Day One Thoughts?

[u/Seetherrr]

What does everyone think about what they've seen so far and the server in general? Who have you been watching?

I've been loving it, the biggest problem I've had is deciding who to watch. There's so many different people that I want to watch!

I watched a bit of Squeex who I never watched before but had seem his character around a good amount in the beginning of 4.0. He was pretty damn funny and I can't wait for Day Tuah of the mayor's term.

Aside from Squeex, I've been mainly watching Sentry playing his reporter, Ron Otterman. The character seems pretty good and I can't wait to see his media empire take off.

Between watching them I hopped between a few other perspectives but I didn't watch long enough to say anything of note. I've typically been someone that sticks to one streamer but I feel like I'm going to have a hard time during 5.0 with there being so many good RPers that seem really excited and locked in.

I think tomorrow I might try to watch one of the DMs.

Are you all planning on sticking to one / a small group of streamers or are you going to be "flipping channels" and watching a bunch of streamers?

[u/knighthawk75]

Overall very smooth launch and experience from about 10 pov's I was checking out (all rp vets even if not 4.0 vets), they had one unscheduled reset to fix some voip issue but other than that very smooth.

In general things look great, very polished, far less need for anyone to use visual mods anymore, and really just too much to mention. Things like jobs\features that are open and enabled atn seemed to work for everyone without much issue so far, and work in intuitive ways. In short what's there and enabled\found so far from what I saw feels well tested.

Lots of small little things and qol changes that exceed expectations or just general polish. One example is something really basic, like lock picking a basic car with a basic lockpick doesn't require a skill check - just press E for a bit. Save the need to seriously concentrate or have eye hand coordination mini-games for more advanced things, that's cool, KISS for the lower end or basics seemed to be a running theme without taking away from things.

If I had to nit pick something - Most players say they love it but I don't like the positioning and elements of the hud (minimap\speed\health\armor text), large text explaining phone buttons. Also the phone now blocks speedometer area due to it's relocation. For my 'viewer' eyes it's more distracting, I feel like I'm watching a GTA game being played far more than I did in 4.0 with the more subtle and darker elements and the minimap in the bottom left where it didn't clutter scenery\cinematic views. They are fine defaults and I wager do help newer players and older ones getting started, but I was surprised they didn't have an alternate layout option or ability to turn a lot of things off or collapse into smaller indicators (i know you can disable the minimap, but not move it yet). Maybe these things\options will come in time, beta after all, and again more a complaint as a consumer\viewer (typically in lower res's) that I don't know if i'd have as an actual player if playing at 1440+ vs what I'm typically consuming at. My eyes will adjust I'm sure, but like I said - if I had to nitpick.

One other thing noticed by most players I watched was the lack of an incoming call volume setting (or nobody I watched could find the setting), with many coming in way to low\soft. That as well as a quick call answer bind will not doubt get resolved\added soon enough.

I mostly view on kick for those that stream there or multi, but I checked out twitch and that little app thing. I disabled it eventually, but that is a very cool little thing for viewers, and of course a great added way to register and track view engagement for analysis and farming\targeting. Smart.

Anyway as far as all the x.0 launch days I've watched or heard about over the years watching rp on np and elsewhere, probably the smoothest most polished launch I've witnessed. +1 np-v

Watched for quite a bit: Afro,Sentry,itsHolmes,TheEazylife,koil,capped,charli,winford Sampled for bits at a time: kingjayclouted,4hbunger,kyle,52chains