Originally Posted by spronk  1-3, when you do combos one of the 1-3 buttons will be the follow up combo keys (so for example you'll press 6 to initiate a combo, then follow up with 2,3,2 to execute it). you can change these keys to whatever you want btw.
It sounds all exciting in theory but imo it gets boring after a while. Whee, instead of mashing fireball,fireball,fireball in wow you are mashing 4,1,3,2,1,4,3,1,2,4,1, blah blah. It is fun to be so "tactical" if you play in short little 1-2 hour sessions, but marathon sessions will be overkill for most people I think. it also queues up your actions so if your a button smasher like me sometimes you get frustrated when its a key or two behind. There are still bugs too in combat, like your character just standing around doing nothing while you frantically mash buttons screaming at the screen, and suddenly you warp around and start doing queued up stuff a few seconds later (sometimes, sometimes you just stand there for a while too).
There are still though lots of the "little" polish issues. My main annoying ones are loot. Mobs drop bags/chests/etc on the ground which you must double click or right click to open, wait a second for it to open, then click take all to loot. Shift-double click is kind of auto loot, but its undocumented and its more annoying than just right/double click. Whats worse is that right clicking on your character brings up a menu with just the option Leave Group (obviously in a group more options), so almost everyone ends up screaming at the screen when you accidently bring up the menu for the 50th time while soloing. Wow of course didn't have auto loot for 2 years but still its something you get used to in MMOs now.
There's really no environment interactivity either, step on a fire no big deal, can't really pick up anything, can't smash the environment, etc. |