Well, Forsaken World (CN) went into its Public Open Beta mode this afternoon (GMT+8) and I was unable to play in the office due to some technical error. I was forced to endure the whole day trying to fix the client and finally gave up when it was time to knock-off. After getting home, and luckily, I was able to play for a short while. I only leveled till 10, as the English Closed Beta is coming in less than a week and I do not want to spoil anything. So how was the game for the first 10 levels? Let’s find out.
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| The character creation screen, and I chose am Elven Bard. |
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| The customization is awesome for a F2P (screw Aion), a signature of all PW games. |
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| Anti-bot system after creating the character. If memory serves me right, this is the first time I am experiencing this so early into a game. |
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| What, another anti-bot system at character selection screen? Woah, overkill! |
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| Just take a look at the first sight after I log into the game… Awesome graphics! |
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| My first quest. Simply click on the green words and you will auto-track to the allocated NPC/spot/monster. |
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| Random screenshot, admiring the exquisite design of the various buildings. |
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| As you can see at the top of this screenshot, there is this 8% figure. This is what I mentioned as the Chronicle System, and the world (or server) setting swill change once it hits 100% everytime. The first time it hits 100%, from what I know, the guild fortresses will descend upon the continent and guilds can start to fight and sought control over them. The big round button at the top-middle area will be the Blessing System, players can click on it every 15minutes and receive a random item. For more information on this, go check out my older posts 😀 |
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| The very first mob elves get to kill. At first look, I thought they will be higher than level 1! |
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| The 2nd monsters elves will get to kill. Looks like the level 1 trees are dropping their “hair”… |
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| I will have to explain this screenshot in detail. The green thing being auto-absorbed by my character is actually the Soul Currency. To the lower left, the letters “C” and “D” are triggered by my normal spells. Once I gather 2 “C”s and 1 “D”, the musical bar above will light up (its a skill) automatically and cast a 20sec attack boost buff on me. The letters will be consumed and I can do it again. The letters will disappear if you do not use them in… I think it was 10 seconds. The aura you see around my character will be the attack buff’s graphical effect. |
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| A unicorn NPC named Angela… I half expected to see Spongebob Squarepants next. |
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| Actual swimming actions. No, you won’t deduct HP if you stay in the water too long. At the back, a fearsome Hydra… But it is not as fearsome as it looks. |
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| Underwater… there are quests which require players to dive into the depths of lakes, rivers etc! |
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| Moving to a new war-torn area, riding on the griffin you see. It’s just cinematic for the “flying” part though. |
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| A Stoneman NPC! Looks really detailed in his armor design. |
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| Testing out the all-powerful XP skill. |
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| If you look at the back, there are always spawning centaurs rushing to break the line of defense guarded by elf NPCs. Epic battlefield scenario! |
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| One of the paper-defense mini-boss. For questing only |
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| Funny (but cool) looking Stoneman player. Son Goku ftw? |
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| The next quest demands me to drop down this god-forsaken deep ravine… |
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| And get a dinner date with this dragon. But really, this dragon is for a quest and quite easy to kill. Suggested party of 2 if you do not want to use more than 1 pot. And by the way, only the cash shop pots (you get 1 from starter pack) is instant heal. For the ingame “food”, players will have to be out of combat mode and will sit down to heal after eating them. |
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| And here I am, shipped to Freedom Harbor upon finishing the quests on the starter island! |
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| Some other player’s pet… So cute! |
For those of you who made it into the first Closed Beta phase of the English server, see you there!
