Glorious Alpha Two Testers!
Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
For our initial launch, testing will begin on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific and continue uninterrupted until Monday, January 6, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. After January 6th, we’ll transition to a schedule of five-day-per-week access for the remainder of Phase II.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
For our initial launch, testing will begin on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific and continue uninterrupted until Monday, January 6, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. After January 6th, we’ll transition to a schedule of five-day-per-week access for the remainder of Phase II.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
Quest Design Feedback (overall)
Somebodyelse
Member, Alpha Two
I would be interested to hear what others think about the quest design overall, but here are some of my initial thoughts/feedback as a new player to this game. I know "it's still an alpha dude" but hopefully feedback we give devs at this stage can help shape this game better for the future.
As a person who works in the IT/Apps field IRL, I realise the importance of taking a step back from a product and looking at it from the outsider's perspective, assuming no prior knowledge of the app, to better design things more intuitively. In this regard, the game needs a lot more development before it goes into Beta.
QUESTS THAT YOU CAN'T ACTUALLY COMPLETE YET
My first impressions of the quests were frustration and annoyance, that I could not find how/where to do the quests that I have been given - only to find out later that you can't actually complete some quests until a certain level.
SANITY SUGGESTION: Players should not be given quests that they cannot do yet due to mechanical/design restrictions (eg, register for citizenship I got at level 2 and you need to be level 5 I think to do this).
QUESTS THAT YOU CAN COMPLETE, BUT ARE HIGHER LEVEL THAN YOU EXPECT
Another quest I got marked as a level 1 quest (Rain of Rocks) asked me to climb nearby ramparts and kill some rock throwing goblins. Upon getting my ass handed to me by multitudes of level 4-5 mobs I finally reached the top, only to find yet more level 4-5 mobs that I struggled to kill at al level 2. I managed to kill 1 or 2, but they gave no quest reward so I assumed these can't be the mobs I need due to the fact they are higher level and they are not giving the quest items. I then returned at level 4 to kill some more, now suddenly the quest items were sometimes dropping (I didn't realise it was a "chance" to drop).
SANITY SUGGESTION: Don't give players a quest at level 1 to kill mobs which are vastly higher level than them (and if you do this, don't confuse it even more by making it a "chance" to drop the item, as it would already be a challenge for people to kill these when offered the quest, let alone adding an RNG element to it).
QUESTS WITH VAGUE OR AMBIGUOUS OBJECTIVES
I was given another quest to turn in some crafted flower powder something, either to western workshop or an eastern farm.
I chose the western workshops as that sounded fun, so I went to where the marker on the map was saying and could not find a single NPC interested in accepting this bundle, every NPC was just offering me crafting options. I eventually went to the farm where there was an NPC awaiting my delivery, happy days.
SANITY SUGGESTION: Please add more detail in the quest log (and/or tracker) on what you should be doing for the quest, or at least give a more hints in what steps are needed for the objective.
As a person who works in the IT/Apps field IRL, I realise the importance of taking a step back from a product and looking at it from the outsider's perspective, assuming no prior knowledge of the app, to better design things more intuitively. In this regard, the game needs a lot more development before it goes into Beta.
QUESTS THAT YOU CAN'T ACTUALLY COMPLETE YET
My first impressions of the quests were frustration and annoyance, that I could not find how/where to do the quests that I have been given - only to find out later that you can't actually complete some quests until a certain level.
SANITY SUGGESTION: Players should not be given quests that they cannot do yet due to mechanical/design restrictions (eg, register for citizenship I got at level 2 and you need to be level 5 I think to do this).
QUESTS THAT YOU CAN COMPLETE, BUT ARE HIGHER LEVEL THAN YOU EXPECT
Another quest I got marked as a level 1 quest (Rain of Rocks) asked me to climb nearby ramparts and kill some rock throwing goblins. Upon getting my ass handed to me by multitudes of level 4-5 mobs I finally reached the top, only to find yet more level 4-5 mobs that I struggled to kill at al level 2. I managed to kill 1 or 2, but they gave no quest reward so I assumed these can't be the mobs I need due to the fact they are higher level and they are not giving the quest items. I then returned at level 4 to kill some more, now suddenly the quest items were sometimes dropping (I didn't realise it was a "chance" to drop).
SANITY SUGGESTION: Don't give players a quest at level 1 to kill mobs which are vastly higher level than them (and if you do this, don't confuse it even more by making it a "chance" to drop the item, as it would already be a challenge for people to kill these when offered the quest, let alone adding an RNG element to it).
QUESTS WITH VAGUE OR AMBIGUOUS OBJECTIVES
I was given another quest to turn in some crafted flower powder something, either to western workshop or an eastern farm.
I chose the western workshops as that sounded fun, so I went to where the marker on the map was saying and could not find a single NPC interested in accepting this bundle, every NPC was just offering me crafting options. I eventually went to the farm where there was an NPC awaiting my delivery, happy days.
SANITY SUGGESTION: Please add more detail in the quest log (and/or tracker) on what you should be doing for the quest, or at least give a more hints in what steps are needed for the objective.
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