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lol, what does your group think of the game?
It seems about as good as an L2-BDO Hybrid could be.
Just as you said though, like with those games, it's almost impossible to know if anything is actually hard. They definitely won't want to scare off people, and the average paths likely to be taken by streamers, even skilled streamers, wouldn't show anything.
So there's no real opinions right now. It's looking a little below average but judging games based on the 'playthrough path' that they craft for the 'average MMO player' is useless.
https://clips.twitch.tv/FaintArtisticCocoaSwiftRage-lUTp8B1EmLr-ELCu
Yes.
This video pretty much answers it since u can move and attack
It is age we are moving on from,. people don't want gameplay like that. I'm also someone that wants movement in their gameplay. In any forum or video almost everyone is just not liking it at the end of the day.
Which tbh for me it is good that people are leaning towards more action elements or feelings in their games including mmorpgs.
The formula is so simple. Create a large world, with a large variety of content types. Dungeons, sport fishing, gathering, trade runs/caravans, mob grinding spots, crop farming, treasure hunting, sieges etc on and on. Make it all contestable. Temper it with a criminal/reputation system. No fast travel. The problems of zerging, bullying and domination by mega pvp guilds, or being constantly pk'd - it's all minimized by being diffused over the large map and the large variety of content.
Chasing tails in a field NCSoft? What kind of second grade, schoolyard recess bullshit pvp. Are you kidding me.
I want to see someone gathering a valuable resource get murdered by someone else. I want to see the murderer looting his dead body. Then he turns around and there's 5 of his victim's friends charging in full pursuit. He takes off running, jumps off a cliff, pops his gliding mount with his pursuers doing the same. (Cue the serene music.) He's gliding in the air over a valley trying to decide where to go, how to escape. Below him there's a full on caravan battle happening. Off in the distance to his right he sees smoke rising from a city under siege. In the distance to the left, in the ocean, multiple ships are going at it in full battle. He's gliding further, he sees a world boss being attacked below him. The noise of the wind going past him as he glides, the serene music still playing. His pursuers still on his tail. He makes a play, releases from his glider and drops fast, then redeploys it. HIs pursuers try to mimic the move but fail. The murderer shakes them. He finds a nice landing spot near some palm trees. Very dangerous mob instantly jumps him, he kills it, loots it. Hell yeah. Heart racing. Turns around and there's 3 bounty hunters, he's dead. A pile of ashes, with smoke rising from it. Gradual scene transition focusing on the smoke as it rises and begins to morph and form itself into the AoC phoenix logo. pcawwwwww. Or whatever that bird noise is.
Theres your promotional trailer Intrepid. Ship it. I'll take royalties.
What the fuck NcSoft is doing, I have no idea. I didn't even get into the combat or autobattle yet. No point, probably going to be a hard pass for me.
yuuup, im going to play since it is free and nothing else to play. But if my entire leadership continue to says game is trash and dont want to play it not much i can do. Not running a guild solo lol.
All those Lineages are mobile, with auto-battling, with tps, with all the shit that TL has. All of them on their own make fucking billions. This is what NCsoft are doing. THEY'RE MAKING BANK.
https://clips.twitch.tv/ChillyPowerfulStarNotLikeThis-EbFjzHsur7uh69Bv?tt_medium=clips&tt_content=recommendation
I guess you still win the spot without pking
Now it should be said that the archer didn't have stuns or big bursts or anything like that. That was over 5 secs of the streamer doing pretty much nothing and the archer couldn't do shit because he didn't have any tools. Late game would probably go down differently. But the potential problem is still there.
I didn't realize that is how he wanted teleport to be lmao.
Thank fully steven is bringing passion back to game development. That is something that is almost lost at this point. It really is becoming money over making amazing art and a experience for players. If I had a crap ton of money I'd be doing the same thing lol.
Not my bank. But yeah the mobile gaming market is lucrative. And they're trying to introduce it into the wider MMORPG market. Create converts. Whittle away people's disgust of those types of features by just exposing them to it. It works. I am immune to such bullshittery. But many aren't.
So I get what they're doing from a financial perspective. Not the "how to make a good mmo" perspective though. They're just the typical mega corp.
I don't know how exactly the strategy of taking a mobile mmo, converting it into a "regular" mmo, but it still having very obvious mobile mmo features is going to work out. I think it will have success, not sure how much. Some people are just corn. They like to be farmed.
yeah party recall was lame (unless I was using it hahaha) and now u just tp to the safe spot nearby and come back full health and try again.
and jesus gear difference is noticeable in this game
Amazon just keeps messing up by buying up all these eastern mmos, because the west is just not ready for them. I'd give it a few more years of genshin and star rail (and probably ZZZ) and the west will be ready too.
My sarcastometer does not work.
Are you sure ?
Because honestly, the things that TnL has shown seem to me more like things from AoC's A1 than anything else.
In fact I can safely say that the combat that AoC has been showing currently is much better than the combat TnL has shown now.
I have learned not to be sarcastic with you, so still 'yes'.
If you were being sarcastic with the post, then that might be why the response is out of sync.
Aren't we all sinners?
stop...
Ahgrr... i can't... my realistic pessimism is taking over me... someone stop ncsoft pls...
Aren't we all sinners?
Intrepid studios x NCsoft introducing new partnership Ashes of liberty....Thrones of creation.
Can you link the video or is just at some random point on his twitch?
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1828732440?t=2h56m
combat wasn't THat great, but it wasn't that bad either. you just have to treat it like a mobile game you can play on PC. however, I was only able to observe low level combat (level 13 max) and people only had 3 skills, no passives, etc. i suppose combat will get better as you level up, pretty much like in most games.
I'm not sure about how p2w is the game though. it seems that gear will matter a lot in this game (upgrading it, etc). so far it seems you don't really get much from auto farming, other than completing your daily quests. killing mobs didn't give you a big reward, completing the quests do, which is a good thing IMO since people wont be able to get miles ahead by just afking all day, unless u set up 8947756756 computers auto picking up quests and completing them
pvp seemed ok, not a huge difference from how u pve, but hey it was low level, players barely had any skills. you can still kite and all that, but for the most part, it seemed that upgrading your gear and skills > strategy, at least at low levels.
i wanna see how guild wars go tho and I didn't see anyone playing as a healer. everybody was using bow and dagger lol.
didn't see dungeons, but according to ncsoft they will have pvp activated, so you probably wont be able to afk too much, which is a good thing.
so far seems a game where you can chill. auto farm easy stuff during your busy hours of the day, then do some pvp and some more complex quests when you have time to play manually.
All easy PvE games are equivalent to Mobile games. I'm not surprised or worried about auto hunting because at the end of the day PvP MMO's with high TTK can't have hard PvE. You can just attack other people's mobs anyway, this is just the natural progression of lineage. Nostalgia and stubbornness keep some players from botting even in games that are basically bot grindfests.
At least with Astral Hunting the system won't try to hit other people's claimed mobs, Ashes bots won't care at all.