[dirtyklingon]

http://massively.joy...for-pc-players/

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Trion has revealed that its first beta event for the upcoming open-world shooter Defiance will take place from January 18th through the 20th. The shindig will be PC-only (Defiance will release in April on both consoles and personal computers).

Advanced Beta Mission 1 will see players transported to a futuristic San Francisco Bay area where they will take on the role of an ark hunter. Ark hunters are genetically enhanced individuals described by Trion as "part treasure hunter, part mercenary." The beta will feature full access to Defiance's tutorial, Mt. Tam, the Waterfront competitive multiplayer map, and the Shadow War and Arkfall open-world boss battles.

Trion is now accepting beta signups.

http://vonbachindustries.com/

[reflexion]

lol at my b-day? they shouldn't have

[dirtyklingon]

so there was as stress test last night. after about an hour an da half or so of connection errors finally got to play for a bit.


i pretty much just did the tutorial.


i'd say the menus and ui and such are in an early beta state and thus a mess. the tutorial also needs a lot of work of actually tutoring the player.

somewhat reminded me of borderlands' story telling techqnieue with the HUD voice comms npc thing...


i guess you get special powers so you'll probably have to use soem degree of mmo keybinding like 12345 etc i guess.

i'm trying to find out if the test was under NDA, if not i will upload video.


graphics wise it looked decent enough. the graphics options menu was not in game yet(there was literally no menu for them at all) the art was decent looking. my screenshots didn't come out at all for some reason so i can't even show you that stuff.

[dirtyklingon]

here's a gameplay video i found of last night's test. shows more than the footage i got or played so probably won't even bother to upload mine even if there was no NDA.

[GurrenLagann]

i played the stress test, it felt like firefall but the graphics were worse but the story was better.

overall i think its okish but wouldnt play unless the stuff after the tutorial was amazing, which it seemed like it was not going to be.

I'll check it on the beta since the stress test was actually... hard to login into and didnt have much time.

[dirtyklingon]

http://www.zam.com/s...tml?story=31559

beta key give away from zam.

[dirtyklingon]

defiance really reminds me of borderlands but with a more "realistic" art style. especially once you turn on floating dmg numbers.




you get a mount pretty soon into the game, like within i'd say 45 minutes or so i guess.



i did some random dynamic event thing that involved tagged along of giant bug things.



alot of mutant things.





ar = sniper rifle seems like a good combo, or shotty plus sniper.


xboxcigars are going to think it looks amazing but it merely looks ok on my pc.

[dirtyklingon]

one thing to add...


alot of ht equests feel alot like gw2's events. although you have to talk to the npc to start them so to say kinda. so fart i've done a number of them and other players have helped me continue obnjectives.


that being said... apparently you may ehave to wait for the quest to reset/.repsawns.

[GurrenLagann]

the graphics seem better now, i think they fixed the lightning and shadows.

but its still very buggy, i've had to restart the zones multiple times (read do the entire zone over again) and also there was one time i logged in and had the camera in a weird place and couldn't do anything but move the char (and the camera would not move).

we'll see how it ends up but i still think its an ok game at best and not very good.

[dirtyklingon]

i think the questing conventions it utilizes are cool, but otherwise much like you and alot of other people i've talked, generally speaking it's pretty meh.


the shooting/combat is ok although for some reason mobs will often do this kinda of quick few steps back and to the side when you are shooting them which is annoying.


the atv mount thing seems to get caught on alot of geometry even if the stuff isn't very high off the ground. it's also a bit weird just ignoring people as you drive through them after ps2's friendly fire nyerk.


as soon as you finish the tutorial everything after your starting gun is pretty crap for. but it seems the first upgrade you get is for your pistol or w/e, and the 2nd gun reward you get is a sniper rifle. which feels kinda odd.


the menus are a mess still, and so is the character creation pretty dull. alot of stuff feels pretty consoloized, and the client even lacks proper gfx customization options, and in general stuff like how esc doesn't bring up the main menu to exit/change settings, it's all very convoluted.


i didn't try it but i see it has native controller support at least in terms of menu stuff. ofc i didn't bother to try it out because as it was i was having enough irritation at trying to figure out binds due to lack of bind customization. i di duse my nostromo as usual but alot of it is kinda very odd and not what one might be used to at all.

i was seeing on the forums people were having trouble getting grouped up or even on the same instance. apparently you need line of sight with someone to invite them to party.



like i said previously sorta is taggign is handled kinda like gw2 i guess. and aside from talking to your own personal npc thing at each quest area to start side quests, in general it's not much different from gw2 questing really. i guess event things are marked on yoru HUD and show up from fairly far away as a big red marker.


the story is pretty bad though, as is the voice acting and the character models. there's this military commander guy that is pretty much straight copy pasta of the military guy in charge tough guy cliche, and his facial model/texture looks like it's out of quake 2 or half life 1 or something it looks so awful. of what i saw this game really stands out as yet another example of why story driven mmo's are completely and utterly medicore at telling stories.


all the mobs in the area i tried seemed to be like 3 maybe 4 mutant types. there was normal mutant, mutant with dual wielded swords, elite specops mutant and giant boss mutant with a grenade launcher.

[dirtyklingon]

http://defiance.com/...gital-editions/

lmao they are going to try and charge $60 for SE and $100 for DDE for this game

[GurrenLagann]

they are funny

[dirtyklingon]

welll uit's the last beta starting tomorrow and nda drops at that time. maybe they have improved it greatly since the 2nd beta.


i'm thinking i'll try to find a copy for cheap and pick it up just to have something/anything since my guild is split between tera and runescape atm and i'm trying to cut down on reddit.

[dirtyklingon]

well servers are taking a nyerk again. with message saying servers are busy try again later.


deffo bodes well for launch....



though tbh seen so little buzz about the game that it may be like tsw and have less people at launch then in beta.


although alot of the key giveaways still have thousands of keys left. and i know they were giving access to literally everyone who signed up on their site.

anyways this lunatic in irc says there is a queue system to log in, but from my perspective it doesn't seem to be serving the purpose of a queue system.




i guess there is a queue system after all, it just doesn't pop up after creatign char.

[dirtyklingon]

well actual game seems to be much imrpoved once you actually get in.

[dirtyklingon]

char creation in the current test.

[reflexion]

this game is almost exactly like borderland 2

[dirtyklingon]

i warmed up tot eh game quite a bit last night except


by the time i actually went to play the population had moved on and apparently no one waited until prime time to start playing... so i ended up being solo in the story mission i did, which the video is rendering now, but basically uh... had to suciide through it either because i was alone or it was higher level than me or both.


i'll probably sample some sidequests later today.


i'll note my previous complaint about lack of mob model/skin variety has been somewhat slightly remedied, seems like they added a couple more skins/models to the assortment of mutants, so now there's like 6 maybe 7 mutants to pick from.


apparently they pulled a rift and nerfed the dynamic events thing rewards. lots of people qqing about how unrewarding they are. they also reward based aon straight dmg done ladder which definitely worked well for them in rift. oh trion...


i'm rendering one of my longest videos ever that's just a straight unedeited play of a story mission minus the introductory cut scene to it.



i guess people randomlyu got 4k cash shoppoints last night, but i didn't QQ. i want to sample some of the costumes and hats. tehre's one hat that looks super cool except that it appears to make you bald... which is pretty nyerk.

[reflexion]

but you do agree that it's like borderland 2 rite?

[dirtyklingon]

yes it's heaviyl derivitive of borderlands.

i said so earlier in teh thread