Lineage 2: It all starts here for us! (not 56k friendly)

[Zak33]

Well guys, Sair and Zak, tonight, delve headlong into the sword wielding world of Lineage 2.

Apart from a long long catologue of pains in the arse trying to create an account, download the damn game and get a serial number, buy a code and get mmy credit card authorised....it's been pretty painless really

And so....to the excitement

God I LOVE the anticipation of a new game The hopes, the dreams, the long drawn out plans and debates about character name, and the colour of facial hair (if I'm allowed it) on our character.

Keep ya fingers crossed.....and your leather scabbard loose.

Tonight....we're going in

[Zak33]

the gateway

[LWA]

And what a lovely gateway it is Keep those screenies coming Zak!

[Zak33]

that was a fantastic nights gaming

Met up a friend onlne, who stuck with us like glue to help us lvel up fast and not get whooped

Don't normally play like that, but with this gamem we had some fast leveling up to do to get up to his speed.

The difference a good sword makes is unreal

The visuals are really very good indeed the background sounds are pretty accurate for direction. SO far, I'm very very impressed Loads to do, lots of opertunities....and I can't spell that, can I?

[Zak33]

Here's a Shop: Detail is pretty good in most places


these weree taken at 1280x1024 and then comressed with PSPro 8 into Jpegs, so suffer some compression.

[Zak33]

Close up of the character


Weapons and clothes, items etc, are all modelled pretty well.

[Zak33]

and the translucent effect as you get the camera down or behind something is pretty smooth.

Run very well on an X800.


but more important it also runs on a fairly mundane spec pc.

Last night we played for 2 hours on max settings on an nforce2 with 1gig PC3200, an XP 1600M at 2600 and a Radeon 9600 (non pro)

[Zak33]

scenery is great in places and very dull in others: The island you start on is pretty safe if you stay near the town, and the majority of these close-by monsters dont attack until you do:



and during a good beating with my mighty sword

[Zak33]

I met my brother online




you can SEE the family resemblance

[Zak33]

one more...then work!!

good grass effects out on the plains


and stone circles to find


Now as time goes past this will all lookold hat to long term players, and it will to us too, but right now, it's dead excitiing

[directhex]

i've tried lineage2 before, but found myself swamped by high-level newbie-killing griefers.

[Zak33]

I got me a securtiy guard

a good mate who's played for a few months. But Sair is currently playing a new character and is safe so far

Killing players is tricky, though not impossible, as the guards get the right hump if you do.

[directhex]

hell.

i've been playing Auto Assault for the past few days (trial account) and enjoying it greatly.

however, about half an hour ago, the Dungeon Siege phenomenon set in - whereby you sit and look at the screen and go "bloody hell, this is actually really boring and repetitive isn't it" and uninstall the bugger.

it's really good fun, and the best MMO i've played, but when that feeling hits, there's nothing I can do to save it.

bah

[Lee H]

Looking good

[Zak33]

about half an hour ago, the Dungeon Siege phenomenon set in - whereby you sit and look at the screen and go "bloody hell, this is actually really boring and repetitive isn't it" and uninstall the bugger.

I had that once with Dungeon Siege.

It's why Il-2 got me for some many years...you dont rely on anything other than your own skill (and total lack of it)

There IS no leveling up in Il-2.....youi just die a lot

Being online with your mates is also a great feeling, hence Lineage 2 for us for a while. Sir Andrew of Fort Gilb's is a great friend of many years, and its grwat to be online with him

[Lee H]

*EVIL GRIN*

I can see your name.... I'm gonna come and hunt you down and gank you until you surrender

sorry... thats the affect of playing WoW on PvP I'm afraid