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Dreven · 01-03-2008, 01:21 AM

As my month long retry for VG is almost up, I think there are just too much still wrong with the game for it to recover.

Still too many crashes, graphical glitches, and game freezes. The performance is generally better, but the game still locks up for seconds at a time when you enter a city and when menus are opened your screen will sometimes lock up or you only see a rainbow of colors where the menu is suppose to be, and this happens a lot. Raiding is half decent but if two or more groups are in the same shard, it becomes lag city, I'm talking 2000 - 4000 ms or worse (worse I saw was 7800ms).

Uninspired content development. I have seen some of the gear that's coming out of APW. The set gear that I have seen in particular are all named after Devs, no time wasted on lore or creativity here! So for instance, you might have a heavy belt from a set called Glip's belt of tankage, if you get my drift. Very cheesy, and lazy in my opinion. There is a set named after Silius, and other names I can 't remember.

On top of that the items don't seem all that great. The items have red names but that's about all that's legendary about them. Just a few stat points better or might reduce your cast time by .000002 seconds or some mess. I stopped paying attention when I saw how pointless it was to spend hours trying to get this stuff. I may be expecting too much from legendary items I guess, *shrug*.

Graphically the place is also damn boring, all the rooms look very similar and is just very drab. I guess they had to reuse as much of the old textures as possible to save time and resources.

Overall I would give APW a grade of B-, it is interesting in spots and not totally a mess, plus I have only killed 4 or so lock out mobs, so that grade is based on my limited experience. I don't feel it is very compelling, and not the type of dungeon I would log in every day to play.

As far as the game goes it is still very average (C-), and it probably wont die out completely with folks like tad and kciv to will stick around another year for the next raid dungeon, but it will probably remain stagnant, this free period isn't going to do squat in that regard.

01-03-2008, 01:21 AM	#711 (permalink)
Dreven Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 72 +0 Internets	As my month long retry for VG is almost up, I think there are just too much still wrong with the game for it to recover. Still too many crashes, graphical glitches, and game freezes. The performance is generally better, but the game still locks up for seconds at a time when you enter a city and when menus are opened your screen will sometimes lock up or you only see a rainbow of colors where the menu is suppose to be, and this happens a lot. Raiding is half decent but if two or more groups are in the same shard, it becomes lag city, I'm talking 2000 - 4000 ms or worse (worse I saw was 7800ms). Uninspired content development. I have seen some of the gear that's coming out of APW. The set gear that I have seen in particular are all named after Devs, no time wasted on lore or creativity here! So for instance, you might have a heavy belt from a set called Glip's belt of tankage, if you get my drift. Very cheesy, and lazy in my opinion. There is a set named after Silius, and other names I can 't remember. On top of that the items don't seem all that great. The items have red names but that's about all that's legendary about them. Just a few stat points better or might reduce your cast time by .000002 seconds or some mess. I stopped paying attention when I saw how pointless it was to spend hours trying to get this stuff. I may be expecting too much from legendary items I guess, shrug. Graphically the place is also damn boring, all the rooms look very similar and is just very drab. I guess they had to reuse as much of the old textures as possible to save time and resources. Overall I would give APW a grade of B-, it is interesting in spots and not totally a mess, plus I have only killed 4 or so lock out mobs, so that grade is based on my limited experience. I don't feel it is very compelling, and not the type of dungeon I would log in every day to play. As far as the game goes it is still very average (C-), and it probably wont die out completely with folks like tad and kciv to will stick around another year for the next raid dungeon, but it will probably remain stagnant, this free period isn't going to do squat in that regard.