It will be free-to-play on launch, with a cash shop as usual but like Guild Wars 2 will contain only cosmetic items (hopefully). I received an invite for signing up ages ago when it was first announced, but I'm definitely keen on throwing down $50 for what is essentially a collector's edition. I'm pretty sure you have to defend it against potential pirates as well. ::EDIT:: Forget to mention, apparently to move large amounts of resources, you need to do stuff such as renting a trade ship or a donkey cart. Can probably find other gameplay, now that beta is live. If you are so inclined, there's some (BETA!!!) gameplay on the Yogscast channel, BlueXephos. You can customize your char pretty awesomely, with one of the dev's saying that you can "upload designs for T-shirts" (he said that Simon of the Yogscast could upload his infamous corgi t-shirt onto his character for example).įinally, there's a toggleable DANCE MODE. There are "120 classes", with there being a pool of 10 sub-classes that you can choose 3 of (For example, a hydromancer looking one, fire and I think what looked to be a cleric). You can get gliders, personal ships (like row-boats), treasure hunt under water or take your 6 gun ship into battle against a kracken. You get your first mount at low level (a giant Lion thing that can carry 2 people) and the emphasis is on open world rather than grinding. However, if you get reported for stealing / murder / destruction for no reason by enough people, you can be sent to jail for a half hour (it's not just a cell, apparently there are activities like soccer). The cities you create can potentially be captured by enemies, castles can be attacked by siege weapons, players can steal your crops (unless you use a scarecrow lol) and I'm pretty sure you can destroy other player's boats / just downright kill them if you want. You can build farms, raise / breed some animal resources / mounts / combat pets and even create giant ships with 6 cannons. There's an entire island that is there for players to build cities and towns, with un-instanced houses being placed where-ever you want. So the game itself takes place in a "huge" zoneless world. Not sure when the beta will start yet, but it can't hurt to get a few early registrations up for it just incase :) They've got beta sign-ups currently going at - Īlso, the korean website (in english) shows off a lot of the features. It's a korean based game that's been our for like 1.5 years and is currently being ported to a western release by Trion worlds. So I figured I'd put this here to start getting other people possibly hyped up about this game. The only real annoyance was HDR lightning was causing a stutter when using the camera, so I've had to turn that off. Runs fine, even on my connection (usually like 50 or so ms slower than most) and with the exception of a few minor graphical issues (mentioned previously), the game runs pretty well. I've also gotten my mount and it's fun having him follow you around and level up. Your classlet's (not quite a class :P) keep their level when you swap them. You can also swap any class out at any time for a small sum of money.
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If I charge and then use a certain strike, it trips them which then causes another ability I have to do extra damage. I've only just hit level 11, but have gotten a basic run-down on farming, just received my first farming plot and am currently working on the over-arching mission. There are some texture issues as well (black rocks / towers / s*** like that) and some pop-in, but again, could be beta. The game has a pretty long load time, but that may be beta related. Quests move you forwards so you're very rarely running backwards. The questing follows very similar to WoW. It's a $50 minimum buy-in at the moment, but I figured that I would be playing the game anyway, might as well get in early and drop some dosh on it.
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It should be live until 3am on Tuesday (questionmark?). The first beta went live at 3am on Friday morning, I believe. Howdy guys, I went looking for my last post, but it's archived and can't be ressed.