first impression of the game

Started playing last night.

Was easy to download and setup an account for free, updated the game pretty quick as well. I had tried this a few years ago when it was first released but was distracted by SWG at the time.

1. Character Creation - You can change quite a bit of what your character looks like, slide bars for most of the main parts, size, wheight, face, hair etc.. lots of options so i was quite happy with that. Sure its nothing compared to EQ2 or anything but the game is a bit older.

2. Game engine and interface - Right so I started the game up, the graphics are looknig a bit dated but remined be a bit of SWG infact some things where more details than SWG. I had everything turned up and the game ran without any issues. The interface seemed your standard type.. Chat box, skill box at the top, map and health bar bottom right, option bar top right. There was a breif tutorial telling you the basics and then tips seemed to be available everytime you did somthing new. I checked out al lthe different screens, from the invetory to the character skill sheet all seemed easy to use and get too.

3. In game - Ok then so you start out with nothing but a orange boiler suit and i mean nothing else, no cash, no wealons. This is mainly because they want you to buy ingame credts, $10 will get you 100 in game creds, there are a few other things you can do to get cash but it takes ages. You can gather sweat from animals or somthing but I have been told you can be doing that for a long time before you save up for anything.

Moving around seemed real bad to start with, it was WSAD or so I thought, but A and D where strafe and the mouse would not turn the screen , so i asked on open chat and was soon told how to get it working properally, need to go into options and turn on aim mode, now the mosue would turn the screen if i hit space, soon got the hang of movement. Also as I was chatting on the open chat someone offered to mentor me and provide me with a weapon and ammo hell i could not turn that down. So the guy met up with me showed me the ropes, he took me out to kill my first mobs hehe , I equipped the pistol he gave me and started to attack. The combat seems quite basic at least to start with, its aim and fire with the mouse, could not see any special attacks or anything tho im not sure if you get any at a later stage. Your skills go up the mroe you use a weapon, please note this game si not LEVEL based, you just get better at skills the more you use them, i think some of the later weapons require you to have certain professions but im not sure there.



After killing a few mobs the guy ran me to another small town type thing, wel lran me half way there then we transported to the nearest revive point, you can do this whenever you like it makes it easier to get around the place as this world is massive and takes you ages to run anywhere. You can transport directly between cities but this costs credits around 60 by all accounts. At that point i had to log off to eat hehe.

Came back about half hour later and started to explore the enw small town, sadly I had ran out of ammo kills mobs befroe and my loot I had collected was not enough to buy any ammo.. well I was just short of being able to get an extra 100 clip, so I decided to buy some credits.

I went to their website and brought $10 worth of credits 100 in game . I logged back into the game and my credits where there in my inventory :) very good hehe. Anyway i set out and got myself soem new weapons, got a basic rifle, basic 2 hand sword and some basic armour now i looked the biz hehe :) oh yeah got 1000 ammo for my rifle and my pistol :), I also got a med back and a load fo tools for mining and stuff :). Anyway off i went to kill and kill i did for about an hour got quite a few skilsl to rise up as well as my medic skills witch is somthing you wil lwant to do i guess. All in all from the loot i got I made jsut over 10 credits enough to buy an extra 1000 ammo clip for my rifle, I had used only 500 of the last clip. My advise here when starting out save up for a sword as you wont need to buy ammo all the time witch is gonig to me a money sink i would have thought.

Time to explore wandering around i found a few small out posts and then I came accross a player city well i assume it was as when i entered it said it was owned by a group of players or somthing :) first building I came too was a massive mall and i mean massive makes the SWG ones look tiny.. got myself a new sword there but there was so much more, auctions, crafting stations, many many many player shops.