Ok I admit I’m WOLS (for the uninitiated, “WOLS” is a local online slang for “very slow”. It’s actually the word “slow” reversed, implying not only am I slow, I’m VERY slow with news and updates).
I just noticed the single player patch 0.6 for Hellgate available at the IAH website, so I updated. Yes, it’s 1 version behind the multiplayer version but hey, it should fix alot of the issues we’ve been having, especially the slow framerate thing in Single Player.
So, I loaded up with Single Player mode, went back to my abandoned Engineer which I was playing before my drinking buddy bought Hellgate and we decided to play online. After looking at his stuff and stats, I realised he was way too gimped. Yeah, now that I’ve had more experience playing in Multiplayer, I realised what I thought was good back then isn’t really good.
So I started over with a Summoner. Well, I already had a level 2 summoner in Single Player, but even then, I made the wrong skill choice at level 2, so I killed him and remade him. In under 1 hour I had gotten him up to level 6 and with only Shulgoth to go in Covent Gardens, before the dreaded British Museum.
However if I remember right, Summoners pwned the Emporer Gulkars that will spawn there. That was on Multiplayer. Single Player should be no different. The thing I liked about Single Player mode is that the minions you summoned do not disappear when you go back to the stations. I guess they made it this way in Mutiplayer to avoid lag in the stations when many players are there doing their transactions (making armour, weapons, upgrading stuff etc).
So in a sense, Single Player mode is actually easier, because when you actually zone into a hostile zone with mobs at the entrance, all your minions are already out and fighting. In Multiplayer mode we had to run and pray that we don’t get killed if we get mobbed at the entrance.
Anyway I think I will try to complete the Single Player story mode once at least, although I have already completed it twice on multiplayer. Now we’re running through the story a 3rd time in Elite Nightmare mode on Multiplayer so, I hope we’ll at least hit somewhere close to level 50 by the time we’re done there.
