https://store.steampowered.com/app/3393110/AION_2/>Stress test September 17th-19thhttps://aion2.plaync.com/en-us/conts/teaser#section-15>Early Access Launch September 30th>F2P Launch October 5th>Register to newsletter for a free mounthttps://aion2.plaync.com/en-us/conts/teaser#section-2
Random details>Founders packs give 5 days early access and 30 days of subscription, higher tiers just give skins>Subscription allows you to trade, use auction house, allows you to obtain dungeon rewards twice per run (same energy cost, just time saver) and gives you more dungeon energy, more inventory+storage space and remote storage>There will be early access servers with new servers for F2P launch, early access servers will still be available for F2Pers>NA will be split between east and west>Launch patch includes all QoL, balance etc from KR, but content starts from the beginning>Gameplay is tab target with holy trinity and 5 player groups, 10 man raids, large scale PvP systems>Servers are faction based, but PvE content is cross-server>Factions have different playable regions and storylines
Polls>Classes https://strawpoll.com/eNg6vdwv3gA>Factionhttps://strawpoll.com/BJnXVa5VkZv
Is this crypto tab-target shit again?
>>2872405What does that mean? It's a regular tab target MMO.
>>2872412god sake, why even make a sequel if you're just going to release the same thing again
>>2872430I wouldn't say it's really the same thing as Aion, there are a lot of differences, even in the combat, it's tab target but it's definitely not like Aion 1 tab target, much faster paced.
>>2871877every time I try to watch Kanon play this game it looks boring as fuck and why can you p2w revive if you die in a dungeon?how reliant on conscious teammates is this game? what made me quit lost ark was 600 mechanics on a single boss and requiring everybody in the party to do them flawlessly, plus waiting 3 days to get a support for your lobby. if pugging is difficult then I don't even want to bother.
>>2872723it's not p2w revive, you get those for free, afaik this system is limited in raids and dungeons aren't really meant to be that hard, I think the game is easier than lost ark in general and pugging isn't bad
I really hope it'll run on Linux. Seems people have been having trouble with their shitty launcher.
>>2873000The existing versions don't so I wouldn't get your hopes up
>played TW release>was overrun with bots within daysI don't feel good for a western release bros
>>2873100no mobile client makes botting a little more difficult, but every MMO like this gets botted to shit because it's so profitable for third worlders
>>2873105>no mobile clientI don't think that really makes any differenceI still have a sour taste in my mouth from this game, especially the crafting system, it felt dumb to craft up tiers but then lose it all on one failed craft and have to start all over again from the first tierI'll probably still play it for a few weeks, goon to my character some, and then delete it
I am pretty sure they've changed the crafting system to have guaranteed options
>>2873117>>2873113
This game can't come soon enough. I am bored as fuck with Black Desert and any MMO that was promised; Archeage, Chrono Odyssey, and Vindictus never came. It's not like AION may be good, but the situation is dire. Anything goes. We need new mmo's.
>f2p
>>2873419f2p is not viable, basically a subscription game
new trailer droppedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGZHZGvQNLE
>>2873100were you not around for Lost Ark or Throne and Liberty launches?eastern games are all heavily botted and littered with RMT.they rely on the KR social security verification to reduce botting in KR, and the KR players all accept and participate in RMT. the only ones who don't are the ones with an English audience on twitch who have to feign a performative anti-RMT opinion. which is strange because the only popular mmo, wow, all of the streamers and players acknowledge and participate in RMT.the concept of a mmo always sounds like fun to me but the player base is always the most embarrassing excuses for humans in existence. maybe I'm just nostalgic for high school when I played wow during its early years.
>>2873978>eastern games are all heavily botted and littered with RMTwestoids will say this and then go back to their shitty westoid games with the exact same problems just with ugly westoid graphics lmao
>>2873978>I played wowReally, nigga? You count that as an achievement in playing MMOs? The worst, most stale, boring game in existence, solely fueled by milking millions or retards alone. Not to mention the faggiest community I have ever had the displeasure to meet in real life at cons. Koreans and Asians actually bother to bring something new to the table. Had we let the West lead, we would still be in 2004 in graphics and gameplay.
>>2873117limited amount per season and doesn't apply to orange crafts, which could mean that you either spend a premium to buy it off the market or gamble at a 25% chance to explode it twice or a 25% chance to proc it and have another chance to explode it or win and get rich
>>2873882The only real limitation is no market board, Ironman mode sounds more fun to me anyways.
Eurobros, we need to make sure to pick the same server this time!
>>2874909yes pick na east you dumb motherfuckers
>separate us west and east serversI hope US west won't be a ghost town like it usually is.
>>2874981No, we're not playing with burgers.
>>2874994It will be lol
>>2874059>You count that as an achievement in playing MMOs?NTA but he never said anything about achievement, he just said he missed it. Rightfully so, wow up until mid-wotlk was good.So what's your achievement in playing MMOs bud?
>>2872077Also add that new servers are added at real launch so in the end majority of players will be on the 2nd wave of servers while tryhard/shills/loserstreamers will flood early access serversthe auction house is also separate between early access and real launch serversDO NOT BUY A FOUNDERS PACK!!!!you're paying to be stuck on the worse servers filled with the worse kind of people
>>2875746There's nothing stopping anyone from just late joining the EA servers, I don't think it'll make any significant difference especially since their markets will be merged and PvE is cross-server while abyss PvP matches you against similar servers.
The patch in KR today has made ping much less of a problem for DPS, so EU bros will be able to comfortably play on NA
>>2875958If you're wondering what this meanshttps://youtu.be/GrJyHCju1ko&t=120
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSTwX4orhAsLatest video from the AION Team..
is this another game where I'm going to have to watch a 5 minute video before any boss and have a cheat sheet open on my second monitor?
>>2875958Why would you want to play on NA as EU.
does anybody have a good video explaining classes?what role has the shortest queue time?are classes hard locked into builds or is there more freedom to find things like a dual wielding warrior tanking?
>>2877304Maybe. They want the black desert audience.
>>2877372If you plan to play with anons and not normalfags then EU generally isn't an option, there's always a much larger NA population than EU.
>>2877304maybe for the raids but you can rawdog dungeons, mechanics aren't difficult>>2877390classes are pretty similar so you should just pick whatever looks cool to you, the main difference being the obvious roles and whether you're ranged or meleethere aren't any queues, just party finder like lost ark, people use a lot of healer alts and there's obviously plenty of dps players so tank is probably the most desiredthe builds are pretty locked in, there's hardly any customization except which stigma skills you use except they're not remotely balanced to be competitive so you're gonna use the same as everyone else
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11u4wLCG1WfL-xSka2Aze0rI9vYRa7mq3N3Gp1bt0AWY/Some autist made this.
>>2877565sounds so fucking sterile and boring like it's just another fotm p2w pvp "mmo" from the east.
>>2877906It's more focused on PvE though, the PvP exists but it's not like the main thing you do or anything.
>>2877858An autist would have made this much more pleasant to read
>>2877858>some autist>kanon
>>2877511We literally had more people than you guys during NEO. Plus this is a ping heavy game. There's no reason to play on NA.
>>2878519I'm EU and I can think of plenty of reasons to not play on EU. I also play on TW already and the ping issue has been solved, having 100 ping on NA is going to feel buttery smooth.
Any word on if they'll bring back the mech class from the first game? That was the coolest thing about it.
>>2878588Nothing about that yet, next class is called "Slayer"
>>2873113>I'll probably still play it for a few weeks, goon to my character some, and then delete itSame.
What's the difference between the two factions?What's the difference between Chanter and Cleric?What's the difference between Sorcerer and Spiritmaster?
>>2879424Different maps, Elyos play in Verteron and Eltnen, Asmodian play in Altgard and Morheim, and you get different wings.There's rifts that allow travel to the other factions maps for a limited time every day, mostly just for map completion shit, but also PvP that hardly anybody does cause it's a flag system.Chanter and Cleric are bother healers/supports but Chanter is melee (kinda half ranged though) and Cleric is ranged.Chanter leans more into buffs and Cleric leans more into heals.Sorc and SM are just two flavors of the same thing, both ranged DPS but Sorc is more burst/cooldown oriented while SM is more sustained DPS, the summoning aspect doesn't change the gameplay at all since you don't really control them.
>>2876593>trusting these two not to fuck the game with monetizations
>>2880093that neck beard looks glued on.
>Launch plans>speedrun to level 12 and start mob grinding for picrelIYKYK
>>2880418enlighten us
Is Brawler gonna be available in the global release? How pay to win is this shit going to be?
>>2879458Hmm, I see. And then I'm guessing there's also "neutral" zones that both faction eventually meet in?I watched at video (at 2x speed) describing all the classes and I think I'm leaning towards Cleric. I really like that it has a bit of a battle priest vibe to it and uses a cool mace + shield combo instead of a lame staff. Plus instant queue times for dungeons is always nice.Here's the video if anyone cares:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qHXZ3LG96gApparently whichever class you pick first is super important and leveling alts is a pain in the ass for some reason? Don't quite fully understand why that is though. Also apparently some more changes were made to the monetization in the global version.
>>2880574god that video was fucking insufferable I had to turn it off
>>2880093They're just itching to fuck the game up with monetization. It's like a junkie trying to get drugs.
>>2880487Only image I could fine to showcase, but it's an easy transmog item to get which is just a straight up panty legging "armor" (skirt is part of the upper body on this armor set)
>waiting room for more gookslopThe only not shit Asian MMO is PSO1. EVERYTHING else is objective garbage.
>>2880093they already tried that in Korea and had to humiliate themselves on stream with an apology tour
>>2880574The only neutral zone is the abyss which is full on open PvP warfare.Leveling alts is the same as leveling a main so idk what that means, but I'd advise sticking to one character anyway unless you want to rapidly burn out, maybe wait for a boost event if you really want an alt.
>>2880565no. yes.
>>2880888we like garbage here
>>2880888everything legacy doesn't get updated, or if it does it gets patched for the modern audience.everything modern is trash.media and entertainment sucks. return to monke.
Yo, motherfuckers! Including myself. The game has changed. You can pre-download the game on the 16th of September and play the stress test on the 18th of September; all you need to do is go to Steam and ask to partake in the stress test. Good luck.
>>2881809based, signing up now
>>2881809the game will be available on purple, what are the steps to stress test on that client instead?
>>2882958just install the game on the 16th and you can play during a 6 hour window on the 17th and 18th
They really did the franchise dirty. Everything I've seen about the game so far is absolutely atrocious, as if their only goal was to piss off people who liked the first game.
So what is this? Aion but even more p2w?
>>2885136idk makes sense I guess? the audience of the first game couldn’t keep the game alive. the next logical step would be to try and find a new, bigger audience
can someone give me a guide t o have best start? and does faction mean anything?
>>2885192a handful of gook incels aren't a wider audience though since those just coom to gacha, which doesn't require a modern pc
>>2885294we all know it’s going to be dead in a matter of months anyway. but I’ll enjoy the leveling journey, craft a bunch of stuff and then call it
>>2885304i wanted to give it a try but "leveling" is just a few hours of following the quest marker all alone and the combat is horrible mobileslopthe world is also small and there's nothing to explore since the game is a daily login chore simulator
>>2885304throne and liberty is still going and Aion 2 is a much better game having played the TW version
>>2885677still going is quite a strong accusation considering a single server in wow or ffxiv has higher population than the entire game, and it has roughly the same population as lotro.
FFS, can someone confirm or deny if im able to make THIS body type (Elin+) for Aion 2? It will decide if i skip this game or buy the $100 founders pack, its an IMPORTANT question!
>>2885309The combat is fine imo, it feels good, it's fast, I think being simple is actually good since the whole mmo hotbars with 50 buttons thing is a major turn off for a lot of people, and it means they can make encounter design more interesting since you have less mental burden in terms of doing a rotation.
>>2886138That's literally a screenshot from Aion 2 so yes, they aren't changing it in our version.
>>2886138you're weird.
Newfags don't know how many good changes they already made for global that cuckreans don't have (this is already out of date btw there's a lot more)
>>2887110this doesn't entice people into playing your game.every eastern game is like this too.recent translations that flopped on release in kr before coming west>bdo>lost ark>tnland they're still bad games.
>>2886261Have you actually seen it in action? It's the most braindead mobile shit ever. Overly fast, flashy and mindless. Dungeon runs are just speedrun spamming AoEs on dummy trash packs and spamming single target on bosses while dodging the occasional bad on the ground. The PvP is just a P2W stat+first jump check.It's the worst combat I've seen in a "MMO" and the encounter design is from people who never played a MMO before. The first Aion's combat is leagues ahead of this vomit.
>>2887685I've played it nigga, it's fun.
>>2886138kys pedojeet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhHmG-X7pR4
>>2886566>>2887821shite taste retards, i bet you are making trannies.
>File Deletedcatbox plox
>asmodian lost all their features>both elyos and asmodian look like kpop plastic dolls by default>the game is an obvious coomer, pedo and agp troon bait since the character creator is its only redeeming feature and allows for full on softcore porn, that plus coom outfitsWorst Korea is truly a hellscape.
>>2887948you can always just play wow if you want to play a generic mmo except all the characters are ugly
>>2887917no, I am playing a male because I am a male. you have a mental disorder and do not deserve to exist in the same society as me.you better pray that people like me don't get elected.
>>2888022>i play a maleso you are gay
>>2887948I'm gonna be honest bro, if you don't like "coomer" stuff then Korean MMOs are like the last genre you should ever consider touching. And they've been this way for like two decades.Vindictus is still alive to this day because Nexon are geniuses that decided to start selling gacha boxes containing outfits that are little more than a few strings covering the character's privates.TERA only survived past its first year because of Elin players buying costumes, by the developer's own admission.BDO is 10 years old and somehow still alive even though it has the worst gameplay loop of any MMO but the character models are hot, the gameplay is flashy, and the costumes are sexy. Sound familiar?If the idea of playing with these people give you the big ick then you might as well stay as far away from this game as possible. Because that's going to be 90% or more of the game's population.
Aion was shit 19 years ago and it's shit now. Why are you retards hyping this trash up?
>>2888022>plays a coomer game just to play as maleI'll never understand this. Larping as a buff male in a vidya game is so fucking retarded, even if you were fat and ugly. Just hit the gym and you can look like that irl, no need to Larp as a male, just makes you look like a faggot. For me, I like to look at tits and ass, its just more pleasant to the eyes when you are playing this game for thousands of hours vs looking at your shirtless male char all day. Seems faggoty.
>>2888177its also why BnS Live and Neo is still going. The game is filled with lolicons nowadays, and its glorious. Just like with Tera, lewd Lyns are keeping the game alive.
>>2888177anon those games are the outliers that literally innovated MMO with their own unique combatTERA could've survived till now if they didn't get shutdown from PUBG's success seeing that there are hundred of TERA private servers
>>2888214who's even hyping it? kmmos are trash and I am a raccoon
>>2888431$100 Founder's Pack was on the global top 10 sellers on Steam. The only NCSoft MMO worth supporting is Guild Wars 3, unless they decide to bring back Wildstar or Tabula Rasa for some reason.
>>2888436really?
>>2888436gw3 is a game we know literally nothing about other than it has black dudes riding highguard mounts, think I'll hold off on the support for that one for now
>>2875772not merged at launch, learn to read.Maybe months later which by then none of it matters most people will quit, but at launch EA servers will have zero interaction with launch day servers.This means>all of the tryhard losers will be on EA>all of the whale losers will be on EA>EA servers will have whales/tryhards (both also use alt accounts to bot on top of it) absolutely destroying the market and abyss
>>2877565Not true at all>>2877390early on you will get instant queues as cleric and templarduring the taiwan launch I could get into any group instantly as a cleric but if I played one of my dps classes like gladiator I had to shop around for a bit and wait for like 5-10 minutes.Cleric also can carry bad players, you can basically heal people through mechanics.
>>2888639Hate to break it to you but there's going to be whale guilds on every server, gone are the days of lone wolf whales, they stick together.
>>2880418This might be the only perk to playing on EA, on taiwan I was able to buy a ton out for cheap which let me permanently unlock it in the dressing room before people realized it was the first lewd armor you can obtain.
>>2881172It's not bad to at least make alts if you want access to quick easy cosmetic armor, every character on your server gets a randomized blackmarket shop (npc store that sells pets/cosmetic armor for gold)Just level them high enough to access a bank to take full advantage
>>2885136Blame asians, they have the absolute worse shit tier taste in video games and multiplayer mechanics and they love pay to win faggotry.>>2888648far less likely on launch servers, whales are impatient and will roll EA, founder packs including subs guaranteed that.
I don't really care about whales or whatever I'm going EA anyway, all my broke friends can just join me later, or beg me for a pack if they're desperate enough.
Can Gladiator main tank all 5 man content? Is it just a raid thing where they're designated OT bitch?
>>2888712yes it can
>>2888684After playing like every mmo I learned the worse faggots are the big spenders so I'm being patient this time.All of the gay streamers are going to be on EA also
>>2888646I really hated healing when I tried it in wow because I was just staring at health bars playing whack-a-mole and I did not even notice the environment I was in or the bosses we were fighting.I don't know what game I would enjoy healing in because that's kind of the point of healer in MMOs is to play whack-a-mole on health bars?so I guess I'll have to play a tank and hopefully it has a build that can deal damage?
>my guildies and statics from other kmmos are moving to Aion 2>dead content creators resurrected just to main Aion 2>top 10 revenue on steam on the preorders>many people already played the TW version and already know they like itdoomcels in shambles
>>2888997>the game makes their weenurs go doki doki>all of them are low value menMakes sense
>>2888997MMO players are always eager to jump on new ones when they come out, especially with how very infrequently that is these days. I imagine even a lot of WoW and FFXIV are going to give it a try just because it's shiny and new and they're tired of the monotony their main game has become after so many years of doing the same thing. 90% of them are obviously going to drop it though and go back to their old games after a couple weeks.I personally haven't tried an MMO when it was new since BDO. Kind of fell out of the genre so I skipped Lost Ark, New World, Throne & Liberty, and whatever else has came out since then. My expectations for Aoin 2 are low but I'm cautiously excited because I feel there's an 0.2% chance that maybe, just maybe, it'll turn out being halfway decent.
>>2889372This game is pretty good imo, but western players always bounce off of KR mmos, it'll probably be a BDO tier game, solid enough to have a playerbase but relatively niche in the grand scheme.
>anon thinks this tab target Throne & Liberty clone is as good as BDO
>>2889393There's absolutely nothing wrong with tab target and in fact all "action" combat MMOs except Tera are trash.
>>2889570vindictus was the mother of action MMO, then the whole genre regressed back to tab target starting with tera
>>2889570>>2889612and BDO was the great comeback at reminding everyone what the fuck does action combat mean while rejecting raidniggetry like the one found in vindictus
>1v1 combat>in a fucking mmorpgno wonder all those a akshub games flop
>>2889393tab target is the best way to create mmorpgs there's a reason BDO population is garbage while probably billions of people are spread across thousands of tab target mmo'saction combat is for low IQ mongoloids who want to play devil may cry (one button spamfeast)
>>2888997>>2885702
>>2885702BDO only has 25k? ultima online private servers have more than that lmao
>>2890264bdo has it's own client, plus it's on console. I don't know if they're on the same servers as pc.but the same can't be said for loa or tnl.bdo is a successful game.
>>2890275>>2890264>>2885702and when you compare bdo to other successful mmo's with their own clients off steam.
>>2890275>>2890282pathethic so it only has 27know compare to world of warcraft which has 10 million lol
