Wildstar: Catch All

Hockosi wrote:

Some people are finding that the character they created showed up after they later logged in. I tried to make a pvp server character for kicks and it got stuck. Logged in this morning and there he was.

No such luck. Tried that immediately last night after I alt-tabbed and ended the game.

Seems to be the same thing this morning. Click Enter Game and mouse icon turns into hourglass but nothing ever happens.

EDIT: A couple minutes later and it finally loaded.

And halfway through the opening cutscene, "Lost connection with user server".

First impressions not good.

I've never had technical issues. Literally. The game has been perfect for me in that regard.

You guys playing at the F2P launch are nuts and setting yourselves up for failure.

I did get a response from them about my account. It was a copy/paste as they said they have a lot going on right now. I responded with the information needed so let's see what happens.

In the meantime, I did start GW2 back up and really enjoying that.

i tried to get in this morning and all the characters i tried would just recycle back to character select screen.

Cant believe they're screwing the pooch on a 2nd launch!

I was surprised they answered my support ticket so quick to remove my authenicator. May try to play some tonight.

I installed really late then saw the queue to get in. Meh, it's free, I'll try another day.

8 hour and 30 minute Queue time...hahah. EXIT.

Andon wrote:

8 hour and 30 minute Queue time...hahah. EXIT.

Still haven't fixed the queue timer, huh?

I remember the first few weeks after launch where it was consistently "2 hour queue" and I'd be in 5 minutes later.

http://www.wildstar-online.com/en/ne...

Played a little on Warhound (US PVP) by starting a dominion Chua medic. The starter area wasn't bad lag, but I had to try the loading screen 3 times before I got in. I really appreciate some of the animation and artwork in this game when I just take my time. I noticed the idle animation for my evil rat character he looks around suspicously and that kind of got me. I forgot to cancel pay to play so I didn't see a line to join the US PvP server tonight, not sure about F2P. It was hiccuping for a second or two here or there but otherwise ok.

Does anyone know if they add 4 servers what that means? How many are they running now?

I've been at 6 hours, 5 hours, and now 4:30 hours over the last 3 days, and I still haven't gotten in.

I know it's free but it's kind of bullcrap.

I guess I was really lucky I got in and did the tutorial/intro and got to level 3 yesterday morning huh?

I still don't have a reply about my account. I did reply to the ticket, let them know how sad I was, and attached a photo of me frowning. Let's see if that helps!

Budo wrote:

I've been at 6 hours, 5 hours, and now 4:30 hours over the last 3 days, and I still haven't gotten in.

I know it's free but it's kind of bullcrap.

Same thing here. I downloaded it, logged in, saw the queue, went away to do some stuff, came back, still in the queue, exited the game and went to play Armored Warfare instead.

anyone remember what level or area was the first dungeon?

They added new servers which according to Reddit are up now. The link in my post above explains their plan.

Protostar Academy is like the intro to dungeons at 10 then the first real dungeon is at level 20.

Edit: Academy starts at level 10.

I got on for 5 minutes at lunch but had to get back to work. I'm now waiting to log on this evening, and it looks like a no go again.

Got in to character select, hit enter game... loading, loading... back to character select. Enter game... loading, loading... back to select.

Never saw any queues or anything. Whatever. To the pile!

Its a rather fun game - but the insane lag that there currently is, kills it completely.

So I created 2 characters, love the animation style, it looks like it'll be a lot of fun. Turned off last Friday and will save it for the weekend.

Saturday morning 3 hour wait.

Damn

Yeah I've got a Dominion medic alternate I made on the US PvE main server. I played some this morning and now I'm up to level 7. I'd just logged in again and now they're doing maintenance again. It was laggy but playable for low level stuff. Kind of nuts they have extra servers and the wait time is still so long.

The game seems to be running pretty well now. I finally hit level 50 on my Exile Stalker and started running veteran expeditions for gear. I was really proud of myself for getting a full set of blues and improving my character. Then I tried my first few veteran adventures. Wrecked, completely wrecked, destroyed, humiliated. It seems like the adventures pop less and when they do a lot of new players means no one really knows what to do.

I guess there's something to look forward to with the challenge.

I've been pulled into the game fully, just like when it was pay to play. I rolled a new character, and started a guild with some friends.

We haven't all gotten our scheduled to lin eup and do something together yet, but so far soloing has been fun in and of itself.

I'm hooked. HOOKED I tell you.

I keep running out of quests. And by that, I mean that I've been sticking to regional and zone quests. They just end, there's no "Ok, so and so at this outpost needs you!".

I guess I should start doing regular questing as well. Maybe there's a breadcrumb or two in those.

The actual story quests have bread crumbs... everything else is just to fill out the zone.

Is the story quest actually any good? I've made my characters at this point but haven't dived in yet.

Hopped on and played a bit with a new character since I couldn't remember what I was doing with my old ones. Maybe I can get my wife interested in this now that it's free...

Budo wrote:

Is the story quest actually any good? I've made my characters at this point but haven't dived in yet.

I only fully played it from the rebel side, but I can say it's at least interesting. Was fascinating to see that they did commit themselves to making sure neither side can really be perceived as all GOOD. The "elven zombies" are not great people and are just as capable of some awful sh*t as the Chua are... and their commitment to being "not the Dominion" definitely leads them to being somewhat scattered and even possibly lawless in some ways... while being just as tyrannical with things like conscription of military service.

Meanwhile, from the bits I played, the Dominion does have some law and order and stability kind of stuff going on. Their church and gods are generally well meaning from what I saw.

There has been some changes to starter zones, amongst which is causing a (minor) uproar, that the Dominion is no longer quite as evil as they used to be depicted - For instance, no more cattle prods in the beginning to those suspected of being spies. I think the reasoning was, that people didn't read the quest text, and just saw people being prodded by cattle prods.

Razgon wrote:

There has been some changes to starter zones, amongst which is causing a (minor) uproar, that the Dominion is no longer quite as evil as they used to be depicted - For instance, no more cattle prods in the beginning to those suspected of being spies. I think the reasoning was, that people didn't read the quest text, and just saw people being prodded by cattle prods.

...was that evil? It was prodding people who were loitering, slowing down the process of getting everyone out of hibernation and such. You were cattle prodding them to reveal them to be spies or not, you were prodding them to get into the neural scanner to determine who and who wasn't a spy.

Frankly, that's nothing compared to the undead elves who kidnapped some native inhabitants in one zone and testing fire, ice, and electricity on them to determine if their bodily fluids would be useful for undoing the undead part.