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Lord of the Rings Online: Riders of Rohan Arrives, New Trailer Released
SBFord
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I love Lord of the Rings. I really do. I played LotrO since release but after Star Wars and Guild Wars 2 the game feels old. The year we waited for the free to play changes was really bad. No new stuff (more or less)for 1 year. Now new things are rare PvMP is the worst in MMORPG history. In fact no real new stuff for monsterplay since release.
The spirit of Tolkien vanished. You have to make stupid quests on and off. In the last years it becomes a wow clone without an own soul.
I think Rohan is the last hope for LotrO from my point of view.
I love Lord of the Rings Online. But if I start playing Rohan and the first quest is " Ohh you are a hobbit please go and kill 20 people because they have stolen my necklace". Then I start to cry.
The Lord of the Mounts Online.....
Do i need to say more? After all thats what this game has become, cha cha.
hmm, I've actually had similiar thoughts.
Especially after the last expansion. At one point one of the chiefs (or whatever they were) asked me to help the people of his village and the quests that I started coming upon were just so "not me".
I then went out to just kill orcs and the like but he world is compiled of these textures that just don't work well when applied to large areas.
I"ll see how other people react to this new expansion before I buy it.
Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
Sad to say but the game really is looking old these days. As much as I want to love this game I can't get pass the clunky combat no matter how many times I give it a try.
I buy all my expansions with store points I get as a vip account. I will most likely give this a try down the road again when I get bored with my current MMO. The pattern I have used since the launch of the game.
Maybe its just me but IMHO this game should have been a sandbox. I hope some day before I die I will get that feeling of being in a world again for time is ticking and it seems to be going faster by the minute. :P
Hehe, yep no panda's.
Don't understand the complaints about "clunky combat", I have played a lot of MMO's with far worst combat animations. As to the graphics, unless you are a real connoisseur they are pretty much up to par with most of the other MMO's. The nice thing, Lotro plays on just about any computer. At least there is ton's of content, unlike many of the newer MMO's.
Love LOTRO. Great story and wonderful environmental art, though the characters are definitely showing their age.
I was in the beta for this expansion and mounted combat is a lot of fun. It takes a bit to get used to - maybe an hour or less, and there is a basic tutorial - but it is a new take on combat and definitely something new to play around with.
Release notes are here:
http://lorebook.lotro.com/wiki/Update_8,_Riders_of_Rohan,_Official
Not sure how you get to the fourth expansion and still play it with "clunky" combat. Not sure what you mean by it either.
Characters could use a remake but the graphics settings I use make this game scream "this is an MMO" environment.
You woul be better to post the known issues. When you see those, your stomach would turn.
No idea how they could release this expac with known bugs like that.
It seems to get worse and worse with each expac.
I remember well when LOTRO launched and all the polished, nearly bugfree, book updates up till Moria. Back then Turbine was praised for the stable good and well tested roll out of updates.
/sigh
i just love that "clunky combat" whiners!
yeah, the combat is little slow paced, but it's not clunky. actualy i think it have beautiful choreography.
Yeah, I've never thought of LOTRO combat as clunky. Slow and boring sure, but not clunky.
I've never wanted mounted combat and so I have low expectations for this expansion. My guess is it follows the trend of being worse than the previous expansion. But at least they tried doing something different and capturing the essence of Rohan, even if it is lore breaking.
Until you cancel your subscription, you are only helping to continue the cycle of mediocrity.
Anyways GW2 spoiled me way to far to even consider going back for Rohan. The grind for legendary items, immersion breaking store everywhere, quests locking further quests keeping me in quest hub with no freedom of exploration, raid for good gear. Nah this is so old and boring!
Have to admit I'll miss how the epic story unfolds, but then I don't think LOTRO engine is ready for big epic battles that awaits. 40 people in one place make server laggy and seeing "epic" battle between 3 Rohirrims , 3 orcs and me felt really lame.
Enough of that nonsense. There are NO issue with playability! Been playing for two days now and no one in my kin has had any issues. Way to make a mountain out of a molehill!
Again there is nothing wrong with character models or the annimations, it is a figment of your imagination. You want to see bad examples of such, go try some of the f2p games, even the new ones are bad.
It is a good game, always was a good game. Not a great game and not even a very good game, but a good game. It has totally changed from the first release. Back then it was a quest based MMO with multiple ways to acquire gear at the end game, which was a couple of raids as well as PVMP. Now, because they switched to F2P, the game is a quest hub, barter fest with only one way to acquire gear via end game instances. Still a good game though.
Combat has always been clunky with this game. It feels as if your character is stuck on the ground, mostly because you cannot really move in combat and there is auto attack which does NOT sync up with your special attacks, especially on the slower induction skills. The graphics were nice when it was released, now they are really old looking. The art direction is still nice and the music in Rohan is top notch all the way.
If you dont want to play clunk combat classes, play the Runekeeper and go lightning spec and most of your attacks are insta cast so you can play on the run. Warden is a great class too and is not that clunky.