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what makes this game so great
this game is in beta atm is it not???
if it is and anyone who has played it could you please tell me what makes this game good...or tell me whats bad about it....because it looks pretty interesting....
only thing i know abou this game is it is the first multi-genre mmorpg thats gonna be out........
but can anyone please tell me whats soo good or bad about this game....
Uilwen
Waiting for
Everquest 2
World of warcraft
Half-life 2
Guild wars
Currently playing
Everquest...45 wood elf Ranger
DAoC.....26 Paladin *albion*
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WoW
-Rhalon 85 B.E. rogue
-Rhalon 81 UD Mage
-Doneski 85 Orc death knight
"Everyones life has a beginning and an end, No one can change that."-Hiko
"If you wish to taste the ground, then feel free to attack."-Kenshin Himura
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Was in open beta, but now they are in closed focus beta - adding new testers back in again as they go.
This is the first time I have ever heard of any game developer extending beta - going back to a closed testing. I think that speaks very well of Nevrax and their determination to put out a game that is a finished product! The other mmorpg developers should take note, because many of them have put out unfinished products and ended up losing many customers (myself included). I will not pay to play a beta product, and neither will many other gamers.
That said, while I was in beta for SoR, I very much enjoyed the style of play, the options, the community. There was work to be done, but I could see they were headed in the right direction for this type of game.
Keep your eye on this one.
Nothing makes this a good game. I was accepted into closed beta and told I would get a cd by mail in a week -> two weeks. Two!! months later no cd, and I wasn't the only one. It was so bad they had to add a link to let people start down loading the game. On top of that the first link they offered from their site was a french site with a borked link. Finally when I got into the game I was turned off. The movies and screenies do the game much more justice than the game itself. The best thing about this game was they created a unique world and characters versus following the ever popular mid-evil fantasy route. Returning to closed beta is a first for any game company, but only time will tell if they can turn this title around.
- The first time I played for 3 minutes and logged off. Few weeks went by and the icon on my desktop was bothering me. So to be fair I made a commitment to log back in and play for atleast 30 minutes. I did so to find the controls where very odd. The world was empty which makes even in an empty game of beta testing; a worthless MMO.....rpg. The loot was worthless. The items where very boring, but you did have the choice early on as to what color armor you could wear. Although once you equip the armor it appears a different color on your toon than it did before buying. The newb spell effects where descent, but starting as a warrior needs alot more to grab your attention. There are many out dated games that would blow this away. So for now be happy you haven't had the chance to play this.
"You can lay on your back for hours and imagine clouds are various animals, but in the end they are just clouds."
Krityc 2/9/04
holla!
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"Hey, I'll tell you what. You can get a good look at a butcher's azz by sticking your head up there. But, wouldn't you rather to take his word for it?" - Tommy Boy
Uilwen
Waiting for
Everquest 2
World of warcraft
Half-life 2
Guild wars
Currently playing
Everquest...45 wood elf Ranger
DAoC.....26 Paladin *albion*
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WoW
-Rhalon 85 B.E. rogue
-Rhalon 81 UD Mage
-Doneski 85 Orc death knight
"Everyones life has a beginning and an end, No one can change that."-Hiko
"If you wish to taste the ground, then feel free to attack."-Kenshin Himura
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As a tester who put many hours (weeks) into The Saga of Ryzom I would suggest you follow this link http://213.208.119.223/ryzom_beta3.exe , and join us later today 01/07/04. I'm afraid it is a 1Gb download. The server should be open at 15.00 Gmt, for a free weekend preview of the best game that you can actually play to be in development this year.
Any negative views expressed previously are from people who have experienced an early beta test of the game and expected to be playing a retail product. Beta by it's very nature meaning unfinished and requiring testing to iron out bugs and implement new features.
I can assure you the Ryzom experience is awesome. If you can download the client you will not be disappointed.
Come and experience the world of Ryzom. Tell them Psi sent you and I hope to see you there.
Psi.
It is interesting and the devs are doing the right thing extending the beta.
Currently as the beta stands the game has little rpg element, in this i mean the missions are quite cookie-cutter quite mundane or pointless
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Still i believe that real quests will be added closer to release. Still the engine is fine the spell system is unique, the character/universe/story behind the game is also unique. The graphics IMO are very nice and the character you can play have their own settings and personalities. For instance the matis are supposedly aristrocrats who love power, the tryker are care-free pirate people....
I would recommend trying the beta, still understand the game has at least 2 more months to go until it is released so dont expect it to be a finished product even now. I would say these weekends are to show people the new features and keep them interested.
As to the guy who received his cd late... yes this was a problem early on because the developers forgot to ask for your state (im assuming u live in america) and thus the cd would have been delayed alot... Blame American Mail system not the devs, i mean come on 1 bit of info and they can fill it in from the postcode etc seems a bit lame to me
. I personally got my cd in 2 days of it being posted.
And you views of closed beta are from 3 maybe 4 months back which is a long time for a mmorpg to come, so i would suggest even you take a look at it. The new fame system is cool, and you can attack npcs characters now which is fun :P. Additionally the tryker race has been opened up which many people have waited a long time to play
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To summarise... Choose for yourself, Download the game and play this weekend from thursday to monday
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I cant play it tho
, even tho im in the FBT (new closed beta) im moving house so wiont see what happens 
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Beta Tested: Lineage 2, Ryzom, City of Heroes, RYL, EverQuest 2 World Of Warcraft European
Truly Loved: World of Warcraft
Damn! It was confusing getting started... The whole quest part was not ther or unplayable 4 lower lvl chars, and you couldn´t see what lvl/difficulty the creatures had, so the 1st. week was a battle of survivel.
If you are a solo player, is this NOT a game 4 you! You lvl 25 times faster in groups (did a test)
They nerfed the heals, team dieded and had to remake ther chars. Thoes who healed was angry on the devs, and thoes who depended on healers got killed and got angry on the healers and the devs.
When you get the system, is it allready boring you, same things is don time after time, nothing new/ new options as you gained lvls, maybe a new craft or a new spell, but basicly the same all the way...
Im 3 weeks i reached lvl 105 (max 250)
So in 2 months you will be finished whit lvling? No more developing your character? tsk tsk.
Dont think they have thorght about that... but maybe they wanted all lvl chars fast? and raised the lvling speed... But then again, if you lvled slower you would get bored realy fast, becouse you would be needed to repeat the same things again and again.
I played until they maked it a closed beta, and im not returning!
All in all: Its a vary beatyful game, nice grafics, nice sounds, a great backgroudstory and simply a great idea. But... yes ther is a but! Its confusing and after a week of play, you get bored.
I only keppt playing becouse when i sign up for a beta, ill do what i can to help the devs, makeing thers games better. And hoped they would take notis of my surgestions, bug/exploit reporting and so on. but they didnt!
And the fact that ther bug reporting tool didnt work, and you was directed to a email address, whit a limited inbox, so you got a error msg about "not recieved couse: bla bla..."
And no! They didn´t take notis of bug reports/exploits!
The 1 mayor + in this game is that they have admins ingame like ordinary chars, and atleast one of each nationality!!!
~Yiir~
~Yiir~
So many things to make!
scientology
In the time ive played ive managed to make some friends and level myself enough to be somewhat poweful. The learning curve is a bit steep but its extremely worth it once you get yourself into it. The hardest obsticle to overcome is the interface mostly because it looks like a linux interface and linux sucks. But once yo can navigate it you become more at home and you are able to actually start playing the game.
To answer your question id have to say its the skill system that makes the game great. You can edit every skill you train from a trainer and combine it with other skills to form you own actions. For instance i have a spell that hits one baddy and bounces onto another one. Well i did until they disable the area of effect feature because of testing!! That made me really mad but i guess at this stage they want to make sure everything works perfectly and FOCUS on things that need fixing. They recently opened the beta to everyone for a weekend and we had an event on the focus server that was really really coo.l. It was a pvp event and I hate pk usually but when they gave it rp signifigants it became much more meaningfull..
So yeah the skills are great and so is the crafting which anyone can do sinc eyour not restricted to one class or another. anyone can be anthing which is a lot like uo and uo was the best, rite?
??°³ª¹ºMadgunzº¹ª³??
No offense but can you read???... This was already answered and you get a big DUH! from me. There were several good posts explaining the good and bad points of the game and in my opinion its really fun. Find out for yourself the next open beta... Just dont talk to me when your there... I hate bad spellers LOL!
they took it back into beta and that's about the only time that ever happened. that says to me the devs care.
That's a good point, I really never thought of it that way. I thought they just wanted to give people a taste, but then go back into development and I thought that was kinda shady.
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Pvp = godliness
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Pvp = godliness
Playing: WoW
Waiting on: Gods and Heroes
After reading the previews about it, it sounds completely different than any other type of MMO out there. You know, kinda like how CoH was a different take on a few other ideas. This sounds pretty interesting to me. It said the open beta was over? Well, if they went into focus testing, that's pretty good I guess... no bugs from the start is the best start, IMO.
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MMORPGs for life!
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One of the things IMHO that makes it great right now while in beta is that they are actuly listening ot the testers. It might be taking them longer then i'd like to implement changes, but overall they are doing a good job with the development cycle.
There are a lof of great stuff in this game.
For me, the artwork is the best ever! Weapons, guns, chars, doors!!! Animals, etc...
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