DC Universe Online - anyone else playing?

[Peatree]

I recently picked this up, and so far so good. Playing on a PS3 just so ya know...any other heroes/villians out there?

[RocketMoose]

Playing but on PC

[fugazi]

I bought it yesterday and was pleasantly surprised. The game is fun from the get go and anything unlike the other MMO's out there. If the game gets more polish and they keep on expanding its content, it might just grow out to be something brilliant.

Sadly there's no free demo for it and only people who buy the game get a free trial pass for friends .. and even then theres the question if you do, I bought an online copy and didn't get my free pass.

[PureLo]

I saw that there was a "lifetime" purchase available. What all does that entail, i was wondering about the fine print. If you pay the $200 with tax up front does that mean you are subscribed for life never having to pay again... or is there some clause to make you pay again at some point. Because it just doesn't seem like they would offer a 1 time payment considering how much more they could make from monthly/yearly.

[RocketMoose]

1 time payment Pure. There is a risk you're taking in that. You're hoping that the game doesn't fizzle out. There is a benefit for them, they get a spike of income up front to help them get out of debt. They realize a lot of people aren't going to pay 200 bucks per account.

To me this isn't a game that's going to be as 'epic' as EQ, but there's a ton of possibilities with it. It's a game that's amazing for blowing off some steam. Button smashing MMO yes please. But beyond that there are combos much like Street Fighter/Killer Instinct. There are also ways to earn extra points through completing enough quests or achievements.

Plus there's not just 1 build that works for a tank/dps/healer/controller There are a lot of possibilities of being extremely efficient with any of the combos you choose.

If you want to just mash buttons you can in some of the things, but don't try instances that way, there is real strat in those. You can see a lot of EQ in the game based on the zones, and some of LDoN mixed in too.

Personally I would recommend everyone try it, it's extremely unique with it's combat system/level of content/level of customization etc. Plus it's a game that maxes at level 30, so you could easily be able to do some of the top content in the game without being insanely hardcore. But obviously you can't get to the very best without a lot of time invested. It's sort of WoWish in that way, but as a 2ndary game, and a novelty game it's amazing.

[fugazi]

Moose is right. You can mash buttons in the first few levels, but you'll get your ass handed to you not much later. Fiddling around with weapon and power combinations is great - I recently rolled a undead commando who combines gadgets with rifles and he's tons of fun.

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The rifle gets some fun combo's that constantly keep your attention on the game. You can't play it like WoW (or EQ), where you casually keep on spamming immolate or frost bolt while also doing other stuff. It also demands teamwork ^^ good stuff.

[Alawen Everywhere]

I opened this thread solely because I knew Peatree's avatar would be the bouncy Asian girl.

Not only are you nerds playing an MMO.
Not only are you nerds playing a comic book MMO.
You are nerds playing a comic book MMO of the least cool publisher, DC.

Nerds.

[baub]

Says the nerd who ranks comic book publishers!

[PureLo]

Curious to know how similar it is to City of Heroes if anyone played that. Because it sounds and looks to be set up a lot the same way and that game fizzled out. The only difference it appears so far without actually trying the game is you have a main super hero helper and it is all DCish rather than pure custom.

[mimixownzall]

I took a dump on my table and played with it. It was actually more fun than DC Universe.

[Lelroni]

I saw that there was a "lifetime" purchase available. What all does that entail, i was wondering about the fine print. If you pay the $200 with tax up front does that mean you are subscribed for life never having to pay again... or is there some clause to make you pay again at some point. Because it just doesn't seem like they would offer a 1 time payment considering how much more they could make from monthly/yearly.

Yeah there is a risk as other's have said. The game might flop. Same exact thing happened to a game called "Hellgate: London" people paid like $150 or $200 for lifetime subscription, game only lasted like 11 months or a year. So everyone who paid for the lifetime basically got screwed. However, I don't know what company is made this, but it's probably bigger than the company that did Hellgate: London (Flagship Studios?), so DC Universe will probably stay up for a while.

[Crone]

DC Universe is made by SOE. Same people that run EQ now. :)

As for its similarities to COH. I've not personally played COH, but a lot have, and asked the same question so I've read quite a bit about it. The thing about CoH that I've heard is that its really fun for about a month, and then it gets boring. You run out of stuff to do, and it sucks.

With DC Universe, there is an end game. They have raids in the game right now, with more going to be added all the time. You have to run the instances, get the gear, run the raids, get the better gear. That's the biggest difference, is the end game.

I don't feel like the game gives you everything right out the door. You have to work for a lot of your stuff, and I like this.

It's a huge change from WoW for me, as there was team work needed to complete some of the early instances you run. You just simply can't win otherwise. Now, I know Cata dungeons are actually more like this, but Wrath dungeons were a joke.

In DCUO, it's very hard to complete the instances if you don't have the team working together. A team consists of 4 people, and they have a WoW style Looking for Dungeon tool where you pick your role and get into an instance when your queue comes up.

The best thing about this game though? Everyone plays DPS. Healers? You gotta DPS or your heals suck ass. Tanks? You gotta DPS to trigger your 90% mitigation buff that lets you actually tank. Controllers? You gotta DPS in order to regen power (mana) to the whole group.

In groups there is a dedicated DPS person that ends up anywhere from 20-40% higher in damage than the rest of the group. But the tank, healer, controller should all be about the same.

It's fun, and worth the try.

[fugazi]

Crone is right, though thanks to its beat-em-style play it might not be for everyone. I can only hope they'll polish up the interface and menu's for the PC as that would improve the game by quite a bit. In fact, most 'fixes' seem to little things like this and should be easy to do so I got good hopes for it.

[Lelroni]

It would have been cool if it were cross platform, so that the consoles and PC people could play together on the same server. From what I've gathered this is not true (correct me if I'm wrong, maybe I missed something). Hopefully the PS3/Xbox360 servers will stay up, would suck if they went dead fast. (inb4 lulz@console mmo's :p)

[Crone]

They explained that its purely an accounting problem why they are not mixed. Because when it was free (beta), everyone was on the same server as far as I know. Who knows, as I think there has been cross platform MMOs before, but maybe not?

I think the first big patch will have a lot of things fixed that people have given feedback on. I've heard that the chat interface for PC players is their #1 priority right now.