Video Game Chat Thread - Pre-Alpha Experimental Version

[CIS White Droid]

I'm kinda interested in it because I've heard it's very story heavy and most of it can be solo'd. I've also heard it has serious latency issues, as in you click and wait 2+ seconds for it to register, and enemies teleport around buggily in combat.

Let me know if those issues are fixed, I got a lot of free time for the next couple weeks and wouldn't mind something LOTR-related.

The latency issues are weirdly intermittent; it's one of those things were you'll just randomly lock up for a few seconds, more of a minor annoyance than anything in my experience. While the majority of content is soloable certain classes will, obviously, have an easier time than others and some quest chains have the climax in a group dungeon. The thing I love the most about LOTRO is that your story plays out parallel to the story of the Fellowship so you get to see the events from an outside perspective. I'd say it's worth at least trying out despite the issues.

 

[Lurkerish Kandor]

That was my experience with ram. Some new games that barely chugged on all low, now had the space to run on medium and it was a huge breath of fresh air to postpone a major upgrade.

Funnily enough I thought I was having RAM issues for a while, despite doing at least a couple of very diligent overnight error checks on my sticks and they returned no issues both times. It's bizarre how just the OS dust of 5 years manages to fuck with everything.

While the majority of content is soloable certain classes will, obviously, have an easier time than others and some quest chains have the climax in a group dungeon [...] I'd say it's worth at least trying out despite the issues.

I'm not really bothered, i'm not an MMO guy and there won't be any commitment to it so I'll just skirt around anything that tries to get me to party up until I'm tired of the overall experience (assuming I don't find the latency issues so annoying I immediately drop it).