Игрок 4853·Рекомендует·137 ч в игре

In terms of story, this game is AMAZING. Every primary mission type (depicted with a blue, red, green, or yellow symbol) has its own small cutscene to set up the story of that singular mission or mission part. You have freedom to explore and progress as you want to an extent, and each mission has easily searched guides if you get stuck. Don't feel bad if you have to use the guides, there's missions that really test your problem solving and overall investigative skills. All three factions have their own little impact on the wording used in cutscenes, and they have their own path in the main story (though there are similarities, it's still nice to see other perspectives on how you get there). The leveling system is different from most games in that your experience bar doesn't really get larger. Instead, you earn a steady amount of passive and active skill points to allocate as you want in the weapon categories you unlock, and the number of points goes up as you get further in each weapon's progression. The game allows you to eventually use all weapons and passives on one character, so you don't need to worry about making other characters to experience other weapons or playstyles. Here's some useful info for weapons I've used and really enjoy if people want the help: 1) Shotguns - a good physical crowd control and tanking weapon. You have a set number of shells loaded into the gun and most of your skills will expend one ore more of the shells. Once empty, all shotgun skills on your skill bar become a reload action that can change the type of ammunition you load into the gun, with more skills on your bar leading to more chances at wider ammo variety. Just press one of them, and it automatically loads a whole tube of shells. 2) Chaos - a magic that's good for tanking and crowd control, and focuses on close range combat. Good for pairing with the Shotgun or the Hammer for skill variety. Your attacks using Chaos magic generate Paradoxes whenever you deal damage divisible by 8 (don't worry, it's not hard to maintain a steady stream of paradoxes), and after generating enough Paradoxes you create a special effect and can raise your chance to evade attacks. 3) pistols - good DPS with a roulette style buff system. Your attacks spin two revolver cylinders, and if you match colors you get a damage buff. Pretty straight forward and aesthetically cool. 4) Rifles - good healing and dps with a change to generate grenades for use with grenade skills. While this has focus on physical damage, you can do pretty good healing by using leech effects and healing grenades. Really fun and cool to watch. Pairs very well with blood magic for a healing spec. 5) Blood Magic - DOTS and healing. You can bleed people quite a bit, and generate both healing and overshields for people that can have buffs for healing applied to them. Using multiple damaging or healing skills moves your meter closer to one side or another, and will buff healing or damage spells the further you move on the meter in exchange for sacrificing health and weakening your own self healing. There are other weapons, but I've had the most experience and fun with the five I listed above. Now for the problems. This game is old, that's obvious, and it's not the MOST stable game out there. There's lag, lots of it, and you can mitigate most of it by lowering your settings and running in DirectX 9. If you still have problems, run any repair scripts in the loading menu before you start, and make sure you try to download as many resources as possible. There aren't as many players on this game in recent years, so it might be hard to build up a team to explore places that you couldn't previously solo. While there's an option to speed up your skill progression by purchasing skill point bundles, you don't have to do this. People are more than willing to help you get an idea of what weapons to prioritize for your desired playstyle, and I'm even willing to offer my own opinions and assistance so you aren't wasting your time on combinations you might not like. You should also not feel the need to purchase any of the cache unlocks, as while they are useful, you should purchase these only if you support this game and the developers behind it. I personally have purchased quite a few things because I just love this game, but you shouldn't feel that you have to.

Игрок 9923·Рекомендует·15 ч в игре

I have been playing this game since beta. The story is great. I still play a lot and will until it is no more. I can't say enough good about it. Is it older? Yes. Are the mechanics a bit dated? Yes. But, the atmosphere, sound design and care they put into this game shine through if you let them. Give it a try.

Игрок 0078·Рекомендует·579 ч в игре

Recommended with a BIG CAVEAT! It's a really cool MMO with mostly PVE & with a lot of solo content & the PVP is optional. It's pretty and it's FUN! If you're into Lovecraft at all you'll enjoy it. Also conspiracies! The cut scenes are entertaining. Crafting is readily accessible Now for the CAVEAT-- Funcom you jerks fix your payment system! Funcom SUCCESSFULLY charged my bank for the first month of a subscription. I'm happily playing for a month & then NOT due to Failed Payment :( WTF? (yes way more then enough $ in acct.) I've seen this happen to other players in Anarchy Online & Age of Conan and now the Great Murphy has blessed me too. I was 50/50 on giving SWL a thumbs up or down. The fact that it's "free" earns the "up".

Игрок 6882·Рекомендует·1 ч в игре

While not perfect this game certainly has potential. I like it. If you guys are still involved with the game I'd suggest updating the lighting at the very least.

Игрок 5447·Не рекомендует·23 ч в игре

Game use to be good as in it use to actually be playable I stopped in 2021 as it became unplayable with crashes so frequently it took 10-20 hours just to get past the first area because it would just crash over and over again, in 2019 it started to have major lagging and some crashing but just kept getting worst and worst I do not know it's current state but I have known people who had tried it since I stopped and they had nothing good to say. Which is so sad because it was a very engaging game with cool class systems and abilities but it was like the dev company went on perm vacation and never came back. And 5 years later I don't imagine it is worth playing nor has the population to actually do any meaning content I mean it peaks at 53 players in the last 24 hours that is effectively a dead as a door nail game for an mmo.

Игрок 2631·Не рекомендует·163 ч в игре

The game craps out often. Some dialogs get stuck. Other times animations break and no longer work leaving you frozen. Then it won't allow you to close the game and you have to force a close. When you exit the game it is often still running in the background. This game needs serious patches and updates, but funcom has given up on the game. Its abandoned and the servers are just left on. I will say it has the most unique world in an MMO.... also Tim Russ is basically playing Tuvok in the first area... Fix the bugs. I beg you, funcom. I know you don't care about the game anymore, but put at least a skeleton crew to look into them.

Игрок 9464·Рекомендует·15 ч в игре

Really cool world and unique quest format for a MMO. Enjoying it so far and there is a lot of lore to dig into if that is your thing. The combat is a bit awkward with how the weapon work but still can be fun when you get a feel for it.

Игрок 0669·Рекомендует·52 ч в игре

Nice Storytelling. Decent amount of new players in the starting areas. Runs even on my notebook with only an integrated graphic card.