Defiance!

[friznit]

And so with unerring regularity yet another developer releases a study in mediocrity and casually labels it an MMO in the hope that it will claw enough subs in the 6 months before it goes free to play to pay the director's annual bonus.

[spoodie]

And so with unerring regularity yet another developer releases a study in mediocrity and casually labels it an MMO in the hope that it will claw enough subs in the 6 months before it goes free to play to pay the director's annual bonus.

It's only an initial purchase thing, no sub. But accurate on the other points no doubt. Perhaps it's better if you watch the accompanying TV show, but I imagine that's as mediocre as the game.

[Dog Pants]

MMO developers are like bookies. They keep tempting you to pay money, which you do in the hope that this time you have to win, because there have been so many bad, generic MMOs that surely this one is the one that turns out to be good.

[Thompy]

The main problem with bad MMOs is what they mean for the future. They already have stigmas attached and it's because people hear "MMO" and they think of WoW and all the tropes that go with it, mainly the mechanics. The sad part is it's true. However most of the ideal games I could dream up have MMO attached, but not in the overused and dreary way we're used to. It's a shame most of the creativity in gaming is coming from indies as they just don't have the money to inject that creativity into an MMO.

[Anery]

You sem to be misunderstanding me. It's not that the game isn't GOOD, it just isn't good enough for me to recommend it - yet.
So, I'll talk about other points that the game has. Pnut also plays so I'm sure he can add a few.

It isn't Warcraft - it's a third person shooter, you only get ONE ability the rest is up to your clicking on head skills.
EGO is the new tech tree, you earn EGO points by doing stuff like shooting things in the head repeatedly. This allows you to improve your primary ability and passives.
There are only FOUR primary abilities and these are not reliant on you picking anything at character creation. These are - Invisibility, overcharge (adds damage to shots) blur (run fast and hit stuff with fists harder) and decoy (deploys a decoy which attracts all unwanted attention)
Primary ability is supplemented by passive perks, these are handy to have things like killing a mob with a crit will resupply a percentage of your ammo (if you like to use sniper rifles every head shot is a crit and normal mobs drop in one shot) or after you shield recharges you do more damage, or do more damage whilst crouched...these are unlocked through EGO points and boosted same way as primaries. EGO Calc
You can use every weapon. The more you use it the more weapon perks you unlock, like bonus damage on crit with snipers or additional ammo capacity with assault rifles.
You get a vehicle almost right away, no trudging and the more you use it the better it becomes - longer afterburner, higher damage when running stuff over...etc
It isn't a cartoon. It looks good!
Appearance has no bearing on anything what so ever - your choice of origins for your character has no bearing on its skills or even its looks, you may get different start weapons but you can change those easily. You buy new outfits from vendors or get it from missions, I'm still looking for the hawaiin shirt and Chinos outfit.

[Dog Pants]

I wasn't referring to this specifically, although your bit about it being very fetch-quest heavy is pretty offputting. It does sound to have some good points though.

[HereComesPete]

Huh, my attempt at splitting the posts talking specifically about defiance appears to have been only partially successful, I guess it doesn't like it when you change pages.

Anyway, who (if anyone still is) is playing this?

[Anery]

I'm still playing, on and off. It doesn't have the warcrack addiction inducing mechanics to pull me back everyday but it's great for simply logging in a shooting stuff in the face until it dies whilst occasionally taking part in big arkfalls (rifts if you ever played that game)

[HereComesPete]

So I attempted to try the free for the weekend dobber. Initially I couldn't even get the damn thing to install at all, it just went round in circles with very time I clicked on the install button doing nothing but reloading the page. So then I deleted clientblob and tried again. It worked and game me an install with a game key attached. I logged in to trion and applied the key. When I downloaded and started the launcher it merely stated there was an issue and it couldn't start the game.

Fuck this game in the ass with a stick.