TSW refugee migration

I snagged it for half-price and that included a month's game time. I just couldn't resist and now I'm in love again.

E.

I bought a copy on ebay for $28 shipped. My 30 days ends in a week...I doubt I resubscribe.

I enjoyed the trial period so much I ordered the game after my first day. I liked the setting and the lore and decided I could live with the graphics. I did nearly every mission in Kingsmouth before moving on.

Now I'm kinda "meh" about it and haven't played much in the past 2 weeks and not at all in 4-5 days.

Gol-

This is where our money is going, NCSoft.

3 days is a very short trial time.

I waited till I had some off time from work to try it out. Got several hours the first night, but much of that was spent on creating the character and figuring out what to do and resetting some keybinds. Then watching the voice-over scenes was cool but took time.

Unfortunately real life interfered the next couple days, so I didn't get nearly as much time to try out as I would like. I ran out of time while I was working overtime, so lost a last evening chance, but it was overtime pay.

3 days... wasn't CoH's trial 14 days? or a 10 days? back in the day, I forget. Its annoying that if you blast through enough missions they extend you, but if you couldn't play enough they don't. ( If you want to limit things, just say 10 - 15 real hours in the game or something, the more hardcore will go through that in 3 days or so and the more casual will take more days, but still not get more play time.)

That said, I liked it. (even on my underspec computer with things turned down really really low)

I wasn't able to show my wife the game, or play along with her, so I'll be waiting to buy until we try her on a trial run, if she likes it. That might wait till the servers go dark on our favorite game... or a really great sale appears in time for the holidays.

Storywise she'll probably like it, and the powers, but some of the CoH fighting style being lost may annoy her, maybe a lot, we'll see down the road.

It's geared a lot toward soloing (any build you want with no classes) and the puzzle solving, badge collector types (like to read all the clues and backstory).

The fighting isn't as defined as CoH and there's a minimal amount of instanced missions so far. It's mostly 'street sweeping' and 'patrol' style missions. Not bad, but definitely ripe for griefing if you were so inclined. Pretty easy to train mobs onto a PC while they're reading storyline or watching a video.

The NPCs and voices and plot are excellent. Like a mini-movie or creepy novel. Can be too much if you just want to run in and smash ****.

It should be good for us, because we always tend to duo, and we had only a few 50's and tons and tons of alt duos. The journey is the point for us.

Back when she was new to CoH she tried LOTRO and hated it, hated the combat style etc, even though she often had tanks and scrappers. Now she plays whatever she feels like and is much more skilled at CoH than she was then... and maybe games in general... don't know because she loves CoH.

We'll build a new bridge when its time to cross over.

CO, TSW, or maybe Otherland (if it ever gets a US beta). We'll see what she likes.

Also such games tend to have mechanics in which characters can rapidly recover health out of combat, so without it you could fight, break combat, heal, and resume. So mobs regen back to full out of combat. It's not really that big a deal.

As far as quitting and evading back to their spawn point, this is because mobs are leashed to only move a certain distance from their spawn point. This benefits players who might be trying to cross the zone and don't want to fight everything they encounter and it prevents a certain degree of kiting. It can be frustrating at times as many boss mobs have very short leashes, and you can have a boss evade, regen to full, and immediately attack again. I've had to beat a boss down three times before I managed to defeat it because it had such a short leash. On the other hand, I was able to survive taking it down to near defeat twice before defeating it the third time without any out of combat regen. This is why I don't think it's all that big a deal.

Yeah there was one boss that spawned inside of a fountain's surrounding pool that I almost killed like three times before I realized that I couldn't drag him out of the pool through backing up like I usually did because he would "evade" heal to full and go back to the center of the pool.

It's a good thing I rocked or that might have killed me.

Part of my secret is that I constantly heal back to full during combat.

Oh another thing. Anyone know how I can increase my jump distance? There's two lore objects in Seoul on top of a roof and a balcony thing (8 and 13 I think) I can't seem to get because I can't jump far enough to reach get them.

I've watched other players make the jumps, but I can't seem to match the distance. If there's a skill I have to buy I don't mind saving up to get it.