Quoting: GuestHowever, nothing happens when I click the Play button in the launcher. I could not find the game binary in the file system. I found a 6GB file for the game. Many Steam Linux games works out of box, so very stupid way to distribute this game. I removed the demo and play other games.

What should happen is that the game updates are downloaded by bittorrent as zip files, then they are extracted into the installation folder. It sounds like your client got stuck after the zip was downloaded but before it was extracted.

Quoting: GuestI have two quests that I have no idea how to complete (one tells me to get an iron sword from somewhere, but going there and exploring doesn’t produce the expected result, and the other tells me to go to a zone I’m unable to return to).

The iron blade is a random drop, keep killing and looting bandits in the Perennial Trail scenes and eventually you'll get it (Bandit Leaders will drop it most often). There are two quests in the Battle of Solace Bridge which if you don't get the required items (Charlotte and Quincy's Broken Sword) while in the scene you will never be able to complete them, but everything else should be possible to return to.

Quoting: GuestI have no idea if the game has the same concept of groups and instances as WoW.

If you play in 'Friends online' mode then you have to make your party before entering the scene to ensure you end up in the same instance. In multiplayer most of the time everyone will be in the same instance unless we exceed the maximum player count (should be at least 64) or people are on different versions of the client. There are scenes which force 'Solo/Party mode' such as mines and dungeons, for those you should group up before entering.

Quoting: GuestIn WoW you can have 10 characters, which is nice to try different classes, make both male and female characters, etc.

The main argument made against the multiple character slots is that there are no classes as such, you are free to learn whatever skills you want on a single character and switch between them as required. However, I agree, we should be allowed.

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Quoting: Tcheymy main concern is the claustrophobic feeling. Way too much loading screens, and way too long.

Fair enough. This is the new starting area they're building for R41 [External Link] that is as large as any of the newer scenes, performance work will continue with every release from now on and there will be another free trial next month if you want to check it out again.

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I've not checked in R40. It was working in R38, but it was broken for a while before that. It may be a victim of the upgrade to Unity 5.5.

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Sorry, missed this post earlier.

Quoting: NanobangI do wonder about what you said regarding meeting other players online. Is this an instant PvP situation where I'm likely to be trounced for the pleasure of the other player? Or is PvP limited to allocated areas of the map, or a separate server, or sump'in?

You can flag for open PvP by visiting the Oracle and asking to have your protections removed, you can then be attacked and/or pick-pocketed in any scene. There are also PvP areas, if you enter them you will automatically be flagged for PvP while in them. You can also duel with another player without flagging for PvP. Note that free trial players cannot flag for open PvP and, while you can enter the PvP zones, you won't drop any loot.

In general, talk to other players, they are just about the best content in the game ;)

If you see people with the Hospitaller title know that they have chosen that title to indicate they're willing to help out new players with the game.

Quoting: NanobangCould you tell me, please, how large the download is, and also, if you're still on Antergos, what steps you took to install it. It looks like it's a .deb package, and I've not confronted trying to install a .deb package on an Arch-based distro (Manjaro, in my case).

The install directory is currently taking up 8.2GB of diskspace for both game and launcher on my laptop. Note that the launcher downloads a bunch of zip files which are then kept in a cache so that you can share them later (it uses bittorrent) which are not actually necessary for playing the game (it's just nice to help other players download faster). The download of the full game is about 4GB, there will probably be a patch or two over the weekend but that will just be changed files.

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Quoting: Tchey- map is cut is several little pieces with loading screen and no real sense of openworld

There are many much larger scenes these days, these are mostly not suitable for a low level adventurer however. They are trying to address this by putting 'outskirts' scenes between the current starting scenes and the first town on your quest path to minimize the number of loading screens in the first few hours of play. However yes, there are still many loading screens.

Quoting: Tchey- you have to pay for the game, and the cash shop is a huge trap with ingame house costing 200+€ up to 1000+€, rent, deed, and many other things that you "must have" to have a real MMOG experience

If you feel that you "must have" a house then there are several options: you can buy a deed in the add-on store; you can win a deed in the monthly in-game lottery; you can buy a deed from another player outside the game with real money; you can buy a deed with in-game gold from a player vendor. There are also a number of people with player owned towns (POTs) who are willing to loan out their surplus housing to new players.

You can buy a house if you want, but you don't need one for a row lot. Plenty of players in game have extra houses from their pledges which are for sale on vendors, there are also seven craftable houses.

Quoting: Tchey- whatever more than a basic gameplay experience, you have to pay with real money

Notwithstanding the free trial, you have to buy the game to play it all. Once you have purchased 'game access' however you can go wherever you want and play how you want without buyiing anything else with real money. The add-on store stuff is mostly cosmetic and/or has in-game craftable equivalents.

Quoting: Tchey- even for being part of the forum, you need to pay 5€

Yes. Though some sub-forums have been opened up for the free trial weekend.

Quoting: Tchey- Little activity around the game beside the official voices

Most of the activity around the game is the players I would say - SotaMap, the various crafting websites, the story writing competition and most of the other events [External Link] are player driven.

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Part of this is the map items you get have markers on them, are written in Runic text.

There is an option to show English names on the overworld map, you have to turn it on yourself though. For the in game map: Windows and Mac users got SotaMap integrated in this release, Linux users should be getting it next month.

Combat feels very much like you find in World of Warcraft. You have a hotbar of abilities, with it all played out in real time.

It's actually (and somewhat controversially) a bit different, but as part of the improved new user experience it's now all locked down to start with. Talk to a skills trainer to unlock the full deck system.

Death comes in the form of becoming a ghost, you cannot really do anything but wait around

If you look on your compass when you're dead you will see ankh markers (like a stone cross but with an oval for the top bar), head to one of the ankhs to resurrect.

Also, please post your feedback (or even just a link to this) in the new player experience feedback section of the forum [External Link].

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but so far I've actually rather enjoyed it as a nice change of pace.

That's actually the main reason I play visual novels.

Well, that and the lady parts.

Some other VNs you might like: Starlight Vega; Brilliant Shadows; Serafina's Crown.

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So your last chance to get the special in-game items for supporting their development is coming up soon.

My understanding was that these items were lootable, so if you want them you can just gank someone who paid for them, is this changing?

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Quoting: wolfyrionwell if you check the depots of HITMAN

https://steamdb.info/app/236870/depots/ [External Link]

MAC and Linux Depots are FULL of DATA :P

But the radar UFO is Linux only.

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Quoting: tuubiYou don't need a whitelist. Just stick to Steam, GOG and Humble or buy direct from dev.

Thanks for the whitelist ;)

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