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I went back to TSW for awhile lately and I realized why I left before. There are just too may mobs running loose in the game world that hinder mission goals. I almost reminds me of the crowded mob situation in Asheron's Call. Thin them out some!
It is frustrating as hell to have to stop every 20 steps to kill stupid aggro mobs just to get from point A to point B.
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the game doesn't favor rushing from one point to another and the world is made to be dangerous
what you see as a cons is a pro for everybody that actually play it
1 game cannot please everybody many people want opposite things
i dont remember this being an issue for me in TSW, however, i do take issue with any game world basically being a minefield. there's no point to it.
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A finite game is played for the purpose of winning,
an infinite game for the purpose of continuing play."
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I'm always suprised when people complain about a little open world difficulty. They cried in GW2 about cursed shores and it got nerfed. Luckily no one is listening to the crying about TSW. This is one of TSW's redeeming qualities. There isn't much out there for the player that likes open world PvE solo difficulty. There are countless easy mode don't pay attention to where you are going MMO's...OP go play one of those.
The problem with TSW is the builder combat. It's not the animations or anything else. It's that you have to spam the builder skill initially every single time and that gets monotonous.
The mob density was fine for group play last time I was in game. Problem for me is I mostly prefer to solo and most mobs just died too slowly that way and forget about a glass cannon kite build.
So yeah, I see where others would be equally annoyed. I keep hoping I'll come back and read they tweaked it a bit to make it faster for soloers to wade through. Otherwise, the game is great, the story is great, the NPC dialogue is amazing, the skill tree is interesting.
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I never understood why people have problems with the combat. And I avoid mobs just fine.
Well, there was a good point made about spamming the builders. That does get repetitive.
Kingsmouth is being invaded by monsters from the sea, more than half the town is already dead, their corpses risen to create more monsters.. and you expect to jaywalk happily down the road from quest to quest? Yeah.. I don't think so. Take them out and you'll be crying about Immersion and how it doesn't make sense. You just can't win with some people.
My issue with TSW was the community..
Everyone seemed very rude and anti-social..
It is like nearly impossible to start a party
Have to disagree, Played a few hours and the crowded areas with mobs is so nice to see.
This is also something that I have enjoyed in other games.
That's probably because there is no one in game to kill the mobs.
There is jam packed were I play, why do you wanna just lie about a game? dont get it,
Yeah, I like a little frustration. It looks better than some goofy looking mob sitting in a random corner, waiting for you to step near it lol. I love the game, but there are bigger problems than this. That Anima well tidbit for example.
I honestly think threads like this, the mindset, is why we get so many so-called wow clones. The little things people complain about that's outside of the MMO norm is disappointing.
Also, there are plenty of people playing this game, so drop the hate.
It is a bit difficult to move around from time to time, but not to bad, you have to think about it. But roads are mostly safe. Interestingly enough we see all this people now posting about the skills needed to travel in the zones in EQ1 (and that was much harder than it is in TSW) as one of the best things ever. Strange.
Travel overland in TSW gets a bit repetitive but its not bad.
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GW2 is worst. And those stupid Jumping Puzzles... 3d version of Frogger... waste of time...
I bought TSW GM prior to launch...... never played because I got sucked into the GW2 hype...
Playing TSW for the first time during their one year event.... it's awesome!
I'm having fun again like I did with CoH years ago.
I wouldn't have as muc of a issue if it wasn't a pain to make a buuld that could handle mobs of creatures several level lower then you and be able to handle single powerful mobs of the same level it seems that unless you followed a specific power build you couldn't handle both which meant soloing was a giant pain .
I liked the game a lot I want to keep playing but the system for building chars was just so much a pain, this is why I don't like free form building systems I have as yet to see one that douisnt punish you in some way for it. I know it supposed to allow ultimate customization bt if you going to be forced into select powerbuilds anyway whats the point.
F2P may be the way of the future, but ya know they dont make them like they used to
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The problem is it's nearly impossible to avoid them. In EQ you had your difficulties but with smart movement you could generally avoid the mobs to get where you needed to go. It wouldn't be an issue anyways if the combat was more fun. I find the combat a little frustrating and every fight can kill you if you make a couple mistakes or get an add.
I like difficulty at times, but for every single fight and so often it's just frustrating. I can't relax at all when I play this game. I gotta have my hardcore game face on. lol
I can see how it would be annoying..
I just run em off though and move on,doesnt really bother me much.
ya game world is dangerous!and make sure you do normal quest first time around,if you try to powerlevel you might be surprised to find out the foe are what the quest say they are ,if it says hard they are hard!
in my view?this is a better game then gw2!(yes I played gw2!