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My SSD (an OCZ Vertex 2) decided to give up today, luckily I have an old HD lying around, so I'm now reinstalling Windows (it's installing updates (137, zzz) now). My games & data are on seperate harddrives so it's just time lost reinstalling and not data loss. I was planning on buying a new, bigger capacity, SSD anyway, so I guess it might as well be now . Will RMA the old SSD anyway, since I might be able to use in my Mom's laptop (which is slooooooooooow).

I'll logon once the updates are installed.

Yay! We're gonna have a Halfling army .

It's like a regular MMO (including instances & PvP) rather than DDO. It's based in Forgotten Realms and on the 4e ruleset, but that's where my knowledge of DnD ends. They're using what I assume are custom classes: Trickster Rogue, Controlling Wizard, Devoted Cleric, Guardian Fighter & Great Weapon Fighter with skill trees & feats, but I have no idea how well they correspond to the official rules. The cap is level 60 btw.

A really cool feature is The Foundry which lets you create your own adventure which can then be published and played in game. I played one so far (I am Slayer) and it was really good.

The more I play it the more I notice how polished it all is (especially for a game in open beta). The UI is really good & intuitive: you have all the information you need at a glance, it's movable and also scalable. Shame you only have 2 character slots, but I guess they need to make money somehow (character slots can be bought).

PS: I'm playing Katsui Arusara & Eara Arusara on Beholder.

Played a bit more and so far I'm liking it. Graphic-wise it's slightly more cartoon-like than Guild Wars 2, yet has a lot of detail. Animations are not as fluid as GW2 or WoW, but they're not exactly stiff either (better than SWTOR & TSW) and they have some neat little touches like chest & door opening animations. The cut scenes are nice too, there aren't too many and they've been relatively short so far. The quests are fully voiced (so far, I still remember the intro island of AoC ) and they're relatively good (not up to Bioware standards of course). While it runs fine on my PC, once I enter the city of Neverwinter it starts to lag (understandable with so many players & npc's in there).

It's been fun so far, even though I'm only level 5.

n00b !! (just for old times sake! )

Come play PS2 with us, Las, they just released the Harasser, a 3-man vehicle .

I'm really liking my Engineer even though I'm far from a killing machine, but dropping ammo, repairing maxes & turrets can mean the difference when you're pushing an attack or repelling attackers. Got into a really cool platoon last night and managed to upgrade my gun. The Solstice SF + under barrel grenade launcher is great fun, shame it only carries 2 grenades, but I guess that's what ammo packs are for. I think I'll grab sticky grenades as next upgrade or maybe a second anti personnel mine as it's fun to get a kill ages after you put one down .

I'm also considering grabbing some vehicle certs later, but I don't like the 1-man vehicles much and I can't fly (I crash against trees in VR). It looked like the Harasser certs were cheaper than the rest so might go for it eventually, but it needs a gunner really to be effective. Might get the anti-AA gun to drop those pesky reavers & mossies, hehe.

OMG, repairing turrets after taking a base is awesome for gaining certs . Invested those in my repair tool for faster repairs, hehe.

When I tried to play it I found it confusing (dropped where action was supposed to be, but couldn't find out where most of the time) and a bit laggy (when I finally did find a fight). While I liked the original Planetside, I never could get into PS2 for some reason.

Maybe I should give it another go, but I'm trying Eve Online for now and starting to like it. There's at least way more to do than when I last tried it (there's tutorials now explaining some avenues), even though it's still rather intimidating. It is a sandbox game after all which is going for almost 10 years now.