Anyone here going to try DDO?   

I believe D&D Online is going to release soon, and you can betatest now.
Anyone going to play it?  It uses the turbine engine, and graphics are
pretty nice.  It felt very much like AC2 in many ways, but used the AD&D
3.5 ruleset for the most part.

I don't know how much the gameplay improved though, since alpha.  I suspect
a lot.  But like P&P games, this is expected to be played in groups.

				stef

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date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:26:03 +0000 (UTC)   author:   (Stef)

Re: Anyone here going to try DDO?   

"Stef"  wrote in message news:dr5rfr$424$2@iruka.swcp.com...
>I believe D&D Online is going to release soon, and you can betatest now.

Last I read, release was Feb 28th, and the beta events are over.  However, I 
still signed up in case there was a chance to try it before release anyway. 
Haven't heard back yet.

> Anyone going to play it?  It uses the turbine engine, and graphics are
> pretty nice.

Which "turbine engine"?  The one they used for AC2?  That's not good news. 
:(  AC2 was pretty, but it was a dog performance-wise.

Anyway, I'll probably check it out.  I like D&D.  Might as well see what's 
what.  Still, I've already got two on-going D&D outlets already (Neverwinter 
Nights, and a pnp game), so it remains to be seen just how much more D&D I 
need.  :)

Pete

date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 11:49:22 -0800   author:   Peter Duniho

Re: Anyone here going to try DDO?   

"Peter Duniho"  wrote in message 
news:uoUCX9RIGHA.2696@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> "Stef"  wrote in message 
> news:dr5rfr$424$2@iruka.swcp.com...
>>I believe D&D Online is going to release soon, and you can betatest now.
>
> Last I read, release was Feb 28th, and the beta events are over.  However, 
> I still signed up in case there was a chance to try it before release 
> anyway. Haven't heard back yet.
>
>> Anyone going to play it?  It uses the turbine engine, and graphics are
>> pretty nice.
>
> Which "turbine engine"?  The one they used for AC2?  That's not good news. 
> :(  AC2 was pretty, but it was a dog performance-wise.
>
> Anyway, I'll probably check it out.  I like D&D.  Might as well see what's 
> what.  Still, I've already got two on-going D&D outlets already 
> (Neverwinter Nights, and a pnp game), so it remains to be seen just how 
> much more D&D I need.  :)
>
> Pete
>

I've been playing the DDO beta. It's pretty, has obvious elements from the 
AC2 engine, but lacks the beauty of AC2. Combat is klunky. I understand it's 
beta, but so far I've not seen enough to convince me to fork out bucks for 
it. And it's a serious resource hog that eats large amounts of memory. I'm 
curious to see how the beta will shape up as it gets close to release.

date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 17:58:52 -0800   author:   Matthew L Reed nousenetspam at dead ice dot us

Re: Anyone here going to try DDO?   

"Matthew L Reed" <nousenetspam at dead ice dot us> wrote in message 
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> [...]
> And it's a serious resource hog that eats large amounts of memory.

Well, that's at least consistent with AC2.

> I'm curious to see how the beta will shape up as it gets close
> to release.

It would be surprising if it changes much.  Are you saying that as a beta 
player, you still have access to the game?  I got the impression from the 
DDO forums that they had shut down the servers until release.

Pete

date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:12:09 -0800   author:   Peter Duniho

Re: Anyone here going to try DDO?   

Nope.. the beta servers are still up and kicking.. If you had access you could 
jump on right now even :)

Chris

"Peter Duniho"  wrote in message 
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> It would be surprising if it changes much.  Are you saying that as a beta 
> player, you still have access to the game?  I got the impression from the DDO 
> forums that they had shut down the servers until release.
>
> Pete
>

date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:30:20 -0800   author:   Chris F. Willoughby

Re: Anyone here going to try DDO?   

I've had some fun with it. However, other games currently have my attention so I 
haven't spent as much time playing lately.

Chris

"Stef"  wrote in message news:dr5rfr$424$2@iruka.swcp.com...
>I believe D&D Online is going to release soon, and you can betatest now.
> Anyone going to play it?  It uses the turbine engine, and graphics are
> pretty nice.  It felt very much like AC2 in many ways, but used the AD&D
> 3.5 ruleset for the most part.
>
> I don't know how much the gameplay improved though, since alpha.  I suspect
> a lot.  But like P&P games, this is expected to be played in groups.
>
> stef
>
> -- 
> Change your views to respect the truth, not vice-versa.

date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:30:53 -0800   author:   Chris F. Willoughby

Re: Anyone here going to try DDO?   

"Chris F. Willoughby"  wrote in message 
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> Nope.. the beta servers are still up and kicking.. If you had access you 
> could jump on right now even :)

Well, tell 'em to send my key then!  :)

date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:12:15 -0800   author:   Peter Duniho