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Topic: EQ2 Beta Contest (from f13) (originally from IGN) (Read 73829 times)
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Riggswolfe
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Just out of curiousity does EQ2 have zones or is it mostly seemless gameplay like WoW is?
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SirBruce
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EQ2 has zones.
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Merusk
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EQ2 has zones. They load faster than EQ1 zones on my rig, though. (p4 2.4 w/ 512 RAM & Nvidia FX5700) They seem to be much better optimized in this engine, and zoning seems to take just a little longer than it does in COH. I'm having a small problem with crashing randomly on zoning, however. I'll give them props, this engine is FAR, FAR superior to the SWG engine that lagged the hell out of my machine and made everything feel very slow-mo and unresponsive. I was really expecting it to be that bad in responsiveness, and I'm plesantly surprised to find it's not. |
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Riggswolfe
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EQ2 has zones.
Bruce Hmmmm....I don't like the sound of that. I prefer seemless gaming when I can get, zoning tends to break my immersion. How large are the zones? Can you give me a rough feel at least? |
"We live in a country, where John Lennon takes six bullets in the chest, Yoko Ono was standing right next to him and not one fucking bullet! Explain that to me! Explain that to me, God! Explain it to me, God!" - Denis Leary summing up my feelings about the nature of the universe.
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Resvrgam
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"Loading...Please Wait."
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Merusk
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EQ2 has zones.
Bruce Hmmmm....I don't like the sound of that. I prefer seemless gaming when I can get, zoning tends to break my immersion. How large are the zones? Can you give me a rough feel at least? The city zones (you start in the city and don't leave for a while.) All seem to be about the size of Neriak Commons or East Freeport from EQ live. I can't speak for the larger zones like commonlands, since they're 'teen' level zones and I'd die quickly if I tried to explore them. |
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Luxor
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Antonica is probably the size of the karanas put together, easily.
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Cosmik
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EQ2 has zones. They load faster than EQ1 zones on my rig, though. Which ones? Surely not the Commonlands or Antonica. (Something that Smedley tries alleviate peoples fear of here.) |
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AOFanboi
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"Loading...Please Wait."
*quit* See, now that is you not having the patience of steel that comes from playing, well, almost any PS2 game in existence. It is always a pleasure to see how the developers have implemented the inevitable loading animation. |
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Merusk
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EQ2 has zones. They load faster than EQ1 zones on my rig, though. Which ones? Surely not the Commonlands or Antonica. (Something that Smedley tries alleviate peoples fear of here.) Err.. the Luclin and up zones. Sorry, I should have clarified. Before I quit, I hadden't gone to Commonlands or Karanas in almost 2 years. No reason to. |
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schild
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I need the following: First Name Last Name SOE Station Name and Email account tied to that From the following people: Evil Elvis Liquidator Toma Levine Lanei angry.bob WayAbvPar Hanzii Shavnir Soukyan Yes, there are some n00bler low post count people on here. It was random. If you didn't get it - blame karma. There will be more next week. Yes, I know it's only 9 names - if you remember, Big Gulp beat Shockeye in the race for the PM. Anyway, I'll get these out as soon as everyone private messages me the aforementioned information. And this isn't a contest. I can't stress that enough. Don't spam the boards with congrats to the people that got accounts. Thanks. Oh, and here's the shortcut for SOE Station registration. Yes, that rhymed. |
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schild
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I'm stickying this because it seems a number of you just don't want to send PMs. HELLO, MCFLY, YOU WANTED THE ACCOUNT. Plz send it in, kthx.
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Liquidator
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I'm stickying this because it seems a number of you just don't want to send PMs. HELLO, MCFLY, YOU WANTED THE ACCOUNT. Plz send it in, kthx. Slackers! |
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SirBruce
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If they don't PM you, can I get that account for my friend? :)
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schild
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Do you hire people to come up with this stuff? It's a riot.
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Liquidator
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If they don't PM you, can I get that account for my friend? :)
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Shavnir
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I'm stickying this because it seems a number of you just don't want to send PMs. HELLO, MCFLY, YOU WANTED THE ACCOUNT. Plz send it in, kthx. Sorry I was on 28.8 over the weekend. Thanks for the invite btw. |
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schild
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A couple people still haven't responded. If you don't by the end of today I'm filling it in with real life friends. In other words - you're screwing other people on the site. YOU DON'T WANT TO DO THAT, DO YOU?
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Soukyan
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A couple people still haven't responded. If you don't by the end of today I'm filling it in with real life friends. In other words - you're screwing other people on the site. YOU DON'T WANT TO DO THAT, DO YOU? Jeezus! Come on guys. Send him a response. I was camping my fricking email all this week in the hopes I would get a chance to start testing by this weekend. *sigh* |
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Liquidator
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A couple people still haven't responded. If you don't by the end of today I'm filling it in with real life friends. In other words - you're screwing other people on the site. YOU DON'T WANT TO DO THAT, DO YOU? Jeezus! Come on guys. Send him a response. I was camping my fricking email all this week in the hopes I would get a chance to start testing by this weekend. *sigh* Me too. :( |
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Slayerik
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Well, if you want me to take a slacker's spot I'm game :) I have all the SOE garbage ready from Planetside.
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toma levine
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Didn't see it posted but it looks like FilePlanet has a limited amount of EQ2 beta keys to give out to subscribers over the course of this weekend. It's on the FP front page.
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Riggswolfe
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Those keys for today went FAST. Holy cow. Guess I shouldn't be surprised.
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"We live in a country, where John Lennon takes six bullets in the chest, Yoko Ono was standing right next to him and not one fucking bullet! Explain that to me! Explain that to me, God! Explain it to me, God!" - Denis Leary summing up my feelings about the nature of the universe.
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schild
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I'll be sending out the keys for this site on monday. All you people that get to wait a weekend, thank the fart knockers who just got their info to me.
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Riggswolfe
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if I get in I can gurantee you won't have to wait all week to hear from me.
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"We live in a country, where John Lennon takes six bullets in the chest, Yoko Ono was standing right next to him and not one fucking bullet! Explain that to me! Explain that to me, God! Explain it to me, God!" - Denis Leary summing up my feelings about the nature of the universe.
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Evil Elvis
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Gah. Was hoping I'd get to at least download it and log in once before the new week :(
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Soukyan
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I'll be sending out the keys for this site on monday. All you people that get to wait a weekend, thank the fart knockers who just got their info to me. Thanks fartknockers! I guess I can go out and party this weekend... even though I had cancelled all plans in the hopes of checking out EQ2. God, I'm such a slut for these MMOGs. |
"Life is no cabaret... we're inviting you anyway." ~ Amanda Palmer"Tree, awesome, numa numa, love triangle, internal combustion engine, mountain, walk, whiskey, peace, pascagoula" ~ Lantyssa"Les vrais paradis sont les paradis qu'on a perdus." ~Marcel Proust |
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Riggswolfe
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God, I'm such a slut . I have dreams where Natalie Portman says that alot. |
"We live in a country, where John Lennon takes six bullets in the chest, Yoko Ono was standing right next to him and not one fucking bullet! Explain that to me! Explain that to me, God! Explain it to me, God!" - Denis Leary summing up my feelings about the nature of the universe.
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Numtini
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I got lucky and got one of the vault keys. (I feel dirty.) So you can drop me from the list begging for one here :)
Game's pretty good once you get a few levels.
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If you can read this, you're on a board populated by misogynist assholes.
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Calantus
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Meh, I missed this, it's what I get for having my net down for a whole fortnight. If there's still a place open I'd be very surprised, but pleased to take it. I'm not above scabbing places people lost through slackness.
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Riggswolfe
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I tried for one of the vault keys but wasn't quick enough. Still feel dirty for it though. Well, at least there is one more round here to go.
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"We live in a country, where John Lennon takes six bullets in the chest, Yoko Ono was standing right next to him and not one fucking bullet! Explain that to me! Explain that to me, God! Explain it to me, God!" - Denis Leary summing up my feelings about the nature of the universe.
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Kairos
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Aaaand the game's being released on the 8th of November. I bet anyone who subscribed to Fileplanet specifically for EQ2 must be pissed now.
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Liquidator
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Aaaand the game's being released on the 8th of November. I bet anyone who subscribed to Fileplanet specifically for EQ2 must be pissed now. I subscribed to Fileplanet specifically for the World of Warcraft Stress Test. :) The EQ2 giveaway was total crap. Why the hell couldn't they at least say when they were going to open it up? Having subscribers check an EQ2 fan site for the time of a giveaway is insulting. Whatever. It's only $5. They give away enough free MMORPG and other betas for it to be useful. I didn't get an e-mail for the EQ2 key from this f13 contest tonight, so I guess it will be coming in the morning sometime. I hope... not much time left to play. :P |
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schild
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The guy said they all went out. Check your spambox or whatever, f00.'
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Evil Elvis
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Nada yet. Hopefully it's just the net being slow.
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