Jerykk wrote on Jul 3, 2012, 04:25:

Sempai wrote on Jul 3, 2012, 04:05:
It's like PC ports today are a literal scam.

Don't worry folks! We're still going to take a steamy dump in a box and ship it before we dismantle everything!
We realize that you realize we couldn't give two fucks, but we'll still take your money! Put'r there pal!

I won't touch this bullshit with a ten foot pole. Run away!

You should probably try the port before condemning it. For all we know, it could be a completely solid port.

winnetou wrote on Jun 28, 2012, 06:47:

Sempai wrote on Jun 28, 2012, 06:24:
Meters/Combat logs/raid tools/something... [...]
A simple fucking /readycheck [...]
Enrage timers for bosses.
Summons of any kind to help diminish downtime(wipes)for raid groups.
After 18 loading screens, you then have to run your ass back to bosses via 1997.

And yes, I feel like a complete chump because this is one of, if not THE worst run mmo's i can remember.

Have you played Matrix online/ Aion/ Age of conan/ Warhammer online/ Star Trek online/...?

Combat logs are in the game since patch 1.2. They repeatedly said that they wanted that information to be available for personal evaluation, but not to judge others with. This reddit thread delivered an early summary of a few of the available parsers, more recently, dpsmeter.com has become available and seems promising. Haven't tried it myself though, I heal; my feedback is people surviving.

I don't understand your enrage timer comment, please explain; bosses do enrage, do you want an in-game timer/countdown?

After wiping, players can use transportation to checkpoints. These could certainly be spaced out more generously, but some of them are available, with varying quality of implementation; I prefer the Karagga's Palace version, lack of realism be damned.

The ready check issue is perplexing. At the guild summit someone pointed that lack out and they seemed surprised to have to confirm that they did in fact not have one. A few months later, it's still not in.

OpticNerve wrote on Jun 14, 2012, 18:44:
I don't understand the appeal of TERA's combat system in comparison to GW2's. Been watching some youtube vids and reading some threads but as far as I know:

TERA:

Attacks, skills and spells root you into place

Some of the classes can dodge

You fight over-sized monsters called BAMs which have telegraphed moves

There's a crosshair

Main attack is bound to mouse 1 by default

No tab targeting

GW2:

Most attacks, skills and spells can be used and cast while moving aside from a very small handful of skills that purposely root you in place. Might account for the floaty feeling of combat some people have mentioned

All classes can dodge

Elites don't have easily noticeable telegraphed moves

No crosshair

The "main" attack is set to auto attack by default but can be unset and clicked on to "swing"

Uses tab or click targeting, but anything within reach or in the way of your attack or spell when used will be hit regardless

So aside from the crosshair and lack of tab targeting, what's so great about TERA's combat system in comparison?

space captain wrote on Jun 14, 2012, 07:22:

ninepepper wrote on Jun 13, 2012, 20:40:
unemployment benefits are not a "government handout"

yeh, maybe its time for this bitch to have some shit times

some people think this world is a fantasy land utopia.. where things are always "fair and balanced" ..

so they require education

lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas

Steele Johnson wrote on Jun 13, 2012, 23:06:
This genre is burnt to a crisp no matter how pretty the game is. Next gen mmos like Planetside 2 is so far the only one worth looking at, IMO. GW2 is still going to be kill x fetch y.

Prez wrote on Jun 12, 2012, 21:59:
The Old Republic was my first (and based on how awful the experience was, most certainly my last) MMO, so I didn't even give the server a thought. Only later did I realize that I made my toon on a PvP server and couldn't play him on any other server. I guess I just assumed I could play him wherever I wanted.

JohnBirshire wrote on Jun 13, 2012, 03:22:
But that is a good thing, isn't it? I understand you're being sarcastic but I'm not understanding why. Why not transfer all your characters off the, as you called it, barren server to the more populated one? At the moment, the transfer is free for all of your characters on the low-pop server to the high-pop and near instant.

Are you really this naive, or do you work for Bioware and are therefore trying to defend their actions?

They need to merge servers, plain and simple. Allowing people to leave low population ones and go to higher population ones does not solve anything, it just makes the problem worse. Now you're left with even MORE low population servers than before. Get it yet?!