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Want mmo with all the good things from UO, decent graphics and much much more?
kishe
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Irth Online is next best thing for all hardcore UO fans!
What you'll find in Irth:
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-Gameplay with total freedom, you can group with anyone at any time because there is no levels or classes to limit your gameplay.
-Player towns with laws set by the "villagers"
-Ernomous world of 38 000 square KM
-Dynamic world, you can chop down trees, dig holes...etc
-Civilisation vs Civilisation pvp, only limit is non-pvp civilisation...pvp civilisations can pvp anywhere at any time! ...Enemy ran in town? ...no problem! Call some buddies, kill the guards take the town!
-travel by feet, sea, mounts and AIR.
-Honest, passionate dev team that works 7 days a week and can be found from irc every day!
-Skill based
-Skill based
-Almost forgot...TOTALLY COMPLETELY skill based! No exp and no levels!
-MMORPG done by gamers FOR gamers, no evil publishers included..
-Best community EVER
-The world truly IS wide! You're not forced to do ANYTHING! Want only craft? ...sure Just craft! want to fight, well..here's your sword! want to do both? Be my guest! games like WoW seems like running in tube after this.
-Changes to game are done according to player feedback ALL THE TIME
What you will NOT find in Irth:
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-Levels
-exp
-grind
-EQ2 level graphics (theres limits on what team of 15 can do)
-classes
-"Sry, ur too low"
-"Sry, we need healer"
-SOE corporatism or LHE communism
-"Sorry, We can not help thee with that" support
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Most of the problems you might have heard of has been fixed and new patches come in almost every day 7 days a week!
This game shows long nose to mindless EQ-clones and mega-corporation chain-products. It's truly innovative mmorpg that dares to be UNIQUE.
This game has still way to go but it's getting there with GREAT speed, devs know this and has promised this game wont be released untill it's ready...so NO septemper release!
go to
https://www.irthonline.com/betasignup2.aspx
and sign up for open closed beta today!
the signup process takes about 24 hours after that you will be given key and you get to play.
If you loved UO or and thought Wish was ok but could have used PvP this game truly is for you!
Hope to see you in game! 
Comments
I'm in the beta for Irth. I don't play it much because I get dreadful lag/fps/rubberbanding etc. etc. and the game is clearly in a very early stage of development....
But... I certainly do support these blokes, and I'm keeping my eye on this game. He's right about the devs though, they are damn keen; every time I go to log on there's a new patch with suprising amounts of fixes and content added. I hope Irth Online keeps steaming along at the rate they're going, they could make something special.
Signed up..will give it a try.
Looks pretty good in the screenshots section, I assume all the jaggies are users with crappy vid cards, Ill see when I get it downloaded on my box.
most screenshots have been taken about twenty patches ago...looks much more different now.
What are the Irth system requirements?
i can't find them.
My build: Sapphire Radeon HD 4850, Asus P5GC-MX/1333 Motherboard, 4gb G.SKILL DDR2 667MHz RAM, Core 2 Duo e7200 CPU, 250gb Western Digital SATA Harddrive, Windows Vista Home Basic 64-bit.
they change more often can one can count them...
I'd say:
2ghz processor
512mb memory
geforce fx5XXX or ati 9250
would be minimum.
from browsing their forums only real requirement I am seeing is your video card must support shader 1.1 or above. Outside that I would assume based off graphics, min of 256mb ram..obviously more is better, 1.5gig or faster cpu.
Back to my reason for posting again however, I do have one very specific question.
Can you Raise your skills sparring with another player? or is this forced to skill on npcs only?
Around 2 years, first alpha open outside company came out bit over year ago.
cool thanks. Signed up for the beta. Not too keen about the fantasy setting though, or is it a fantasy/scifi hybrid?
100% fantasy
Is it designed for soloers to enjoy? Simply being able to solo does not satisfy this question.
Is there a significant battle loss penalty, or is it merely a corpse run with a temporary loss of stats or some lame variation of this which does not instill respect for the environment?
"We feel gold selling and websites that promote it damage games like Vanguard and will do everything possible to combat it."
Brad McQuaid
Chairman & CEO, Sigil Games Online, Inc.
Executive Producer, Vanguard: Saga of Heroes
www.vanguardsoh
At the moment corpse run...but that's quite significant...as i said, large world.
and you dont need to group, of course you will be safer if you group but beauty on skill basedness is that you can train just as easily in group as in out of group as you dont need to kill anything to gain exp...
how do you mmove easily i cant cuz of the left click wont work?
I really really miss Wish on these days, as it gave me a really unique experience with its story line and gameplay. I tracked the story on the boards in the villages, and got involved in it. Hehe, while we were waiting for an undead force once, my clock stroke 5.30 am in here. I couldn't believe the time went by so quickly.
I've played Anarchy Online for almost 6 months and I hit level 180 with my MA. But it seems that, I'm about to lose my interest in AO, as it takes really so much to level up and I experience every things you mentioned in "what you will not find in Irth" phase and it makes me feeling I'm wasting my time with never-ending level grind. I'll consider having a go. I think I'm cut out for the skill-based games like real life.
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arrows
I have been Beta testing for a few months....
Still needs quite a bit of work.... but the potential is definately there.
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I just got accepted for Beta. Its downloading now, I was just wondering if it also includes Live Events like Wish did? I loved those in, as it made the game so much more interesting and immserive.
MoooOOOoooo!
Well i can help you out but since NDA is still in effects i cannot give you detail helps here but if you would go MIRC channel of Irthonline then i can help you there or in-game. Just look for anyone with last name IrthHelp and they will definitely help you out with any problem
to join the channel you have to set the server to irc.irthonline.com then type /join irthonline once connected.
if you dont have MiRC then download it from here http://www.mirc.com/
hope that helps
Sorry but corpse run only is not a significant battle loss penalty by any stretch of the imagination, I don't care how many zones you have to travel thru. Did that in EQdead plus had a hefty exp loss penalty, and that's the way I like it.
If it's a skill based system, then they need single random item loss when dying. It is reasonable that a foe, wether humanoid or animal, would take or drag off one of your items once you are defeated.
Without a reason to fear dying, the leveling process is too easy wether skill based or level based. Exp loss or item loss are the only methods that inspire true fear and avoidance of losing in battle. This reinforces respect for the environment which fosters greater immersion and keeps it real.
"We feel gold selling and websites that promote it damage games like Vanguard and will do everything possible to combat it."
Brad McQuaid
Chairman & CEO, Sigil Games Online, Inc.
Executive Producer, Vanguard: Saga of Heroes
www.vanguardsoh
oh, forgot to mention...you can loot and you can be looted by enemy players at any time
"We feel gold selling and websites that promote it damage games like Vanguard and will do everything possible to combat it."
Brad McQuaid
Chairman & CEO, Sigil Games Online, Inc.
Executive Producer, Vanguard: Saga of Heroes
www.vanguardsoh
hehe...well, theres no way to get instantly back to your corpse, and you can be looted by enemy players even if you die by monster...devs have said if enough people want more penalty they will make it so...