What is the /v/erdict?
>>731052056Where trannies meet
>shilled to death for a month>immediately forgotten
Took too long to drop content and new weapons now no one gives a fuck. Combat is fun but boils down to boss slop since there's literally nothing else to do with it outside of 1v1 ping arena which already ran its course. All of the other combat related shit is like kill 5 mobs here, bounty hunt 1 npc, clear an outpost with 6 guys. Dogshit combat content structure. If this is what the future of online multiplayer action rpgs and action combat MMO adjacent games looks like then I want out. Random ass korean shovelware games in the early 2010s like c9 did it better but unfortunately they were ran by koreans who are greedy assholes.
>>731052056Gacha disguising as MMORPG
>>731052056Qinghe is solid across the board.Kaifeng sucks ass in the city, is solid outside of the city. There is a reason why people truncate cities in games and Kaifeng is the definition of why you shouldn't try to make an actual city.Exploration is fun and the vistas are gorgeous, easily the best part of the game.Story is barebones and I truly do not care about any character not named Ruby or Killerblade.95% of side quests are a heavy mixed bag at best with some of them being completely incomprehensible garbage like picture related. There are some solid ones like the main in the well, the hammer scammer, the dog guy, and the lazy son, but the majority of them are horrendous.So many NPCs have dialogue and I cannot believe to describe to you how much I don't care about talking to them because they have nothing of substance to tell you in any way or spam names at you that mean nothing to you or are just a list of 50+ Chinese names you're supposed to remember that I have no care to do so. Once you get to Kaifeng you will never want to talk to an NPC in a game again, it's that awful.Combat is either stunlocking everyone indefinitely with your meridian touch attack in the overworld or parrying until the cows come home if it's a boss. If you play on anything below Legendary you are sleeping through battles while Legendary is the only way to have difficulty, period.Boss fights are some of the world Soulslike bosses I've ever fought and I've played Dolmen, OG Lords of the Fallen, and Hellpoint's DLC. They take every bad aspect of Elden Ring bosses and fashion their designs around them. Super armor, unnatural delayed attacks, multiple phases on literally every boss meaning multiple health bars, one-shots, multiple attacks that can one-shot, huge health pools, status effects, double damage from broken posture but they break your posture in one hit, etc.>>731052606The only gacha is for cosmetics. You literally cannot spend money for anything outside of that.
>>731052056>discord keeps giving me quests to play this to earn discord orbsmaybe if the game wasnt 100 gigs i'd keep it updated
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>>731052926There is a lite version of you download their launcher. But it still 60GB. The game is 25GB on mobile.
>>731052056I bet the main story and did some side quests. Never touched it again kek
>>731052850>Kaifeng sucks ass in the city, is solid outside of the city.It's the opposite for me.
Fun but the shitty translation makes it borderline unplayable.
>>731054958I just can't enjoy the city. Ridiculous amount of NPCs who have nothing interesting to say, extremely poor performance, the top-right of it with the dancers makes me want to scream just from how much nonsense is sequestered in that small area, tons of areas that mandate stealth just to rob them, disguise missions everywhere, encounter quests every two feet, etc.Exploring it feel like a massive chore to me whereas the worst the outer part of it has is that dammed up area near the upper-left of it.
Slop of the highest degree.
>>731052056very popular in the chink adjacent countries
>>731052850>gacha cosmetics Why are you talking like this is acceptable? Cosmetic content is part of the game, especially for a MMO. The idea that there's a huge cadre of gacha bullshit and item malls and other kinds of shit that's locked behind rotating Fortnite store shit and (I hope it never comes to the West but) rumor has it on the CN version there's a fucking literal $20K dragon mount. Nothing about this is okay. I used to work for MMOs back in the early 2000s. Cosmetics came with your subscription and there was an 'upper bound' of how much you could spend and you'd get everything / have the opportunity to do so by playing the goddamn game. You paid your monthly fee and an expansion one off once a year or less and you could get all the cosmetics you wanted just by unlocking them in the game. Nothing about what's going on now is okay and its far worse when that shit is gacha rolling / banners or is exclusive to paying out your ass somehow.
Every MMO-adjacent game mechanic in this is half-assed and/or boring, whether it's PvP, Raids, Dungeons, Guilds, Social interactions.And unfortunately because they spend resources on those, the solo experience also suffers with bugged quests, terrible translations, garbage UI, poor itemization/progression.The devs should have spent all their effort making a single player game and we would have had the wuxia witcher 3. But since there are retards who spend $40k on boats, their decision to go gaas was justified.
i wipe my ass with low quality games such as this
>>731056283>Why are you talking like this is acceptable?Because every single paid cosmetic is gaudy, terrible looking garbage. Not a single one has been good so far outside of Tian Ying and even that can be mostly replicated with the free content from his own boss fight. The only people who care about this are the Chinese who think any of it looks cool when it doesn't even fit the setting. The primary reason whales even care to pull are because it gets you white hair, which only matters to the Chinese because in this specific setting white hair means you are super powerful.You get flooded with free cosmetics everywhere. Sects, upgrading your healer/scholar profession, logging in at all, events, boss fights (Which you can just outright buy the item if you boss for like two weeks and don't get it in a chest), achievements, the weekly free store, and you also get three free pulls from paid currency that you have in abundance and can't spend on anything else every single week. I already have an orb from the paid banner just from playing the game naturally and if I save one more I can get one of the awful limited banner cosmetics.>rumor has it on the CN version there's a fucking literal $20K dragon mount. Right now, as we speak, there is $50,000 ship whales can buy that they use to ERP. There is no other reason to do it, they gain nothing outside of upvotes. I've already seen like fifteen unique people own it.>Cosmetics came with your subscription and there was an 'upper bound' of how much you could spendDo you even understand how this game works? It's F2P. You don't pay anything to even play it. We are not in the early 2000s anymore, we are in present day where this is the norm for everything including modern MMOs. Maplestory took like 15 years to even allow you the opportunity to obtain free cash shop items, there were no free cosmetics at all until then. This also is NOT an MMO, it's a singleplayer Soulslike game that has an MMO component for more cosmetics.
>>731052056It was shit. I love wuxia but this wasnt it.Everything was a mess of ideas just haphazardly thrown together.The game systems menus and battle system was trash too.I really wanted this to be good.
>>731052056oh yeah, it happened and now everyone moved on/10
>>731056283Maybe because the alternative is p2w bullshit. And rolling on banners is for dumb niggers with a fear of missing out
>>731056637>>731056283I'd also like to add that mounts are complete garbage in this game so they can be $100,000 for all I care, they're worthless. You never want to be on one unless it's Fleetfoot, the cheapest paid cosmetic you can buy for 1/5th of the pearls you get in the $5 monthly pass because that's the only one that's remotely fast or useful. They're slow, you're constantly jumping off of it to fight or collect items, you can't climb with them, triple jumping is something you are doing constantly, the traversal moves you get for free from exploring take you places faster, the passives are not helpful in any way and actually worse than just doing stuff on foot manually, and so much more.It's like using a horse or the Master Cycle in BotW or TotK: You're fundamentally playing the game wrong if you use one. The only reason people use horses in this game is so they can summon it, get off of it, and leave it next to them as they AFK showing off how much money they spent. Rarely do they sit on it. No one is using them seriously for traversal because they are worthless for that. They're solely a status symbol.
>>731056283>I used to work for MMOs back in the early 2000s. Cosmetics came with your subscriptionGuess what this game doesn't have
>>731052056It suffers from being too chinky. Once the visual eyecandy wears off what you get is the same shit chink have been regurgitating with their MMOs since late 00s except now they no longer run at the stunning speed of 6 frame per second anymore
Like a ps2 game in modern engine
the most recent patch is how the game should have launched. loads of qol, guild base building, tons of balancing changes made. it was like an 85gb patch that only ended up taking 10gb more space. it's fucking stupid that this isn't how it launched.but I'm really enjoying the game, and gvg was fun despite being a chaotic mess
>>731056283If a game is otherwise free and has no pay to win... how are they supposed to make their money? I will never blame a company for a non pay to win monetization system for a free game. Do whatever you like for that.
>>731052346Many such cases
>>731052346people who played it for the story finished it
>Korean mobile MMO with ubisoft open world design philosophy
>>731057108>It suffers from being too chinkyWhat a bizarre statement considering the game's setting, anon.
>>731060227Its a live service game, they add new story content regularlyThe game has issues, mostly performance, but Ill stick around until the next region to see if it improves
>what if we shoved gacha daily chores tier mechanics everywhere including energy, and made it so leveling up doesn't actually make you stronger.
