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[Preview] Rift: Everything You Need to Know About Patch 2.6
SBFord
Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
Rejoice, RIFT fans! This week heralds the arrival of a brand new patch filled to the brim with free new content. Several members of the press were treated to an exclusive preview of all that patch 2.6 has to offer. There are some surprises in store and some deeper systems than we first expected and almost all of it ties into dimension and artifacts. Follow us after the break to find out why now is the perfect time to give RIFT a re-visit, especially if you want to be prepared for 3.0. Read on for more.
Read more of Chris Coke's Tripping the Rift: Everything You Need to Know About Patch 2.6.
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I would normally agree with you, however from my understanding RIft has been doing amazing things with their raiding/dungeons lately. A lot of old dungeons have been reworked/released for the level cap and players have been having a blast. Not to mention an expansion with all new dungeons and raids is in the horizon. I think you might be jumping the gun a bit. Idk how Rift willl be by say, next year, but right now its still very much active and alive.
Unstable events are soul crushing. Wasted a half hour (that's the length the event lasts) in Stillmore looking for just one unstable artifact, and couldn't find a single one, after going around and in the middle of the map 3-4 times.
The fact that you don't even get credit for being in the zone while the event is happening, unless you find at least one unstable artifact, is also fairly frustrating because when you find nothing it feels like you just wasted a half-hour and got nothing out of it in return.
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Did they ever fix the clunky animations and movement because until they can do that the game is unplayable to me.
They could be just busy with testing their ArcheAge Family Alpha in the office.
Give them a few month to release ArcheAge, and they'll be back to Rift in full force.
What about the devs they moved to Trove? When are they coming back?
Overall, gotta give Trion credit on this.
They could have charged for Dream Weaver but it looks like they didn't. They will still make nice profit on it from people buying the extra profession slot anyway.
Also, when SL launched dimensions were just an inferior version of EQ2's housing. While I still can't stand the aesthetics of many of them, they took another thing from EQ2's housing (weather and atmosphere effects) and expanded on it. And they made all the new dimensions crafted items, not cash shop items (EQ2 leans too heavy on the cash shop for the good housing areas, but of course they also give their subbers cash shop currency as a perk).
And they are making moves not based on attracting new customers, but building on what their existing customers like. From the dev team that brought you 3 faction PvP in a 2 faction game just because other games were coming out with 3 faction PvP, this is a promising change.
Not sure Ill ever play again because I dislike the races, the amoeba class sytem, and Telara itself but maybe Trion is learning. If they get a chance to make another MMORPG (not a MMOShooter or MMORTS or other MMO____) it might be something great.
Rift doesn't really age well...
Just got released 3 years ago and looks so old already.
I thought that was Lord Of The Rings Online.
Or EQ2 or even WoW had some pretty bad ones.
Also add terrible dance animations. any and all kind of movement animation in this game are plain bad. and then cross faction pvp and pve, killed the game for me.
Boobs are LIFE, Boobs are LOVE, Boobs are JUSTICE, Boobs are mankind's HOPES and DREAMS. People who complain about boobs have lost their humanity.
It's been crashing a lot since the patch was added. Hopefully, this gets fixed soonish. There is also a glitch with the chat system. Guess this patch just wasn't tested enough.
Their staff isn't big enough anymore. It needs to focus on content for the people who still play. Rift has much bigger issues than the animations anyway. It has a small but dedicated fan base. Keep them happy and the game will be around for years.
Huh? Name me a MMO that is that much better. Pretty common with all MMO's as they don't want to limit their client to high end computers.
If they hired Blizzard devs their shit would be polished.
Sounds like they cut the wrong devs loose, or moved the best ones to Trove.