A world away from the world - Atlantica Online and RL

alpham21

Fresh new and unique. Welcoming myself to atlantica online about 2 weeks ago has been quite a trip. I have spent many hours and days playing other games and years eventually find myself turning off the "game" mode. For me finding the time to get online and enjoy my hobby, playing mmorpgs of course, can be a struggle at times. Atlantica has brought a whole new meaning of fun and relaxation for me. My first day of atlantica online was quite enjoyable. I went from lvling up on my own for 2 lvls to getting help from about 2000 different people for no apparent reason lol, which I thought was wonderful. The world is very emmerse, and looking at the world map will be ever more larger in times to come. The monsters are well crafted and unique and dont look like cartoon characters gone bad or deformed either. Almost like a stratagy/rpg/mmorpg/action/pvp/um can there be more . I loved the scenerie, the changes and different styles each area brough, from the arctic feel, to the desert into the marsh into the grasslands and more. Almost every town I have entered seems unique to the area it is in and tbh shows a little history behind, not some elaborate show of graphics and fantasy like buildings. I met so many good people, helpful people and even had the chance to join an awesome guild I am still apart of. The music is not overlay bearing, but I think as time comes it will change and there will be more. For a beta this game rocks, it has everything you can imagine to get you started and thensome. I started my main as a staff welder, got a thing for female characters and magic . You can choose from other classes as well, spearman, swordsman, cannoneer, archer, um um gunner um..lol. Whatever you feel you want is what you go with. Now with that in mind comes your own personal party, called mercenaries. As you level up you can obtain up to 8 mercs in your party and more in your mercenary lounge as I call it. Honestly I wasnt sure what to expect, I came from different types of online games, this was totally new to me, nothing I have ever played or experienced before, and I can say that it has exceeded all my expectations in everyway. This is truly a story and personnal review that I feel you all need to see, I know some feel the same way, come with me and enjoy the game here while we wait to play it again.

Mercenaries, nothing more thrilling then being able to hire from many different classes to hack and tear apart your enemies. Swordsmans, spearmen, monks, witches, prophets, spartans..and many more. And whats even better is you can upgrade them to different classes over time as you gain levels. Such as a shaman upgraded into a High Shaman and so on. They are all unique and have differenct roles and styles. When one is weak in one area might obliterate in another. You learn to grow with your mercs, they are your family. Whats cool is you can put the same types of armor on them as well as your main. Each merc comes with their own personnal set of skills which can be upgraded as well, all unique in areas of combat. From freezing your opponent, silencing them, AOE attacts and more. Theres also the option of using scrolls you can buy, find or earn through quests that do different things in combat, specially pve type. 

WOWSA, now the questing system is huge, there are tons of quests, need I say more, the story moves in a forward fashion nice and smooth and not too fast, guilds can do their own quests, dungeons, even you yourself can do personnal quests for your guild to earn your guild points. Your guild can own towns which then you can do town quests as well. You will never run out of quests, there will always be a way to do quests even at the highest lvl. Now I can tell you the one thing I am still learning is points earned for your guild and how they work, but they seem to work wonders if you have a good guild and they are very active.

Now lets move on to the graphics, the graphics are great, with the scenaries changing throughout the world as well as the city changes per area is wonderful. The whole idea of atlantis comes to mind during this time, with images of great cities such as rome, stockholm and more, it was amazing to see related cultures in-game that mores so depicted what history thought it looked and felt like. Very easy on the eyes and very few graphic glitches that I have encountered for any game. The only one desire I would like to see is the water worked on lol, it looks a little grean to me lol. Traveling through time it seems is an experience on its own, I am very fascinated with history and this was quite pleasing to see, the land etc is not overy exposed to rich fake and lusterious fantasy like most rpgs, gave it a real feel for what it might of been like or looked like.

Oh yes then I was introduced to crafting, wow...lol now Id have to say you can craft EVERYTHING it seems in the game lol, except a minor few thins such as event items which in some cases it seems you are able to craft during whatever event period. Something the really gives you the feel of trying to accomplish, not complicated, easy to read and understand. By pertaning more levels do you increase your knowledge of making better, new and more powerful items. And another great feat is the fact if you craft a weapon, sometimes you earn that random +1 which is wonderful. And if you dont have one thing, you have the chance at crafting it which enables you to have that one thing to craft what the "lol" one thing you were trying to craft in the first place. And its only beta atm so crafting is endless and the prizes and goals to be earned will be will worth it.

Such as scrolls and liscences which do different things, such as seeing how much health the enemy mob has, being able to teleport if you have enough will from where you stand, auto-battle which lets you auto battle without doing it manuelly, you get a certain amt of course, all these liscences usually have a time limit, 1, 7,30, 69,90 day limits and from what Im seeing some can be permanent. Scrolls are another great useful item, they do AOE effects that can damage or render your enemy with certain effects or cause massive damage. Some even heal or reverse effects on your own party. SO many things can come into play its incredible.

Now from crafting and onto the MARKET, WOOHOO, now not many games is the market ruled by the players. And I must say that the market is ruled by the players, yes some items you can get for a fixed price but for the most we control it, and as time goes on and things fall more into place the market will depict what RL markets would be like, 10-30% fluctuations atm it seems like so some days you might get lucky, somedays you might want to kill yourself over pricing. Pricing lol, thats a book on its own, some use the market to enhance skills, etc, some use it to make money, some even buy and resale, it has its uses and there are many. And with the market another feature comes to mind, enhancing/enchanting.   

 Enchanting to me is one of the most essential things that atlantica online has, this is a way to earn bragging rights with your equipment, weapons, etc. If you cant find certain items on your own we start with the market. Now theres a difference which I found out the really hard way...sigh. To enchant an item it requires a similar item, such as to make a +2 staff you need 2 - +1 staffs and a certain amnt of remember (enhancement stones) to upgrade to the next level all the way to +10. Ok now one thing I could cry over which I only proceded to bang my head on my desk was using the enhancement stones. Now the enhancement stones do not require two items alike, this can be done by this man I hate - Vulcanus in Rome's Bazaar. The requirements, an item that you want upgraded, the required amnt and type of enhancement stone and alot of luck. Some say the rate is 50% success rate, well my theory is like -.00001% rate only for the fact I tried my luck on a +6 Blood Knight Sword...I dont even want to talk about it lol. But upgraded your weapons, equipment and a few accessories that you can is a great way to better your stats, give you bragging rights and show off your cool, white, blue or the famed red glow.

AND THEN WE BATTLE!!!!! Free leages is the roxor, nothing like joining a free league to show off all your stuff that you earned while traveling those great areas, stuff that you crafted and the badass equipment, etc you might of upgraded to your opponent in hopes of crushing them . Its free, it happens multiple times during the day, there are divisions so your not gonna be facing lvl 5000's being lvl 1 or something and you earn items whether you win or lose. And if that doesnt fancy you, you can have changes at the big tourneys that can earn you some great rewards. Earn yourself a status...like a soldier lol which I am, too scurred to fight all the time, not much glows in my setups lol. AND AGAIN WE BATTLE FOR OUR NATIONS, MWUAHAHA. Oh yes there are times nations go to war with other nations, to be killed or not to be killed...well if you want to keep your good equipment then to kill is the option, gl Yes yes yes, the pk system is wondeefull.

The greatest pleasure to atlantia online is the feeling of knowing that your not alone in the endevors of the world, you make friends, join guilds, and eventually or possibly your guild joins a nation of guilds that have come together under one flag. There is no end to help, and to gain help is a simple click of the req help button and the response time is great, has been no more than 2 minutes for me, and even they get rewarded. The joys of coming home from a long days work, spending time with family and doing house work, etc and then being able to sit down, have fun, laugh and smile with many people you have never met in-game is for me some of the funnest times I can have during my downtimes in RL. To relax and be able to smile, laugh and joke with others is very relieving.

Knowing that the community is there to help non-stop without much harrassment, that wills always be anywhere of course, is a wonderful thing to have for any onine game. The gms are friendly, the events that are put on are fun and rewarding and not overly complicated and are easy to follow even if the event takes patience and time. I have not seen a game where there are players that are willing to donate their time and help others through the mentoring system, or even with upgraded your own personal skill levels in the crafting system. And most will know it cost starting at 10k for lvl1 and goes up 1k or possible more every skill lvl you want to attain, and there are those that do it for free. Features such as obtaining monster info is wonderful, the helpful little game book we love so much, that shows us EVERYTHING, well at least thats what it looks like. Lists all the towns youve been too, npcs, dungeons etc, you can even teleport to certain lvls of dungeons as well, and even npcs. Which makes travel time alot better. I can only wait for the years to come in hopes that the game gets nothing but better than it already is, and this is just beta. There is so much I could keep chatting about but I would go on forever. A little touch of history and fantastic gameplay makes those times in RL when you might be stressed or need a place to relax and get away worth it. My days so far have been excellent, Im even writing this at work lol, and the open starts today and I cant wait to get home do ma thing. Lol I can even fish :P or auto craft for goodness sake and and and and.....COME AND ENJOY THE GAME, I HAVE, Look me up, Id be more willing to return the favor to the new players and vets themselves for giving me an awesome experience so far. I mean heck go fish, play the market, craft things, enhance things, pk, pvp...um um do guild quests, town quests, dungeons, even bet on fights in the arena, ride a horse lol, search for treasure maps, join your comrades as up to 2 of your guild mates join in battles against the ebul monsters,  fight for battle points, make fame and work your way up those divisions, the list goes on and on. This game is more than great, and with the community and players that back it, it will only continue to grow, i will for sure, Im addicted for life, so feel free to toss gold my way, items you dont need lol, i will find a use

aka - PanzerGodess

 

Atlantica Online - hail to the king baby