As an experienced gamer in MMORPG’s with over 17 years on the field, the following is my humble overview, experience and feedback regarding the game and the beta test.
I got a cleric Circle 3 LvL 69 solo-ing most of the time.
===BETA TEST===
The test was, in my opinion, bad planned.
The beta key distributions were awful in the first place, because this wonderful game is more oriented to party progress rather than solo-ing. The developers should have distributed 2 or 3 keys per winner in order to secure that a small party of active friends would enter and test the game from the beginning. I’m not criticizing the party system or the game, I’m exclusively criticizing the distribution of the keys; for example: In my 108 members guild only 2-3 got a key and the ones who got it were a plain and utterly waste of beta key. The most inactive people of the guild got one --Hahaha, I know, funny… There were like 15-20 active members who I knew were going hardcore to test all the game and easily get into the 100’s level, but without an organized party of friends or people that know each other, that is unlikely to happen.
I know the devs realized their mistake on the beta key distribution and hopefully don’t make the same mistake next time.
===ToS GAME===
This game is wonderful, just what I was expecting. It didn’t let me down, not once. The mechanics are fun, the exp rates are good (I’ve seen the exp tables, and yes, they are good), the special mobs (Holy blue’s, merciful whites, and the mighty yellow/golden ones) are a cool and fun mechanic to grind. You can even mix the questing and grinding, that’s the best route possible. I highly recommend it.
I also get my hat off on the variety of classes, skills, stats ,and all the customization features. They are on point.
When they fix the chat box, I’m sure that will improve the game experience a lot, specially when partying with strangers, since not all of them can enter or are willing to enter on a voice program. In fact, if the game had it’s own party voice program integrated, that would be AWESOME! (Party voice only, so we don’t get all the annoying voice spam from everyone).
The questing features, in my opinion are good, but some players who love lore are kinda disappointed with quest. They don’t have enough text for them to get involved in the story game… But for me, they are perfect. I’m the kind of guy who rushes everything and doesn’t even read the quests lore, only the objectives. I’m more pvp/end game content oriented rather than a lore fan. So it is fine this way, it would be annoying to press or skip 10 dialogs for a quest in my opinion.
The variety of monster sprites is good, I love it. Unlike many MMORPG’s who only recycle the same sprites and you end up killing the same sprite like 8 times or more in the entire game, this game has more of this unique feeling to it. Good job.
The party event thing is amazing, a very good idea to drop costumes and aesthetic things.
I really wanted to test the 5-6 circle/rank of my profession, so I could give you guys more feedback regarding end game content, but… I was unable to get there, none of my guild mates got a beta key, so I had to recur to solo-ing and random partying with people who, in my honest opinion, 3 out of 24 parties that I went in were (average-good), the rest were complete amateur casual players. This problem comes from the bad beta key distribution, anyway, I hope it gets fixed in the future.
This game has the air of an old school game while at the same time a refreshing breeze touches your skin.
My overall score for this game is 9.5 out of 10, it still requires a lot of balancing features, and bug/exploit fixes; The barbarian class and the wizzard jumping thing are just bad stuff.
===Balancing Ideas/Features===
The Wizzard and general [Jumping + Attack] problem: I recommend to add a small delay after [Jump+attack] so you can not instantly jump afterwards. This will make [Jumping + attacking] a more risky and situational thing, while keeping the dodge mechanic untouched if you are only jumping to evade, since you wont get any jump cooldowns by doing so.
I don’t personally think that [Jumping + Attacking] is a bad thing on melee’s, but on Wizzard class is kinda broken, I had to accept it after deeply analyzing it and watching a lot of videos.
===Bug/Exploits Reports Made===
I made 1 on the forums and 2 in-game reports, only reported the ones that I thought no one else had reported, because there were some very obvious ones.
===Bots / Autoclickers===
There were. I only saw some cleric and archer bots / autoclickers. Specially the archers, it was pretty obvious. It’s easier to configure a bot for an archer since it has a skill that allows you to stand still while buffing you.
===THE END===
Thank you, IMCGAMES, for your time and the opportunity to test this game. I hope next time I can get to play with my friends so we can unlock more end-game content!