Reply With QuoteIf you actually checked you'd seen it has went gold before it went on retail sale. The majority of people bought their copies online.Originally Posted by diffusionx
Electronic cigarette.
It's not as polished with as diverse an enemy list as WoW, but I'd say it's the second-best MMO I've played (I haven't touched Everquest II and I've only played the open beta of Guild Wars). Character creation is better than WoW's, but much in the same vein it doesn't matter too much because a lot of your look is your outfit which is going to change a lot.
Again, like WoW, it gets extra extra bonus points for having an open landscape with no areas seperated by loading. The ability to just run into buildings, go up an elevator, run through rooms, kill Exiles and walk out without going through a single piece of loading whatsoever makes the world that much better. What little loading is around is very quick (more akin to City of Heroes' interior loading than to the lengthier WoW teleport/recall loading), only happens when first loading the game or teleporting, and utilizes the brilliant strategy of loading world geometry first and letting you run around while it coats everything in Matrix code to hide texture loading.
Basically, everything is streamlined and moves quickly and beautifully. It's great being able to say, "Hey, I want to go to this part of town to get this upgrade," and you run to a hardline and teleport. Wha-la. No getting on a gryphon with enough time to go make a sandwich and eat it or making sure your Hearthstone is always mapped to IF and god forbid you should need to get back to the other continent; you're just there. You can build up whatever skills you like to maximum and then whenever you want access to something else you can switch them out, and that's just awesome.
It's like they took City of Heroes, said, "Yeah, this is cool but it could be better," and then popped it in a darker environment and gave it more depth. It definately lacks the variety of places of WoW (Much like CoH you better like looking at skyscrapers for hours), and don't think that because I prefer some of the things they do in MxO means I think WoW should change. The gryphons are annoying but it was an amazing sight the first time I got on one and it's also to encourage mage/warlock teleports, and having only one trade skill at a time means the world economy builds through specialized trade. The main point is that both of the games took what fit their environment and mythology best and did it and I think they both work out really well that way.
So far I (obviously) like MxO, moreso than I was expecting. Certain things remain to be seen - such as how much I'll enjoy the constructs (instances) and how the whole destructable weapons and clothes thing works out - but right now I'm really enjoying myself. It also doesn't hurt that I like the style and ideas of the Matrix enough that I'm willing to overlook the many basic story flaws of its execution, it's not like MxO is going to convert anyone pissed off by the movies.
word up holmes.
If you actually checked you'd seen it has went gold before it went on retail sale. The majority of people bought their copies online.
Electronic cigarette.
I didn't previously know that the main characters are run by GMs during story events, I figured they'd be bots like when you briefly encounter them in missions. I found it immensely entertaining when Niobe was giving her speech to a crowd and suddenly turned to someone spamming the channel and said, "Hey, why don't you try shutting up?" Good stuff.
word up holmes.
Yea I didn't know they did it either till the climatic closing on the beta test. A bunch of the programmers were agents running around in the chaos killing anyone who moved.
It seems the whole Lumpine/blood drinker attacks were a cheap ploy by the group leaders to rally support in their quest to take out the Merovingian. Seems like their are a bunch of people plotting in the exile camp for more power. The leaders were not really kidnapped but in hidding after recent assignation attempts.
To make things even more crazy, two high ranking blood drinker brothers seem to be about to have it out also. The one in power is busy with this whole Merovingian business. The other brother is gaining power in the streets by converting blue pills and red pills to his aid. In his mad quest he wants to over throw his brother and then make the matrix his new world.
I'm glad I don't have to choose sides in this turmoil, any of em attack me I'll pop em back. Not without some little viral fun first though haha.
punks not dead
man, do i wish i had the time for a third mmo.
word up holmes.
Matrix online had a major update today. It took me the whole time DLing to read the full update list its so huge. Heres some of the major updates and stuff I can remember.
New critical mission packs. Seems like morpheus is about to cause a lot of trouble, be it good or bad.
Lots of new animations for moves and other things.
New sounds for moves, guns and other stuff
New looks and re-tweeking of moves.
Coding has been changed a bit also and is WAY faster
I think they added baseball caps and banadanas
Fights move much faster than before(stay on your toes!)
Other bug fixes and upgrades
A new contact for missions in downtown.
Tons of other stuff, well back to doing new missions.
i drink it up!
Charging into battle is the best thing in MMORPGs. When I teamed with people in WOW and they went after horde I'd charge in full steam like an idiot.
word up holmes.
Big update once again.
Coming in the near future to matrix the team will be unleashing a new map system for the game. The new system will have better zoom and will show more location points than the current map. They plan to add more features to the new map also.
Also the "hunt for morpheus" big event will starting on the 20th. This will be the biggest live event yet spanning 10 days. I've been lvling like crazy and helping my crew out to prepare for this long event. The matrix online team is also gonna try out new features to help everyone to enjoy live events with no disrupptions. This time around players that try and ruin others games will be stopped.
Finally the matrix online will be giving every subscriber 3 trial keys to give to any friends and family to play the game for free. The free trial period will take place during the 10 days of the hunt for morpheus live event.
Well thats about it for now, back to making abilities.
punks not dead
if any of you have any spare trial keys, you could hook up your best buddy frosty./e blatent sucking up/begging
Electronic cigarette.
You know I've got you. It would be wrong for me to do otherwise since you hooked me up with CoH.if any of you have any spare trial keys, you could hook up your best buddy frosty.
I finally hit 20 with my WoW alt which was my main goal this last week, so I want to start pouring some more time into this.
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