment within the greater community. When poster in September were upset about being paid beta testers, many people defended SD given that they were putting out regular patches and had stated their intention to
[quote who="BastWorshiper" reply="128" id="2826152"] Quoting Tridus, reply 123 Quoting FatNonFree, reply 120 Can you make so you can marry one of your heros? I'm at war with my neighbors and no one want to marry my kids! You can in 1.0.9, but if you're a male sovereign you need to find a female hero. There aren't nearly as many of those. If you're playing as a female sovereign, you can marry Janusk almost immediately if you want to. <br /
[quote who="FatNonFree" reply="120" id="2826126"]Can you make so you can marry one of your heros? I'm at war with my neighbors and no one want to marry my kids![/quote] You can in 1.0.9, but if you're a male sovereign you need to find a female hero. There aren't nearly as many of those. If you're playing as a female sovereign, you can marry Janusk almost immediately if you want to. Look for the wedding ring button in that heroes list of commands. :)
[quote who="Trojasmic" reply="113" id="2826112"]I've been a support manager, project manager, and product manager and one thing remains the same... Devs hate hearing the word "broken". lol! Especially as a product manager, I find myself in the middle of Customers saying something is broken and Dev saying it's not broken. So we'll just leave it there because there is a lot of understandable bias, pride, etc., in developing something. I get it. You don't
[quote who="rossanderson48" reply="90" id="2826001"] You're an igmo, everyone knows the AI DOESN'T LEARN so the AI mechanics and play need to be DIFFERENT from the human player. It NEEDS things like this to keep it CHALLENGING in the middle and end game. You're the reason why the majority of game suck because you want some kind of frickin BALANCE and there is a very small percentage of balanced AI's that can be challenging to experienced gamers like ME!. You probably suck at multiplayer
[quote who="Gene1966" reply="40" id="2825630"]I will not be a willing Beta Tester when I am a paying customer, but my enthusiasm for this game is so great that I will point out things that I think are absurd and question the rationale behind them in case I am just missing the point. I will also point out perceived incongruous statements made by official SD personnel... Actions speak louder than words.... I did however used to be a professional QA tester and Test designer.&nbs
[quote who="luketan" reply="43" id="2825743"] 75 spells is far too little. We need at least 200 spells (like MOM). But more importantly the spells have to be different! Perhaps the game mechanics in EWOM are too simple to support that amount of variety , I don't know. [/quote] The last part is correct. There's only so many things you can do with the current mechanics in other areas. You can't for example have spells that give units flight, wall climbing, etc, becau