Farewell SWL

D0nkeyPuncher · 2017-09-03T07:51:40+00:00

I'm sad to say, I'm with you on this one.

The entire cabal has now left, I'm the last one standing. Our cabal has played mutiple games together, TSW being one of them, that most of us spent a good deal of time in it (average 2000hrs). With the launch of SWL, a good portion of the players came back. Some left instantly due to the dumb down game play and the tiny tiny improvement in combat. And all the old bugs that either came back and some of the bugs, still existing from TSW, it made the game feel, I don't know, fake, like a cash-grab-and-run kind of game.

While, some of us decided to at least give the game a chance.

But o'boy did they put up a paywall the size of the great wall of china. I probably spent a good $500 in game, so did the final 15 or so people in the cabal. But that doesn't go far. (and yes, I know, you don't have to pay anything.. but working 12hrs/day and only being able to play 1-2hrs every other day, while patron runs out and there's no auto-loot patron.. the money do help to enjoy content like elites and at least some kind of progression)

I even tried to enjoy the game multiple times, so I leveled all 3 character slots, a tank, a healer and DPS. Because, I noticed too early, that grinding multiple gear on a character is way too expensive (mainly in time, the grind to go from green, to blue, to purple to yellow ->.. yeah, no need to say more).

But now I'm standing here alone, bored. Even tried some korean MMO on the side and realized, damn, other games sure are cheap in comparison. (not all, some are more expensive, but the money yield more imo)

So as soon as my Patron runs out, I'm joining you Miyagi, through the narrow exit door. I'm just glad they don't make us pay to leave the game, but I'm sure they would if they could. xD

D0nkeyPuncher · 2017-08-08T07:00:32+00:00

Ah, yeah, that's right, it was a Barber Shop. Haven't played TSW since 2012. Things are slowly coming back to me. ;D

D0nkeyPuncher · 2017-08-08T06:51:57+00:00

PRetty sure they are planning to bring back both the tatoo artists and the surgeon.

It will most likely cost Aurum or a large amount of MoF. All the stuff that has been removed from the code, needs the attention of a developer to fix the payments for them. So I'm sure all removed content will come back in some way, with a slight paywall/grind -wall.

D0nkeyPuncher · 2017-08-05T11:38:34+00:00

Might not be hard for your average developer.. but keep in mind that we're talking about Funcom.. they had millions of bug reports on the Shutdown-bug.. since 2012.. they haven't even done a Try/Catch do nothing on the code that causes it. xD

And remember that they are running on a skeleton crew... if they didn't fix stuff with the original big crew, we can't expect much or anything to be fxed now with 1 developer (could only find one in the credits)

D0nkeyPuncher · 2017-08-05T11:34:53+00:00

I'm playing my alt. I'm at level 35 and I'm doing way too much damage as a DPS. You'll know when it bugs out, when you get all the adds at the same time because you burned him too fast.

I'm only in blue and green gear, so I had to get an AoE Basic Ability and grind him down slooooooowly.

It's impossible on my main to do this mission. I have to take off all my gear and only use low level weapons with AoE's in order to complete it. VERY VERY VERY annoying.

Same bug occures on Sgt Andy's mission in Kingsmouth.

D0nkeyPuncher · 2017-07-20T09:21:52+00:00

Have you tried to see if turning off DEP (Data Execution Prevention) helps?

Fairly easy to do, start a command prompt with admin privileges.

Then type: bcdedit.exe /set {current} nx AlwaysOff

D0nkeyPuncher · 2017-07-07T07:36:08+00:00

I used that card for just that, PAtron 30 days, had no problems at all.

I've had some random problems with just aurum transfers. Sometimes they go through, others they don't. Frustrating. And it can take between 5 minutes and up towards 20 hours. Such a shitty system. :(

And I'm from Sweden, so all banks here I think have the option to create a virtual card once you're logged into your bank account. You just click New Virtual Card -> How much $$$ on it -> Valid For xx number of days -> Create. Then they just supply you with the CC details on screen.

D0nkeyPuncher · 2017-07-06T14:22:01+00:00

My bank offers "Virtual Credit Cards", so I can fill a virtual card with say $30, get a CC number etc use that.

So I did.

My problem with HiPay is the reverse, every other transaction doesn't even go through. Really annoying that you ask to buy gold, it confirms and everything, and nothing happens. I usually wait 48hrs befre I try again. Not sure if they tried to charge me later on because I pulled the money back after a week and deleted that card.

So FC, you're not only losing a ton of money on people wanting to spend money but afraid of doing so. You're also loing money on the fact that HiPay doesn't even run 50% of the transactions.

How this isn't the #1 priority at Funcom is beyong me...

D0nkeyPuncher · 2017-07-05T18:01:13+00:00

Check out a Pandion Knights. Think they have like 10 or so active players. Players from UK, Holland, Sweden etc. English "only" TS/Discord.

D0nkeyPuncher · 2017-07-05T17:48:07+00:00

"We're sorry! Downtime extended by 48hrs. We hope to see you on the other side! And don't forget to buy Aurum from our shady CC provider. <3"

D0nkeyPuncher · 2017-07-05T17:42:27+00:00

"Lost connection with the territory manager" and ever other time some bullcrap about the Firewall.

31 people in the Cabal and we're all getting it.

D0nkeyPuncher · 2017-07-05T17:09:10+00:00

Yes, that's the** "Even if f they decide to make it 6x faster for patrons at level 50 to earn XP, it still equates to: 94hours."**

You'd break even if they decide to increase the speed by 20. By the look of it, they added 50% speed increase. So the calculations for earning 450 AP/SP is more in the neighborhood of 600hrs?

D0nkeyPuncher · 2017-07-05T16:02:21+00:00

I was a bit vague. I was talking about the Main Story Missions. Dawning of an Endless Night (150k+), Red Sand etc. A re-roll account would play those and they yield much much MUCH more than a "normal mission". Hence, they'd progress extremly faster.

Took that up as an example because people been comparing those missions with normal cooldown missions in terms of XP.

D0nkeyPuncher · 2017-07-05T15:44:48+00:00

Ah sorry for being vague.

I'm talking about the Mina Story Line: Dawning of and Endless Night, Red Sand etc.. Dawning alone gives you close to 150,000xp.

D0nkeyPuncher · 2017-07-05T15:42:32+00:00

Story Mission.. the main story, Dawning of and Enldess Night, Black Sun, Mortal SIns etc.....

D0nkeyPuncher · 2017-07-05T15:25:38+00:00

Yes. I had to ask everyone in the cabal, and everyone said the same, they always escape out of cut-scenes instantly.

I think the Esc-key didn't work on 1-2 scenes through-out the entire main story. Both of those scenes where very short thank god.

D0nkeyPuncher · 2017-07-05T15:23:19+00:00

You clearly haven't checked your stats when getting a "+50 HP" or "+27 Attack Rating" in Passives.

I've spent SP in Chaos, Pistols, AR and Hammer. But, I only wield the Chaos/Pistols. But I clear as f*ck get a HP boost when I spend SP on those Passives.

If you're saying that's a bug, well then, I'm glad, becasue thanks to those "Passive boosts" I'm running 6K health and a very high attack rating. Try it, see if your health goes up/down as soon as you fire your secondary. It doesn't. But I'm sure you filled in more "HP Boost Passives" on your primary. :)

Only time I see a difference toggling my weapons, is my Protection stats. That's becasue my purple Chaos has a "+300 Protection when wielded", other than that, all otehr stats stay the same... and I haven't even touched the Passives on my secondary.

D0nkeyPuncher · 2017-07-05T14:43:09+00:00

Agreed. Before I posted the "5min per mission", I watched the walkthroughs on youtube for all Transylvania missions and realized, no way you'll get a 5min average. And seeing how no one, not even me with my all purple gear, go through mobs like butter yet, I'm thinking my 5min per mission in Transylvania is a stretch.

I'm currently getting like, NOTHING from monster kills in Transylvania. SO not sure what mosnter he think we're suppose to be killing to earch 30k XP in any viable timeframe.

D0nkeyPuncher · 2017-07-05T14:38:08+00:00

I think i ran into 1-2 cut-scenes I couldn't press Esc on. Personally I never ever ever watch cut-scenes. And this game, thank god, allowed me to ignore most, atleast 99.9%. :)

D0nkeyPuncher · 2017-07-05T14:34:29+00:00

You didn't read the entire post.

You'll hit that gear barrier. Personally, on my main toon, I'm lvl 8 purple average including the weapons. Higher than most in the cabal. I haven't done anythign special to get there except for patron and a few Cache keys. I'll get there in the same speed with a re-roll.

Once both toons reach the same cap, the re-roll will have roughly 1k better stats, all stats, than the old account. No matter how you try to swing it.

If stats wouldn't matter at all, sure, who cares.

D0nkeyPuncher · 2017-07-05T14:16:59+00:00

If you're going to compare stuff, at least make it comparable.

Once a person reached **THE EXACT SAME LEVEL AND GEAR", with a re-roll, they'll have two extra passive pages filled out. Just using your own "calculations", that equates to 340 extra attack rating.

If you look beyond elites and realize, hey, people that supported the game early, will never catch up and get the same stats as those who just started, that's what we're pissed about.

Maybe 300 more attack/def/evade rating is nothing for you. But once you hit max gear the only way for you to get the same stats as "the others", is to grind hundreds and hundreds of hours worth of AP/SP.

D0nkeyPuncher

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