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ESO engine was based off of SWTOR, they could have made ESO graphic really great, but because they were going to make ESO a multi platform game they had to dumb down the graphics so the cheap console boys can play it!
Its an MMO. It has very good graphics by MMO standards. Want single player quality graphics? Play single player games.
here are 10 reasons why ESO sucks
QUEOTE from an expert ESO PLAYER
That is not an expert ESO player. Just some random dude on steam forums pulling stuff out of his butt in 2013:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/72850/discussions/0/846960628274946943/
Why are you even quoting this?? Its a post by a Skyrim fanboy crying that ESO is not Skyrim 2. Half of this is bullkitten, half of it is irrelevant since its a complaint that an MMO is an MMO.
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Id say the goal of a typical MMO is to have fun while gradually making your character stronger.
4. More unique races, please. I’m not a big fan of playing a charr myself, but I do love seeing them around. But human, nord and sylvari? We have five races, and three of them are human? (well, human-ish.) I would prefer only four races, with charr, asura, human and a very-not-human fourth race. Make each race unique. Right now I can’t really be bothered picking between human or nord, as they are the same race. Even sylvari are just humans with a weird haircut.
Dont mind the sylvari but I really wish they went with Kodan instead of Nords.
NORNS!
See! I cant even remember their name right :P They need to go. Just replace them with the bad*ss bear people :P
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4. More unique races, please. I’m not a big fan of playing a charr myself, but I do love seeing them around. But human, nord and sylvari? We have five races, and three of them are human? (well, human-ish.) I would prefer only four races, with charr, asura, human and a very-not-human fourth race. Make each race unique. Right now I can’t really be bothered picking between human or nord, as they are the same race. Even sylvari are just humans with a weird haircut.
Dont mind the sylvari but I really wish they went with Kodan instead of Nords.
I would like a virtual reality MMORPG, so maybe GW3 can incorporate that technology? What with all the Occulus rift and whatnot.
With all those VR sets being developed I keep wondering… How quickly will your eyesight deteriorate due to hours of staring at flat surfaces placed an inch or 2 in front of your eyes. I supect the damage will be massive.
those pictures are not bad:) well I got go to sleep and thx for the pictures, by the way is that your character in those pictures?
Yes its my character. The problem that the game has is that it needs higher contrast and sharpness. The values used by ESO’s engine make stuff look a bit blurred and bland. Luckily you can fix that with some dll injector magic. SweetFX works great.
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http://i.imgur.com/2O5j79o.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/hwYwIBC.jpg
Two of mine. Also, its not a newly released game. Its already 1.5 year old.
A decade ago it would have looked like this:
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I never played guild war 1 so I wouldn’t know, But i did play Elder Scroll Online. I can say ESO failed because they didn’t have any really good endgame content. For example the dungeons are hard very hard, but after you beat it you dont get level appropriate reward! Another problem with the game is the class is too diverse for its own good, it might look fun on paper but in reality when you give so much choices to the player it creates unreasonable complications, and only the most elite of players can properly navigate through the maze and find the optimum build! there are so many other things wrong with ESO that I wont go over and off course graphic is very bad!
Huh? The visuals in ESO are pretty darn good. The wide range of choices for building your character is also an advantage. If you feel like youre lost just read up a bit. The endgame content complaint however is perfectly valid.
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I hope they make the graphics better so you dont quit tbh!!!
Or they can do it like Blizz does it with WoW and improve the gfx with each expansion.
How about some more stuff in between for people who are serious about the game but not certifiable?
Something like ascended weapons, maybe?
I said more stuff. I didnt say there’s nothing there. Also, its pretty much the same process as with legendary weapons only on a (much) smaller scale. Not very entertaining.
Grumpy casuals need to stop trying to take the “legendary” out of Legendary gear. I’m a pretty casual player and I don’t go for legendary gear because…I’m a casual player.
There’s nothing wrong with not having the same things or as many things as the people who play the game a ton. You’re perfectly fine with exotic. I’ve gotten to the point where I can sometimes make an ascended weapon here or there but mostly I’m just dominating the game with exotics on all my alts.
Do I sometimes think about trying to get a legendary? Yes. Definitely
Do I get angry when I realize it would take way too much time or energy? No. Absolutely not.= Give up on Legendaries if you don’t want to put the time or gold into getting them. = They are just weapon skins with a bit of convenience tacked on. You’ll enjoy the game a lot more doing things that are actually fun.
Thing is there is not enough between the casual rewards and the insurmountable wall that is legendary gear acquisition (armors soon to come). Theres stuff thats easily obtainable and then theres the monumental kittenblock of legendary equipment. How about some more stuff in between for people who are serious about the game but not certifiable? :P Or at least make obtaining the legendary an enjoyable process not a chore. After all its a game.
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Damage meters just make everyone unhappy. The elitists whining about newbies and casuals, newbies and casuals whining about being kicked, players in general whining about their favorite class being low on dps, devs whining about actually having to balance things…
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HoT made big steps with this, but it still needs to make many more steps and need to do so within the next half year.
Well, next expansion WoW is giving legendary weapons a try. Well see if Blizz can do any better :P
Because he doesnt consider working for this target to be an entertaining ‘journey’ but rather a prolonged visit to a labour camp.
Fair enough, but then playing a RPG feels a bit of a misplaced choice in games. There’s plenty genres in which no progression exists, as much as that has spread. Fighting games come to mind, or MOBAs, which only have momentary progression.
Are you trying to tell me there are no RPGs where the journey is actually enjoyable? That just isnt true. Also MMOs/RPGs usually have a curve type progression. GW2 is probably the only MMO I know that has a flat line suddenly turning into a vertical wall type of progression.
But legendaries don’t have better stats, so it’s not an issue of progression. It’s an issue of it being a long-term goal and a status symbol.
However, when there are two routes to this and one is out of whack with respect to the other, then that is cause for concern and the topic of this thread. (Mind you, I believe it’s not as kittenome think, but I think it’s at least worth discussing.)
In short, the nature of gear progression in GW2 is a different thread, not this one.
Well, I think visual progression is still a form of progression especially in GW2 (also the issue affects ascended gear to a degree too). Soon youll have a whole set of legendary armor to grind for… and Im sure they’ll call it an adventurous journey once again just because theyve added an UI window with a few icons to the game. Its a cheap excuse for content. How about some quests? Some exploring? How about some challenges? Nope… itll be ‘gather 50k of this and craft 300 of that’.
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Because he doesnt consider working for this target to be an entertaining ‘journey’ but rather a prolonged visit to a labour camp.
Fair enough, but then playing a RPG feels a bit of a misplaced choice in games. There’s plenty genres in which no progression exists, as much as that has spread. Fighting games come to mind, or MOBAs, which only have momentary progression.
Are you trying to tell me there are no RPGs where the journey is actually enjoyable? That just isnt true. Also MMOs/RPGs usually have a curve type progression. GW2 is probably the only MMO I know that has a flat line suddenly turning into a vertical wall type of progression.
c’mon anet put the outfit out separately!
They wont do that now. Would be unfair to those who bought the pack. Lets hope they dont start putting more outfits in packs like this tho. Im willing to buy an outfit for 700 gems if I really like it but 2k? GTFO.
How is it unfair? they got a bunch of freebies with it. They got what they paid for lol
Why dont you buy it for 2k then? Youll get a bunch of freebies too.
And theyre not freebies. For many theyre the ‘I like the outfit so much that Im willing to pay tripple for it as I dont want or need the other stuff’ tax.
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c’mon anet put the outfit out separately!
They wont do that now. Would be unfair to those who bought the pack. Lets hope they dont start putting more outfits in packs like this tho. Im willing to buy an outfit for 700 gems if I really like it but 2k? GTFO.
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Meaning : if you bought HoT and craft Dawn, you get to pay more than non-HoT player and more than its actual price (700g : ~70€)
I think this is pretty relevant.Why would you buy the gems though? You got your fancy precursor, sure, but you also robbed yourself of a long-term ingame target.
Because he doesnt consider working for this target to be an entertaining ‘journey’ but rather a prolonged visit to a labour camp.
They are too busy fixing the game.
Also, we might lose one of them permanently due to mental illness or suicide.
I wish they invested some time into developing a questline for this that would unfold with a story and a series of challenging boss fights, exploration and minigames. But that wouldnt be cost efficient. Its easier to add a collection UI and say theyve spent months working on it. Right…
Personally this is what I think they should focus on as far as squeezing money out of people goes. Sell them cool looking stuff.
Why cant I preview the outfit in the outfit tab on my character sheet?
I noticed it was said above, but I want to restate it: the point is not to be cheaper or easier, the point is to sidestep both the pRNG and the anticlimactic “buy from the Trading Post.”
Not anticlimactic? Its still a ‘oh thank God its over…’ thing rather than a ‘hell yea! that was f… awesome!’ thing.
Everyone thought that WoW was going to get taken out by a competitor.
In the end, it simply committed suicide as soon as the first full-Activision xpac [Warlords of Draenor] came out. I’m sure as heck not touching Legion unless I want those demon wings for my D3 character from the deluxe edition.
Just because youre not going to touch it doesnt mean it commited suicide. The problem is not so much WoD as an expansion as it is the fact once again the players are left for months without new stuff at the end of it.
But thats fine. Keep in mind people’s attitude to WoW changed a bit over the years. For many its no longer a game they play constantly. Instead its a game they love going back to with each new big instalment of content. A lot are actually quite hyped for Legion. Ill certainly spend 2-3 months on it.
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If they add mounts, they need to add realisism where you need to pay for a stable, vet care, food and water. Be a good gold sink or tradeable with other players. Don’t want to gather food for your mount? Pay for it or log in one day and it’s dead.
Theyd make it cost so much youd need to buy gems to be able to afford it.
Updates are your friends. Unless they bring nerfs…
The genre itself still has the most potential out of any videogame thing anywhere.
Not from the business point of view. The investment needed to make an MMO is massive, the chance of financial success is rather low. Its much safer to make tight little games like Hearthstone or Overwatch at a fraction of an MMO budget and reap rewards comparable to what successful massively multiplayer games have earned. Developers and publishers see that and act accordingly.
800 gems… how long would he have to farm for that?
Sounds reasonable.
And honestly it boggles why they not just implemented traditional quest for this. Those quest could send you on epic challenges to get the items you need. That would in total be a epic journey to get your precursor. Colin even said in the stream that quest would be better suited for this then events.. so they came up with collections. No wonder that for many it does not feel much as an epic journey. If you acknowledge that traditional quest very well suited for these things then implement them instead of being stubborn about it and doing anything in your power to work around quests.
Reading all this I recalled vanilla WoW and the hunter class quest for the epic bow. You got the quest from the second to last boss in Molten Core, WoWs first raid instance (which meant it was RARE… but that is not the part they got right). Once you had it you had to defeat 4 demons which were desinged to test your skills at playing the class. And these were actually difficult bosses with some nifty mechanics. Each spawned in a different location and you had to solo them within a limited time or they despawned for several hours (also despawned when someone helped you). I remember how much I enjoyed it. Took me a week or two to get them all down but it was a challenge and an adventure. It was exciting. You usually even had a crowd of spectators from both factions cheering you on (and surprisingly rarely being kittens and screwing up your attempts).
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The new maps are amazing, masteries were implemented perfectly, and all of the elite specs are a blast to play.
Especially tempest -_-
I’ve played Chronomancer, Daredevil, Scrapper, Reaper, Tempest, and Herald. Yet to be disappointed by any of them.
I really wouldnt put the chronomancer and the tempest in the same category of effectiveness. Anyway… this isnt the elementalist forum so Ill just shut up now.
I do agree with some other posters that for the risk eles should get more damage with dagger focus or dagger dagger.
I always wondered about this. Why does the higher risk weapon set come with lower damage output for eles?
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The new maps are amazing, masteries were implemented perfectly, and all of the elite specs are a blast to play.
Especially tempest -_-
Hi all,
I started playing less than a month ago, and mesmer really caught my eye is a “flashy” way to play the game, but it never really stuck with me because A) it felt slow and B ) there seemed to be a glaring flaw in the clone/phantasm mechanic.
That glaring flaw seems to be that while phantasms can dish out 60% of your damage, as soon as your current target dies, they go bye bye. Doesn’t matter if there are 3 other mooks in your face, they will skedaddle as soon as your current target is dead. I’m not sure if that’s intentional or some kind of bug caused by my targeting settings in the game UI.
Dont put all your illusions on one target, use utility skills/swap between weapons to get more of them.
“But then it won’t feel like an adventure, and the hard work, and yadda, yadda, yadda…”
Isnt that the problem tho? It not feeling like an adventure but like a job?
That pose actually has nothing to do with anime. Its used alot in Naruto, yeah, but its a real life practice of making your body ready for a jump.
You mean people run around like that just in case they have to jump? Which sport is this used in? Which country’s military training? I guess ski jumping would qualify… but that doesnt actually involve running like this XD
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Now, Fun Facts!:
*Average American Middle Class Pay: $20 an hour
Good for you. Its a quarter of that where I live.
Or, you could just play the game for 8 hours and possibly end up with 8-10 gold, but who wants to do that? Just buy gems. It makes ANet happy. And welcome to the F2P model.
I hope people wise up to this eventually. In most cases youll play the f2p mmo for 2-3 months, get bored (once youre past your ‘first MMO love’ that tends to happen a lot) and realize youve spent as much as you would have on a year of subs in another game… or something actually useful irl. Waste of money.
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So today I unlocked naruto/dbz mode on my elementalist :P
Why do people keep expecting ranged weapons to deal as much damage as melee ones. That will NOT happen.
Not gonna happen. Theyd have to balance the classes then XD
It really depends what would be in it. If they made the game more challenging on the PvE side I might just be tempted.
See, just cause World of Pandagrindcraft was your first MMO does NOT mean it’s the way MMOs have to be. They were different before and there have been different ones ever since. You don’t like it? Leave. No need for more wowbabby blabber anywhere outside Pandumpia.
Did he mention WoW in his post? Do you think referring to WoW will make your argument more relevant?
Autoattack/Unload need about a 40-50% damage increase.
That would make p/p deal more damage than thief melee weapons… Not going to happen. Ever.
But this is not quite that simple. They want to keep people playing the game. The question is – how many people are satisfied with what the game offers and how many finished the content and are ready to move on. And what AN is willing to do to make them stay (and its clear that they already started moving away from what was advertised initially).
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The gem store would make a killing selling skins. Lots of quality skins = lots of players spending money and smiling.
Instead of having players lose nearly every time they spend money, have them win.
This! Couldnt agree more. Design a bunch of cool looking armor skins and put them in the cash shop (just not the gingebread/my little pony kind of garbage). Guaranteed profit. Guaranteed paying customers who dont feel they got screwed.
Meanwhile, players who play games – you know, who play to have fun – are loving Guild Wars 2. Don’t believe me? How many end of year awards the game got again?
Im pretty sure it also won or came close to winning the biggest disappointment of the year award.
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If you spent your entire leveling-process rushing through everything expecting some magical end-game to open up to you, then you sir have bought the wrong game.
You could say that to people 2 weeks after release. By now even the casuals in my guild are going ‘hm… so what do I do now?’
Just add piercing to pistol shots and ill be relatively satisfied (tho changing skill 2 would also be appreciated.)
Youll have to write more than that. What is your focus with this build? PvE or PvP? How do you want to play it? Because I cant really tell what youre going for by looking at this build.
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The issue with P/P is that it only has 1 ability that hits hard -as long as your target forgets they can dodge-
He said it he was asking about PvE.
If you are after a finely tuned PvE MMO with lots of teamwork etc then no, this is not for you.
I’m pretty sure he’ll fail arah, or 20+ fractals. Maybe you would too. Because the game REQUIRES strong teamwork to pass it. Having max level and best gear means absolutely nothing in there
Ill agree on Lupi somewhat, but 20+ fractals are easily puggable without a lot of ‘i do this you do that and in case this happens bob here will do that other thing’. 1 or 2 challenging fights in the entire game… I wouldnt call that a finely tuned MMO with focus on teamwork.
I wouldnt call GW2 a waste of money tho. Its fun but it has its limitations. If you play 5-6h daily youll be out of things to do in 2-3 months (that includes getting a few alts to 80). You wont find complex, challenging boss encounters for more than 5 players here either.
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