Harch
31-10-03, 22:09
I played SWG for 3 months (and still do a little).
I had time to go to all the planets (not explore them though). One planet is more than enough land to explore! I also leveled my character and used all the systems in the game. So here are my thoughts:
Good things about SWG:
Artisan system (consruction) - This plays a very large part in SWG. It is a fairly well polished system. There are manny different paths from Tailors to Armoursmiths and Weaponsmiths to Chefs. You can make pleanty of items. This is usualy a good way to make money but you won't be so good at combat. The Artisan system gets boring much slower than in Neocron I have to say.
Entertainment system: In SWG you get health, action, mind wounds and also battle fatigue. Mind needs to be healed by entertainers in your local cantina, a house or a camp.
Size: SWG is massive. I didn't have time to explore all of my home planet, never mind the other 10 planets! You can start on 1 of 5 planets; Tatooine, Corellia, Naboo, Talus and Rori. The other planets you can visit are Lok, Endor, Yavin IV, Dathomir and Dantooine. Each planet is 16x16 km (15x15 km is explorable). I think that Neocron is smaller than 15x15km. It takes about a 2 hours and a half to walk from one side to another.
Players: There are always alot of players online. You can vist a popular town and it can have a few hundred people in it. You still bump into alot of people while exploring 15x15km.
Bad things about SWG:
Vehicles: You have to walk everywhere at the moment! Vehicles are being developed on and may appear in a few weeks. Player mounts (ride a bantha or other creatures) sound fairly fun though.
Combat: Combat sucks in SWG it quickly gets boring. All you do is click on a target and then click buttons for various attacks. Your character then performs these attacks. You are limited in speed by how fast your weapon is. An average attack speed is about 4 seconds. A fast one is 2 seconds. You spend ages waiting for oyur guy to attack and then he ends up missing often. Once the enemy is selected you don't even need to click again. SWG is good for 56k modems because of this turn based combat but even so, its boring.
As you can see, There are more good things about SWG. However, The combat system is what is realy bad. If you want combat stick to Neocron or play Planetside. If you like to construct then play SWG.
Yakodi. :angel:
I had time to go to all the planets (not explore them though). One planet is more than enough land to explore! I also leveled my character and used all the systems in the game. So here are my thoughts:
Good things about SWG:
Artisan system (consruction) - This plays a very large part in SWG. It is a fairly well polished system. There are manny different paths from Tailors to Armoursmiths and Weaponsmiths to Chefs. You can make pleanty of items. This is usualy a good way to make money but you won't be so good at combat. The Artisan system gets boring much slower than in Neocron I have to say.
Entertainment system: In SWG you get health, action, mind wounds and also battle fatigue. Mind needs to be healed by entertainers in your local cantina, a house or a camp.
Size: SWG is massive. I didn't have time to explore all of my home planet, never mind the other 10 planets! You can start on 1 of 5 planets; Tatooine, Corellia, Naboo, Talus and Rori. The other planets you can visit are Lok, Endor, Yavin IV, Dathomir and Dantooine. Each planet is 16x16 km (15x15 km is explorable). I think that Neocron is smaller than 15x15km. It takes about a 2 hours and a half to walk from one side to another.
Players: There are always alot of players online. You can vist a popular town and it can have a few hundred people in it. You still bump into alot of people while exploring 15x15km.
Bad things about SWG:
Vehicles: You have to walk everywhere at the moment! Vehicles are being developed on and may appear in a few weeks. Player mounts (ride a bantha or other creatures) sound fairly fun though.
Combat: Combat sucks in SWG it quickly gets boring. All you do is click on a target and then click buttons for various attacks. Your character then performs these attacks. You are limited in speed by how fast your weapon is. An average attack speed is about 4 seconds. A fast one is 2 seconds. You spend ages waiting for oyur guy to attack and then he ends up missing often. Once the enemy is selected you don't even need to click again. SWG is good for 56k modems because of this turn based combat but even so, its boring.
As you can see, There are more good things about SWG. However, The combat system is what is realy bad. If you want combat stick to Neocron or play Planetside. If you like to construct then play SWG.
Yakodi. :angel: