Matrix Online

[Riggswolfe]

Must resist urge to pickup preorder at lunch..must...resist....

[Viin]

I'll be making Viin on Linenoise but I'll also have a char on Enumerator as well. So hopefully see you guys there! :)

[MrHat]

Must resist urge to pickup preorder at lunch..must...resist....

Resist!

Fight with me brotha!

[Sobelius]

See you all on Linenoise.

I will post my character name once I've secured it.

[stray]

Lol, I was in the second they opened, and I couldn't get one name on my list. Wtf? 

edit: Hrm...I'll be in character creation all freakin' day. I've gone through a long list of names (like 30) and they're all taken. It's not like they were all common words either (At least not any I'd expect to be gone within 2 minutes):

Stray
Typo
Rev
Nox
Spire
Axiom
Jammer
etc..

I guess I'll be "xXx-Zegisirdvian-xXx" or something. 

[stray]

Btw, you sure you don't want to go to Enumerator, Sobellius?  :-D

[Sobelius]

Btw, you sure you don't want to go to Enumerator, Sobellius?  :-D

I'll create a toon there.

Name on Linenoise is Blackpill Almost level 5.

[schild]

If this test already started, I guess I won't be playing. I've no time.

[stray]

/sigh

No wonder. I just read that they kept every name used in beta reserved. That's fucking retarded.

Maybe I'll think of something, maybe I won't. I just spent 2 hours trying to brainstorm a game handle, but I've lost patience for now.

[Viin]

Alrighty, I'm:

 Viin on Linenoise
 AntiAlias on Enumerator

I'll probably play AntiAlias the most, at least intially.

Also, I have these names reserved if anyone wants one: IOFailure, Dereferenced, and Interlaced

NullPointer was taken already. :( Everytime I try to get a name on Method it crashes, grr. IfThenElse and DoWhile seem to be free but I can't get it 'cause Method crashes me.

[Riggswolfe]

So, those of you playing. How is it going so far? What do you think of the live game?

[stray]

Everytime I try to get a name on Method it crashes, grr.

Just in case you missed what I mentioned a couple pages back, names have to be unique across ALL servers, not just one. So if someone has "JoeBlow" on Enumerator or Linenoise, you'll never get it on Method.

Also, if you want to keep things "IfThenElse" or "DoWhile" (or whatever), just reserve them on another server. When you know the server you originally wanted to put them isn't crashing, just delete them where they are, and then put them on the new server.

To top it off, all names that have been used in Beta for the past year or so have been reserved. I just don't see the point in that, as I'm sure many of those were just throwaway accounts.

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Anyways, I'm Origen on Enumerator. Not sure if I'm keeping it or not.

[Viin]

So, those of you playing. How is it going so far? What do you think of the live game?

I haven't played at all until today, so I certainly don't know everything that I probably should :P

I took me a bit to figure out how to get new abilities (have to use a hardline/phonebooth to change what abilities you have in memory) so now I'm level 4 with 5-6 more abilities to use. I went through levels 2 and 3 with the noobie abilities but it worked ok.

Combat: eh, sorta of interesting the way they have it set up, but like someone else said, it's kinda slow. I also don't like it because I can never tell when I'm going to die so I can't take a health pill to prevent death.. meaning, I have like 1/4th health left which has lasted me 30 secs already so I figured I have at least 10 more seconds before I die, so now is a good time to take a pill .. but the persons move kills me and you don't know you are dead until after the move is completely finished. Not a huge deal, just need to get use to it.

Movement: crappy. I have a headache from running up stairs with these slightly jerky slightly sluggish controls. I also get annoyed with the camera, since it does it's own thing sometimes and I *always* have to adjust the camera in order to loot something I just killed. Even though AntiAlias is a female, she runs like she has a stick up her ass.

Abilities: Some of the abilities are interesting, but really just Matrix flavors of everything we've seen before. Programing yourself a bot is really charm an animal or conjure a spirit to protect you. HyperJump is useless, at least I've never been able to do anything with it other than go straight up. Virus software are DoTs and can 'infect" other nearby enemies.

Graphics: not too bad, if it weren't for the jerky camera. The matrix view of all the objects after you jack is in pretty cool. Character customization is alright but their randomizer sucks.

Levelling: Levelling is actually pretty fast. It took me 2 hours of goofing around to get to level 4, and would have gone faster if I had done more missions.

Missions: crappy. The waypoint system blows. The missions themselves are easy, but I have no idea why they can't tell you what room the guy is in instead of having to search a whole freakin' house (where, for some reason, all the freakin' doors are closed). The waypoints also sometimes just disappear and leave you wondering what's next then you go all the way up to the top floor and it shows you a waypoint on the 2 second floor that you passed already.

I've not really had any problems with lag, at least not yet.

Anywho, we'll see how it goes for a month. Not too exciting so far.

[Daeven]

Characters:
Linenoise - Nullreference
Enumerator - Emergent

[Sobelius]

Linenoise: Blackpill

Enumerator: Delta88


Live game plays just like Beta. The lower pop server, Linenoise, was smoother overall though. Enumerator is already under medium load and showing the same rubber banding that was present in Beta.

[stray]

/canceled retail order

I'll be in preorder till the 25th. Maybe I'll change my mind from now to then. It's just hard to trust a company that can't even get the simplest of things right (this applies to a number of things).

[Shockeye]

What the fuck is wrong with you people? Why not pour some salt in your eyes since you seem to enjoy pain.

Did you nitwits think that somehow, magically, the servers were going to be all of a sudden stable just because they are now releasing? Did you think that they were going to throw the no-lag switch and everything would suddenly be better because now you're in the "preorder" group?

[Sobelius]

What the fuck is wrong with you people? Why not pour some salt in your eyes since you seem to enjoy pain.

Did you nitwits think that somehow, magically, the servers were going to be all of a sudden stable just because they are now releasing? Did you think that they were going to throw the no-lag switch and everything would suddenly be better because now you're in the "preorder" group?

Hmmm. Nothing I read in any of the posts I've seen in this thread up to here indicated anyone expected things to be any different. I recall posting that "what you see in Beta is what you'll see in release". So far, holding true. I'll play the preorder anyway. It's a break from WoW and CoH and EQ2.

The name reservation thing is odd -- they should have wiped all Beta names.

I've got 2 characters up to level 5 today (playing a total of maybe 3-4 hours). The lower levels are a breeze even with the crappy servers/lag. Am set to ally with one of the 3 main factions soon on Linenoise -- not sure which yet.

[stray]

What the fuck is wrong with you people? Why not pour some salt in your eyes since you seem to enjoy pain.

Did you nitwits think that somehow, magically, the servers were going to be all of a sudden stable just because they are now releasing? Did you think that they were going to throw the no-lag switch and everything would suddenly be better because now you're in the "preorder" group?

The lag is only half the problem. There are crashes, minor login problems, and mission bugs as well   And I know I keep saying this, but I don't like whole idea of reserving beta names. It's hard to trust them when they make retarded decisions like that.

Anyways, I still kind of like the game itself, but my patience has worn thin...For tonight at least.

[Hoax]

On Enu, name is Elsix...

My firewall/router fucking hates this game...  I get the margin server crash damn near every 30min heh.

Anyways, I'll put those four names on friendslist.

[stray]

Anyways, I'll put those four names on friendslist.

Eh...I changed my name. Sorry. I'm using the new one to troll their boards with (Can't find a better use of the game for the time being. Heh).

[stray]

Hmm...I guess things are going too bad for them (yet). New servers poppin' up:

Heuristic (Hostile)
Input
Output
Array
Process
Protocol
Recursion

14 servers total so far.

[Viin]

Is their character moving service working? Maybe I should move off Enumerator - laggy!

[Hoax]

I have heard people bitching the server's are west coast... I get no lag but still having issues due to router.  Here was their support's latest gem:

"James, There is an available driver update for your video card. I will be forwarding this issue for further investigation. Please attach your updated DxDiag.txt file if this problem remains. Nvidia http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp"

Hrm, we both know I'm having problems w/ my network vrs your netcode..  You make me run dxdiag and then tell me to update my videocard drivers (which are using some cutty drivers intentionally).

[stray]

Lol, here's a new one:

CYA taken just way too far
Posted: Mar 23, 2005 6:40 AM 
 
I'm a mom, so I get the whole "profanity filter" thing, and I like it. It saves having to explain any words my kid sees when she comes up to me every five minutes while I'm playing. HOWEVER....

"You have lost *** information for coding an item." Aparrently the number four hundred fifty-five is objectionable. I can see why it may have been put in the filter, but come ON. Even I'm not that... uptight.

[MrHat]

What's a 455?

[stray]

What's a 455?

l33tspeak for "Ass". I guess 

[MrHat]

What's a 455?

l33tspeak for "Ass". I guess 

Ugh.

[Sky]

Clearly a case of har$%^ment.

[Mi_Tes]

Clearly a case of har$%^ment.

Haha.  That is just asinine!

This has got to be one of the most quiet MMO releases.  Even nothing on the Vault boards - so what gives (good, bad, people don't care)?   Also wondering how many are playing (peak populations and # of servers)?

[HaemishM]

From all I've heard, it's because the game isn't great (no robot neoagent jesus), it's laggy as fuck, and there aren't a lot of people playing it to really evangelize it anywhere. Hell, the best this community could manage was a collective /meh over it, without even enough energy to bemoan the shitty netcode beyond "it's laggy."

Did I summarize well enough?

[Viin]

Sounds good to me.

[Sky]

I wanted to check it out but f13 never ran that beta contest, and I learned my lesson with the EQ2 preorder. I never preorder. Last one I did before EQ2 was Fable and that "game" made me cry. And I simply don't have the money to waste on checking it out. Ah well. There's always WoW, eh? I'll just wear black shades and a latex trenchcoat while playing it, I guess.

[stray]

The game still has potential. It's not complete crap. But yeah, you guys were wise to wait a while.

[Hoax]

What I hate:
-the margin server.  My router hates the fucking thing, they fight and I get disconnected every 20-35min on the dot (took notes last night).
-the sync-ness of it.  Seriously bullet-time isn't that cool but its there and its annoying how I dont see it most of the time.  Oh and dont get me started on dead mobs getting one more round of combat off and generally wasting my time..
-Stairs.  So much time spent going up and down stairs, what the fuck...  oh and elevators, I get that it is an easy way to create a reason for so many damn instances for missions but damn kinda tired of the elevator buttons, each building type should have different buttons or something.

What I might like:
-the game, for 2 months at least, if it worked.

-PvP w/ interlock, the mechanics of the game have the potential of making for quite interesting pvp tactics, can't comment yet though.

-Interlock itself.  Its new and semi-nifty for now I'm mildly amused.