Defiance, The Game - week 3

Defiance, The Game - Week 3

   A weird week in the game for sure, over the weekend us P.C. users had a long server downtime due to an unusual situation where many of us (I was one of them) suddenly saw our EGO boost into the 000's and many players reporting in the defiance forums other strange behavior. As expected the servers went down fast and we had to wait over 7 hours if I recall correctly for them to come back up again with 'normal' stats returned most likely due to a back up restore.

   Having now spent some quality time playing here are some thoughts from a P.C. player.

1. There really is no sense of community in the game, I'm lucky if I see the occasional thank you for rezing someone. The only time I come across other players in any kind of numbers is when we get some ark falls, even in the instance maps there is little to no conversation, and I think a lot of it is due to the weird way they implemented chat (textual).
2. Weapon leveling is interesting and keeps you mixing it up, but unless I am missing something I end up with a ton of them in my inventory and once I level one to the max I end up having to break it down to resources to make space, there needs to be some kind of stash mechanism where I can keep a set of gear that I've leveled and pull out for those special occasions.
3. I should not have to un-equip a weapon to modify it, this is extremely annoying to have to do every time, especially when you have a lot in your inventory.
4. Using transport with boost and flying up into the air with jumps never gets old, especially when you have that oh $%^& moment when you realize you just jumped from a ridge over water and are about to take a long swim back to shore.
5. I agree with conversations in the forums that Trion needs to find a way to prevent people from driving around in ark falls of bug out breaks, just flat out annoying for the rest of us.

   I am still immensely enjoying the game even though we have to deal with disconnects and server down time, I say we give Trion time to settle the systems down and quit whining about it as if peoples lives depend on it.