New Player - State of the game

[Tekrunner]

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.

This is no longer true, you'll always be gaining weapon skill xp, even on a maxed weapon. However weapon damage now also increases with EGO, so in order to keep up with the increasingly powerful enemies you'll have to switch to higher EGO weapons, or spend arkforge to upgrade your lower EGO ones.

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 ?

There are quite a lot of weapons in the game, which handle in a variety of ways. Much of the fun in the early game is to try them all and see what you like best, so don't limit yourself and give what you find a try.

And if you like to optimize things, have a look at this: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...a2lMQkE#gid=21

[Mordresh]

Thanks a lot Tekrunner, appreciated.
I had a blast on my first evening, cant wait to play tonight.

[Stuka]

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

On the other hand you don't get encounters suddenly jumping to TL10 because a high ego player drifted by as much as you do on the NA servers. I am becoming more and more disillusioned with the game the longer it stays without a major patch to address our concerns. All I see at the moment are small hotfixes that dance around the edges while the major issues stay unresolved.

[EternalRain]

Save your $$$$ and pre order ESO...I think lots of players on this game will make the transition on 6/30...

[Mordresh]

Save your $$$$ and pre order ESO...I think lots of players on this game will make the transition on 6/30...

I'm surprised it took this long, the usual "save your money and preorder (....next launching mmo...)" one reads with any launch of MMORPG in history. I already read the same about ESO lol, save your money, preorder Wildstar.

For your information I'm coming from ESO, played it 20 days non-stop on PC, had a blast, loving it, but I'm looking for a change in between. Defiance looks to be the answer, I also consider both games apples and oranges. But that's where this hopefully stops, I want this thread to be about Defiance, not a "vs" story and doom&gloom as stated in OP. Nonetheless thanks for your advise/opinion, for all we know I might agree with you a couple of weeks down the row...

[N3gativeCr33p]

<snip> but I'm looking for a change in between. <snip>

Having played DCUO since 2010, I was looking for the same thing last April... but then a steady stream of crappy DLPs and other zany game development decisions happened.

[Pandur]

Save your $$$$ and pre order ESO...I think lots of players on this game will make the transition on 6/30...

At least next time use a game that has a remote gameplay resemblance to the one you're advertising against.....

[drackiller]

At least next time use a game that has a remote gameplay resemblance to the one you're advertising against.....

LOL, Destiny !?

[Pandur]

LOL, Destiny !?

That would work, except no PC version planned afaik :/

[Festival]

Having played DCUO since 2010, I was looking for the same thing last April... but then a steady stream of crappy DLPs and other zany game development decisions happened.

I picked up Defiance as an occasional change of pace from The Secret World...and got hooked. With most of the people I ran with in TSW inexplicably moving to SWTOR (ugh...), Defiance became my "main," and I loved it. That's about to come to sad, infuriating end, as I've all but decided the core gameplay changes made with DLC5 will never be acceptable to me, no matter how much tweaking they get (unless that "tweak" is a complete rollback!).

Now it's time to hunt for a new game, and that's proving problematic. ESO is high fantasy, a game setting I have no interest in. Wildstar is associated with NCSoft, so that's a non-starter. It's a long dang time until Star Citizen will even be in beta. Cripes, I may actually have to go outside!