[MMO] Archeage - Page 31

On September 25 2014 00:30 Incognoto wrote:
What exactly is APEX?

On September 25 2014 00:30 Incognoto wrote:
What exactly is APEX?

On September 25 2014 00:50 barbsq wrote:
I'd agree with bland questing. Tbh, I just blasted through that stuff for my gilda and leveling w/o paying too much attention to it (altho, there is a hilarious quest where you bash lizards on the head with a hammer and collect a mysterious liquid, big highlight for me :D). There are the occasional gems in questing, usually revolving around shooting projectiles at people.

Honestly, I'm into the game because I want to fight in pvp zergs, gank reds with my friends, and build a fishing boat and go exploring in the ocean. Trade pack trips are also pretty fun, esp cross continent. The farming part is pretty cool, except that I'm struggling to get land aside from the 7 day temp areas, which I don't want to spend a wood pack on altho I may end up doing that anyways. I've been exploring for unmarked housing areas but it's pretty tedious. Essentially, the only good parts of the game are the ones that aren't in the 'theme park' style of MMO. If you're looking for directed fun and directed epic adventures, you're going to have a shit time in AA, since even the late game dungeons are pretty meh IMO. I think you have to go in with the mindset that you're going to make your own fun. Personally, I get really easily bored with theme park MMO's, so this is the first one that has really gotten my attention.

I def do agree that the leveling experience is pretty bad tho. It feels like busywork to get lvl 50, which is probably the worst thing about this MMO that I've seen so far (ignoring technical issues).

On September 25 2014 00:32 Serejai wrote:
So, thoughts on the game at level 30 (pre-PvP, 1-30 only):

• Questing is extremely bland and boring, although the overachieving is a nice feature.
  
• The world itself is also very bland and boring. There's pretty much zero immersion and I would give this game a 1/10 if I were judging it solely on the lore/world design.
  
• The lack of anti-botting features is very disturbing, and on my server about 20% of all other players I've encountered thus far are bots.
  
• The chat filter is horrible. Why are words like "MORNING" filtered but "fucking" is not? The filter for Landmark at the start of alpha was thousands of words/terms long. Seems like Trion hasn't actually made an English chat filter yet (which is pretty lazy because it's just a text file the servers read).
  
• Skills are pretty boring in PvE. Every pull is essentially the same thing for me; 1 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3. This could be the class I picked but it feels very straightforward and linear. Most of my abilities have absolutely no use at all in leveling.
  
• The community is just outright awful. Racist, unhelpful, and everyone is apparently a troll (or tries to be). I'd like to think guilds are better but I haven't seen any recruiting yet so I have no way of knowing.
  
• The crafting system appears to be quite bland, but I haven't used it much yet. I was hoping for a more interactive system (like EverQuest 2 and such), but it seems to be a point and click system like World of Warcraft. I feel they dropped the ball here because the farming system is great but isn't complimented very well.
  
• Farming is great and is probably the one aspect of this game that actually feels "sandbox" so far.

When I went to start writing this post I had planned on doing a good/bad comparison but I realized I don't really have anything good to say about the game from level 1-30. This isn't really an issue for me because it's stupid to review a game as a whole before hitting max level and doing the "real" content. However, the 1-30 (pre-pvp) content is just really bad and unfortunately that will likely end up hurting the game in a few months. Most players will probably form an opinion of the game by level 15-20 and in my opinion it won't be a good one.

The world PvP and level 50 stuff looks enjoyable, so I was able to trudge through the 1-30 portion of the game but I feel it was very poorly thrown together and a lot of other people probably won't be as forgiving about it as I am (especially those that aren't interested in world pvp, in which 31-50 will be equally boring).

I'm sure someone here will take this out of context and use it to start drama, so I've bolded and increased the size of the first line of this post. If you still take it out of context then you're just outright retarded.

On September 25 2014 08:31 Capped wrote:
I hit 30 and didnt know where to go next so i started farming/crafting/trading. Ended up level 38 and skipping cinder+haly+hellswamp lol. Checked the places for gear and none of it was better than my crafted armor + bought bow (lvl 31 green bow better than 35+ arcanes and crafted what.)

Only thing im lacking on are potions and food which for some reason can only be found from quests, i find that retarded.

On September 25 2014 08:38 Shelke14 wrote:
A question way out there. If I kill someone, can I loot their potions and or food? Or anything of that nature?

On September 25 2014 22:00 Skilledblob wrote:


try alchemy and cooking

should be kinda obvious