I spent most of my New Years holiday time working on reorganizing my home office. This was quite an undertaking that required the occaisional break to spend some time on games in order to maintain a bit of sanity. During one of the breaks I was trying to get into WoW only to discover they were having technical problems. Since I was intent on spending some time playing agame and was not too interested in my other options, I decided this was a great chance to get started with The Repopulation.
I did go ahead and get early access through Steam. Sadly though, I missed the sale. Oh well. I’ve been reading about the game for so long and have intended to help fund it on Kickstarter without ever getting to it, so I’m ok with the extra few bucks.
This is an early access game. I have to remember that. And I did pretty good. When if first logged in, I didn’t really have any time to do much so I created a toon sort of on the server for the east coast of the US. I tried getting back to that toon but couldn’t get on. The server went down pretty much as soon as I logged in. So I created a toon on the west coast server and got just far enough to get the toon created before it too went down.
I waited a bit and tried again. This time I was able to choose the east coast server and not get booted. I wanted to delete my toon there that was generic but was not able to because it was my only one on that server. So I started a new one. BONUS! Apparently, during the time the servers were unavailable, code changes were being implemented. The with the west coast toon I created I was unable to change things like hair color and a couple of other things. Now, on the east coast server, I can choose hair color and a few other customizations. Yay!
I am still getting used to the controls. The usual keys are part of the movement controls but a little different. W and S work as usual however to actually turn you need Q and E because A and D just strafe, they don’t turn. This will take time to adjust to. I play one other game that has really different movement controls and it always takes me a while to adjust.
Some of the other controls are pretty cool, though I may not remember them if I don’t play often enough. And I think I will want to remember them. Seems crough and prone will be good options to keep in mind. I don’t play other games that really use them so, I will need to make an effort to remember them and use them.
The game starts with a set of tutorials that cover most of what you will need to get going. There is combat and medicine as well as crafting and entertaining and pet taming, and even one on harvesting. As part of one of the basic tutorials you recieve some training chits. More advanced training at this point, for the most part, cost either chits or coin. I have very little coin but I still have all my chits that I got. I was able to get a couple for free, mostly to get started.
There is even a tutorial for completing a mission or assignment. I have forgotten what they are called. The nice thing about this is that it lets you earn a little bit of coin. You can of course skip all the tutorial stuff after you have played for a while and know what you are doing. But as far as I’m concerned, with a new game, it’s time well spent.
I have managed to finish all the tutorial assignments and I am ready to venture out into the wider world. However, when I logged off I left my toon still in the beginning base. I think I will go spend one or two of those training chits before I venture out, just to have a little extra preparation.
This is not going to be a quick one for me to pick up, but I think it’s going to be fun.
