DC Universe Online - 12 Years Later
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- DC Universe Online released 12 years ago and since the game has changed so much over time I wanted to give a retrospective look on the game. I am going to do a full critique & analysis of DC Universe Online and discuss every aspect of the game and what has changed over the 12 years since launch.
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They should really make a part 2 with a huge graphic update
They probably wont ever because an MMO is a huge investment but With PS5 and Xbox X version coming later this year they may be updating the graphics
No
😂 all the stuff wrong why is it always graphics? Graphics doesn’t make a game better
@@OhitsLuceI swear if them graphics not good I’m done with dc
@@kidink-_3782 Naw I feel that Lol I have a Life time sub to Champions online and I play that more then DCUO currently
This is the only game I've EVER restarted like 5 - 10 different times, and wasn't bored at any point. But man, after level 30, the game really went from 0 - 100.
I really like the beginning of the game. Especially if you play with friends
I remember playing this as a kid before I had any idea what an mmo actually was, I remember just the character creation blew me away
Fr and I just ran around and fly
There was a MMO before this game called City of Heroes and if you think this had an extensive CAC man City of Heroes had many people stuck for hours on creating a hero. You could do little things like change the pendent on a cape, have sleeve or no sleeve options on all jacket like styles, change the color of your powers and even create your own bio/origin thag gave you a sense of purpose and place in the world.
Yeah I played with friends too so I was just mobbing around with a squad lol
@@Mybasedworldman when I realized you could run on water, and up buildings, I went crazy as a kid 😂
@Nytellem I spent hours on the demo of city of heroes, which was just a cheracter generator. ONE OF THE BEST MMO. sadly I was young and dependent on others for the monthly fee.
2013 was peak. The pvp was so fun. Stepping outside the station or club to a giant brawl. Heroes or villains lining up across the street to kick off the brawl in the first place. So good.
Edit** just to share a memorable moment like everyone else, I remember as a hero I stepped out into a brawl. I got one win then took off but next thing I know I see a little red blip behind me. It was a dude dressed like Professor Zoom and he chased me all over metropolis before finally killing me lol. So fun.
Dude back then everyone just loved the fun stuff
They did a few things that progressively made the game worse. Destroying the pvp phase was the start of hollowing the game out. This game was best when you explored the world to find mission locations, before it became a stand around the watchtower/hall of doom waiting for a queue to ready up.
I also remember earning account bound gear to help you out when making a new character. That idea got scrapped to push you to buy a head start when creating a new character.
Yep Agreed@@propheinx2250
Watching people go 1v1 at the Watchtower base was fun. Also just looking at all the cool armor you can get.
Facts
Will forever have a special place in my heart, been playing on and off since it came out and never skipped to level 30 always enjoyed replaying those missions.
Same those were my favorite tbh
Its a game worth playing but they really need to listen to the community more and engage with the players more.
Theres alot of really insanely good suggestions for the game that would improve a ton of its content and replayability but the devs dont really listen as often compared to other games.
It’s so unfortunate because this game is pretty good. They are just being greedy now
Its a good game but they didnt invest much in the game from so much money they earned they could update mechanics graphics power animations to more modern standarts it basically runs on 10 years old mechanic and engine so thats the point for me not supporting this game anymore they mostly care about selling capsules but not the game itself dlc are recycled content they really should shut this game down and make a new dcuo but with different devs and company
Yeah but they just add more buyables wooooooo
The devs don't give two f's about its community...I stop playing permanently because of their lack of interest...they've gotten greedy only really care about how fast can people fill their pockets with cash ect while pushing out garbage content
It is very copy and paste now@@Notatuber907
Having those 20v20 villains vs heroes pvp was the stuff man those days used to got me having the most fun
Yeah I liked the huge pvp battles 1v1's are not as fun
It wasnt pop but I enjoyed the world events you can do vs the other faction, I mostly did the Money stealing on the river cause speedster made it easy but when a random came and fought me over them I could only imagine how fun it would be populated.
Damn those take forever to load up or even 4v4 pvp is dead sadly
I remember sinking so many hours on it on the ps3. Was in High School. Good times.
I miss those days...
I'm not going to lie, I really miss this game but playing it as an adult doesn't hit the same. I was there the year it came out and was never able to get any of the paid content, I remember a few years later when I was able to pay for content I finally got the green lantern power set. As a kid I was amazed by it all, so amazed that I didn't even know there was content beyond level 30. I would just play the story and since everything else was impossible for me to do due to difficulty, I just would roam around or start a new character. Years later as I got smarter I realized how to actually access the content and had a blast all over again. I personally feel like DCUO is just too changed for me, I've revisited a couple times here and there and it just feels like I was left behind in a way. I remember the skill trees and kinda preferred them as they felt easier to separate things. I feel like if I start over again I'd be able to get back into it, but I just don't really have the time like I used to. I still have my old characters but so much has changed that I feel like it's hard to just jump in the middle of things rather than easing my way into it with a new character. DCUO will always have a place in my heart and I hope it goes strong for 12 more years.
I agree, I still play from time to time but every time I take a 6 month or year break I come back and it gets more confusing to try and catch back up. Too much new stuff I have no idea how to do. I think it also sucks because theres not great guides out, I do the same with Runescape but theres so many high quality guides if you have questions you can usually get a walkthrough
perfect first sentence same here. I miss it but we are to spoiled with current gen graphics and this just lacks so much now.
@@Brayzonyeah I dont play anymore but joining leagues when you come back or just asking for help in the chat is a good way to help catch up
Yep definitely helpful or having friends@@HueyFreeman.
bro fact
I remember I was 14 when this came out. I loved just roaming the open world when I was bored while I listened to some music. The movement abilities made getting around so fun
Open world roaming > instance based
been playing almost every day since day 1. the only game i still play.
Insane, I respect it
I remember waiting for this game to come out when I was a kid, the first 4 years where an unforgettable gaming experience.
it was like nothing else!
I do miss playing this game I won’t lie. I mainly played during my middle school-high school days on console so about 5-6ish years and would grind for so many hours. Wouldn’t be surprised if I had over a thousand hours on the game. Since then however I’ve switched over to pc gaming and just haven’t found it in me to start all over again , I’m really sad that you can’t bring your save data from console to pc. I completely understand why that is, but damn I do miss this game from time to time and try it out again every now and then for about a week or so before I drop it again because it just isn’t the same for me anymore.
Its not as good as it was when you had people to play with at least for me but its still fun
Love this game, really would like to see it get a much needed update!
Agreed
It wasn't always free to play. In fact when it first came out, I had it on disk and paid $59.99 for it.
Yeah thats why I said f2p in November thats when it came free! But yes you are correct before that you had to buy it!
I WAS ABOUT TO SAY THE SAME THING I WAS IN TEXAS AT THE TIME AND ME AND MY ROOMMATES BOUGHT 4 COPIES TO PLAY TOGETHER AND THAT WAS IN 2010
Yeah I knew that but obviously going f2p brings the biggest amount of players @@datboitrill
yea that is true i made it to 30 b4 then was kinda mad when they went f2p @@Brayzon
I have some great memories with this game. I haven’t come back in a while (last time really active was 2012-2014) but such a fun game and a wonderful celebration of my favorite comics.
One of my favorite memories with DCUO was when I was raiding in 2012 and some of the guys I was raiding with invited me to their league. I joined and then it turned out it was an all-black league and they thought I was black too, but let me stay because I was chill and pretty good at heals and controller. I stayed with that league until it went mostly inactive a year or so later, but I’m still Facebook friends with a few of the dudes from it.
That is awesome! Leagues are a lot of fun
Final fantasy 14. Solves your level problem by automatically syncing everyone to the max power rating for a particular dungeon.
It allows The players who are higher combat rating to come down and play with the lower combat rated players while not making them weak per se. But they also can't just hard carry. You still have to execute mechanics.
And then they have unsinked where you can just go in and bulldoze some content but really not all
The system has really allowed final fantasy 14 to bring in new players to do all the content in the game while keeping the older players doing their content and still mixing the two different groups together without stifling one or holding back the other. It's very ingenious
Interesting! That would be cool
FFxiv Community is a bunch of woke ppl
@@NathanDraxter not sure what that has to do with the conversation at hand but okay
Nah Neverwinter has the same downscaling Bs and it's not fun for vets 😂
@@slim3710 it's not forced on the player base to utilize. It's completely opt-in. At least for final fantasy. I haven't played never winter in a while so I don't know how it is over there anymore
I think that DC should redirect focus from their films to put the stories in a revamped DCUO
I agree
Best movement in a game I have ever seen. People release all these game with endless possibilities, but the characters run and take horses everywhere. Super flight and super speed was so awesome and fun. Customization was awesome too.
Super Speed is my favorite but always was harder to use
Everyone slept on the acrobatic build too but they had some cool abilities to traverse with
I definitely was sleeping on acrobatic@@Spider-Complexion
I disagree on movement speeds, hulk on classic xbox and ps2 had really good movement, so did prototype 1 and 2, saints row 4 you get super powers in a simulation, infamous 1 and 2, spiderman games, there are others but you good idea, and for mmos champions online has the best travel power choices. I just thought you may be interested in these games if you have not played them.
@@frequencyoftruth2303 Prototype was dope, and Infamous. I wish they would do a modern super powers gsme like Prototype. I meant more along the lines of MMOs which are largely running or mounts. Champions online was ahead of its time. I more mesnt eveything is a wow clone, and in games where everything is possible we get horses (basically) with only a marginal movment speed increase. Wheres the flying and cool moment in MMOs. Good games you brought up though.
12 years ago and I’m watching this video 12 days later
AYOOOOOO Trippy!!
Reminds me of the Bakugan online universe back in the day, you would buy Bakugan and you’ll be able to peel off a little code and transfer them to the online universe and be able to battle other people from around the world, tournaments, missions etc
Interesting
Bring back City of Heroes but with modern graphics and a better engine.
Everyone says its good
City of heroes is back! Look up city of heroes homcoming
It's back but game hasn't aged well IMO. I remember when it first came out and I was loving it.
Played this game for years. So many great memories and experiences. Part of one of the popular guilds, Game of Thrones, saw the rewards of the highest spenders, so many dungeon runs. The feeling of being behind or not being able to access the paid parts of the game really hurt my heart. Would love to see it graphically modernized
Yeah that was the worst part forsure!!
having really good memories playing this game when I was younger only to hear I only played the tutorial lmao
LOL yeah but the tutorial was so lit
Love the nostalgia played of and on from about 2013-2018 pretty consistent just to much has changed though to keep up with it
Yeah its really hard to keep up with now its a different game
I played it few times, Its fun-ish, Problem is with Speedsters, they still feel slow, wish one day they feel like actual ones
Yeah they're basically all same speed
Great news is before the end of the year it’s getting very a big Next Gen update with graphics and gameplay upgrades. Can’t wait to hop back on, I love always hopping back on during the Xmas season, love Metropolis and Gotham with all the snow,music, and decorations.
Some people are saying its not going to be big updates now
16:49 Thank you for including my gameplay, I recognize my character and my play style. I am TheRed H00D. Thanks again after many years later
Also to add, controllers not only helps give power, but they ALSO are responsible for debuffs. The controller I have for gadgets is made specifically to debuff their defense, their healing ability and their attacks. So as I was fighting Doomsday, I had to evade, run around the back areas and give power and rotate skills to continue the debuffs, otherwise the boss will end up 1 shotting everyone during long periods. Our responsibility is to try to get the boss bleed faster
No problem! It was some sick gameplay I could not re create myself!! You are correct I missed that point! Can you tell I was never a controller much? haha
I started playing around September 2012. I didn't work the whole 2013 yr. I was so addicted and woke up and slept dcu. The funniest time of my life gaming. On Thursdays the game rest the tokens to get new gear. On Thursday everyone was on the game grinding. It took 5 hours to beat everything on all dlc because rallys were rolling fast with experienced players. The community the unity the alliances were very competitive and fun. When they made it available to. Rest missions that gave tokens for gear for money. I knew it was dying
sucks to see good games falling:/
@@Brayzon all because of greed
always@@Powerdriver777
I aint see this in such a long time bruh i remember how much i loved the game it was like having a dream come true playing this
I know the glory days were so good
God i really miss playing this game on PS3. I was popular too. I remember those days when i get back from work and logged in. Everyone recognized me. Those were the days... i also miss playing old gen GTA online. I wish the servers would come back on, but that will never happen. 😥
The golden years...
Been waiting for them to make it actuslly free. Id gladly come back. But not paying 15 a mo for a 15 year old game
Well its free now! Maybe check it out. I agree
Wait this game is still going?! I remember playing it a ton I got that Batman power armor set at the end game.
The active combat and customization was insane.
Yep it is!
@@Brayzon 29:41
Im sorry?@@chechamberlain6898
Me and like 8 of my cousins played this back in the day! Was insane!!
So much fun!!
Imagine playing it when I was 13 now being 23 dam
I know its insane
Super speed is the best movement in content just don’t go full speed in hall ways
Super speed just looks cool
I have started and stopped playing this game so many times and I think you just gave me the itch to pick it up again.
I do the same thing lol
We haven’t got no new powers for some time now
We was suppose to get venom powers, but they stopped that saying it was promoting drug use...
@@LarryHeisenberg Ik right
@@prisesion smh i don’t even know what to say to that
that part.
@@kidink-_3782 I know right, I was hyped for that power. But after they did that I went to earth powers. But now the same at all
Loved this game back in the day. Open world pvp human hunting while they did the open world missions was awesome. They killed it for me and my friends when they went away from the Rock Paper scissor formula for pvp. Healers vs tanks vs Controllers. After that seemed liked everone just did DPS and roles died. If they made a DCUO 2. Id be back in a heart beat
DCUO would be sick
They need to make a marvel universe online
They were in development and shut down like this year or last
Even now, this game has so much potential. As an MMO, it's not bad at all IMO
It has good bones but bad execution
This game was doomed to fail from the moment they tied skillpoints to time capsules. One cannot afford to make a break if one intends to reach max skillpoints at some time in the future without selling a kidney.
Stay away from this game unless u dont mind not being able to play a maxed out Charakter.
You don't need max Skill points. 600 is golden.
sp don’t matter artifacts do (at least for pvp since that’s wat i do)
Yeah I dont think you need to max characters that is the beauty of the game but yeah I see what youre saying
i loved this game i spent so much time on character creation and replayed it like 20 times
The character creation and beginning missions are the most fun
"Going Strong" is a stretch. It is surviving with updates though.
Youre probably more right. I guess I consider getting updates often going strong but youre probably more accurate
I got this game around like 2015 on my moms old laptop because i didnt know it was on console. I wouldve 100% put more time if i knew that
I liked it on console because I like controller more
Nice vid. I always wondered how this game was doing now. I played over 2500 hours when it came out and walked around like a god with 200sp w/ the ring of Omnipotence. Seeing there’s 700 killed me 🤣🤣
Yeah things have changed now lol
This game needs to win some award for longest running mmo that has never added actual new player animations
IDK RuneScape might need to be up there if you count OSRS
bro , when the game released i had just gotten my first xbox 360, I'm 11 years old, life is good I'm grinding missions, grinding levels , and PvPing when I had the chance. I must of thrown 3000+ hrs cause I played this day and nite.
This game was so freaking good
Is DC Online still active, is WOW still active, is LOTRO still active?
I believe wow is! Not sure about LOTRO and DC is semi its mostly endgame but there is still people playing
I replayed this game like 20 times because after I got lv 30 on a character I just felt... lost.
I was useless in the hardest dungeons but in the firsts one there wasn´t anyone playing so I had to wait for like 5-10 min just to start one.
Yeah unfortunately not a lot of players in low level content anymore
Definitely loved this game, but after level 30 it got insanely difficult to progress organically without paying for it.
Yeah, early on it was fun but especially because no one plays the content
I misss the DC MOBA sighs
i had no idea this game was still going i remember when it came out
Yeah insane right??
This game is Really good better than Many full Priced gamed i played on my ps4 and recently on my ps5 its Massively Huge and deserves a part two i have been playing every day since i downloaded on my ps5.
Yeah its fun
Pvp been broken forever
that part.
true I guess if more noobs play it like me it just makes it seem not as broken. I like the 8v8 modes
Can't take this video seriously. Aside from the few minutes at the beginning of the video with thermonuclearbrayzon (100CR 69SP 🤣🤣🤣), this guy really just copy and pasted other people's content and did commentary over it. Say you know very little about the game without saying it.
I used a lot of peoples videos mainly because the day I needed to edit before I left for 8 days DCUO servers decides to be off for 8 hours plus :/ I've played 1000 of hours on the game I do know a good amount. What do you think I copy and pasted?
@@Brayzon 1000 hours is only approximately 41 days time and in the video you're talking like you've played the game since it's launch. Just stop. You should delete this video to save yourself from embarrassment.
1000's as in plural lol. I have played it since launch, just off and on like anyone who plays MMO. There is a small few players who can say theyve played DCUO every day or even every week for 12 years its an MMO its made for breaks. Which I explained in the video if you watched it@@nothingbutracers
@@Brayzon Thousands and you've only got 100CR and 69SP? I looked up your toon my guy and that's all you got. Anyone can easily break that within a month let alone 12 years. Get good.
thats not my main toon lol. I also had to start from scratch because I switched PSN accounts from ps3 to ps4 so I had a bunch of high level toons I cant access anymore@@nothingbutracers
I used to love playing this as a huge fan of mmos, the game as a core was extremely fun and engaging for me.
That being said the amount of mtx and lootboxes was definitely a let down to me the more I played.
The moment that made me say OK it's time to move on was 1 day I was sitting in the main hub queued for s mission I needed done and asking in chat for people to come and it was about 6 hours later still no queue pop-up.. barely any1 wanted to run it once and i was like "am I really sitting here in a queue and asking in chat for 6 hours for 1 single mission?
Player base was just so low it killed any motivation to continue playing and that was the last day I logged in.
That was like 3-4 years ago.. I can only imagine what it's like now.
If you dont have a group or at end game its super slow definitely sucks
I love playing this game at one time, it's still one of my top 5 favorite games of all time. Because the 100% voice over is amazing, I would still play this game now a days. If it was not for all the bots and gold sells in game, that is why I left the game and I was their from day one.
I dont really pay attention to them but yeah thats annoying
Good to see you Xen - fellow founding Superzeroes member!
@@sambonz Same to you
you are pretty much spot on the only thing they do have a battle pass system
Yeah I dont have any experience with it so I left it out:/
@@Brayzon it's kind of like destiny's system. They're two different setup. Free to play and membership. Just logged in every day to claim
Oh yeah I did see that! Didnt realize thats what it was lol@@Rob121
DCUO also went free-to-play just after City of Heroes went down due to legal issues. It picked up a lot of that playerbase under the idea that it wouldn't fail for the same reason (since CoH was sued by Marvel and DC was just as large at the time) while offering something that might scratch the "custom superhuman MMO" itch.
AHH Interesting!
That lawsuit was settled in '05, but the game ran through '12...
I believe there is still a player ran version out there@@AgedChops
12 years later it still just amounts to people hanging in front of Little Bohemia PD doing nothibg
Or in the watchtower
I sucked at understanding at age 12🤣 I was a tank role walking into my raid team completely wiping them😅
OHHHH yeah took some getting used to
speaking on skill level - when i last played a few years ago the need to animation cancel was still a thing. that alone will always keep the big spending, casual players out of an mmorpg.
And you need the casuals
Been playing this on and off over the last decade. I’m hoping with the next gen updates for consoles we’re also going to see a new intro campaigns, maybe that focuses less on the whole Brainac angle and more on other parts of the DCU.
That would be cool but i doubt it
Its crazy to think about how I was 9 when this game came out, and now im a full grown adult with responsibilities 😭
Straight up crazy!!
This is definitely a throwback! I made many friends and went through drama with a league I once created 40 players strong eventually it died out on me but great memories! Don’t regret playing,I started to play again when covid was around on ps tried to transfer from pc but that didn’t work! So I grinded and got better with sp and cr ! And had 5 artifacts maxed great game love the mechanics but the new player base sucks nothing like 7-10 years ago
I think its just because theres not enough casuals
Me and my friend both used to play back at launch about 3 years before we met, we play together now all the time. I always see so many complaints about comic book games that get shut down because no one was playing them, or not even just comic books games but games in general. Youll find countless threads on steam for games like Marvel Heroes, threads on reddit about COH before homecoming was released of people just wishing they got a chance to play again but the thing is DCUO isnt gone, not yet anyway so if you want to play it, do it. The worst thing about the game is the monetization of it, the marketplace is terrible but if you can just ignore that I think the climb from level 1 to 30 is worth your time alone.
If you can find a group to play with it makes the experience way better then you dont care about being maxed
City Of Heroes is a far superior game. Far more powers and variety to choose from from the very beginning.
Is it still playable? Im going to look into it
@Brayzon Yes you can download it and play for free. It's now run by the fans who are constantly data mining the old game to find stuff that would have been released had the game not been shut down. Be warned the game came out in 2004 so the graphics can look dated.
Thats ok I dont care if its dated! I need to give it a try@@stephenwillis6937
There is no overhaul in a video the company said "We're not looking to remaster DC we've moved away from that."
brings me memories, i remember playing it but stopping because it was getting big and i had other games to play. my dream is for a dc game like this but offline. maybe even with less pretty graphics so they can work more on other aspects of the game. i never interacted much with the community, i only played i think one raid or something it had to do with wonder woman i think. loved Being a speedster, and remember wanting to use electric powers but i had to pay for it. i don't even remember my level anymore just that was hard to level up.
Yeah now its easy to level up but back then it was tough
12 years later an it still sucks....
Fair
These days even alerts and raids are hard to do at a lower level when you hit level 30 you basically just have to do solos until you are at a high enough CR and then you start finding groups which sucks because a lot of the duos alerts and raids have fun missions
or you need to have people to play with! But I agree it sucks when thats the only option
@Brayzon I mean some of the missions and stuff are really fun and well told stories personally my favorite villain mission is the JSA mission the cameos are awesome
I just wish like you said the playerbase was more spread out rather than all end game content@@dakotaloven1362
Bruh i remember coming back 5 years ago and the game seemed dead. Raids were impossible, even new ones. The quenes were taking forever like 2 hours or more. Sometimes never
Sucks big time@@urmommahouse494
I swear I do wonder how it's still going this long since there's never anyone anywhere rather it be PvE phase or PvP phase.
RIGHT? Its crazy
pretty good gameplay, especially for the time it released, I literally fought a GM in this game in PVP way back when
It was really good I still enjoy gameplay just not the grind stuff
I playe at the beginning and once again when it was free and played for years healer i always was able to play as a heals, im coming back to it soon I wish they would make it totally free to play and then you add bonuses for going back and even more bonuses for playing the older content as part of the story or an essential to upgrading to the next level they can make it more streamlined where you don't have to grind as much but you at least have to play it a couple of times to be able to gain the stuff to move forward that way you have to go back and see the whole story of the game making the campaign huge. What they should do is come out with a DC Universe Online 2 and incorporate DC Universe Online number one with the new game where your character from the old game can come to the new and continue on from there they really could basically make the same game again with better graphics but make it more streamlined for the content up till where it is now.
If they took the more F2p approach rather than subscription with new animations and graphics and powers I think it would slap
I still can't understand why Marvel never competed against DCUO (Marvel Heroes is not the same and it's dead anyway).
1. All you need to do is give us a multiverse story reason for create a character.
2. A background power / talent such as Spider-Man, Iron Man, Captain America, etc...
3. Give us a huge open world.
4. Allow us to mix powers / talents at will maybe after like lv 10 or 15 so you could have Iron Man suit with Captain America's fighting style or Star Lord and Punisher fighting style.
5. Make it for consoles and PCs, forget mobile.
6. Make it free to play, if you pay a certain amount (DCUO and SWTOR was £5) and you get a lot of benefits. I personally think the ESO payment model isn't too bad, except the content doesn't really make up for it.
To me that is such a winner of a MMO.
Marvel was creating one and just canceled it this year I think
I remember downloading this game to my PS3
sameee
Who remember the download in game that shit took me like a day
Ps3 downloads sucked LOL
I just picked up on DCUO again. Last played in 2018. The only thing that I absolutely despise is feats. Getting almost every feat you can done just for skill points is insane. I have 420 CR. How many skill points do I have? Just under 200. There’s people under 400 CR that have 300-400. The skill point grind is already taking a toll on me. Queuing up for old content like alerts aka dungeons can be a long queue. Getting groups for old content isn’t nearly as good as it was before. And there’s feats in duo’s, alerts and raids that are difficult for one reason.. all it takes is a single person simply getting hit by some mechanic to completely through the feat AKA achievement right out the window. Unless you’re running with nothing but a group of people specifically going for that feat, it more than likely won’t happen. The feat/skill point system needs a BIG revamp. Getting the CR isn’t even bad. What’s bad is the feats for skill points. I don’t mind doing daily’s and slower hearing progression. But what I can not stand is some of these feats won’t be able to be completed if a single person is just a pixel to close to a mechanic or a second to late for one. If anyone’s thinking of picking up on this game I have 3 things to tell you.
#1: the exploration and story mode is addicting. You’ll love it. With that being said,the only possible way to level is doing story quests. Normal mob kills give little to no experience.
2#: reaching level 30 is when the entire game changes. Enjoy the leveling process because once you hit 30 you’ll be bombarded with things that need to be done every day or for hours at a time.
3# community is pretty decent but many elite players/leagues exist. Elitist leagues are the ones who require you to have high skill points, level 200 artifacts and high level augments.
I promise you guys.. this game can where you guys out pretty quick. So do it at your own pace and enjoy it while you can
I always say if you have people to play with it makes it so much more fun because you can skip the elitist leagues and stuff like that
To your point @26:14. I think it boils down to a few things here.
I don't think it's necesarily that Most players arent strong because they cant/didnt invest the money into the game(Yes having maxed artifacts helps, however;). I returned to the game on a fresh account last year and grinded all the way to endgame and 280 SP in a few months. If you're dedicated/skilled you will carry and out perform most of the other players in the content. (I played Light DPS)
Second, Most players who play the game and are newer, truly are not very good at the game. But, you are right, it's not their fault. DC in itself doesnt do a good job in teaching the game. Most of the content is way too easy/forgiving so players arent incentivized to seek stronger/more efficient loadouts.
If a player isn't punished from time to time, or never runs into that preverbal "wall" that makes them think a bit about their gameplay then they will never adapt it or build those skills.
Lastly, DCUO has also always lacked a detailed resource wiki and build guides (Which do matter) and it's only in recent year or two that a few solid players have made some passable, but rarely ever the best, loadout guides. More often than not, there is little data to backup many claims from the community or a local source to base information off of.
Yeah I think if players could go to a wiki or some guide to explain everything at a high level it would have helped new players a lot
I remember getting this at launch, I had an actual physical copy of the game lol
Yeah before it went F2P!
"Play with friends"
None of my friends wanted to play this. They were either on Warframe or FFXIV lol
Early on my friends were but not anymore
I agree so much with the on duty tab. I have no idea what to do or what I need
Glad you agree its insane
A level 400 CR player loading into a mission meant for lvl 100 cr will have their CR lowered to the max for that context
I dig where you went with this.
Me personally I ended up quitting this game when they basically passed out pvp, and pvp gear in the pvp servers...
No reason for pve gear to be out done by pve gear... ( and before y'all say I'm a noob) I WAS playing this game since launch... Do I got skill and skill points...
Next no new weapons and or powers....
If all that was fixed I'll be ok I think...
But then there's, NO FACTION RAIDS!
I was a pure! But all the raids was for heroes... So I said slag it and went to Neverwinter...
I just play OSRS but now that DCUO is free it does entice me more
I use to play this game from 2012 to 2016. The community was helpful and interactive, then slowly became toxic. When Sony ran the game it was fun, but when they sold it to Daybreak it became a chore. It literally felt like work, you were paying(legendary) them to work. I tried playing recently, it was arduous and confusing. I have a friend that still plays and he said it's even more "pay to win" and it's impossible to have multiple toons since it's a grind to level up one toon. In the past everyone had multiple toons just in case a tank/troll/healer dc'd or when no one wanted to play as DPS(everyone wanted to only play DPS). I'll hop on every now and then to only keep my names... people sell names now wtf. I have no interest in getting fully back until they make it the old way. I seriously doubt it will happen so I'll never get fully back into the game.
I agree I wont get fully back into it either
I swear if they would just make a new version I would absolutely live in that game. I played the first 5 years or so but now if I log on I feel I'm just to far behind. Plus we are 2 consoles ahead of it. We definitely need a much needed upgrade cause this was such a good game.
Yeah unfortunately in a game like DCUO once you fall behind it sucks
I wouldn't. As much as I loved DCUO in its prime, I'm sick of wanting to play something that doesn't exist anymore. I don't want to fall in love with another game that I won't be able to revisit when I'm feeling nostalgic for it. I'm done with mmos.
Stopped playing the game when the devs just went solo on everyone. They kept releasing the same content and mepps was so blind to do anything to make the game better.
I still reminisce of the true glory days
They should have a TP special animation atleast to make it more appealing and smooth transition as you move to game maps
That would be cool
This video brought back a lot of good memories
such a good one
Back in the day my friend got to 30 by running area 51 over and over. I thought he was crazy but he got some cool looking gear that I only found after years
Also you can get a load of feats in story that make you way stronger and collectibles that give you different styles. Coolest one iv found is the backwards knee goat legs
Area 51 was always fun!
I played this game for a bit with my friend on the switch but when I saw I don’t have much storage and had to basically have a subscription to get more storage and stuff in the game it kinda deflated the fun for me, I still think about this game and know it’s fun, hence me being here, but the paywall upsets me
Definitely sucks, at least now all the content is free but still has some bad parts
I loved this game back in the day
same
i literally can't return to this game because of what you mentioned. The drastic changes, the overhauls on progression towards p2p. I just give up not 15 minutes into figuring out where i left off, multiple times.
yep
and i was oldschool working on like t5 when t5 was the highest. Returning now after being at the pinnacle of oldschool endgame, makes it just feel like everything i did was washed down a simulated drain. All my :"bit farming': was drowned in that sink before it went down the drain, and replaced with p2p augments etc, and thats when i go "nah."
@@Greavence420 Dude i used to bit farm so much just for them to be rendered useless....
I remembered playing it back in 2015. I made a speed mix with ice sup. I played it for about 6 or 7 months. After i beat the story msin quest... I didn't play anymore. I barely touched it. I played PVP more then the PVE post game quests. I had fun with that
seems like that was pretty common
@@Brayzon I didn't know they added all this new stuff. I'm going to go back to it one day. I forgot to say you did a great job too. My bad, because you really did. You have a ton of information
Thanks I appreciate it. I tried to be as thorough as possible but I feel like I still missed some stuff possibly @@jeremyhall2727
@@Brayzon If you did.. I certainly can't tell. You had great ideas to improve the game too
Thanks! I appreciate the support truly!@@jeremyhall2727
I jus started playing dc again after talking like 2 years. Off , and damm I missed this game
so fun
Btw movement mode does give you some advantages in combat with some movement type based attacks and super speed gives the most advantages the high end level players already tested this for years
That is true and I apologize for misspeaking, but I will say most of that type of stuff is only if you care about "meta" Like personally I never cared to use them besides in the first year or so of playing but I dont use the meta builds
@Brayzon yeah I don't use it much either but it's not only for the meta you can have access to these abilities at the start of the game and you already unlock all powers at level 30 so you can have a full build right after the story now everything is focused on your artifacts that you use
No I know you can have them early I just mean like early years they were not that useful now they may be more but not everyone would use them unless they look up guides anyways@@dantedetsu7781
@Brayzon yeah I think now even though it's more usefull people don't even go try hard like that much now since the game has been in a more relaxed state where people just do what they want for fun with friends like how it was back then lol but thanks for this great video btw! I also subscribed
Glad you enjoyed! I have some other ones in the cooker👀 Unfortunately they take a while lol @@dantedetsu7781
never heard of it good to know still exist :D
Its crazy 12 years is a long time!
NGL, I loved it once upon a time. Played it on PS3 and I was excited to pick it up on PS4 when it came out, only to find my characters deleted by WBGames and told I'd have to pay $15+ per character to have them restored. Went on to better games, no regrets.
Dont blame you. Its not my go to MMO either
@@Brayzon I've been playing Final Fantasy 14 since 2013. If you've never played it I highly recommend checking it out. The trial covers the base game and first expansion and It's free to play to level 60. You can be every class with one character. The amount of content is amazing 🔥🔥🔥
I will look into it! Ive played it a little on my brothers account but never fully by myself@@Lord_Sirec
DCUO needs a PS5 part 2 asap
And no pay to win
If I want a superhero MMO to just mess around as my own superhero, which is better for a casual, DCUO, or one of the private servers for City of Heroes?
Well DCUO you can play on console! I am currently trying City of Heroes for the first time I never got to try it when it was out