I just got accepted into the beta, anyone else sign up? Going to see how it is, maybe I can use it as a time killer as I wait for Dark Millennium Online! I just hope it’s not a straight WoW copy.
It looks just like WoW, and Everquest, and LORTO, and pretty much every other fantasy MMO out there.
I’m holding out for the APB Beta, personally. Let me know if rift turns out to be something special.
Ok, I have a friend who already plays it. He says it’s similar to WoW, but it has a dynamic world. There are rifts that open up randomly and spawn enemies, and they need to be closed, or they will spawn more frequently and the armies from the rifts will destroy towns, so far sounds pretty cool. Almost done with the dl.
I got to level 8 in the last beta, and it feels a lot like WoW, but the skills you learn are done much differently. It isn’t “Oh you leveled up, here’s a new skill/spell/etc.” It’s more of a “You leveled up, now put your talent point into the skill tree of one of the specializations you chose. Oh, you’ve put X points in this tree? Here’s an ability in that area.”
It looks significantly better than WoW ever did, but the gameplay feels very similar at low levels.
I got to level 7 last night, it felt very similar to wow, but I like the customization much more, the story seems pretty terrible though, if I get in the next beta event I’ll update this thread some more.
I played through closed beta and enjoyed it, As a WoW player it is similar certainly but the customization is quite amazing. Will be playing more.
The way they set it up is, if you get into one beta, you automatically get into all of the betas that come after. I wish more companies would do this.