Lord of the Rings - Beta Signups

[Calandryll]

Cal, do you know if we're going to have to re-register on the official forums for Alpha 2?  Won't recognize my Alpha 1 login info anymore. 

Check your PMs. :)

[Kenrick]

Cal, do you know if we're going to have to re-register on the official forums for Alpha 2?  Won't recognize my Alpha 1 login info anymore. 

By acknowledging that you're in alpha, you have violated your NDA.  You have been removed. 

Hey, what's an alpha anyway?  What are you guys talking about?

[Rasix]

Hey, what's an alpha anyway?  What are you guys talking about?

[Kenrick]

[JoeTF]

Cal, do you know if we're going to have to re-register on the official forums for Alpha 2?  Won't recognize my Alpha 1 login info anymore. 

By acknowledging that you're in alpha, you have violated your NDA.  You have been removed. 

Yay! One more slot for the rest of us. 

BTW, how well did we go as a ekhm, "guild"? Have we CRUSHED and DOMINATED? :D

[schild]

Stickied Thread of Minor Importance

[Righ]

Finally watched the vids.

That was some of the slowest and most boring combat I have seen in a long, long time.

Looked like that was deliberate. That's about as fast as somebody would swing a heavy melee weapon, though I understand that video game junkies hopped up on caffeine will find that tedious. Perhaps they could put a minigame in where you have to click the mouse thirty or forty times between each swing to keep you occupied.

I found the camera more annoying, but the character movement, and the graphics were visually appealing. Which is good. I never even tried the brown sludgefest that was DDO. Okay, I fiddled with it for a minute. Maybe 90 seconds tops.

[Kenrick]

Stickied Thread of Minor Importance

It's a trap!

[Lantyssa]

Northstar looks really upset he isn't the one hanging off Vindicator.

[WayAbvPar]

Looked like that was deliberate. That's about as fast as somebody would swing a heavy melee weapon, though I understand that video game junkies hopped up on caffeine will find that tedious. Perhaps they could put a minigame in where you have to click the mouse thirty or forty times between each swing to keep you occupied.

 :-D :-D :-D :-D

Well played, sir.

[Der Helm]

Stickied Thread of Minor Importance

It's a trap!

Damm. I stepped into it, a few seconds earlier...

[Lord Beta]

For those of you that have sent me PMs, I will be making a list - in the order the names were received and submitting them. For those of you that responded that told me you are in the beta - if something magical and exciting (that's a bit of a stretch....) hasn't happened, send me another PM.

[squirrel]

Edited by schild. Send that to my PM box.

[Trippy]

Well it used to be right at the top of the email.

Creating your Account
To create your Alpha 2 account, please go to the LOTRO Beta Account page and follow the onscreen signup prompts. When you are prompted to enter your product key, please enter the Alpha 2 product key below:

Where "LOTRO Beta Account" is the link to the sign up page.

If schild isn't able to help me let me know and I'll send you the link.

[squirrel]

Well it used to be right at the top of the email.

Creating your Account
To create your Alpha 2 account, please go to the LOTRO Beta Account page and follow the onscreen signup prompts. When you are prompted to enter your product key, please enter the Alpha 2 product key below:

Where "LOTRO Beta Account" is the link to the sign up page.

If schild isn't able to help me let me know and I'll send you the link.

Thanks - resolved :D

[Soln]

 signed up first day, still nothing.  Exact same thing happened with DDO Beta.

[Nija]

Turbine will never, ever learn.

I know at least two red name dudes read this board, SO TAKE THIS NEXT LINE TO HEART.

Never let anyone, ANYONE, play your game until you have 2 hours of solid, functional gameplay. I don't care if you call it Pre-Alpha Phase Negative 6.

First impressions really are everything.

[LC]

LOTRO will be another turd from the ass of turbine. Did you guys learn nothing from AC2?

Lord of the Rings Online Features:

Crappy Art
Lack of Content
An exciting leveling grind that will have you clawing out your eyes.
Promises of an uninteresting crippled pvp system.
No housing.
Instancing (Why even bother making a mmo?)

I didn't sign up as f13.net, but put me in the beta anyways! All dupes I find during beta get reported if I get my own account! Limited time offer!

More exclamation points!!!

"I'll suck your dick if you let me be in the beta hehehe"

What has happened to you? Bring back the old Nija.

[schild]

I'd say you're breaking the NDA, but I'm pretty sure you're just being a dick.

Less of that, thx.

[Chenghiz]

I don't like LOTRO.

Thanks for sharing?

[Nija]

He's just mad because I left IRC.

[Cheddar]

So did all the people from F13 who got invited to the Beta already receive notice?  Can I give up hope now?

[schild]

It's been 3 weeks. It's still in alpha.

Patience, jackass.

[LC]

He's just mad because I left IRC.

Your "immy" is totally unrelated to my opinion of LOTRO. It's only a matter of time before (almost) everyone agrees with me.

[Telemediocrity]

If LOTRO can pull off "DDO-esque gameplay in an actual world", I'll bite.

[stray]

If LOTRO can pull off "DDO-esque gameplay in an actual world", I'll bite.

Maybe I would too.

IF said "DDO esque gameplay" has a control scheme and/or decent interface to interact with it. A world would have made DDO more interesting, but a world still isn't that interesting if all you can do is trudge along in it like a cripple.

[Telemediocrity]

DDO's control scheme always struck me as middling.  Maybe it's because I played a rogue, but I never had a problem with it.  For some reason, though, the game made me feel compelled to roll everywhere.

I don't understand why Turbine, of all companies, should have trouble creating fluid avatar control.  AC1 is still the gold standard in that department - anyone who played AC as their first MMO usually has a really hard time finding the control other games give you over your avatar to be acceptable.  Charge-up jumping and giving everyone an uber runspeed should be commonplace in MMOs - if Turbine hasn't figured out by now how to rip off the best parts of their own previous work, perhaps they deserve a drubbing in the market. :/

[synthetic]

pvp info is starting to come out of pax. looks like everyone gets a prerolled monster with a chance to get a better prerolled monster by completeing quests.

 

[stray]

Translation:

http://lotro.turbine.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7797

Originally Posted by Linnuial
In a nutshell, this is the impression I got from what Nik said:

At the character selection screen, you can select "Monster Play". This lets you play as a monster, such as a goblin. This is not a persistent character--it is a pre-made goblin, already set up with equipment, skills, hotkeys, etc.

As a goblin, you will have monster quests. Some will involve killing good NPC's. Some will involve patrolling special PvP zones and killing players. Either way, player-controlled monsters will be restricted to certain areas. By completing your quests and/or killing good guys, you get points--let's call them "Monster Points" (MP's).

MP's can be used to buy long-lasting (but non-permanent) buffs for your good-folk character, or they can be used to buy a Monster Play session that will let you play something more powerful, like an Uruk-hai or troll. You are only paying for a single such session though--in order to continue playing as a bigger, badder monster, you will have to earn more MP's. Of course, the quests for bigger monsters will also yield MP's (perhaps enough to keep playing that monster).

I asked Nik if all playable monsters will be humanoid in shape, or whether there will be more exotic monsters (after all, we can play orcs and trolls in WoW  ). He said there are definitely more exotic choices, but he would not go into detail (he's so miserly!).

This, of course, is all from my hazy memory of listening to Nik in a very crowded and loud exhibition hall, so believe at your own risk!

One other thing: I believe I recall that Nik confirmed that there will be group monster missions. So you and your friends could form a merry band of spiderlings if you were so inclined.

 

[stray]

Btw, that's someone else's heart breaking. Not mine.

[edlavallee]

Ok, now that could be really cool.

[synthetic]

Thx for fetching that quote Stray. I have to see how it plays but trading in monsters and playing carbon copies of them feels boring out of the box.

[edlavallee]

I can agree that not being able to buff them a little with items/armor is a bit weak, but one of my biggest gripe is the repetitive and predictable AI in mobs. Can you imagine if you came up to a goblin camp and started your pulling only to notice that one of them didn't act in the typical predictable way? hung back and healed, or refused to be kited? Or how about 2 of them? Do you think it could turn the tide of the skirmish enough so that you (as a PC) always have that little thought in the back of your mind that some of the mobs in the game are not preprogrammed? Could it raise the danger quotient a little?

Not that I would want to spend full time playing a mob, but it could be entertaining...

[WayAbvPar]

It would be more fun if I could spawn as a low to mid level mob and then go rampaging anywhere. Surprising some n00bs and then getting chased all over hell's half acre by some higher level characters would make for some fun game play 

[stray]

Like I said, my heart isn't broken. I have very little interest in this game to begin with.

But....I Don't mind the idea. Except the NPC quests. What's that all about? Who wants to play PvE quests with a non-persistant, non-upgradeable, virtually meaningless character, in secluded pvp zones?
 
Just make playable monsters the option for people who want a modest PvP diversion from the main game, and be done with it.