So the character creation was pretty cool, lots of different hair styles and tattoos and the lot. The intro movie looked pretty cool and sometimes it wanted to play and sometimes it didn't, this bugfest has a mind of its own. The gameplay was pretty cool and didn't feel as confining as most other MMO's. But this is about all I got from about a total of 30 minutes or so of game play between blue screens and other awesome issues.

So the most wide spread bug is the "Assertion failed..." bug. Basically you click play and then here some hiccups and get the error window. It looks like the second most famous bug in this infamous first day of IGN beta was the "Failed to load rendering subsystem" bug. It comes a knockin' about the same way after you click the "play" button.

Thee errors themselves are not what actually is the most annoying or damaging, it's what they actually do to your system. From bjorking your drivers so badly you require a fresh install to forcing you to restart every time just to try something else these puppies are pretty mean. Now, I'm  no Einstein but I've been around the block a few times and have worked in hardware and software my entire adult life as a professional...so trust me when I say these are real bugs, we have the power turned on and all have decent hardware that more than meets the mins.

Fanbois on the forums have  been posting the ever faithful "it's just beta" line to adinfinitum but we all know the game is 2 weeks from release and girls I hope they get a good build before then. There are also people from the closed and technical betas posting in the forums talking about how this is a really old build and they have played the newer ones which are much better. Hmmmm....let's lift the NDA and then let the whole world play a crap build so they can all  go talk about it.....doesn't seem like the best idea to me.

Regardless I did like the very brief bit of the game I did see and hopefully they can get it together over there at Funcom and get us a build that works....I still have very high hopes for the game and I'm not going to crucify anything on the first day of beta. So yeah, I'll wait around and see what happens hoping for the best. Good luck Funcom get us a build!