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So I got all interested in maybe trying to play DAoC. That's "Dark Age of Camelot" for those not of the knowing.
They have a 14 day free trial, what's it going to hurt? I played the game WAAAY back at launch, don't remember any of my log in stuff from before, I wish I did... But alas, I don't.
So I loaded it up, logged in and my first thought was "Yep, dated graphics". Which is fine. But it took only my first quick group to realize how ****e 2002 era game mechanics are.
First off, you start with a default "Mouse look" on, but only horizontally. So if you want to pan the Camera UP or DOWN you cannot. With the mouse. It's the INS/DEL keys. That drove me bat **** insane. Maybe I AM spoiled by Warcrafts interface set up, but for ffs, IF I'm holding Right Click to mouse look... CAN I PLEASE LOOK UP??
I cannot enlarge the icons or most of the text. Grouping was painful in that I could not for the freaking life of my figure out where anyone was or what they were doing.
It was frankly, painful
I'm going to see if there are any interface mods out there... maybe make the game tolerable, but at this point, I'm bout ready to let the game lay dead, a memory of greener pastures.
They have a 14 day free trial, what's it going to hurt? I played the game WAAAY back at launch, don't remember any of my log in stuff from before, I wish I did... But alas, I don't.
So I loaded it up, logged in and my first thought was "Yep, dated graphics". Which is fine. But it took only my first quick group to realize how ****e 2002 era game mechanics are.
First off, you start with a default "Mouse look" on, but only horizontally. So if you want to pan the Camera UP or DOWN you cannot. With the mouse. It's the INS/DEL keys. That drove me bat **** insane. Maybe I AM spoiled by Warcrafts interface set up, but for ffs, IF I'm holding Right Click to mouse look... CAN I PLEASE LOOK UP??
I cannot enlarge the icons or most of the text. Grouping was painful in that I could not for the freaking life of my figure out where anyone was or what they were doing.
It was frankly, painful
I'm going to see if there are any interface mods out there... maybe make the game tolerable, but at this point, I'm bout ready to let the game lay dead, a memory of greener pastures.