Just a heads up - NCSoft and Guild Wars 2 have decided to do another trial weekend. Not sure if Rindis and I will jump on it, but you never know. We're on the Sorrow's Furnace shard.
you can find more info and sigh up at - https://register.guildwars2.com/trial
In the world of table-top gaming, WotC has made a cinematic dealing of the new Sundering of Faerûn (Forgotten Realms) as they, yet again, change how the world works on a fundamental level with D&D Next.
D&D - The Sundering from Plastic Wax on Vimeo.
You can read more of what's happening in the Realms with the new Sundering at - http://www.wizards.com/dnd/sundering.aspx
So, Rindis and I have been poking a little (okay, a lot) at Neverwinter lately. While it's not great, it is pretty decent, and is completely free to play. However, Rindis being on an older system, was having trouble. So we sat down one night and did some benchmarking (based off of FPS during combat).
We found that keeping it on Basic Video only setting, keep the Render setting all the way up on Quality, yank the Graphics setting all the way to the bottom, then (using the little arrow on the right) click it up once. We have found this being the best performance vs. quality graphic in the game.
If you can't run the game on full, give these a try.
Oh, and if you have Steam, turn it off. Dang that things a hog. T-T
So - I got an email from EA/BioWear yesterday asking to fill out a survey on how I liked the resolution of the HK debacle. I have not, as yet of this posting, filled it out. But I have logged in to see the actual ticket. Instead of refunding the parts, they did one better, they bumped everyone who had parts up to a complete on that step in the chain. This means Moe is now on Lord of Agony and last step in the chain. Everyone who filled out a trouble ticket should be on the same step now too.
I know there was talk about ditching SW:TOR over this if the resolution wasn't sound. I for one am please with the resolution on my end, but I am still looking at EA/BioWear with a leery eye. While I know going FTP has helped their bottom line immensely and really brought new players in the fact that the seem more concerned with filling up the cash store than working out the engine-rot that the FTP version introduced leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth.
Oh - and I still haven't gotten the title for pre-ordering/subscribing to the expansion Hutt Rartel. ~.~
