steampunk has me interested, but war online has that appeal with their dwarves don't they? still trying to decide.. that or slowly walk back towards WoW >.>

ittekimasu

that's actually a really small download. LOTRO's trial is 8.10 gigs, and WAR's closed beta was 9 gigs or so.

Coxswain

@Turambar: Er, your group and 8 mercs, not nine.

Turambar

@Rookerith: The thematic feel of the game changes as you go from area to area. The game starts you off in East Asia, and the story eventually moves you to South East Asia, Europe, The Middle East, etc. Africa, South America, Australia, and Siberia are noticeably absent though as explorable areas.

Turambar

I played in the close beta and probably will again once OB starts.

It's different, if that says anything. Fights work like turn based combat with a time limit on turns, setting it apart from the point, click, press F1 routine of many other MMOs. Your group can have up to 9 people, you the hero and 9 mercenaries of various classes. There's a stamina system in place where you lose one STA point per fight. When your STA hits 0, your drop rate and exp rate is heavily reduced, dissuading heavy grinding. The downside is that the idea of community is pretty much hammered down your throat. Quests involving being in a party and being in a guild are story line quests, forcing you to do them and there are plenty of dungeons (particularly the ones required for quests that gets you access to more merc classes).

It's worth checking out if you're just looking for an MMO that's different from the rest. It's not exactly spectacular but worth a brief trial.

Turambar

2gb download? psh thats nothing I downloaded 3gigs of teh pronz last night alone.

lilaliendog

Slightly Steampunk?

It had an ancient chinese + magic feel to it when I played it. Maybe it changed, maybe it's based on your starting region. It's been 3+ months since I played, though.

Rookerith

Steampunk? I'm in.

headcrab

@MSW0: The closed beta was pretty fun for a while. Turn-based combat can be fun with other people in your party.

SegevRaz

Haven't heard much about this.

Worthy to check out?

MSW0

those some tig ol bitties

thebza451

@Turambar: I should expand a little. While you have an entire party of 9 at your control, monsters you fight also comes in parties, up 9 mobs per group in the really high levels. While you can party with 2 other players, monsters can also get reinforcements in the middle of the fight if the groups are close enough to each other. A youtube video of the combat might explain it better than me with words.

Turambar

I almost thought that said America Online...

what would the world have come to when theres an AOL MMO

Altima NEO

@Lixie: The mercs level up, and you can customize their equipment and skill set up. As for solo play, the game pretty much forces you to join a guild and as previously said, quests that gets you other merc. classes happen in dungeons you'll have to be very over leveled to do solo.

Now, there were guilds set up in Close Beta whose sole purpose was to get people past that quest, and story quests don't require you going into Shadow Dungeons, so take that how you will.

Turambar

@ittekimasu: There are rifles, cannons, and an inventor class that can use machines in the game. But beyond that, there really isn't any steampunk.

Turambar

@Jon-Claw: Specifically, the way the stamina system works is from level 1-50, stamina is reset at 100 each day. They don't regenerate and up to 20 can get carried over to the next day. From 50 onwards, STA is rest at 50 each day and 10 carries over. However, not fighting for 10 minutes allows for STA to regenerate by 1 point. Sharing monster information or crafting information with other players gets you 1 STA (up to 5 per day), and doing free league (PvP arena fights that happens every 3 hours) gets you some STA as well.

Basically, it's done in a way that you shouldn't run out of STA just playing normally, though you will run into problems if you try going 18 hours a day.

Turambar

@Turambar: So it's a MMO with a anti-grind stance?

I've been away from MMO long enough. I'll check this out.

Jon-Claw

I'm interested in the concept of having mercenaries to aid the character. Do the mercs level up and can they be customized through skills and equipment? How viable is solo play in this game? The concept of having a player controlled PARTY is very enticing if it means I never have to party with other players.

Lixie

@ComradeLewis: Not sure what the difference is exactly...but I say just go with ndoors on the safe side since even the gamengame site has the ndoors logo on the bottom.

Turambar

I am so confused. There are apparently 2 websites that are nearly identical and share the same OB launch date. I have heard that 1 is for North America, and the other is International, but I can't say for sure. Anyone here know the difference?

[atlantica.gamengame.com]

[atlantica.ndoorsgames.com]

ComradeLewis

@Kiri Komori: Really lacking during CB. Maybe they improved it a bit for OB.

Turambar

how is the character creation system?

I value that right below gameplay

Kiri Komori

Steampunk?

Interesting. I may check it out.

The first thing I noticed when I went to home page was the big breasts in the corner. @_@

em

@Enochrewt: [atlantica.ndoorsgames.com]

It's on the bottom of the page.

Turambar

FFS, they have no system requirements on the linked site, does anybody know?

Enochrewt

@Turambar: Thank you!

Enochrewt

I was invited to this beta but didn't think it was anything big. O well, will be glad to see what some other people think since I never signed up for it.

Kanoopy

@ComradeLewis: The gamengame website is one that advertise it to investors.

Velion

Is this game free? What i mean is that will it be free after beta?

Desertwolf

I tried the close beta stage one, and the one major thing I didn't like about it was that everyone looked the same. Literally. Dunno if that changed or not but if it doesn't...

Jtn

Closed beta was sick, though i doubt ill play it anymore, to many other games.

darkstar5555

@Desertwolf: It will be free with a cash shop, yep

Turambar

I actually got an invite to the closed beta, but I never did get to play.. my video card has some overheating problem that I've yet to get fixed. Anyways, I was actually looking forward to checking out this game. An MMO with turn-based combat just seems like it might be a good idea to me. To those who have tested during CB, how fun is the combat?

cL9

@Lixie: I would like to point you towards a little game called Guild Wars..

Razgriz1

@lilaliendog: maybe not the best thing to brag about.

oregame

@Turambar: cash shop... my god I actually saw potential in this game.. o well..

Desertwolf

Bah, I am still playing Perfect World and Rohan. Two is enough for now.

Taizen