Matrix online

I want to try this but well don't wanna lay any cash down for it yet.

Goodness Stress test no.2 has begun. HURRY and you can get a beta key and play for FREE! Heres where you can get more info and all that jazz.

Matrix beta test

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Originally Posted by marwan

but, is CoH easier to get into than world of warcraft? i love WOW, but there is so much to do i am overwhelmed, let alone i dont have the time to play it. if anyone played CoH lemme know how it is, thanks!

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If you're saying this, then MMO's really aren't for you. Every single one of them is just a time sink. It's really like devoting all your gaming/free time to it if you want to get high level. I mean, if there is a monthly fee, you gotta figure that there is a whole lotta game in there for you to play. Works out if nothings out or a game you want is a long way off from being released.

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Originally Posted by Rumpy

If you're saying this, then MMO's really aren't for you. Every single one of them is just a time sink. It's really like devoting all your gaming/free time to it if you want to get high level. I mean, if there is a monthly fee, you gotta figure that there is a whole lotta game in there for you to play. Works out if nothings out or a game you want is a long way off from being released.

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Also to answer the question that rumpy didn't, no MMORPG has ever been easier to get into than "World of Warcraft."

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Originally Posted by youandwhosearmy

Also to answer the question that rumpy didn't, no MMORPG has ever been easier to get into than "World of Warcraft."

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I forgot to put that.

(update)

Another big update today with much more added stuff to the matrix online. More tweeking, adding new characters, missions and other stuff to varied to list in full.

Since the start of stress test no. 2, I've made another character and been having fun with him. This time I sided with the exiles and seeing what all fun you can have on their side. I've also found some new areas...after I thought I been everywhere for beta. The matrix world is SUPER huuuuuuge.

Also this should excite all the people complaining about player vs player fights in matrix. If you played the game and wanted to fight another person. It usually pops up a challenge box and you can accept a deul. Then you fight till one person loses and then they can get back up...with only some health loss. Some people didn't like it and its usually the same people that complain about the fighting system after playing the game for maybe an hour.

If you spend some time with the game and get to lvl 15 or above. By then you should be some what deep in a job class and have a side you have joined. Well then next on your list of things to do should be to check out the book store for your side(zion, machine, exile) Once there buy the book according to your character lvl and equip it. Then go hang out by the proxy guy in the back of the shop. Soon he will open up a portal and warp everyone with the appropiate key to archieve.

Inside the archieve each side has their own area. In the middle is a huge asian palace. The closer to the palace the harder the enemies get. Rare items can be found here but this is one of the many perks. In this place its almost like a war zone. Other human characters can attack you without warning, just as you attack other computer characters. So now its really a fight, with multi people being able to jump in and pretty much wage war...or small brawls for the good of zion, exile or machine...which ever your sided with.

I need to lvl up a bit and switch back to my old job....some damn spys been playing cheap and its time for pay back heh.

This sounds like your average MMORPG with the Matrix loosely as the backdrop. Gangs? What the fuck?

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Originally Posted by Andrew

This sounds like your average MMORPG with the Matrix loosely as the backdrop. Gangs? What the fuck?

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Throw in a tedious combat system that depends way too much on luck, absolutely boring missions, and a depressingly generic city. I tried the stress test for quite a while, made it to level 8 just to see if there was anything redeemable about it other than the hip fashion of the player characters, but there isn't. It just isn't any fun, even ignoring the huge pile of bugs.

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Originally Posted by Ammadeau

Throw in a tedious combat system that depends way too much on luck, absolutely boring missions, and a depressingly generic city. I tried the stress test for quite a while, made it to level 8 just to see if there was anything redeemable about it other than the hip fashion of the player characters, but there isn't. It just isn't any fun, even ignoring the huge pile of bugs.

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What job class were you? The fighting doesn't depend on luck, you just gotta know how to fight right for your job class. At lvl 8 you couldn't even super jump yet, much less get deep into a job system to get some super good abilities. I'm also doubting at level 8 and no super jump that you really got to explore too far into the world without dieing quick.

Actually, I could explore all I wanted to. Walked around the pink area freely since the gangs just stand there stupidly. You have to shoot them in the face to get their attention. I did got shot by an agent once, but the feedback from the game is so poor I only realized it after turning the camera all around after I was lying dead. No stagger animation, no sound effect, no nothing. Live to dead in zero to sixty.

If reaching higher than level 8 is what I need to do for the combat to stop sucking then I think there's something wrong right there. I tried mainly operative, both spy and fighting trees, both martial arts and firearms. It always boiled down to luck for me no matter what abilities I used. Take down an enemy two levels above me without a scratch, then get taken down by one two levels below. Not exactly a fun experience, especially when nearly half the quests I attempted couldn't be finished due to bugs.

If you're having fun with it more power to you, but I found it to be one big wasted opertunity.