Rykage
Superhero
Valar Morghulis
The Mad Hatter.
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Post by Rykage on Jul 1, 2014 12:08:25 GMT -5
So that's a thing. Open beta starts 3rd of July. Looks....promising? Sort of. I can't tell for sure. I'm interested in the combat, and the story/immersion they're touting, but it has indications of being grindy, and I'm very, very skeptical about a PWE game at this point. PWE has ruined too many games for me.
What about you fellas? Anyone gonna take a peek at it?
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Post by Lantesh on Jul 1, 2014 15:11:04 GMT -5
Played in closed beta. The combat is nice and the story that I got to see wasn't bad, but it comes with a catch. Open PVP with player looting. They also said there will be no PVE server or channels. So it's only going to be forced open PVP. Pretty much killed the game for me right there.
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andypuk1980
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Whathisname from Doodah Thingymajig
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Post by andypuk1980 on Jul 2, 2014 1:45:12 GMT -5
I've actually been thinking about finding a multiplayer martial arts type game, this looks ok although i'm not sure about the anime colours that happens when you swing your weapons around (not my kind of thing unfortunatley). Also as Lantesh said the no PVE servers thing is a big put off for me as well, if they introduced PVE servers and the character creation is any decent then it would be something i'll keep an eye on. But for now i'll pass, thanks for sharing though Rykage.
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Post by Lantesh on Jul 2, 2014 7:33:37 GMT -5
Same. If they added a PVE server/channel, I'd play it.
One of the problems in the beta was high levels camping low level quest objectives. It isn't possible for the low levels to band together and fight because the difference is too great. Some of them tried it, but 1 high level guy just mowed down around 10 of them all at once. The biggest problem area was Mount Shaolin, to the point where people were going back to town just to warn people how bad it was. It was a mess.
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Rykage
Superhero
Valar Morghulis
The Mad Hatter.
Posts: 161
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Post by Rykage on Jul 2, 2014 12:37:29 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure they'll be forced to add a PVE channel, or at least a safe mode for players. The response against the forced PK is staggering, to put mildly. The forums are clogged with threads suggesting a pve channel, or a pvp off mode or similar. And since this launch is aimed at western/european players, who are not as open to world PK as asians generally are, they're bound to make the change sooner or later. Either that, or lose a gigantic chunk of the player base, which PWE isn't stupid enough to do. But it's PWE so, who knows.
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Post by plinske on Jul 3, 2014 20:41:48 GMT -5
No way, everything I'm trying to avoid in games in a single place: 1) PWE game; 2) emos heroes; 3) all chicks are hot and half naked; 4) power ranger's style villains; 5) thousands of teens in e-peen combat chat; 6) did I say PWE game? So nevermore
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Post by towershield on Jul 3, 2014 22:07:24 GMT -5
Since when is a Power Ranger's style villain a bad thing? Lord Zed was a pretty decent villain. That said, nobody writes Lord Zed tier villains anymore.
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Rykage
Superhero
Valar Morghulis
The Mad Hatter.
Posts: 161
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Post by Rykage on Jul 4, 2014 22:10:29 GMT -5
Friendly warning for anyone interested in this game after watching the trailers. Don't. The game plays nothing like the trailers. The combat isn't purely action combat like Tera. It's more like Neverwinter with a second option for tab targetting. PWE is cheap as F, so they decided to keep the original voice acting in chinese/korean/whatever for "authenticity" and the subtitles are stupid (they appear right to left as a block of text, and you can't even read it).
Faith in PWE restored.
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Post by Lantesh on Jul 5, 2014 7:51:00 GMT -5
Yeah the controls for combat were wonky as well.
What I wanted was to use the combo auto-complete function with the "action" controls setting. The game won't let you. Either you have traditional MMO controls with combo auto-complete or you have the "action" setting with manual combos. Can't mix. I found that to be extremely dumb. The game also won't let me bind my combos and hotkeys to numpad. Who does that anymore? That's a leftover relic restriction from old school Korean F2P games. I wanted "action" setting with combo auto-complete hotkeys bound to my numpad. Game said lolnope. Was sad.
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