Defiance

[Jarvan]

It's a game.... it's a TV show.

http://www.defiance.com/en/

I played the Beta for a number of months, not bad really, releasing next week. Steam has a nice deal going on with pre-orders. Almost to tier 3.

It's a 3rd person shooter MMO RPG type game.

[Sile]

Yeah I ordered the pre order, won't be able to play it untill the fall lol but the steam pre order looked good. Hope the game don't bomb before then.

[Gelston]

Yeah I ordered the pre order, won't be able to play it untill the fall lol but the steam pre order looked good. Hope the game don't bomb before then.

It is made by the same guys that did Rift... So even if it does suck and lose a large portion of player base, I'm sure it'll slog on for a while.

[Jarvan]

It is made by the same guys that did Rift... So even if it does suck and lose a large portion of player base, I'm sure it'll slog on for a while.

true.. tho if the show flops.. well, they are selling season passes, which state for first 5 DLC.. so not sure they can fail to deliver on that without issuing refunds or something.

[Ardwen]

ordered the pre-order no idea how much time I have to play but looks fun enough

[Drakefang]

This has been released. Any comments so far? I am considering it for my days off work.

[Jarvan]

Been playing it a bit, it's not bad, Rift-like with their "Arkfalls" but not as well done, you don't auto group, you all just help kill things and get minor rewards. Randomness of weapons sucks, and EXTREMELY limited weapon merchants.

So far not bad tho.

[Sile]

Yeah I managed to get in for a bit. It's actually not bad, but not great. Pretty smooth launch, but loot rewards are kinda bunk on big events. I can do a 5 min event and get the same amount of end rewards as a 30 min. No official word if this is as intended.

It's a good shooter, its a bad mmo.

[Drakefang]

I'm just not the gamer some folks here are. Are you saying that it has strong solo gaming aspects but weak group mechanics that are more indicative of a stronger MMO?

[SpiffyJr]

Played some this morning with a friend. Very Borderlands-ish, which I think is awesome.

[Sile]

Shooting mechanics are good, questing is easy enough to pick up.

PVP is weak, grouping isn't intuitive, chat isn't implimented well, voice chance is bugged, can't set simple graphics options like draw distance and such, when doing a major event where 50+ people are showing up, creatures and people will fade in and out of render.

It's a good game, just not great. If I had my time back I wouldn't of bought it, there are better games to play.

[TheEschaton]

So...UI elements are off? Are there any serious gameplay issues besides the PvP? What makes the PvP weak?

[Sile]

PVP just feels unpolished, it's hard to explain, but it's definitly not fleshed out like COD or something. It's not bad, but it just feels dated.

[Tisket]

I'm so sick and tired of Comcast pushing this show. It even has it's own tab in the On Demand menu. If you click on it you get to watch...more ads for the show!

[Sile]

Yeah, If the show is as unpolished as the game... it'll flop.

I remember watching the 14 min preview they got on the website... when killing hellbugs, they all seemed to have the same animation for death....

[Jarvan]

pvp is unfinished, also there is so far no Pvp in the world, it's only on pvp maps. which are currently only 64 vs 64.. which makes it kinda hard to get one easily. Tho I am sure when people are done with the questing, they will be doing pvp, as that will be all there is to do really.