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1. Archeage map 3.0 how to#
2. Archeage map 3.0 skin#
3. Archeage map 3.0 trial#
4. Archeage map 3.0 series#
5. Archeage map 3.0 free#

Side-quests, sort of, co-exist – they’re identical to the main quest, and they too take place on the same inexorable path you’re dragged along, and they too keep me clicking and playing and somehow not caring that this is the same thing I’ve done so many times before in so many MMOs. But one quest leads to the next and that cart keeps dragging me forward. This is the CryEngine at its least inspiring, and things blip and crackle in and out of existence, much is glitchy, and the environments are vast stretches of barren uniformity. It’s so damned slick, despite looking, feeling, and playing like it’s from at least five years ago.

Archeage map 3.0 skin#

Approaching someone who’s surrounded by evil skellingtons, I’m met with, “Finally, someone who still has their skin on.”)Īnd yet – bloody hell, damn it all – I’m enjoying myself. (Although I do want to give credit to one line. Conversations, of which there are many, are read in silence, while barks from shopkeepers and the like remain in what I guess is Korean. It’s just a case of firing off your skills, occasionally adapting to the addition of the scant choice for a new one as you level up.ĭespite having been out in South Korea since January 2013, a year and a half’s localisation for the Western release hasn’t seen fit to include any recorded dialogue beyond a patronising tutorial voiceover and the madly interrupting ‘cutscenes’ (static images over which mythos is barbled). There’s no call for tactics, or the more fluid, dodge-based antics that last year’s modern takes on the genre introduced. And killing some stuff is, too, as MMOey as it gets.Īttack styles are assigned to number keys, press them in your preferred order, repeat. Then you’re tethered to that endlessly rolling cart, dragged along its paths by quest after quest after quest, each only ever asking you to talk to someone, pick some stuff up, or kill some stuff. Like, presumably, the other seven people currently stood around him. And oh my goodness, you’re never going to guess what! It turns out I’m some sort of chosen one! After queuing up to make a ghost man-cat appear repeatedly above an alter, another man-cat exclaimed his astonishment that he should have appeared after all this time (10 seconds?), and said I must be a truly rare warrior man-cat. Oh good.Įxcept, maybe not? After a bunch of randoms telling me to tell someone else a thing about a previously-unmentioned battle that I’m apparently supposed to care about, and to kill eight of those new enemies on my way, now I’m attempting to appease for my crime (killing a mob that I was told to kill).

Archeage map 3.0 trial#

I did neither, but clicked on a glowy rock to see what it was, found myself teleported somewhere entirely different, and my trial quests vanished. I helped him, which apparently caused me to get into some manner of trouble, and I was told I should either complete the trials, or flee to clear my name. So off I went on my trials, asked to go help a fellow trialee who was in some sort of trouble.

You run off killing five of this, or picking five of those, and then run back. Mother Tutorial snaps her instructions at you as you progress, half the time forgetting to say the first half of her sentences, or worse, saying two things at the same time.

Archeage map 3.0 series#

I chose Firran, because they’re cat-people, and was immediately told I was about to come of age, and must pass a series of tests and blah blah oh god is this what we want?

Archeage map 3.0 how to#

Tweak your face, get dumped in the same starting area as every other MMO ever, and forced to learn how to play an MMO yet again. You pick your race, and thus starting area, and then choose a class. But it’s all replaced with crushing familiarity. ArcheAge, from the creator of Lineage, seems to step away from the worst of this. The emphasis on grind, and the need for dedication to their causes, fails to grab me. Although even the best, the Maple Stories and Aions, I’ve usually bounced off. I’ve experienced the worst of them – games as ghastly as RF Online and ArchLord. I’ve spent a fair bit of time with Korean MMOs.

I've spent today playing it, and try to fathom why I've enjoyed myself despite everything, below.

Archeage map 3.0 free#

It's free to play - and from my experience of the first few hours, that's actually very free - and it's available from Trion if you go through the joy of installing their new Glyph shop-cum-game launcher. ArcheAge is a silly name, and also a new MMO from the creator of the Lineage series.