The OFFICIAL DC Universe Online Thread (was Beta)
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Yeah, this is my take on it too. If it's casual, it needs to be cheaper, not more expensive.
Then Blizzard can just make it so when you enter Battlegrounds, Arena, or PVP zones (WG or TB) that the gear automatically defaults to the general look. It does not matter what you look like walking around town, soloing, farming, or fighting in a dungeon/raid.
To be honest, this is what I hope they do with that "costume tab" Ghostcrawler hinted at last BlizzCon when asked about the seasonal costumes and what they were going to do to help get them out of our banks.
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Chibibar
How is the group vs solo dynamics? I mean can a person "solo" the whole game? CoH introduce Team quests early in the game. It was kinda fun but man, that is one long Task force (I heard it was changed in the latest update) Are "group instance" go at a pretty good pace?
LOTRO did a very good job with group instance. If you join a fellowship (that is what party are called in LOTRO) and the leader starts a group instance, everyone can teleport to it instantly. No summoning stone require (which is nice) people can go, run an instance or two and then pop back EXACTLY where you left.
Does DC offer something similar?
LOTRO did a very good job with group instance. If you join a fellowship (that is what party are called in LOTRO) and the leader starts a group instance, everyone can teleport to it instantly. No summoning stone require (which is nice) people can go, run an instance or two and then pop back EXACTLY where you left.
Does DC offer something similar?
Yeah, this is my take on it too. If it's casual, it needs to be cheaper, not more expensive.[/QUOTE]
Given that Champions is going free to play and was toted as a casual MMO, I can't see them gaining many players if they are going to not only charge a monthly fee but one that is higher than most Hardcore MMOs out there.
Sorry, but playing in the DC universe is simply not worth it.
Ok I am awake now so lemme try to answer a few things:
Price Point: Looks like they gained some sanity and are going the $15 route.
Solo vs. Group: Right now there are 2 betas (soon to be three when the PS3 beta starts) The invite beta which has content close to the internal test server and the preorder beta which is capped at 20. I am on the preorder server so I am technically a little behind on content. That said there is group content called Alerts. The best analogy I can make to alerts are 5 man dungeons in WoW save they dont require 5 player usually. Additionally once you are far above the level range of an alert you can still go back and run them. It is quite possible to be a level 20 in a group of level 10s helping them waste things. At higher levels I do know there are true raids that give special currency to buy raid costumes and such. On the solo side this is the breakdown.
A typical "quest chain" will be 4-5 missions that take place in different open world areas and are completely soloable. Then the final mission will be a solo-instance with a boss at the end. again soloable. Now these bosses are not simple beatfests at higher levels and some require special tactics just as complex as any boss in WoW. A good example, Wonder Woman gives you a quest chain to save Wonder Girl who has been captured by Giganta. Giganta is trying to put her mind in Wonder Girl's body. By the time you reach the encounter things go awry, she succeeds but also enlarges Wonder Girl's body to Giganta size. The trick ofthe fight is you have to keep agro and keep beating on Giganta while Wonder Girl destroys some magical doohickeys to reverse the process and you have to do it without killing Giganta first. Additionally if you arent careful on blocking and using interrupts Giganta will drop agro and go after Wonder Girl resetting the time it takes for her to do her thing.
Side note: Art vs. PVP etc. Currently in beta there is NO way to tell what level someone is without outright asking. So open world PVP is At Your Own Risk.
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Also holy shit the patch released today is bigger than the initial install.
Price Point: Looks like they gained some sanity and are going the $15 route.
Solo vs. Group: Right now there are 2 betas (soon to be three when the PS3 beta starts) The invite beta which has content close to the internal test server and the preorder beta which is capped at 20. I am on the preorder server so I am technically a little behind on content. That said there is group content called Alerts. The best analogy I can make to alerts are 5 man dungeons in WoW save they dont require 5 player usually. Additionally once you are far above the level range of an alert you can still go back and run them. It is quite possible to be a level 20 in a group of level 10s helping them waste things. At higher levels I do know there are true raids that give special currency to buy raid costumes and such. On the solo side this is the breakdown.
A typical "quest chain" will be 4-5 missions that take place in different open world areas and are completely soloable. Then the final mission will be a solo-instance with a boss at the end. again soloable. Now these bosses are not simple beatfests at higher levels and some require special tactics just as complex as any boss in WoW. A good example, Wonder Woman gives you a quest chain to save Wonder Girl who has been captured by Giganta. Giganta is trying to put her mind in Wonder Girl's body. By the time you reach the encounter things go awry, she succeeds but also enlarges Wonder Girl's body to Giganta size. The trick ofthe fight is you have to keep agro and keep beating on Giganta while Wonder Girl destroys some magical doohickeys to reverse the process and you have to do it without killing Giganta first. Additionally if you arent careful on blocking and using interrupts Giganta will drop agro and go after Wonder Girl resetting the time it takes for her to do her thing.
Side note: Art vs. PVP etc. Currently in beta there is NO way to tell what level someone is without outright asking. So open world PVP is At Your Own Risk.
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Also holy shit the patch released today is bigger than the initial install.
Pricing info has been officially announced.
No word yet on any bonuses associated with a lifetime subscription. In other news another massive patch was released yesterday. So far the game is showing a lot more polish and playability. I have to give kudos to SOE in that they have shown they are listening to community feedback and adding/modifying things that just don't seem to work or made little sense.
US Pricing and Game Play Subscription Packages:
Suggested retail pricing: USD $49.99(PC) and USD $59.99 (PS3)
No word yet on any bonuses associated with a lifetime subscription. In other news another massive patch was released yesterday. So far the game is showing a lot more polish and playability. I have to give kudos to SOE in that they have shown they are listening to community feedback and adding/modifying things that just don't seem to work or made little sense.
US Pricing and Game Play Subscription Packages:
Suggested retail pricing: USD $49.99(PC) and USD $59.99 (PS3)
- 1 Month - $14.99
- 3 Month - $41.99
- 6 Month - $77.99
- 12 Month - $143.99
- Lifetime Subscription - $199.99 (Available on PC only)
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Chibibar
It is good to hear that SoE is learning from their mistake (at least to me the biggest was SWG heheh)
Well the game as it was at the end of Beta is pretty much the same as release. A few bugs (notably issues with audio after cut scenes) still aren't fixed. Some new bugs like controller schemes not saving are there. The promised auction house is not yet in game.
That aside it is a fun little game. this is -not- a game for the hard core MMOer. This is a VERY casual friendly game. If I put my mind to level grinding and nothing else I could probably hit level cap (30) in a day. It seems like with some of the nerfs done late in beta that SOE is counting on PVP to carry the longevity of the game however there is plenty of multi-man "raid/dungeon" content to go around.
My advice would be if you are really unsure about it wait until the inevitable demo is offered.
That aside it is a fun little game. this is -not- a game for the hard core MMOer. This is a VERY casual friendly game. If I put my mind to level grinding and nothing else I could probably hit level cap (30) in a day. It seems like with some of the nerfs done late in beta that SOE is counting on PVP to carry the longevity of the game however there is plenty of multi-man "raid/dungeon" content to go around.
My advice would be if you are really unsure about it wait until the inevitable demo is offered.
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Chibibar
so what server are you playing on?
Vice and Virtue it is the unofficial RP server.
I havent played much at all due to real life this week, today I plan to level up at least 1 toon.
look for
The Warden (Gadgets and Dual Pistols) in Gotham
Mister Fnord (Sorcery and Brawling) in Metropolis(China Town)
Unit 0 (Mental and Hand Blasts) in Metropolis(Downtown)
mostly going to play The Warden today...as of this moment he is level 3....gonna change that LOL
I havent played much at all due to real life this week, today I plan to level up at least 1 toon.
look for
The Warden (Gadgets and Dual Pistols) in Gotham
Mister Fnord (Sorcery and Brawling) in Metropolis(China Town)
Unit 0 (Mental and Hand Blasts) in Metropolis(Downtown)
mostly going to play The Warden today...as of this moment he is level 3....gonna change that LOL
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Jiarn
Using guns in Gotham just sounds wrong....
Only if your not with the Gotham PD.
BTW, is anyone else's reply box full of nothing but black emptiness right now?
Games almost never have cross platform merging, mainly because the platform owners don't want to allow it.
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Jiarn
FFXI did it.
FF
XI did it after , what? 5-6 years?
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Jiarn
No, as soon as it hit America I was playing with PS2 players on my PC.
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Chibibar
I couldn't log in this morning 
It was trying to connect to login server and failed
It was trying to connect to login server and failed I'm not a nice hero.
Nope, segregated servers.
Extended down time this morning. No word from SOE as why :/I couldn't log in this morning
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Chibibar
that would explains so much. I will try to create a chara on vice and virtues 
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Chibibar
Heh. My wife is gonna try it on my account (shhhhh) if she likes it, she will get one too!
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Chibibar
Got two going
Kovina - Magic Dual Pistols
Trelia - Gadget Rifle (suppose to look like Trelia in Gunslinger Girls but doesn't have the right hair)
Kovina - Magic Dual Pistols
Trelia - Gadget Rifle (suppose to look like Trelia in Gunslinger Girls but doesn't have the right hair)
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Cold. My first thing I remember clearly is the cold. Snow and ice caking a blood-soaked hand. My hand. Then pain. Looking down at my body, draped in blood soaked hides, I see a crude spear impaled in my stomach. It is so cold. I feel the blackness closing in. Then warmth. A figure stands above me bathed in white light. He, I some how know it is a he, reaches out a hand, a strange hand, not like mine. He touches the spear and it disappears. My wound closes. The pain is gone.
Words. I hear words in my head. He is speaking in my head.
"You have courage and you know sacrifice. These traits are desirable."
I don't understand what me means. I remember taking up my club to protect my people. The Others attacked. The others hurt them with their fire and their tools made of the smooth shiny stone. My mate and my child. They ran to the safety of the caves. I stayed. I fought so they could live.
"Yes. You understand what it is to be a hero."
Hero? What is a hero? I don't know this word.
"You will in time. Do you want to see your tribe safe? Do you want to see them safe for all time?"
Time? What is time? This being that makes the hurt stop speaks words I do not know. The medicine man might know. He is wise. He knows the herbs to stop pain. Maybe this one is like the medicine man.
"Yes, you could call me that if it helps you understand."
But I am a hunter, I do not have the wisdom.
"You will in time."
I do not understand. I am afraid. What should I do?
"Do you want to protect them?"
Yes! I want to protect my people! Without them I am alone!
"The pact is made. Go now. Protect your people. Become a Warden to them."
He is gone. My hurts are gone. I feel refreshed. My mind is clear. I see clearly, I smell scents I have never know. Every sense is sharp....I am changed...my thoughts...my senses...greater than before....
That was long ago. Before the written word. Before most cultures the modern world is aware of. I was a simple hunter and some being chose me to walk among the line of my people. To be a silent witness and protector. In those years I have been a warrior, a poet, a sinner, a saint, faithful, and apostate. All in the name of the pact, to see the line of my people continue.
Fifty thousand years. That is how long I reckon I have walked the Earth. By now my people encompass the globe. I have met a few other similar to me, the Savage, the Ghoul, the Immortal man. All seemingly cheating time in different ways.
I do not know how it will end. I can be hurt, I bear many scars. Perhaps I can be killed. I know not. I do know since that day, the day Brainiac came and his exobytes infused my being I am changing. I am stronger, tougher, and faster than ever. I have shrugged off blows that may have ended me. All I know is what despair I was feeling at my powerlessness in this age of super beings is ending.
I am The Warden. I am here to defend the Tribe of the Earth. That is the Pact.
The PVP servers are nothing but pure gank fest. I personally play on Virtue and Vice since it is the unoffical PVE RP server. Better overall community and any PVP is strictly voluntary.
Some community members on the DCUO forum suspect that SOE will have paid server xfers and the process will basically be level on a PVE realm THEN xfer to PVP.
Some community members on the DCUO forum suspect that SOE will have paid server xfers and the process will basically be level on a PVE realm THEN xfer to PVP.
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Chibibar
I got several character going (highest is level 16)
Angela Hellfire - Fire/beam She is awesome tank
Karin Aoi - Gadget/Dual Pistols - she is from DNA^2 pretty cool. kinda new.
I'm keeping Trelia but not sure if I'll level her later.
I'm testing out different classes/combo right now. I do love Flight and Acrobatics, but it is hard NOT to choose flight due to it is easier to move around. Superspeed confuse me A LOT when I'm upside down (same goes with acrobatic but not as fast)
Kovina is Sorcery/Dual Pistol. Interesting but weird combo for me. I might keep making more characters until I find the combo I like.
Angela Hellfire - Fire/beam She is awesome tank
Karin Aoi - Gadget/Dual Pistols - she is from DNA^2 pretty cool. kinda new.
I'm keeping Trelia but not sure if I'll level her later.
I'm testing out different classes/combo right now. I do love Flight and Acrobatics, but it is hard NOT to choose flight due to it is easier to move around. Superspeed confuse me A LOT when I'm upside down (same goes with acrobatic but not as fast)
Kovina is Sorcery/Dual Pistol. Interesting but weird combo for me. I might keep making more characters until I find the combo I like.
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