As soon as my fucking game wants to start (Hangs on startup after the logo, before the FSS video) I'll be on.
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As soon as my fucking game wants to start (Hangs on startup after the logo, before the FSS video) I'll be on.
Well I'm off to bed now. I just had the most annoying server failure so far. I was in waterloo doing multi missions against some new enemies that are a pain and dig in the ground. Just had finished one objective by killing some creature. Had 5 out of 6 body parts for another and was going to pick up the last one. Had some object I had to activate in the distance to finish another objective. Then I was moving stuff in my inventory to pick up some new rare gun for somebody. BAM sever failure. So I only got one mission finished outta 3, lost the gun and kept some BS I was deleting. Went back and waterloo is filled with them GD huge Goliath type monsters. Damn shit.
See, now you've inspired me to be more.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
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ChuxBuster is my blademaster (I'm on now)
Chucker is my Evoker.
I got caught up in a couple of things. I'll be on tomorrow.
I made it to level 9 tonight, on track for the 4h achievement.
I beat act 2, and the last quests were actually pretty awesome. A nice change of scenery for once at least become readily apparent as well.
Can anyone confirm that the level 10 in 4 hours achievement has been fixed? I'm starting a new character if it has.
YOSHI, DO NOT FALL FOR IT, THEY ARE JUST ACHIEVEMENTS TO TRAP YOU!
Is anybody going to actually play this tonight?
ITS A TRAP !!!
I love my Sniper rifle, but I am still slow at leveling, only hit 11.5 last night. Real Hell mission was fun.
I also got the Sub, so we shall see.
I'll be on around 4:30 after work more than most likely unless I get some sushi instead.
What quests are you on Chux?
I'll also be on around 4:30. I'm on the Picadilly Circus stuff.
I'll give you a hand with that, I hate Picadilly Circus just the level design for the area pissed me off for some reason.
Also Pickle dicks.
Why did they take the Sex out of the chick merchant in Charring Cross? :(
I'm definitely doing it as soon as it actually works.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thief Silver
Good luck with the 14 hour lvl 20. Seems everytime I log on I have some new achievement posted. I have no clue how to do that moon achievement. I won't be playing tonight, cause I got a concert to goto.
I'll be on around 1:30-2 CST. Gakhilesh is level 13 now, and I'm hoping to get up to 15 today.
Quick, dumb question: how do I join the guild?
I'll be on tonight intermittently. I have a haircut at 7 but should be on after 8, possibly before 7.
I'm way behind you guys: level 6 summoner (going on 7).
I haven't been playing as much as I would like. Between work, 43543643 other games and the occasional shitty anime it's hard to even have no life at this point. -_-
My character is a marksman named MitsukiSugiura, but I haven't gotten very far yet (not even out of Act 1).
I'm going on now. I'll add TNL people I see to the guild.
I just finished Act 3, and I'm a little over level 18. I'll be playing again later, but it seems like all of you play earlier in the night. I'll be home around midnight CST, let me know if any of you are going to be on.
I'll hop on real quick to get in the guild.
I'll do the same.
You guys who are above level 13-14, where the hell is the portal to 314's mind??
Next to Luscious in the Charing Cross Station.
I should be sleeping since I've been up close to 24 hours, but ahhh fug it, I'll play a bit and maybe some tonight.
The network errors are really getting annoying. I'm at a pretty long and hard part in the game, which requires me to go thru 3 stages which are either long walks or wide open spaces with lots of hard enemies. I got to the last stage and BAM network error. So now I'm gonna have to do the other stages allll over again! Also wtf is up with the monsters respawning so quick? I'll go back to town to item dump and come back to all the monsters respawned. Add to that I'll be completely surrounded and fighting like GD crazy just so I can get settled back into the stage.
I seen despair on earlier, but I guess he had his chat box closed. I have a load of nice weapon upgrades if anyone needs any mods. I'm close to hitting lvl 20 also.
Yeah, network errors and memory issues are suck suck suck. I was doing Millenium Battle quest, and Bam, i get there, kill half of the monster and CRASH. Hooray, for now traking through 2 previous zones :(
Also, I agree on WTF with monsters respawning on you once you go through town portals/hell rifts. Really annoying.
Hoping to hit 15 today, and finally use up some of my skills points lol.
I think me redoing some of these stages is why I'm leveling so fast. Hopefully the next update will fix the monster spawning issue, because it didn't always do that. I had the millenium battle freeze on me twice while playing with Nick and Yoshi.
This game is really starting to grow on me. Closing in on level 12 summoner.
Someone needs to invite me into the guild.
And yeah, network errors are a bitch.
I've never had any network errors. Do you just drop out or something? I've only had my game lock up on me once. I just finished act 4 and have my summoner up to level 24.
Fuck me, this game is out too?
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Originally Posted by Spanky McGee
You'll just be playing and all of a sudden a small lil window will pop up saying "network error" and maybe some numbers and you'll be looking at the start screen.
I finally finished that one mission I was having trouble with, also picked up a VERY nice rare weapon....just too bad I can't use it for awhile. Guess that makes up a bit for having to redo the quest like 3 times.
I was on briefly yesterday, did a couple of quests and organized my inventory. I should be on longer today and tomorrow, so I'll look for people to invite to the guild.
There is a big patch coming soon with too many things to list here. They are fixing a bunch of problems I have with the game now. Mainly stuff about server dissconnects, the chat window and other glitches. I'm getting really irritated at the moment on this one quest(another 3 stage one) where I keep getting to the 2nd stage and having the game freeze on me.
I'm probably gonna quit playing till the patch, but the holiday event will be over then and I need 1 more food item to finish that part. For a list of all the stuff they are fixing check the post on the homepage. They had some stuff that would affect yoshi since he's an engineer.
Also I'm moving after the 1st so don't expect to see me for awhile.
I really hate how this game handles friends lists and guild management. Having both people be online for it to work is just plain dumb. There have been a bunch of people both here and on another forum I'm trying to keep track of and I've been successful in adding a total of two people because I play at such random times. I'll try tonight, I guess.
Yea that is a bit annoying. I doubt I'll play any tonight since I've been up since yesterday. But I may play a good bit all day tomorrow since i'm off ...that is if I can tear myself away from the wii.
I'm off this week, but I refuse to play until they fix the achievements.
I've gotten about 5-6 achievments already. Three of em I have no way of doing. I'm not even sure how to do that moon achievement. It also seems every time I log on I have a new one posted on the tracking screen.
I mean the timing ones. I can't handle having a character missing badges/achievements in MMOs, so I have to wait to make a true main until I can get those.
I got ton of achievements except for fast leveling ones. But I've been extremely busy with work this week plus Assassins Creed, so not my HGL for me.
Also last time I played with Nick and Sleeve game was bugging out like hell on me :(
The time ones, I think they need to fix the /played command to get that working right. I need to look up and see what all commands they got. I was reading somewhere that they back up and record various things your character does weither you're a subscribber or not. Like if you do some certain things and then become a subscribber, they'll automatically give you credit for what you've done.
I am a subscriber, unfortunately.
The next patch is supposed to fix bugs when playing with other players. Hopefully it works cause I've only experienced that once with nick and yoshi.Quote:
Originally Posted by Despair
This game FINALLY arrived at my house today. I've started a go as a Gaurdian named chode.
You on the Euro server or US?
The new .5 patch came out a day or so ago. The game seems to play more smoother and they fixed a few annoying things. The chat window still gets in the way on a few vendors, but out of the way on other things. They mention something about overhauling it some more, but for now it still needs some tweeking. I got another server disconnect but I think it was them doing something cause I heard others bitching about it at the same time when I came back.
They've also added a TON of character slots for everyone. Supposed to encourage people to try the other classes out. They fixed some mission bugs and some of the mission items should now be gone from your inventory. I'll miss my headlight mask (sniffle). I've hit lvl 22 and its just been me and my lil fire demon.
US server.
I'm digging this game, at about level 8 or 9 in one sitting. I don't know whether to hammer this character so i can play with you guys or to check out the other classes.
I should be playing some later today. I still got some good mod's to give away and some unique armour for various different classes too. If anyone is up for some demon bursting lemme know.
I've been just way too busy in IRL lately to get to my pc and play :( Good to hear that many bugs got fixed and I will try to get on this weekend.
It's been a week or something since I played this. COD4 took the spotlight for me. Plus I purchased Rock Band, so thats getting some playing. I should try to make some time for this later today.
God dammit! Looks like there is still server disconnects and at the wrong time too. I was on a new stage and its like a confusing maze. I think I was well on my way at the end of it and BAM "server error". YAY now I gotta go thru that allllllll oveeeeeer again. Also they still need to fix the enemy respawning when you leave, /stuck or randomly glitch. It don't piss me off as much anymore since I got an ability that allows me to cast a lighting cloud than rains down bolts on anyone in my area....but its still annoying.
Quick question: i have 2 pieces of the same armour, one has 80 armour, the other has 40 armour and 40 shield. Which is better?
I might be wrong but armour is what takes the dammage when you get hit. Shield is kinda like a magic barrier that surrounds you and has its own hit points also. After it takes so much dammage you start taking hits. So it just depends on what you want, super beefed up armour or armour and some shield defense. The shields go back up after you rest a bit and make you able to shrug off a few hits, spells and other random things creatures can do to you.
<3 sever errors on the 3rd stage again!!!
Nick: I have you some swords, armour and shields
Despair or any other marksmen: I have loads of mods and clothing for yall
Yoshi: I have more mods for your guns.
I need to clean out my locker its getting full again. In 6 days I won't be around for awhile.
Patch .6 is out.
Fixed more chat window issues and FINALLY the invisible party member bug is fixed YAY! Also fixed some equipment bug on engineer and they say they are still working on that one some more. Fixed a memory leak for people that buy, sell analyze equipment alot (me me me). Fixed a bug that randomly warped people.
Good to see they are fixing some of my problems pretty quickly. They are working on the memory leak problem even more. Patch .7 is supposed to have some new surprises for subscribbers.
Good patches. I'm still not going on tonight, but I'll try to be on a lot more.
So my bro just picked this up. Is it good? I recommended it and didn't want to steer him wrong.
Also, how worth it is the upgrade?
Wow I didn't have him check his system specs, but a game that was running oblivion on all the highest settings is now chugging on this.
Well, a few things, my brother had a whole lot of dumb shit running in the background that I nixed. That combined with sticking all the settings on low gets the game running smoothly, but I guess we'll have to experiment with the in-betweens. Why this game doesn't auto-detect is beyond me.
He hasn't patched anything yet, do the patches affect how the game runs at all, or just gameplay shit?
I forgot how much I hate pc gaming.
It's always odd when you can say this about a game that's two months old, but it has a lot of promise. It's just not quite there yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cowutopia
I'm assuming by upgrade you mean subscribing. The first major content push, including Stonehenge, is imminent, so that might justify it.
Oblivion is almost two years-old. This is a DirectX 10 game. Is that really surprising?Quote:
Originally Posted by Cowutopia
When you go online, it patches automatically. I couldn't tell you for sure if a patch helped the framerate, as I upgraded video cards once as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cowutopia
I hate having control and options over my experience instead of being stuck with the lowest common denominator too. :rolleyes:
<shrug>
If I had unlimited funds, maybed I'd think differently. PC gaming continues to be a bunch of bullshit. Don't even start telling me how cheap it is to upgrade. If what was high-end two years ago costs 4-600 to upgrade every two years, I don't want to hear it. The best part is a game that runs Hellgate perfectly probably still can't run Crysis decently on maxed settings. Seriously, I don't want to hold you people with money back, but this thing ought to scale much better than it does. It's a fucking dungeon crawler for christ's sake, and honestly plays like World of Warcraft more than anything else I've played recently.
The only thing that makes the game chug now is tons of enemies onscreen at once, and even then usually only if it's two floors rendering at once, like when you're on a catwalk. I'm pretty surprised at how...not scalable this is. We're well over the min requirements, too.
The game at full settings is really pretty but..honestly, not significantly better looking than Oblivion, it's just all the enemies it has to manage onscreen at once that causes problems, I suppose.
It's a pretty neat dungeon crawler but I think I prefer the isometric view. To their credit, the enemies have done some pretty interesting things thus far.
From what I understand, Hellgate requires a lot of RAM. Like, 2 gigs minimum. And it's one of those rare games where >2 gigs makes a big difference.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cowutopia
That's reasonable, I do think my bro needs a ram upgrade actually, think he's 1.5 gigs at the moment.
I don't really care too much, I'm throwing this on the list of games I must play once I get a new comp, which will be, you know, someday. Ran a character to level 10 tonight in singleplayer and I'm pretty much done with it for now. honestly it just made me want to play the diablos.
I doubt anybody on TNL spends $400-600 on their PC every two years. I've rebuilt once since 2003. The grand total despite intentionally overspending to skimp and then upgrade the video card was $1,050. I've also bought $1,980 worth of console and portable hardware, not including accessories in that time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cowutopia
taking trade-in credit into account I've only spent 450 on console hardware since the wii launch.
That's one year, and you probably bought a neutered PC.
I haven't spent a dime on my pc since 2000.
Actually, that's not true, I bought a second internal hard drive in 2003. And I'm not spending any more money on console hardware until the next gen.
You know, if I didn't get a new ipod in September (my old mp3 player having broken) I'd probably have a new pc by now.
So I picked this up cheap today and now have a level 7 blade master named Calako.
SAY HAI2ME AND WE CAN KILL DEMONS AND SHIT TOGETHER LOL.
This is super easy when you get a legendary rifle drop at level 2 that does 100 damage.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
so i finally got around to installing this one and beat act 1 last night. it feels like Phantasy Star Online in FPS mode. not sure if i really even want to finish it.
The patches since I last played (November?) are really great. I'm so glad I don't have to worry about running out of RAM anymore. I lost Gakhilesh forever, but I decided to start over again with a new blademaster character, Sortie. I think she's at level 6 or 7, so it'll take a while. If anyone still plays or wants to pretty much start over, I'd be up for that. I really like this game, despite all the negative press.
I forgot I even had this game. Maybe I'll check out the new patches one of these days.
The Stonehenge subscriber-only expansion is finally going to hit on January 21. Anyone planning to check it out on Monday?
lol subscribing.
[insert wow comment]
I know.
I'm hopelessly addicted now. Sortie is up to level 14 and soon to be 15. Blademaster is so much more fun/hard to play than engineer. Really would like to party up with some TNL'ers.
Yoshi: is that high level content only?
Also...
Nevermind, found the info myself; it sounds really awesome. Once I finish with the free content, or get pissed off enough with my tiny locker, I might go ahead and subscribe.
http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/36...ches-Next-Week
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Hellgate: Stonehenge
Stonehenge is a huge outdoor hub accessed through a special portal in Templar Base, connecting players to several new and exciting quests. Heroes will find themselves in completely new open, outdoor wilderness areas unlike anything seen within the city limits of London, battling terrifying new demons and bosses and finding new items very distinct in their appearance. This action-packed update includes:
- The Caste Caves – Unlock four unique dungeons, one for each caste of enemy – Beast, Necro, Spectral and Demon – to seek and destroy a powerful overlord that resides in each cave. Defeating them and collecting their heads will allow you to continue the adventure…
- Moloch’s Lair – Only after collecting the heads from the Caste Caves will heroes be allowed entry into the lair, with a chance to defeat the legendary Moloch, one of hell’s most imposing minions who carries very unique items that can only be obtained by defeating him in combat. And because Moloch’s soul is eternal, this quest and it’s rewards can be a never-ending challenge.
- The Wild – These three mini-raid areas present players with difficult obstacles but also huge rewards with three levels that get increasingly more difficult even with the recommended full party size – you will need a small army to get through these challenges.
What I have seen is very cool. I was going to upload some screen shots, but they were 6+MB each, and I was too lazy to edit them down.
<3 this game. Too much.
First pic is Sortie. Second pic shows just how much the game becomes like Diablo in the later levels.
The entire staff has been fired and all IP's sprinkled about.
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/07/12/fl...tual-property/
I wonder if they're thinking leaving blizzard was a good idea.
Well this game never felt like a PSO clone to me anyway. Maybe they'll pick some of them up with two new games coming out.
So besides the fact that the game was kind of boring, what was so horribly wrong/broken with it that other people who put more time into it complained about?
Well it's one of those games that NEEDS new content on a somewhat regular basis or else it becomes stale. Fun at first, but with nothing new it was doomed to fail. I had no real problems with it, it just lives and dies by party support and new content.
I have played through Diablo II around eight times since Hellgate came out, so I'm trying to figure out why Hellgate gets stale and DII does not.
There's a few reasons, and I would say the biggest one is that the variable feedback system that is extremely strong in Diablo 2 does not exist at all in Hellgate. You can keep running zones in D2 looking for better loot, but due to the way upgrades work in Hellgate, you can always keep your gear near-optimal regardless of what you find, which makes trying to find better gear useless.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cowutopia
There's also the fact that Hellgate goes through all of its content way too fast (by the end of act I you've seen nearly all of the zone themes). This also has a bit of an effect on the game itself, as while D2's zones were themed and you could plan for optimal gear (ie: lots of zombies in act II and lots of demons in act IV), in Hellgate you just got random monsters at random times, so trying to customize gear was nigh worthless.
That and the game was extremely unfinished when it was released and left a terrible impression on a lot of people. You know the backlash some games get when they're hyped to be the best thing ever and they just end up being good? Well this game was hyped to be the best thing ever by the press at the time and it ended up being pretty bad, which made it look even worse.
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NAMCO ANNOUNCES FREE SERVER SUPPORT INTO 2009 FOR HELLGATE
Santa Clara, Calif., (October 24, 2008) - NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc., today announced that they will continue to support customers of PC game Hellgate™: London with online server support and play through January 31, 2009 despite the closure of Flagship Studios. In a further gesture of support, Namco Bandai Games will provide this server support free of charge to all fans and players of the game up until the shut down date.
NAMCO BANDAI Games appreciate the enthusiasm of all the Hellgate: London players and looks forward to providing them with future entertainment products.
For questions regarding the shut down or additional information about Hellgate: London, please visit the game’s official website at www.hellgatelondon.com.
Is the server client available to players? If not that should be released instead.
PSO STyle, that'd be awesome.
Wise fomwor gwave?
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/01/26/he...-free-to-play/
Hellgate: London will apparently continue on as a free-to-play title according to IP owner HanbitSoft, reports Gamasutra. Namco-Bandai planned to pull the plug on the servers January 31, but HanbitSoft asserts the game will push forward. Forward and upward, allegedly, as the Korean publisher plans to update the game and strengthen community features.
The first patch HanbitSoft plans to release "soon" will combine the game's two modes, along with balancing game and class issues. Could the title that helped bring down Flagship Studios find an audience in the nurturing arms of the Korean developer?
Free to play hooray.
This game sucked.
