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Off Topic => General Off Topic => Topic started by: Tomas_of_Miles on September 20, 2011, 11:33:05 pm
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:twisted: One of my loyal minions tell me DCUO is going f2p... If so I'm going to assemble a supervillain group and start playing again. (being a villain is more fun cos everyone roles heroes... I will be trolling them as they leave the police station xD)
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Free to play is never actualy free to play...
They cripple you with premium content you cant have, or they introduce that shitty real money market and then $ wins over skill
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Oh, I actually bought this game when it came out, leveling was fast and the game was not half bad actually... combat system is hack&slashy with combos. It just got boring quite fast. Not a bad game at all, though.
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Free to play is never actualy free to play...
They cripple you with premium content you cant have, or they introduce that shitty real money market and then $ wins over skill
DCUO is a bit more skill based than most MMOs, also runs on Unreal Engine, so looks nice. Hopefully they will make the £ come from aesthetic gear (there's a hell of a lot of vanity involved) but you are probably right. Anyhow, I cancelled my sub a few days ago, so this news is pretty welcome and I'd recommend anyone else to try this.
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What's DCOU
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What's DCOU
DC Universe Online. Ever played Champions Online? It's a little bit like that. EXCEPT BETTER
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DC Universe Online. Ever played Champions Online? It's a little bit like that. EXCEPT BETTER
Oh right.
No I've never played them, I assumed they'd be like all other generic MMO's and I didn't like p2p MMO's. But yeah if I did I'd be a villain!
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It was quite fun and i liked the levelsystem via the archievments ooh and the costume system where i could wear wat i wanted.
But the grind has kicked in too fast. At the end i have done the same task every day for some items only to have acces to another task, where could grind other items.
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But yeah if I did I'd be an idiot!
Yup.
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If the proposition of buying DC Universe Online and then paying a monthly fee has been keeping you away from Sony Online Entertainment's MMO, prepare to enter Gotham City next month. In October, DC Universe Online goes free to play.
Both PlayStation 3 and PC players will be able to download and play the game for free. Three tiered levels will act as the game's revenue source from there along with in-game microtransactions. Here's the official breakdown from SOE.
Free
New players will now have access to the current gameplay in DC Universe Online (including Gotham City, Metropolis, and all current raids and alerts), with the ability to create two characters, join a league and many other benefits. Free level players will be able to purchase downloadable game packs/updates, additional character slots, powers and more through microtransactions.
Premium
Any player who has spent at least $5 (including former paid subscribers and new players who have purchased $5 of in-game items) will qualify for the Premium access level. Premium level players will have more benefits available to them than the Free level player, including additional character slots, additional inventory slots, and higher cash limits. Downloadable adventure packs, additional character slots, and more can be purchased in-game.
Legendary
Maximum features and benefits are included at this level. Loaded with enhanced additional features, Legendary access will be available for a $14.99 monthly fee and includes all DLC packs at no cost, more than 15 character slots, more than 80 inventory slots, the ability to form unrestricted-sized leagues, and many other benefits.
If you've already paid for a PC lifetime subscription or a PS3 plan, that deal still stands when this switch happens in late October. This event also marks the end of DCUO's auto-renew feature. In the past, the game would automatically resubscribe you when your subscription lapsed. That's over now a result of the more than 40 percent of people who quit EverQuest II and complained about the auto-renew in a SOE survey.
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What's DCOU
FREEEEEE?!
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Yup.
HURP HURP
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Oh, I actually bought this game when it came out, leveling was fast and the game was not half bad actually... combat system is hack&slashy with combos. It just got boring quite fast. Not a bad game at all, though.
What brings it down is the WoW-structure and the class dynamics. The combat is excellent -- in fact I'll go ahead and say that it's the best MMO combat system out there, but it's completely fucked by the Scrapper>Healer>Tank>Scrapper. The rock-paper-scissors of the roll/lunge/combo/block is excellent and really dynamic, but if you're up against the class that is inherently designed to wtfpwn you it's like "oh you're xxx class? I guess I have to run away since I'm completely fucking useless against you." Really retarded. The WoW PvE system is pretty fucking gay too. I had 300 hours logged in the game before I unsubbed.
The most balanced fighting in the game is the Legends Arena, where you (ironically) don't even play your character. It's all about your personal skill versus your opponent, without all the dependent BS of class roles. Even then they have trouble balancing the different archtypes but it's as close as balanced gets.
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What brings it down is the WoW-structure and the class dynamics. The combat is excellent -- in fact I'll go ahead and say that it's the best MMO combat system out there, but it's completely fucked by the Scrapper>Healer>Tank>Scrapper. The rock-paper-scissors of the roll/lunge/combo is excellent and really dynamic, but if you're up against the class that is inherently designed to wtfpwn you it's like "oh you're xxx class? I guess I have to run away since I'm completely fucking useless against you." Really retarded. The WoW PvE system is pretty fucking gay too. I had 300 hours logged in the game before I unsubbed.
By scrapper you mean control role? There is also the damage role to throw in there, the one that every starts of with before they unlock their inherent power role. Damage roles got no rock or scissors to their paper. Also it's about teamwork.
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I'm totally going to poke at this game..hopefully it keeps my interest for at least a few days.
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I'm totally going to poke at this game..hopefully it keeps my interest for at least a few days.
Before f2p? If you buy at least $5 of whatever from them (including subs) then you are a Premium member. If you keep subbing you are some next tier.
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By scrapper you mean control role? There is also the damage role to throw in there, the one that every starts of with before they unlock their inherent power role. Damage roles got no rock or scissors to their paper.
Oh right, Controllers. My main is/was actually a controller so I don't know how I forgot that one :lol: The DPS "role" is the only thing done right -- I sort of allude to this in my edit of my last post. In Legends Arena everyone is DPS so you simply have to out play your opponents, as opposed to having the right team-makeup.
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Before f2p? If you buy at least $5 of whatever from them (including subs) then you are a Premium member. If you keep subbing you are some next tier.
Nah screw that, I'll just wait. I think it's like 15 a month to be legendary, or whatever. There's some chart on their website that shows the differences.
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Oh right, Controllers. My main is/was actually a controller so I don't know how I forgot that one :lol: The DPS "role" is the only thing done right -- I sort of allude to this in my edit of my last post. In Legends Arena everyone is DPS so you simply have to out play your opponents, as opposed to having the right team-makeup.
I loved being control, then I realised everyone was using Martial Arts Gadget Acrobats, so I deleted that and made my main main a Two Handed Weapon Nature Flying Villain dude.
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Ah screw that, I'll just wait. I think it's like 15 a month to be legendary, or whatever. There's some chart on their website that shows the differences.
Premium is alright. I got a Light power alt for Green Lantern RP, and the Light DLC came free for me. I don't think I'll be legendary-ing next month.
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Also it's about teamwork.
I also disagree with this. At least, not in a way that doesn't detract from gameplay. By having the class dynamics, "teamwork" is reduced to focus firing on one person -- someone spamming ranged combos and at least one person spamming their block-breaker. This completely throws out their dynamic combat-system out of the window. A part of what makes Legends Arena work is that it's either 2v2 or 4v4. The limited number of players encourages more "heroic" encounters and action-reaction combat, utilizing the rock-paper-scissors combat and the skill of anticipation. With the class dynamics and increased amount of players in the arena, you get "durrrr focus fire/spam" without consequence.
The perfect analogy would be if you came to play M&B for it's really good melee combat and all your blocks were useless because 10 people could focus on you and break through your blocks every time, completely negating the richness of combat in feigning attacks, anticipation, timing, blocking etc.
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Sounds like the battle server at peak xD
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Bump. F2P is now out and I'm playing it again. It's hilarious to see that it has a lot of the same problems and bugs that it did six months ago: Servers are constantly brought down for handfuls of hours at a time with short notice and a lot of the same bugs are there like the scoreboard screen getting stuck after an arena match and you have to sit there and wait for 2 minutes for it to automatically exit as well as the bug where certain skills play the animation but don't actually do anything (you have to relog in order to fix this).
The new 2v2 arena is fun, which is the same as the 2v2 Legends Arena except you get to use your own characters. The flaw in class dynamics gets highlighted here though, as certain duo combinations will just flat out stomp any other combo. 2 Controllers versus 2 Ice Tanks? Prepare to get roflstomped not because they're more skilled and are better players, but because the game is inherently designed for tanks to dominate controllers. Also, it seems like Healers got buffed too, as even with my mega healing debuffs, a lot of healers can still outheal them (even without being cleansed).
Balance is completely out of whack. Tanks get ultra-mega survivability, mass AoE damage, and even have more CONTROL powers (CC -> knock downs, roots, stuns, etc) than controllers. And then there's the inherent Controller v. Tank perks that they get like being completely immune to all controller effects. The best part is that they can also erase all controller effects on their teammates as well. Balance is completely out of whack. They need to just force everyone to be damage mode in 2v2.
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Sounds like I need to jump back on the control bandwagon for the adversity... with mah new LIGHT POWAHS!!!!
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Somebody play with me... I got a level 30 flying 2 hander nature villain and I want somebody to do the raids n stuff with...
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I've got 2 level capped characters from when it was still payed but I doubt you'll get me to play with all the BF3 and Skyrim going around :D
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I've got 2 level capped characters from when it was still payed but I doubt you'll get me to play with all the BF3 and Skyrim going around :D
Well... holla if you feel like doing some duos/alerts/raids/spawn trolling.
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It's almost December and I still haven't made a league!!!!!!!!1 I need EUs to come join a group with me then I can make a league of my own before my account status runs out (I stopped subscribing)! You wouldn't need to play often or at all or any shit, I just don't want to have randoms being twats in mah league! Cmooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon guise!
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<--Rick James wants you to join, bitch. He's one of the best looking motherfuckers of all time.
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Nightwing/Batman/Red Hood
Wish you could save costumes in this game..