My first 10 minutes of dawntide

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July 1, 2011 at 7:35 am #7788
bloodmark3 Player	After god knows how long, I awaken from my deep sleep. As I struggle to open my weary eyes, I hear a villager nearby me say “how u know ow to turn ur mic up?” Even though the words are faint to my ears, I somehow feel that this man is delirious. Where am I? As I finally manage to pry my eyes open and deal with the light around me, I noticed my surroundings to be far different from what I remember. I am in a wooden longhouse, there is an altar to my left, and a few villagers are crowded around me, but seem to ignore my existence. Why will no one greet me? Why will no one let me know where I am, or what destiny lies before me? The blank stares on these villager’s faces tell me that I am to fend for myself, and find my own place in this land. I slowly step to my feet, and to my surprise notice a very muscular midsection. As I examine my arms I see that I am shaped like a champion. This does not make sense…. I have been sleeping for over 20 years, I have had no combat training, I have done no labor, why am I so fortified? I decide that isn’t the problem right now, I have to find a village leader who will tell me where I am, and guide me further. I step out from the wooden longhouse only to be barraged by the voices of the nearby villagers. “how u 3rd person?” “scroll out” “ur probaill pluggin into wrong power hole” What is this blasphemy? Have all these villagers gone made? Everyone around me seems to be speaking in tongue, spewing words I have not yet hurt of…how long have I been asleep? I manage to ignore these idiotic villagers and step further out of the longhouse, on to the dirt path. To my right I notice a man laboring on the forge. This man seems like he would know more than these insane villagers behind me. I step towards the man, and my body intertwines with his! At first I am startled, why am I able to pass through this man? Then it dawns to me….I am no longer of this world…I am.. dead. Yes, that explains everything, the lack of guidance to a new traveler, the reason I cannot understand the words spewing out of these villagers mouths, the reason I can pass through mortals. I must have been killed in my sleep….damn these cowardly lands… With nothing left to gain from these villagers, i begin to search the town for some sort of sign. If I could find my body, or some trace of what happened to me, maybe I can reclaim my mortal soul. I turn to my left towards a nearby village house, but the second my eyes fix on the door, it opens! No one exits the door. “I must be seeing things” I tell myself. I rub my eyes, and fixated back on the door, this time it closes! What kind of godly powers have I been granted? I decide to test this theory on nearby doors. To my right is a large white building with double doors. I focus on these doors, and of course…they open. So…after all these years. I banished the demon illidan back into the hell from whence he came in the outlands… I found the four needed elements to gain ancient magik in the al kharid desert… I even foraged a life for myself on the highly destructible cube land I discovered… And now this is what it has come to.. I am no longer alive…No one notices me…no one attempts to guide me…the world around me makes no sense… Because I am dead…My journeys have ended…and my last hope is to wander aimlessly in the land of dawntide..so be it.
July 1, 2011 at 7:35 am #7789
bloodmark3 Player	Despite all that. The game seems promising. All of the skills seem like an amazing improvement over any free form game i’ve ever played, But I do hope for some more improvements. Better UI. Faster targeting. Faster right click camera, that locks you from turning and forced all turn buttons to strafe. No godly door opening powers. A tutorial por favor. Active npcs who seem real and attempt to talk to you. I am aware this is beta of course. So we’ll see how the time passes. :)
July 1, 2011 at 7:35 am #7790
GMPathy GameMaster	I honestly laughed the whole way through your post, and I appreciate it. I think lots of people find Dawntide without knowing what to expect and get a little disheartened when they realise pretty much everything is undocumented for new players. I have begun work on a video tutorial but with the mass influx of new players, new issues with each patch and a list of things to test that grows daily… fininshing the video is always getting put off. I assume the Dev’s have a similar issues finding time to get through the ever growing “to do” list. Every feature adds more bugs, and every new player adds to the demands list. I realise thats not what new players want to here, but its the current state of things.
July 1, 2011 at 7:35 am #7791
LordWiese Player	You can always ask around, we are prerty friendly for the most part. Im Legolan ingame, just ask if you need help.
July 1, 2011 at 7:35 am #7792
bloodmark3 Player	GMPather- I completely understand, I know this game is in beta, and sort of an early beta I might add. Alot of players come into a beta expecting everything to be pretty much ready to ship out and sell, when that’s not really how it is. There are still so many bugs and issues to be taken care of, many errors will happen, etc. However, I’ve noticed the potential of this game. There are so many things this game is capable of so I certainly hope this game can reach that level. When darkfall first game out i was in love with it, since it had so much more than the average “1-80 levels. git ur spells when youz hit 10. lern ur talentz. gitchu sum gear and go hit dem arenas! yEaH!”. Sadly adventurine takes YEARS to do the smallest patch, so i’ve lost some hope. Now dawntide comes around, and shows me some serious interest in allowing players to do whatever they want. Build things from small huts to massive castles. Make rundown chairs or elegant thrones. Make your own boat and go fishing under the stars (one thing that sucked me into darkfall). So I have high hopes for this game in the future. LordWiese- Haha I tried asking around. But I can’t really tell players from npcs. Curious if there is a way to put names over everyones heads.
July 1, 2011 at 7:35 am #7793
Dullahan Player	Biggest little issues that I’d like to see fixed.. so I started playing Dawntide again with a few friends. Within an hour, all were very frustrated with the targeting system. Targeting corpses, targeting yourself.. basically targeting everything else other than what you are trying to target. This ended up causing one to quit out. Needs to be a smarter system. No targeting corpses via tab. Next target etc.
July 1, 2011 at 7:35 am #7794
catnips Player	if your running window mode, changing the resolution can help with targeting, just have to play with it untill you find the right resolution.

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