Top down view was very annoying. Especially with the very poor view range. You can't play any distance combat well like that.

Did the Alpha, and while I like much of what I saw, the game's too hard on my poor old computer to run well.
Maybe I'll be able to get one before game goes public. We'll see.

Indeed. I spent a good several minutes walking along places literally littered with rocks and stones, and couldn't find any that I could gather. And when you find them, they're heavier than they probably should be. Especially when you try to build a campfire.

Ex-LOTRO player here.

Have to agree with your assessment almost totally, except for the bit about mines. Most primitive mines were surface lodes. But, once the surface ore plays out...

I would add a few of my CONS:

Small stones are far too hard to find and weigh more than they probably should. When I first tried to find stones, I was looking at a landscape literally full of stones, but they were all made from Unobtainium or something...
Campfires take way too many stones. (My toon was an archer. Load was a problem, always.)
Medieval Dynasty does much better at all of this. Multiple kinds of campfires, stones are lighter and ludicrously easy to find. IF you want to spend the time gathering them...

Would be nice to have NPC's to interact with - buy/sell/order purchase of items, etc. I like the idea of player made gear, but I know from when this was tried on MUD's, it ran into some serious supply/demand issues. Most players wanted to adventure (duh) rather than do boring crafting. At least Fractured gives an incentive to craft.

The auto-run function seems to have been rushed, since it uses an already bound key, forcing players to rebind. LOTRO'S auto-run NUMLOCK choice isn't perhaps the best choice, but still better. MD makes you pay to run with a loss of stamina, which I approve of.

Sadly, my old computer doesn't play well with MMO's, and this one runs on Unity, which also seems to cause problems for me. Unity has a bit of a bad rep, I understand it doesn't scale well for larger projects like an MMO. Not a dev, so I may be wrong about that. I just know that about half the Unity based games I try just will not run for me.

This Alpha, for me, wasn't so much about trying to help the devs as much as it was for me to see if this game is worth sticking around for. And sadly, it won't be until I can afford a newer computer.

But hey, I got a lead on another one to try.

@spoletta said in Where do I read the official fractured news for points:

They are the articles here https://fracturedmmo.com/news/

Any reason you can tell me about how I'm not getting points for reading those? I've read several, only have credit for one. 1/84.

New here, waiting to get a look at this game.

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Humans are dee-licous!

I love kids.

(Especially with a little BBQ sauce.)

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