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t four i d logged into and obviously none of them are my highest level toons either so my belief is that if you don t have enough play time for blizz to properly select four toons as favorites they just pull four toons out of a hat from those that were logged into over the past year or two the only other mmo that i ve played that has this sort of grouping in the login screen was tera the scenery may not have been impressive but the music was epic and for me it s pretty much a toss up as to which is better tera has the better music and your toons striding forward like a badass while retail wow has the more pleasant background and toons in well down time my highest level toon is the original azshandra at l35 at the same location shrine of seven stars as she was when i last left her in the mists of pandaria expansion blaugust2024 posted by redbeard at 6 00 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blaugust2024 retail tera thursday february 8 2024 there s the offiicial reason and then there s nothing like stirring the pot i suppose one of my side comments in the discussion surrounding my last post alluded to me not playing swtor very much was because of the broken companion pathing whenever i play it i ve switched pcs replaced cpus and graphics cards and manufacturers and i even have the game installed on an nvme ssd drive a far cry from the slowpoke 5400 rpm mechanical drive it was once on but all to no avail my old sith inquisitor is still somewhere in chapter 10 of the kotfe expansion here i started at this entrance area in nar shadda right after you disembark from your ship and i ran toward the taxi literally all i did no attacking no shenanigans no nothing okay so senya is now just out of view if you look closely at the map you can see that she moved about half speed from the screenshot just above this one and now having arrived at the taxi i can swing the camera around and watch her go oh shit i m coming imagine if i were in a fight and she were dilly dallying around far behind me in the original implementation of swtor where some of the story fights were really hard i m looking at you original difficulty of the final boss of the jedi consular story i d have been dead by the time my companion would have decided to show up as it is i haven t died due to these sort of problems but i can only stand to have to play nursemaid to my companion for as long as it typically takes me to reach the end of chapter one of the swtor vanilla areas there s other changes over the years that irk me such as replacing the original in game map with that map reminiscent of the map in tera and believe me combat aside you don t want your mmo to ever be thought of as similar to tera but that can be remediated by customization but the companion issue despite years worth of efforts i can t fix it i even have a second account that the mini reds used to play swtor with and that account has the same damn problem why bring this up because i wanted to highlight some reasons why i no longer or hardly ever play some mmos that really don t end up on people s reviews or blog posts about the games petty maybe they re definitely not in the realm of i just don t like the direction the story is going or the combat is clunky accurate for me absolutely since i ve already mentioned swtor let s delve into a few others age of conan s issue is simple lack of responsiveness when pressing a button for all of the issues that age of conan has and believe me the grindy nature and the bugs do factor into anybody s ability to play the game the main reason why i don t play age of conan anymore has to do with the game s lack of responsiveness when you go to select an action maybe it s because my first mmo was world of warcraft which is famous for its smooth user interaction but there s more to it than just that almost every other mmo has no delay between pushing a button and performing the action on screen but age of conan somehow manages to have a noticeable delay between when you select a combat action and your toon actually performing said action combat itself is straightforward you select a certain combo of buttons and then your toon performs the action but there s just enough of a delay between the selection and the action that makes you think that there s lag in the system this happened when i first tried the game out back in 2010 or so and it persisted through the years even though all other mmos i ve played have overcome any lag issues with respect to combat it s not even a matter of the couple of servers left in aoc being located far away as they appear to be located in newark new jersey and the latency i was seeing was around 100 ms i ve played other mmos with a 100 ms latency without any issues at all so i don t believe it s the latency either i think it has to do with the lack of optimization in aoc s code and for me that s a deal breaker when you re expected to perform more and more complex maneuvers quickly lord of the rings online s ui is a nightmare for visibility as much as some people want modern screen sizes to be supported by lotro i want something a bit more basic more easily readable ui icons if there s one thing that mmos such as wow and swtor have figured out it s that making unique enough and easily visible buttons in the ui make for a better playing experience this is something that standing stone has yet to figure out apparently as every time i boot up lotro and login with the intention to do something more than just wander around bree and listen to the friday evening band play on the gladden server i m presented with the blasted icons that tell me absolutely nothing at first glance or second or third glance for that matter from my foray last spring as a high elf it s bad enough that they re various shades of red in my example above but this is what you get if you ve been playing for a while this was my old main on lotro it s been a while since i last played him and as you can see some commands have been removed and i need to correct things the washed out coloring matches the rest of the lotro color scheme but given that i have to pay close attention to the details of the icons to distinguish between the various red ones and green ones that does me no favors when performing actions and can you imagine the nightmare if you were red green colorblind i m not for clarity s sake then we have to talk about the in game maps the maps are kinda sorta faithful to the old pauline baynes map of middle earth my own copy was passed down to me from my mom and i gave it to my son i was surprised to find that museoteca has an interactive map on their site this was the map that inspired my exploration into sf f the thing is there s a difference between being faithful to the original map and making an in game map actually usable this is light years better than what it used to be but even when i had a smaller monitor nothing was sharp the original map design was much worse where everything was washed out brownish colors and trying to distinguish details was poor at best and the quest markers they were all various colors of rings for the one ring but they were too hazy and poorly placed to make any details out either i know that i was looking forward to an overhaul of the ui as was wilhelm arcturus but more for overall improvements of the clarity of the design until then why bash my head against a wall metaphorically speaking when i try to play the game in as much the same way as i love swtor s story lotro s story is extremely well done and i miss being able to progress in it but for me it s not worth it to keep playing in earnest when i have these visual issues doom and other fps games have a simple problem i get nauseous when i play them from memecrunch and step brothers i know i m not the only one out there that gets motion sick when playing some types of video games and there s articles out there with advice on how to deal with the problem such as this one still the only way i ve been able to successfully combat this motion sickness is to use dramamine in the same fashion that i d take dramamine before riding on a train or a plane still i made the decision a long time ago that if i was going to have to be medicated in order to play a video game i probably shouldn t be playing said video game it does save me money in the long run as i don t purchase fps games but it does make me sad that i can t play a specific class of video games i recently discovered much to my horror that the nasa moonbase alpha video game gave me the same motion sickness as fps shooters did so what looks like a rather good lunar base simulation is sadly unplayable for me thankfully it s free to play so i didn t lose any money buying it only to discover i can t play it but still it s a tough pill to swallow i m pulling this out of my archives just so you know why you shouldn t want to have your game compared to tera uh yeah interesting enemies you got there and no i m not posting a pic of the elin i have standards posted by redbeard at 4 18 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels age of conan fps shooters lotro memes musings swtor tera video games tuesday march 28 2023 comfort food for the gamer no i m not talking about actual food or recipes inspired by games and sf f franchises i mean in the same vein as what comfort food represents something familiar and makes you feel like all s right with the world maybe for some people they have an actual meal that gives them that feeling for a coworker it s all about the texas style brisket when they get back to texas or for others it s getting to play a favorite game for my wife it s getting her crossword puzzle done or still others it s curling up with a favorite book for my brother in law it s his annual reading of the lord of the rings no matter what it is everybody has some sort of comfort food for me there are certain games or places within certain games that i return to when i want a helping of comfort food when life gives you lemons make lemonade is how the old saying goes but when life gives me lemons i give life the finger and go play sid meier s civilization iv well hatshepsut isn t too bad a leader to start with and at least the random location gave me a river with some resources i ve been in worse starting positions for sure it s a game i ve been playing for over 15 years now and it s the sort of game i can knock out anywhere from 2 to 5 hours depending on how the game plays out i can also get an early feel for whether my position is untenable or not if i don t have access to copper or iron for example and i ll just kill the game rather than die a slow death but when i feel the need for gamer comfort food and i m in an mmo type of mood i return to the old standbys create a new character and run through the areas i love best the low to mid level zones like oh this one hel lo ord mantell for the record the new on screen map makes me look like i m playing tera rather than swtor so i m grateful i can go into the interface options and turn the damn thing off or maybe start up a new toon in this game i d never created a high elf before so i pulled out some of my middle earth sourcebooks and started throwing names together i decided to not put umlauts over the last e like tolkien would have too messy to type there s something peaceful and pleasant about ered luin under starlight just the way the elves of middle earth like it for all the quirks of lotro such as trying to read those damn maps and the ability icons all looking the same the scenery tone and storyline are all highly evocative of middle earth and not to be outdone i do have favorite places in wow as well i always wondered what that sentinel was doing there i realize i m in the minority but i truly do love teldrassil darkshore and ashenvale they have that ancient elven forest vibe down so much that you d think you were in lothlorien or something yes i do like elwynn forest westfall eversong forest the ghostlands and even the damn barrens but for pure atmospherics the night elf areas are dead on perfect the more i go through some of these old original or vanilla areas on these mmos the more i enjoy them you never get the impression that you re the chosen one or that you re there to save the world and or galaxy okay the jedi knight story does somewhat sound that way but you re also not out there hobnobbing with all of the powerful of the game world sure you run into them from time to time but it s not like they re saying champions meet me at the town hall we need to take the fight to mal gannis at best they may offer counsel elrond gandalf satele shan or some quest direction aragorn but nothing like what you find in later expacs in these mmos there s something comforting in the anonymity provided in these vanilla esque zones even if you re on an active server you re still not likely to run into many other players at all in these original zones because the latest and greatest zones are where the action is that is even the case in these megaservers in wrath classic where most everybody has gotten multiple toons to max level and unless there s another 50 xp boost they re not likely to run another alt through the gauntlet i discovered this while waiting around for a deadmines run in the past couple of weeks while those dungeon runs were active in the lead up to wrath classic launching they re almost totally dead now so while you wait you go out into the world and quest or fish or level a gathering skill or explore all of those sorts of things can be done on those three mmos at your own pace without any concern for life the universe and everything thank you douglas adams while these areas tend to be quiet and relatively empty disruptions can show up when a high level toon rolls by and wipes an area clean of questing mobs perhaps they were going back and completing quests that were left behind or perhaps they were farming for materials or maybe they did have a slightly cruel and or trollish streak and did it just because whatever the reason the effect was to basically throw off my cadence and i have to wait for respawns if said high level toon zaps those then i just abandon the area arguing with idiots never ends well in my experience as a consequence i ve learned to do any low level questing on my high level toons when i know i m not causing disruptions to people already there on a now empty server like myzrael that s not a big deal because there have been times when i ve literally been the only person in a zone for several zones in a row but an active server or a server where i m new yeah i m sensitive to disruptions okay enough about me where do you go or play when you just need a helping of comfort food all about whether i ve got a combat heavy game going the combat heavy games are much longer than the ones where i simply out develop the other civs minus the 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