PlaneShift
Gameplay => General Discussion => Topic started by: Yautja on July 04, 2003, 12:05:24 am
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At the moment most other parts of the game arn\'t in so as a chatroom (and possible MMO) here is what i think.
The graphics are nice! Whilst there are definitly better engines out there (the skies in Dragon Empires look amazing) this one is really nice i think. It\'s like the difference between UT and UT2003. UT2003 might be technically better then UT but UT just looked really nice.
That\'s what i think about Planeshift. The game looks nice.
Buggyness?
As there arn\'t many features it is hard to tell but the stability in Planeshift feels good. Whilst running UO (especially on third party servers) Everything feels like it is going to crash all around you :( So the feel of the game was nice.
Ease of use and the GUI?
This i think should be improved even as a chatroom. (though this could all be because I\'m a newbie :( ) The mouselook key being here ># Is not nice It\'s in the middle of the keyboard, far away from everything. So being able to map keys would be a really nice feature.
Really I think the whole GUI was not that amazing. Another thing is having to click on the chat thing before you can talk. There should be a key that exits out of chatting and into it. Really I think SWG have basically Aced the GUI. Having the options of FPS, EQ and SWG is good. And I much prefer UO and SWQ\'s way of just typing and the text goes into the box. When you are running around and you meet someone, you have to stop, get it off mouse look, click on the tiny box and then start typing. In SWG and UO you just type.
Other features of other games like SWG and Neverwinter Nights are all good. like Radial menus, being able to highlight things, targeting (which is in), Ctrl and a key getting you to a menu screen, Comic book Chat boxes appearing by the character so you don\'t get a scary mute avatar whilst talking to someone. All of SWG and NWN is good.
Also I think speaking to npcs is easier using the swg and nwn way of clicking sentences rather then having lots of I don\'t understand what you are saying. I don\'t know how roleplayers feel about that.
Also the character creation did not have much, but that is obviously because it is pre alpha.
Summary of what i thought:
Grpahics are nice, The world and city looks nice and the feel of the game is excellent, even when you fall through the floor the game doesn\'t seem to crash. However the graphical user interface needs work and SWG is the way forward i think.
(Sorry It\'s late at night. Forming sentences hard is :S)
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Most people here agree with you Yautja. Although, Im pretty sure that most of the things that you talk about will be fixed or altered in Crystal Blue.
If you have ideas on how to improve, post them in the wish section :)
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Also I think speaking to npcs is easier using the swg and nwn way of clicking sentences rather then having lots of I don\'t understand what you are saying. I don\'t know how roleplayers feel about that.
It would definitely be better than what we have now, but I guess the npc are being tested right now and need lots of improvements. I think if they get a lot smarter (like understanding 5 synonyms instead of only one word, or being able to ignore what they don\'t need in your sentences) it can be cool.
I recently tried a program named ALICEbot, and with a little practice you\'re able to chat with her correctly without any \"I don\'t understand\" things, and it can talk about pretty much everything, so something like that designed only for fantasy RPG would be very effective I think.
This i think should be improved even as a chatroom. (though this could all be because I\'m a newbie ) The mouselook key being here ># Is not nice It\'s in the middle of the keyboard, far away from everything. So being able to map keys would be a really nice feature.
I think you can already remap keys by modifiying some files in you PS directory (forgot which ones though)
Really I think the whole GUI was not that amazing
I read somewhere that the whole GUI was being redone for crystal blue :)
and I think the current one is fine, just needs a keyboard shortcut to /say and /shout.
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The file to edit is Keys.xml, found in the root PS directory. :)
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**pokes his head in at the mention of SWG seeing as hes reading the forums for the SWG boards right at this moment**
SWG has to be the worst game launch ive ever seen, if they dont fix it soon, it will go down as one of teh worst floops in MMORPG history, not to mention George lucas him self will never give SOE a SW liceince again. Id put it in line with AO (now there was a real stinker).
If the SWG forums are anything to go by, 70% of its subscribers will quit after there free trial.
SOE SWG dev team or should I say the old EQ dev team that got moved over from EQ to work on there \"leet\" new star wars franchise have one BAD track record. Which is odd since the new EQ dev team are actualy pretty good and have turned EQ around and brought it forward some in the last year.
SWG is two steps backwards, not a step forward.
**goes back to moding NWN custom content**