Age of the chosen is here...

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• Darkened Member Posts: 183

  November 2007

  That 1v1 Elimination is looking very sexy, and to be honest, is sorely needed.

  I'll be keeping an eye on Fury as it grows.
• Coldmeat Member UncommonPosts: 3,409

  November 2007

  Some interesting changes. Would be nice if they lowered the grind on getting your skills unlocked.

  Kinda iffy about making rare gear more powerfull as it favors those that play 24/7, especially given the less than stellar matchmaking system.
  
• A55A5IN Member Posts: 175

  November 2007

  Originally posted by Coldmeat
  
  
  Some interesting changes. Would be nice if they lowered the grind on getting your skills unlocked.
  Kinda iffy about making rare gear more powerfull as it favors those that play 24/7, especially given the less than stellar matchmaking system.
  

  They are not making rare gear more powerful but making it so that rare powerful procs on gear only appear on high tier gear.

  From what I understand it this means you wont be able to wear high tier powerful gear and have lots of tier 10 abilities at the same time. You'll have to choose between high tier gear and fewer abilites or high tier abilities and low tier gear.

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• rexximus Member Posts: 17

  November 2007

   Having some brand new game types sounds good but in all honesty Fury is having enough problems in obvious population decreases. The current population cant even support the vortex match on a regular basis. With another 8 ppl required to run a carnage match, i cant see this being used as much after players get over the "new game" appeal.

  Dont get me wrong, they sound like some cool new games and i especially like the sound of the 1v1 elim, but i think this is where most of the action will be. Which unless the population goes against its current trend will just pull players from the already existing games. Players are just going to que up for what they can get into with a less wait period imo, and to only have to wait for 1 other person well... could be wrong... but we'll see.

  I guess this will come down to whether the new tutorial, practice area and interface changes, will help out new players and keep some of them in the game, as to whether it will see matches being played in all of the available arenas.

  The HP bonuses are already being argued as to whether they will be a good thing or not on the official Fury forums. However i think most ppl that consider themselves "hardcore" PvP'ers will know there is no point having HP if you cant keep it, and everyone will have the same base HP anyways. So i think it will just make for longer battles which should be the basis of whether it is a good thing or not, and IMHO i think a long battle is better than a shorter one, even if it is 1 sided...

   

  Population and performance were the main reasons why i left the game after about 2 months of playing and to a lesser point some imbalance issues. I think some of the new abilities will help out in some cases, mainly against oracles and crowd control which are considered "over powered", but there are still a majority of skills that just arent being used and require a buff in a later patch to have any reason for anyone to want to use them.

  As for performance and bugs, well there seems to be only a handfull of players that claim they can run Fury without complications. Which then look silly as Auran openly disscuss known issues and bringing out patches to fix them, and on a couple of occasions had to make more attempts to fix the same issues.

  Performance has been a big issue for the majority of players that have attempted to play the game and left because of its "lack of". Some issues are still present for a lot of ppl who are trying out the game or returning to see if things have improved, and again it seems that the same handful of ppl have "no complications". A lot of patches had made the performance of the game even worse for many that i had associated with, and has improved little for a lot of players.

   

  While writing this, the ladder numbers are at 1005 players (subject to change of course). That is 1005 ppl that have played a battle in the last week, which i might add has included a patch. Pretty poor numbers for any game imo, even if it doubles in the next few days. Just check out the statstics and ladders on unleashthefury.com where you might also notice that a large number of these players have not played many matches at all. As you get towards the end some players have logged in for 1 match lol.

  I jumped on last night Prime Time in Aus to find 1 Elim and 2 BB and 3 training BB matches running . Thats a total of 36 players that were currently playing in matches (8ppl required for Elim, 8 for BB and 4 for training BB). Today at primetime US there were 5 Elims, 2 BB's and 4 training BB's. I didnt stick around to see what the best score was over a long period of time, i was in game to disband a clan and that is what i saw when i checked the numbers.

  AND THEY ARE ADDING 2 NEW GAME TYPES LOL

  Despite ppl saying the matchmaking system will get better as the population increases, whilst true, goes against the current trend of the games population levels, and unless the new content changes things drastically I can only see things getting worse for Fury.

   

  I have defended this game in the past- during BETA- and stayed with it under the impression that it HAS potential. I started a clan upon release with a friend i met in BETA and we created this with an approach to have fun and help out new players. We lost a lot of players due to the underlining issues in the game. Some simply because they were getting "pwned" as some would say, but most due to the overall poor performance of the game and lack of population and interest.

  Whilst now I believe Fury HAD potential I think it has missed its oportunity to shine and have tried to be as informative as i can so that anyone interested in this game doesnt have to sift through all the crap that has been posted about its current state and how it got there.

  I have a high end game machine and have no problems running new mmo's and other new games, even games still in BETA. Fair enough if you like the game as i once did, but we need to be realistic.

  I hope the upcomming content makes a difference to the game, but that remains to be seen.

  Best of luck to everyone still enjoying the game.

   

  Cheers,

   

  Rexx

  
• hellsonix Member Posts: 8

  December 2007

  Well population has increased considerably with the new patch albeit theres probably quite a lot of Chosen (free2play status) running around.

  The recent news is anyone upgrading to Hero (game bought status) by the end of  the year will become Immortal (subsciption status) for life. This should mean that most of those Chosen will become regulars.

  This can only be a good thing.
• hellsonix Member Posts: 8

  December 2007

  Originally posted by Darkened
  
  
  That 1v1 Elimination is looking very sexy, and to be honest, is sorely needed.
  I'll be keeping an eye on Fury as it grows.
  

  It does make a change from 4vs4 Elim though the maps need some adjusting.