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Sacred 2 |OT| Lootwhores of all Platforms, Unite!
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EternalGamer said:
I have the 360 version. The games netcode isn't that great I guess. My connection is slower than most but I can still play everything else. Everytime I'm in a game with more than one person it becomes unplayable and eventually it will lock up on me. Never fails. This time it locked on me and I had to restart the system and my save data was gone. It happened to one of my friends 2 days ago as well.
DenogginizerOS
BenjaminBirdie's Thomas Jefferson
I just sunk about 2 hours into it and I am definitely hooked. Went with a Shadow Warrior named Frankie. I love reading gravestones. :lolMusashi Wins! said:
Musashi Wins!
FLAWLESS VICTOLY!
DenogginizerOS said:
Did it look fine to you graphically? I read another place where they mentioned the PS3 version being a bit choppier.
Eh, quote above makes it seem very minimal. My experience is never to buy the PS3 multi, but I'll take the chance again here.
Damn, reading that developer thread I also just saw you can edit the default view to be even larger on PC. Nice.
DenogginizerOS
BenjaminBirdie's Thomas Jefferson
I has a little hiccup in it but I had read the devs did the PS3 version first as far as 1080P. My impressions were very positive. I would say, based on what I have read, they are about the same. Plus, I like getting some more Trophies and having the HDD space at my disposal. If you want to wait and see more impressions, that is fine with me.Musashi Wins! said:
ChackanKun
Member
Damn I envy you guys. I already received some invited on my PS3 to join parties, but the damn game only comes out in June :lol
DenogginizerOS
BenjaminBirdie's Thomas Jefferson
I am using a Bow with my shadow warrior and getting some very satisfying range kills. I have read some people on other boards complaining about shadow warriors getting boring, however I am mixing up my attacks and enjoying it. But still, is a shadow warrior going to get monotonous?
DenogginizerOS said:
I have a Shadow Warrior around level 26 or so and he's a blast. I'm basically doing a hybrid Death Warrior/Astral Lord build so I while I can dish out a lot of physical damage myself, I also have an army of minions crowd controlling and doing a good deal of damage themselves. I still prefer my High Elf, but I don't think Shadow Warriors are boring or monotonous at all.
Having a ton of fun with this so far, but the average person online is totally useless. Every time I get a group going, people just start wandering off, stand in one spot for ten minutes, or quit immediately.
Definitely open to more friend requests and invites! I've started one of each character but I've mostly been playing the high elf. Up to 17 now--she's absolutely brutal. My others are level one still, or right around there. Anyway, I'm on 360, and the name is Kauza.
Definitely open to more friend requests and invites! I've started one of each character but I've mostly been playing the high elf. Up to 17 now--she's absolutely brutal. My others are level one still, or right around there. Anyway, I'm on 360, and the name is Kauza.
Ugh... really struggling here. I can't seem to find a character to stick with. The only one I have yet to try is a Seraphim, because the whole design of the character just doesn't appeal to me.
I want to be able to take a couple shots in melee. I want to use a sword (Preferably not 2handed, and I don't really need range nec.) and I want some solid/interesting spells.
Help me decide.
I want to be able to take a couple shots in melee. I want to use a sword (Preferably not 2handed, and I don't really need range nec.) and I want some solid/interesting spells.
Help me decide.
Hawk269
Member
Here are some of my thoughts of the game after playing approximately 4 hours in Single Player and about 2 hours in Multiplayer.
First thing that kind of got me a little bothered was the Character Animation. I can understand some of the NPC's or even the Enemies having a little bit poor animation, but damn does your character animate poorly...I wish they would of invested a little bit more in the character animation since you are ALWAYS looking at your character. The 2nd thing that was a little odd and I know that every RPG that allows some customization allows more, but can anyone tell me why some characters only have 2 hair styles to choose from? I mean, come on...TWO??? That is pretty bad in itself. The other thing, why cant I change the color of the Skin of my character or give a chick bigger tits? Ok..so bigger tits is not a deal breaker, but 2 hair styles?
Rant-Bitching now over....
Other than above, I think the game is fantastic. I do wish the camera was a little better so you can be behind your character in a more 3rd person perspective and have a bit farther viewing distance, but overall not bad. I never was a fan of top/down games, but this gives enough zoom where you do get a bit of a 3rd person perspective.
The game is massive as others have said, I played for 2 hours, uncovered 2% of the Map...so at that rate, it would take a LOOONG time to see the entire map. The quests so far have been pretty good and pretty funny in many of them. Visuals range from pretty good to "is my graphics chip going bad"...It is a mix bag, but for the most part it is pretty good. It is not going to win any awards for animation/graphics, but for the size of the game, I think it is pretty good and even impressive in some areas.
I mysellf have not fully settled on the "right" character for me. I love being an archer, so the druid or whatever she is called has been fun so far. Other than the physicall massive size of the game, it is also massive in the amount of items, options, menu's, etc. I do agree that the manual and the in-game menu's/hint boxes really dont do a great job of explaining some of the ruins and other stuff, but I am having fun discovering some of this stuff.
I am glad i bought this game. I have not bought many games since I travel alot for work right now, so today was a bit of Sacred 2 and Halo Wars (post patch) and been having alot of fun. Played MP with a friend from Europe and me in California, USA and had a blast, no lag or any on-line issues. Had some hick-ups on other stuff, just understanding how the online mode works, but overall, we had a blast.
If you are looking for on-line friends you can add me to your FL (Xbox 360 version). I play the part and enjoy a good on-line game venturing around...I also had playing an MP game like this and the other players just go do whatever instead of being a party. So if you want...send the FR to ----> Hawk269
If you can deal with some piss poor character animation, want a massive world, deep RPG elements and like the Genre...then get this game!
First thing that kind of got me a little bothered was the Character Animation. I can understand some of the NPC's or even the Enemies having a little bit poor animation, but damn does your character animate poorly...I wish they would of invested a little bit more in the character animation since you are ALWAYS looking at your character. The 2nd thing that was a little odd and I know that every RPG that allows some customization allows more, but can anyone tell me why some characters only have 2 hair styles to choose from? I mean, come on...TWO??? That is pretty bad in itself. The other thing, why cant I change the color of the Skin of my character or give a chick bigger tits? Ok..so bigger tits is not a deal breaker, but 2 hair styles?
Rant-Bitching now over....
Other than above, I think the game is fantastic. I do wish the camera was a little better so you can be behind your character in a more 3rd person perspective and have a bit farther viewing distance, but overall not bad. I never was a fan of top/down games, but this gives enough zoom where you do get a bit of a 3rd person perspective.
The game is massive as others have said, I played for 2 hours, uncovered 2% of the Map...so at that rate, it would take a LOOONG time to see the entire map. The quests so far have been pretty good and pretty funny in many of them. Visuals range from pretty good to "is my graphics chip going bad"...It is a mix bag, but for the most part it is pretty good. It is not going to win any awards for animation/graphics, but for the size of the game, I think it is pretty good and even impressive in some areas.
I mysellf have not fully settled on the "right" character for me. I love being an archer, so the druid or whatever she is called has been fun so far. Other than the physicall massive size of the game, it is also massive in the amount of items, options, menu's, etc. I do agree that the manual and the in-game menu's/hint boxes really dont do a great job of explaining some of the ruins and other stuff, but I am having fun discovering some of this stuff.
I am glad i bought this game. I have not bought many games since I travel alot for work right now, so today was a bit of Sacred 2 and Halo Wars (post patch) and been having alot of fun. Played MP with a friend from Europe and me in California, USA and had a blast, no lag or any on-line issues. Had some hick-ups on other stuff, just understanding how the online mode works, but overall, we had a blast.
If you are looking for on-line friends you can add me to your FL (Xbox 360 version). I play the part and enjoy a good on-line game venturing around...I also had playing an MP game like this and the other players just go do whatever instead of being a party. So if you want...send the FR to ----> Hawk269
If you can deal with some piss poor character animation, want a massive world, deep RPG elements and like the Genre...then get this game!
StormyTheRabbit
Member
Concept17 said:Ugh... really struggling here. I can't seem to find a character to stick with. The only one I have yet to try is a Seraphim, because the whole design of the character just doesn't appeal to me.
I want to be able to take a couple shots in melee. I want to use a sword (Preferably not 2handed, and I don't really need range nec.) and I want some solid/interesting spells.
Help me decide.
Shadow Warrior?
Just got the game, installing now. Had no idea that this has been out for the PC for a bit. Rolling a Shadow Warrior. I'm curious how long it takes to get the quest for your class specific mount.
Concept17 said:Ugh... really struggling here. I can't seem to find a character to stick with. The only one I have yet to try is a Seraphim, because the whole design of the character just doesn't appeal to me.
I want to be able to take a couple shots in melee. I want to use a sword (Preferably not 2handed, and I don't really need range nec.) and I want some solid/interesting spells.
Help me decide.
I think Stormy's right. You'll probably like the Shadow Warrior a lot, especially if you specialize with one of the categories that has some of the necromancy-type spells.
MrWhitefolks
Neo Member
360 Owners: Are any of you running into "server does not respond" errors when attempting to join a "friends only" game? I haven't been able to connect nor get any of my friends to connect to my game at all today. Is there some kind of server issue or is this something that will be patched, etc?
note: yes we're within the level cap restrictions
note: yes we're within the level cap restrictions
thebigkahuna
Member
This thing wasn't even on my radar until I stumbled on this thread. After reading this thread I ran to Best Buy today and damn it GAF... you f'd my wallet over again. I'm loving this game.
xDEILGYREx
Banned
Really getting addicted to this game.
There are lots of little issues and (so far) little non game breaking bugs...but play this for a while and you can tell this is special and those who made it really loved the game.
GoTY so far, and my summer savoir.
I'm on my 3rd Dryad build. Played initially to lvl 12 first night and got my feet wet.
Figured out the flow of the game, and started a fresh character.
Second day I got Dryad2 to level 20, but realized it wasn't good to pump lots of runes into my Ravaged Impact and other non-buff CAs, because it's not power so much you want but rate of fire that makes the Dryad so filthy. I want to be constantly triple-shotting my foes, and so as this build wasn't as perfect as I'd want - I ended up scrapping her too.
New Dryad3 is a killing machine on Silver. I saved a butload of Sinister Predator and Barkskin runes to pump into her. At level 25 already, and I've gold modded Ravaged Impact and Sinister Predator buff.
Got my first chest armor set piece (3star) and a wicked blowgun that has life leaching magic and + exp gains . And I just bought a 180,000Charger horse too.
There are lots of little issues and (so far) little non game breaking bugs...but play this for a while and you can tell this is special and those who made it really loved the game.
GoTY so far, and my summer savoir.
I'm on my 3rd Dryad build. Played initially to lvl 12 first night and got my feet wet.
Figured out the flow of the game, and started a fresh character.
Second day I got Dryad2 to level 20, but realized it wasn't good to pump lots of runes into my Ravaged Impact and other non-buff CAs, because it's not power so much you want but rate of fire that makes the Dryad so filthy. I want to be constantly triple-shotting my foes, and so as this build wasn't as perfect as I'd want - I ended up scrapping her too.
New Dryad3 is a killing machine on Silver. I saved a butload of Sinister Predator and Barkskin runes to pump into her. At level 25 already, and I've gold modded Ravaged Impact and Sinister Predator buff.
Got my first chest armor set piece (3star) and a wicked blowgun that has life leaching magic and + exp gains . And I just bought a 180,000Charger horse too.
xDEILGYREx said:Really getting addicted to this game.
There are lots of little issues and (so far) little non game breaking bugs...but play this for a while and you can tell this is special and those who made it really loved the game.
GoTY so far, and my summer savoir.
I'm on my 3rd Dryad build. Played initially to lvl 12 first night and got my feet wet.
Figured out the flow of the game, and started a fresh character.
Second day I got Dryad2 to level 20, but realized it wasn't good to pump lots of runes into my Ravaged Impact and other non-buff CAs, because it's not power so much you want but rate of fire that makes the Dryad so filthy. I want to be constantly triple-shotting my foes, and so as this build wasn't as perfect as I'd want - I ended up scrapping her too.
New Dryad3 is a killing machine on Silver. I saved a butload of Sinister Predator and Barkskin runes to pump into her. At level 25 already, and I've gold modded Ravaged Impact and Sinister Predator buff.
Got my first chest armor set piece (3star) and a wicked blowgun that has life leaching magic and + exp gains . And I just bought a 180,000Charger horse too.
Awesome. What platform and Light or Shadow? My 37 High Elf needs company.
Fortunately I have a busy week ahead of me and won't be able to play a ton, so I should be able to find more people around my level in a few days.
thebigkahuna said:This thing wasn't even on my radar until I stumbled on this thread. After reading this thread I ran to Best Buy today and damn it GAF... you f'd my wallet over again. I'm loving this game.
I wouldn't call it fucking your wallet over if you like the game... It's the ones where you end up hating the game after buying due to GAF hype that hurt.
So far I have a level 5 shadow warrior dude, and I'm not feeling the game too much. Can anyone help?
- "Runes" and what they're for confuses me. I did the "rune tutorial" quest in the first town you come to, but that didn't really help. So... socketing them to weapons is more or less like gemming a weapon on WoW. Increases stats. I have that.
- But some things it wouldn't let me put into a socket. Why?
- Some seemed consumable. They dropped, I "used" them in the menu, and they disappeared. What was that about?
- Some of the menus confuse me. The "compare" option when I have a piece of armor or a weapon highlighted doesn't seem to actually DO anything? Likewise, the manual said that when I got lewts they would be listed in order of best to worst, with the best at the top. But that hasn't been my experience. Weapons and armor just seem to be randomly thrust into my inventory, so I end up highlighting each piece 7 times to make sure I'm equipping the best one (see next note).
- Is there any rhyme or reason to whether a weapon is better/worse? I have a 2-star weapon that does less dmg than the one-star I have equipped now, so I don't really know what to make of that...
- I think probably the biggest problem I have is I (might have) rolled the wrong class. I was gonna be the inquisitor, but saw they were dark-campaign only, so I rolled the shadow warrior but went light. Right now he seems very melee-oriented and vanilla. I run up to bad guys. I mash Sword button (or axe button). They die. I don't expect to have sweet abilities from moment one, but I think I might have just rolled the wrong playstyle.
EDIT: Another Q I forgot about - I was looking at my character's skills int he various trees. Most were greyed out. Some weren't and could be slotted to a hotkey. A few levels later, I had some new skills, when I checked? Game never told me, though. The whole experience just needs more DOCUMENTATION. I'm just never quite sure what things are for, or how to accomplish what I want. I'm confused a lot.
Are there any classes that are more dynamic? I play a Warlock in WoW and it fits my playstyle perfectly (dmg over time spells, ranged attacks, various strange demonic skills).
~~~
Anyway, I've never played a "lootwhore" game before, not even diablo, so these might be things that are true of ALL games in the genre, but some other big WTFs:
- The moment I started my character I was thrust into combat. No tutorial, no nothing. Just "hey kill this dude!"
- Combat just feels very stiff. When I DID start to kill that dude I started hitting the A button (the sword button) and my character just sorta convulsed. I figured out that I needed to SLOWLY press A and let his animation complete, otherwise he would just start the attack animation over and over and no attacks would land.
- He has a lunging/stunning attack that seems to actually happen 1 out of 3 times I press the button.
- Is there a way to CHOOSE who I target, or is it just whomever I'm facing? Annoying to whack at rats in a dungeon when some big monster is attacking -_-
- Bronze has been stupid-easy so far. Mindless.
~~~
SUMMARY:
- thinking about rolling a new class before I get too deep. Suggestions?
- Is the combat in all games of this time clunky/stiff, or is it something unique to my class (or this game?).
- Please explain runes to me in more detail. And the menu system.
- I WANT to like this game... I'm not trying to hate on it. So please help me to like it and don't reply with "YOU'RE SO WRONG ABOUT XYZ"
- "Runes" and what they're for confuses me. I did the "rune tutorial" quest in the first town you come to, but that didn't really help. So... socketing them to weapons is more or less like gemming a weapon on WoW. Increases stats. I have that.
- But some things it wouldn't let me put into a socket. Why?
- Some seemed consumable. They dropped, I "used" them in the menu, and they disappeared. What was that about?
- Some of the menus confuse me. The "compare" option when I have a piece of armor or a weapon highlighted doesn't seem to actually DO anything? Likewise, the manual said that when I got lewts they would be listed in order of best to worst, with the best at the top. But that hasn't been my experience. Weapons and armor just seem to be randomly thrust into my inventory, so I end up highlighting each piece 7 times to make sure I'm equipping the best one (see next note).
- Is there any rhyme or reason to whether a weapon is better/worse? I have a 2-star weapon that does less dmg than the one-star I have equipped now, so I don't really know what to make of that...
- I think probably the biggest problem I have is I (might have) rolled the wrong class. I was gonna be the inquisitor, but saw they were dark-campaign only, so I rolled the shadow warrior but went light. Right now he seems very melee-oriented and vanilla. I run up to bad guys. I mash Sword button (or axe button). They die. I don't expect to have sweet abilities from moment one, but I think I might have just rolled the wrong playstyle.
EDIT: Another Q I forgot about - I was looking at my character's skills int he various trees. Most were greyed out. Some weren't and could be slotted to a hotkey. A few levels later, I had some new skills, when I checked? Game never told me, though. The whole experience just needs more DOCUMENTATION. I'm just never quite sure what things are for, or how to accomplish what I want. I'm confused a lot.
Are there any classes that are more dynamic? I play a Warlock in WoW and it fits my playstyle perfectly (dmg over time spells, ranged attacks, various strange demonic skills).
~~~
Anyway, I've never played a "lootwhore" game before, not even diablo, so these might be things that are true of ALL games in the genre, but some other big WTFs:
- The moment I started my character I was thrust into combat. No tutorial, no nothing. Just "hey kill this dude!"
- Combat just feels very stiff. When I DID start to kill that dude I started hitting the A button (the sword button) and my character just sorta convulsed. I figured out that I needed to SLOWLY press A and let his animation complete, otherwise he would just start the attack animation over and over and no attacks would land.
- He has a lunging/stunning attack that seems to actually happen 1 out of 3 times I press the button.
- Is there a way to CHOOSE who I target, or is it just whomever I'm facing? Annoying to whack at rats in a dungeon when some big monster is attacking -_-
- Bronze has been stupid-easy so far. Mindless.
~~~
SUMMARY:
- thinking about rolling a new class before I get too deep. Suggestions?
- Is the combat in all games of this time clunky/stiff, or is it something unique to my class (or this game?).
- Please explain runes to me in more detail. And the menu system.
- I WANT to like this game... I'm not trying to hate on it. So please help me to like it and don't reply with "YOU'RE SO WRONG ABOUT XYZ"
sol_bad
Member
Playing this on PC with an 8800GTX with mouse/keyboard hooked up to my 42inch plasma. The game looks beautiful and runs smooth on my PC. No idea what it looks like on any of the consoles and I'm too afraid to look.
Personally I can't understand how anyone would want to play this with a control pad.
Personally I can't understand how anyone would want to play this with a control pad.
What I do when I get a bunch of runes of the same type is trade them to the rune master. You can trade 4 runes and have him produce another one of your choosing (for a fee). Beyond that, you can sell them as well...that's what I do anyway.Loudninja said:
As for what you should focus on, what class did you roll? I've only rolled a shadow warrior so far.
It probably couldn't hurt...a good sword/shield combo is a pretty good way to start, I figure. I've been reading stuff from the sacred 2 wikifor skills and what not. I've already made a couple screw ups for my build, but nothing too major. :lolLoudninja said:
GDJustin said:
Looking over my own post, what I think I really need is for someone to give a very "high level" summary of Sacred 2. I'm reading the Wiki now and (I think) the following is all true: Every character has up to 12 skills they can learn, from three schools. Those skills can then be upgraded in specific ways.
Even something as simple as that eluded me, after a few hours of play, because there's no in-game documentation, AND the game's manual is super confusing, as well. So someone giving little overviews of the game's systems I would find extremely helpful.