All Posts by Sourajit

And what do we do , when we get illogically treated in AoC , though after playing for all this years i do not think , i have to be told about logical and illogical behaviour by a gaming company , do i need to post my official emails from the game masters , where they candidly sweet talk and treat me as an exploiter when the game mechanics is what makes you do it ?

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Lol , played this game till level 40 at closed beta , didn't get that many bugs but lack of content .

Played the Templar.

I went back into the Open Beta and found so many bugs.

It is strange and weird as to how a game at Open Beta can have so many more bugs compared to the same game at Closed Beta.

I must say , this is really no way to get on an Mmo and looking to cater to people who have been playing Mmos.

I still remember playing Anarchy Online from the launch and see through the development of the game and i am seriously amazed , how come a game can be bugged from Closed Beta to Open Beta , never knew there existed anything called retardation in Mmo , like a game going crappy with time from what it used to be.

Seriously Gravity , i am sorry to say , this is no way to get an online community bothered.

I almost played games to End Game and even liked many gaming hours and all that grind , been playing for ages now , this is surely the most weird Closed Beta to Open Beta ever that i played in.

Cheers.

It sucked from the beginning.

I have felt these feelings before. I had them with Vanguard. I pushed them aside and I got the game and it came back to haunt me. I'm not sure that I can do that again. Sorry if you disagree, but that is the truth of my opinion.

If I'm going to be completely honest here I must mention that the constant pressing of buttons is borderline buttonmashing for me. The combat system is still pseudo-twitch in my eyes and even more so in PvE now that Funcom raised the difficulty level.

Before Gamespot's pvp weekend I was 100% playing Conan. After The pvp weekend I was 75% sure. After experiencing all of open beta's content I am now 40% sure.

However, I am now questioning whether or not the system is revolutionary like Funcom claims. There really is something to be said about auto attacking.

Up until now I felt like I didn't need it, but I find myself really wondering if the removal of auto attack has turned what could have been a revolutionary system into something that will, over time, grow very old and indeed feel buttonmashing.

I'm going to be blunt. Funcom is lucky that WAR was delayed and Mythic should be kicking themselves that their game wasn't ready in time to go against AoC.

Can I really sit here and press all these buttons for months? That's a question that I need to answer for myself. Thankfully my G15 keyboard can macro the combos but at the same time practically reverting the combo system back to standard mmo 1 button presses.

The gameplay is "very standard" mmorpg.

I have two goals for the next few days.

 1) To see if I truly want to play the game and

 2) To inform those who read my post whether or not I feel that AoC is a good mmorpg worth their money.

If  ,WAR went head to head then AoC would have been obliterated and unless Funcom turns things around before Fall that's precisely what will happen. I'm not going to play some more of this and pray they fix these issues.

Horrible Stability Issues.

Cheers

Sourajit

I signed also and is crossing my fingers to get an invite soon to the closed beta. Also , tried to get the guranted beta key from the contest but alas ! , i am poor at those shooting Flash games.

After Requiem Closed Beta ended , it is still City of Heroes as the option .

Would like to deliver a good amount of game-playing time to this Beta.

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Well , i would also like a key if it is not much of a trouble .

Would love to try this P2P game , do mail me a key of the trial if possible .

Cheers.

Here we go…………..

A look at the Closed Beta Test for Requiem.

I am sorry but still then I will write all that can make the game better ……

Chat Interface needs to be upgraded a lot. It should be such that it can be easily worked out and players can be invited just by clicking their name on the chat. A whisper should be answered with a key stroke rather than writing the full name with the /w and continuing.

The look and feel of the game is very good , but the journey to places is a bit time consuming  so if there were mounts or super sprint mode or may be haste potions then may be some journeys would have really been fast and then again the horror of passing by high level areas would have ceased to exist.

Sometimes playing a Templar, you really can hit a target far and the target stops there and do not come to you as if the target is unable to find your location. Now this needs to be fixed as many far of monsters with the electric bolt tend to get stuck a lot.

I was playing a Templar and to go into the critical analysis of that part I would really go class specific but I can well try to do that a bit. Skills are awesome and the only thing that I found was that “ ION SHEILD “ had a higher def than “ DIVINE SHEILD “ but then again “ ION SHEILD “ cannot be buffed to others and if someone buffs me “ DIVINE SHEILD “ then I loose the high def and have to yell at him / her not to buff me as I was  unable to cancel that buff and now I am stuck with around 50 points of low def .

When playing Templar and as healer the one thing I felt that I needed was shortcut keys to select one of the 8 members in my team window so as to make my healing more accurate  and faster.

At level 36 for a Templar, a skill comes in known as Glaring Light , well the total damage in it is 108 for 6 seconds , is that skill of any use at that level ?

Dungeons:-

We really have some cool dungeons in this game and the coolest part of it is they are private with bosses and awesome drops from bosses, I here mean Chaste Sanctum and Ruins of Lament.

But the lack of dungeons after level 25+ and till you can do Ancient Temple is a big grind time where most players feel a bit irritated for sure. Why I hint at dungeons is because, I have seen MMO’s go player less when there is too much solo stuff. I know  good gamers like to solo a lot and twink the character to solo higher and more stronger monsters for their levels but then again the casual gamers who are just in for some good time and fun should be handled with extreme care as they form the bulk of the population.

The Auction Hall Window…………………

Well the Auction Hall is really nice but you can well have a way to link your items and have a look at the similar items to check the price fast or to buy a better one. Auction hall also needs a bit better scroller to scroll or may be parameters like 4 types stats points to make the search less tedious. It has been so many times that when I needed to search some items I was like going through a long list and I never needed the items with one type of stat types. For example suppose I need a bracelet with 3 dex  2 str and 2 int but in auction hall I have to go through searching the entire list with bracelets that even have just 1 str. So I want many more parameters for searching and the putting of name option also as it is sometimes easy to put in name than to go and search from the tree with armor-leather-head……..Now when we come to sell items which has a bid, there should be some button where I can just see the items that as a bid and can clear them. I may be wrong here as I have not tried to find if selling items with the bid comes in the biding aperture.

Another thing that he auction hall needs is a way for people to buy item at their own price. For example I want to buy a bracelet with 1 str , I will just go and set the name and the parameters and set my bid for it . The other person who has it just needs to come and put it and sell at buyer’s price. Thus this will ensure that many good items do not go to the vendor and all has a chance to make the most of their loot.

Though I am writing so much but the best Auction House I have seen so far is in City of Heroes known as consignment house. I know comparison is bad but then again the ease of gaming is what makes good games better and better the best, is it not?

Mail System ….

The mail system does not allow passing items between same accounts. Why so?

Sometimes with low connection speeds, the game halts a bit; these needs to be fixed a bit as there are many players who play the game through wireless or routers where there is connections speed disparity.

Apart from all this I really have not found much and if I do I will really report it and make it a worthwhile effort to make this game better and may be more users friendly and more fun for the coming times.

Played Perfect World as a froob player and i am quite convinced now that this game is not going to give you endgame without going for the item shop. Moreover the Hierograms or the mp and hp auto fill ups are a must and hence there is no or limited chance to make the character go and grind without them starting at levels 50+. Thus may be it is a temporary game  but i do mind going for a game where the end game is item shop dictated and as such i will consider playing a paid game rather than this to go for the end game.

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Requiem:- (Till Now)

I have been playing this game in closed beta and after a few months at-last I have hit upon a fun game.

I started playing this game with the idea that this game is going to be another grind game.

But fortunately enough I didn’t feel the grind at all till level 25 where you have been able to collect the awesome amour set from Ruins of Lament dungeon and is thinking, what’s next? But I do see still 2 more dungeons to be explored at that map only and thus it makes me go on and on with a host of friends in the guild and main chat channel always full of witty remarks and comments.

When I started the game, I found that leveling is easy and character customization is really deep. Thus you have the option of making super toons and can kill higher level monsters giving more xp per kill and make the grind vanish away from the system.

The dungeons in this game are really good. These dungeons are not like other public dungeons but private dungeons for a team of 4 to enter and maximum of 8 people to team up with.

From level 13+, you can well get into the Chaste Sanctum Dungeon and look for Hook parts for the awesome set bonus and other nice stat boosts. You can also bring your amour to similar stats compared with the hook amour with reinforcements and compounding and thus allowing you the option to organize a party or just farm game money ( Lant ) and do the justice to your amour. The last boss at Chaste Sanctum drops some cool weapons and these weapons can really take you way up to level 25+ and beyond if you can get a rare Supernecus ( Yellow ) Xeon drop to compound it.

The maximum of 8-man party system is quite refreshing from the 6-man party system that is quite common.

Most of the quests that are worth doing and give logical rewards are delivery quests and at level 23 the possession beast quest is a must do quest for all. Quests in this game do help you explore the map a lot and get acquainted with the required NPC’s in the upcoming cities as you level up.

After this dungeon at level 23+ is the Ruins Of Lament , where you can get Cry Of  Lament  armour drop and it is a nice dungeon to have the fun of party gaming.

The graphics of the game is much better than 2moons ( when looking at it from the blood and stuff and overall atmosphere ) and the world is quite as huge as perfect world or likewise. The sound of this game is really good and the best part of this game is nifty cut scenes and Half-Life like movement skills. There are some areas where you need to time your jump right and a slight mistake can ruin you to death.

The skill sets in this game is quite good giving you much option to pick and choose according to your gaming style.  

I like the PvP in this game but the real requirement of the player versus player battles comes when you need to unlock that awesome reinforcement xeons from the xeon NPC. Thus the game is not limited to becoming strong for the monsters you face but you also need to twink your character against other players and get war points for better stuff. Some of this unlocked compound and xeons can well upgrade your amour and weapon with very high stats.

The introduction of Auction House is refreshing and the limitation of putting a fixed number of stuff to be auctioned is quite good with a maximum of 3 days of auction period.

Mailing stuff to other characters and sharing bank with other chararcters are nice add-ons to make the game – play and stuff farming easy and effective.

Hunting monsters is not like going and killing but waiting for time zones as the in-game clock makes a few monsters available by day and few by night. The Nightmare concept is really nice with powerful monsters dropping fat loot and making it worthwhile to be fast in killing at those time spans.

The game community so far in closed beta is awesome with not many off-beat remarks and comments on the main chat interface and the chat system is quite ok to carry on.

If you are looking for a deep character customization and experimentation game with horror fantasy background and smooth game-play with nice dungeons to look for rare drops and set bonuses, then this is the game.

After many days this game gives the same blend of everything as WoW use to give at my college days.

Cheers.

You can try Perfect World and find out about crafting. It does not have housing yet but will be implemented soon as the original version has it.

It has got an infinite resource gathering and crafting tree like Armours , Jwellery , Potions , Hierograms , Soulstones and Weapons.

For your information crafters make the most In – Game currency in Perfect World by crafting and selling it at Auction House.

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Perfect World A Detailed Report :-

I have been playing Perfect World for quite sometime now and this is what I have found out about the game.

It is really a sweet game at higher levels. You will find many players to team up with and the character creation balance is such that you will not need much Item Mall stuff to level slowly but then again to level faster you need to use it. There is really not much problem in getting Item mall stuff as many shops and auction house are selling those stuffs at lower price than the Item Mall itself.

Cubi – Gold can be easily available from auction house and in- game currency conversion is around 100 – 110 k gold for 1 Cubi – Gold . It is really not a big problem to find 100 – 110 k for characters after level 35+ and thus you can use Item Mall quite freely and have fun. Selling of DQ ( Dragon Quest ) items to higher level players is a very nice way to make a lot of Gold in this game and also selling materials for manufacturing weapons , armours and herbs for potions.

The community is really nice as you will always find help for the boss quests and tough quests. I have been playing Item Mall games for a while now and this game though in beta has really put up a challenge to look for the end game or the highest level. Though I heard many players complain about the grind but then again with high damage builds the monsters can be killed faster and thus you can level quite fast.

Unlike other games I have played , you really do not get much rejected when you send a party request to other players killing the same monsters but then again there is always a few nerds who like to play games alone and do not quite communicate and whenever you see bots after level 30 you can go ahead and report bot or Pk it if you want.

The game revolves around xp for leveling and sp for skills and thus you can well stay in the same level a bit and get more sp and thus make your character strong with higher skill levels to move on to the next level which may be a bit tough at the beginning. Thus you have choices in leveling and making your character stronger for that particular level and hence forth.

Unlike other games the economy is quite cool in this game. There is really not much trouble in getting In – Game currency that is gold.

Sometimes I have met a few players who have leveled crazily without developing their skills much or choosing many skills and thus they are weak for their levels. In situations like this you surely need much more Item Mall stuff like Hierograms for instance.

The chat system is nice with the option of being able to make chat rooms for help and join other chat rooms to look for higher level players to help you out a bit. Accessing the world channel needs a trumpet ( Item Mall ) but as I have said earlier the game has a lot of options and thus you really do not need to buy the Item Mall trumpet to access the world channel. In a way this is good as the world channel do not get flooded or spammed by the players and help is also available with ease.

Currently sometimes the game is a bit laggy but then again the game is in open beta and those issues can be fixed for sure.

With the release of the game a finer tweaking like sequential loot option made available in party mode would be the only thing I could spot in the game technicalities that is missing.

I do not mind saying that Perfect World is a tough competition for paid games such as Lineage 2. Many guilds are there in Perfect World and though it is an open PK server but you will find the game-play field quite free from Pker’s with higher guilds coming to rescue the newbie players who get Pked by the Pker’s.

I have played a ton of F2P games so far and this game keeps me hooked up for more time than the rest and moreover the others seemed impossible without Item Mall stuff and some Item Mall stuff where not quite readily available to free gamers like me. It is a worthwhile effort to keep playing the game and to enjoy the lush graphics and to try and reach the endgame. I am quite sure with the community and the game mechanics including the economy the game is going to be popular and would be played much.

Secretly I fear that a game as good as this can well be made a P2P and thus we will loose the experience of playing this good game. I like this game for the options it gives for doing stuff and play along.

Cheers.

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