Champions Online: The No-NDA Merged Edition

[Soln]

Is it the case that if you played this it would feel radically different from CoX?

I played EQ and EQ2 and WoW felt "radically different" although it was the same tropes.

[Numtini]

Is it the case that if you played this it would feel radically different from CoX?

I didn't think it felt like COX at all. If I had to say what game it reminded me the most of, I'd say Warhammer's PVE.

[fuser]

Trying to download this mythical new build I'm presented with a new download.



Tuesday?! 

[ezrast]

It's on Filefront too.

[raydeen]

So we can talk now? I'll do the emoticon review I wanted to do earlier.

First I was   then I was   then I was  

I had no desire to play it past the tutorial and I didn't even make it all the way through that. I felt the same way about it as I did EQ2. It seemed like it was just CoX 2.0 with slightly shinier graphics but none of the fun that made the original worth playing. The new engine was certainly kinder on the system specs then the old one and that's about the only nice thing I can say. Did they ever replace the old CoX sound effects with new ones?

[fuser]

So wait

Fileplanet has:
9.20090727.5

Filefront has:
9.20090815.6

Asshats, great preload job  

[ezrast]

Nah, they have the same version. It was just put up within the last couple hours.

edit: Heh, the thing I quoted before has been nuked and the corresponding forum post has been edited to read

Hi everyone,

We know that some players are experiencing issues with downloading and patching the game client.

Edit:

This issue has been resolved. If you close, and then restart the launcher this issue will be fixed.

Thanks,

Stormshade

Of course, now the launcher updater just times out while telling me to "Please be patient."

[Modern Angel]

Jesus what a wreck. Three different versions (at least) across two different websites. Fucked patcher when I get the FP version downloaded, no more than 140KB/s on either FP or Filefront when trying to get the new one.

[Signe]

The new version is much faster.  It might be finished in only 4 or 5 days!   

[Threash]

Huh, i gotta download a new version from fp?

[ezrast]

We don't know!

[Signe]

Never mind.  The new version just stopped working.  Forget this.  I'll play something else!

[Modern Angel]

You know, this is really saying something but in this short, day long experience this is the worst set up to an open beta two weeks from release I've ever experienced. I mean holy fuck.

[Shatter]

They the whole download

[rattran]

They the whole download

Would you like to purchase a verb to go with that?

[Malakili]

Its really a shame that the open beta is being deployed is such a shoddy fashion.  The closed beta people just had a small patch and then we were ready.    On the plus side, the actual in game performance is really quite good today.  Hopefully they will get this sorted out quickly, or else they are going to really hurt their launch, with open beta.  

Edit: Also, I'd rather get this out of the way now than on launch day, so hopefully they will work the kinks out.

[Nevermore]

I'm going to guess that the in game performance is good because the majority of the people can't get past the crappy client download bottleneck to actually get in game.

[fuser]

Community is torrenting a CB Live/PIGG folder. Scary thing Cryptic's not saying squat about whats going on besides the patcher issues earlier with files in the wrong locations.

[kildorn]

Never trust a download scheme from a group called Cryptic.

I do hope this is fixed by the time I get home, I'd LIKE to try this hot mess.

[Ghambit]

Fuckin Fallen Earth went smoother than this...
I think this is the 1st time I've ever seen Demonoid mentioned on a "AAA" title's open beta forum.  That's uhh... gotta be kinda embarrasing

[Nevermore]

Based on the screenshots and videos I've seen today and comments from people in this thread with similar taste in game visuals to mine, I think I'll pass on even bothering to try the preview clusterfuck open beta.  The game visuals just look awful.  Even if the game play turned out to be fun, that horrible cel shading just looks so distracting I wouldn't be able to enjoy the game.

[kildorn]

Edit: Also, I'd rather get this out of the way now than on launch day, so hopefully they will work the kinks out.

This is up there with "MAGIC CLIENT PATCH" for things beta testers desperately want to believe but don't actually exist.

[taolurker]

Ok, in the past 4 hours I have had this damned thing fail so many times it's ludicrous. Each time (out of 16) the patch has gotten to various percentages from .3 % to 5.5% and then the whole patcher blanks and comes up not responding in Task Manager. This isn't event he worst part, the part that's total shit is IT DOESN'T CONTINUE FROM WHERE IT WAS PREVIOUSLY AND EACH TIME STARTS THE DAMN PATCHING COMPLETELY OVER FROM SCRATCH!

I hate MMO companies that are MMO stupid. Come on, WTF Cryptic?!?

[Malakili]

No doubt they're going to put out a press release or newsletter about TOTALLY UNEXPECTED OVERWHELMING RESPONSE TO THE OPEN BETA where the patch server just couldn't keep up with demand! But they'll get that fixed, just you wait! So that when the game releases, they'll have enough bandwidth for 10x what they need.

This is true.

[Nonentity]

I got the magic new version off of Fileplanet.

It still wants to patch 3.retarded gigabytes.

Effing stupid.

[Ghambit]

Die Champions Online Webseite.

I think the word "Webseite" will soon become the new leet-speak fad.

[Signe]

Community is torrenting a CB Live/PIGG folder. Scary thing Cryptic's not saying squat about whats going on besides the patcher issues earlier with files in the wrong locations.

Yeah, well, this isn't working either.   

[taolurker]

He said right in that thread it would only support 4 downloads, so lots of luck with getting that. There are probably the same number of people trying to slam that as the patch server.

[Sky]

You guys are so impatient.

[sam, an eggplant]

I had no desire to play it past the tutorial and I didn't even make it all the way through that.

I've been in the beta since march and I pretty much agree. I played it exactly one time. Any time thereafter that I maybe felt like checking out what they changed I was out of luck, as the closed beta server was only up from 7:17 to 7:24AM hawaii time every other thursday and it took exactly that long to download the twelve gigabyte update patch. Fuck that shit, I'm a busy man.

Well, maybe not so much busy as uninterested.

[chargerrich]

Skipping it... back to the D3 wait (unless Fallen Earth manages to not suck ass) 

[Nevermore]

Impressions of a disgruntled tester.  This guy is obviously biased against the game, so keep that in mind.

[Threash]

He said right in that thread it would only support 4 downloads, so lots of luck with getting that. There are probably the same number of people trying to slam that as the patch server.

Well i already got 10% of that done, which is 20 times better than the .5% i've gotten from cryptic, and it actually saves my progress!

[ezrast]

More for the benefit of the crowd than anything else: If you click "cancel" instead of X'ing the window, the patcher will save your progress. Yes, this will cause it to freeze forcing you to kill it from the task manager. But it will save your progress first.

[taolurker]

More for the benefit of the crowd than anything else: If you click "cancel" instead of X'ing the window, the patcher will save your progress. Yes, this will cause it to freeze forcing you to kill it from the task manager. But it will save your progress first.

Every time the patcher failed on me there was nothing to click... I return to my computer and find that window no longer displays the bitch with lightning hand and bejeweled stomach, a patch progress bar, or a cancel button. The whole pane that used to be the patcher is completely blank AND Not Responding on it's own in Task Manager.

He said right in that thread it would only support 4 downloads, so lots of luck with getting that. There are probably the same number of people trying to slam that as the patch server.

Well i already got 10% of that done, which is 20 times better than the .5% i've gotten from cryptic, and it actually saves my progress!

Yah, I assumed that it would possibly take a while for the torrent, but I also opened it as a possible alternative. When I replied to Signe, mine hadn't even shown available, but now the torrent is cranking along nicely, also now to about 10%, while my patcher is at .7% and doesn't seem to have moved in the past hour.