Lime Odyssey Highlights the Warrior Class

Aeria Games revealed new screenshots of the Warrior battle class from Lime Odyssey: The Chronicles of Orta. Featuring four playable battle classes, Aeria’s highly-anticipated 3D MMORPG is currently in production and will be published in North America later this year.

The vast continent of Orta is home to a diverse collection of races and classes and Lime Odyssey’s dual-class system allows players to pick both a battle class and a trade class. One of four battle classes is the mighty Warrior, playable by the Human, Turga, and Muris races and able to wield an array of brute strength weapons including swords, great-swords, battle axes, and maces. The undisputed masters of straightforward battle, Warriors are tanks with a tendency to charge headfirst into a fight. Their abilities are equally balanced between offense and defense.

All Warriors begin their adventure for the sacred Lime with one skill point to unlock a new ability of their choice, as well as the skill, “Wild Charge,” a basic attack that inflicts melee damage on enemies. As players level up, they can work their way along Attack and Defense skill trees to learn more new skills and abilities.

Players can utilize the Attack tree if they wish to crush enemies with large blunt objects or cleave them with gleaming blades. Aside from hack and slash abilities, the Attack tree offers a variety of power increasing abilities for both players and their parties. These abilities are best used to maximize damage per second during grueling boss fights.

The Defense tree’s primary focus is to absorb all the damage while dishing a little in return. When utilizing this tree, players will wield a shield to protect against the onslaught of arrows, slashes, mashes, crashes, bites, and stings. Aside from buffs that increase physical defense, the Defense tree also adds plenty of useful abilities such as malice-increasing shouts and short duration stuns.

Uncharted Waters Online Receives Major Update, New Lands

CJ E&M, the leading global entertainment company, today announced the Vinland expansion, a major update to their seafaring MMO Uncharted Waters Online. Known for its historical content and methodical, strategic gameplay, Uncharted Waters lets players command a naval fleet as they sail the globe, exploring, trading and conquering. The expansion features two new areas, introduces a convenient new money-saving feature and brings new ships to the harbor, ready to set sail for North America. Following upon the Tierra Americana Update, players will now be able to travel to Vinland, a land of legend thought to be developed by Vikings, as well as Rome, where players can test their ground battle skills on a revamped fighting system in the Coliseum. A revised banking system will help sailors keep hard earned plunder safe.

Vinland, Viking Territory of the Past

Vinland has appeared in North America for players to explore and uncover new discoveries — much research is still being done to uncover facts about this unknown region. Vinland was once known as the “Land of Grapes” and was inhabited by the Vikings of Northern Europe before Admiral Columbus discovered the North American Continent. Adventuring into this uncharted territory can yield great rewards!

When in Rome…

Chapter One of the Tierra Americana expansion had players in Europe exploring Paris and Firenze; newly-discovered Rome will bring with it the legendary Coliseum where players can duke it out in a brand new PVE mode. This giant arena in the center of Rome introduces a newly renovated ground battle system where one to five players will battle the corresponding number of ferocious NPC’s. This video highlights the new battle features in Rome’s Coliseum.

New Banking System

Are you losing all your money due to plundering? With the new checking system, you’ll only have to pay a minor service charge to insure that your money is safe from ship wrecks and pirate attacks. Thanks to the new system, you can conveniently keep your treasures safe in the bank!

The Nina, The Pinta and The Santa Maria

New ships have arrived, ready to embark on the North American Sea. The Immigrant Bark, which is similar to the Mayflower design and carried pioneers from Plymouth, England to the new land, is just one of the many new options. Players can also choose from the long schooner or commercial long schooner, complete with six assistant sails. Whatever the vessel, Vinland is only a strong breeze away!

Set sail for Uncharted Waters today!

Forge of Empires: Closed Beta Start Announced

Today InnoGames announced that the brand new strategy browser game, Forge of Empires, will begin a closed beta on March 29. During this phase, a few thousand players will get the chance to try the game hands-on for the first time. Prior to the beta, 500 testers were providing InnoGames with valuable feedback in an “Exclusive Preview”.

With the start of the closed beta, Forge of Empires will also implement some fresh components. On top of improved battle mechanics and a messaging system, the new trading feature will allow players to finally exchange rare goods, like honey or gold – with NPCs as well as with other players. This allows one to focus on a limited number of various goods buildings. Additionally, InnoGames will add more features over the course of the closed beta, some of them in direct response to player feedback during the Exclusive Preview.

Forge of Empires is a browser-based strategy game that allows players to create a city and develop it from the Stone Age and onward throughout the centuries. Players can create a vast empire through military campaigns and skillful dealings. For a thorough look at the game check out OnRPG’s GDC write-up!

The Secret World to Offer First Public Hands-On at PAX East

Funcom is excited to announce that the company is heading to PAX EAST on April 6th and will be bringing the upcoming, modern-day, massively multiplayer online game ‘The Secret World’ to the show floor for public hands-on. For first time, fans of ‘The Secret World’ outside of the press and the closed beta get to play the game, and those heading to PAX can experience the full Templar starter experience in addition to the haunted town of Kingsmouth.

Funcom will be located at Booth 260 on the show floor. With ‘The Secret World’ playable on over 25 computers, Funcom will also be doing regular stage presentations of the game and giving away 10,000 Illuminati, Templar and Dragon dog tags. Along with each dog tag will be an exclusive key code that grants guaranteed access to the first of several upcoming public beta weekends. Details on the upcoming public beta will be announced later.

During the show, which runs from April 6th to April 8th, Funcom will be engaging with the online community surrounding ‘The Secret World’ through the official Twitter, Facebook and YouTube channels, and will be releasing daily video podcasts giving a glimpse into ‘The Secret World’ and life at the Funcom booth.

“Bringing the game to PAX and giving gamers there the opportunity to try it for themselves is something we are incredibly excited about,” says Senior Producer and Creative Director Ragnar Tørnquist. “Having members of the Funcom team at PAX East, engaging with players on the show floor and seeing first hand their reactions from playing the game will be very valuable. We are having a ton of fun playing the game these days, and we look forward to sharing that experience with gamers at PAX!”

‘The Secret World’ is consistently mentioned as one of the most anticipated MMOs in development. Feedback from media who have experienced the game themselves has been very positive, and the latest demonstrations at GDC 2012 in San Francisco resulted in another round of glowing previews (see the full list here). ‘The Secret World’ breaks new grounds and genre conventions by introducing a modern-day setting, a story-focused MMO experience, and a freeform progression system using no classes and no levels.

Recently Funcom announced that over 750,000 gamers are now registered for the ongoing beta testing. ‘The Secret World’ is published by Electronic Arts and will ship on June 19th, 2012.

TERA Announces CB 4 Details

En Masse Entertainment launched a new patch today in preparation for TERA’s 4th CB test happening this weekend. With it comes some major new areas like the Elin/Popori homeland of Pora Elinu and a level cap of 38!

One of the major complaints of people new to the game was that TERA has far too easy of a learning curve, despite its intense combat system catering more towards veteran MMO players tired of the typical online game. To rectify this, En Masse is lowering the max hp of characters below level 16 to make the starting zones a bit less forgiving on a new player. Once you hit 16 you’ll experience a sudden flux of HP gain each level until you hit standard growth at 20.

Tired of picking fights you can’t win? Starting this weekend you’ll be able to see the level of other players the same way you see the level of monsters. Since levels create a huge power difference between characters, En Masse decided this change was necessary for the current rule sets of PvP servers.

One final cool change is a new event beginning this weekend. Keep an eye open for Terron Treasure Troves because they contain amazing consumable items created by the Elin princesses themselves. But you’ll have to fight off the annoying Terron staying watch over it.. a task I doubt will be very difficult based on my experience with the race.

Does all of this mean nothing to you because you missed out on grabbing a beta key from the other websites? Well OnRPG has a couple lying around. How about the first 5 people to post on DizzyPW’s Profile Wall get keys to this weekend’s CB test? I have roughly 50 keys to giveaway so keep an eye on our twitter page tomorrow for more information on how to snag them!