Topic: Only newbie areas populated by mobs, rest is "under construction"?
For a few days after launch I was busy trying to get some cash, to learn how to fight in robot, how to get some ammo and so on. That all happened very close to major terminals.
Today I've decided to take a look around isle New Virginia. I went to east part of isle, then continued south past Lenworth Station teleport.
On my way to shore, after I walked like 2km past known area around terminal with many bot spawns, I saw like 3-4 groups of bots. Two tight groups of 5+ bots, with EW bots, one group of 4 waspish bots. All that I’ve met on my way to shoreline. When I continued along shoreline, I’ve found only two mechs, one solo, one with escort. I ran all way to Lenworth Outpost, then to Lenworth Station. Runs around, returns, back to Outpost. Runs more south. There was nothing around, except terrain. No bots, no any point of interest.
I got a feeling that all shoreline areas are "under development" and not yet populated by mobs, and those two mechs I’ve met are placed at random “just for testing”.
Maybe I just hit wrong spot? I went north, walk all way from Fort Donnerth to Bellicha Outpost, then travel north to shoreline. Then continues along shoreline to west with almost same effect – no challengeable mobs and almost empty terrain.
This situation remind me bad feeling that I had in another MMO - Vanguard some years ago, when at level 38 I've got to zones, where I saw nothing, except terrain - no mobs, no quests, no NPC hubs.
I really worry, what players, who looking to fight mobs, will be doing, in a few weeks. For now it looks like there is no stuff that will provide a challenge to kill in less then a month.
Oki, I can't solo a tight pack of 3+ mobs, if they snare me. Everything else I saw I can kill already, using Castel, and that is with a character of less then a week age, in a bot that I got at end of tutorial.
Crafting and marketing in this game is very good. But we already saw a game with wonderful crafting - SWG, witch went dead very fast.
I've already saw a few advices "go to beta islands [and get ganked there]". I see no fun in pvp so far.
So I'm looking for more constructive replies and explanation where is challengeable stuff to fight on alpha islands. If it's still "under construction" as I suppose, could be nice to know, when it will be there?