General Discussion

Recently, our own Donna Desborough had the opportunity to ask a few questions of GMO-Sol from Global Mu Online.

MMORPG.com:

You're expanding on the PvP with the SD Shield. Can you explain more about the SD Shield?

GMO-Sol:

The SD shield is a brand-new concept that completely changes the face of PvP combat. Everyone knows that while DPS, healing, and mitigation are important parts of PvP, ultimately the fight between any two players is over once one or the other of them has had their health points reduced to zero. In MU, players receive a number of stat points when they level, and may distribute them among their stats as they wish. Just one stat, Vitality, governs the amount of health a player has, and it behooves certain characters of certain builds to somewhat forsake that stat in favor of other stats that help them to be more deadly or more helpful in other ways. Unfortunately, this means that some characters, while they might be great at dealing damage or healing, might not survive long enough in PvP combat to effectively use their class's abilities. It's kind of a raw deal, and it's something players (especially healers) have had to simply put up with in most MMORPGs for a long time.

Well, the SD shield changes all that. This mechanic constructs a barrier around your character that has its own hit points, and these hit points only respond to player-delivered damage (meaning that a mob would deal damage directly to your health points, but a player would have to break through your shield's hit points before getting to your health points). The important part, though, is that this shield generates its hit points based on the sum total of all the stat points your character has accrued and spent. This means that any level 300 character has the same shield as any other level 300 character, regardless of how many points the two characters have spent in buffing their health points. We're confident that this mechanic will pave the way for a more balanced playing field in PvP, allowing players to freely distribute their points according to their wishes rather than feeling "forced" to spend stat points on their health points.

Read the whole interview here.

anyone play this game, wots it like?

ive been playing the game ever since the release and its very fun.PVP is the main thing i look for in games and this so far has some of the best PvP ive seen.also in most of the updates they add somthing new.

Sounds like a good way to balance PvP maybe I will try this game again.

I would advise staying as far away from this game as possible.
i would make the bold claim that the game operator, K2 Network is incompetent, but that would be an insult to all the incompetent companies out there operating today.

Let me first state that im a Mu Online player for many a year now, i was there when it first opened, and im still there now, and its gotta be going through its worst period EVER.

There is currently a dupe bug being exploited on the server, if anyone is a gamer (and i suggest you are, since your on a gaming website) you will know how annoying it is knowing a group of people are exploiting a dupe. But imagine knowing that the dupe bug has been exploited since April and the game publisher doing nothing to patch it or nothing to even try to fix the bug, nothing. People are duping jewels (the main currency of the game) by the tens of thousands, this has completely destroyed the games economy.

The servers are so unstable, the servers will often go down for hours upon hours a day before a member of the paid staff will notice this and bring them back online, and remember, this is all a subscription based game, your game time is being lost while the servers are down, they will also offer no compensation for the server downtime's, you lose your money, they simply don't care.

Also, another tool gamers may be all to aware of, Autokill "hacks".
There is and has been a working autokill hack for Mu Online since the start of the year, K2 has acknowledged this fact, but has made no single effort to patch and fix this programs usage within the game, you can be hunting down monsters and suddenly a naked character can come into your screens and kill all your monsters without even touching them. This has again, been in the game for over 6 months, without an official patch to make this program obsolete.

Also, along with autokill hack, there is also a program being used called "DC Hack" which, as the name suggests, will Disconnect you from the game should you come into contact with the person using it. K2 do ban people using this hack, but they simply just create new accounts and come back time and time again, and, yet again, K2 have not even attempted to patch this bug. Instead going with the stance "Cure is better than prevention"

there are so many problems in mu, so many things that need fixing, so many actions need to be taken in which K2 are ignoring, instead, they are purely focusing on new and different ways of trying to make more and more money out of its declining subscription based population, check out thier latest addition to Mu Online, an item shop, which people purchase items for real life cash. Forget fixing the games current problems, they much prefare to find more ways to make money out of thier long standing customers who are suffering while trying to play the game they paid for.

To make things even worse, K2 have now taken the stance of  "ban on site" anyone that tries to reason with them on thier forums, pointing out thier flaws in logic, asking them for explanations, or even asking when things will be fixed will now result in your forum account getting banned AND an IP ban from the forums.
My Suggestion is, stay as far away from Mu Online, and K2 network as possible.
 
- Paul