Highs and Lows: Beta Impressions From The Secret World

[News Portal]

We spent last weekend neck-deep in the intrigue and occult sorcery of Funcom's upcoming MMO, [app=5337]The Secret World[/app]. Now we return to you, slightly glassy-eyed and muttering of the darkness. Read on for our impressions.

Read full article by Tim Colwill

[Marius]

We have a problem.

[Tim Colwill]

Hit the 'Publish' button a little too soon on that one. All fixed now.

[Marius]

Link still has a few problems it seems. Redirects to the home page.

[Tim Colwill]

The link on the home page or the link in the OP of this thread? Both work fine for me on this end

[Marius]

Both. If I click on either link, it just links to games.on.net. I can see if it's a cookie problem on my end, but it feels like the post is behind a publisher-only barrier?

[Marius]

Seems to be a cookie problem for me. I got it working. But Firefox didn't like the link, so reading it with IE now.

[Mekon]

Working for me.

This takes me back a decade or so but... tried clearing your browser history, Marius? edit: It would appear you did!

[Bronze_D]

my firefox opening it fine,

sounds like a localized problem with the firefox on your PC.

[Marius]

Well, yeah, I agree with the article.

I really enjoyed in TSW how I had to use my brain to solve quests. The 'Kingsmouth Code' quest was epic - felt so good after finishing it.

Though I tend to be optimistic. If they prioritise performance optimisation, it could well be launchable.

[Bronze_D]

Let's hope they work fast then, with launch date barely over a month away...

well we could also hope that perhaps the beta client was not up to date in optimization and all, which is sometimes the case but all in all it must be crunch time like mad at Funcom right now.

[TheBard]

mmm lets face it AoC was not bad if they could of nailed it and SW looks ok but I just cant see them nailing it Hope they do though.

[flabcab]

I'm just really over MMO's, I feel as a genre in there current state they have very little to offer anyone that's played them previously besides slightly different flavours of the same thing.

[Krogan]

So from this article it really seems The Secret World doesn't nothing new or interesting but lets be real this is Funcom it has flop written all over it.

[coatsy22]

Let's hope they work fast then, with launch date barely over a month away...

well we could also hope that perhaps the beta client was not up to date in optimization and all, which is sometimes the case but all in all it must be crunch time like mad at Funcom right now.

The friend who gave me the key said that the beta was running a version from PAX (expo im guessing?) and that the concurrent closed beta still under NDA's is running a much newer build.

Very Odd that they would do that though. I got sick of the bugs, and wont be buying based on my beta experiences.