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Defiance 2050 - Open Beta Impressions - Improved but How Much? - MMORPG.com
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Defiance 2050 - Open Beta Impressions - Improved but How Much? - MMORPG.com
My foray into the final PC beta for Defiance 2050 didn’t have an auspicious beginning. The MMO shooter’s opening tutorial was busted in such a way that one simply could not progress the past that first instance with Cass. But eventually, Trion disabled the tutorial while they fixed it, and then things got better. These are our impressions of the Open Beta on PC for Defiance 2050.
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If players expected otherwise then they alone are to blame for their own hyped delusions. And this could be seen a lot during my playtime, chat was a complete salt mine, lots of whining from players who barely even played the beta, expecting stuff Devs never promised or were coming with re-launch, for one thing Defiance 2050 beta really showed how sad and stupid some gamers can be nowadays...
FU Trion ................. not again
But if the devs steer this game in the right direction, it may be worth looking out for.
The hype of Anthem has me craving a third person co op loot shooter. Sucks on the timing of this. I would invest a lot more time when it comes out, but watcraft pre patch starts around the same time followed by the release. So i guess ill give a week or two and maybe come back when im bored with wow again until Anthem releases. But im sure there is something new and shiny that will have my attention by then (hearthstone patch perhaps).
Too many games
Open World shooters? Besides Defiance only other one I see is The Division.
Other than those there are no others, when it comes to future MMOs, only Fallout 76 and The Division 2 have me interested, the rest are more of the same, fantasy themed (boring) with WoW cloned gameplay / combat style, as in action bars bloated with abilities...
I was optimistic when I first heard Trion were throwing some money at Defiance and was hoping we'd get some real meaningful improvements, but I probably should have known better at this point. Outside of some slightly improved visuals since the game isn't being held back by last-gen consoles (though are held back by last-gen looking assets still) and some largely cosmetic systems changes I don't see any meaningful improvements to the experience or content in any way from playing the first few hours of the game again over the weekend.
This should have been a patch with a new release on PS4/Xbone, not a brand new game.
Neither of those are MMOs, but shared world shooters (well, shared world survival game, in the case of FO76). As I understand it, Defiance is an MMO, which is why it won't compare to the Division's gunplay.
The Division plays like a singleplayer TPS, with all the bells and whistles you'd expect from that, but it includes small-group multiplayer. If 2050 does nothing to leverage it's more traditional MMO gameplay systems, it's going to be rough going once Div2 comes out.
Primo example why it's useful to denote the appropriate genre for each, and develop for the genre's strengths. Lumping this game in with The Division or FO76 does this game's chances a huge disservice.
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I'm sad seeing people bashing Defiance2050 left and right.
With reason:
"This is the exact same game with minor changes"
"Why is this marketed as separate title? It's the same story and all!"
Well duh... So I guess Bethesda can't just release SkyrimSE as a separate title then? It's just the exact same Skyrim but 64bit and bit better textures...
It runs better on my system, only single crash so far. The only issues I'm having is the occasional lags for some reason. On maxed it looks bit better due to better graphics implementation, but since they are using same textures it doesn't improve that much. I'm liking the changes to the class system, loot, and the enemies seems to be much harder than the original one (which is good I think, more challenge). The Combat Medic class seems to be underwhelming, I hope they improve it later on
Other than that, it's the same game.
I've been playing Defiance since like 5 years ago on original launch. I hope Defiance2050 is doing well, it's the only true open world MMO shooter out there (is there another else in the market that I dont know about?)..I'll be joining the launch on July and see how it goes. It's free anyway, with all DLCs unlocked. More reason to check what I missed.
Thank you for your time!
Gut Out!
What, me worry?