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F2P Cast: Yes, We Talk About Tera! (Ep 56)
The biggest news of the week dropped just days after the recording of the previous Free to Play Cast so we get to talk about Tera going free to play this week. Some interesting bombs, a Warframe revisit, and Elder Scrolls Online payment speculation rounds out a VERY full show!
Free-To-Play Cast is the official podcast (and videocast) of MMOBomb.com about free to play multiplayer online games. Free-To-Play Cast takes on the week's biggest news with plenty of opinion, weekly bombs, community feedback, guests, interviews, laughs thrown in for good measure and much more. Have fun and expect a new episode next week! (every Wed or Thu)
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As for the fishing game... sure why not. Why do we always have be committing mass genocide against every possible monster race? Why not take out the fish population for once.
Yays:
1) The game looks gorgeous. There is no denying that its a pretty piece of a game.
2) It's really well optimized. It runs well on my machine that sometimes even has trouble running WoW.
3) It's a perv/pedo dreamland.
Nays:
1) By far the most boring quests I have ever encountered in any game. This is coming from somebody who levelled 7 toons to lvl 80 in WoW.
2) The fabled action combat is not all that impressive. When I got into the game I was hoping for the combat to be something along the lines of DCUO or Vindictus. However in the end all you do in Tera is just hitting 1,2,3 all over again just like in any other hotkey based MMO.
3) The combat feels clunky at times. I felt it most on my mystic when I always stopped briefly when I tried to cast spells. As somebody who has played frost mage in WoW the moving combat felt incredibly bad.
Oh well just my thoughts on Tera after trying it, anybody interested in the game take this post with a grain of salt and just go and try it out yourself.
the archer is a fast phased kind and it is exciting igot to lvl 47 in my friends subed acount he let me have it this last 2 weeks it is very easy to solo bosses i love the game but im worried about endgame
i have an a bomb to ESO cuz it is probably gonna be sub or buy and im flat broke
untill then im gonna get some money and pass the time with tera and be happy ^_^
I would like to address several things here.
Neverwinter classes names: I am sure someone must have posted it already but just in case nobody did - the names of the classes in Neverwinter are the names of suggested builds in D&D 4th Edition. Yeah they might sound dumb but it is not the game's fault - they were never meant to be official class names but more likely they described what the particular build of this class is supposed to be. For example - Defender Fighter Defends, the Great Weapon Fighter wields huge weapons, Control Wizard controls enemies and War Wizard is more focused on damage. It is kinda strange decision to make their classes out of the builds and the why of it is going to be revealed only when we finally get our hands on the game,
Open world action MMOs: I don't think there is one that really does it well enough at the moment. TERA and Raiderz both feel just a little bit too slow and the attacks you can off in them are kinda boring and The Secret World and Guild Wars 2 do not even qualify as action-MMOs. Still there are so little of these kind of games and gamers seem to be willing to endure sub-par combat systems to satisfy their hunger for that kind of gameplay. I am still amazed that nobody remembers The Chronicles of Spellborn - it had fast, skill based combat system that required player skill, thought and expanded with character progression. Too bad the game really came out before it's time and a series of unfortunate events killed it too soon...
Question of the week: I think you asked the question two times - one time for Neverwinter and one time for TERA. In TERA I would play either warrior, berserker or slayer. They seem very similar to me with only a slight difference in pacing. The warrior would be my default choice(two swords) but it seems too slow for the weapon she is wielding and the self-injury mechanic is kinda off-putting. In Neverwinter I would probably roll a Trickster Rogue first(if there isn't a spellblade or dual sword wielding class) because of the really long daggers he is wielding.
Weekly bomb: D-Bomb is going to Warframe's enemy factions - I didn't think much of it at the beginning but fighting different factions of enemies really do feel different(well, not really in groups but when soloing it is a whole different matter). A-bomb goes to Warframe's warframe building system - to be able to get a new warframe you have to buy the blueprint from the market, then gather 3 different blueprints for the parts that are required to build the warframe blueprint and gather rare parts for each of the components. Each component is built for 12 hours and then the warframe is built for 3 days. Each rare components is dropped once in several runs from a boss guy... I know that there should be something to keep you interested in the game and there should be some kind of progression treadmill but come on!
an A bomb for tera for being late to become F2P and i will explain, Tera is an Action combat MMORPG, well when it first launch it was unique and very good...
Now we got a few MMORPG that i'm not saying does it better, they just already doing that for couple of months...
And of course a DaBomb for Warframe to been freaking awesome shit!!! very fun with friends and strangers and i'm don't agree with Magicman about low capacity of revives, you should just make
a strategy for the game and just reply it every mission.
Love your show and shout out for israel! :)
I'm not too upset about the release pushback for Wizardy Online,unlike a few others I didn't take vacation time to play through the entire first week of full release. I'm still very excited about the release now pushed back to the 30th(And I even expect it not being up until 2-3 days after that). Anyway, I wish they would stop putting out media that makes the game look so boring. (referring to the Underground Dragoon Dungeon video)
and i have a idea of a show like a comic show you all are very funny gays and i really like magikman voices hi maiks in the show
and keep all the good work you do because it is very important that you do for me and others Gamers in the world sory for my bad Eng i em from Romania
And For Question of the week i will role a healer cause healers in tera are OP
will try Tera
I was going to roll a Wizard (the class with the gyro thingy that looks similar a Sorcerer from Aion) so I could hurl fireballs at people like a boss, but the engine bugged out & I couldn't actually CREATE a character. So I have an A-Bomb to my computer, for being a potato. And to my wallet, for being empty so I can't upgrade to something not so potatoey, maybe like a refrigerator or toaster XD
I also have a Da-Bomb to AntiRTFM on YouTube for making the best damn C++ tutorial, ever. He made it incredibly easy to understand & explained everything to small details. I might be able to go through with the MMO game idea I have fleshed out now ^_^
I wanted to formally introduce myself, Vespetine, to the MMOBOMB community. I came in a little late, about the beginning of December of 2012. I did however back-track and watch all the videos of the Free-To-Play cast after listening for the first time in December.
First of all, today I've learned that I suck at keeping track of the games on my desktop. I had no idea "Warframe" changed the PRO system until now. Well, I might actually try the game again. And, I might go back on the forums and give the community the middle finger for thinking my suggestion about the PRO system was unheard of. I pretty much based my suggestions on the MMOBOMB free-to-play model outlook, being that Free-To-Play titles should give you all the content in-game and let you buy the custom items/outfits and the convenience-over-time items in the cash shop. Which I think is also the right way to do Free-To-Play, but instead, I got a hoard of trolls acting like the damn developers of the game.
I'd like to give a DA-BOMB to Magic Man this week, for the ridiculous, but HILARIOUS voices. "Can I just say something?...Can I, Let me tell you something." I had little laughing bursts for a about 20 minutes after that. I even marked down the time in the video so I could go back and laugh my breath away. Anyway, thanks for that Magic Man. I'm looking forward to the episodes to come.
For the question of the week, I would probably go Archer with the Castanic race, just because I like the effects of the spells. But to be honest, I don't think I'll be trying TERA again because of the horrible client, as discussed in the video. I understand that the whole game is about 20 or so GBs of data, but that should have taken my computer about 2 or 3 hours to download. It ended up taking 10 hours to get to the 7 GBs mark. For some reason I kept getting messages that my connection was lost, and then connection was re-established, which slowed down the downloading process immensely. I never have this issue with other clients, so I know it can't be my computer nor my connection. I also don't think I'll try TERA again because of the sole fact that, Yeah, It's been done already. There are plenty of long time Free-To-Play games that have already implemented the combat, content, and game play that TERA is just now bringing to the table as a Free-To-Play title. If it had been a Free-To-Play game this whole time, It might have been known for being one of the few Free-To-Play titles to release the new fad of action-combat for MMOs. For now I don't think I'll try it unless they get a good update with the launch of Free-To-Play. But what do I know, I'm just a gamer.
-Vespetine
I wanted to formally introduce myself, Vespetine, to the MMOBOMB community. I came in a little late, about the beginning of December of 2012. I did however back-track and watch all the videos of the Free-To-Play cast after listening for the first time in December.
First of all, today I've learned that I suck at keeping track of the games on my desktop. I had no idea "Warframe" changed the PRO system until now. Well, I might actually try the game again. And, I might go back on the forums and give the community the middle finger for thinking my suggestion about the PRO system was unheard of. I pretty much based my suggestions on the MMOBOMB free-to-play model outlook, being that Free-To-Play titles should give you all the content in-game and let you buy the custom items/outfits and the convenience-over-time items in the cash shop. Which I think is also the right way to do Free-To-Play, but instead, I got a hoard of trolls acting like the damn developers of the game.
I'd like to give a DA-BOMB to Magic Man this week, for the ridiculous, but HILARIOUS voices. "Can I just say something?...Can I, Let me tell you something." I had little laughing bursts for a about 20 minutes after that. I even marked down the time in the video so I could go back and laugh my breath away. Anyway, thanks for that Magic Man. I'm looking forward to the episodes to come.
For the question of the week, I would probably go Archer with the Castanic race, just because I like the effects of the spells. But to be honest, I don't think I'll be trying TERA again because of the horrible client, as discussed in the video. I understand that the whole game is about 20 or so GBs of data, but that should have taken my computer about 2 or 3 hours to download. It ended up taking 10 hours to get to the 7 GBs mark. For some reason I kept getting messages that my connection was lost, and then connection was re-established, which slowed down the downloading process immensely. I never have this issue with other clinets, so I know it can't be my computer nor my connection. I also don't think I'll try TERA again because of the sole fact that, Yeah, It's been done already. There are plenty of long time Free-To-Play games that have already implemented the combat, content, and gameplay that TERA is just now bringing to the table as a Free-To-Play title. If it had been a Free-To-Play game this whole time, It might have been known for being one of the few Free-To-Play titles to release the new fad of action-combat for MMOs. For now I don't think I'll try it unless they get a good update with the launch of Free-To-Play. But what do I know, I'm just a gamer.
-Vespetine
After watching your video of Tera , I never played and has brought me to my :
A- Bomb to All free to play Fantasy style mmorpg's as of 2007.
1 of the reasons i see all these titles that were subbed going free to play.
Where are the day's of Vast worlds gone? Every game that come's out is full of mini map's or instance based. Tera , Your video look's like it's just a Path ..go in a straight line a - b.... Not even combat would make me play this...Thank god TESO is being released around the same time.
* Shake's Head *
Peace
Inflictious
A shit filled a bomb to CJ Global for not being able to release a game that should be already out! because it seems to me that it's already done but they dont feel like wiping their own ass.
DA BOMB for tera and everything u guys already mentioned(the prologue getting u to lvl 20 the f2p stuff and so on)
and
DA BOMB for magicman AIMING IN DA FEET this week when i enjoyed him streaming Tribes Ascend so good job on that man :P
Guestion Of The Week:i already got an lvl 14 archer in Tera(US verison ofc)i love it and i don't regret for my choice at all but unfortunatelly i think i can't play it cause for my pc graphics are high idk also i got something relativly "negative" to say on tera.THEY REALLY need to let us know what we can use when we set our names i mean we need to know that we CANT put numbers when choosing a name and that WE CAN put spaces/dots and other special characters
Great show as always and have a nice day
I may or may not play Tera...but will more likely play it if some of my friends join in as well.
I still stand by my regard for 'mounted' which I posted as a reply in one of the other threads (you'll have to search, it's not a complimentary comment)
Great show as always, keeps me entertained, was going to ask about 'the game', I remember Brim got vexed about said game in a previous show but can't remember....but since I don't remember I probably didn't take an interest and thus don't remember.
Will give Tera a try - and as stated in the webcast, yeah I don't expect it to be ground breaking but maybe better than what GW2 promised to be.
Ass bombs to games that go P2P when not ground breaking and have to back track to some form of F2P. They don't seem to realise they aren't hitting a niche market with their game.
Also same to old games that were P2P that are trying to hang on by going F2P.
It's pronounced Bull's I btw. Incredibly original I know. :P
TOO BAD, iam already playing as a Warrior.I like it so far, the quests and storyline are...meh... but the combat is fun as hell (if hell is actually a candy land full of ice cream...) and it helps to get past the grinding.I dont mind the restrictions, and i dont know about you guys, but if iam limited to just 2 characters per server, what stops me from creating another account and playing the other 2 classes in the same server?Also, the players i meet in the game are somewhat happy with the conversion, they got some benefits and dont have to worry about paying subs anymore (they also like newcomers, because the community is dying, and they like to beat some newbs TO DEATH with their bare hands).
Da bomb for Magickman SHOOTING IN DAH FEETZZ LIKE A B00S on the Tribes live stream!!
Da-bomb for Tera for no other Reason then I have been having fun with it's combat.
A-bomb to Teras community and all the hate I have been seeing for free to play users .... they seem to forget that with out the ftp users the game could just be shutting down instead of continuing. (Yes I know this happens a lot but this is the first time I have see players out right say there going to hunt free to play players and make it hard for them to enjoy the game.)
Just something to think about.
I would love to see the FISHAO live stream with magic doing the commentary I will be giving it a try.
DA BOMB for Dragon's Prophet I know its saying a lot for a Sony online game but I am looking forward it.
No bombs again this week...will have at least one for next week though.
Maybe I should just skip the crappy dialog and just try and see if i can play it for the game play. I just see other games coming out (Neverwinter and Elder Scrolls) that have so much more potential.
And I'm happy that Tera is going free to play had to play Raiderz because I ain't a P2P player.
After playing Raiderz for 2 days and getting to Level 29 I got bored and I guess I'll be bored of Tera too in a few days/weeks but still gonna enjoy those things.
DA BOMB for MapleStory Europe for finally releasing Luminous and having a little less bugs then before but still enough bugs to annoy people :P
A bomb for Dragon nest EU for finally announcing their CBT date (27th February) but sadly they are 2 years too late.. most European players have either played on the NA version via proxy or the SEA version.
I've played quite a lot of cleric(it has another name in game, no?), but I'm just super uncomfortable with casting classes in "technical" mmos despite usually playing cleric in everything. I have also played berserker, more so than cleric, and it's a lot more comfortable for me personally.