Any Sacred 2 players?

[Kreij]

I lol'd at that and am very familiar with that concept in hardcore gaming.

Can a server be set up so that the people who are playing can enter at any time? Even if it does not advance the story line? I can't do it as my connection is satellite, but it would be cool to have a server available.

 

[DanishDevil]

ZZZ, your elves are each wearing a set armor for their class, right? I love how they've got matching armor sets in here that actually look unique, and awesome. I find myself buying items that I don't need that I think will look cool then saying "That looks fucking sick!" and selling them back

 

[ZenZimZaliben]

Yeah both my elves have complete set items for their class.

As for a dedicated server...I will have to look into that. I do have a extra box that could be setup for dedicated, but I am not sure about a license. Not going to purchase a extra if it is required...otherwise we can all just pick a Ascron/Steam server to play.

The Syraphim tunnels were ok. The swamp is were the action really seems to start as far as mobs go. Those freaking undead make me mad. Sometimes you have to kill them 3 times before they are really dead. Also they are very resistance to ice damage.

 

[DanishDevil]

So should I be making an Open Net character to play with you guys? I started a Seraphim on Closet Net for myself as something to familiarize myself with the game.

 

[ZenZimZaliben]

Yeah, make a open net character. I have tons of loot to share.

 

[DanishDevil]

Sweetness. I have to decide which class to make. If either of you have had experience with other classes (in addition to the ones you posted) could you describe their role and abilities once they get a tad higher up?

 

[ZenZimZaliben]

Pretty much the standard classes in different skins.

Mage = Elf
Fighter = Shadow Warrior
Ranged/Magic = Dyrad
Necromancer = Inquisiter
Melee/Magic = Seraphim
Melee/Ranged = Temple Gaurdian

However you can have a Shadow warrior that specializes in his abilities and make him more of a caster/summoner. Or you can take the Elf class and specialize in combat buffs to make her a physical adept melee class. Lots of possibilities for each class, but their core is basically what i posted.

Here is a great Wiki for sacred 2.

http://www.sacredwiki.org/index.php5/Sacred_2:Fallen_Angel

 

[Kreij]

Yeah, make a open net character. I have tons of loot to share.

Open Net Hardcore? Silver? Bronze?

My SW is 31st (Bronze SP) now and I have to admit that most of the battles are not much of a challenge. He's in the desert just laying waste to everything I confront. Unless I totally space out on his health, or something, he is in very little danger of dying at this point. He's got over 1800 hitpoints (when mounted over 2300) and carreis around about 160 health potions. Funny thing is that he never uses his base 160 as he get so many health potions that I end up selling several dozen when I get to a vendor, and still have the original 160.

I've been collecting set stuff, but am starting to find non-set items that are better. I don't have any complete sets yet, so I just store them in the player chest. I think I have portions of six different sets. SW has over 2 million gold and probably about 1/2 million worth of stuff in the chest. I've not found anything to buy that even puts a dent in his cash reserve.

 

[ZenZimZaliben]

I played bronze for about 20 minutes before switching to silver. TO get to gold level difficulty you need to finish the main quest on silver and be 60th level. You know that is where all the good loot is and where it will be way tougher.

 

[DanishDevil]

Yeah bronze is really easy. I think after playing through to about level 5 on Bronze with a couple of characters, I think I might want to do a Temple Guardian specializing in Lost Fuzion skills. I have yet to try an Inquisitor, High Elf, or Shadow Warrior. Once I try out those, I'll start a silver character so I can hopefully join up with you guys.

 

[exodusprime1337]

so i decided to install and patch sacred 2, mind you i've had it for months just never started playing and now it crashes to desktop after about 45 secs of gameplay...

i'm using the rig in my sig with vista x86 and a gtx285 not overclocked.. all other games run fine, just sacred... any ideas?

 

[DanishDevil]

I'm not sure what the problem is. Mine crashes, but nothing regular. Once it crashed when I tried to take a screenshot, another time when I ported to an island and walked to the edge of the water; pretty random for me.

On another note, I've started a Temple Guardian on Open Net on Silver and I'm at level 12. And may I say I look fairly badass I'll take a screenshot when I've done some studying for Financial Accounting and once I figure out how to work GIMP (any help?).

 

[Kreij]

Mine was crashing on a pretty regular basis too. I updated all my driver (video, sound, lan, etc.) and made sure I had the latest directX version. I then installed the C++ 2005 Redistributable hotfix (I think the hotfix installs version 8.0.58298). It has not crashed since.

You may also want to be sure that your .Net frameworks are up to date. 2.0 SP2 / 3.5 SP1 and make sure you have the latest Nvidia Physx drivers.

If the game is not giving you an error when it crashes, look in the event log to see what's going on.

@DD ... Sorry, I don't use GIMP so I can't give you any advice. I tried it quite some time ago, but found that I liked the program I am using (Corel Graphics Suite) better.

 

[DanishDevil]

I'll give those a shot. Thanks Kreij.

 

[DanishDevil]

Ghetto screenshot with my camera:

 

[mrw1986]

Just ordered the Collector's Edition...DanishDevil convinced me to buy this game, haha. I was a huge fan of the first one as buggy as it was so I'm hoping I like the sequel!

 

[mrw1986]

Oh and for those wondering about crashing...its typical with the Sacred series...get used to it!

 

[bogmali]

I picked this up for the Xbox360 yesterday and still grasping the controls and concept Currently at lvl2 got to roaming around co-op with my 11 yr old and got owned in a cave with this turtle like thingy that kept freezing us

 

[DanishDevil]

Yeah you gotta watch out for those crazy freezing turtles! Try going at those guys with ranged attacks and trying to evade their attacks so you don't get frozen as much!

 

[Mike0409]

Im crashing WAY to much in Sacred. Gonna swap to my Win XP x64, or maybe Vista x64 Ultimate and try again. I think Windows 7 is causing me issues.

 

[DanishDevil]

How often is "too much?"

I think it's pretty funny. The last 3 times I played, I crashed when I hit "save and exit" and the next time I load up, my save contains some of what I've done since the previous save, and some not. It's actually getting kinda annoying =\

 

[Mike0409]

How often is "too much?"

I think it's pretty funny. The last 3 times I played, I crashed when I hit "save and exit" and the next time I load up, my save contains some of what I've done since the previous save, and some not. It's actually getting kinda annoying =\

Usually about 10-15min or max 30min into each session it freezes and BAM, Crash to Desktop.

I think it's mainly driver support on my end not working right with Windows 7. Prolly go back to Vista x64..since I have heard horror stories of transfer speed's with Windows Xp x64.

 

[DanishDevil]

That's no fun. Windows 7 has been like driver heaven for me. This is the first 64-bit OS that I can find drivers for everything for on both my desktop and laptop.

Just updated all the stuff Kreij suggested above. I'll play some more later. Gotta do homework.

 

[ZenZimZaliben]

I am on windows 7 7100. The game very rarely crashes on me. Disable Physics, and set grass to 50%....On any systems. My buddy on a i7, 6gb ddr3, raid ssd, and 2 gtx295s crashed a ton. Once he disable physics and set grass to 50% he has very rarely crashed. Sometimes Combos will make it crash as well. So if you see that happening a lot, just dont use that combo.

 

[Nick89]

Playing Sacred 2 on 360 ATM