I just heard about this game and I’m wondering if anyone knows anything one way or the other. Anyone play it at all?
I’ve played in the beta. The game goes live at the end of May. The game is a theme-park MMORPG, very much like any other.
It’s primary innovation is the “telegraph” system it has for powers. Only a few skills are tab-targeted. Most put a highlighted shape on the ground showing where the power will take effect. You can see your own telegraphs (for aiming) and others’ (for dodging). This makes combat feel very interactive.
There’s six classes, each with very different game play. Every class is dps and each class also can be tank or healer role. There’s four races in each faction; both have a human race. Every character also has a “path”. These correspond to the Bartle player types. Your path level gains xp by doing path content, independent of your class level and xp. It’s optional, but gives some nice perks.
Avatar customization is not remarkable. There is a costume and dye system for armor. Any class can wear a costume of any armor type. Classes are distinguished by their weapon.
I haven’t tried player housing, but it’s supposed to be very customizable. Each player gets their own house instance. Thematically, it’s a plot of ground floating in the air above the planet.
Other than that it’s your standard MMO, as far as I can tell. The game is very well polished at this point. It’s ready to go live. There’ll be adjustments and bug fixes, of course, like any MMO.
If you have more specific questions, I might be able to answer them.
Thanks for the info. I don’t know if you are familiar with City of Heroes but is the game play anything like that?
Aesthetically, it’s WoW in space. I’ve seen videos of end-game battles, and with all the telegraphs and effects going off I damn near had an epileptic seizure.
I tried playing it, and lost interest almost immediately. I may not be its target audience, though. I predict it will be very popular with the young PvP crowd.
I played CoH for the first three years.
The short answer is no.
The longer answer is, there’s a few similarities. Housing looks to be very customizable. Characters have cell phones to talk to quest-givers and GPS to guide you to quest points. Characters choose a few powers from a larger set, so two characters of the same class could play very differently. Powers can be augmented, but only linearly.
Combat is completely different. CoH was mostly tab-targeting and auto-facing. W* has little tab-targeting and is very dependent on positioning and facing.
Just a few minutes ago, I read WildStar is sort of Firefly meets Star Wars and went looking for a demo. Now I see this.
Positioning- and facing-dependent combat is what put me off WoW. Staying away from this as well, then.
How tight is the min spec?
My laptop runs WoW just fine, but it’s below minimum spec for Wildstar. I’d love to try it out, but I’m afraid I’ll have to upgrade my hardware.
Based on complaints seen in the Wildstar forums, it’ll be very hard to run with below-spec hardware. Some people are having problems even with above-spec hardware, although I’ve personally had no problems maintaining 30 fps.
Is anyone still playing this? Any thoughts on it a few months post-release?
PS - Would love a guest pass if anyone has one to spare 
I’m still playing occasionally. It’s well polished and very playable. The main complaints are about how hard the dungeons and raiding are. Since I’m not at all interested in those, it doesn’t bother me. There’s plenty to do at end game: crafting, housing, challenges, ship missions. They’re now promising to add more single-player end-game content.
Of course, I’m still at mid-level, because I level slow.
I got it and played it for about a week, but got bored with it. The tutorial at the beginning took forever, and when I finally made it down to the planet everything I was doing looked and felt very generic. It’s competently made, but there was no sparkle to it and I gave up and went back to WoW.
Reviving this to note that Wildstar has gone free-to-play. I may check it out, since the price is right.