Fires of Heaven Guild Message Board - View Single Post - Comicbook guy tells you, 'Worst. Zone. Ever.'

Dregor Thule · 01-13-2003, 08:12 PM

It's been brought up before, but this zone surpasses all measures of being "bad" that it deserves reiteration. Some of you might be wonder which zone I'm thinking of exactly... those that have been there know only too well what zone it could only be. Plane of Water. From concept to execution, this zone was doomed to fail, and it has, quite gloriously. Ignoring the horrendous bugs that seem to cripple the zone for now, just the very nature of underwater fighting was a big warning sign for a very high end zone. I'm just beside myself with how stupid this is. I would honestly rather be kicked in the head I think. Trying to fight for the most part tiny mobs in the thick of 30+ bodies all swimming around, bumping you, getting in your face, annoying you, while trying to cast the same spell 5 times before you finally get it off. Reaction times are down to nill because of sight and movement issues.

And of course... the bugs. Framerate is absolutely HORRIBLE in this waste of space. It's not even a bug that makes sense, because you can't get rid of it by looking at a wall or the floor, you can't help it by getting a super machine. Nothing helps. It's just plain LAGGED.

I was initially eager to see Plane of Water. I kind of thought they would have, ohh, I don't know.. LEARNED from past mistakes and not made it so entirely underwater. Watery tunnels leading to chambers that are in pockets of air sounded much more feasible. Adding in an ice area would have been nice to represent the E'ci aspect of the zone. Some dry caves filled with steaming guysers for the Povar aspect. I love some of the mobs, the reruga especially, but christ, underwater it's just a waste.

I'd like to be an optimist and hope some kind of overhaul could be done... but sadly I'm also a realist. I need to vent some frustrations now.

01-13-2003, 08:12 PM	#1 (permalink)
Dregor Thule Registered User Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Canada, eh? Posts: 28 -1 Internets	Comicbook guy tells you, 'Worst. Zone. Ever.' It's been brought up before, but this zone surpasses all measures of being "bad" that it deserves reiteration. Some of you might be wonder which zone I'm thinking of exactly... those that have been there know only too well what zone it could only be. Plane of Water. From concept to execution, this zone was doomed to fail, and it has, quite gloriously. Ignoring the horrendous bugs that seem to cripple the zone for now, just the very nature of underwater fighting was a big warning sign for a very high end zone. I'm just beside myself with how stupid this is. I would honestly rather be kicked in the head I think. Trying to fight for the most part tiny mobs in the thick of 30+ bodies all swimming around, bumping you, getting in your face, annoying you, while trying to cast the same spell 5 times before you finally get it off. Reaction times are down to nill because of sight and movement issues. And of course... the bugs. Framerate is absolutely HORRIBLE in this waste of space. It's not even a bug that makes sense, because you can't get rid of it by looking at a wall or the floor, you can't help it by getting a super machine. Nothing helps. It's just plain LAGGED. I was initially eager to see Plane of Water. I kind of thought they would have, ohh, I don't know.. LEARNED from past mistakes and not made it so entirely underwater. Watery tunnels leading to chambers that are in pockets of air sounded much more feasible. Adding in an ice area would have been nice to represent the E'ci aspect of the zone. Some dry caves filled with steaming guysers for the Povar aspect. I love some of the mobs, the reruga especially, but christ, underwater it's just a waste. I'd like to be an optimist and hope some kind of overhaul could be done... but sadly I'm also a realist. I need to vent some frustrations now.