{"id":715,"date":"2009-08-18T15:11:11","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T20:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/?p=715"},"modified":"2009-08-18T15:11:11","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T20:11:11","slug":"champions-online-open-beta-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/?p=715","title":{"rendered":"Champions Online Open Beta Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

A patching nightmare.\u00c2 While I want to take Cryptic’s response at face value, I know how much spin happens in the industry; particularly when something bad happens.\u00c2 \u00c2 The good news it happened in the beta, and they have a couple of weeks to try and fix it.<\/p>\n

Yes the latest installer from Fileplanet will work without patching now, but that just bought Cryptic some time.\u00c2 They need to address the real problems before launch.<\/p>\n

Day 2 – quick character creation
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I finally get to get in and play again.<\/p>\n

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I still don’t know why different frameworks have different recommended Stats.\u00c2 I would love to see hyperlinks used on the framework page.\u00c2 Example, click on endurance and a small window pops up to tell you want endurance does.<\/p>\n

Jumped in with a random all character, to then customize. Found a coupe of small bugs, nothing major:<\/p>\n

On the male, chest area customization page you can end up with enough options on the left side that they don’t fit the window, and there is no scroll bar.<\/p>\n

The random selection gave me a robotic right arm, yet under “right arm” it lists my costume piece as “???”.<\/p>\n

Best addition, which may have been in before, but I had not made characters since the first day I joined the closed beta, Save and load <\/strong>of characters.\u00c2 Thank you Cryptic.<\/p>\n

Day 2 – Tutorial again<\/strong><\/p>\n

As expected there were a ton of tutorial zone instances, and I really think they should polish the instance display up a bit.<\/p>\n

When I finally made it back into the tutorial I first noticed that Perf. is not much better than it was last week, and in some cases worse.\u00c2 Seems to be a combination of client side framerate (aka get a better computer) and some client-server lag.<\/p>\n

Large paragraphs of information and quest text are unchanged, and I still have not found a way to increase the font size of that text.<\/p>\n

I did find a few more quests that I had missed in previous playings. This was nice and rewarded me for exploring.<\/p>\n

The tutorial end boss seemed a bit easier than the last time I fought him. He was still fun.<\/p>\n

Day 2 – Off to the desert<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last time I played I focused on playing through the beginning Canadian zone so this time Zulmat, my unwilling hero of the dark arts, headed off to the desert seeking Powe…*cough* ways to help people.<\/p>\n

First stop the powerhouse. I must take time to meditate there and decipher these texts.\u00c2 I Believe I may have unlocked a base form of astral travel and the ability to bind, for a short time, lightning to an area.\u00c2 Yes. YES! I can feel the powers of shadow and magic flowing stronger in my veins. I must now see if someone will reward me for unleashing my powER!
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Irradiated mutants.
\nThey give off such a putrid order and their auras are corrupted.\u00c2 It appears they have overrun this military installation and I have been tasked to help contain them.\u00c2 First up clearing a courtyard and rescuing some scientists; I care little of the puny men of science, but I am excited to put to practice a newly uncovered spell.<\/em><\/p>\n

Yet before I do, I sense a strong aura. One much attuned to binding the powers of beyond.\u00c2 She sensed me coming of course , and she offers to teach me how to craft new items of power.\u00c2 Amazing I thought these techniques long lost.\u00c2 I have much to learn, but I must have the power so I will play the role of diligent student. For now.<\/em><\/p>\n

This area is very dangerous, and I found my character defeated a couple of time.\u00c2 It is so easy to aggro several packs of irradiates, or worse one of the spec ops soliders. Ouch.\u00c2 Though an hour later I sent out of the base center\u00c2 and out to the desert, that seemed like a good place for me to stop for now.<\/p>\n

Again I did not group with anyone, but I am hopeful that I may be able to meet up with some friends tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day 1 A patching nightmare.\u00c2 While I want to take Cryptic’s response at face value, I know how much spin happens in the industry; particularly when something bad happens.\u00c2 \u00c2 The good news it happened in the beta, and they have a couple of weeks to try and fix it. Yes the latest installer from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,68,9],"tags":[120,47,111,113],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beta","category-champions-online-games","category-games","tag-beta","tag-champions-online","tag-games","tag-mmo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}