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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2019 19:55:00 GMT
The demo was on a different difficulty scale … so it may well be different in the released version of the game.
But for the story elements, I was able to solo.
For the free play, although you can't technically solo, I went out alone and for several of the free play episodes, had no one else join me *in my location*. In some cases, I had folks join that I never saw. For world events, I had folks join several times. But there were several locations (like the necropolis) where I was the only freelancer.
Inadvertently, I came within a hair's breadth of soloing a stronghold mission. No one ever joined the match, I worked my way through from beginning to end and the spider monster had only a small sliver of health left, when I got stupid/cocky/both and got killed. It might be difficult … perhaps in the released version of the game even more difficult … but at least for the demo, it was doable.
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Post by monkeylungs on Feb 15, 2019 20:23:32 GMT
The demo was on a different difficulty scale … so it may well be different in the released version of the game. But for the story elements, I was able to solo. For the free play, although you can't technically solo, I went out alone and for several of the free play episodes, had no one else join me *in my location*. In some cases, I had folks join that I never saw. For world events, I had folks join several times. But there were several locations (like the necropolis) where I was the only freelancer. Inadvertently, I came within a hair's breadth of soloing a stronghold mission. No one ever joined the match, I worked my way through from beginning to end and the spider monster had only a small sliver of health left, when I got stupid/cocky/both and got killed. It might be difficult … perhaps in the released version of the game even more difficult … but at least for the demo, it was doable. The release version is supposed to be harder.
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Post by Qui-Gon GlenN7 on Feb 15, 2019 20:30:08 GMT
Soloing the objective should be doable, and not Souls-level difficult. Anything else is forcing the gamer to be social. Many view their free time to actually be "their time". I won't say most because then I will get bombarded for citations and reference data
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Post by saandrig on Feb 15, 2019 20:32:06 GMT
The demo was on a different difficulty scale … so it may well be different in the released version of the game. But for the story elements, I was able to solo. For the free play, although you can't technically solo, I went out alone and for several of the free play episodes, had no one else join me *in my location*. In some cases, I had folks join that I never saw. For world events, I had folks join several times. But there were several locations (like the necropolis) where I was the only freelancer. Inadvertently, I came within a hair's breadth of soloing a stronghold mission. No one ever joined the match, I worked my way through from beginning to end and the spider monster had only a small sliver of health left, when I got stupid/cocky/both and got killed. It might be difficult … perhaps in the released version of the game even more difficult … but at least for the demo, it was doable. The release version is supposed to be harder. I can pretty much solo all Normal missions I did so far. Died only once on a Hard run and only because I hovered over 30 Scars and tried to freeze them all Yeah, lesson learned.
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Post by Fogg on Feb 15, 2019 21:33:10 GMT
Apparantly the main story quest line is gated with doing a lot of fetch quests. It forces you to do quick play for example.
Watching some streams. I don't like that players that rush make it so that players taking it slower will be teleported to the rushing people.
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Post by Qui-Gon GlenN7 on Feb 15, 2019 22:09:42 GMT
It forces you to do quick play for example. Gross. Grosser still. That would actively, immediately, anger me. Second time, I'm Alt-F4 kthxbai fukthis.
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Post by Conquer Your Dreams on Feb 15, 2019 22:13:25 GMT
Apparantly the main story quest line is gated with doing a lot of fetch quests. It forces you to do quick play for example. Watching some streams. I don't like that players that rush make it so that players taking it slower will be teleported to the rushing people. Agree, this is very stupid.
One guy discovered something during group play - some mysterious tablet (rune ?) and when he tried to check it a bit he was teleported in the middle of the fight God knows where Oh he was pis...
Way too many random mobs - killing them with Storm is same boring experience as was killing mobs in SWTOR with Sith Inquisitor and his lightning storm...
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Post by 10k on Feb 15, 2019 22:51:24 GMT
Watching some streams. I don't like that players that rush make it so that players taking it slower will be teleported to the rushing people. Well it's a looter shooter. The majority of people playing this game is skipping dialogue just to get to the looting and shooting. BW tried to make a compromise, but it failed. For those who want to explore or enjoy the story will most likely have to do it solo.
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Post by Conquer Your Dreams on Feb 15, 2019 22:55:18 GMT
Watching some streams. I don't like that players that rush make it so that players taking it slower will be teleported to the rushing people. Well it's a looter shooter. The majority of people playing this game is skipping dialogue just to get to the looting and shooting. BW tried to make a compromise, but it failed. For those who want to explore or enjoy the story will most likely have to do it solo. Yeah, but you are unable to make these missions solo. That's the main issue.
They should give more freedom to solo players and give them similar solution as they did in SWTOR for the people who would like to play Flashpoints or Heroics without begging others to join them.
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Post by 10k on Feb 15, 2019 23:06:35 GMT
Yeah, but you are unable to make these missions solo. That's the main issue.
They should give more freedom to solo players and give them similar solution as they did in SWTOR for the people who would like to play Flashpoints or Heroics without begging others to join them.
Well from everything I've seen, this game wasn't meant to be played solo in the first place. That's why I didn't buy it. It is a looter shooter, and was marketed that way.
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Post by saandrig on Feb 15, 2019 23:08:25 GMT
Apparantly the main story quest line is gated with doing a lot of fetch quests. It forces you to do quick play for example. Watching some streams. I don't like that players that rush make it so that players taking it slower will be teleported to the rushing people. Just got to this quest... So, so, so, so ...stupid... Not enough story content, Bioware? It took what, 6 hours to get to a point where the story has to be gated behind a grindy, long and somewhat RNG tasks? Revive 3 people? Ok, I guess I will play on Hard and wait for people to kick the bucket without helping them beforehand.
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Post by ahglock on Feb 15, 2019 23:16:59 GMT
Yeah, but you are unable to make these missions solo. That's the main issue.
They should give more freedom to solo players and give them similar solution as they did in SWTOR for the people who would like to play Flashpoints or Heroics without begging others to join them.
Well from everything I've seen, this game wasn't meant to be played solo in the first place. That's why I didn't buy it. It is a looter shooter, and was marketed that way. So is borderlands and I always solo that. It also has a fun replayable story. Too bad they modeled their game after the destiny style looter shooter and not borderlands. I might have bought a borderlands copy. Not being allowed to solo strongholds was the final nope. Doubt I’ll even try the free trial.
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Post by monkeylungs on Feb 15, 2019 23:42:21 GMT
Well from everything I've seen, this game wasn't meant to be played solo in the first place. That's why I didn't buy it. It is a looter shooter, and was marketed that way. So is borderlands and I always solo that. It also has a fun replayable story. Too bad they modeled their game after the destiny style looter shooter and not borderlands. I might have bought a borderlands copy. Not being allowed to solo strongholds was the final nope. Doubt I’ll even try the free trial. They could learn a LOT from the way The Division is set up.
EDIT: I would vastly prefer the Borderlands style though. You can play that game single player offline.
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Post by Kappa Neko on Feb 15, 2019 23:52:12 GMT
Apparantly the main story quest line is gated with doing a lot of fetch quests. It forces you to do quick play for example. Watching some streams. I don't like that players that rush make it so that players taking it slower will be teleported to the rushing people. Just got to this quest... So, so, so, so ...stupid... Not enough story content, Bioware? It took what, 6 hours to get to a point where the story has to be gated behind a grindy, long and somewhat RNG tasks? Revive 3 people? Ok, I guess I will play on Hard and wait for people to kick the bucket without helping them beforehand. Wow, this is worse than I expected. WTF.
Not sure what's more frustrating, the constant teleporting disrupting your flow which already turned me off the game big time during the demo... or now being actively forced into teamplay for gimmicky shit? Revive medals were a source of laughter in ME3MP, now they recycle it into missions? Jeez, how uncreative can you get...
That's just sad at this point. So not even deep sale material for me anymore.
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Post by ahglock on Feb 16, 2019 0:10:32 GMT
So is borderlands and I always solo that. It also has a fun replayable story. Too bad they modeled their game after the destiny style looter shooter and not borderlands. I might have bought a borderlands copy. Not being allowed to solo strongholds was the final nope. Doubt I’ll even try the free trial. They could learn a LOT from the way The Division is set up.
EDIT: I would vastly prefer the Borderlands style though. You can play that game single player offline.
Oh sure lessons can be learned in a lot of areas. But they aren’t inventing something new. They are mimicking. They chose the wrong brand to mimic.
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Post by monkeylungs on Feb 16, 2019 0:12:27 GMT
They could learn a LOT from the way The Division is set up.
EDIT: I would vastly prefer the Borderlands style though. You can play that game single player offline.
Oh sure lessons can be learned in a lot of areas. But they aren’t inventing something new. They are mimicking. They chose the wrong brand to mimic. I agree. Still think Borderlands 1 and 2 are the best of the looter shooter genre.
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Post by lennybusker on Feb 16, 2019 0:26:08 GMT
Oh sure lessons can be learned in a lot of areas. But they aren’t inventing something new. They are mimicking. They chose the wrong brand to mimic. I agree. Still think Borderlands 1 and 2 are the best of the looter shooter genre. Borderlands is not comparable except for being a shooter with loot. Anthem/Division/Destiny/Warframe are different, they're not just shooters with loot, they're shared-world shooters. It's a different genre with completely different mission, multiplayer, and gameplay structure. Borderlands is basically just Diablo as an FPS. SWS games are more like MMOs.
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Post by Sartoz on Feb 16, 2019 0:29:37 GMT
Apparantly the main story quest line is gated with doing a lot of fetch quests. It forces you to do quick play for example. Watching some streams. I don't like that players that rush make it so that players taking it slower will be teleported to the rushing people.
I'm on the fence on this. 1- If playing with a team soloing harms your team mates 2- Forcing the player to stay with the team removes a freedom to possibly help in a different manner 3- And, pizzing one off may move the forced player to deliberately become dumb to screw Bio and thereby negating item 1.
Rushing is a well known tactic from the days of StarCraft. However, I don't think it's really applicable here. Unless, it's a LeaderBoard rush?
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Post by hawkspian on Feb 16, 2019 0:34:35 GMT
Just got to this quest... So, so, so, so ...stupid... Not enough story content, Bioware? It took what, 6 hours to get to a point where the story has to be gated behind a grindy, long and somewhat RNG tasks? Revive 3 people? Ok, I guess I will play on Hard and wait for people to kick the bucket without helping them beforehand. Wow, this is worse than I expected. WTF.
Not sure what's more frustrating, the constant teleporting disrupting your flow which already turned me off the game big time during the demo... or now being actively forced into teamplay for gimmicky shit? Revive medals were a source of laughter in ME3MP, now they recycle it into missions? Jeez, how uncreative can you get...
That's just sad at this point. So not even deep sale material for me anymore.
One quest would stop you from getting the game? Not like you'll have to do it three times on different characters is it? Cmon dude. This is hate for no reason. The game looks plays and feels amazing. would you throw a whole box of fries away because one fry was burnt?
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Post by lennybusker on Feb 16, 2019 0:56:08 GMT
Dearest BioWare - please let your characters shut the fuck up for a minute so I can take in what's going on, visually?
So far in the first few missions I don't think I've had more than 2 seconds of radio silence at a time, unless you stand around literally doing nothing. Awful, awful dialogue design.
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Post by dropzofcrimzon on Feb 16, 2019 1:06:02 GMT
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Post by Polka Dot on Feb 16, 2019 1:29:15 GMT
Watching some streams. I don't like that players that rush make it so that players taking it slower will be teleported to the rushing people. Well it's a looter shooter. The majority of people playing this game is skipping dialogue just to get to the looting and shooting. BW tried to make a compromise, but it failed. For those who want to explore or enjoy the story will most likely have to do it solo. That was certainly my experience when I tried the demo. I did one mission solo, which worked well enough. I took my time, looked around, collected materials, etc. Then I tried a mission with a group, and they were all go!go!go!, the game teleporting me to keep up with them. So I dunno what happened on that mission. There was apparently some narration from the comm, but the group I was with missed most of it. You'd think that would be a reason the team would have realized the importance of making story missions replayable.
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Post by Shinobu on Feb 16, 2019 1:32:45 GMT
Apparantly the main story quest line is gated with doing a lot of fetch quests. It forces you to do quick play for example. Watching some streams. I don't like that players that rush make it so that players taking it slower will be teleported to the rushing people. Yes, the teleporting has the potential to be an issue. Some of the older gamers that like to poke about and take things slowly have formed a discord channel to find other, likeminded players. I want to hear the story, not just kill everything and rush to the next waypoint. Worse still are players who skip the fight and rush to the waypoint without you, triggering a teleport into a bunch of enemies.
I think this is something that will need to be addressed as a QOL issue. In the meantime, the only solution is to find likeminded players.
This game does seem to make it difficult to play with people OTHER than randos, which comes with some drawbacks.
Still not keeping me from playing, as I think I can find a workable solution on my own (friends).
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Post by Shinobu on Feb 16, 2019 1:42:29 GMT
Well it's a looter shooter. The majority of people playing this game is skipping dialogue just to get to the looting and shooting. BW tried to make a compromise, but it failed. For those who want to explore or enjoy the story will most likely have to do it solo. That was certainly my experience when I tried the demo. I did one mission solo, which worked well enough. I took my time, looked around, collected materials, etc. Then I tried a mission with a group, and they were all go!go!go!, the game teleporting me to keep up with them. So I dunno what happened on that mission. There was apparently some narration from the comm, but the group I was with missed most of it. You'd think that would be a reason the team would have realized the importance of making story missions replayable. In the demo I think being able to do the mission over and over caused people to skip things. Everyone listened and took their time the FIRST time they did it, but by time #7 or 8 they just wanted to get to the end. The problem occurs when it is one person's first time, but the other players' 8th time. Maybe making the missions not replayable is their solution to this problem. An alternative solution would be to make it possible for first timers to be segregated somehow, but as the playerbase will hopefully have new people joining later they might find it hard to find others who haven't done the content yet.
Hmm, maybe if the person who starts the lobby has the option of a "slow" button where rushers can't trigger the next stage?
The opposite is also a problem, where 3 people are ready to enter the final dungeon, but the last guy is off picking flowers and refusing to come to the gather point.
I guess the best thing is to allow people to play privately/solo.
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