I've been playing ao since day 2, through all the crashing and patches, I've played a multitude of characters, 2 of which made post 120. The following is mostly a rant on what I feel needs attention in the upcoming patches
BTW, most of these comments are post lvl 100 orientied.
Lack of feedback/ability to fix game problems-
Everyone and their pet monkey I'm sure has lost crap in crashes. I personally have lost million upon millions of credits and countless high end items. I have sent petitions and emails about this, with only "Gee, sorry, your screwed" msgs back. This doens't do anything. What about a GM killing me? I sent a petition, an ark got to me and told me to email it as well. So I send an email about it, zero response. a week later, now there is no evidence (since logs are only kept a week long). That's ****ty customer service.
bottom line: I dont' care about your policies, I pay my 12 bucks a month, I want better customer service.
game balance is HORRIBLE (my god traders are overpowered)(YES THEY ARE) -
Traders have the best weapon, best buffs, best debuffs, heals, roots. Shotguns are freakin overpowered, I don't see why a shotgun should be so damn powerful especially at long ranges. Why can a shotgun shoot as far as a rifle? That's ridicolous. Shotguns, hell, any weapons dmg should be modified with the range its fired from. (rifles do normal dmg at 40m, where as shotguns do normal dmg at 20m, and less as you get farther out)
What happened to MA's dimach??? ITS FREAKIN USELESS atm, it does the same dmg as a brawl crit, or a shotgun crit (since I'm bashing shotguns atm) A friend who plays an MA (currnetly 133) does 2500 dmg with dimach on a mob with fully upgraded dimach implants. why should a special attack that only comes around every 30 min, the ace up a ma's sleeve, do the same dmg as that brawl crit, shotgun crit, or any other special attack? MAKE IT WORTH SOMETHING.
ok, here is a interesting thought. At 120, with good implants, an mp can self cast a demon(one of their final pets). At 120, with the same implants an eng can cast a crappy bot. not only does an mp get one of their final pets, they get oen of their final heal pets, nukes, mez, nano shutdown. What does an eng get? ac buffs, useless reflect shield.
"But Eng bots are forever!"
after 14.2, no, they aren't. an eng will have to rely on an MP to output dmg.
"Eng bots are MUCH better!"
http://forums.anarchy-online.com/sho...threadid=16996
posted by Mega^|3io|2, he proves that eng pets aren't much better then MP pets. Engs are outclassed by MP's drastically.
Trimmers? - ya, they are neccessary to make your bot better, but they don't come CLOSE to making up what an mp holds over an eng.
Engineer bots are rooted with slightest of effort -
Why does a slayerdroid guaridan, the final eng bot, have so little nano resist?!?! dont' bother pvping with a slayer, it will get rooted easily, and you will be mopped up and sweeped under the rug. Don't forget about those missions where you wait for 5 mintues because a mob rooted your bot before it died
Fixer's dmg -
Fixer's dont do enough dmg. Period. Most of them have to switch to shotguns to keep up. I heard new smg's are coming out though, but till then, UP THE DMG.
Grid Armor - YES, good, finally something a fixer can look forward to(If they can get their hands on it). its bugged atm, Fix the bug.
Fixer only grid - Brilliant! The grid as we know it now wasn't even supposed to be used by other classes, so this is giving back uniqueness to this class.
Range (in general)
Sucks. The range cap sucks, and long range weaponry/spells are so useless. (agents and NT's hurt) Fix this. (the higher range capabitliy you have, the closer your dmg is to "normal" at long distances?)
Agents-
Need new rifles. I already heard they are putting in new rifles, I hope to go they are worth a damn, because the current rifle selection SUCKS (I'm talking post 100, the dmg is pathetic, makes me wanna eat my hat) Some agents who are 150+ (which are quite few) have tossed their rifles aside and switched to shotty (not hybrid rifles, pure shotty) that isn't right. NEW RIFLES NOW!
Stability/Lag-
OH GOD COULD SOMEONE PLEASE STOP THE CONSTANT CRASHING. Is it me, or is it getting worse?? Traveling through a city used to be cool, now its a royal pain in the ass because you never know if AO will go tits up on you at every zone. Not to mention the royal chunkyness at BS and being stranded there because you can't load your char at all. (don't forget glass doors in missions, and invisible mobs that hit you while you can't zone, VERY VERY ANNOYING)
Lvling - hey, it sucks!
Missions, missions, missions. Everything is missions now. I wouldnt' complain about missions, except the lag, crashy nature, not to mention MP/Crat/Eng pet pathing through missions SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (I can't emphasize that enough)
Xp is a BIG hassle post 100, we need more access to static hunting grounds OR less lag/crashing, and better pathing, perhaps different types of missions (which i hear are being worked on)
I really like this game, I do, But the patches are too few, too far in between. This is my first post ever, but I'm a long time gamer, and have read other posts as well. I'm pretty frustrated that this game is taking so long to develop closer to its Potential.
Flame on
angry
I just started a Fixer as an experiment who was gonna use melee weapons... but I found 2 mini-shotguns and now I think I might try to dual-wield them on that character.
Well anyway.....
