New world
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dalzo

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1,877 posts

156 months

Monday 4th October 2021
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Anyone playing?

Amazon’s first big AAA game, big mmo with battles and players trying to take over territory. Have to say I don’t have a lot of experience playing mmo but this is a lot of fun.

tangerine_sedge

6,034 posts

238 months

Monday 4th October 2021
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It's getting pushed by all the streamers at the moment (I assume they are being sponsored to play), personally it looks tedious and lacking in game play - I think it'll burn brightly for a short while then get forgotten.

RemaL

25,069 posts

254 months

Monday 4th October 2021
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Never heard of it. As for streamers pushing it rofl

Will have a look, not for streamers

HRL

3,353 posts

239 months

Monday 4th October 2021
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I played it for 15 mins and then got a refund.

Didn’t look as good as I’d hoped and didn’t play well with a Xbox pad, that was enough to put me off. I know, I know, PC master race, etc, but I like to relax with a pad these days rather than mouse and keyboard.

May try it again once it’s had a few updates and six months to settle down.

ridds

8,358 posts

264 months

Monday 4th October 2021
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Watch your graphics cards.

It's been frying them.

Ultrafunkula

1,015 posts

125 months

Tuesday 5th October 2021
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Very crowded at the moment, levelling gets slow at the high teens but the grind is much better than it used to be (ie. WoW).

ridds said:
Watch your graphics cards.

It's been frying them.
Thankfully only the expensive EVGA ones which I can't afford!

anxious_ant

2,626 posts

99 months

Saturday 9th October 2021
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Just got this and managed to level to about 16 in a few days.

I have MSI RTX3090 and so far so good.

Graphics is amazing, gameplay is ok but bit grindy.

PvP is a bit imbalanced now, unless you are in a company or high level. I do like the idea of a company controlling an area of a map though.

Not too sure how to rate it at the moment. Certainly didn't have the WoW factor to me yet. I used to be really into WoW back then, grinded to High Warlord in PvP back in vanilla days. (the real vanilla).

ridds

8,358 posts

264 months

Saturday 9th October 2021
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZuDVwZixD0

Worth a watch if you're playing this game and Overclock, even on the "not super-duper" cards. wink

Jimmy No Hands

5,063 posts

176 months

Wednesday 13th October 2021
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anxious_ant said:
Just got this and managed to level to about 16 in a few days.

I have MSI RTX3090 and so far so good.

Graphics is amazing, gameplay is ok but bit grindy.

PvP is a bit imbalanced now, unless you are in a company or high level. I do like the idea of a company controlling an area of a map though.

Not too sure how to rate it at the moment. Certainly didn't have the WoW factor to me yet. I used to be really into WoW back then, grinded to High Warlord in PvP back in vanilla days. (the real vanilla).
Respect for the grind. Never did much PVP personally, got to MC / ZG and then sacked it off.

I've seen a few gameplay videos of this - I think the majority of the hype has indeed come from paid advertisements through popular YouTubers and streamers (unsurprising given the developer)

My biggest issue is that it just does nothing new, really. Warcraft had years of lineage and lore to purge from, it had an existing fanbase. It came on the scene at exactly the right time (affordable home systems, cheaper more available broadband) and will and can never be replicated due to those factors alone. I just don't think the gaming world needs or really wants another fantasy Western MMO that is just a rehash of every other MMO from the last two decades. It'll be interesting to see how they approach end game and whether it retains a player base beyond this initial launch period. As above, I think it will burn out up to Christmas and die a quiet death while maintaining a small dedicated player base.

Happy to be proven wrong!