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Posted 06-08-2008 at 04:46 PM by Ecco

Starting off from another week on Rohan it came to me that the game, while fun, somewhat enjoyable, is slowing becoming a grindfest...again. I understand it is open beta, so hopefully these can be addressed. Some may be fixed already as I posted this, so that's fine but it was like this during my first week playing.

Ok issues, every game has them of course, here's what I came across so far:

1. Upon reaching the level of 20, you now have a wheel of chance to drop items from your inventory upon dying.

So imagine getting a pretty nice armor with good stats, then dropping it along with another random item...say...your Teleport Town Stones!?
Ok, so you died and you dropped your items...no problem...just run back from your nearest bindstone which I hope you've set the closest one to pick up your items right? Wrong, there appears to be a timer before becoming free to pick up from ANYONE or it just disappears forever.
Yes, doing PK, you will drop items too.

2. Graphics, clippings, weird invisible walls..

Every now and then, you'll into invisible walls while running in the middle of a...road?
Notice some parts of a town that disappeared like say...a bridge or you'll find yourself sort-of floating in mid-air and you can't move any further. It's rare, but it's still there at the moment.
How come you can't run down a hill in some places? It isn't wall-walking, it can be shortcut instead looping it around just to get down.
Apparently you don't have to breathe underwater, so you can run through the "water" ...say a river and make it safely to the other side.

3. PK / PVP

I don't mind PVP / PK, its not fair yes, but I hate pointless ganking especially when you're a group grinding and someone happens to start a fight, and feel great about themselves because we weren't able to fight at the spur of the moment.
In pk, ganking, "PVP" the damage I was told is only 30% from the normal damage you usually do, so either it has to be a zerg-fest on person at a time or expect long, long fights against 1v1.
1v1, don't bother, nothing against the those who want "fair" pvp, but it's stupid and takes too damn long, and you can just pot your health/mana just to drag it longer.

4. Experience loss

It's fine losing some experience upon death, just spend another 10-20 min grinding it back those 1-2% which I think will be longer as you go on higher, you'll be pretty ticked from wasting all that time.
Yes, in pk you die, you lose exp also and items to top it off.
Why is it so punishing to give a exp hit, ok I know it's worst in other games, but come on why follow the trend here??

5. Resolutions, Gamma

I was pretty happy that this game supported 1900 x 1200, so my UI and everything are less...cluttered, but as good things come, bad thing latch on, for instance consignment houses, say I want to purchase an item and tried to click on confirm, but can't because the box is more suited to lower resolutions and I ended up moving instead. The solution? Well downgrade back to lower setting to buy which I found out later on, but it is annoying switching back forth.
While I enjoy the higher resolutions, graphics still feel a little bland, but oh well, it's fine, so why each time starting up Rohan it stays at 1024 x 800 setting at log-in and character selection, until in-game?
What is up with the higher gamma? Whenever I alt + tab back to desktop, my screen gets very bright from the games gamma, even when I exit the game, it's still there, it may be me personally, but it's like this when I was Lineage 2 also.

Ok, I feel I am bashing on the game's negative points a lot and complaining, but that's I feel when I play at the moment. It's really annoying when these things happen, I'm a casual gamer, I'm not hardcore player who doesn't die to mobs or I'm just good at pk or pvping. I really like the game a lot, it has potential, but I don't get why MMOs like these tend to follow a specific trend and it's always there. Is it coding? Will the game break if these features are not put into game? o.O /End rant

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Those are all legitimate issues. I would imagine that they are some of the major problems the devs are working on during the OB. As far as the item drop, yeah it sucks, but I thought you only dropped items during pvp? I could be wrong, though. As you say, the game is fun to play, but can get frustrating when you encounter one of the problems you mentioned. I also play pretty casually, so grinding 1000 mobs over the course of two hours just to get 2% xp isn't worth it, IMHO. That's one reason I couldn't stand L2. At least Rohan is free, and enjoyable for now. I've been having fun experimenting with different races/builds so the game is still fresh. I don't see it as any kind of long-term MMO solution, but for now it's okay. Hopefully they fix many of those technical issues soon!

Posted 06-11-2008 at 01:36 PM by osric osric is offline

	Sounds craptastic. I tried it but meh GTA4 is alot more fun.
	Posted 06-11-2008 at 02:46 PM by Diablo

	While I don't like the in-game bugs atm, it's pretty enjoyable mostly because of the people you get meet there, I've a lot of people from different countries, so it's really the community that keeps me going. @Diablo Well, haven't tried out GTA4, only played 2 and that was it, sandbox games is fun, but the missions are pretty...eh..
	Posted 06-12-2008 at 07:08 PM by Ecco

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