11-30-2015, 07:56 PM
I am one of the people who was actively trying to find out what was going on, and actually listening to the shapers. The things that I had a difficult time with were figuring out "why" we need to all stand and wait why one or two people did everything. Why are we running between two mod-sites, to try and appease something that is going to attack us later anyway?
The tree mod is actually an excellent example... several people attempted to ask what 2handers were supposed to do and got no response.
I get that we *could* climb up to a branch and start swinging, but getting attacked on the way up, was a total disadvantage and only guaranteed a ton of damage. All risk, for no reward.
The areas that I personally did try and wedge in, I found it got me nowhere. The RP roles seemed to only speak to some PCs and/or only want to speak to certain ranks of PC. Which, is cool and all... but really doesn't do much for those who are just starting out and trying to get involved.
Personally, I don't care about the undead and the amount of them. I am used to hordes of that stuff in Jericho... and it was the MOST useful I felt all weekend, deflecting strikes from defenseless PCs cause I couldn't do anything else to damage them. Just stay them until they could be killed by others.
I really didn't want to make it a negative review, but... having some time to think on things, I think it needs to be shared. A lot of things really soured my experience over the course of the day, and like it's stated in an above review... all the fun I had came from PC interaction, and stuff I made for myself.
Overall, I felt very "ushered out" of interactions with people that I hadn't met prior (I tried to meet and interact with people I didn't know) and I know it's a small sample size, I just simply didn't find it welcoming for the most part, or enjoyable. :/
I don't know how much of that could have been fixed by the shaping team, the NPCs worked their asses off and I give them props for that. I guess it just is what it is.
The tree mod is actually an excellent example... several people attempted to ask what 2handers were supposed to do and got no response.
I get that we *could* climb up to a branch and start swinging, but getting attacked on the way up, was a total disadvantage and only guaranteed a ton of damage. All risk, for no reward.
The areas that I personally did try and wedge in, I found it got me nowhere. The RP roles seemed to only speak to some PCs and/or only want to speak to certain ranks of PC. Which, is cool and all... but really doesn't do much for those who are just starting out and trying to get involved.
Personally, I don't care about the undead and the amount of them. I am used to hordes of that stuff in Jericho... and it was the MOST useful I felt all weekend, deflecting strikes from defenseless PCs cause I couldn't do anything else to damage them. Just stay them until they could be killed by others.
I really didn't want to make it a negative review, but... having some time to think on things, I think it needs to be shared. A lot of things really soured my experience over the course of the day, and like it's stated in an above review... all the fun I had came from PC interaction, and stuff I made for myself.
Overall, I felt very "ushered out" of interactions with people that I hadn't met prior (I tried to meet and interact with people I didn't know) and I know it's a small sample size, I just simply didn't find it welcoming for the most part, or enjoyable. :/
I don't know how much of that could have been fixed by the shaping team, the NPCs worked their asses off and I give them props for that. I guess it just is what it is.