Well, I have played this for a few hours now and pretty much think it really has massive suckage; a great dissappointment. The support material and character information is just plain missing. The sorry peeps at Cryptic seem to have the belief that I want to spend hours and hours on their forums like so many of the players obviously have to <by the number of players on the forum asking questions that should have been answered in the support material> just figure out how to play the game.
So far:
the character screen has no description in game other than very cursory information such as health and energy; even the tutorial really is lame. For instance, there are things you get in inventory that have little buffs to things like stats; you have nine boxes in the middle of your character screen where some go and some dont with no explaination; no toggle hot word other than the word primary; some go there some dont; no game information explains this box, so I have two filled out of nine.
Another thing: Targetting really sucks for melee players, game is seriously bent toward blasters and other range guys in two ways: 1) they kill things before a melee guy can get over their; 2) with mobs jumping around; distance relationships and targetting is a real problem and the targetter picks some randomly closest guy and with many mobs I have found it hard to manually pick the tuffer mob as the targetter is defaulted to your pinky finger key. This should all really be in a gui like so many other games but i clicked every box I could find and could not discover it if it exists.
so change keybinds you say: haha; love to; you just have to go again to their forums and read through lots of posts to find the archaic keybind DOS like scripts to type in and change your keybinds; better download the entire keybind list if you can; oh; keybind list you say; hmm; game doesnt even bother to tell you what the keys are for other than movement; lame tutorial; took me a while to type every key on the keypad to figure out how to throw something I picked up.
This is basic information that should be in the manual; a description of the game screen and some information about all the, and there are a lot, diffent buttons and bars and boxes that are on the game screen.
I am not saying they didnt do some things well; I just want anyone to understand that Cryptic doesnt care about you or they would have hired a decent technical writer and editor and given you more information than that of 7 or 8 extremely basic keys and a couple of the many bars on your character sheet.
If you going to play this game; and it looks great; expect to spend a whole lot of time reading there forums trying get information from old timers to find out how to play.
I give this game a 5 out of 10; but intend to keep plugging away at is as my friends are playing it.
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This game was terrible and Cryptic is an awful company. I had high hopes for Star Trek before I played Champions in beta, but Cryptic wouldn't listen to any of us. They had a schedule to follow I guess from Atari and damn everything if the game was still a bug ridden mess.
On top of everything Cryptic has done nothing, but made messes of every PR attempt to gain more players. Their Halloween free weekend was a disaster. Servers were down, people couldn't patch, and devs and PR folks nowhere to be found. I guess no one works on the weekends at Cryptic. This past Thanksgiving they had another free weekend and it was the same mess. Servers up and down, people couldn't patch, etc. It amazes me that this company exists. I dread to think of what it's going to be like for Star Trek. This IP is 100x bigger than Champions and it's getting a lot more media coverage.
Cryptic is utter fail and it's a darn shame.
Yeah, I am now kind of hoping that DC Universe Online won't be as boring as Star Wars Galaxies, because CoH is a bit clunky and dated, and from what I've heard from nearly everyone I've talked to, Champions just isn't a good option for a superhero MMO.
Well, if you liked City of Heroes; Champions is ok; i like the genre; they just wimped out the Heroes Games system and this is just like every other game but with different skins.
One thing though; I have not experienced any lag at all; that is pretty cool. Shows they put a lot of work into the game; also; the game is very good looking and unlike COH I dont see 20 heroes all showing up to save the same lady from a mugger and it appears they have instanced almost everything so that seems to work well.
As I am in the mid teen levels now; am starting to notice that quests are becoming more and more group oriented and i prefer to play a solo hero.
Finally figured out how to change my keys; /keybinds brings up a list; so that helps a whole lot. Language is fairly obscure on some of the keybinds as I dont understand things like; ... of Aspect Object blah blah...and other technical jargon.
ok; so I have a level 14 brick and a level 14 blaster; gotta say; the brick is a lot more fun cause it takes some planning and skill; but the blaster levels a whole lot faster; sheesh; real killing machine and is much easier to play hands down.
I am up in the mid to upper 20's now; game is very very repetative; getting kinda boring; but at 26 I did the mission where you create and meet your nemisis; that was really really cool; very cinimatic and he looked great as did his minions; very cool; best mission I have ever done in any game.
Biggest game drawbacks; being a brick sucks; dont even try to be a brick if you want to pvp; that is totally unbalanced and broken; then, I dont feel very superheroic or heroic at all; just run around blasting or beating up some of the hundreds of bad guys that walk the street. I used to like saving the people getting mugged and harassed; sometimes still do; but dont seem to get the exp bonus +500 from saving them anymore; so there is less in game incentive to save them; after all; they are just gonna respawn getting mugged a few minutes later.
One thing; as a shadow speced person; I dont fight any more quests with psi guys of (tough) level or higher; they just pwn me bad and the quests seem broken; guys respawn in instances very fast and are not supposed to respawn; and sheesh; they kill you fast too; they are the worst for me to fight; any robots are second worse as half my powers dont work on them; anybody else seems ok to fight.