I'll admit a lot of people are exaggerating just how bad it is but it isn't what we expected or saw in the screenshots and trailers. I have a GTX960, i7 4ghz, and 32GB RAM. The loading time in the game only took about 2mins for me. A lot of people complain about starting with a skill quest but there are three starting areas and each one is different, I started with a gathering quest. I found the graphics to be very lacking and slow but I can run on epic everything with around 20fps consistently even with a GTX960 which looks sorta bad a little chunky but people saying that high-end graphics cards can't run this probably aren't using one or expect a laptop to preform as well as a desktop. The problem is that even with everything on epic it seems like all the screenshots and trailers are just pre-rendered bullshots. I even saw some gameplay on youtube but it just doesn't feel or look the same as that. The resource gathering doesn't make any sense and the combat is clunky as all hell. You cut down pine trees or trees that dont have any leaves or needles at all to get apples and you get rocks 10x more often from bushes than from boulders. It feels like this game was really just a bad iteration of an mmo and you're much better off playing TERA because it functions the same way for combat and gameplay except a million times better and with better graphics.

I waited for months for this game to come out and it's a bit disappointing even for early access.

I'll admit a lot of people are exaggerating just how bad it is but it isn't what we expected or saw in the screenshots and trailers. I have a GTX960, i7 4ghz, and 32GB RAM. The loading time in the game only took about 2mins for me. A lot of people complain about starting with a skill quest but there are three starting areas and each one is different, I started with a gathering quest. I found the graphics to be very lacking and slow but I can run on epic everything with around 20fps consistently even with a GTX960 which looks sorta bad a little chunky but people saying that high-end graphics cards can't run this probably aren't using one or expect a laptop to preform as well as a desktop. The problem is that even with everything on epic it seems like all the screenshots and trailers are just pre-rendered bullshots. I even saw some gameplay on youtube but it just doesn't feel or look the same as that. The resource gathering doesn't make any sense and the combat is clunky as all hell. You cut down pine trees or trees that dont have any leaves or needles at all to get apples and you get rocks 10x more often from bushes than from boulders. It feels like this game was really just a bad iteration of an mmo and you're much better off playing TERA because it functions the same way for combat and gameplay except a million times better and with better graphics. I waited for months for this game to come out and it's a bit disappointing even for early access.