Riders of Icarus

Hyperpsycrow · June 2016

Hi

I am in beta 3 or is it 2 hmmm well this Riders of icarus seems to be a great mmorpg even if you think oh no yet another game, then this has the taming mount feature..and you can even make em to ur own minion to fight for you and tame a new mount..even some boss pets can be tamed.

It has the crafting and gathering mines and shrums ect not sure yet else yet due to im low lvl.

- Solo dungeons
- Lots of quest
- Flying mounts later in the game
- Great detailed gfx
- Good character creation ( not detailed like BDO but still great )
- Great animated and visual effects skills
- Gear enchants and socket seal stone gear
- Havent tested pvp yet but i bet its good
- aim or classic target system like wow
- I think its free top play

So when this game releases im gona sugegst you to get in to this game

Krimzin · June 2016

Been playing the beta as well.

Pros
Holy Trinity MMO Style.. Tanks/DPS/Healer
First thing.. Some of the best graphics I've seen. CryEngine is sweet.
Mount gathering.. Not my thing but it is a nice change of pace.
Combat.. They give you choices.. Action Combat.. more like a console game.. or Standard MMO.
Combat is fun because of the combo system.
Gathering.. same as most other MMO
Havent got into Crafting yet.
The Gear enhancement feature is fun and i can see it taking some time.
Both Weapons and Armor models are off the hook.. some of the best.. kinda FFXIV ish.
A little Asian influence but no where close to Asta.
Leveling.. Decent pace, not super fast which I like.
Flying Combat.. haven't gotten to it yet.
Mobs run and agro other mobs.. Love it.
You can solo but unlike WoW, you can't really faceroll elites and higher levele elites are even worse.

Cons

Need a pretty solid machine to play on full graphics. Im running with a 980GTX with no problem.
Limited Classes Guardian/Rogue/ Berserker/ Healer/ Wizard
No Race Choices currently

Im sure there are other Cons but Im not far enough in to know them.
Overall this game seems solid. Unsure of End game atm and thats a big one for me.
Time will tell.

Definitely worth trying.

Watch this:

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/games/riders-of-icarus-mounts-gameplay-trailer/vp-BBtqVZC

LIOKI · June 2016

Taming is the only decent part of the game and it gets old quick. Also you can kill a mount before a player can tame it, making griefing a real thing really early in game.

Character creation is decent, nothing great, but it's not bad either.

The instanced areas are large and very, very empty.

The combat is potato. It's hotbar combat, they try to hide it by allowing you to use the LMB and RMB to cast skills but it's done poorly and using the hotbars is quicker and more responsive.

They didn't take any time to polish anything in the game. Some of the textures are very poorly done.

Questing is the aweful and typical kill x and get y.

Voice acting is cringe worthy (at least it's there though)
You can spam the "F" button causing NPC's to glitch the first millisecond of dialogue. Funny the first time.

Limited mobs spawn in an area so if it's crowded fighting for quest updates gets annoying quickly. Same for item pickups for quests.

There could be more good I haven't gotten to yet, I could only play to level 12, but there is too much bad to allow myself to continue anymore than that.

Perjure · June 2016

LIOKI said:

Taming is the only decent part of the game and it gets old quick. Also you can kill a mount before a player can tame it, making griefing a real thing really early in game.

Character creation is decent, nothing great, but it's not bad either.

The instanced areas are large and very, very empty.

The combat is potato. It's hotbar combat, they try to hide it by allowing you to use the LMB and RMB to cast skills but it's done poorly and using the hotbars is quicker and more responsive.

They didn't take any time to polish anything in the game. Some of the textures are very poorly done.

Questing is the aweful and typical kill x and get y.

Voice acting is cringe worthy (at least it's there though)
You can spam the "F" button causing NPC's to glitch the first millisecond of dialogue. Funny the first time.

Limited mobs spawn in an area so if it's crowded fighting for quest updates gets annoying quickly. Same for item pickups for quests.

There could be more good I haven't gotten to yet, I could only play to level 12, but there is too much bad to allow myself to continue anymore than that.

It is a beta. Each beta they have tested different elements and game play was different each round. This beta they are running 32 bit. If you are taming a mount it cannot be killed. It can be killed BEFORE you start taming it, if that is what you meant.

LIOKI · June 2016

Except the game is 2 years old.....so these are unacceptable.
I just waited at a spot where players wanted to tame a named wolf and kept attacking it as soon as it spawned. This is griefing. I only did it to see if it was an actual thing.

Solar_Prophet · June 2016

Getting some stuttering this test that wasn't there during the previous one.

Graphics... they seem nice, but there's almost something like a blur effect or something around the terrain. Best way to describe it is like watching a modern 3D film without the glasses on, though nowhere near as severe. 15 minutes and my eyes are aching from the strain, and I can't find an option that has anything to do with it. It's not the HDR, which I turned off because it's absolutely horrible.

Graphics issues aside, it's an okay game. I could see myself playing it a little, but other than the mount system and flying combat, there's nothing it does that other games don't do better. Plus it's a Nexon game, so pay to win is a concern.

Jonnyp2 · June 2016

LIOKI said:

Taming is the only decent part of the game and it gets old quick. Also you can kill a mount before a player can tame it, making griefing a real thing really early in game.

Character creation is decent, nothing great, but it's not bad either.

The instanced areas are large and very, very empty.

The combat is potato. It's hotbar combat, they try to hide it by allowing you to use the LMB and RMB to cast skills but it's done poorly and using the hotbars is quicker and more responsive.

They didn't take any time to polish anything in the game. Some of the textures are very poorly done.

Questing is the aweful and typical kill x and get y.

Voice acting is cringe worthy (at least it's there though)
You can spam the "F" button causing NPC's to glitch the first millisecond of dialogue. Funny the first time.

Limited mobs spawn in an area so if it's crowded fighting for quest updates gets annoying quickly. Same for item pickups for quests.

There could be more good I haven't gotten to yet, I could only play to level 12, but there is too much bad to allow myself to continue anymore than that.

While definitely not great, coming from BDO the voice acting in this game is Oscar worthy. Actually that's not true at all...It's pretty bad, but still better than other recent Eastern mmos I've played.

Whats wrong with with tab target and "hot bar" combat? Personally I'm tired of every mmo trying to follow this action combat, "skill based" fad. As if aiming is the only "skill" in gaming. Combat isn't great here, but it seemed somewhat responsive at least.

The game seemed decently polished and ran pretty well for the couple hours or so I played. I mean I don't go out of my way to analyze every texture, but nothing really stood out to me as "very poorly done".

maybe I just did enough damage to steal the tag from the quest mobs I faced, but it seemed like anyone who tags a mob get credit. The spawn rate seemed fine to me, took about 15 seconds for a named guy to respawn and I never had trouble finding normal mobs.

Anyways the game seems decent enough. I'm probably a little more positive than I should be since I went into the beta expecting complete garbage and found a playable game. I don't think I would go out of my way to recommend it and I'm not sure I'll even play, but if you're desperate to find a new mmo it might be worth trying or something....

Nightlite · June 2016

Umm.. Tank/Heals/DPS and dungeons to run. You wouldn't think it.. but good luck finding that anywhere else these days. That's all I want from a game, so if it takes resurrecting a four year old game to get it, so be it.

Otherwise.. its back to Tera.

DAOWAce · June 2016

FreshFrostGaming said:

well this Riders of icarus seems to be a great mmorpg

lol what.

It's one of the most generic pieces of crap to be released in the last 7 years.

The industry's moved on; nobody cares about games like this unless they're babbies to the MMORPG genre.

Play Vindictus or even Dragon Nest instead; so much better games. Hell, Guild Wars is now free to play too, so much better. Or Black Desert, if you want to pay an upfront fee.

There is no reason for this game to even exist, or for Nexon to even be publishing it when their other games outclass it in every possible way.

spikers14 · June 2016

Solar_Prophet said:

Getting some stuttering this test that wasn't there during the previous one.

Graphics... they seem nice, but there's almost something like a blur effect or something around the terrain. Best way to describe it is like watching a modern 3D film without the glasses on, though nowhere near as severe. 15 minutes and my eyes are aching from the strain, and I can't find an option that has anything to do with it. It's not the HDR, which I turned off because it's absolutely horrible.

Graphics issues aside, it's an okay game. I could see myself playing it a little, but other than the mount system and flying combat, there's nothing it does that other games don't do better. Plus it's a Nexon game, so pay to win is a concern.

It's like a cloudiness or haze in the middle area of the terrain? I'm not digging that graphic effect. The motion blur I turned off, which made it tolerable. Also, the real time optimization doesn't seem to do much.

Nothing's really grabbed me about the game either. I might give it another shot tomorrow with a clear head.

Krimzin · June 2016

DAOWAce said:

FreshFrostGaming said:

well this Riders of icarus seems to be a great mmorpg

lol what.

It's one of the most generic pieces of crap to be released in the last 7 years.

The industry's moved on; nobody cares about games like this unless they're babbies to the MMORPG genre.

Play Vindictus or even Dragon Nest instead; so much better games. Hell, Guild Wars is now free to play too, so much better. Or Black Desert, if you want to pay an upfront fee.

There is no reason for this game to even exist, or for Nexon to even be publishing it when their other games outclass it in every possible way.

Amazing the things you learn about a person from reading their comments. I get he doesn't like the game but almost every comment in his 174 are Toxic. Life must suck if you have that much negativity. Good luck man, you need it.

As for the Riders, its not a bad game at all. It has its issues just like every other game.

mbrodie · June 2016

LIOKI said:

Except the game is 2 years old.....so these are unacceptable.
I just waited at a spot where players wanted to tame a named wolf and kept attacking it as soon as it spawned. This is griefing. I only did it to see if it was an actual thing.

you wat m8.... that named wolf is a quest mob people need to kill to advance in the storyline....
people actually form groups to get the kill for multiple people at once
the people trying to tame it are griefing the people that want to move on

plus there is multiple channels per zone... so i mean switch if need be

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