Wildstar time! WildStar Time

After more than 48 hoursof pre-release play, and only getting to Level 24, I'm a little embarrassed as I'm behind all my friends. But whatever. The game is well-told, and it shares the best gameplay element with every other game it can. There is occasional weird lag (where you can run around and attack mobs or other players, and they don't take damage until they suddenly die) and all PvP servers have been overloaded since day 1 -- I've got to applaud their OPS team for spinning up 3 new PvP servers in 2 days, taking the total to 6 PvP: Bloodsworn, Pago, Pergo, Rowsdower, Warbringer, and Widow where my first character exists.

(My first character is named after one of the errors that frustrated our launch party)

and the original 7 PvE: Avatus, Evindra, Mikros, Myrcalus, Orias, Stormtalon, Thunderfoot.

Plus the ominous Caretaker (Beta character storage?)

As you can see, players are favoring the PvP servers a little bit more than the PvE ones. A little trivia about the PvP server names - Pago and Pergo are both moons (of which planet, I forget).

The initial launch was painful, as we suffered through a DDOS which lasted a couple hours, leaving us staring at the chompacobras which turn the game's wheels:

Queue times pretty good. On the first day, some players had 8 hours of waiting in the virtual line to get into their servers, but queues haven't been longer than 30 or 45 minutes in the days since. The real question is how long they will be between 5 PM and 7 PM East Coast time, (between 2 PM and 4 PM Pacific time) which is also known as Rush Hours. To put this shortly - before you leave work, you might want to text your cohabitant and have them get you in line, so you can queue during your commute. (Or maybe remote into your home PC from your work PC and launch it that way, if RDP sessions can handle the graphics output.)

The 2% Authenticator bonus is nice on top of the 5% PVE bonus you can select at your house, giving you 7% bonus to your XP and gold, which will definitely speed up your leveling!

And I just want to say that Celestion is better than Algoroc. Or at least the quests feel less separated and faster to complete.

Some topics I hope to write about soon:

favorite addons
lore & datacube locations, maps of other collectables
setups -amps and abilities, orders of attacks, DPS of each attack, screenshots of DPS from galaxy,
Technical - hardware issues, ram and cpu use, weird lag. Users per server and other stats.
Stats?
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