Rift Planes of Telara Beta

[Duane]

Game trailer:

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[YosemiteSam]

I've never played LOTR, but I looked at several videos and read about the game play. I didn't really feel compelled to even try it. It just didn't look like a game I could enjoy.

 

[Dallas]

Hi

I am bumping this thread because Rift is awesome and you are missing out if you don't come play the FREE BETA for a week to check it out. The BETA event is the last one and it all starts tomorrow morning. Below is the link to get in the Beta. All you have to do is sign up for an account and WAIT for TRION to contact you through email that your account is setup and you can download the beta client. It's about 8GB and doesn't take much time at all to get setup.

www.riftgame.com


If you enjoy fantasy styled MMORPG then you HAVE GOT TO CHECK RIFT OUT.

Give it a chance. Even for a BETA it is production ready right now. I have never played a Beta that was so polished and ready for its user base.

If you do play, come over to the Sunrest server on the Guardian side. That's where I play.

Send Bayne a whisper in game and my girl and I will come over and help you out. We are lvl 28 atm so we can't quest w/ you much but we can answer all of your questions and help you settle in a bit faster.

We even have a ventrilo server, so if you are into voice chat while gaming(don't laugh most are ) come on over.


Can't wait for Rift. It's going to be great.

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[Duane]

Hi

I am bumping this thread because Rift is awesome and you are missing out if you don't come play the FREE BETA for a week to check it out. The BETA event is the last one and it all starts tomorrow morning. Below is the link to get in the Beta. All you have to do is sign up for an account and WAIT for TRION to contact you through email that your account is setup and you can download the beta client. It's about 8GB and doesn't take much time at all to get setup.

They aren't going to reset the characters from the previous beta? Sweet!

 

[Duane]

I just found out that multi-boxing will be allowed in game. So I may buy a few more accounts and run them with ISBoxer.

http://forums.riftgame.com/showthre...eed-to-know!&p=1043554&viewfull=1#post1043554

 

[Dallas]

I just found out that multi-boxing will be allowed in game. So I may buy a few more accounts and run them with ISBoxer.

http://forums.riftgame.com/showthre...eed-to-know!&p=1043554&viewfull=1#post1043554

Everyone was asking about that during the last Beta. It's great they finally answered it. But I bet it doesn't last. The botting in DAOC got REDICULOUS in RVR. They finally dissallowed them.

Still a great idea though.

I will have to research this ISBoxer you speak of.

 

[Duane]

Everyone was asking about that during the last Beta. It's great they finally answered it. But I bet it doesn't last. The botting in DAOC got REDICULOUS in RVR. They finally dissallowed them.

Still a great idea though.

I will have to research this ISBoxer you speak of.

WoW has done a good job of keeping the multi-boxing botters out. I think that Rift should be able to do the same. It's super easy to see who's boxing and a GM can ask a few simple questions and eliminate those folks cheating the system.

Get a lot of good info about ISBoxer here:
http://www.lavishsoft.com/joomla/

More multi-boxing talk here:
http://www.dual-boxing.com/

 

[YosemiteSam]

I believe the open beta is now live. (though I can't check it out from work!)

 

[63echo]

I believe the open beta is now live. (though I can't check it out from work!)

Yep. Been playing it since it went live a few hours ago.

Not bad so far but of all the WoW clones I've played, this one is the....cloniest. I was able to jump right in as a rogue and feel very comfortable with what I was doing. Combo points, finishers, poisons, it's all there and accessed through an action bar that looks vaguely familiar.

Not that cloning WoW is a deal breaker, mind you. I just wonder if this has enough different to offer people that they'd make a long term switch from Warcraft. It's gonna have to be more than "look, your warrior has a pet!!"

Disclaimer: My opinion is only based on running three different characters, both factions, different shards, up to level 10. I've not grouped up, done any instances, or PVP'd yet, and this is the only Beta I've played. In any case, I've already preordered and paid for 6 months so I'll get plenty of time to tune my opinion.

 

[Duane]

Yep. Been playing it since it went live a few hours ago.

Not bad so far but of all the WoW clones I've played, this one is the....cloniest. I was able to jump right in as a rogue and feel very comfortable with what I was doing. Combo points, finishers, poisons, it's all there and accessed through an action bar that looks vaguely familiar.

Not that cloning WoW is a deal breaker, mind you. I just wonder if this has enough different to offer people that they'd make a long term switch from Warcraft. It's gonna have to be more than "look, your warrior has a pet!!"

Disclaimer: My opinion is only based on running three different characters, both factions, different shards, up to level 10. I've not grouped up, done any instances, or PVP'd yet, and this is the only Beta I've played. In any case, I've already preordered and paid for 6 months so I'll get plenty of time to tune my opinion.

Have you joined any of the public groups to close rifts? I found that to be a lot of fun.

 

[63echo]

Have you joined any of the public groups to close rifts? I found that to be a lot of fun.

Taking a break for dinner, then I'm going to roll a healer and then start in on the rifts. The rifts look really, really cool and I'm looking forward to getting in on that.

Also, doing my duty as a beta tester and looking hard for bugs, but I haven't run across so much as a rough edge. No lag to speak of and I have no problems with the login process. This build seems really solid and just about ready for retail. I hope they do some work on the voice acting though. It's pretty bad.

 

[tupperware]

I have a RIFT well spun hat code. I got it because I play TF2. First one to PM me gets it.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Hosed. I have to download the entire thing again. Guess I won't be playing tonight since will take 3 hours. :/

 

[Khartun]

How about an update on this game. Anyone playing it? Is it worth getting?

 

[couchscout]

How about an update on this game. Anyone playing it? Is it worth getting?

Very fun game, the release was a little shaky simply because they had over 1 million subscribers before they even spun up the first server. So there were many hours long queues and such. Now, the queues are gone and I find the game to be just plain fun. If you're an MMO person, or think you'd like to give the genre a try, pick this one up.

 

[Dallas]

Level 35 about to be 36 tonight. Rift is AWESOME. I was a bit peaved w/ the Q times on the day of launch but they had numerous alternate servers available late that evening and since then I have had zero Q times on my new server.

I have to say I am having more fun playing Defiant than I was playing Guardian. I don't know if that's the devil in me or not.

Great great game and definately something for you all sitting on the fence to check out. I think it's safe to get in the water now and not be afraid you may have spent 60$ for nothing.

Rifting is soooo much fun. I rifted last night and took in nearly 1400 planarite during 1 event by defending and not sealing the rift. The boss finally came through and I tanked him for the raid w/ no trouble. The Guardians were on the other side of him trying to taunt him back to their guard area, but we werent having any of that. Each time a little mage or rogue or w/e would creep to close to the boss or our raid, I would charge them and stun them and then our dps would be all OVER em killing em. It was AWEEEESSSSSSSOMEEEE. Most fun I have had in an MMO in a very long time. :starspin

Another thing I enjoy about PvP in Rift is the cross faction talking. Everyone can understand each other. There are these puzzles in each zone where you can sit and work them trying to solve them. The item is random but will always be a blue item your level or above or a purple epic item. My girl has received 3 epics this way and I have received 2. Anyways..we went to do a puzzle last night and there was a 50 guardian there doing it when we arrived. Since he was 50 and would most likely have killed us if we engaged him we decided to play nice and wait. My girl and I went and sat next to the puzzle and helped him solve it together. We all chatted about the game and how much we liked it. He got it solved and received his reward and mounted and rode off thanking us in the process.

It was cool....

 

[Khartun]

awesome, thanks for the updates. I'll have to check it out.

 

[YosemiteSam]

I have to say I am having more fun playing Defiant than I was playing Guardian. I don't know if that's the devil in me or not.

Welcome to the dark side brother! :laugh2:

 

[Duane]

I'm playing casually but am having a blast when I'm on. I haven't logged into WoW since January and can't say that I've missed it at all.

 

[Duane]

Some patch notes:

Hey, everyone.

As you’ve probably noticed -- We launched! Last week was four retail launches in four different territories. By and large, everything went extremely well. Nothing exploded, and we’re rapidly adjusting to the pace of being a live game.

Now that we’ve all collectively survived the process of taking a game from Beta to Live, it’s time to resume focusing on what’s coming up in the future.

In the next day, you’re going to see our first real update. (8AM PST Thursday for the NA servers, 2AM UTC Friday for the EU servers)

This first update does have some new content, and also includes a rather large collection of tweaks, fixes, and updates that come from a few different sources.

They’ve been picked out of what people have been reporting in game, as well as a number of beta-reported polish items that didn’t make it in time for head start, and also some further refinement and tuning after seeing what happens when people finally get the chance to play characters that’ll be around forever.

Some of the things to expect tomorrow are…

• Raid rifts!

• Improvements to Rift, Invasion, and Foothold experience gains

• See more quests at once in the tracker if you choose

• Better item stack management

• PvE end-game difficulty better suited to the power of real end-game characters


Making sure that we can do an update like this successfully is an important step on the road to doing even larger scale content and systems additions in the not-too-distant future.

Our team will be right here while this first update is going on. We’ll be checking out the servers alongside you, and will be here to respond to any surprise issues that do occur.

We also have a lot more in development than the first look you’ll be seeing tomorrow.

On top of ongoing new content and large feature development, many of which you’ll be hearing about on our site and others, there are some other, smaller improvements we’re working toward – I wanted to call these out specifically since they’re pretty frequently commented on.

• Mages. Yes, we’re both listening to you and paying attention to the post-launch gameplay data on our servers. While a well-played mage does do extremely well, and mages are very well represented in the overall number of active characters, there are issues with competitiveness in some low and mid level ranges and certain combinations of souls, due largely to mages’ overall fragility and cast times.

• Mail Spam. Chat spam protection has been going really well on the whole, which, predictably, pushed spammers into mail. We’ll be putting more protection in place there soon.

• Event Contribution. This system is being reworked to be more in line with the idea of events being massively social occurrences, and the focus on abilities themselves will be going away entirely.

• Anti-Hacker Protection. As a very high priority, we’re working on new and interesting ways to help you make sure your account is protected from password phishing and keyloggers. In the short time since head start, we’ve already banned a couple thousand spammers, hackers, farmers, and thieves. We’ll continue improving our detection and ability to take action on them well into the future.

• Dismount and Exposed. Expect some changes here as well.


Thank you all for your dedication so far – We look forward to this first small update, and a host of even larger ones in the future!

- The RIFT Development Team​

Glad the developers are being so active on these issues.