BeefontheBone Wrote:So far, so good. Got my pre-ordered box a day early thanks to Play, so was able to snag the two names I was bothered about. Apart from a glitch which left me walking half in the floor of Covent Garden until I reconnected and a bit of lag (noticeable with Ravagers jumping at me, but dying where they set off), I'm enjoying it. Slightly annoying getting asked to go back and explore somewhere I've been through twice for a quest, and for items which I have a pile of but which have to come from a specific locale (wuh?). Haven't tried melee yet, looks like it might get annoyingAdvertising's very unobtrusive, at least at this stage - I've seen worse (and would definitely resent it if I end up paying a subscription were it more noticeable). Oh, and some of the accents are a bit dicky :P
The ravagers are still sort of buggy (I think of them as HG:L's equivalent of D2's vultures that could stun-lock you with melee-attacks from half way across the screen when it first came out). There definitely was more lag in the release version than in the beta, not surprising given that there's many more people on the server, but overall I though it was pretty smooth.
On quests, part of it is you just have to learn the "right" order to do them in, but even then you can't entirely avoid getting sent back to previous areas later on in the game. Melee was bad in the alpha, but they really ramped up melee power -- the Guardian is arguably the most powerful class now.
I actually like the tube ads in HG:L, and I say that as someone who hates ads. The accents may be dicky, but they're English after all -- I believe it was a French study which concluded that the English were the ugliest people in the world.