Hows Your First Day in GR Going?

I'm doing the Powers path with my new Dominator and very much enjoying the new locales and branching dialogue. I did a doubletake when I was sent to Tami Baker, since it immediately reminded of Tambi Baker of Strangers in Paradise lore, but the Praetorian version is rather scrawny, and a secretary, so yeah.

I do hope that GR brings in some new people and that the new people stick and try some of the older content too, as some of it is decent. The new zones, especially Nova Praetoria, are quite pristine...but don't drink the "Cole-aid", as they say.

War Witch has already obliquely confirmed it, but adding onto Praetoria seems pretty much like a must at this point. It would be criminal to have it become a new Shadow Shard, pretty but ultimately forgotten by a ravenous playerbase.

The new zones are very nice and the new missions are interesting enough. Sadly they use the old maps again and re-skin a couple. Very sad. Studio 55 is too similar to Pocket D which is another shame; same hospital interior too?

It seems adding more zones is a bad idea. I know they will but it might be very tough teaming and finding people over so many zones. I don't think we'll maintain this mass of players for a great length.

We didn't get any drastically different mission types or goals. I like the varying paths but there could be more variety involved. Maybe a future issue.

I just hope the Incarnate system has its own set of unique missions (and maps) and is a fun end game system. Unfortunately that is coming SOON.

PS - the character slot issue is beyond annoying. I am locked out of my server, essentially, and, no, I don't want to start a toon elsewhere and transfer cuz my pals are on Virtue!

I guess I should not be surprised at all the players going out of their way to try to PuG out of the opening zone as fast as possible, but... geeze. There's like, how many plot and dialogue options?!

good luck D.B.B.

My first day has been crap as we can't make new characters. We could make characters on a new server, but we would only be able to get to lvl 5 due to the inane level pact rules.

And no, we don't want to switch sides.

I can't come up with character names.

I hate this.

* stares at ID screen of character creation some more, trying to find something that is both 1) good and 2) NOT ALREADY TAKEN *

My first day has been AWFUL

I pay my subscription by game time cards because it is far cheaper (6 euro's per 2 weeks).
First I couldnt get into my gmail account to retreive the key, then my internet went down for several hours, then I had to wait for the patches to apply and fix, then I had to wait for another down time, and now im stting here waiting because the launcher isnt connecting.

Conclusion: I still havent been able to play.

Freaked out with bliss to get GR a day early, texted all my MMO friends to gloat. Then spent the rest of the night playing with my shiny new Kin/Shield Scrapper. Had so much fun I forgot to get any of my "old" alts on the path to a new alignment.

*Rowr!* *snarl!* Let me in! I am ready to play!

Yeah, my first day wasn't so hot. I started my new Fire/Stone Dom in Praetoria, and ran okay for about half an hour. Rubberbanding and laggy, but I've seen worse. Then I mapserved leaving a mission, wound up crashing. Came back, decided I'd go put some stuff in the Market, crashed upon trying to enter the tram, not even a mapserve that time. Logged back in, outside the tram, tried it again. Crash. Decided I'd play something offline.

Frankly, it probably was my ISP, in beta I had no trouble. And tonight it's raining and the lightning's flashing.

So yeah.

Absolutely nothing different than I'd do any other day.

as of 10pm EST, Freedom's queue is 140, Virtue's is 267....

All the Virtue people probably want to see Bobcat in her lounge.

Aside from the queue, my first day of GR was cool. The only negative thing I can say so far is I've been seeing a lot of lag. Not sure how much is server related or graphics card related. It played CoX in Ultra Mode just fine. I've also seen this weird flashing when my toon moves.

Aggh. I made the mistake of trying the hero version of the "Malta Gunslinger Action Hero" tip mission (level 40). Wave after wave of Malta, each popping up before you have a chance to beat the previous wave, and each containing a sapper, and there were at least five waves before I went down.

I went to the hospital and auto-completed the mission. I'll just do the Vigilante version of that from now on, or auto-complete the Hero version without entering.

I like the new variety of stuff to do, but some of those ambushes are just sadistic.

That Tip mission must be avoided at all costs - it's brutal

I got into a queue of 155, waited all the way until I got to my character selection screen, tried to log on to my Sonic/Sonic Defender, and the game froze for a couple of minutes and then gave me a "lost connection to DBServer" message.

Rinse and repeat 5 times, and you'll have a better picture of what launch day was like for me.

I'll play when things have settled down a bit.

"Alien"

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