BEFORE PLAYING THE GAME:
In the launcher you should check "full client", switch to directX 9 then click apply and wait a bit to actually download the entire game. Then you might have to click "repair broken data". Now you can play the game with zero issues and no lag.

I moved on to playing on the funcom launcher (so I have quite a few more hours than what it says here). I'm still going through the zones at my own pace but honestly there's no online game like this one in terms of setting and story. This "MMO" is a blend of conspiracy iceberg, horror, love craft and I put MMO in quotes because the game is basically a solo single player story experience where you see people on the side and can maybe team up with a couple of people for group content over the weekend. With it being f2p and having basically the entire experience $0 spender friendly I think it's worth for every single person who clicked on this steam page to download and check it out.

Pros:
- Lore, world, setting, conspiracies
- Investigation missions: This isn't anything related to a typical MMO gameplay, you solve puzzles and investigate things and use clues to finish the mission.
- No class FOMO, your character can use every "class" aka weapon. The starting class is just unlocking the initial weapon to do the content with but you can just unlock more weapons right away. You will also be able to grind and unlock every ability and passive for every class so there's no worry about messing about builds.

The cons:
- Performance is terrible if you don't do the (pretty easy) fix, but it's easy to miss and the game not being playable "out of the box" is annoying. Look above to do the fix before playing the game.
- If you are looking for a COMBAT gameplay forward mmo, this is on the opposite end of the spectrum to something like Black Desert or Blade and Soul. It's a unique "tab target" but instead of using tab you aim your mouse like its a third person shooter, without the third person shooter impact and mechanics.
- Side quest and unlocking story quest structure can get tedious if you aren't really into the world. It's also not too challenging. So imagine doing a bunch of "fetch" and "kill x amount of y" quests and that's basically a big portion of the game you have to push through before getting more story content. But i'm telling you is very worth it if you ever watched a Wendigoon video.

Увлекательная, интересная Игра. Система прокачки неординарная...
Необычный сюжет. - Детективный, исследовательский, с большой примесью Фантастики и Мистики.
Играю в нее с 2012 года, когда она только появилась и называлась The Secret World.

Visual tracking killed game for me. I dont know whos idea was it, but its you who ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ put the final nail to the coffin.
Original game was very good.

Here I got double ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ tutorial, double-killed ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ combat, ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up agarta hub, lag spikes for some reason, awful skill/class ♥♥♥♥, awful monetisation and ads, and daily ♥♥♥♥, but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ VISUAL TRACKING in the game with a lot of fun level design... thats the last ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ straw.

Maybe I will play this game later a little more. But only in respect to the original gem that Funcom buried in pile of biling ♥♥♥♥.
Investigation quests are good. Level design and overall feeling on locations is very good. Writing and world are decent. Game is unique and I cleared original with additions.

But it was killed and very dead. ♥♥♥♥ Funcom. ♥♥♥♥ visual tracking without setting to turn it off.

P.S. Dune game will be ♥♥♥♥ and will be developed like ♥♥♥♥.