Wow today they installed the newest upgrade and 4 Gig plus. The read me said that it is now in it full form with everything the retail version has including the new super server is now on line and it comands all the other servers. In order to play on the new server system you need to start over and create a new character. so I did and everything has gone High tech compaired to what we have been playing for the past 88 days. 5 hours of game play and everything is really better. The game was smooth before and the load times didn't seem too long. When you enter a mission it was taking as much as 35 to 45 seconds and now it takes 15 seconds flat as your transported with your whole team into the mission Quest areas. This was the one thing that was on the fix it forum for weeks "LOAD TIMES" and they fixed it. pluss they improved the character Generation pages. You now get alot more varities on face and body looks instead of 5 or 6 different faces per race now you can adjust almost all the features of the face, hair, expressions, nose size and shape, lips, eyes,as well as 50 or more color combos for each and now the graphics are fantastic.
In the game everything is 100% now and its like a whole new world I may buy it after all. The live in game Beta DMs have been telling everbody we haven't really experenced the real game yet and that we would at the end of december but this is beyond what I was expecting. The magics graphics and action is really great too, with the new upgrade and the load time up grade as well as everything I have seen in game so far all I can say is look out NWN 2!!

one last thing I still don't believe is that they improved what was great Graphics and made it cleaner and faster and better.

[ 12-31-2005, 02:17 AM: Message edited by: TheCrimsomBlade ]

Well this has nothing on NWN2 as far as the MMO aspect goes but then NWN's is more for builders than players. Hey I know I asked you before but what specs are we looking at (what are you using to play the game atm?) for this one?

I loaded it on my oldest computer, by their request, which is Pent 4 - 1.6 Ghz processor with 512 ram and 2 180 GB hard drives for my Graphics card I,m using
an ATI 9600 pro and using Cable high speed connection I'll go back to the game load page and get the min and recomended reqirements and post them here in a min BRB

OK here it is >>>>>>>

System Specs
In order to play Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach, your system should meet the
following minimum requirements:
 Intel Pentium 4 1.6 GHz or compatible (must support SSE)
 GeForce 2, GeForce 4 MX, or Radeon VE video card
 512 MB RAM
 3 GB free hard disk space
 DirectX 9c or higher
 Windows XP Home or Professional
 Internet connection
The recommend system requirements include all of the above, plus:
 Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz or compatible (must support SSE)
 GeForce FX 5200 or Radeon 9800 Pro
 Broadband internet connection (DSL, cable modem, T1 line, ISDN, etc.)
Dungeons & Dragons® Online: Stormreach™ Beta 3 Manual / Page 2 of 22

Please keep in mind that these are not the final system requirements. These requirements are for
Beta only, and they can and will change before launch. END of Offical Beta REQ.


AS you see I'm running Min requirements except for the cable connection and my video card is just a step or two below the Recommended cards.
I have great responce time and Graphics are great no lag and no problems with my ATI Graphic card cranked up to max with the latest drivers installed.

[ 12-31-2005, 05:12 PM: Message edited by: TheCrimsomBlade ]

This is my feedback from having played DDO:
It's great, for the first few levels.
Then it's pathetic.

The problem is this: While the fighting is great, the grouping is wonderful, there's lots of strategy, etc, etc, and new dungeons to explore, dungeons are *worth* exploring, different ways of getting around make everything interesting because there's different ways of doing things...

Simply put, there isn't enough content. To get to level 10, you have to *redo* every single dungeon three times.

...There's something even more depressing, but I'd probably be violating NDA to mention it, so I'll leave it at that.

Not to keep waffling, but how many times must you redo dungeons in WOW? I swear, I've got a spare room and my own embroidered bathrobe in the Scarlet Monastery.

I must have spent something like 50 hours each raiding Stratholme, Sholomance and Blackrock Spire to get my blue class set and I got lucky. Right now, I'm at 180 hours of raiding Molten Core for my tier 1 set. I took a break, most of the people in my guild raided MC and Blackwing Lair 250 to 500 hours total each.

Yay!

Yes, I suppose, except that the problem is that while SM, Strath, Scholo, and BRS (U or L), including MC, (God I'm glad I gave up on WOW) all include monsters/bald-faced attacking as the main opponent, dungeons in DDO seem to use strategy and tactics as the main means of battle. What this means is you know exactly what's coming, and instead of making it more fun because of that (as it does in WOW), it just becomes more tedious and makes the rogue class more useless. No one has to be careful that there might be a trap because everyone knows where it is... It's much the equivalent of.. Say in WOW, you're going through MC, except becuase you've done it 10 times, suddenly half the monsters don't exist.

NWN isn't a persistent online game, so has nothing to do with MMORPGS. Diablo 2 has a online multiplayer part, but it's not a persistent world, it's not a MMORPG game. NWN has a online multiplayer part, but it's not a persistent world, it's not an MMORPG game either.

The key aspect of a mmorpg is that it's a persistent online world with no single player component. A single player game with a multiplayer option has nothing to do with it. It's certainly not a massively multiplayer online game if you can only get 20 people on the server at the same time either.

Remember this is Beta and there are only 52 of the 140+ DUNGEONS open in the Beta. If you do each of the missions on all three settings of easy,Hard and hardest each time you get almost triple the points and the treasures are three times larger. The most depressing part I have found is:
#1)the whole Death thing is piss poor IMHO and it goes as follows:

If your hit point total drops to 0 or below, you will fall down
and become incapacitated. If you are below 0 hit points, you will
continue to lose 1 hit point every few seconds until you either
automatically stabilize (10% chance every few seconds). While you
are in this state, you can wait for another party member to heal you,
or you can choose to abandon your quest and respawn in Stormreach.
Once you reach –10 hit points, you die and become a ghost, dropping
a unique item called a soulstone. At this point, you can still wait
for another party member to come along and raise you (although keep
in mind that raise dead spells are much harder to come by than simple
healing spells), and you can still choose to abandon your quest and
respawn in Stormreach. You can also have a party member pick up your
soulstone and carry it to a resurrection shrine – you can usually
(but not always) find resurrection shrines near rest shrines. Once your soulstone is near a resurrection shrine, simply double-click it to
revive yourself. All this takes alot of time and if your at the last 10%
of the mission the healers have used up most of their healing spells
if not all of them. So if your left behind or just dead when the mission
ends. You don't get any EX points and at that point you have to start
the whole mission over again and most of the time that means find a
new team to do the mission with. Finding yourself in a failed mission
and to then find out your going to receive no points at all can tend to
really piss you off. The more I play the more I dislike the rules of
DDO 3.5 and would rather just go back to guild wars. OH wait I did just that. Wait for the big boys to put out their reviews before you buy this game
it could save you some big money.
I don't think this is going to be the D&D Game everybody has been waiting
for. It does have alot of good points but in 3 months I have pretty much finished the game 4 times and have gotten tired of the game it's all just
repete, repete, repete ect....

If you could turn the game into a LAN party type game with a few of your good friends getting together playing on laptops with one of them as the DM it would feel like the old PnP games of the mid 90's otherwise I have come to the point that I will no longer play the game. I find Guild Wars to be 10 times better in both fun and in adventure and my son says the same thing except He plays WoW and after only 5 days of playing DDO he's desided (in his words) "It was fun for the first day or two because its new but, the missions are kind of dumb and pointless and there is no real motivation to keep one playing. Each mission is like the one before and the one after and where is the story? Nothing seems to really have a reason why your doing these missions. This game sucks!!" He is almost 24 now and plays alot of games so I have a feeling that DDO isn't going to be around for very long.

Remember this is Beta and there are only 52 of the 140+ DUNGEONS open in the Beta. If you do each of the missions on all three settings of easy,Hard and hardest each time you get almost triple the points and the treasures are three times larger. The most depressing part I have found is:
#1)the whole Death thing is piss poor IMHO and it goes as follows:

If your hit point total drops to 0 or below, you will fall down
and become incapacitated. If you are below 0 hit points, you will
continue to lose 1 hit point every few seconds until you either
automatically stabilize (10% chance every few seconds). While you
are in this state, you can wait for another party member to heal you,
or you can choose to abandon your quest and respawn in Stormreach.
Once you reach –10 hit points, you die and become a ghost, dropping
a unique item called a soulstone. At this point, you can still wait
for another party member to come along and raise you (although keep
in mind that raise dead spells are much harder to come by than simple
healing spells), and you can still choose to abandon your quest and
respawn in Stormreach. You can also have a party member pick up your
soulstone and carry it to a resurrection shrine – you can usually
(but not always) find resurrection shrines near rest shrines. Once your soulstone is near a resurrection shrine, simply double-click it to
revive yourself. All this takes alot of time and if your at the last 10%
of the mission the healers have used up most of their healing spells
if not all of them. So if your left behind or just dead when the mission
ends. You don't get any EX points and at that point you have to start
the whole mission over again and most of the time that means find a
new team to do the mission with. Finding yourself in a failed mission
and to then find out your going to receive no points at all can tend to
really piss you off. The more I play the more I dislike the rules of
DDO 3.5 and would rather just go back to guild wars. OH wait I did just that. Wait for the big boys to put out their reviews before you buy this game
it could save you some big money.
I don't think this is going to be the D&D Game everybody has been waiting
for. It does have alot of good points but in 3 months I have pretty much finished the game 4 times and have gotten tired of the game it's all just
repete, repete, repete ect....

If you could turn the game into a LAN party type game with a few of your good friends getting together playing on laptops with one of them as the DM it would feel like the old PnP games of the mid 90's otherwise I have come to the point that I will no longer play the game. I find Guild Wars to be 10 times better in both fun and in adventure and my son says the same thing except He plays WoW and after only 5 days of playing DDO he's desided (in his words) "It was fun for the first day or two because its new but, the missions are kind of dumb and pointless and there is no real motivation to keep one playing. Each mission is like the one before and the one after and where is the story? Nothing seems to really have a reason why your doing these missions. This game sucks!!" He is almost 24 now and plays alot of games so I have a feeling that DDO isn't going to be around for very long. </font>[/QUOTE]Oh I see you had posted the death info. here already - sorry didn't see it. I agree thgough, even from the visual appearance this is certainly not the D&D game we all dreamed of but may well server to sate our online hungers while we wait for another. There will be others of course, even a sequel that betters this one.