NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scorch" data-source="post: 3153670" data-attributes="member: 1502">First Impressions!Hmm, first impressions both good and bad in no particular order:1)  Loaded up fine.  Could not run the patch initially since their servers were swamped.  It is 87 MB in size and I was able to get it later on the laptop.   The patch corrects some nuisance errors as well as added a beta of the DM Client and some extra content (spells, etc).2)  The multiplayer uses your old Bioware account (or you can create a new one, it is pretty easy to do so).  Nothing but Official Content games with a few exceptions out on line at the moment.3)  The game detected my setup but defaulted to a 4:3 ratio screen so I had to change that to a 16:9 ratio which was easy enough.  The game can switch resolutions without rebooting which is nice.  This may seem like a no-brainer but there are still games out there that require a reboot when you do this (cough cough City of Heroes cough).4)  Character creation was straightforward.  I feel like there should be a few more choices for appearance customization but I think CoH has spoiled me on that.  It probably has just as much customization as WoW.5)  The tutorial:  unless you count my familiar, NOT A RAT IN SIGHT.  They refamiliarize you with the interface and game mechanics pretty quickly in a no pressure environment.  One thing that I noticed was the inclusion of Sleight of Hand for pickpocketing.  For some reason that amused me...6)  Graphics: look pretty up close but I usually hover a little over the shoulder and fifty feet in the air so I get a tactical map of what is going on around me so I lose a lot of detail.  This is more my play style than the game's fault.7)  The camera controls are a little wiggy but that is NWN in general.  The * on num keypad cycles through four preset camera angles but I have not had a chance to play with them yet.8)  Combat:  Does feel a little sluggish but patch 1.01 supposedly addresses this as they admit that there is a few milliseconds pause when issuing a command and it actually executes.  Will re-address my thoughts on this later after a few more sessions.  I found myself hitting the space bar, queuing up commands, unpausing, then watching my best laid plans go horribly, horribly wrong.9)  Grouping:  You can have up to three "companions" in your group, not counting familiars and summoned creatures.  You can control their advancement but only to a limited extent.  The fighter you can only advance in fighter levels.  One cannot start multi-classing him to rogue for example but you do control stats, feats, skills, etc.  I assume that as levels advance you will have the option for Prestige Classes open up for them.  You seem to have full paper doll control on them.  10)  Prestige Classes:  there are a lot of them.11)  Overall performance. I had to turn down my resolution from 1680x1050 to 1440x900 on the desktop to get rid of a little chop.  Other than that it seemed fine to me with no chop during combat with lots of stuff happening on screen (Hey, look!  A Githyanki mage!!!).Right now I am rating this a solid B+ to A-.  I understand the OC story is actually pretty good but time will tell.  So far I have yet to see anything that disappoints me. My system specs:AMD64 34002 GB of RAMNVidia 7800 GS AGP Video Card (probably what is restricting me the most, gotta go PCIX).Scorch out.</blockquote>

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