Level 8 in DC Universe

So my metal themed mosher character in DC universe made it to level 8 last night. I will share some highlights and downsides for your enjoyment.

- logged in instantly at 5:30 am
- played for 30 mins then had to log out, shower, get breakfast etc.
- attempt to log back in around 8am
- notice I am approximately number 9000+ in queue to log in
- woot, it's letting me in loading screen is up
- 12 minutes later same loading screen ...
- 8 minutes later ctrl-alt-delete and start over
- game immediately crashes
- try again
- repeat the queue, 20 min load screen, and crash
- patience is gone I now commence a sequence of 10 min queue holds and then end task if load is longer than 5mins
- 9:30 am I AM FINALLY BACK IN THE GAME!!!!!!
- 9:40 wife says we have to go to the store...

It did go smoother in the afternoon.

I was able to do some interesting missions and my character felt powerful and fun.

I bought a skill that gives me a "turret" that is supposed to attack my enemies.. Honestly I think it's real purpose is to make me feel like I'm being followed and filmed. Any stupid thing I do will be found on you tube from the perspective of my "turret".

My turret did shoot fire once or twice. Circumstanstially the fire always seems to be pointing at me...

Fr some reason there is quite a bit of server lag (I'm sure nothing to do with the new 120,000 accounts created in the last week...) and odd things happen.

- found myself standing in the middle of a dump truck at one point. Is this the games way of telling me it thinks metal is too "white trash"?

- when using my whip / pull enemy to me stun ability it would do a great job of pulling them to me but somehow I would be the one stunned. Learned after several knockout's that jumping a lot could solve this half the time but eventually stopped using it.

- I DID legitimately punch the living daylights out of well over a hundred goons!

So I'll play some more and keep you updated.