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Defiance |OT| If Borderlands was a B2P MMO with a SyFy TV-series half-sister
- Thread starter SquiddyCracker
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I don't recommend playing it for hours on end though. For me at least the game has been fun in burst rather then long sessions. Mostly because it's all very repetitive. What kept me going was the story missions as I wanted to see how things progressed before the show aired. Now that it has and I've finished the first set of story missions all that is left are the side missions and arkfalls. All which are the same things over and over again without the benefit of a somewhat interesting story and narrative.
I'm ignoring most of them completely. The easier ones I'll multi-task and do 3-5 at the same time. The only reason I got Arkhunter done is because I average 200+ kills when I'm there the whole time.
Yesterday, I went to the end of Project Aegis to kill a few Hulkers and run up my killcount a bit. A Major Arkfall starts and no one is there except the Hellbugs including a Monarch. I accept that challenge and solo the whole thing. Two Monarchs are chasing me around before it ends.
I drive to the next crystal and kill its first two phases before the clown posse shows up. BMGs and cars killing skitterlings before they bite. It sucks to know that destroying a crystal is going to take twice as long with, 'help.'
I leave and happen upon a minor Arkfall. I solo that just for the challenge. No problem.
Loaded with loot I head for a vendor which takes me through the Major Arkfall still in progress. I stop to shoot stuff.
Finish first.
Second place player pouts and calls me a, 'Japanese Jackass.'
I chuckle and sigh.
Going back to just shooting at one thing then skipping Arkfalls entirely.
SquiddyCracker
Banned
I love the race challenges, and have slowly but surely been getting gold medals for the pedal to metal-pursuit (I want that black dodger!).
But god damn it's starting to get hard (3 more pursuits to go), and I have a feeling the last race will be impossible.
Racing with a keyboard is also a pain.
But god damn it's starting to get hard (3 more pursuits to go), and I have a feeling the last race will be impossible.
Racing with a keyboard is also a pain.
Joe Molotov
Member
Haha, yeah I hate how you still get people killing the hell out of skitterlings during Arkfalls. I had this joker lobbbing grenades all around the arkfall, killing any skitterling that got close. It's one thing when it was the first weekend and you were still in the newb zone, but I'm almost to SF and you still get people pulling that. Nevermind the fact that EGO will repeat what you need to do 15000 times during every Arkfall. THERE'S SOME ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY OVER THERE! Thank you, EGO. -_-
I hadn't been having much problems with idiots at arkfalls until yesterday, where every single one had someone with a cluster bomb of some kind and/or a guy with a preorder car driving around the crystal continually.
I dealt with it by moving to a different section and getting that one done myself while everyone else was beating their heads against another one. People always go for whichever one shows up on-screen (the nearest), so ones farther from the road tend to be empty early on. I do tend to be ranked first on arkfalls anyway, but once I started doing that I had like 2-3x the damage of the next person, and got the whole thing done a lot quicker
I dealt with it by moving to a different section and getting that one done myself while everyone else was beating their heads against another one. People always go for whichever one shows up on-screen (the nearest), so ones farther from the road tend to be empty early on. I do tend to be ranked first on arkfalls anyway, but once I started doing that I had like 2-3x the damage of the next person, and got the whole thing done a lot quicker
Bl4ckSunsh1n3
Member
I see a few NA PC people on. I've added them as friends, if one of them could invite me to the guild it would be awesome.
I'm Mikael Corvinus in game.
EDIT: Is there no way to message a person directly?
I'm Mikael Corvinus in game.
EDIT: Is there no way to message a person directly?
SquiddyCracker
Banned
I see a few NA PC people on. I've added them as friends, if one of them could invite me to the guild it would be awesome.
I'm Mikael Corvinus in game.
EDIT: Is there no way to message a person directly?
I'm going to log on right now onto the NA PC server, so if anyone wants in on the NA server I'll invite you and turn you into officers so that you too can invite other people.
ROBOKITTYZILLA
Member
Invite please!
SquiddyCracker
Banned
What's your in-game username?
Also, is it okay if I throw you into the OP as a person people can PM for invites?
Also, is it okay if I throw you into the OP as a person people can PM for invites?
Dog Problems
Banned
Could you invite me? Name is Dosuchin.
Or even those of us on 1920x1080 monitors with GPUs good enough to not want to see horrible aliasing no matter how much post-processing AA they inject into it.
i.e. me.
EDIT: My in-game name on NA is the same as my forum name, antitrop.
SquiddyCracker
Banned
Sure, you gotta login in first though.
SquiddyCracker
Banned
Get online people, can't invite you unless you're online because the Clan functionality is a bit sucky atm -_-
Robotkittyzilla is in.
antitrop invited.
Robotkittyzilla is in.
antitrop invited.
SquiddyCracker
Banned
I am online, and have been for hours
Hm, you're on NA?
Sometimes it's a bit buggy, try logging out and in again?
Nevermind, found you through the user search tool!
I managed to friend invite you.
ROBOKITTYZILLA
Member
What's your in-game username?
Also, is it okay if I throw you into the OP as a person people can PM for invites?
Thanks for the invite.
Sure, you can add me.
SquiddyCracker
Banned
Yeah, I haven't really been paying attention to perk synergies up until now.
Managed to upgrade all four EGO powers to the max, and am working on random perks related to each one atm, so that I can create different builds around different EGO powers/perks.
Dog Problems
Banned
ROBOKITTYZILLA
Member
For anyone getting invites, you may have to log out and log back in for the clan functionality to show up. ._.
I sent an invite but not sure if it worked because every time I check your name it keeps showing you as able to be invited.
I sent an invite but not sure if it worked because every time I check your name it keeps showing you as able to be invited.
SquiddyCracker
Banned
Anyone on EU side want an invite?
Gold_Loot
Member
My personal advice would be is to stick with it. I was really underwhelmed when I first started playing, but the more chances I gave it, the more it has grown on me.
ROBOKITTYZILLA
Member
I sent the invite again. Go to your quick menu and look under "Invites", in case you missed it.
Gold_Loot
Member
All the better good sir. I'm just taking my time and absorbing the lore and meeting other players. Between this and the show, I'm actually enjoying the story which is rather odd for an MMO. The music is rather good as well.
I'm hoping the game will blossom over time and grow into something special. Don't drop the ball Trion!
Thanks for trying with the invites but still nothing showed. Which is weird because I did get invited into a clan when I first started playing (long since left it) and the invite went fine then.
A second season was ordered before the show aired.
A second season was ordered before the show aired.
I completely forgot this show was on Sci-Fi instead of a major broadcasting network. That makes sense.
SquiddyCracker
Banned
I just realized that the scene with the half-naked mother Castathian hugging her teenage son was kinda weird.
Bl4ckSunsh1n3
Member
I'm back on if anyone can swing me an invite. blacksunshine007, player Mikael Corvinus. I had to hop off for some family stuff. I'll be on for at least an hour or two.
SquiddyCracker
Banned
US or EU?
I just caught the first episode of the show and while it was a tad corny, I really really enjoyed it. The commercial for the game "Welcome to the new age!" really worked its magic on me and now I'm considering getting this game as well. I love the idea of massive world event battles and the races from the show were interesting to me. I think it'd be really cool to have a game that I could really get into for the long haul that has a TV show to keep the hype going. If they do crossover events and stuff and keep me hooked with story missions, I can totally see this becoming "my jam".
On the other hand I just got Bioshock and Dragon's Dogma today, so do I really need Defiance? Maybe not, but I'm seriously considering it. Come at me, bros. Sell me this shit.
BTW, I liked Rift for the month or so I played it. I only stopped because there were other games to play and I didn't wanna pay the sub anymore. I think Trion does good work.
On the other hand I just got Bioshock and Dragon's Dogma today, so do I really need Defiance? Maybe not, but I'm seriously considering it. Come at me, bros. Sell me this shit.
BTW, I liked Rift for the month or so I played it. I only stopped because there were other games to play and I didn't wanna pay the sub anymore. I think Trion does good work.
Bl4ckSunsh1n3
Member
US
I think because it's supposed to be bad given the way it's interwoven with a TV show based on how most releases like this are. Someone else said it here before, it's almost like people are afraid to admit it's good.
Further cementing my theory that professional games reviewers in general don't tell people what they think, but rather what they think people want to hear. And then there's Jim Sterling.
Hawk269
Member
Agree. I was doing some down sampling to improve the image quality since they really don't offer much pc settings at the moment, but when you down sample, the UI is just too small. Unlike some games, the games UI does not scale properly or maintain. The game should have an option to do this. I am getting my new monitor today...would love a fix for this soon.
SquiddyCracker
Banned
Well, they are going to open up some customization of the graphics on PC-side, the question is when.
The Playstation version is several builds behind the others. Some problem with Sony and the patching system.
DanteRavenkin
Member
I play on PS3 and I love it. But having been on the forums since day one, it seems like the Xbox version suffers from longer server downtime and had a REALLY rough start getting the servers running. (My guess to this is having to communicate with Live servers causes issues). Things seem to be smoothing out now, however, and it has received the newest patches.
On PS3, Sony is dragging it's feet with the patch approval. So the PS3 version is still essentially version 1.0.0 and has the launch bugs intact. However, as a blessing in disguise, this means that we PS3 players can still farm lockbox keycodes from emergency missions, something that was removed in the first patch.
Either option is a good choice, because the game is damned fun. A lot of people have their issues with it, mostly with bugs causing problems. I've been lucky in that I've run into very few bugs in my playtime with the game.
Well, I am not going to be dipping into it too deep right now anyway. Hopefully they will get it up to date while I am playing Dark Arisen.