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I'm always down to try out an MMO, unfortunately. Is there anything going on in this one that makes it worth checking out if I hadn't already played it when it was live?
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gently caress it I’m reinstalling SWG (again) Gonna try the Legends server this time since I quit before the NGE.
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Jun 10, 2021 22:34
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Ehud posted:Cross posting… Holy poo poo it's happening 
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Jun 10, 2021 22:38
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Lost Ark is an MMO-ARPG correct? Are the classes race/gender locked?
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Jun 10, 2021 22:49
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MH Knights posted:Lost Ark is an MMO-ARPG correct? Are the classes race/gender locked?
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Jun 10, 2021 23:15
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100 degrees Calcium posted:I'm always down to try out an MMO, unfortunately. It’s a kind of 3D beatemup jaction game with rpg stuff like Diablo style loot, crafting, enchanting and skill trees.
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Jun 11, 2021 00:37
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the one game amazon is going to put out that will be remotely successful so far is a game they didnt even make
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Jun 11, 2021 01:41
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eonwe posted:the one game amazon is going to put out that will be remotely successful so far is a game they didnt even make That's *why* it's going to be half decent
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Jun 11, 2021 01:47
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How bad is the pay stuff? Is it pay to win or is it setup where you can reasonably progress without having to buy everything?
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Jun 11, 2021 02:22
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The American release will only be cosmetic stuff. The Russian, and Korean version you could pay your way to level cap and having the best gear though.
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Jun 11, 2021 03:22
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Is Lost Ark played from a fixed top-down perspective like diablo? Looks like it, and if so that's a big disappointment. Those games can be fun, but mostly as pure loot and beat-em-up, the world design isn't nearly as much of a focus for those style versus the full 3rd person MMO.
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Jun 11, 2021 03:37
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What's the endgame of lost ark like? I vaguely seem to remember hearing some stuff about how the progression is all gated behind daily/weekly quests and that sounds super boring.
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Jun 11, 2021 03:51
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Truga posted:yeah ff14 definitely doesn't have any difficult content at all Is this sarcasm? Because if not...just lol
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Jun 11, 2021 08:08
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it's obviously sarcasm, op
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Jun 11, 2021 09:14
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eonwe posted:the one game amazon is going to put out that will be remotely successful so far is a game they didnt even make the western website also only shows a limited number of the classes available in other regions, but i'm hoping it's just for the alpha/beta, because they cut some really cool ones i was planning on trying
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Jun 11, 2021 12:32
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J posted:What's the endgame of lost ark like? I vaguely seem to remember hearing some stuff about how the progression is all gated behind daily/weekly quests and that sounds super boring. MMOs don't really have endgame anymore. You just run the hamster wheel repeatedly doomed to die alone with no real friends.
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Jun 11, 2021 13:09
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Virigoth posted:MMOs don't really have endgame anymore. You just run the hamster wheel repeatedly doomed to die alone with no real friends.
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Jun 11, 2021 14:05
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they are selling $100 lost ark packs on steam im gonna pass on it
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Jun 11, 2021 15:04
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I said come in! posted:The Russian, and Korean version you could pay your way to level cap and having the best gear though. You can straight purchase gear and levels from a real-money store? Or is it more like potions that increase XP and probabilities if BiS drops?
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Jun 11, 2021 15:54
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eonwe posted:they are selling $100 lost ark packs on steam my favorite part is the Free to Play tag on that package 
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Jun 11, 2021 16:06
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Cardboard Fox posted:You can straight purchase gear and levels from a real-money store? Or is it more like potions that increase XP and probabilities if BiS drops? You can purchase gear and levels and there is a stamina system for how much content you can do in a day.
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Jun 11, 2021 16:08
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Sounds like a hard pass.
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kedo posted:Sounds like a hard pass. I will report back today hopefully on the American cash shop. Amazon’s response was just that it’s optional. They gave vague run around answers.
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Cardboard Fox posted:You can straight purchase gear and levels from a real-money store? Or is it more like potions that increase XP and probabilities if BiS drops? The MTX/MMO aspect of it is why I say that it's not your typical Western ARPG, but hopefully it won't be too obtrusive, especially since Amazon probably wants to use it to push their Prime Gaming subscriptions, too.
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Jun 11, 2021 16:54
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Imagine a boss where you can buy stuff during the fight to skip a mechanic.
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Jun 11, 2021 18:14
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If a button were to exist that, if pressed, automatically charged you a dollar and allowed you to stand in the red so you could top the dps meters, it would break the global economy.
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From the last time I looked you did PVE to increase your gear score by doing a set of dailies (raids, missions, etc) on as many characters as you can to feed your main. The biggest limiting factor was gold which could whaled for on the store. Once you ran out of dailies to do you basically could only do the PvP which is normalized gear level so it didn't even matter. The whole pve gearscore part is to basically swing your ego around as it doesn't effect pvp at all. There was also a pretty hard cap of gear level you could reach. Swiping basically helped you get there faster.
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Zaphod42 posted:The problem sorts itself out if you can manage to dynamically match people such that pvpers see other pvpers but rpers see other rpers. But ideally going further than just those two binary traits, matching people based on age and gameplay preferences and style. Don't mean that matchmaking is out, of course, but mixing players in the right proportions has to be the goal, not separating them. punk rebel ecks posted:I'm always shocked that Star Wars Galaxies is so fondly remembered. All I remember about it was being a teenager and seeing X-Play give it a low score by saying it was boring. Chev fucked around with this message at 23:05 on Jun 11, 2021 |
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Lost Ark is off to a great start. Test was supposed to start at Noon PST and the servers are still "experiencing issues". As far as I know they never went up. Isn't amazon one of the biggest server providers in the world?
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Jun 11, 2021 23:36
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Great marketing for AWS 
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I assumed there's some "waiting for a guy in Korea to wake up" happening.
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Jun 11, 2021 23:56
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The servers are up finally, playing right now and its really stable even though the server is jam packed with players. So even though it was a long wait today, it was worth it, the game is very stable right now and there is no lag.
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I was smart enough to check my e-mail an extra time for a Lost Ark invitaiton, and lo and behold, I missed a generic e-mail from Amazon.com (seriously?) with the subject "Your Lost Ark Code is inside!" Just in case others are in the same situation. There will also be Twitch drops for invitations: https://twitter.com/BikeMan/status/1403109076641398784
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Jun 12, 2021 15:50
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Can we get a trip report from those of you playing?
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kedo posted:Can we get a trip report from those of you playing? There’s more detail in the thread for it.
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kedo posted:Can we get a trip report from those of you playing? Once the servers actually went up and were playable, the game was very smooth and lag free despite it being jam packed with players. The combat is really good too, for anyone who loved Diablo III combat, this is way better than that even.
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I said come in! posted:Once the servers actually went up and were playable, the game was very smooth and lag free despite it being jam packed with players. The combat is really good too, for anyone who loved Diablo III combat, this is way better than that even. Maybe it feels better but skill variety and customization are very lacking.
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Aren't you hamstrung into a single build every season in Diablo 3 anyways? (it at least felt that way to me when I tried jumping in a few years ago) so lack of choices dont bug me much.
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Ibram Gaunt posted:Aren't you hamstrung into a single build every season in Diablo 3 anyways? (it at least felt that way to me when I tried jumping in a few years ago) so lack of choices dont bug me much. Not really, no. I definitely choose a build at the beginning of the season and work toward it (and usually also have an intermediate build based on haedrig's gift I'll put together while that's coming together), but I've switched mid-season before, it's based on your gear so if you don't throw good items away it's pretty easy to change until you're deep into ancient-grinding. More importantly, the abilities (at least for berserker) don't seem to be built around some kind of synergy that you're activating. You have 8 CD-based abilities that do varying levels of damage and you use them to kill guys. There's a bar that fills up and when it's full you press z and now those 8 abilities do extra damage. It's not what I'd call deep or engaging gameplay, but the presentation is ultra-polished so killing the guys with a giant sword does feel loving good.
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There's usually a few meta build variants in LA classes. Usually one for Chaos Dungeons then one for raids. I took a look at berserker and they have 1 recommended build for AOE/Chaos Dungeons and two for Raids. You can look at the guide a few folks put together for RU when Season 2 came out: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A9Ujv369-3b5iHHjAc7JCvvEwnrgkGG_-V0UYGeSMcg/edit#heading=h.z57deqt1vva9
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