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Crowfall Beta First Impressions | MMORPG.com
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Crowfall Beta First Impressions | MMORPG.com
With so many games attempting to innovate their respective genres, the MMORPG has been in need of some serious love and attention in recent years. Thankfully we've moved past the age of every new title needing to be the next "WOW killer", and have instead progressed to a time where MMO's are more interested in creating something new rather than the same thing but "better." Matt took a look at Crowfall in the most recent beta test.
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Interested to see your future thoughts because my likes/dislikes are pretty opposite yours up to Dislike #4.
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What "visual quest" is that a typo, maybe he means cues or something?
Good to see a review for CF, but the launch review is what I am really waiting for.
Personally I love the racial/class locks.
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You both realise of course that over time every race will have every class and they will try to pass that of as new content? Happens every time I have seen race restrictions. Not saying they could release them all now, just that it is not a priority when down the line they can do it.
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Yeah I read the chart the wrong way... I still think it cheapens the experience of the game. And like the other person said, they could just unlock more class/races later on.
And I think they do the restriction not out of laziness (well maybe a little), but because they have it set up like that in their lore - as if no one ever learned a new fighting style from a different culture *eyeroll*
It's done for flavour I guess. Personally I rather liked the way EQ2 did it, where the "evil" faction had Dirges and the orther side had Bards and so on. Basically the same class but flavoured differently.
Demon Hunter. Limited to Elves only. Yes, I get it's a lore thing, just pointing out that even WoW still has race/class locks.
All this is a bit by the by for me though, I am not going to drop the game before launch for something like this, it is small fry. The graphics are borderline but the gameplay may swing it for me.
Centaur (Horse) vs Guinecean (Rat)
Minotaur (Bull) or Elken (Dear) vs Fae (A fairy type with wings)
The rest are humanoids and fairly similar
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There is also a lot to talk abotu in each topic mentioned which tells me this is an extremely vague review in progress and not touching on the deeper parts of each design that matter to many.
So quantity of classes does not equal quality of classes,this alone is a deep subject to discuss.
crafting is a huge topic and things that need to be mentioned are how does crafting affect the gameplay,is there depth or just craft items to use and that is it.
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Optimization is not something the whole team works on so there should be a dedicated person or two working on that full time.Also on this topic is that numbers alone don't tell us enough.Like it is very easy for a dev to turn up the framerates by dumbing down the graphics so a lot mroe needs to be KNOWN and not just guesswork since we on the outside don't really know what the yare doing or how they are optimizing the game.
Combat,this topic can go in every direction as everyone has their own likes and dislikes.The problem i have is that RPG combat is GAITED once you introduce pvp.This means it wil NEVER be at it's best form especially when comes to FUN combat.
So far we are talking about BASIC game deign,combat,make your character,do some crafting.This SIMPLE game design does not cater to me personally because i need a LOT of game design out of a RPG and not the simple stuff we have been doing for over 20 years.
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Yes but it is also an essential part of the duelist gameplay, that's probably why the class is locked to that race
life's too short for this stutterfest, I'm used to 90+ fps at max detail, not sub50 (at best!) at potato detail.
I had a smoother gameplay in daoc 20 years ago, just sayin'.
hard pass.
However, at the moment it's only a review of what is essentially the tutorial, which is entirely PvE and not representative of what the game is supposed to be like.
I did enjoy the tutorial experience, probably took me 6 hours to do 1-30 and complete all the quests. Granted, the quests were all generic and boring but it didn't matter, I treated it as a tutorial and basically just used the time to learn the class and experiment with the mechanics.
I tried searching out the "real" game but I could just never find anyone! Granted, im quite late night when im playing but it was still disappointign not to find anyone to PvP against! Like, not a single one! So, I didn't get to experience anything of what the primary game is all about.
The part I found weirdest in the review was the comment about the pacing of leveling. "Just right". I'm just really curious what MMORPGs allow you to level to the cap in under 6 hours?!?!? Not that im complaining with respect to crowfall: it's a PvP game, you want all your players at the level cap as quickly as possible. But really, all the other MMORPGs I've played it's taken about 125 hours (~5 days) of playtime to hit the cap when the game releases, so 6 hours seems phenominally quick to me.
I'll also double check on the cues/quest. This was edited pretty early this morning, so I may have misunderstood thinking there was a typo when I edited the piece.
The race/classes were also *extremely* imbalanced, and not in a way that you'd expect at a beta stage.