Random questing

Not so much random as in rather just charging about. I did get a lot of quests done in Blighthaven, but with me not knowing whether the ones I have left are group ones or not, I don't really want to risk doing anymore there.

Though I will admit, Drusera's tree is lovely when you aren't getting ripped apart by strain creatures. I especially liked the datacube from Drusera herself. It's a nice touch to know what she herself was thinking back when she had just been created.

Though I have to ask, what is with the weird cooking quest back in the nearby village? I mean i'm used to odd quests by now, but this was just really, really random. I mean i talk to a guy with a mark over his head and he wants me to get some steaks for him. Easy enough just kill some mobs. Then suddenly I have to cook them and there's this whole weird scene with judges talking about cooking. The whole thing just struck me as totally odd and rather rushed in there. Like they wanted some lighthearted quest here and this was the best they could come up with. Though why no voice acting? One of my biggest bugs with this game has been the lack of voice acting. Considering this cut away as sort of like a mini cutscene, it was bland to watch given that there was no voices.

All in all just very odd.

Oh and while filling in a gap on my map back in Malgrave, I'm running along when a meteor hits the ground before me and suddenly there are all of these fire monsters about. I'm quite impressed with myself that I took them all out. Especially the giant rock thing that was a elite monster with something like 150,000 hp and little Lyghtning totally smashed him. Very happy victory ^_^

Blighthaven Bugs

So Summer has finally arrived here in the UK and with it my computer is hating me every time I time I turn it on. Still I have been able to get back into things with regards to Wildstar. No last minute cosplays to play at the moment.

So, back to Blighthaven. I don't know whether this is an issue for other players (if it is please do comment and let me know) but Blighthaven seems to have it's fair share of bugs for me. I mean, again I don't know if it is just me, but the latter stages of the game seem to have far more bugs than the earlier stages did.

And they aren't like ground-breaking bugs, or bugs that make the game unplayable for me (like that Biolab in Grimvault did) but they are annoying.

The first one was to do with collecting essence from some floaty blue wisps near the start of Blighthaven (after the holo-deer quest but before Cankertube swamp) Now to do the quest you basically jump into said floating wisps, they explode into blue shiny fog, and then you've collected something. Now the other week I ran around this area for ages doing just that and not getting anywhere with the quest. Today I ran back and it worked first time.

Then I've had the issue where getting new quests isn't bringing up all of the text. See people are contacting me, I can see the options for clicking to accept the quest, but I don't actually have any words there.

This might not be so much of an issue, except that I'm also not being told when quests are group quests. Hence me accepting the quest from my home-girl Drusera to protect her tree and then getting my ass smashed several times over as I realised that this quest is likely a multi-person one. Like I said, it's not game-breaking, but it is annoying. Especially in the case where I have no idea how many people quests need. All other quest text is showing up fine from older quests or new quests that I missed in older areas. It just seems to be the ones in Blighthaven.

I got so much of an ass kicking here

Then I has this issue. Please note that this death scene greeted me when I first logged in. How can I have died before even entering the game???

I did actually have some fun with the quests, it wasn't all doom and gloom, but I'll post about those separately


later on this evening :)

Drusera Cosplay

So....my video post didn't happen. There is a reason for that. Mostly because I was having derp issues with Camstudio (i wanted pretty video clips) and secondly because on Friday afternoon I had something of a madcap idea and decided to roll with it.

See I was at the Manchester expo this weekend and on the Friday I thought, 'hmmm, why don't I cosplay as Drusera???' So i grabbed my sewing machine and made a costume that afternoon lol XD I do crazy things like that.

I had to slightly alter it to include a wig as I couldn't get the hood to completely obscure my head like hers does and my facepaint admittedly wasn't great. But as I said, I decided the Friday before to do it.

Know the best part though??? Being Drusera was awesome. I mean I was cosplaying a god. And a damned badass one at that :D Plus people recognised me. Even if I did have to close my eyes for every photo, people recognised me. It made me so freaking happy. And those that didn't but wanted a pic anyway, were awesome because when they asked who I was I got to gush about how awesome a character Drusera is and how brilliant Wildstar is as a game.

I'm not going to lie, I love fangirling about characters I love and I love Drusera. I think for my next project I might have to cosplay as Lyghtning....but which of her costumes to do lol.

Oh My God, I can play again!

Seriously. I can actually play again. I somehow (like 4-5 hours of somehows) managed to defeat that freaking robot as Drusera and GTFO of that lab. Now in Crimson Badlands where I can actually play again *cries* More info coming tomorrow, but for now know I can play and this fact alone makes me so happy XD

Still stuck...now unable to play at all

Apparently it's the Bio Lab that is where the issues are occurring for me. The whole thing is just being buggy as hell for me. I've had issues where my entire UI goes bright blue and remains like that until I leave the area or restart the game, my mini map has crashed several times not to mention that floors just vanish. Oh and my favourite, stepping onto a teleporter and dropping into nothing but air until you die.

Getting through took every ounce of my sanity. Once into the Phage labs however, I was actually able to play thankfully. In fact it was all going rather well until I died and got kicked back outside the Bio lab because there are no holo-crypts once you enter. I've been at this part of the game for HOURS now. It's really frustrating. Especially as the new content patch came out today and I can't see anything of it.

See the phage labs was actually really quite cool. I had fun in there and hit level 49. But now this whole issue is just souring the game for me. I've felt like I've been walking on egg shells all day, afraid of doing anything in case it kicks me out again.

Now I'm actually at the end of my rope as the last quest of this area,


 (SPOILERS)


After defeating the Entity which, in all honesty was a bit of an anti climax, you don't even fight him, you play as Drusera and have to stop some robot. Well I got kicked out and now I'm back to the game crashing each time I try and get back in. And I have been trying for the last two hours.

(/SPOILERS)

The annoying thing is that I'm not the only person to be having these issues. I think they're linked to the memory leak issues other's are reporting. Certainly looking through the forums other people have had similar issues, but support isn't saying anything about them. All I can find from Carbine is that 'It's under investigation'. Well that's brilliant. I have a game here that is literally unplayable. I'm not talking about a bug with seeing people's names, or a dye not working, an item having a stupid drop rate. I'm talking about being unable to access the game. Something from Customer support would be nice here.

So yeah...not happy right now. In fact I'm pretty annoyed by the whole affair. Not to mention a really bad experience with a flower delivery company IRL has just put me in a really bad mood.

Drusera and The Caretaker...I'll ship that

Odd right?

Usual fare of this is a Drusera centric post so expect spoilers to the game's story and lore :) I'm level 46 at the time of writing this.

So as I mentioned in my last post, my wonderful pal Drusera called to say she had more to show me. So after wandering round Malgrave, I hopped on over to Illium to visit my new-found god friend.

And I have to say I was somewhat surprised to see Drusera getting rather friendly with The Caretaker. I mean this isn't the first time she's seemed familiar with him, but the last time he was trying to kill me. In fact this time he was trying to kill me, but me being the kind friend I am, reset some of his circuits and suddenly, BAM, he remembers Drusera. He also stopped trying to kill me which was a nice bonus.

So yeah...I can totally ship this. I mean heck, if my sister can ship Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson from One Direction together, I can totally ship this. It needs a ship name though. All ships have names. The aforementioned one goes by the name Larry Stylinson on the great wide internet. I'm going to dub this one Carsera for now. Unless I can come up with something better.

D'awwwww, they remember each other!

Anyway, while they got friendly, I had the job of getting datacubes away from Strain monsters. Found out some really interesting lore too. Turns out the Eldan tried to kill the Entity, otherwise referred to in this blog as, Malevolent Presence or 'huge-ass-scary-monster-thing'. They failed, obviously considering the chat I had with him recently, and he killed them all. That's right, the architects of the universe didn't just vanish, the Entity killed them.

Although I did sort of meet one Eldan, though he's been transformed into a monster by the Strain and tried to kill me. Which he nearly did as when Drusera told me to keep him busy, that resulted in me charging around the room, firing my pistols in any direction and screaming 'I'm going to die' over and over.

I mean she's a god and I'm the one having to keep the humongous monster over there 'busy'. He also called me a pet. I would have loved to have kicked his ass over that, but the aforementioned running and screaming then happened. No ass kicking. 

There is also a really fun mind bendingly frustrating platforming section to this part. I love platform games so I enjoy the parts of the game that take elements of them and incorporate them into this. I just hated the fact I kept missing the damn things and falling back to the bottom.

After my trials were over, Drusera told me that the Entity is kept in the Lightspire she created. Now I'm curious to know whether that is the name of her tall bright tower (aka a light spire) or whether that is what it's called on this server as I'm on the Lightspire server. If anyone knows please do comment and update me :) It's one of those little things that will really bug me otherwise lol.

Now if you don't mind, I've been wandering round Grimvault and as it's dawn here in England and I am slowly watching the sun come up, I think it's time I headed off to bed XD

Malgrave and Artemis Zin

Been finishing up on some quests in and around Malgrave and is it just me or is the zone chat REALLY quiet round here? I mean almost every player I see is Exile so I suppose that doesn't help and any Exiles I see tend to be in my guild. Are people still on the lower levels? I thought most people would be around my level, at least those in the first wave of players would be. Got a few group quests hanging around, but i'm not even seeing anyone talk let alone say they're looking for a group.

Anywho, away from the chat or lack there of, I ran into a rather interesting quest involving an Elder cube controlling some pell. Artemis Zin rocked up with her cameras and got absorbed by the cube, Kevo went nuts at me...and then things seemed to go back to normal. Is this foreshadowing? I feel this is foreshadowing. Either that or it's a really random story segment lol XD

Got another call from my home girl Drusera, so Lyghtning is getting her pink assed booty shorts over to Illium to go and check what's going down now :)

Drusera's music

Because I loved this piece in game. When a piece of video game music makes you pause playing and think 'wow!', then it's a good piece of music :)

I really like Drusera's character lol XD

Bravo Wildstar...you made me cry

Ok so this is another spoiler post. I'm level 42 so if you aren't at that level, be wary.

You have been warned.

Ok so my favourite spirit/god got back in touch with me today. Drusera called me into what can only be described as her own personal paradise.

Now I'm not going to lie, this section started off amazing. I got given awesome god like powers and could run around and make flowers and trees grow and it was EPIC. I totally loved it. The scenery was gorgeous and the music was beautiful.

But then it got quite sad and touching. See Drusera admitted to Lyghtning that as a god, she's lonely and that where her real body is, it's dark and cold, so she made this place. It's sort of like her playground I guess where she can come and use her powers freely and create beautful things. And it is beautiful, not even in an obvious sort of way. There's no blue skies or lush forests. Not waterfalls or things you might thin of when you think of a beautiful scenery. It was like something from a dream where everything just is beautiful and you can't put a finger on why.

The whole area, from the scenery to the music to the way Drusera talked made me think of A Bridge to Terabithia, and aside from that movie having an ending that made me sob, I loved the whimsy that it had. It was so childlike in the way the characters approached things and created their fantasy world and I felt like that here. I felt like I was being shown something very personal like someone's childhood memories. There is literally no way to describe how I loved this section.

Even the things I had to do, like making a village and watching Drusera create the creatures to live there while I created guards, it was like a childhood fantasy game and it was lovely to be a part of. To make them houses and gardens, while not only fun game play wise, was also quite enchanting. I'll admit I had a little lump in my throat just from making these characters happy.

But the bloody Strain came.

God damn Strain.

And just like that the dream was shattered and the music, which I don't think actually changed, went from being calming, to heart wrenchingly tragic. All the little villagers became infected and it was up to Lyghtning to defeat them.

Is it bad I wanted to apologise to them?

 Even getting some bad ass looking armour didn't make it better because it was just so tragic. I can't even describe how close to tears I was over this. I hated doing it but at the same time saw it as putting the poor little things out of their misery. How silly is that? I bet some players, most probably, raced through here, but I also bet there are some that will have found it just as upsetting and beautiful as I did.

And it wasn't just because of the villagers. But also Drusera. This was her hideaway, her safe place almost, to go to when she was sad or lonely and the Strain destroyed it.

Well done Carbine because it has been a LONG time since a game got to me like this. I was so caught up in it I didn't even notice someone in my guild say they liked this very blog in my chat. Sorry Niliana, and I'm glad you like it ^_^

I'll tell you what...I'm going to f***ing murder the Strain now. That disease is about to get a huge can of whoop-ass opened on it.

God even writing this is making me emotional...seriously well done to the game writers. Story is always my favourite factor in a game, partially why I want to be a game story/lore writer, and this was done brilliantly.

Well done.

Malevolent Presence

Ok, at this point i'm going to say that this post and all pictures included with it are going to be spoilers to the world story. I'm level 40 at this point so if you aren't there and you haven't answered a call from a malevolent presence, don't read any further.

Got that?

Spoilers down below.

No crying if you see something you shouldn't.

Right, if you're reading this, you have been warned.

So my intrepid heroine Lyghtning foolishly answered the call from the Malevolent Presence, (hereafter named MP because....there's only so many times I can spell that correctly before I start pushing my luck) and went to said mysterious portal. Note that this time my magical portal was purple and not the blue it has been before. Clue 1 that this is not a good idea.

Jumping in, I'm not greeted by Drusera, but instead by a scene worthy of any acid induced nightmare. Seriously look at that place!!! It's messed up. It's creepy and smooze like.

Oh and instead of Drusera I have these lovely little cheerleaders and their uplifting motivational messages.

Really makes you want to continue.

And this one here makes me wish there was more in game talking. This seems like a pretty big thing to just glance past and ignore. I mean the Cassian big themselves up over the fact that the Eldan chose them, and little evil bug here is saying it was all some sort of plot from the start.

So basically MP talks me through these areas which are swarming with these little critters, but none of them want to fight you. Fighting comes later. At this point you're just running through this hell spawn landscape.

At some point you get demonic powers...not going to lie this bit was cool. Lyghtning kicked some booty here.

And then, after fighting some strain monsters and my clone....this dude shows up.

LOOK AT HIM!!!! He's freaking massive!!!!! I'm going to go out on a ledge here and say he's the games big bad. Dominion and Exile take a back seat here because this guy has plans. Big plans. Like him! Apparently he's part of the same project that created Drusera. I like Drusera better.

Speaking of who, look who shows up to save my ass from MP's crazy clone army :)

Now i'm not going to lie, this part of the game is fucking awesome. Literally awesome. I also want to give  a huge amount of kudos to Carbine here and whoever came up with the lore and story because this section, this little section right here, really sucked me into the game.

When MP was talking to me, i felt like he was totally addressing me. Forget that thousands of other players have done this instance. I felt like i was at the very centre of this story, that he was talking straight to me and that right there is a sign of  good role play game :)

Can't give enough praise :) Well done guys :)