Hellgate London Beta - Sept 17

[Rehlor]

Originally Posted by Suineg

I just hope they fix this really annoying memory leak sometime this year.....

2GB of physical RAM, SLI setup with two 256MB cards, 4GB - 4GB of dedicated swap space.......

Run out of memory within an hour and lots of just general freezes for a few seconds when you get more then 5 mobs on the screen. The same exact whether the settings are completely maxed or completely low....

Pissing me off.

Oh good, I'm not the only one. I nearly pissed myself when the game crashed with the error "Out of physical memory." I realize this isn't a truly fair comparison, but I can run 3 EVE accounts concurrently with less lag than I get after 30 minutes of HGL, and never a crash like that.

[Brand]

Yeah, finally got it to install and run...For 20 minutes...Then boom. I want to like and play it...But man, WTB good game release!

[Spontaneous Cumbustion]

I dunno, I'm having none of the problems you are all talking about. But that's fairly normal with stuff like this. The loudest people aren't playing because the game isn't working for them. So they post on boards.

[GaliemVaelant]

Originally Posted by Spontaneous Cumbustion

I dunno, I'm having none of the problems you are all talking about. But that's fairly normal with stuff like this. The loudest people aren't playing because the game isn't working for them. So they post on boards.

If this game didn't have potential, then nobody would complain. They've got a start, not a good one, but a start. We'll see how it goes.

[Suineg]

Originally Posted by Spontaneous Cumbustion

I dunno, I'm having none of the problems you are all talking about. But that's fairly normal with stuff like this. The loudest people aren't playing because the game isn't working for them. So they post on boards.

Except I am still playing. Only finishing up Act 3 today because of issues but I would like to have been on my elite character by now but it's holding me back..

[Dis]

Originally Posted by Spontaneous Cumbustion

I dunno, I'm having none of the problems you are all talking about. But that's fairly normal with stuff like this. The loudest people aren't playing because the game isn't working for them. So they post on boards.

I am playing, but I get the OOM message about every 30-45 minutes. Friends are getting the same problem and they dont post on boards. We just sent emails back forth trying to nail down what the problem is. The game is very rough around the edges, but having said that it is very addicting gameplay (diablo duh). Just getting tired of having to pay 50 bucks to play an unfinished game. Memory leaks are pretty much inexcusable.

[Jadaki]

Originally Posted by GaliemVaelant

I hope that down the road, they expand upon the features of this game. For example, including content that requires groups, maybe some battlefields, and some zones that look different would be awesome. I'd love to see the English countryside after its being torn up by demons. Also, their using a London theme makes me wonder if they plan on just expanding radially or if they'll be including historical/landmark type places throughout Europe later.

Imagine killing zombies at Vitican City, or hell, just in Rome. I think it would be pretty sweet.

I'm pretty sure they said the first content update os going to include Stonehenge.

[Elsebet]

Originally Posted by Spontaneous Cumbustion

I dunno, I'm having none of the problems you are all talking about. But that's fairly normal with stuff like this. The loudest people aren't playing because the game isn't working for them. So they post on boards.

Issues I experienced last night:

- exited a mission using a PDR and when I spawned in Covent Garden, only my guns displayed. Nothing else of my model showed at all. The guns were shown as if my arms were outstretched to the sides, too. I quit to the login screen, and when I loaded I was stuck in the middle of the floor of the station. I grouped with my boyfriend and tried to make a portal but was unable to click the option to do so. Instead I tried a trade and that warped me to him, but my model was still mostly missing. A full quit to desktop fixed it. Never saw this in beta, and it only happened once.

- randomly, and more than once in a mission, both of our hp's bars would go grey and we would be unable to trade, almost as if the other player was out of the area. This one reminded me of the "group bug" in AO that was horrible for me since I was a Doctor. We even tried the old remedy of running way out of range and back again, didn't work. :-) This one is leftover from beta.

Otherwise we had a lovely couple of hours and almost hit level 7. I like it for the "play it and forget it" aspect, even though I'm playing with old guildmates there is no pressure.

[Fakuss]

Out of memory messages are being solved by disabling Antialiasing, since I did that on mine it's had fair stability.

[Arrr]

not sure what the deal is, but i'm getting DOGSHIT performance.

I'm running 3 ghz dualcore processor, 4 gig of good ram, 8800 gtx. and I'm getting awful performance on minimum settings on singleplayer. FPS seems alright, but it's hitching like a motherfucker. My drivers are updated too.

The demo ran like a champ. I just don't get it.

[Syringed]

I just picked up the collector's edition and have been trying to avoid any info about this game outside of watching the trailers and some ads for it since I've been ruining my gaming experiences lately by getting into betas, playing demos, then proceeding to read every spoiler about the game before it's even hit the shelves.

About the collector's edition it comes with a relatively useless stingray pet, a pretty good graphic novel with nice artwork and a decent plot/dialogue, so&so music soundtrack and a crappy fold out poster of the game. The graphic novel is at least worth the 10 bucks if you're looking to purchase the game. I load up the game and give it a shot.

So far I'm having none of the memory leaking issues while playing but I get fits of slowdown in some player hubs and the game really doesn't like it when I bring up the chat box. I get the rare occasional crash, only one thus far. I made an Evoker and a Marksman and I am enjoying both though the game does get dull after attempting to play it past a few hours. While it's basically a 3D post apocalyptic Diablo II, I'm also constantly being reminded of City of Heroes and Guild Wars in gameplay.

I suppose what bugs me the most about this game is I want to love it but it's so annoyingly unpolished and there's so many minor bugs and technical issues that could use some fixing. I love the setting, the whole idea of it but the execution is less than great. It kinda bugs me to watch such a kick ass intro for the game then play what's basically a bogged down Diablo II.

[Fish Bone]

Originally Posted by Arrr

not sure what the deal is, but i'm getting DOGSHIT performance.

I'm running 3 ghz dualcore processor, 4 gig of good ram, 8800 gtx. and I'm getting awful performance on minimum settings on singleplayer. FPS seems alright, but it's hitching like a motherfucker. My drivers are updated too.

The demo ran like a champ. I just don't get it.

That's odd, my system pretty much sucks and the game runs pretty smooth for me on medium to high settings. I'm also not having many stability problems currently.

It seems really up and down for lots of people. I had very few crashes or OOM problems through most of beta and then after one of the patches I started crashing every 20 minutes.

Fixing the various performance problems many people are having really needs to be their highest priority.

[Lost Ranger]

Ok, so beside some memory issues can we get some discussion on classes/balance and gameplay shit? Or perhaps someone with some game experience can make a new thread on that stuff.

I have only played to level 5 so far as a blademaster, also have a level 5 summoner. Summoner seems very boring, while the blade master is a badass.

[Arrr]

balance-wise, so far, my blademaster is pretty much unkillable. surge of restoration as normal attack=lols

[Jedite]

Originally Posted by Arrr

not sure what the deal is, but i'm getting DOGSHIT performance.

I'm running 3 ghz dualcore processor, 4 gig of good ram, 8800 gtx. and I'm getting awful performance on minimum settings on singleplayer. FPS seems alright, but it's hitching like a motherfucker. My drivers are updated too.

The demo ran like a champ. I just don't get it.

Weird im running a 6600 Core Duo, 2gigs of ram with an 8800GTX vid card on Max settings (Windows XP Proffesional) and it runs like a champ.

What OS are you using? Any out of the ordinary background apps?