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Hi - I'm a MMO veteran (EQ, EQ2, DAOC, Conan, Rifts, Guild Wars, WOW, Star Wars). I'm also a Kickstarter backer, with a 100 dollar pledge.
My first foray into Early enrollment has not been positive. Using a top line Lap top, I have not been impressed with anything. Understanding its a sandbox, I went into this expecting different...but not what I found.
1. Movement is so difficult. I can't take a few steps without the camera angle changing. Just moving across the world is nearly impossible and trying to have a combat is really dangerous given I can't control where I'm facing.
(I tried looking for settings to turn down the sensitivity of the mouse or keyboard, but it's not in the settings...)
2. Three choices of characters is disappointing. Not a deal breaker, but with so many options in Pathfinder...Elf, Dwarf and Human is all we get? And the customization options are so old school. So many newer games have done this better.
3. I know this is a classless type of game, but there are so many trainers in the game, it's mind numbing. So, I ran around getting them to train me and added a whole bunch of stuff...none of which seemed to actually do anything for me. I seemed to get some passive abilities and 1 or 2 active abilities, but by and large, not too much else.
4. How do I use Potions? I have a few but can't swing using them...
5. The color pallet for some text boxes are terrible. The RED is extremely hard to read, and I'm not Red/Green Color blind. I wonder how hard it is for those folks.
6. The maps are terrible. The map of town doesn't show you where you are...so it's difficult to figure you out where you are without trying to find a landmark. The other map, which can be zoomed, just really shows dots for NPC's and PC's. Red for bad guys, pale for good. There are some vague symbols on them too, but I guess I'm too zoomed out to read them. It so hard to view them and figure out which guys are people you need to talk to.. and which ones are just guards.
There are other things, but these are my immediate issues. I've wandered around, killed some beasts (having gotten a single bit of loot doing that btw) and just became more frustrated at the difficulties I'm having moving around and controlling my toon.
I'm posting here, not to slam the game, but to try and figure out how to deal with these situations. I'm already an investor and want to get some degree of value out of my investment.
Thanks,
Arkobla