New Player - State of the game

[Mordresh]

Hi guys,

Decided to give this game a shot, I played the trial and I kind of liked what I saw.
However I wonder what the state of the game is, I'm not seeking the typical doom&gloom to be found on any MMORPG forum, I'm just looking more into it's population, content patches and support by developers.

I meanly want to avoid starting a game and invest my time to find out it's mostly ghost-town.
Is it alive and kicking? I'm playing on the European realm, are there many players around?

On another note, I'm also trying to find information to base my class choice on.
Can anyone describe the class choices, just overall quick summary. I'm interested in the Machinist or something, the one with the light machine gun, looks good.

Cheers,
Mordresh

[MikoTan]

Hi guys,

Decided to give this game a shot, I played the trial and I kind of liked what I saw.
However I wonder what the state of the game is, I'm not seeking the typical doom&gloom to be found on any MMORPG forum, I'm just looking more into it's population, content patches and support by developers.

I meanly want to avoid starting a game and invest my time to find out it's mostly ghost-town.
Is it alive and kicking? I'm playing on the European realm, are there many players around?

On another note, I'm also trying to find information to base my class choice on.
Can anyone describe the class choices, just overall quick summary. I'm interested in the Machinist or something, the one with the light machine gun, looks good.

Cheers,
Mordresh

I'm not sure anyone can say much about the population at the moment, the latest patch kind of upset some people, myself included and until some things are fixed I personally wont be logging in.

After things get fixed (I'm sure they will) this question can be answered much more accurately as we'll see how many left vs. still around.

[Nightmare Walkin]

The NA servers are alive and well. I don't think the EU servers are. As far as classes u get a different outfit and starter weapons that will be replaced hours(@ most) later. So that means nothing 0.o At least not yet(a year later) how about a third bonus with "2 banger" synergies like the 7th legion that you get if your two weapons match your character. Good thing my main toon is veteran(extra fire rate and_____________). Please fill in the blank trion or what is the point?

[Pandur]

Hi guys,

Decided to give this game a shot, I played the trial and I kind of liked what I saw.
However I wonder what the state of the game is, I'm not seeking the typical doom&gloom to be found on any MMORPG forum, I'm just looking more into it's population, content patches and support by developers.

I meanly want to avoid starting a game and invest my time to find out it's mostly ghost-town.
Is it alive and kicking? I'm playing on the European realm, are there many players around?

On another note, I'm also trying to find information to base my class choice on.
Can anyone describe the class choices, just overall quick summary. I'm interested in the Machinist or something, the one with the light machine gun, looks good.

Cheers,
Mordresh

Well population is hard to gouge in game but with how shards work it should at least always look somewhat populated.

Support by devs and "content" patches. Well there was a promise of landmass additions since last year, which didn't happen.

Also most new stuff is reskins, they have thrown around the game systems quite alot of times though, which lead to the storm you see in the forums atm.
There's also been some promise of a season2 show tie in for quite a while that didn't happen yet.

Frankly if you enjoy the game with the latest patch you get your bang for the 10$ i would stay away from the DLC and Bitstore at this point though.

Class choice doesn't affect anything but looks and starting weapon so just pick what looks best to you.

[Tekrunner]

The NA servers are alive and well. I don't think the EU servers are.

PC EU has actually been overcrowded for its number of shards since DLC 5 was released, so for now we're doing fine population-wise. I don't think anyone could say how long it'll last.

Don't sweat over class choice, as others have said that matters very little.

[drackiller]

Would be nice if he says in what platform he`s playing, but i guess PC since he spoke about playing the trial.

But in PS3 EU, even with all the *****ing and moaning the servers are allways filled in very good numbers.

[Hopeisdead]

Well on PC i even got an queue to log in xD

About class choice dont worry about it around 2600 EGO you will have pretty much every perk you want, not necessarily those you need in particular situations, include all four powers.

[duction]

Just put the damn disc in and play it lol, find a good clan to join.

[Mordresh]

Would be nice if he says in what platform he`s playing, but i guess PC since he spoke about playing the trial..

Yeah, I'm indeed playing the PC version.

Thanks for all responses, appreciated.
I purchased the game and started playing

[Mordresh]

Already found myself an orange weapon, was quite excited, but I read that at some point weapons do not let you gain progression anymore. This kind of limits the appeal of a very good weapon (unless it takes quite long to maximize it), in a certain way creating some artificial wall where it becomes useless while of course it isn't really as you can keep on using it.

But shooting down mobs is all about gaining progression, so why would ya use a weapon that is capped, so it is useless not? I guess this encourages you to keep on finding new gear, nothing new in MMO's of course.

Maybe I'm playing this too old skool, but I originally planned to use LMG's and stick to that, I take it it's recommended to use a variaty of weapons or can I stick to only two weapons, e.g. LMG and Rocket Launcher ?