Originally posted by sadeyx

Yet again mmorpg fails to ask the most simple and basic question of flight.

What happens if you run out of flight time while in the air?

From the sounds of things you just die, or take massive amounts of HP damage. 

And no, flying is not a unique experience to Aion as anyone who's play Perfect World will tell you,  Except in Aion its Severly limited 4 minutes at most? Even then you would die if you dont fly back to ground..

Doesnt sound very enjoyable to me.

If you are high enough off the ground you do die. Anything less than that you take damage. Don't be stupid and that won't happen? There are warnings you are getting low on time, enough for you to fly back to the ground.

Flying is done much better and theres more thought into it than Perfect World. You can fly, glide, use skills in the air, it's very smooth and nicely done. It's a AAA title, PW is just a AA cash shop game.

Also if you think flight is the only feature worth playing for then LOL. In my experience I rarely use flight... it's a tool.

Originally posted by FastTx

 In my experience I rarely use flight... it's a tool.

Same here. I use it for resource gathering and evasion mostly.

Originally posted by sadeyx

Yet again mmorpg fails to ask the most simple and basic question of flight.

What happens if you run out of flight time while in the air?

From the sounds of things you just die, or take massive amounts of HP damage. 

And no, flying is not a unique experience to Aion as anyone who's play Perfect World will tell you,  Except in Aion its Severly limited 4 minutes at most? Even then you would die if you dont fly back to ground..

Doesnt sound very enjoyable to me.

I'll tell you what happens when you run out of time.  If you get all wrapped up in draining just.. one... more...Aether from that node you'll find yourself falling...... possibly a long way to the ground.   If you're really lucky though just before you splat on the ground your timer refreshes and you pop your wings at the last second.......Talk about a learning experience. 

For the most part. If you want to know how flight is, bloody try the damn game out rather than moan about how short you think it is.  I've played em all, Perfect world, CoX  I think someone mentioned WoW flight too and I am not Dissapointed in the Flight Aion is using.   Your mileage may vary.

p.s Japanese OB is coming up soon.

so many people making baseless assumptions and opinions when they haven't played the game and not even sure how the mechanics work. LOL

Don't make an opinion unless you actually know what you're talking about.

its boring to have fly time i'd rather have wings instead of a freakin pet / mounts

Originally posted by FastTx

Originally posted by sadeyx

Yet again mmorpg fails to ask the most simple and basic question of flight.

What happens if you run out of flight time while in the air?

From the sounds of things you just die, or take massive amounts of HP damage. 

And no, flying is not a unique experience to Aion as anyone who's play Perfect World will tell you,  Except in Aion its Severly limited 4 minutes at most? Even then you would die if you dont fly back to ground..

Doesnt sound very enjoyable to me.

 

If you are high enough off the ground you do die. Anything less than that you take damage. Don't be stupid and that won't happen? There are warnings you are getting low on time, enough for you to fly back to the ground.

Flying is done much better and theres more thought into it than Perfect World. You can fly, glide, use skills in the air, it's very smooth and nicely done. It's a AAA title, PW is just a AA cash shop game.

Also if you think flight is the only feature worth playing for then LOL. In my experience I rarely use flight... it's a tool.

  I got a real laugh out of that, trying to compare gimped flight in Aion to Perfect World which has a far better implementation.  You can phrase it anyway you want, 1 min flight time is ABSURD, it will seriously hurt this game.  If you have not figured it out yet, this is a game and people like to have fun.  Flying is fun and making it so limited it a definite negative.  All the other games that have flight don't have this ridiculous limitation.    You are welcome to your opinion, but why advertise a feature that in reality is extremely limited? 

I think Aion will be hands down better than any of these free to play games, but it's real competition will be games like Wow and Wow's flight dynamic is far better.

Originally posted by kaishi00

so many people making baseless assumptions and opinions when they haven't played the game and not even sure how the mechanics work. LOL

Don't make an opinion unless you actually know what you're talking about.

Looks like a lot of people are looking at the flight option as an "I win "button.

I like the flight time as is, the same as tribes, use of flight is more of a tatical use than a gimick feature.

Originally posted by Ozmodan

I think Aion will be hands down better than any of these free to play games, but it's real competition will be games like Wow and Wow's flight dynamic is far better.

IMO, any dev that tries to compete with WOW in the NA market is an idiot setting himself up for failure.

Originally posted by Ozmodan

1 minute of flight time?  Come on that is absurdly short.  Even 5 minutes at the top end means flight is an after thought in this game. 

Even Wow players are going to have a huge laugh at this. 

All I can say is the rest of the game needs to step up as flight won't pull people in as it is designed.

Try playing first, also keep reading, it is like any spell skills that you get even in WoW, they start off small and get bigger. And as for the rest of the game stepping up...that doesn't seem to be a problem. Graphics are awesome, soundrtack 2nd to none, gameplay a load of fun, questing/storyline are well done.

Originally posted by beauxaj

Originally posted by sadeyx

Yet again mmorpg fails to ask the most simple and basic question of flight.

What happens if you run out of flight time while in the air?

From the sounds of things you just die, or take massive amounts of HP damage. 

And no, flying is not a unique experience to Aion as anyone who's play Perfect World will tell you,  Except in Aion its Severly limited 4 minutes at most? Even then you would die if you dont fly back to ground..

Doesnt sound very enjoyable to me.

 

I'll tell you what happens when you run out of time.  If you get all wrapped up in draining just.. one... more...Aether from that node you'll find yourself falling...... possibly a long way to the ground.   If you're really lucky though just before you splat on the ground your timer refreshes and you pop your wings at the last second.......Talk about a learning experience. 

For the most part. If you want to know how flight is, bloody try the damn game out rather than moan about how short you think it is.  I've played em all, Perfect world, CoX  I think someone mentioned WoW flight too and I am not Dissapointed in the Flight Aion is using.   Your mileage may vary.

p.s Japanese OB is coming up soon.

Yes Taiwan, Japan, and then NA/EU launches I think in that order and they have not IP blocked any countries, I am currently playing chinese F2P here in US