MMOs for Roleplayers - which are left besides WoW?

Apparently it fried a bunch of GPUs because the game’s menu has uncapped frame rates, meaning the GPU would attempt to use all of its power to load the menu at infinite frames per second.
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/evga-confirms-new-world-rtx-3090-rmas/

That was New World though, not AoC

I see your correction but substitute my own reality

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Starcraft 2 did the same thing on release, I’m pretty sure.

E-Yup. It’s also the result of a hardware failure as GPUs SHOULD throttle themselves as temps rise, but in some cases that doesn’t happen. But it’s an issue that doesn’t become apparent until you meet a game that has entirely uncapped FPS.

Uh… you might wanna compare Warrior and Hashashin or Musa, they definitely don’t all look like they’re white guys from Europe. They’re all based on different cultures, with Warrior having the typical European plate armor, longsword and shield while Musa is based on Korean warriors and Hash has a very Middle East feel.

You… don’t see how lots of options for customising your outfit is a positive in RP?

Without a doubt. The game’s dog :poop: . But the RP potential is great.

I was more angling at races by fantasy terminology, AKA species.

To the best of my knowledge it’s all humans and 1 class is bigger humans

No, that phrasing does sound halfway decent, tho far from enough to carry the game RPwise

Calling a transmog system complex just reads like calling it unnecessarily difficult

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I’m saying armor is split into some 10 parts you can all color individually. You can make some nice outfits/color combinations like that. Going from that to WoW where I need to farm 4 versions of a raid to get thee colors I want is mind numbing.

There’s humans, there’s light/dark elves, there’s giants, there’s Shai ( who are really short humanoids that look like Gnomes, I guess )

I’m sure they’ll add a Dwarf class at some point since they exist in the game.

sounds cool but ultimately both WoW and GW2 are evidence that the quality/existence of a good mog/dye system don’t really make or break the RP community at all.

GW2 has you pay irl money or waste away in super repetitive content to mog things while having a good dye system, whereas WoW just lets u throw down a pittance of gold but has no dye system. Hell, WoW used to not even have mogging and it worked well enough.

It’s nice to have something functional but ultimately it’s a cherry on the cake, not the cake itself.

then they have at the very least made more of an effort than skyrim online ever did in this department

https://imgur.com/4ERjHME

Just made a pic ingame from the stereotypical Elf region capital. There’s actually a fair number of creature designs and races within the game, with two on the screenshot being playable.

Shame that they are tied to classes, but they are relatively customizable.

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why are wolfmen never playable bros :pensive:

anorexic hairy bri’ish people do not count

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Probably cause most gear would look really bad on them. It’s far easier to do humans with long ears.

People don’t realise how well they have it in WoW. Look at ESO, every race has the same skeleton and anims.

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Yeah I make it a very common habit to mock ESO for that and in fact any MMORPG that’s afraid to ever not use a generic human skeleton

ESO and SWTOR being key offenders in this regard

only as bad as the artists make it :pensive:

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Oh, there’s a LOT of races in the game. Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Shai, Demihumans ( satyr/stag people ), Orcs, Goblins, Blood Wolves/Wolf people, Hyena people, Giants, Harpies, Ancient Humans and those are just the intelligent ones.

I’m sure they’ll add Dwarves at some point.

laddie be tha’ val’anyr

Owned by the superior humanoid form

be elf
my body shape is known as humanoid

why even live

human potential strikes again

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Can’t have those lovingly sculpted Bioware Butts™ if the character is a mess of nonhuman anatomies though.

As with FFFourteen the featureless anime faces freak me out on an instinctive level. They’re not asian, they’re not human, they’re things.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Mukokuseki

Is SWTOR dead? Five years ago, it was pretty great for RP. Huge events with battles, smuggling and hunt for zoom zoom-crystals. Quite similar to wow-Rp: jedis was like the stormwind knight guilds. Everyone had a big scar or their face with a dramatic background story to it, much ingame romances, everyone had lost their family in some raid, casual rp everywhere.

Oh, and it was a pretty cool thing with housing and guild quarters (or did I just dream about guild quarters?).

Anyway. Might try it again.

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