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Any Open World?

PoachinatorPoachinator Member UncommonPosts: 80
in WildStar
Is there any open world to this or is it like swtor where you take your ship and get dumped out into a shoe box until your ready to go and get dumped out into another shoe box? I played just a bit and it felt that way.

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  • leptlept Member Posts: 4

    It is an open world (with world PvP), but divided into continents. Each continent is its own separate instance (the same as continents in WoW). Things that ARE instanced and not open world include:

    • The arkships (tutorial zones)
    • Starter zones
    • Battlegrounds
    • Shiphand missions
    • Adventures
    • Dungeons
    • Raids
    • Warplots
  • AnnekynnAnnekynn Member Posts: 1,437

    To elaborate on the above, you can run from one end of a continent to another without seeing a loading screen, like in WoW. In SWTOR you couldnt do that as each location was representing a separate planet.

  • AzureProwerAzurePrower Member UncommonPosts: 1,550
    Yes it is. And it is some thing I have missed since WoW.

    -Azure Prower
    http://www.youtube.com/AzurePrower

  • LazzaroLazzaro Member UncommonPosts: 548

    There are some off planet zones that you need to talk to an NPC to get to like Farside.

  • eldariseldaris Member UncommonPosts: 353

    How is traveling in game, portals or real time flying like with gryphons in wow ?

  • SiphaedSiphaed Member RarePosts: 1,114
    Originally posted by eldaris

    How is traveling in game, portals or real time flying like with gryphons in wow ?

    Not a gryphon, no.  Instead it's a quirky little flying taxi cab flown by a very talkative AI.  Yes it's mechanically the same as the gryphons in WoW where you go seamlessly from one zone to the other via flying (within the same continent, of course), so there's no loading screens like WAR had, GW2 has, or SW:TOR has. 


  • laseritlaserit Member LegendaryPosts: 7,591

    Sounds like a breath of fresh air, as far as world design goes.

     

    I hate loading screens and I hate the fact that pretty much every MMO that releases in this day and age is full of them.

    "Be water my friend" - Bruce Lee

  • eldariseldaris Member UncommonPosts: 353

    Originally posted by Siphaed
    Originally posted by eldaris How is traveling in game, portals or real time flying like with gryphons in wow ?
    Not a gryphon, no.  Instead it's a quirky little flying taxi cab flown by a very talkative AI.  Yes it's mechanically the same as the gryphons in WoW where you go seamlessly from one zone to the other via flying (within the same continent, of course), so there's no loading screens like WAR had, GW2 has, or SW:TOR has. 

    Thanks,this is what I hoped for. I didn't expected a gryphon of course :) but flying in real time over open land is a refreshing change from instant travelling by portal.Now hopefully I will find some an open beta key to try the game.

  • DaessarDaessar Member Posts: 204

    Youtube has a couple videos that show the taxi system, here is one with no voice ( he must have turned voices down or off )

     

     

    and then here is one with the cab voice on 

     

     

    they are still fine tuning the camera, the cab voiceover and the collision.

  • AnnekynnAnnekynn Member Posts: 1,437

    Originally posted by laserit
    Sounds like a breath of fresh air, as far as world design goes. I hate loading screens and I hate the fact that pretty much every MMO that releases in this day and age is full of them.

    Indeed, though the holy grail would be a game like Dungeon Siege (1 and 2) where you could move from the start of the game through all the dungeons to the end of the game without ever seeing a single loading screen. It just felt so natural and brilliant. I miss those games

  • watchawatchawatchawatcha Member Posts: 960
    Love how no one mentions the invisible walls, which are everywhere in this game.  Don't expect to climb any mountains unless the path up is 'officially' approved.
  • AzureProwerAzurePrower Member UncommonPosts: 1,550
    Originally posted by watchawatcha
    Love how no one mentions the invisible walls, which are everywhere in this game.  Don't expect to climb any mountains unless the path up is 'officially' approved.

    Never ran into any invisible walls on my play through. Where abouts did you find them?

     

    All I found were mountain sides too steep to climb and water that gives you an exhaustion bar if you go too far out.

    -Azure Prower
    http://www.youtube.com/AzurePrower

  • AroukosAroukos Member Posts: 571
    Originally posted by Annekynn

    To elaborate on the above, you can run from one end of a continent to another without seeing a loading screen, like in WoW. In SWTOR you couldnt do that as each location was representing a separate planet.

     

    This is what that i haste most in mmo's. Loading Screens...

    So without being an expert in Wildstar, its positive that it has both no open world instanced places and loading screens. This is one of the aspects, among others, that i preffer Wildstar from TESO.

  • AroukosAroukos Member Posts: 571

    A question for those who play beta.

    How is the client performance? I have the worst experience (as client performance i mean) from RIFT and the best from WoW. Wildstar's performance is closer to RIFT or to WoW?

  • AnnekynnAnnekynn Member Posts: 1,437

    Originally posted by Aroukos
    A question for those who play beta.How is the client performance? I have the worst experience (as client performance i mean) from RIFT and the best from WoW. Wildstar's performance is closer to RIFT or to WoW?

    From what ive read of those playing in beta 4 its quite improved over 3.5, but the game still has another 2 1/2 months of development before launch so further optimization is guaranteed. Will see come open beta how the game is fairing then to have a good comparison to other games

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