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Originally Posted by Slimjim
Im really not liking this whole instancing part :(
I understand the need for people to meet, but I would have been happier if it was world control, its going to be *Censored Word**Censored Word**Censored Word* if you spend 50% of your time in the main city and the rest of it in a battle ground or a isntanced area to quest, you cant quest near anybody else of the different faction or somebody who isnt grouped with you because its all instanced, which lost a lot of appeal to me.
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I'm pretty sure a lot of it will be instanced but you won't really be able to tell. You travel to the areas instead of just watching a loading screen and there are actually zones where there are NPC's to fight as well as other enemy players who are doing the same mission as you and can try to kill you if they want to.
Still we don't really know how everything is going to work. With the battles holding 200 players each, it will probably seem like it's open world most of the time and you'll only be forced to join a different battlefield when others are really going at it. I don't think it'll be like you just go into an instance by yourself and grind mobs.
And yeah the PvE will be instanced. That's because it's not PvE like a lot of WoW where you run around killing mobs that are placed all over the place. I think the PvE missions are more like you travel to a certain zone that has been taken over by the hybrids and then you fight waves of them and maybe kill a boss or something. The PvE might be more structered, like maybe they'll have more scripted events where the hybrids attack all together or a certain special boss comes out and does crazy stuff. It's easier to do cool stuff like that when it's in a controlled instance. And still keep in mind there are the PvE/PvP instances where you fight hybrid and other enemy players so anything could happen in there.
I don't think the instancing will take away from the game at all. I doubt I'll even notice it.
And I'll say it again. You don't just walk into a glowing wall and then wait at a loading screen. You go to a train station, get on the train with some buddies and then travel to the zone where you'll fight. You can even talk to you friends while you're traveling and maybe move around in the train or something idk. Then when you reach your destination you can choose to go somewhere else to fight off the invaders. It won't even seem like instances.
That's what I'm getting from the info presented to me anyway.