New MMO that's been in closed beta for a while has now gone open beta. From the creators of Star Trek Online it features a similar player created content tool (Foundry) and it has action based combat akin to Diablo rather than the majority of RPG MMOs.
My first impressions:
Download - pretty nippy, a 3GB download which is fairly small for big MMOs these days, it also uses a download booster to make it a bit faster.
Install - painless as you should expect from most games
Loading - installed a patch that was just under 300MBs, didn't take long, paused a bit with a crytec (sp?) progress bar and then launched me into an intro movie which was fairly decent, usual fantasy affair that gives you a little overview of the races and classes available to play with and sets up the story...sort of....
Character creator - quite decent, gives you a fair few options for customisation and only a single race is restricted to paying members, there's also a hint of further races and classes to be made available later, however starting number are pretty decent.
After that I don't know, the open beta has restricted the number of players who can log in, there are 3 servers and when I tried earlier today all 3 servers had queue of 7000+ which lead me to believe that I would not be logging in today!
My first impressions:
Download - pretty nippy, a 3GB download which is fairly small for big MMOs these days, it also uses a download booster to make it a bit faster.
Install - painless as you should expect from most games
Loading - installed a patch that was just under 300MBs, didn't take long, paused a bit with a crytec (sp?) progress bar and then launched me into an intro movie which was fairly decent, usual fantasy affair that gives you a little overview of the races and classes available to play with and sets up the story...sort of....
Character creator - quite decent, gives you a fair few options for customisation and only a single race is restricted to paying members, there's also a hint of further races and classes to be made available later, however starting number are pretty decent.
After that I don't know, the open beta has restricted the number of players who can log in, there are 3 servers and when I tried earlier today all 3 servers had queue of 7000+ which lead me to believe that I would not be logging in today!