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Archeage uses Cryengine used in crisis, this game was in development since 2006.
the world is 2x the size of darkfall or mortal online and its still in beta.
yes you can become a tader in game , many guilds will need materials for siege weapons, houses, decorations, storing food supplies, staples, weapons , shields, boats. So being a merchant is a hot career.
you can explore underwater, and land, the land itself is pretty huge. You can evne claim land property if its available.
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i forgot to mention yes merchants and crafters are the best profession . Even if the player killer cannot take gears, materials is what makes the entire economy. You need those materials to start building projects. Materials are super valuable then say gears. you can pk for their materials. Without materials or crafters or merchants in game there wont be ecconomy or even castles houses, and such sieges, armour and weapons to craft to begin with.
so yea materials is a huge deal.
Safe to say over 30 minutes to swim to the Third continent. Huge world with the best graphics I've seen in an MMO mein gott.
"The size of ArcheAge’s world is about the size of original WoW’s before its expansion came out."
From the interview with a developer of XLGames, from OutpostGamez.com.
Ryzom, Haven and Hearth, Xsyon, The Repopulation, UO private shards, Mortal Online, Darkfall 1 remakes (New Dawn or Rise of Agon), RPG MO, Project Gorgon, EQ: Sanctuary (custom server)
I always wanted to be a tader. =P
My theme song.
What's a tader precious?
I always wanted to be tader salad.
currently, yes if you want to become a trader or merchant, moving all your materials is dangerous especially from point A to point B to sell your wares. If pk's sees that player with cart they would attack it. You would most likely want to pay for protection escorts.
griefers and pks in this game targeting soloer pve is small, but if they see you are carrying a cart around watch out. your cat attracts bandits and pkers.
even if this game is full gear loot, there is no incestive for player killers to loot your gears in this game. The reason why mortal online has alot of red players is because they are bored. This game has many many options for you to choose what you want to play as.
if you are worried about what skills is overpowered, theyve just adjusted some skill sets to be in balanced with everythign else.
Most likely you wont find an op build or skillsets at all.
Hehe, that's wishful thinking, but I just hope some class combos won't be HUGELY overpowered, for example like Tempest of Set at Age of Conan release (I still chuckle when I remember it).
NEW IDEAS that can refresh the STALE state of MMORPGs
Nice
Good thing i have a dog.
Jokes aside, this game really does sound amazing. Just hope its not all too good to be true.
Is this for real? 2x the size of darkfall? where you get that info, any link?
Poy-Tay-Does ...
~Hairysun
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the size of the world is about current size of world of warcraft. Ive never played darkfall i dont know its size.
but its definately that big. they are planning to release the world the size of world fo warcraft current size.
World map, appears large than DFO & WoW.
http://beta.archeage.com/characters/e8b37aad-6a27-488f-8df0-51a6a8d3a1b1/maps
thats all well in good for the map of the game.. but what is the actual s'KM of it?? the map could be 1000 s'km but inactuallity going from east coast to west coast by foot from point A-B could be 2 seconds ...
so what is the actual game size... and how much is actually accessable to players. alot of games put out big huge maps then limit the areas you can explore to a smaller size..
I could care less this is a korean game that wont ever be released here. PM me when they find a publisher willing to risk it. the west is sick of korean games ported here and when Tera flops no publisher is gonna risk another.
Is the size of accessible areas around the size of WoW's at launch? Or is the total size of that map around the size of WoW's at launch?
It seems like there are a ton of areas that are not unlocked yet.. at least by looking at that map. How does ship travel work then? What I mean by that is, can you sail around that top continent, but not be able to actually dock in an area that's locked?
Watch this to see a size comparison. Greyed out area on map not in beta atm.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDxDN_fA4TA&list=PL8830CCCBD6E57C10&index=72&feature=plpp_video
Actual KM^2? Not sure.
The following map shows the playable area currently. Light blue is un-opened land, Dark blue is ocean.
http://beta.archeage.com/characters/ba76fa57-25cb-43cc-af44-773df604b0d0/maps
The sailing Galleons take about 15-20 minutes to travel from southern continents to the northern one.
This will give you an idea of how large just the capital cities alone are;
Pipa Port - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV8j46SCDik
Marianople - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjlZTWbhASw
Some Screenshots I took, some are breath taking
Human starting area
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b68/psycho_pigeon/ArcheAge%20CBT4/ScreenShot0000.jpg
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Elf
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b68/psycho_pigeon/ArcheAge%20CBT4/ScreenShot0002.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b68/psycho_pigeon/ArcheAge%20CBT4/ScreenShot0003.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b68/psycho_pigeon/ArcheAge%20CBT4/ScreenShot0004.jpg
Town
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b68/psycho_pigeon/ArcheAge%20CBT4/ScreenShot0005.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b68/psycho_pigeon/ArcheAge%20CBT4/ScreenShot0006.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b68/psycho_pigeon/ArcheAge%20CBT4/ScreenShot0007.jpg
My house just outside town
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b68/psycho_pigeon/ArcheAge%20CBT4/ScreenShot0009.jpg
Fun with ships
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b68/psycho_pigeon/ArcheAge%20CBT4/ScreenShot0008.jpg
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Some poor guy left his forest unguarded, we took everything no doubt I'll be in Jail tomorrow
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b68/psycho_pigeon/ArcheAge%20CBT4/ScreenShot0020.jpg
Airship workshop it looks like
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b68/psycho_pigeon/ArcheAge%20CBT4/ScreenShot0021.jpg
Having 2 people on a mount, it's little things like that which are missing from other games
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b68/psycho_pigeon/ArcheAge%20CBT4/ScreenShot0019.jpg
We found a siege training camp, you drive catapults around they can accommodate 2 players
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b68/psycho_pigeon/ArcheAge%20CBT4/ScreenShot0022.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b68/psycho_pigeon/ArcheAge%20CBT4/ScreenShot0023.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b68/psycho_pigeon/ArcheAge%20CBT4/ScreenShot0024.jpg
Can't even remember the last time I was actually interested in exploring an MMO world, there's so much more to see and so much not yet added.
Eh, looks to good to be true, also agree with others, no north american publisher huge negative atm and many things I see here is what darkfall was suppose to be as well. Darkfall in the end wasn't such a horrible game as far as how it was ment to be , the seiging and pvp was fun, ganking crafters and resource gathers for my clan was all out fun, but in the end, it failed with multiple hack issues and more. For a top hyped game, there is just not enough "real info" here to say it's going to be good. So far it seems like a B movie looking to attempt a AAA raiting.
You only need to look at my sig to see why I am skeptical.
"The monster created isn't by the company that makes the game, it's by the fans that make it something it never was"
more like a movie with C stars trying to be the next big thing despite no publisher not even willing to risk it.
Yeah, the guy was involved with Lineage....No one played that thing.
I'd just like info on the rest of the playable races.
My theme song.