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Cabal Online Review
moxuout2
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Well i did say i would post about Cabal and give out certain details of the game so here it goes!
First of all the combat system: You have the basic combat system of any MMorpg out there at the moment, quick bar menu's skills, potions, teleport scrolls you put in 1-10 and -, = but they have added a few things that make the game interesting. Ofcorse the combo system, we ALL seend the 100 pictures and vidoes on the cabal website showing awsome looking 23 hit combos. Sadly the combo system isn't a very big part of the game. The first flaw to it is that the record for the most combo hits is 25! by some insain korean guy. Personaly i never got past 12 becuase the timeing becomes extreamly hard and dificult, im talking milisecond timeing. And they other bad part of the combo system is that, you really dont need it that much. Level's 10-20 are nice for combo system but onces you get lvl 20, 30, 40, 50, Aura, Class spell, ect ect, the combo system seams extreamly week.
Now, Eperiance and Leveling: At first glance you would think this game to be NoN-grind full of quest! But later on in your mid 30's you gain less and less quest witch force you to grind out the last bits of your level to unlock another set of quest so you can quest grind all over again. And when i say "quest grind" i truely mean it, some quest like getting 10 rare drops off a certain mod you can almost grind a full level with just that quest. Sure the bonus xp is greatly needed and apreashated but you are still spending many hours to level up. People have went 1-50 in about 3 to 4 days, but that is insain 12-18 hours a day probbly just so that they can be the first ones.
Now on A side note, skill xp: For each class you have 2 skills you have to experince besides Mages and Warriors witch mainly focus on Sword(warrior) or Magic (mage). So this is how it breaks down.. First level of skills called Novist level's for sword 1-15 magic 1-22. Every time you use a skill and kill a moster your skill bar under the skill tab will move up slightly.( There is no tricks to get skills up faster Ex, holding down 2 with 1000 mana potions hitting a dummy all night.) You have to go out and kill mosters to get your skills up. Once you reach Max sword skill 15 you Rank up to the next stage of weapon or magic. You unluck the ability to buy new skills from the intructors in town and you gain 1 more skill slot so that you can hold another skill. Oh, and when you go 1-2 you gain a skill point that you can put in any skill to slightly help the dmg. The one good thing about ranking up is that you can remove all skill points from your old Novist Menu of skills Erase them and buy, redistribute your skills to the Aprenise line. Witch means you dont loose skill points and have to grind them all over again!! Great move on there part.
Now a quick summary of skills and what they do: First of all ALL classes share alot of skills, They all share 4-5 arrow elemental spells and i think alot of sword styels. But dont fret, all classes have certain class assined skills that only they can have, and later after closed beta some quest will give special skills but at this time they are not. Yo have sword skills, Swipe skills hitting multipal targets, Knockdown skills for when you want to kill that person being anoying and following you around kill stealing your mobs. Magic arrows, 1 hit targeted spells AoE magics for mages Armor up skills, HP skill witch is under upgrade skill very valuble to get sence you will have only 55 hp almost forever if you do not get them. Special skills, such as Aura, Class skills, Combo system Witch are the best skills and require SP points to use,( Side note: you gain SP by hitting things, dummys mosters, not players.) And then you have those pesky interface skills.
Ok on to leveling up! Very quick very short: You level up from grindign quest! GRATZ you gain 5 skill points most of the time, put them into 3 stat points Strenght Intelegence ( i have little sence i cannot spell ) and finally Dexterity. There are no level requirements on armors or weapons, there are on accesorys, just stat points needed to wear gear. Level up, put your stat points in, then wear new items. Bout it, besides unlocking more quest every time you level.
Now for the tricky Rank up thing, sence so many noobs do not understand it: Says Rank up level10 and stat points needed in your chareter menu, So by the time you hit 10,20,30,40,50 you should have those stats so you can do the special quest and get more special skills. If you do not meet those requirements you cannot do the quest and cannot get combo system, Aura mode ect ect. But dont worry you can save the quest forever till you have enof stats. But recomended you do them at level 10.
PK! PK!: Not much of playing killing going on, someone is kill stealing mobs from you, hold shift+attack skill and teach him that he shouldn't do that. Only bad thing about that is if you kill him you get like -10000 honor opints and cant craft anything..not to mention if you go RED named after like 1-5 PK's you cannot teleport throw worlds( witch is highly needed) Cannot talk to NPC's to buy anything for a certain amout of time witch i have to say is very gay. So here is a tip, Just hit the guy that is taking your kills a little bit make him run around getting mod Agro ( Means mobs attack him when he gets close ) then let them finish him. You get no -10000 honor points, He dies and get XP loose and -hp for death penalty and for a min or too you have free rain on the mosters. Huray for letting kill stealers die infront of your eyes! Besides that kind of PK you can requres duels to get like +1 honor point a duel. very lame..no mass pvp yet.might not be any sence korean mmorpg.
Ok, Well thats about it sence this is my first writen review. I know i cant spell, i know i have terrible gramer, and i know you probbly PWN's me with your witty remarks. Im not going to put my opion of the game on this review sence everyone will just post NO YOUR WRONG! So read the info, use it, and when you play the game make up your own mind. Now to post my level, level 38 Force blader Named Ourselves level 14 Mage and a level 3 warrior babby! Have fun and i hope this answers questions if you have them.
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Good post! - a little rough on the grammar, but it works.
Recently got added to the closed BETA and all I can say is awesome! Currently only at lvl 15 so everything is new to me, but I am definatley enjoying it.
Just want to add in a little info about this game. This game has been released in Korea for some time now (not sure how long exactly), and is doing very well. This closed BETA is merely a partial version of the actual Korean version, they are just testing it to work out some bugs and mainly the korean-english translation. From what I understand, the content we get with this closed BETA is not quite 40% of the full version. IE: Korean version has a level cap of 150 compared to the beta's 50, korean version also contains faction vs faction pvp which has not been introduced yet (also much more I don't know about). This is just the tip of the iceberg which means, lots more to come!
If you are interested I highly reccommend applying for the closed BETA, seems like every day they are adding many more applicants into the beta. Check it out!
Not trying to turn anyone away (as i'll be a paying customer myself) but just a friendly warning ^_^
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Thanks for this post..!!
I understand much of it..!!
It will be my first time to try this combo system..since most of the MMORPG's doesn't have this..
I have just been accepted into the closed beta; upon the return of my PC from the repair man,I will be trying this out and actually making an effort to judge this BETA game.
I wouldn't mind knowing at what level/point does CABAL really get interesting,the main chunk of its PvP/PvE content open up? (e.g- Silkroad at level 20 the triangular conflict and PK options open up to you,becomes interesting) That would be the first thing I would aim for,even if the initial graphics/controls do not impress.
Combo system......interesting by sounds of it.
lol im in the beta , thinking only one thing , this game will rock my socks LOL .... sadly ... no it didnt rocked my socks off , just for one little detail . the CAMARA angle .... i thought that it would be like a regular mmorpg , likw moving freely and that stuff u like to do , its like Conquer or something like that .
Im not saying the game sucks , but for people with a SUPER HYPE like when i saw the trailer (super cool one)
I'v also been in beta test but after awhile (a week) at lvl 48 decided to stop. Found some bugs, others were already reported by higher lvl players. Anyway the game wasn't worth so much hype as i thought at first. Sure it's beta and they have many features locked as they said, thru i dont understand to what end they locked them. If testing then testing If not then well end game stuff might be buggy and prolly it will be atleast to some point. Back to my opinion.
Game is not bad, but it lacks things like in PVP department as mentioned in 1st post: either shift attack or go to special "WAR" server where u can kill any1 on sight. Thats just lol u go into town and kaboom every1 is shooting eachother. Wheres logic in that ? Or sense? Or well reason .. whatever. I bet later on u'll be gettin some rewards for those honour points u accumulate, but well game still lacks something for me as there are no to be seen factions cuz all play for the same good of the game " to avoid destruction of the world or so ".
Also thru all those lvl 1 - 48 I haven't encountered single instance or well anything involving party. I mean cmon it's a mmo where ppl communicate and do stuff together for more fun, but through all those levels it was SINGLE PLAYER MODE ON FTW. Though it is not a bad single player mode, but all interaction with others is done via trading for itamz buyin/sellin or sumtimes requestin pvp or sumtimes goin to WAR server for mass massacre without any higher reason.
So so a big rant i have here but well not a very flexible game it seems to me. Solo play ok, pvp not ok(lacks factions), party mode not ok(or maybe 1-50 is locked, though as i asked on theyr forums, admin answered that "PARTIES and stuff" will be available at lvl 70+ so oh yeah grind ur ass off so in the uber leet end of the game u could party to do an instance.
Oh right almost forgot chat system = gay. In short its just broke, hardly u can understand if ur talkin to ppl around u or to worldwide chan, or if person u pm'ed actually got the call. Well it's just broke. And also camera as mentioned in some post above is retarded. Though they said they'll fix that, so at release it might be okey.
/end rant
P.S. This kind of is a good summary in itself. http://www.cabalonline.com/forum/showthread.php?t=15675
Link to the official forums where admins are asking lvl 50 (cap for beta test, thru on some channels it was available to level past it *oh well*) theyr opinion bout the game. Like 3 best/worst things of the game and stuff.
regardign the reveiw, PK is there, You can kill 1 person without any loss to you honor unless you go on a mass rampage and kill everyone then you dont loose it
Sorry everyone i think i took the notification for this thred off or something. But asfar as the starting to get better as a game for Cabel it pretty much stays the same. Attually it gets worse, later on you get less and less quest witch leave you to grind the end or almost half of your levell once you are around level 40. And sence the game can go up to 100 or 150 i think probbly +100 there might be some levels where you have 0 quest at all and are forced to grind the whole thing. The only good thing about leveling up is unlocking new stronger skills and figuring out what the incraments of 10 levels quest skill really does for your class. Force sword ability to enchant his weapon with any of his arrow attacking skills is AWSOME makes you hit extreamly hard and possibly will make force blades the strongest hitting class in the game.
But, unforchantly i have to bring up some bad news. I recently went back to download and play Cabel online again sence all other games have lost its apeal for me, when i saw on there webpage that open beta will be free to play for only 4 weeks. I herd rummors that it might not be free to play and i was thinking that they really were going to go into item mall. But sadly the game will not be free to play forever. The develpors saw a money making sceme when closed beta got so many aplications and just could not resist makeing more money with pay to play. So after reading this i stoped my download and kind of dont want to play the game at all now. I did get up to level 39 befor i quit and went to play some more games. One rason, you cannot train skills on dummys in the Ice world. Cannot buy 800 mana potions and skill up over night, so what is the point of those dummys? just to raise your skill point meter bar witch is lame.
There are alot of games that will be coming out this year that you should take a look at:
The Chronicles of spellborn- Tcos.com( One that i have been personaly waiting 6 months for, and signed up for beta testing the very first day)
Warhammer online- dont know the website off my hand but probbly warhammer.com or warhammeronline.com
Vanguard- Maker of ever quest, very hush hush on game but might be very well maid.
On that note im sad to say im depressed becuase i have no games to play:( So if anyone finds any open betas or gets a friend invite to a beta send it my way!:)
As always you rule me.