>What's Vindictus?An hub-based action MMO by Nexon with a dark fantasy aesthetic. You choose from a roster of 26 characters rather than making your own, but you can customize them a bit. There's a fatigue system so trying out multiple characters is encouraged.>Downloadhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/212160/Vindictus/https://vindictus.nexon.net/>ServerRetail, North American server.>AccountSign up for a Nexon account if you don't have one, or log in through Steam. You can link your accounts later if you'd like.>GuildVindieselsSend in an application through the guild menu (Y).We've designated channel 135 as our guild hangout.>Helpful LinksOfficial Guide: https://vindictus.nexon.net/GuideWiki: https://vindictus.fandom.com/wiki/Vindictus_WikiClasses/Characters: https://vindictus.nexon.net/heroes/intro>Why?The MMOdventure anons are playing this for the next two or three weeks, some maybe longer. Feel free to check it out.>>2051131
Posting this early in the thread, so hopefully more newbloods are aware of it:Once you've gotten your bearings after a few missions, check out the Play Guide, shown as a little scroll with a pointed arrow in the lower right of your screen.When starting out, make sure you're chipping-away at the three "Growth Goals" listed at the top of the menu. You'll finish these objectives naturally as you progress through the story, and they offer some seriously important rewards. Inventory expansions, AP capsules for improving your skills, free +LUK Badges to give you extra Cores (drops) when defeating bosses, and even fully-enhanced/enchanted gearsets at specific milestones.You can make it through the early goings without paying attention to the Play Guide, but it'll be a HUGE (if not outright mandatory) help before long, so don't neglect it forever. Little sense in saying "no" to freebies when you're fresh, after all.
>>2062533Would probably help if I included an image alongside the post, whoops.The little "[...]" bubbles next to the three Growth Goals listings showcase what rewards you'll get, and as mentioned, there's some seriously essential stuff in there. Grab 'em when you can!
Logged in to join the guild, awaiting approval
How do I get sexy underwear for the hotspring?
Fatigue can start to drain pretty quick early on if you're rushing through missions, and there aren't too many ways to counteract it when you're starting out, annoyingly. Becomes much less of a hindrance once you're past the earlygame, but it's definitely something to keep an eye on during your first few days.One way to alleviate your Fatigue drain is by soaking in public hotsprings infused with special Soaps.Check the Hotsprings window in your main menu, and visit channels marked with a red-and-black icon (Hero's Aromatic Soap). Head to the sauna, and sit down in the water via your Grab hotkey for a bit. After ~30 seconds, you'll have the hotspring soap's benefits for 60-90 minutes.While there are multiple types of Soap providing minor stat boosts, the Hero's Aromatic variety also lessens your Fatigue usage per-mission by -25%. Since you'll be spamming stages to get through the storyline early on, these are absolutely a must to catch while you can. Keep an eye out...!>>2062620Got'cha covered. Welcome!>>2062634The free 15-day VIP Capsule you get from the Play Guide should grant you some freebie underwear that's less covering than the defaults.Besides that, gotta drop NX on it. As expected for a Nexon title.
>>2062685Alternatively, if you're just wanting to stay for a couple of weeks, burning your free VIP Capsule will lower Fatigue costs by 50% per-mission.Doesn't stack with the aforementioned hotspring bonus, but you should be wanting to get those soap buffs either way. Decent free stat gains to be found there.
>"I'm sure to win because my speed is superior!"
region-locked for me on both steam and the launcher.I give up on the mmodventure thing. I suppose it's for the best, since it'd not be right to spend time with the effeminate. I hope you guys make it through your effeminate stage.
>>2062758thank you mr. vagueposter see you in 2 weeks
>>2062758download proton vpn
>>2062685Thanks
Guess some of the earlier stages could stand for a QA pass.The battle animation between the two of them always looked wonky, so not much of a loss here, admittedly.
>>2062758Since you're leaving can you rank anons from least to most effeminate?
>smack loot jar>contents get knocked into a crevice I can't reach>money stolen
is it normal to have no sound in the prologuei can't even check the settings because hitting escape just asks if i'm trying to skip the prologue
A few miscellaneous tidbits for the thread before I head off to bed.[Skills]- Following the suggested skills via the Play Guide up until around Combat Mastery Rank A will give you more AP Capsules quickly (you'll want to finish it eventually).- Always prioritize leveling your Equipment Masteries.- Don't bother with putting AP into stat masteries early on, their effects are pretty minor. Get them to Rank E, and keep them there until you've improved other things.- Battle Respiration to Rank A is very nice for classes with Stamina concerns.- If you're playing a "Legacy" character (Lann, Fiona, Evie, Karok, Kai), the max rank for your attacking skills can either be A, 6, 5, 4, or 3 (skill rankings go from F to A, then 9 to 3, as holdover from Mabinogi). If you're playing a non-Legacy character, your max rank for attacking skills is always just A. Ergo, non-Legacy characters need much less AP to max their skills.[Transformations]- Paladin and Dark Knight are 90% similar, and their differences won't really matter for the two-weeks most of us are spending here. Just pick whichever one you think looks cooler.- Transformation charges come back very slowly, but can return quickly when leveling. Since you'll be leveling a lot early on, and Paladin/Dark Knight gain Path EXP by killing enemies, be sure to use your Transformation skill if it's sitting on 2 or 3 charges when you're still going through Seasons 1 and 2 (plus most of 3).- Always choose the +Add. DMG skill instead of +Impact SPD for either Transformation.[Misc.]- Always have your free VIP Capsule running for a 50% cut in Fatigue used on missions.- Nearly everything from the Play Guide lands in your Avatar inventory first. Click the little red tab on your inventory menu to open it. This is also where cosmetics and Dyes are stored.Also, feel free to ask me anything about classes/characters, if you're curious. Been playing off-and-on since the beta days, know a thing or two.
>>2063321I've had that bug happen too, persisted until I restarted the game.
>>2063371Best girl
Is there a healer class in this game? asked on /v/ but the thread was gone by the time I got back. Is there a discord?
>>2063413>Is there a healer class in this game?Someone mentioned Evie, I don't personally know, though.>Is there a discord?No, we use 4chan and in-game chats to organize.
>>2063413Discord is for members only. There's no healer or class roles, everyone is a dps.
>>2062758Umm, you're not allowed to critique this project or you're going to upset the spoiled newfag babies. :C
>>2063413There is an invite-only MMOdventure discord for trusted members yes. We need to have been playing with you for a while and know you're not a schizo thoughbeit.
>>2063413There's no MMOdventure Discord, those guys are just taking the piss.
>>2063413I sent ;) you an invite to the hidden MMODventure discord. Bring lingerie for the #welcome channel.
>>2063413There's no Discord, we just have a schizo who got destroyed in-game ages ago and hasn't stopped crying since, now he lives by embarrassing himself with shitposts in an attempt to get "revenge". It creates some confusion, but I find it amusing that some retard got forever scarred by a bunch of anons playing a video game, and thinks of us every day. Talk about effeminate eh?
>>2063455Shut the fuck up VidoeGema.
>>2063455>>2063459retard
Enough entertaining the discord schizo. Post gameplay pics
>>2063471>Post gameplay picsI'd love to, but 1366x768, lowest settings
>>2063471oh yeah I'm gaming, alright
>>2063455wew lad
>>2063501Anon, this game came out in 2010 and runs on the Source Engine, your computer can't be that terrible.
>>2063471Does ship gameplay count?
>>2062513I'm still mad about the last level cap increase locking out my entire account from doing Royal Army Raids and Red Moon Energy. It was all I was casually doing on a couple of characters and now I'm down to only one who can go on normal difficulty RME and that was only after spending a lot on equipment I was already working on beforehand. And it still isn't enough to get back in to Royal Army Raids not to mention Hero difficulty RME. Normal difficulty RME isn't any different at all so I don't know why they made the requirements for it so far beyond the current poverty gear's ceiling.>>2063413Staff Evie and Sylas have skills that heal themselves and party members. Karok also has a skill that provides some regen to the party but it's dependent on someone being afflicted by a status ailment.
>>2062685>>2062698There's also the AP shop's 2-day VIP capsule for 500 AP for offsetting fatigue/getting extra departures.
Oh man, I wish I could join, but I'm from the EU and iirc logging out of steam with my previous account is kinda fucky
>>2062875The little +HP ergs aren't that important. The actual item drops didn't used to teleport to you whether they went out of bounds of not.>>2063527They've also frankensteined the shit out of it in the last fifteen years so performance doesn't make any sense on good computers and potato computers that used to run it well can't anymore. The multi-core rendering option wasn't even finalized yet for Valve's games when Devcat cobbled the game together all those years back.
>>2064174you can play it through the Nexon launcher. only problem is that you will be using the Nexon launcher.
>>2062634I'll just add that you get this package from reaching Level 75 on the Play Guide. These coupons are special in that you can freely change hair/inner during the duration and 30 days is long enough for the next 2 weeks.
>>2063424as a newfag baby this retard doesn't represent us
>>2064174The game is mostly peer-to-peer, so your location to the server doesn't mean much. We've got a bunch of Euros who play.
>>2062513There are three "Vindiesel" type guild names, you're sure it's "Vindiesels".
Is there a better way to rebind controls? I really don't like that dodge and block are tied to the same key.
Is there a minimum level before you can join a guild or something? I'm in channel 135 too but it seems quite silent.
>>2064817it is 2am in na and 8am in eu
>link to fix this is deadso either I make a new steam account or sit this one out
>>2064821so why are you here
>>2064808Yup, Vindiesels
>>2064808Yes, it's Vindiesels.>>2064811I think dodging and blocking appear as a single skill in your skill list, with a different effect depending on whether you're holding a direction or not. Considering that, I'm afraid you can't split it to two keys.>>2064827I'm guessing the link on that support button is dead, but you can probably find it elsewhere on the website.If you don't want to make a new steam account, you could make a Nexon account and use their launcher.
Geez. 90 levels in, and I'm still so dang torn on this character.Neamhain is the most-recently developed character for the original Vindi thus far (also a major raidboss from Season 3, surprisingly), and going by this game's design trends over the past several years, you'd think she'd be some ultra-swift savant of the lance. Yet in stark contrast to picks like Sanyaa, Achel, and Sou, who can just endlessly attack like crazy, Neam might be one of the slowest and most deliberate characters since Latiya from back in 2022 - another spear/lance user.Neam's entire gameplan revolves around landing rather slow attacks to build up her resource meter, spending it at 10 stacks for a lengthy charge-up slash, during which she's briefly invulnerable. Both the start up for charge and charged strike itself have full Block properties, meaning you /can/ play somewhat ignorant with it when timed well, but holding the charge too long will just get you smacked for no reward.She does have a decent standard Guard to block attacks with traditionally, but her counter is suuuper weak compared to actual, dedicated counter-based characters, so standing and blocking all day clearly isn't optimal. Yet I can't easily envision her being able to facetank things later in the game to quickly get her resource stacks up either; especially not in Season 4, when practically everyone exists within the 2-3 shot range at all times against most bosses.From what I've been reading, Neam's actually one of the stronger characters of the roster at endgame, so perhaps she's someone who grows into her role later on, once far more impressive equipment is in-play to shore-up those glacially slow attacks.Certainly an interesting character so far, although I'm sorta glad I haven't seen anyone here start with her as their first-ever pick. She's been kind of an odd one so far.Her signature outfit sure has its appeal, at least.
>>2064892the link is active but the nexon support page doesn't let you do it any more
>setting "lighting effects" to high makes armor look gay and retarded>low makes the environment look worsehttps://files.catbox.moe/aw0e7p.pnghttps://files.catbox.moe/2udu5n.pnghttps://files.catbox.moe/4ppzx4.pnghttps://files.catbox.moe/3g4qpc.png
stage 11 is where the REAL game begins
The training dummy is fucking awful. Why doesn't it show damage numbers? It only shows DPS, which is worthless for determining how much damage your attacks actually do.
>>2065575>2 hours ago
if you didn't beat spear master stage 19 lower your tone when talking to me
Is the game down?
>>2066059nvm i got in after trying like 5 times
>>2064827why would you set this as something hard? make it like six 1s or something lol
>Psyched to get on before 1:00AM for once>Maintenance>"Oh well, I'll just sign on in like an hour or two.">Planned seven-and-a-half hour long downtime (with possible unplanned extensions)Well shit, there goes that chance. Guess I'll try again tomorrow.I will never understand why Nexon games have such obscenely long maintenance cycles. Even by MMO standards, these windows of downtime are pretty ridiculous.
>>2066239For me, it's when the website goes down during maintenance too so you can't even read the fucking maintenance notice to see how long it'll be. You have to go somewhere else.
May as well post a few screencaps I've taken thus far, to tick the thread's image count up a bit.This hideous thing used to be such a pain to tackle during the halcyon years of Season 1. Crazy high damage resistance, plenty of deceptively lingering attack hitboxes, and a wonky gimmick of knocking it out of the arena with timed explosives, all lead to a fight often dreaded on the S1 raiding circuit throughout the early 2010s.>>2066247Nexon's carried its high bar of """quality""" for some time now, that's for sure.The most contemptible thing about any Nexon-hosted title has always been Nexon itself, as many of their in-house projects tend to be pretty solid on the whole... Buried underneath some of the most egregious practices in the industry. Fortunately we won't be running into many of those signature Nexon-isms within just a couple of weeks in this title, barring these annoyingly long maintenance periods.
>>2066253Smacking around a bosses' ragdolled corpse at the end of the fight is always mildly amusing.Was real novel back in the day moreso, when the very notion of physics objects in games was revolutionary tech. Still holds some minor novelty even now, I suppose.With a strong enough smack, you can even launch some bosses onto invisible walls, or outside of the map entirely. Havok Physics kino.
>>2066256Quick photo of me and the edgiest edge to ever edge.I don't know what he's so upset about, he gets the girl in the end of Season 1 anyway, even if nothing about his plan went as intended.
>>2066258Most of the time, the end-of-battle camera tries to land some dynamic shots of your final strike, to show how COOL you were during those last few moments moments. (And then clips the camera into a wall, or inside the bosses' model, or inside your character's model, and it looks awful. But it tries!)Annnd sometimes it catches you looking like this instead. The veneer of a stoic and level-headed Paladin kinda fades away when taking on poses like these.
>>2066264I find the end-of-battle camera mostly tries to take photos of my character's tits and ass.
>>2066264Some brief downtime in-between missions during the earlier parts of Season 2.It's worth noting that, while all maps follow a similar structure now, the original release of Season 2 operated /very/ differently from the typical linear run to a boss arena.Taking cues from Monster Hunter, each map was divided into 7-11 "subzones", each labeled with a single letter (A, B, C, D, etc), most of which housing a specific boss needing to be slain in each along with standard enemies.Sounds pretty cool, but was a rather clunky in practice, as loading times between sectors were pretty lengthy, and needing to run from one end of the map to the other took ages. Was novel at the time, but I'd say the streamlined version of Season 2 we see today plays better overall. Also, stat requirements for clearing Season 2's raids were absolutely through the roof relative to what was feasible to obtain back then, so its marque raid bosses were exclusively the territory of whales for quite long while, similar to Space Time raids today.>>2066268Also important to prioritize, yes.
>>2066270One more 'shot for now, this time a decent close-up mid-mission (camera options are quite limited there).Following-up with my previous post mentioning Season 2, here's another l o r e tidbit related to it:Back when Vindictus was directly tethered to Mabinogi narratively, acting somewhat as the origin story of the latter game in a roundabout way, both Season 1 and Season 2 were separate, parallel stories to one another, taking place at the same time but in different parts of the world, and starring a different cast of main characters.The Legendary Heroes namedropped in Mabinogi proper (Lann, Fiona, and "three others" which would eventually become Evie, Karok, and Kai) were the main characters of Season 1, with Vella and Hurk being the leads in Season 2.As Vindictus was later disassociated with Mabinogi to become its own distinct property, sweeping changes to the existing storyline had to be retroactively applied to what was already written, resulting in what would eventually become Season 3 and 4's finalized narratives thereafter. That of which being the continual resetting of the world, and wresting control of humanity's fate away from the corrupted gods.So if you're wondering why the start of Season 2 feels so awkward (if you're actually one of the few who's paying attention to the storyline and not just immediately skipping through all of it), that's probably why. Bit silly, but at least it lead to some interesting story hooks further down the line.
did you fix your roof alle
>>2066270Season 2 implementing and forcing jumping globally also made for some S2 exclusive janky physics. If you bunny hopped while turning you'd gain a significant speed boost with any character and it was the only enjoyable aspect of the jump gimmick being forced in S2. It was fun clearing a whole oversized map's distance in like three sprint-smash jumps with Vella.
https://vindictus.nexon.net/news/96715/ver-3-30-update-note>Hurk>The "Deflection" skill, previously usable only against certain attacks, has been modified to be usable against all attacks except instant kill attacks.This sounds fucking ridiculous>Kai>When using "Bee Stinger," damage dealt to enemies is increased by approximately 547% compared to the previous value.lol
>>2066449Ooh, I remember that! Every character could do it, but Vella was by far the best for skirting along the sands of Twilight Desert at mach speed.Could land superslides with a well-timed sprint-smash right before jumping too. Made for some very interesting tech to pull off mid-fight to avoid unblockable attacks if done correctly. Probably the only good thing to come out of Jumping while it was around, honestly.>>2066511Oh whoa, those are some major changes.>ATT ceiling globally removed>Monster DEF formula recalculated>ATT Surplus and Counterforce simplified/renamed>Dodge characters ACTUALLY HAVE GUARD FRAMES NOW after perfect-dodging attacks (!!)>Kai is slightly less terrible>Greatsword!Hurk isn't as much of a meme>Lethor buffs>Neam mains potentially on suicide watchNeat stuff all around. That change to dodge-type characters in particular is beyond overdue, and hopefully makes them more competitive in Season 4.Wouldn't get too hyped about the newest raid content, though, as this is a title where only the whalest of the whales get to play with the new stuff, much like in Maplestory. Might make Level 120 equipment slightly less expensive, granted.>>2066421Thankfully yes. Glad that mess is over.However, there's now a leak somewhere on the second story balcony which needs to be identified and patched up. Always something...
>launcher doesn't launch anythingThe jews did this. I guess it's time to reinstall
nani the fuck?
>>2066545Fixed. Game was mining bitcoin in the background or something
Is the maintenance over? I still can't get in.
Is it worth playing for the story, Alle?>lived in uni housing for two years with a leaky roof and still got charged for preexisting damage when I moved out
>>2066642>Is it worth playing for the story?That one's tricky to answer. My appreciation of Vindi's narrative is graded on a curve relative to other KMMOs of its era; which isn't exactly a very high bar to clear, as I'm sure you're aware.As someone who's been playing this title off-and-on for over a decade (far moreso during its earlier years rather than its later ones), I've experienced this game's storyline at a much, /much/ more deliberate and thorough pace than what is offered today.Leveling was slow, and you really chewed on every piece of content you had available. Each mission had its own little dialog briefing before it, and there were a LOT more of them to churn through during Seasons 1 and 2. Sidequests were plentiful, allowing you to learn the personalities of major characters around the villages, et cetera.New players are simply not going to have that experience.In [current year], you're heavily incentivized to burn through the narrative via story-skips, conserving your limited Fatigue and leaping over large swathes otherwise disposable missions to hurry you along to the "good bits" later on in the game, as is so common to see in Nexon's MMOs.The premise and execution of Seasons 3 and 4 are still rather interesting (and I love a good time loop story in general), but I can't begrudge the others for just wanting to speed through things 'til we've all settled-out in Season 4 together.Those aforementioned good bits - the later encounters in late Season 3 and most of Season 4 - ARE very good, it must be said. Vindi remains one of the best action-MMOs on the market from a pure gameplay perspective, even to this day.I'd say to give this title a shot for a week or so if you're curious about it. Could take it slow, or burn your skips to catch up with the others. Either way, it's a fun time 'til hitting the patented Nexon whaling wall upon reaching the lategame (which we'll not especially hit within just a couple of weeks).
Also I should've been asleep over an hour ago, aaaa.Hopefully I'll have the chance to swing by later this evening. Good hunting...!
Any of you nerds online, I haven't seen anyone yet
>>2066849I thought the server was down. Update broke something for me and the game doesn't load past the admin privileges confirm, same thing on the nexon launcher. I'll try factory resetting my whole fucking pc i guess, fuck my nigger life.
I am sorry, my power went out for some reasont. feebs
>>2066963No worries, I saw you disconnect so I figured something happened.Hope your power comes back up soon.
>>2066963>>2067012wait a minute, how are you posting without any power?
>>2066861>even a full reset couldn't save mei give upReading about all the ways this game has been ruined over the years, as well as experiencing it first-hand was genuinely depressing. I'll have to play this on the pserver some other time because the combat really was amazing.did we seriously HAVE to vote for this while the only alternative to official is dead in the water? I thought the voting system exists for the sole purpose of preventing this kinda shit from happening
>>2067167Sorry to hear you're experiencing this, it seems very unusual, what OS are you using? Have you tried running the game from the Nexon launcher instead of Steam (or Steam instead of the Nexon launcher, depending on what you were doing before)?
>>2067167>>2067218>Nexon launcher instead of SteamNever mind, I re-read your previous post and realized you tried both.Someone was able to get this running on Linux, so if you've been trying on Windows, then you could try that...
>>2066692Any stream of thought on classes to stray away from? Broken in any capacity?
Posting some screenshots.
This game has some tasteful locals.
>>2067167it's tradition by now to vote for the worst thing at the worst possible time.watch anons vote D&D in January, just after the free DLC shit stops.
Definitely starting to understand why this game never succeeded. For a game whose selling point is its incredible action combat, it has incredibly shitty action combat. The camera's garbage, movement is extremely difficult, and the enemy design is just trash. No audio tells, barely any visual tells, wonky hitboxes, the works. The number of mandatory animation cancels you have to be aware of is ridiculous - often you'll do a normal attack or block and you'll be completely frozen in place for two or three SECONDS after the move occurs because there's a long animation back to neutral that you're supposed to cancel out of. The sound design overall is piss poor, with a cheap stock "you got hit" sound effect that sounds royalty-free. Often it plays when you didn't actually get hit, I have no idea why.There's just no reason why any action game fan would want to play this, unless they're the types that enjoyed fighting Plesioth. I'm sure it "gets better later" - that's why they give you broken OP gear to 2-shot all the janky early bosses. But if you take the time to actually face the early bosses with regular gear, you see how bad it all is.
>>2067219ctrl+f on the pisscord saved me. Apparently the new update forces dx11 by default; My shitbox can't into dx11. Had to make a config file because i couldn't even boot the game and reach the options menu.i hate computers
>Login>Everyone is level 100>Logout
>>2067596lol dis nigga employed
>>2067444A lot of that sounds like a skill issue tbqh.
>>2067444Have to wonder which characters you've played and which bosses you were fighting to reach those conclusions, because that doesn't sound like the game I'm familiar with at all.>The camera's garbageYou can bind a key to instantly snap the camera back to the boss, if you're having issues tracking your target with the standard mouse-controlled camera. Basically required if you're playing on controller, for whatever reason. The forced zoom-in on Smash Attacks is a bit much, I'll agree.>movement is extremely difficultYou have a normal run and a sprint toggle, plus certain attacks which move you forward. Some counterattacks reposition your character. Pretty reasonable.>[Enemies have] no audio tells, barely any visual tells, wonky hitboxes, the works.Now that's just straight-up not true. Every enemy has its respective tells prior to attacking, whether they're glaringly obvious, or subtle lead-ins to specific attack sequences.Certain bosses have large attack hitboxes, but many instances of perceived hitbox jank are often the result of poor latency to a host's connection, as this game uses Source Engine lag compensation ala TF2 or CS:S.>often you'll do a normal attack or block and you'll be completely frozen in place for two or three SECONDS after the move occursThe only way you'd be outright locked-up for that long after attacking or blocking, is if you joined a boat being hosted by a SEA running on a potato PC, or something similar. Lobby host quality matters a lot in this title.Even the slowest Block in the game - Neamhain's standing shield - lasts for less than a second, and you can act out of it immediately upon successfully guarding something.You sure you're not mixing this game up with Vindictus: Defying Fate, the rather questionable Soulslike bearing this game's name? Those complaints sound more accurate to that title instead of the original, from what I've played of its unimpressive closed beta tests.
im boutta start this game tmrw what're your top three classes
>>20682411. Sword Vella2. Whip Arisha3. Miri(4. Lynn5. Lann)But I like the older more unnecessarily complex characters. New characters are all the same shit (do a 2-3 hit smash attack, gain a resource that lets you do a big damage parry YAAAAAAAAWN).
tiddies
getting out of bounds is the real endgame
THE DARKNESS APPEARS
A few optimizations found in the key rebinding menu for you 'lot:- Disable "Attack Where Camera Faces"This will allow you to hold a direction key to influence where you're attacking during a combo. Has several practical uses, most notably the practice of purposely whiffing your Normal Attacks to get to your Smash Attacks faster (also lessens the need to constantly center the boss on your screen).- Enable "Lock Vertical Motion on Closest Enemy"Somewhat stabilizes the camera if you're fighting larger enemies.- Enable "Auto-Aim at Enemies When Throwing"This engages a hidden "lock-on" system which automatically points your character towards the boss if you're close enough to reach them, so long as you're not holding any movement keys when attacking. Secretly applies to all attacks, not just thrown Secondary Weapons (despite what the option claims).Lets you land counterattacks from awkward angles much more reliably.- Grab and Kick CommandsSome characters have built-in shortcuts for certain attacks activated via the Grab or Kick commands. Check your tooltips to see if one of your attacks falls under this category, as it can sometimes behoove you to keep your Grab or Kick keys easily-reachable.>>2068384Ah yes, that outfit.You would not be surprised to learn that specific costume is the most expensive in the game, and the goal of many an utterly shameless whale to obtain.Kind of surreal to know even basic, client-sided nude mods had a high chance of getting you banned back in the day, and now we have things like /that/ available as official content. Honestly curious how Nexon was able to get away with it (not that I'm complaining, per-say).>>2068437Always nice to see the spirit of goat-ing still carries on.How'd you make it up there, anyway? Messed around in the Berbs a few times when leveling alts for Vanguard bonuses, and never found anything major, outside of supersliding down the stairs leading to the underground chapel.
>>2068176You cannot genuinely have done the dragon fights and say all this shit with a straight face. They weren't good fights. Even Keagan wasn't a particularly good fight.
>>2068455>>2068457Many thanks for the demonstration. Never thought that stairwell would lead to such a blatant break of the map, super neat stuff. Love coming across cheeky ways to break out of the map like this, and there's a few of 'em in various Season 3 missions which I'd love to showcase later.The lighting gets REAL wonky down here, the farther away you are from the main town. Who needs raytracing and lumen from UE5 when you've got quality Source Engine glitches like these?>>2068518The Season 1 Dragons were not good, no. Nor were the earlier Season 2 raidbosses - Lakoria, Kraken, Bark, etc.We are not in Seasons 1 or 2 anymore, however, and most Season 3/4 encounters are against monsters you can actually read, or have cameras properly zoomed-out to accommodate their size. Getting that upset over a few outliers is like dropping the entirety of Monster Hunter because Plesioth exists, to use your own example.
>>2068548>is like dropping the entirety of Monster Hunter because Plesioth exists
Some quick-and-dirty photos taken before Colhen's iconic Mission Board™.These truly are as they say, certainly not very orchestrated or the like, so pardon if they're a bit bland compared to something properly-composed.
>>2068602What's an impromptu gathering without some /dance-ing around? It's tradition!Be thankful you're not whoever was to the right of this frame, quite the piercing glanKce on the one in white.
>>2068603Ahh, the """scenic""" sights of this random, podunk village in the middle of nowhere.One of us wasn't very pleased about the locale, and I can't exactly blame her. Colhen isn't really a stellar tourist destination by traditional standards.Not sure how "glance" turned to "glanKce" in my last post, hmm.
>>2068604Annnd one more to round things out.This village might be rather mundane, all things considered, but the local mercs never fail to liven things up...!
Just like the simulations!
>>2068548Anon, my entire post was about how bad the early bosses are. Can you read my post again? I very clearly said that I understood why the game never became a hit. When it came out, do you think people were saying "just wait, S4 will be great!"? No. People were saying it was jank. This entire time I thought Vindictus actually had good combat, and it confused me why it wasn't successful. Now I simply understand that I was mistaken - it didn't have good combat, and that's why it wasn't successful.You're in a little deep with Vindictus, anon. You've been playing for 15 years. Do you think you maybe have a different perspective on it than the average player? Maybe you like it a little bit more than they do?
Man, I just entered the wardrobe for the first time, clicked the first outfit and boom - huge fucking bazongas, holy shit
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Does anyone know why I don't have the "restart battle" option any more? I used to be able to restart a boss fight if I died on it, now all I get is "revive" or "return to town".
>>2069150It's not really THAT jank though. The early bosses are bad and boring, as are some of the early characters (though those have mostly been fixed up), but I wouldn't describe it as being jank. Rough around the edges, sure, but overall still very fluid with response controls. I also think you're forgetting that this game originally came out in a time before Souls games even existed. The most comparable things around the same time would be the Monster Hunter games on PSP, which feel a LOT more jank than Vindictus does.You say it wasn't a hit, but again I think you're discounting the fact that PC gaming as a whole was what, maybe 1/100th the size it is today? Also, believe it or not, if you're a true oldfag, the game used to have daily threads on /v/. And then, when /vg/ was first created, it existed there for a while before eventually falling out of style like most MMOs do.I'm not even that anon you're responding to, by the way. Just someone else who comes back to mess around with Vindictus once every year or so, so I take occasional peeks into these threads. Here is something else to consider: TERA came out -after- Vindictus. Status? Dead. Blade & Soul came out -after- both of them. Status? Dead. So that Vindictus has survived so long while other, supposedly "better" action MMOs have died must mean it's doing something right. And this is Nexon we're talking about, who love to EoS things.
I haven't touched this game in years, but that Vindictus 2 alpha months ago reignited something in me
Lynn's kinda tricky. Her game plan seems to revolve around dealing stacks on bosses, upgrading those stacks to more potent variants, then detonating the entire stack for massive damage. Getting these stacks on the boss is the difficult part because you can only inflict them at the end of long combos. In such a fast paced game I keep getting knocked out of my attempts before making them stick.
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>>2070212There's quite a lot to learn about each of the playable Mercs who make their way to Colhen's lodge.Chatting with them every day and gifting them their two "preferred" items, gradually raises their relationship value with you, resulting in little story snippets every ~20% or so.At the highest level (something like 300% or thereabouts), you actually unlock a special team-up ultimate attack, exclusive to your character's "Fated Bond" - a single Mercenary marked with a star beside their portrait when viewing them in the Lodge. This tag-team combo skill can only be performed in a party, when two players match one another's Fated Bond characters, and both have maxed-out their respective relationship with the other.As such, you'll almost never get to see these special attacks in reality, since the odds of finding two specific people in the same party who just-so-happen to be playing characters who share an in-universe Fated Bond with one another, /and/ have both maxed-out said Fated Bond, AND remember their exclusive team-up attack even exists, /AND/ is fighting a boss which can be restrained by it... Are incredibly unlikely, to put it mildly. Still a neat thing all the same.
With that, screenshot time.May as well post some (but not all) of the snippets I took whilst climbing through Season 3's many locales, starting with a nice fireside rest prior to having a chat with the local Elvish princess.
>>2070253Regina's arena is among the most eye-catching in the game, I'd say. Certainly a cool, refreshing way to ring-in Season 3's arrival, after all the fire-and-brimstone chasing Season 2's ending act.
>>2070255A "quick" trip up mount Ben Chenner, smacking down summoned stone statues along the way as the setting sun casts its shine upon the scattered stonework.Somewhat mercifully, the story-skip for this segment cuts out an especially lengthy stage leading up to this fight. Still rather torn on just how much of the game these revamped story-skips actually skip over, but I'm fine cutting this particular stage down to size, at least.
>>2070260Death and pestilence begin to take hold upon the land, as hideous grotesquaries shamble their way through ruined outposts and rotting keeps.Note the (incredibly pixelated) red eye glowing on this boss. Whenever you see your target's eye flash red (it's a very obvious tell, as your screen also flashes along with it), be sure to run the hell away, as whatever it's about to do cannot be dodged, blocked, guarded, or deflected.Most of these unavoidable attacks tend to be grabs, which spell near-certain death if you're caught in them. They'll be more common during the later Chapters.
>>2070262The World Below swallows you whole, revealing the towering spires and shantytowns native to the Fomor-kin. Not all of which are immediately out for your blood, thankfully.Bit of a factoid for (You): The boss taking place in this arena was the very last piece of content added to the game prior to the divisive RISE update, and thusly, marks the final encounter available on the Windictus server. Everything past this point wouldn't have been accessible were we stationed over there rather than on the live client.
>>2070264Traipsing through the basalt pathways and winding tunnels of the Underground can be awfully perilous for the careless. Be wary of where you step, don't want to want to fall down into one of the many, many bottomless pits lining these under-slung halls.
>>2070265Behold: A legally-distinct Stargate...!It's got stars and everything, it must be the real deal. Or something close enough to it, anyway.This fight marks a noted step up in difficulty during Season 3's ascent. You're still not likely to outright get your head handed to you, but sloppy play might require some emergency healing and recovery if you aren't paying attention to attack patterns and mechanics.
>>2070272Every playable character has their own distinct "Signature Outfit" unique to them, available via various outfit boxes and whaling methods.You'll get a taste of what your character's canon get-up looks like through one of the Play Guide's freebie gifts, but unfortunately the glamour only lasts 'til Level 101; at which point you'll go back to wearing whatever your actual armor might look like instead.Not a terrible thing, per-say, as this title's armor designs are generally quite appealing on-the-whole (at least by over-the-top KMMO standards). But it does mean the loss of everyone's favorite latex biker outfit for poor Neamhain here, so wave goodbye to this especially form-fitting look from here on out.
>>2070278Alt-take of the above, as the underground shantytown of Berbhe has some oddly nice, fairly neutral lighting to it, despite being several hundred meters below ground in a dark and filthy cavern somewhere.Reminds me of a similarly out-of-the-way cavern in Blade&Soul, commonly used by fashion-obsessed photobugs wanting to flaunt their latest dress.That'll be it from me for now, don't want to flood the place with just my own ramblings. Good hunting!
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>>2070390Do your best with the dragon, I'm taking a nap here...
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Whew! What a wild ride tonight ended up being.Started off rather quiet, with a couple of us proving the once-intimidating Abyssal Arena 2 was a total joke post-patch, before seguing into what would've been one VERY hard-fought battle against one of Season 4's Level 110 encounters.Fortunately, a kindly and highly-informative local happened upon our expedition, seemingly coming forth from the mists to shepherd us to success in the battles soon to come. Before long, she had taken us on a whirlwind tour of every single Level 110 encounter in the game; a sight seldom seen by genuine newbloods for sure, and very much an appreciated one.Carried on quite a lengthy chat with the surprisingly-willing local after our ride had ended, talking about all sorts of things, including proper lategame progression for newer players. Plenty of info which isn't readily explained by the game - at least not in a reasonable manner - of which I'll gladly go into another time when I'm not due for bed and/or work.Even now, there is much to this title which is still brand-new to me, and I'm certainly glad that some of the natives still playing on the live client are welcoming of wayward newcomers and returnees willing to give their game a shot in [current year].(Also switched back to Sanyaa - had my fill of Neamhain for now. Neam's a strong pick, but her 'kit just isn't jiving with me. Still have a few Season 3 photos to post of her though, sometime later on).
Finished season 1! Been having a lot of fun in our 3-man party.It's crazy how much faster solo is compared to a party. When solo, you can just hit next mission when you finish a level, whereas a party would have to go back to town, manually find the next mission, get all the players on the boat, ready up, then set out.It feels like the bosses are much more difficult in a party, so partying up to take down stronger enemies is pretty rewarding.
Sex with Alle so she can talk my ear off the whole time.
>>2071732running a train on yapgod...
>>2071734no oral because i want to hear her yap about her random adventures on games
>>2071735we can share her anus
>>2071725Me sitting literally 1 inch out of frame
>>2070581Neamhain's cool. I like her combos better than normal -> smash. It's nice that her counterattack doesn't take a million years, it's just a quick burst of light. A lot of vindictus characters seem to have this issue where they spend more time doing counterattacks than regular attacks. Vella actually gets less fun as you level her because Cross Cut goes from being a cool instant burst of damage to a 3 second long combo you do whenever the boss attacks. I think they tried to fix that for a lot of new characters by tying the counterattack to a resource, but they really should have just toned down the counter animations.
Time for the latter-half of my romp through Season 3, I'd say...! Also very tired from work, so forgive me if my added flavor text isn't especially coherent this morning.We resume our journey having emerged from the labyrinthine underdark, reuniting with the forces on the surface to survey the frozen wastes north of Rocheste for signs of what might be causing the wretched plague ravaging the land. Would say getting pulled into a dream dimension to battle ancient fiends is pretty dang suspicious by most metrics. Granted, you can barely see said fiend in this 'shot through all of the particle and distortion effects going on, but you'd best believe this wretched beast is getting its head thoroughly handed to it.>>2071725It's super cool to see you three giving the earlier Seasons a proper shot on their own terms.Damned rare to come across those willing to take their time throughout Seasons 1 and 2 these days, and even if I do hold the belief that this title's encounters only get better the further into the climb you go, there are certainly some standouts to appreciate in the earlier stages as well.Will say as a friendly heads-up, however: Don't let Kraken and Bark dissuade you.Bark in particular was a rather infamous low-point in Season 2, so once you beat that rather "interesting" fight, it's all uphill from there.Politely ignoring the four posts following yours...
>>2071954The frigid tundra is set ablaze as the Royal Army descends upon you, dancing to the wicked tune of the church's corrupting call.Fun fact, you can actually get the boss of this encounter as a summonable NPC, although she's been out-of-circulation for a long while now.
>>2071955Hey. Remember the best*** fight from Season 1?Well guess whaa~aat?Heeee's BACK! And slightly less obnoxious to fight this time (but only slightly)...!Yes, much as the three Dragons were a low point of Season 1 for many, so too is this reprise of its most-infamous one often seen as the worst fight of Season 3, and a clear example of why bigger isn't always better. This is one encounter I'm glad to speed through solo, personally.
>>2071957A brief rest surrounded by the runic glow of an altar most foul.Thank goodness these wooden crates and barrels seem to spring-up in the most unlikely of places, or else you'd never get a chance to warm-up in this realm.>>2071928I wanted to like Neam, but the weirdly clunky nature of her charge attack and rather "samey" Active skills just got under my skin.Can recognize she gets results (and is apparently still top of the heap even after multiple nerfs), but she just isn't for me. Which is fine, not every character is made for everyone, after all.Will agree this title gets pretty counter-heavy later on (at least if you're playing a character with a reliable one). But I'm also someone who mained Fiona during Seasons 1 and 2 - even when she was at her weakest - so counterattacks making up the bulk of my damage output on some fights is fine with me, personally.On that note, I've heard TwinSword!Vella had a rework recently, gaining great power at the cost of her beauty (at least according to the local I spoke with). How'd that end up fairing for her?
>>2071959By Light be purged!This scene (and a few others down the line) really shines if you're a Paladin specifically. Always made a point of crashing its gigantic, holy sword ontop of this blood-soaked wreck for the decisive blow - felt more cinematic that way.Oh if only this were really the end of this wretched bird, but alas, you can't keep an insane demigod down for long in this world.
>>2071961A quick spar to determine who's Light is strongest, cast against the setting sun. More of a foregone conclusion than anything, really.Remember to only grab FOUR orbs during this fight. Getting hit removes an orb, grabbing five nulls-out your counter and fully petrifies you for a lengthy period, spelling certain death soon after.
>>2071969Deep within ghastly bio-laboratories kept secret underground, horrifying experiments rending bone and flesh of the innocent take place, all in desperate pursuit to build the perfect weapon of war for the coming storm.No sacrifice is too great in the minds of those orchestrating these abominable facsimiles of God's creation, and no end of effort should be wrought towards putting them down.
>>2071973Alt-take of the above, as I got lucky with the random action-cam at the end of the encounter.If you can solo this horrible thing, you've got enough mastery of your character to tackle the final fight of Season 3... Of which I won't be spoiling here, as I never landed a decent 'shot of it during my Neamhain's ascent, tsk.Might venture through the early portions of Season 4 on this Neam, or I might just stick with Sanyaa moving forward. Either way, it's always neat to try out a new character, and there's plenty of them to choose from in this title...!
I no longer earn Thanksgiving bags at the end of a mission, but the event is still ongoing, does anyone have any idea why?
>>2072033>Can obtain up to 20 Thanksgiving Gift Bags weekly per character.>The weekly acquisition limit resets every Tuesday at 7:00 UTC.
>>2072040Oh, that explains it. Thank you!
>>2066527>Probably the only good thing to come out of Jumping while it was around, honestly.At least Lann got another source of Gliding Fury for a little while. It was funny staying out in the open in Iset's battle and then just bunny hopping to the safe zone at the last second.
The end of battle screenshot feature is pretty cool
THIS GAME WILL MAKE YOU CUM IN 5 SECONDS
boss spoilershttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKSDgO6I7vk
>>2072853Your character looks like she's in a perpetual state of mild concern
>300 pound convicted rapist "accidentally" falls into a goblin pitYou'll never guess what happened next.
>>2073091Can you still wrastle bosses with the second weapon set?
>>2073101I can't clash for shit so i wouldn't know. You can clash while unarmed after throwing the pillar and it gives some kinda party-wide buff, so i don't see why the cestus shouldn't work.
>teleport behind an enemy>get stuck in a wall>dash behind an enemy during an attack>it rotates 180 degrees and hits me anyways>block>enemy completely misses me and I don't get my counterattack>nothin personnel an enemy>camera fails to keep up and gets jammed between my ass and the enemy'sThe game engine really is not made for this character at all.
I love the end of battle snapshots. I often don't get many pictures of the fights or gameplay in MMOs because I'm too busy playing, so this is a welcome mechanic to solve that.
The spin2win Medusa lookalike on the sunken ship was pretty tough. It was hard to dodge the quick attacks in the small arena and the move that forces you to dance was hard to see coming. We wiped there once or twice. The actual worst part about that fight was this door lock that appears once a player enters the boss arena. It pops up super fast, directly behind the first player who touches it. Our party got split up here at least 3 times, forcing us to reset. Even moving slowly as a group would sometimes get one of us trapped!>>2071954Kraken and Bark were pretty okay, actually! I liked firing the ballista to kill the Kraken and while the Bark fight wasn't amazing gameplay wise, it was more than funny enough to make up for it.
I'm really just not liking this game. Everything about it feels bad. I spend 10x as long in loading screens and wrestling with the bad character dialogue UI as I do actually fighting enemies. If I take off the free gear, fights are a challenge, but then I'm left wondering why I'm bothering to make the fights a challenge when every boss only has 3 attacks and half of them are palette swaps of each other.It's weird because I've been hearing about Vindictus for years and always felt bad for not playing it, but now I really don't feel bad. Like who fucking cares? It's not worth it. The action combat works against it, frankly, it's a huge miss. It's a bad social game because you have to be locked in the entire time you're playing it. Every second you spend talking to someone is a wasted second you could spend in a loading screen instead.I'm not surprised /v/ liked this game back in the day. It's a complete /v/ trap. They have to defend it because it has "objectively good gameplay", and they'd be outed as casuals if they didn't like a game that featured a dodge button.
Let's hold some Vindiesels guild pictures at 9:15 pm UTC, Saturday. Don't forget you can use the coupons to change your hair and outfit in the wardrobe.>Time Converter: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Vindictus+Pictures&iso=20251122T2115&p1=1440
>>2073461Dunno man. I wouldn't disagree with you overall, specially about it not being among the better social games.-The combat is pretty jank by today's standards, ye. I can kind of see it in the eyes of an MMO player 15 years ago though, and in that sense it seems pretty damn impressive to me. The jank kind of gets a pass with regards to that, but it's definitely not that good at it. I forget if it's a contemporary with Dragon Nest or if it's an earlier title, but I'd easily say Dragon Nest did it far, far better.-The UI clutter and menuing hell is an absolute disaster. I'm surprised they didn't even get the wardrobe/cash shop UI to be more intuitive. Couldn't even get that right to drive sales lel.-The game is absolutely gorgeous though, and that's likely a large part of what hooked anons to it back in the day. I'd assume so at least. I'm having a great time with it personally, but yeah, not necessarily a game I'd evangelize to others.
>>2073569It is really pretty. There was this short era of gorgeous kMMOs before gachas and Mihoyo entered the scene and started really dictating how games were supposed to look. Honestly it makes sense to me that the looks are what the game has become known for.
Huh, there's this bossfight at the end of S2 that's kind of like a barnacle-ridden brute. After killing him, you can survive jumping off the bridge and explore an unintended area. I got zipped back to the docks when exploring the OOB but it's all sorts of messed up lol.
>>2073795Gonna see if I can get there again for more exploration!
>>2073795this is giving me chronicles of spellbjorn flashbacks
Another unexpectedly lively night, this time delving into this title's eight-man raiding content, otherwise known as the ever-popular "Redeemers".Four of these apocalyptic horsemen (and horse-girls) exist in total, each one proving a real test of skill and mettle to overcome (although only one of them actually sports a proper steed - bit of false advertising there).Healing opportunities are somewhat limited in these encounters, only allowing for Exquisite Potions and standard, single-target Revive Feathers at ones' disposal. No cheesing mechanics with freebie VVIP insta-heal potions here, these battles are real fights.Completing these engagements just a couple of times grants some pretty dang nice stat bonuses for your chosen character, which can extend to your alts as well after a bit of legwork. Certainly something worth running if you get the chance.As someone who'd never attempted any of these Redeemer battles before, I'd say I actually did fairly decently. Was dead last on the damage charts as expected (thankfully you only see your own output compared with the top dog at the end-of-battle screen), but I didn't go down once throughout the entirety of the first three engagements, only falling to some unexpected mechanics during the final fight.It's great seeing parts of this game I never expected to reach during my brief return trip here. There's quite a lot left for me to experience, even after dabbling here-and-there throughout the years.>>2073795>>2073797More OOB discoveries! Excellent stuff.On that note, one of my favorite examples of OOB chicanery is coming up for you soon, if you're just getting started with Season 3:After defeating Lugh Lamhfada, head to the edge of his arena, dodge off the edge into the death-water, and hold spacebar. As [Space] is the default keybind to ascend when swimming in Half Life 2, you'll float to the top and awkwardly bob around whilst having free movement to explore the entire map. Take pictures!
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https://mmos.com/news/vindictus-pvp-removal-jan-23-2024>siege matches, the arena, tournaments, deathmatch, and sports day. Associated game features and elements will also be removed from the user interface alongside PvP NPCs, quests, storylines, triumph medals, and the entire sports day zone.I was looking forward to pwning you fags on the fishing boat after reading on the wiki that there's a duel feature, looks like that's not happening. I can't imagine the PVP was very good if they went for a nuclear option like this.
Posting some screenshots, starting with this crabby who sailed for adventure with us.
Finished the wall master mini-game... due to its random nature, I feel some distances are impossible to cover in what little time you have, but eventually any stage can be cleared by getting a lucky pattern.
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>>2074227where is this?
>>2074257From the G menu, select Alban Festival on the right.You have two mini-games, Spear Master and Wall Master. You earn festival trophies by playing them, which can be exchanged in the Seal Shop for some fruit emblems, as well as some simple head cosmetics.
Posting my contributions to the guild photos before heading out. Have a nice day, frens. Sorry I can't make it, thanks for joining me a little earlier!
Anon got stuck...
Big fish!
Too big a catch...
>vignetteYAMERO
Well, that was a neat 'shoot, I'd say!Glad to have made it to one of these events again, posing around amongst good company and inevitably complaining about arbitrary camera restrictions. Both are staple traditions of this project which I'm thoroughly pleased to see carry on from title to title (perhaps the second one less so, but it's all part of the process).From 480 screencaps taken, I've narrowed my share down to just 21 photos overall. A good number of them will be "alt-takes" of existing works, but hopefully there's a few decent ones in this set to appreciate.Normally I'd write little flavor-text accompaniments for every screenshot I post, but as this is more of a batch-upload sort of deal, most of these will go unvoiced this time around. The photos clearly speak for themselves in this case (and that totally isn't an excuse for me just being lazy).Lettuce begin.
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>>2074963And that'd be it for this batch!Plenty more left to see in the week ahead, and quite a few of us have made respectable progress during our stay so far. Maybe next time we'll swing by Rocheste and Berbhe, to complete our town-and-village tour in this title...!
Fish fear me.
Season one done, time for beachkino
>>2075502Jokes aside I'm actually more interested in the plot than I usually am with these korean games
>>2075508Does anyone know if the story is actually related to Mabinogi, or if that's just marketing bs.
>>2075525Looks like it was but they canned it.>>2066280
>>2075525Vindictus has gone by "Mabinogi: Heroes" in Korea since its inception, with Season 1 originally acting as a prequel story of how humanity escaped from the doomed Fomor realm and found the promised land of Erinn featured in Mabinogi proper.Despite the later rewrite to distance Vindi from Mabi and make it more of a standalone property, it's still called Mabinogi: Heroes in Korea even now, even if its connections to Mabi proper are pretty tenuous at this point.Tangentially related, there was also going to be a true numbered sequel to Mabinogi in the form of Mabinogi 2: Arena, although this one never left the prototyping stage. Would have taken Vindi's more realistic aesthetic, and turned its moment-to-moment gameplay into something closer to a Diablo-like dungeon crawler.Some super early trailers and concept art/renders are all we have of that one:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC5_yQRINHIInteresting to see the ultra-early workings of what would eventually become Letty first make their appearance in the trailer above, at least.
>>2075563https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyPBTxxljYUIf you want even more confusion, the recent Mabinogi Mobile (which is still KR only) includes a pretty faithful recreation of Colhen. I really like the BGM for it too. I've been looking for if there was ever an official statement about splitting the franchise/lore from Mabinogi, but I've not been able to find anything.
>>2075508Same I liked it.I stopped playing when my temporary free fashion things expired. I took that screenshot before.
I got to the Regina fight. I've always loved her theme but it's good to know she has a cool and fun fight as well. My only complaint is that you have a tendency to get stuck on the doohickey in the middle of the arena.I think it's funny that the game told me I was below the recommended attack for her fight, but I was apparently alright on defense - when I was dying in 3 or 4 hits the entire fight.
the shape they made before they moved
>>2076737wtf i only get one
>>2070251>300%500%. So it takes many, many days.>>2070278You can craft their signature level 56/60 outfits. But since they're not the intended fasttrack-railroad to endgame sets they still have the old high repair costs compared to using play guide/leveling equipment.
Surprisingly active night, this ended up being!Started out strong with a trip to everyone's favorite pretty-boy from Season 3, an iconic fight from the era with a fantastic battle theme to match. Equipped my Trainee Daggers to drop from ~51k to ~17k ATT for the occasion, so as not to spoil the moment for those freshly arriving to it.Can't recall who's Paladin this might've been, but they sure knew how to strut. Some real confidence in that pose right there.
>>2077155After the battle, we stayed around a bit to take one hell of an unexpected swim.Once everything settles down, the insta-kill properties of the water around this arena are unflagged, allowing you to explore the zone to your heart's content. Plenty of skirting along the water's edge to be found for the curious here.
>>2077158With enough perseverance (and some choice air-strafing around walls), you can even end up on the hidden floor underneath the map!As this bottom-most layer has completely default properties, the void sounds like wood when you run along it, and attempting to run off into the /real/ abyss beyond just warps you back onto the inky blackness. Neat stuff.
>>2077161A quick rest under the stars before we carried on.Not often you get to see the aurora dance across the heavens, would be foolish to move on without appreciating it.
>>2077164Alt-take of the above, with our resident Grimden in-tow.>>2077118>500%Wew lad. Have to commend anyone who sticks it out for that long.Also, thanks for the reminder on "signature" clothing. Guess that's another perk for crafting professions, even if most of their appeal (supposedly) lies at lategame/endgame, from what I've been told.
>>2077169More out-of-bounds chicanery...!This time in Berbhe for a trip to the lands below the already-quite-low. Took more than a few tries to finagle our way up here (that air-strafe at the end is crucial), but we got there in the end.Finding this little hop over the map's edge must've been a real party trick, back when Season 3 was still new.
>>2077171Just like the hidden floor seen in the previous few screencaps, this one's also all blacked-out, with plenty of spots where the lighting gets super wonky.Can go from being perfectly visible to a literal silhouette in the blink of an eye down here.
>>2077175Speaking of lighting, there are also several spots down here with perfectly neutral-tone, well-lit conditions, prime for taking photos.Were it not for the understandably low-rez background, this could be prime territory for photobugs who know their way around Reshade and Photoshop.
>>2077177Alt of the above, even if both the previous posts were pretty similar to one another already. Had this one marked in my to-be-posted list and converted it below 4MBs already, so may as well.Fun fact: Turning on your Screenshot Mode and looking near the edges of the abyss down here can reveal some odd structures floating off in the distance. Those are some of the backdrops used for various indoor scenes in Berbhe, where the camera gets taken upon entering those locations.The ones which are most easily visible are the Inn and Attic settings.
>>2077182Don't get spooked while down here, the invisible walls and broken geometry won't necessarily kill you if you keep your wits about you.There's also a few random bits of map-baked UI down here as well, such as a little "Battle Quest" icon with an arrow nearby. Would've been placed infront of Berbhe's mission board, but for whatever reason, was moved to the abyss instead.
>>2071957Elchulus was only fun to refight after falling to irrelevance the last decade to use the shelter buff to go fast. The spammy one in season 3 is just annoying even after they scaled it for solo. The Royal Army Raid one became so much less interesting when people stopped coordinating to beat up the spines and break-offs.>>2073116Clash doesn't require throwing your pillar. There's also the auto-clash which lets you just hold a button to do it for a lesser effect.>>2073444 CheckedI don't remember if it helps for those moments, but there's an "unstuck" feature they added a few years into the game where if you stop moving for a while a prompt comes up to type it into the chat and it'll teleport you from where you're stuck. It's primarily for when you clip into the environment I'm not sure if it works for when you can still move around properly while also locked behind an enemy gate.>>2077169I forgot to mention that using the actual armor pieces instead of displaying an Outfitter means you can actually see them break in-battle. I still hate that the Outfitters always completely disable that aspect even if the damaged models already exist for the set.
>>2077187The floor of the underground shrine is just barely low enough to be entered from the outside whilst waltzing around down here.Don't be fooled, however, trying to reenter the map once you're out is largely a trap. Invisible walls work both ways in this title, and what keeps players safely locked in during normal gameplay also keeps tricksy boundary breakers out.Still allows you to mess about with the Goddess Statue all the same, if you're tenacious enough to work your way from behind its model.
>>2077193Don't mind us, local citizens of the Underground, just desecrating the altars to your God as one does.
>>2077196Now onto some end-of-battle 'snaps, courtesy of the game's sometimes-good-sometimes-questionable battle camera.All of these are from Season 4, but they're largely concealed by all of the particle effects and such, so it shouldn't be /too/ spoilery.>>2077189I've full respect for anyone who pieces together a look made out of in-game armor.That takes some serious commitment, and often ends up looking more appealing than just heading over to the Wardrobe and dropping the cash for a full, pre-built outfit. Yes I'm aware of the hypocrisy.
>>2077199Sometimes the end-of-battle camera turns out total trash, and nothing's worth saving.But sometimes - just sometimes - you get something which actually looks pretty decent. Savor those moments.
>>2077203Will admit to burning certain Active abilities if I know the fight's coming to a close (and they're off-cooldown), for the slim chance of getting a nice-looking 'shot at the end.Rather rare you'll get anything presentable, since you're often smooshed right up next to the bosses' legs or whatever. But sometimes it works out...!
>>2077206One more from this guy.We fought him twice, and our Hurk kept being photogenic throughout (if a little out-of-frame on this one).
>>2077210And finally, we took to the jungle for some much-needed culling of the local grotesquaries.Super cool to see us working our way through the Level 110 stages. Was half-expecting us to be stonewalled by them, but seeing us succeed here gives me confidence that more of this game will be within our grasp before our two weeks here are up.Good work to those who joined me tonight, and best of luck to the brave Anon playing through Season 3 with intentionally limited stats, respecting the content far more than most have done in a very long while.
>>2076989from the thumbnail, I thought that was a shotgun in his mouth.
>>2076989*FWEEEEE*
>>2077328Lel, same. Was about to say giwtwm
This boss...
>>2077566That guy and Dullahan mark a notable step up in Season 3's difficulty. If you were fighting him with your stats cut, that must've been one hell of a battle.Also, you three are really breezing through Season 3 at the rate you're going! Didn't you only just make it to Berbhe earlier this morning?
>>2077613Not sure what you mean with cut stats, we've been using the free gear the game gives us. But we're making some steady progress indeed!
Infinite money glitch (Karok-only)
>>2077613Dullahan was a bit meh, his hitboxes are waay to janky. Surely a step-up from the bosses right before him though.That boss from the screenshot though... pure kino. I adored that bossfight! You really weren't lying when you said the game starts feeling substantially better with S3. It's a shame getting past S1~2 is a bit of a slog.I was feeling really close to being 'done' with this game at the tail end of S2, fights were feeling way too mashy and repetitive with bosses being differnt flavours of the same sandbag, getting you to just click through a variety of tabs and windows a-la-gacha and equipping the next tier of freebies. I'm very very glad I stuck it through though!
>>2078132I agree with this. I was completely checked out of the game, but there was a notable improvement with Regina. Music, fight design, just the general spectacle of things. I still completely understand why the game was never a success despite its gameplay design, because the gameplay design really was awful for a very long time.
Ein Lacher is fun. for fuck's sake how am i supposed to tell what a boss is going to do next when i can't see anything but their goddamn legs. What were they thinking
Got absolutely mangled on all 10 tries. How the FUCK do i dodge the red flash gorilla charge?
>>2078605Ein Lacher is all I'm willing to do since my account isn't stat restricted from it account-wide unlike Red Moon Energy and Royal Army Raids. I can't be bothered doing stories/progressing past the free Orna gear when it was painful enough investing in one character to just barely make the cut for the current RME normal requirements.Old records are from dabbling a long time ago. They changed gold medals from 0 hits to 3 hits allowed.>>2078672It's been an eternity since I fought him. If I recall correctly... There's one red attack where he just does a spin attack from where he was standing and there's one red attack where he sends out a pulse and if you weren't moving he won't target you. Blind swordsman.
>>2078605I'd pay good money to hear a korean player try and pronounce those gaelic words.
Lugh's grab does not work well with the ragdoll physics.
>>2078132>>2078234I know they'll never do it, and at this point, I don't know if it'd even help any if they did, but they really SHOULD just have new characters start at Season 3 by now. If people are feeling nostalgic or are curious about the lore or whatever, keep all the S1 and S2 under some legacy menu that allows people to still go back and do them if they want.I can't even fathom have many thousands of players have probably tried this game over the years and quit before they even hit S2. It's been a long time now, but I used to follow a couple MMO channels on Youtube and whenever a new character would come out, these people would go back to the game, try it out for a bit, have a little bit of fun but ultimately be off-put by the piss-easy difficulty and jankyness of S1, then quit. Again and again.Even Season 3 itself is over 10 fucking years old at this point. The jump in quality from then to current is almost as big as the quality gap between S1 and S3. They're almost like completely different games.
>>2078234In defense of the earlier seasons, outside of characters just being far weaker, they were often designed around group play and fight specific gimmicks. A ton of these fights were designed around doing some mini game to force a knockdown and get damage. Almost all of these were removed as they were impossible to do in solo play when they streamlined the early game.An example from right before Regina is Crom Cruaich. He used to have a phase where he'd summon 4 statues. They'd fire unavoidable AoE unless there was a player nearby, so you'd have to split the 8 man party into 4 groups to handle all the statues while someone held aggro on the boss. Then the fight would end with a survival bullet hell phase which would ramp up until he died. All of that is completely gone from the game now and leaves the fight feeling undercooked. Season 3's gimmicks are largely in tact because they shifted towards personal gimmicks like Regina's corruption meter rather than group gimmicks. Although a key S3 boss did also get her bullet hell phase removed.That isn't to say the current state of S1-2 doesn't suck, it's absolutely boring shit now. But they were genuinely decent fights back in the day. But it turns out the action game audience just wants to actually hit things with their weapons instead of running around carrying ballista bolts.
>>2079080>carrying ballista bolts.RIP Evie golem and assisting with Titan and Glas breaks.
>>2079142
Server down, back up in two hours apparently.
back to the daily grind
>>2078973>Blind swordsman.>gets briefly stunned if he bonks his head on a tree during normal attacksKino.>if you weren't moving he won't target youFor once, i would have actually appreciated some boss mechanic spoonfeeding.
What's this? lol
>>2079490a cutie
Boss sexo
>man, players really seem to be responding well to season 3!>Yeah! you know, I've got the perfect idea to really kick things up a notch>what is it?!>hold your breath. it's..... a ten mission interlude where you run through old missions as an ugly side character and oneshot the same boss five times!!!!!>........ GENIUS!!!!!!!!!!
>>2079502For me it's...Titan
The message you get when you're kicked from a party is pretty funny.
>>2079839lol
>>2079839This confused me so much when I first saw it. The message doesn't make it sound like you got kicked by the leader, it sounds like the game did it automatically.One of the loading screen tips teaches you to votekick someone "if they're not pulling their weight". That's one way of breeding a toxic playerbase...
haha sword goes WOOSH WOOSH CLANG
Repair costs skyrocketed with the level 105 set, and a single run of Abyssal Arena takes 8% fatigue with VIP, for a mere 50k gold.Is there any sustainable way to heal fatigue, like items you can somehow farm or buy for cheap?I know Ceara's Fatigue Potion is awarded for reaching certain levels, or you can trade 15 seals for one every day, but that hardly helps.
>>2080186How do you even calculate weight pulling a game where you must just spam cooldowns and dodge getting hit
>>2080227Whoa, nice going!Proving your mettle in Ein Lacher - especially without dipping into your healing supplies - is a legitimate challenge. Major props for full-clearing the entire setlist, especially on Hurk; I'm sure you were in one-shot territory for most of those fights.How'd you land a Gold against Lugh 1.0, anyway? That's the only fight I'm missing top marks on with my Sanyaa.Couldn't wrap my head around how you're supposed to deal with his big arena-wide instakill, since collecting the necessary orbs to protect yourself against it counts as "getting hit" by them. Perhaps they fixed that issue, would certainly be nice.>>2080259>Repair costs skyrocketed with the level 105 setRepair fees can get pretty rough prior to reaching the end of your Growth Goals via the Play Guide, and receiving your freebie Orna set.Once you've made it there, you'll be able to join-up with others for the 110-series of major Raids throughout Season 4. Clearing those missions (ideally through the Quick Departure or Battle Circuit menus) will provide a decent amount of Gold to keep you out of the red, as well as Ardri Seals to spend on further improving your Orna set to +13, among other things.The farther into the raiding circuit you are, the more Gold you'll get for completing stages, so repair fees aren't as much of a hassle later on.>Is there any sustainable way to heal fatigueYou've got two options here, both of which are probably a bit of an ask given our current runtime:1) Make a second character, and play on them whilst your main's Fatigue is slowly recovering (this is rather common).Or2) Grab VVIP from the Cash Shop, and get three +10% Fatigue Recovery potions dropped into your Avatar Inventory panel every hour or so.There ARE fairly cheap three-day and seven-day versions of VVIP up for sale, but yes, these two options are indeed the rub if you're planning to spam Raids later. Not bad by Nexon standards, yet something to begrudgingly consider nonetheless.
>>2081172A quick addendum to the last point (due to hitting the 2000-character limit on the previous post...):It's worth mentioning that Fatigue is more of a concern if you're already very low on it (which you likely will be by the end of Season 3, if you're cutting a quick pace and/or aren't using Story Skips).Setting aside a character and letting them recover up to 200-300% Fatigue should safely keep them within a good range to run a respectable variety of Raids and Abyssal Arena for several nights before needing to skip a day or-so on that character again, provided you're at least getting your Heroic Soap buff from the Hotspring before heading out to lessen Fatigue loss (or ideally VIP/VVIP if it's still available).
My apartments power gor knocked out by a huge storm, unsure if I will be back
>>2081533you will be missed Nanashiiii
>>2081172>>2081181Thank you for all the info! It's a bit annoying the game doesn't just let you play with the character you want, but this helps!I'll be posting some screenshots...
More 'caps to add to the pile...!These are about a day or-so late, but better late than never, right? Much prefer threads who's posters remember the "image" part of this imageboard, as lord knows that isn't especially common these days. (That's a whole different topic to get into, however).A quick post-battle snippet of a whole heaping helping of randoms (and (Me)) to kick things off. The kinds of looks you can come up with in this title can be pretty impressive, as you'll soon see later on in this batch of photos.
>>2083261Silly as this might appear, I'll actually be spoilering these next two 'shots, as I'm quite confident a good number of us at the moment haven't yet ran through the gauntlet of Redeemers just yet. Soon...!The spectacle of these battles is really cranked-up to 11, with plenty of phase transitions and mid-battle cutscenes (for better or worse). Can be rather tricky to actually see these bosses with eight players on the field at once all going nuts against them, however.
>>2083262A choice moment during the final Redeemer fight befalling some unfortunate soul (not me, I actually got out of the way in time).Keep your step light during these engagements, 'lest you find yourself impaled on the end of an untimely one-shot.
>>2083263Now for some rather unprofessional-looking photos gawking at one of the local-locals we had joining our second set of Redeemers for the week.This XGun!Kai was a real master of impersonations, their outfits (and even personalities) were astonishingly on-point. Although I don't believe they'll be especially stealthy wearing a camo like that one out in an open, green field...
>>2083268Fresh off one job and onto another, there's seldom a moment's rest for this especially-special agent.Looks like he's upgraded his dinky little pistol for a proper semi-auto weapon, however - good on him. Far more befitting of the circumstance over taking pot-shots.
>>2083272One last costume showcase, this time crudely cropped from a larger image I hadn't the time to properly line-up.Full respect for those who commit to the bit as much as this guy did. There's plenty of welcome appreciation for scantily-clad waifus and chiseled husbandos in this title, but it takes some real commitment to go beyond the norm and define your look in a more nuanced matter. The Dyes alone must've ran this guy a small fortune, whew.
>>2083276Speaking of chiseled husbandos...Would it come as any shock to note this absolute mountain of a cat was topping the 'charts in every encounter we went to? One look at him, and you just KNOW this guy's a true vet.
>>2083278On our second pass through the Redeemer circuit, our guild's own Hurk came along for the ride.Despite not having a clue what was happening, they performed admirably against fearsome foes he'd most certainly never seen before. The time-tested tactic of swinging at whatever was moving until it stopped worked quite well here.This arena's harsh lighting really makes metallic armor's features pop, certainly appealing in its own way.
>>2083281A couple quick 'takes of this group's master infiltrator and espionage expert.Would be wary about taking that bouquet, it's probably bugged or something.
>>2083282Even in the face of near-certain death itself, there's seldom a bad time to take a CODEC call.
>>2083287More screwing around with Berbhe's super wonky out-of-bounds lighting!Remarked this once before, but this title has surprisingly solid goat-ing for a game where you can't even jump.
>>2083288Alt-take of the above, slightly more zoomed-out this time.Unfortunately I couldn't get a well-framed 'shot of all four of us standing here, due to being on the outside of the group. Such are the limitations of dealing with a perpetually-centered camera.
>>2083291One more of us traipsing through the under-underdark.Clearly the outfit on one of us didn't get the memo that we're supposed to be silhouetted, shining just as brightly as it would on the surface.
>>2083294And, of course, what's a trip to Berbhe without desecrating a few holy sites? It's practically tradition at this point.A nice night, this ended up being. Best of luck to those of us finishing-up Season 3 and breaking into Season 4 - those fights get /tough/...!
been stuck on the same mission for about 30mins, boss keeps spawning this one enemy i dont know how to deal with
she looks like she fucks human men to death
>Effects - Players: All Playersi've made a big mistake
me and the lasses (male)
the unblockable, 2 minute long rape attack made me a bit uncomfortable, cool boss otherwise
>have dynamic IP>have a 10min cooldown before you can use game featuresfor what purpose
I beat the game, or at least one of it. Pretty fun, dunno if I will keep playing once we finish this for the week.
do i need nexon account if i download the game from steam?
>>2085659>To play Nexon games from Steam, you must link your accounts. If a linked account is not detected when you open a Nexon game from Steam, you are prompted to link an existing Nexon account, or you can create and link a new account.Yes.
>>2085668big gay, still downloading
I'm playing through the character editor.
>>2085874can you make your character look like >>2068384asking for a friend
Can you change hair to something other than initial selection?
>>2085892Yeah, soon enough you'll earn a coupon that lets you change your hair to a wide selection of hairstyles, as often as you want, for the next week.
>>2079478The little messages in-game for those that have them usually aren't that great. Partly because there's only so much you can do in text form. Partly Engrish.>>2079490Mood Missions for seals and buffs. Personally I think only LUK matters and most of the tasks require going out of your way.https://forums.vindictus.nexon.net/discussion/18647/mood-missions>>2079839I've never seen that before but I've also only ever been kicked from RAR by accidentally AFKing too long when it hadn't started.>>2080521>How do you even calculate weight pulling a game where you must just spam cooldowns and dodge getting hitVindictus weight was measured in stones.>>2084066 CheckedTo help with account theft. It doesn't matter so much after they finally closed up whatever password leak there was and they also added secondary passwords. But it also didn't help if an account was broken into while the owner is away/asleep like with mine.
>>2085885There are many sliders in the character creator for proportions, but the character in that screenshot is likely wearing an (extremely expensive) outfit that alters proportions.
>>2080259Go down a set to 100 gear if you can get away with it to save on money. Or do a mix. That's the last one before they turn off the repair fee leniency right?>>2081172>since collecting the necessary orbs to protect yourself against it counts as "getting hit" by themWorks for me? I also did it years ago on Fiona and Lethor. Unless you were talking about Brilliant Lugh.Too bad we can't donate boat tokens for friends with 0 fatigue.
tourist here, post some webms that make this game look good
Guild pictures at 9:15 pm UTC, Saturday.>Time Converter: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Vindictus+Pictures&iso=20251129T2115&p1=1440
>>2087255Its an S+ tier action game thats ruined to an unplayable state by the devs literally giving up 6 years ago and going full tits and ass costume creation only. zero content. The game has tried to catch every trend because it lost its own identity about 2 years in when it first gave up on the "woah ingame physics" aspect and its been building system on top of system that isnt compatible in the slightest. They tried to add jumping and built the character Karok around the jump and the entire season 2 boss catalogue on jumping. Then removed jumping from the game making season 2 and karok unplayable.
>>2087320why haven't you guys moved on to similar games? do they not exist? what about bdo?
>>2087470There is no similar game. I wish there was. BDO combat is some sort of weird rhythm game where you input the same combination of moves in a row over and over and over again. Theres maybe two variations based on if its a big single target or a group of smaller targets. You do this and try not to stand in the giant red circles on occasion and thats the game. Vindictus is an action game like DmC or ninja gaiden or even Nioh. Which I play all of those too but they arent mmo so theres no sense of community which is a draw for me.
One last 'cap to cap-off one hell of a successful thread.It's been wonderful seeing you bunch give this buried gem of an action title a proper shot, and even if many of (You) are due to depart to parts unknown, I hope you've had an excellent time during your stay here all the same.Thanks for making these past few weeks a real time to remember!
Hit image limit. New thread here because we'll need the extra space for guild photos soon.>>2087682>>2087682>>2087682>>2087682
