Black Prophecy - Space MMO

[xEvilSage]

I was looking forward to this game for a long time, but unfortunately the switch to a F2P model was a bullet to the head. The core gameplay itself is fun, but there's just so many other things that are wrong with the game, some that will likely never be "fixed" because they wouldn't make any money otherwise.

Things that suck about this game:

1. Stamina system - these just ****ing suck and need to be removed from all western games. Pay money or be stuck at 0 EXP gain until the reset.

2. Crafting - the crafting is horrible, it takes place in realtime so you are forced to wait 30 minutes or more, unable to do anything else. On top of that, the crafting has monstrously low success rates and the cash shop items make almost no difference. There was a guy who wasted like $1,000 on the game and saw no real benefit from the cash shop items.

3. Performance - While the game looks good, it is poorly optimized and will give low FPS on even the more high end rigs. There are also problems with lag and rubberbanding(in space? wtf?!) especially in high population areas.

4. Balance/customization - Basically, there is no build customization aside from what weapon type you want to use. Currently, you MUST specialize in one weapon type, as it's common that weapon DPS practically doubles between certain skill totals. In addition, you MUST spend points on the ship/cockpit skill as you cannot raise any skill above the level of the ship/cockpit skill. Then you are left with a "choice" between wings or shields. Shields are entirely useless in the early levels, only really getting good later on and even then they are too heavy and slow you considerably. Wings however give you damage reduction and more hitpoints without hindering speed too much. It's a no-brainer, most everyone chooses wings. Weapon balance is pretty poor at the moment, some to the point of completely broken and useless.

I'm not even going to mention the lack of actual content in the game, after the tutorial and initial story quests, there's nothing to do but grind "kill 10 rats" quests. Supposedly they are adding new story quests soon, but I'm not going to bother sticking around.

Wow you took some time making this message

But yes this is all possbiel I'm in the early stages of the game, so I don't know what is 'waiting' for me. But now I find it a good game, I sure hope it stays a good game! I don't mind that I don't have to pay, but i wouldn't have minded to pay a few euro's a month anyway.

Oh well lets just cross our fingers and hope they come with good stuff

[xEvilSage]

What is EVE? :S Never heard of it.

Anyway a new gameplay video is out. Maybe people will like this one better, I am flying a Tarpun Warship. It's a very very big ship



EDIT:

On the youtube page of the video are some Point of Interest shortcuts, so you don't need to watch the whole 12 mins. Some were:

2: 00
2: 30
5: 15
6: 30
8: 30

Not sure but you can always look on the video page comments

[SnOwBunZz]

What is EVE?

EvE is the god of all space MMOs. It makes BP look like a shitty arcade game.

Watching game play videos of this game has got me wanting to try eve. I only gave it a few minutes before but from what I have heard it seems to be the perfect game for me.. Just I am too cheap to pay for a game before I am 100% sure I will enjoy it.

It's nothing like EvE fyi. The only common thing they have is space ships, nothing more.

[Ouriel]

I can't tell you much about EVE, but it's really great game. I'm new to the game aswell(talking about EVE.)



*EDIT; What SnOwBunZz said.

[xEvilSage]

Cool never knew about EVE!

But I will be sticking to BP for now I'll try EVE once for sure! I got a whole lifetime to try it still so I'll be sticking to BP for now

[Felore]

Game is HORRIBLE!
You will know why if you ever play it.

[replicant]

Eve is an awesome game if you don't want to actually do something.
With a name like Black Prophecy I honestly expected something better involving someone named Mandingo.

[Vesper]

Looks like Freelancer, it couldn't be that bad... Could it?

[Viiral]

This game sucks balls.

Its instanced except for hub spaces.

Really lacks everything.

Space MMOs should NEVER use instanced space.

[Powster]

So anyone want to give me a buddy trial key on eve? I think its 21 days instead of 14 days..

[TreyTrey12]

The thing about Eve online is, its a great game, if you had started playing when it first came out, Sadly tho if you joined now you'd be a underdog, and because of the skilling system you basically will always be the underdog, because skills are levelled via time, if i where to take eve back up on a new account this is how i would do it, i'd get a account, i'd play for a month getting all the skill books i need, then i'd stop playing for a year or two while just logging in for 5 minutes every day to put my skill on Queue's (because you can only have 24 hours of skill learning at one time -.- ).

If it wasn't for that, this would be a great game, sadly tho its not. (Unless you started when it first came out xD)

Not really, EVE has undergone a serious of changes over the years that allow even newer players to have a place in the galaxy.

You could played since release, however that doesn't mean you will be able to kill everyone, because how you fit your ship and etc, it will give you a edge not a total victory for certain.
Me and another corp member 2 manned a guy, I only had 1 month worth of skills, and he only had about 3 weeks. The guy we killed was a 3 year vet.

You don't need all skills to level 5.

For example

Missiles rank 4 Gives a total of 15% damage, rank 5 gives 5%. Ofcourse getting to 5 would be neccessary because it allows me to use Tier 2 gear, but only for that type of missile, and for all i know there are regular missiles, assault, heavies, and etc.
It depends on what ship you want to use. But trying to skill to tier 2 in all of them would consume large amounts of time.