So how was the beta experience for you? (1-10)

[Brock 5amson]

8, only because of issues like weapon vanishing bugs, some pursuits not working, and some pursuit rewards not unlocking. Other than that I can't wait for April 2nd.

[dragoniron13]

I give it a 10 as far as beta's go, Since most people were winging about the servers, region lock and bs, my brother and I took a hard look at the details of a post-apocalyptic based world, from that standpoint alone I am really excited to play the game.

[burritosenior]

I give it a 6. Judging off it being a Beta? Server issues up the wazoo. Feels like a lack of content will be a major issue. Vehicles could be awesome but hitting the tiniest rock and coming to a complete stopped got really irritating really fast. So... 6. A little above average. Debating on getting the game anymore, but we'll see. The core concept is still good...

[OneClipWond3r]

7- I know it is beta, but i do see lack of content as a problem. But I play Rift which Trion runs too and the daily/weekly/monthly events keep you on the your toes and make it fun to group up and defeat Rares. Hope this will be similar.

[Biotic Kitten]

I'd say an eight or nine, so far. The grinding can be a bit repetitive, but all I've really been doing is farming arkfalls and doing "Rescue E-Reps" missions along the way. Despite the repetitive-ness, I really enjoy it.

I'm hoping they can sort out the server issues, though.

[snowman]

I give it an 8.5. I really love game so far. Bugs, glitches and server issues aside even as a beta I was pretty impressed. I've played a lot rougher betas for big market games. The speed at which they fixed the connection issues should be a good sign for us all that they are in this for the long haul. There are some things I'd like to see tweaked a bit more but I'll post a separate thread about that later. Thanks for the fun week Trion...looking forward to my amazon pre-order in the mail any day now

[OcelotKharn]

9.5

I enjoyed the beta immensely

[Egotisticle]

Awesome beta, I give it a 10

[Altreas]

My first time in a beta but had a awesome time. def a 10

[Dodece]

This is kind of a loaded question. A good Beta doesn't necessarily equate to a good underlying game. Honestly a Beta less then a week before launch is less a Beta, and more of a Demo. We weren't actually contributing all that much to the process. We were basically putting the servers through their paces, and frankly it should have run as smooth as it did. I applaud the developer for its competency, and it definitely resolved some lingering doubts. I would rate the Beta itself as a nine. The bugs I encountered weren't persistent, and there was nothing game breaking. So I could at least give them good feedback as far as content was concerned.

Speaking to the underlying game. I would have to rate it a safe seven. Mechanically it isn't really impressive as far as shooters are concerned. There just isn't a lot of nuance here that would lend itself to skilled play. While the character building is at the same time pretty shallow, and fairly pointless. I appreciate they want to maintain a certain high level of balance, but it is coming at the cost of the players sense of accomplishment. Leveling needed to come with more tangible results.

I played for quite some time, and while I felt like I was getting better at playing the game. I never felt like my in game character was improving. It really hurts the replay value when you don't feel like you are actually getting anywhere. That all said quantity has a quality all its own. This game appears to have a lot of content that is story driven. So while the combat and leveling didn't seem all that good to me. I see dozens of hours of story based missions to make this game well worth the price of admission.

I know it seems kind of perverse to be thinking in terms of a single player game, but personally I had to pull way back on my personal expectations. Was I the only one here who felt like the game wasn't actually doing anything to encourage teamwork. I mean think about the arkfalls for a moment. Was there any strategy, or did we all just mindlessly shoot for fifteen to twenty minutes. Mindless of just about everyone else around us.

I would at least try to revive downed players when I saw them, but I would get knocked down, and literally crawl away from danger towards other players. Just to have them ignore me as I laid there bleeding to death. I think it boils down to this. If everyone is exactly the same. Then everyone is basically expendable. I really doubt I would have died like that so many times if I had a actual role to play.