Monthly Archives: April 2009

Atlantica Enabling Cross-Server PvP Battles

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NDOORS Interactive, creator of the strategic turn-based MMORPG Atlantica Online, today announced that the Titan Server, Atlantica’s first cross-server PvP battle area, is now open along with a few other updates. The independent game server will enable interaction between all players from all Atlantica servers, creating the first true test of who is the best of the best. Players can now board a designated Titan ship and journey to and from the Titan Server to access new content, chat with other players, and compete against each other in massive PvP tournaments.
Later this year, the Titan cross-server will feature an entirely new continent, unlike any current game location, where players will have the chance to compete against each other for control over regions in this new and unexplored territory. Before the Titan Server, players could only communicate with users on their same server, but more updates coming later this year will allow Atlantians to interact regardless of their server, enabling players to meet more friends (and enemies) in Atlantica Online.

“The developers wanted to create an all-inclusive server that would give users from the separate servers a chance to finally meet and battle against one another, to determine who the best of the best really is,” said Peter Kang, NDOORS Interactive, CEO. “The Titan Server encourages additional community interaction and player participation, and will continue to do so as new features are added in the future.”
Additionally, the Titan Server will offer a “Grand Championship Tournament” where players can battle it out for glorious rewards, beginning each Sunday at 3am and 3pm PDT. Players will earn Gold Coins just for participating – more if they are the winner of the first battle, and participants who win more than one battle will receive EXP for their main character and mercenaries. The top 30 players will receive 4 Platinum Coins, Observation Rewards and 200 Fame/Battle points, but the overall winner of this tournament will reign supreme, receiving the Barbarian Lord’s Black Tiger, Platinum Coins, Observation Rewards and 1,000 Fame/Battle Points. The Grand Championship Tournament winners will be the very best of the best, earning rewards and bragging rights galore.
Upon traveling to the Titan Server, initials of the players’ original server will be added to their character names to prevent any conflicts. Currently, only basic user information will be copied over to the Titan Server, but in the coming updates all player details, including communities, friends and guild members will be available on the Titan Server. Cross-server trade, chat and whisper features will also be implemented in the near future.
Recognized as one of the best MMORPGs of 2008, Atlantica Online has received critical acclaim for its quality, accessibility, and entertainment value. The Titan Server is only one of many exciting content updates scheduled for Atlantica on April 21, 2009. With new massive features already in development, the implementation of the Titan Server promises exciting things to the world of Atlantis. Preparation for in-game events is already underway, so players should check back often to participate in the cross-server excitement.

GodsWar Online: Trading System Guide

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Have you ever dreamed of being a billionaire? Are you a successful business man in game? Today GodsWar Online team talks more about the secret of being rich in GodsWar.
I. Trade with Players
1 Click the target player and choose “Trade”.
2. Drag the item you want to trade and input the selling price.
3. After both sides have confirmed it, the deal is done and cannot be changed.
4. Bound items cannot be traded.
II. Set a stall
All players are able to further promote their items by setting up a stall. It is highly recommended that they do this in the densely inhabited districts.
1. Click the “Set Stall” button on the Bag panel.
2. A stall interface will pop up; drag items into it and set their selling prices. You can also click Offload Items to cancel a previous action.
3. Give your stall an attractive name to draw the customer’s eyes and click Show Items to begin selling goods.
4. Bound items cannot be sold on a stall, your character cannot move from that position until you wind up your stall.
5. The stall name will be displayed above your character’s head. Other players may view and purchase goods simply by clicking on the stall name.
III.  to NPCs
Selling items to the system’s merchants is yet another way to earn money.
1. Almost all items can be sold to the system’s merchants. Items cannot be reclaimed once you decide to sell them, so please think carefully before confirming the deal.
2. You can also choose to purchase various skill books, potions, equipment and other essential items from these merchants.
3. However, the more valuable items, like gems, materials and so on, must be bought from the Item Mall.
4. In the meantime, players can also buy precious items in the E-Gold Shop with E-Gold, but all of these items are bound and may not be re-sold.
IV.   Deposit in Storage
Warehouse managers are distributed around each city and newbie village. Players may deposit and draw their surplus items and money there for free.
1. Both bound and unbound items can be deposited in the storage facilities.
2. However, Silver, Gold and E-Gold may not be deposited there.  It is too valuable.
3. The system will place any rewards into the Reward column from there they may be drawn out only. No rewards may be deposited in the column.

The Warlords Open-Beta Giveaway Events

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TQ Digital Entertainment is happy to announce that The Warlords will begin the open-beta test at 20:00 April 24, 2009 PDT.
 
During the current closed-beta test, the 1st group of players have gotten a nice glimpse at this Chinese-style MMO, and helped our developers in fixing several major bugs. Now, we feel that The Warlords is ready to begin servicing more adventurers who are eager to explore the mysteries of ancient China.
 
For the open-beta launch, the TQ team has prepared a string of exciting events from which our players would obtain rare items, WPs, and even $300 cash as a reward!
 
1. From April 24 to May 24, by downloading the Warlords client from the official site, players can join in a special lottery, with a jackpot of up to $300.00!
2. Between April 24 and May 10, all new arrivals can receive a free bonus pack, and 1380 WPs in the game.
3. A weekend event will be held from April 24 to April 26, from which players can collect free WPs by exterminating monsters in all the regions.
 
Can’t wait to start on your own epic adventure? Get yourself ready to create your own legend, only on The Warlords!

Darkeden: Bonus EXP

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Joymax, an independent developer of interactive entertainment for the global market, today announced the start of the Super Power Event for the vampiric MMORPG Darkeden. Slayers, Ousters, and Vampires can now gain up to a maximum of 2,000% experience for every quest completed and enemy killed, making this the perfect opportunity to level up and do some damage to the opposing forces!
Dark Eden

Premium card users also have their standard experience bonus doubled, combining for an impressive maximum of 8,000% experience gained. As if that weren’t enough, the Super Power Event is a harbinger of things to come: events that will provide luck, rank, and drop rate increases across the board. The modern war between humans and undead is heating up, and the time has never been better to join the fight and help decide the fate of our world!

Nostale: Global announces unique event for Earth Day 2009

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Nostale: Global, serviced by Uforia, Inc. is hosting a unique event to celebrate Earth Day.  This event will begin at 3pm PST on April 22nd, 2009.  The “Find the Five Forests” event requires players to view five (5) separate screen shots taken by the Game Master and then journey throughout the game in order to locate where those images were taken.  Players send their answers (a screenshot of themselves at the same location indicated in the screenshots created by the Game Master) to the Game Master in order to claim their prizes. 
Another special aspect for this event is that players who send in their answers by the end of April 22nd, 2009, 11:59 PM PST will receive a special prize known as Sculp of Twee Fox. 
Any player who sends in their answers after Earth Day, but before the end of day (11:59 PM PST) on April 29th, 2009 will receive a Sculp of Jolly Fox prize.  
“We created this event because we wanted it to serve two purposes.  We wanted to raise awareness among our players about this important day and also we wanted them to have an event that would allow them to meet other players as they are racing around the multitude of maps that Nostale: Global offers them”, said Chris Keswani, Marketing Manager for Uforia.

Deicide Review

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By Salis Renvousa (WerewolfX), Onrpg writer
 

Deicide is a game I am sure some of you have played, and those who have not should most likely heed the words of this review. While the game is not flat out terrible, it has some qualities that make it for the most part unplayable, but it is by no means bad. Prepare to meet a world of unique creatures, and some that are not so unique, but still belong in this happy fun time game.This is Deicide online, and for those who don’t know, Deicide roughly means “to kill god.” now that just sounds like blasphemy. I think I might like this game.

The history of Adum

Once upon a time, there was but one true god, he was a benevolent god who wanted his creations to prosper, but he decided he need help to create the universe. He then created fellow gods, one of which was Adum, who gave birth to our planet many aeons ago. But he also gave birth to a dark creature, who wanted nothing but to watch the world and us burn. Adum fought with the creature for many days, and finally vanquished the demon, but he himself was badly injured. He retreated from the battle and went to heal.
 

This was the last we saw of our god, and the last help we ever got from him, and the demon has returned bringing with him many different creatures to cause havoc upon our world. Its up to us to take him down, now raise your swords and fight with me brothers and sisters! 

     
Moving Images

While I do not fully understand this witchcraft, I suppose I must review it. While the Animations are VERY well done some times, It feels like that they didn’t really try hard enough on some of them, such at the walking animation, its sometimes awkward to watch and looks like he’s ready to drop a deuce in his trousers. The attacking animations can be interesting to watch at first but become a strain on the eyes.
 

Magic animations are rather boring to watch, seeing as they all look alike at some point, but I suppose that’s par for the course. Textures are low res and the world looks flat at times, other then some hills and mountains strewn around the maps. Monsters in the world have a certain feel to them, some we’ve seen in other medias and some I don’t want to see again, all of them had terrible models and animations.

     
Action!

Do note the action is not as action-filled as implied, But let’s get down to it: this game is slow. Its a standard “sit there and beat the crap out of the guy in front of you” combat, mixed up with spell casting and bows. “Is this a good thing?” you may ask. The answer is “not really”: while you attack you can’t really do anything without breaking out of combat, running to gain ground is completely useless for bows because enemies are as fast as you are. Oh I forgot to mention, that combat takes too long to complete for mobs after the newbie ones. Magic is decent and leveling it with another skill would be pointless. Oh I forgot to mention the leveling system. You have Four main skills, Melee, Ranged, White Magic, And Black Magic. Leveling melee and magic will get you a class of its own, while leveling ranged and magic is another class. It’s rather complicated but this introduction should explain it in more detail. 
 
Learning skills is confusing for anything other then magic because you have to find skill scrolls, Magic users however can buy them from the general store. As for the combat, think Dungeon Siege, only not as good. The controls are annoying at times and picking upp small items is a hassle, picking up gear however works fine. There is PVP but I could not try it out due to the lack of people. 

Noises in my head

The sound effects are somewhat forgettable, as is the music. The sounds of combat are amusing for a short time, but it can grow on the nerves after a while. The music, as epic as it is, feels out of place in some areas and some doesn’t really convey the danger of the area or of the combat there. I know it’s wrong to throw personal taste into a review but I advise you to bring your own music, it will help you decide whether to continue to play.

I see no people

The community for this game is dead, or hiding in higher level areas, but the new player zone is empty. If it’s not empty it has one or two bots running around, and if it is not a bot, it’s someone who doesn’t speak your native tongue. The forums seem quiet as well, and the complaints and issues seem to go unnoticed, which is never good for an MMO company.

Final Thoughts

Now you may be wondering, “Salis, you god of a man, is this game any good?”, The short answer is “No.” The long answer is: “No, you’re better off playing something that is more fun. Remember fun? I know I do, back in the days of Ragnarok and Helbreath, when Korean MMOs were actually somewhat enjoyable. But now we look out and see an endless sea of mediocrity and people who don’t try. Companies need to learn that they can make more money if they keep their players happy. But there are a brave few who stand up and cast off the rags of a beggar, and prove that they can earn what they want. Maybe I am being a tad too critical with the game, I mean, who knows when this game originally released? As I said go play something else, or take a little time to try out this game. It can’t hurt, right?”

Pros
– The story was inventive, it really made you feel that there was some sort of urgency to fend off this beast of chaos.
– I saw some unique creature designs, and some I never expected to see.
– While combat was slow, the sword and bow animations were well done.
– Weapons and armor were authentic for the age this tried to take place.
  
Cons
– The animations could have been better.
– Sound can get annoying and repetitive.
– Combat is sluggish and slow.
– Leveling is rather confusing if you are just starting out.
– From what I can tell the game has not been updated in a while.

Freesky

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Freesky Online is a fantastic Browser-Based Game that is based on battles in the sky between fierce and powerful airships. In Freesky Online, you can either create an invincible military empire or become a wealthy commercial empire. The distinct SLG strategies will bring you a unique gaming experience.
Freesky Online brings an all new entertainment experience to players without the need to download a game client. You can enjoy the game at once simply by opening your internet browser. Furthermore, the boring leveling routine of monster killing does not apply to Freesky Online, as you are not required to stay by your computer during the actual game play. It generally takes players about 10 minutes each day to issue orders to subordinates in their Empire so that their cities, citizens and Army will begin to produce materials, build castles and even fight enemies.
Game Features
– Build your own Castle
The real fun in “Freesky Online” comes from building your own castle. Once you’ve built a castle, you can build processing factories to produce hardware and increase your resources by constructing resource fields outside your city. You can study various sciences and technologies to make production more efficient and employ heroes to manage your city. You can also establish new cities to expand your Empire.
– Experience grand battles in the sky
In “FreeSky Online”, you can use the hardware you produce to assemble a range of airships, for example, a mighty Imperial flagship, attackers, cruisers and defensive warships. Enjoy the thrill of battle as you take on NPC fleets with your own powerful forces and order them to occupy cities and win your battles!
–  The Alliance Miracle and Alliance Wars
Alliance’s played an important role in “FreeSky Online” and added to the overall enjoyment of the game. You can buy or sell goods in the Alliance market, command fleets to attack or defend others within your Alliance and occupy the NPC zone together. Eventually, you will be able to build your own Alliance Miracle. An Alliance Miracle is not only a great honor for your Alliance but it also improves resources and production for all Alliance members!

Freesky Online: Four Factions Preview

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Freesky Online is the soon to be released online game based on the theme of air battles. In the game there are 4 factions: the Divine Hall, the Deity Church, the Cursed Temple, and the Shadow Church. Both the Divine Hall and the Deity Church represent the Empire, and both the Cursed Temple and the Shadow Church represent the opposing side. The Divine Hall controls the Holy Crystal, and the Deity Church controls the crystal. Whilst it is true that for a long time they have coveted each other’s resources, it is also true that this never comes to a head.  One main reason for this is that they frequently unite their forces to fight against their enemies; the Cursed Temple and the Shadow Church.
 
Today the folks at Freesky Online are going to give you a brief introduction of the 4 factions.
 
Divine Hall
The Divine Hall is the heart of the empire, and the protector of world peace. It is also the guardian of the empire and only accepts orders from the King’s. The 4 Lords who were entitled after the war now control the Divine Hall. Each of the 4 Lords has been granted by the empire with his own Holy Crystal City with abundant resources.
Cursed Temple
Those who live in the Cursed Temple are great warriors who fight for the freedom to protect the rights of the poor. For this reason, the Cursed Temple is also known as the rebel alliance. Its members often carry out of important communications with many different nations.
Deity Church
The Deity Church was named so because its people believe that the Gods would bring brightness and happiness to everyone on Earth. However, the church was betrayed by its alliance, and so now the people there are too busy amassing their own wealth and plotting revenge.
Shadow Church
The existence of the Shadow Church has always been controversial as it is rumored to not be of this world.  The Deity Church especially believes that it shouldn’t be.  It has been said that the Shadow Church has the power to control people’s minds but this has never been proven.  In fact they are often highly the poor because it provides them with food and shelter. It even built a library for them. However, the people from the Deity Church are adamant that the Shadow Church has cheated them somehow and are planning for an all out battle to prove it.