beta 28 first impressions

[marvalis]

Hi, I just downloaded and played beta 28. Played a berserker till level 7. Here are some quick remarks:

3-level dungeons is nice, does not need to be more (at least not at the start).

I entered the first city at night (first I though I was going to get killed by the invasion, turns out it was just night ^_^). I like the new layout, much simpler.

The arena quest was fun, not to hard, and not too long + a nice reward! Very well done, a good fun quest at the start.

New level-up screen: took some time getting used too. I hope new players don't miss the tabs.

I had to search the key bindings to find that 'j' stood for quests.

My berserker is dead now, the new stun will need some time to get used to, I can't just disable that boss anymore ;/.

Overall very good and I can't wait to figure out some more stuff .

[darkgod]

Stun still reduces damage output by 70% and movement speed by 50%, and healing by 50%, and prevents talents cooling down and puts 4 random talents on a 1 turn cooldown. Still nice

[Dervis]

The new stun may not look like much but it's really powerful, don't underestimate it. I really don't like the 70% damage reduction, a 50% miss chance would be much more welcome... but I must say that being able to lock cooldowns is SCARY.

[marvalis]

The overhead text for the arena quest was quite interesting, since the game lack any other way to indicate that an NPC has a 'quest' for you. Much better than having to randomly bumb into everything. Nice feature.

[catwhowalksbyhimself]

Yeah, the only reason why I even knew about that quest before is I saw it mentioned in the spoiler forum. Something like this is an improvement.