Had to deinstall in order to remove some distractions during a busy week. Began reinstalling today and had NOoooo idea Freedom would have a four stage download process.
Folks wanting to try out the game for free can now access the character creator while the rest of the game is downloading after stage 2 finishes.
Once you finish stage 3, you can actually play lowbie arcs in Mercy and Atlas while the rest of the world is downloading.
Stage 4 is the rest of the world.
Getting some weird graphical errors being in game while it is downloading, like horizontal smearing of black costume details.
But still, it's much better than downloading overnight. Left the house for an AM business meeting. @9:00am. Started the game downloading game figuring it might be done by the evening based on my usual time required for a reinstall. (still may take that much time to get through stage 4) But by the time I got back at 11:00am, could log in, see characters, play with the costume creator, access the store. And within another 30 minutes, had access to the two starter zones.
Very cool. Very smart.
My one big beef though: had no way I could find to change my graphic settings so the resolution matched the desktop until I had access to Mercy or Atlas. So the character creator was all blocky and ugly. There should be a clear, EASY way to adjust graphic settings available to all casual and new users--not just those who know how to say edit a preference file--to adjust their graphic settings at the earliest stage possible if this is about drawing new users into the game.
A big plus I did notice however: for the first time ever I was able to adjust the screen resolution in game and not have to restart to see the effects. Good job Paragon tech team!
Had to deinstall in order to remove some distractions during a busy week. Began reinstalling today and had NOoooo idea Freedom would have a four stage download process.
Folks wanting to try out the game for free can now access the character creator while the rest of the game is downloading after stage 2 finishes.
Once you finish stage 3, you can actually play lowbie arcs in Mercy and Atlas while the rest of the world is downloading.
Stage 4 is the rest of the world.
Getting some weird graphical errors being in game while it is downloading, like horizontal smearing of black costume details.
But still, it's much better than downloading overnight. Left the house for an AM business meeting. @9:00am. Started the game downloading game figuring it might be done by the evening based on my usual time required for a reinstall. (still may take that much time to get through stage 4) But by the time I got back at 11:00am, could log in, see characters, play with the costume creator, access the store. And within another 30 minutes, had access to the two starter zones.
Very cool. Very smart.
My one big beef though: had no way I could find to change my graphic settings so the resolution matched the desktop until I had access to Mercy or Atlas. So the character creator was all blocky and ugly. There should be a clear, EASY way to adjust graphic settings available to all casual and new users--not just those who know how to say edit a preference file--to adjust their graphic settings at the earliest stage possible if this is about drawing new users into the game.
A big plus I did notice however: for the first time ever I was able to adjust the screen resolution in game and not have to restart to see the effects. Good job Paragon tech team!