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ArcheAge Closed Beta 3 & 4 Review
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| Adventuring with friends :) |
After a long hiatus I'm finally back to blogging. Have been busy lately. With work and etc. Good thing ArcheAge came along which helps to relieve some stress x)
This shall be a continuation from my previous post A sneak peek at new #MMORPG: ArcheAge . My friends and I managed to participate in Closed Beta 3 and 4. Just like to share some of my thoughts on how ArcheAge fair so far :)
Well, Trion is very smart to offer an exclusive Founder's package at 3 different price point, where you get advanced access to other features of the BETA. The cheapest package costs USD 49.99 and you get like... 4 days headstart against other F2P players? Hmm, just not really sure if it's really worth it to spend just for "additional" Beta access :/
The biggest impression left after the end of CB4 was the complexity of the class builds (whooping 120 types) and the intensity of the dungeon. You can practically create any job by mixing any 3 classes attributes, and so I chose the route of Shadowplay (like assassin), Battlerage (like fighter) and Archery which gives you a job call "Outrider". Sounds cool enough, and I'm pretty happy with this mix which gives pretty high dps. With dual-wielded swords and a bow, it's a hybrid strong melee and relatively strong ranged character as well which I've never tried before in any other MMOs. There's already a bunch of resources created about ArcheAge's complexed job system so would like to share a few good sites here:
arche-base.comhttp://archeage.gamepedia.com/Classes
Highlights in CB4
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| Beautiful airship thingy *-* |
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| Grow your own mount. Hitching a ride on a Nuian's mount is fun. |
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| Gliding with friends! |
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| Oh yes, pretty girl can climb a tree too :) |
Few interesting things we learnt in CB4 - harvesting crops from other's public farms will leave your footprints where other players can report you ^^. Overdoing "crimes" like this, or killing players from the same faction gives you Crime Points and where you eventually can be put on trial and go to jail. And when you commit too many crimes you can turn into a pirate as well ^^ Auroria island is a place where pirates reside. Going back to Nuia or Haranya - NPCs or players will be able to attack you lol. Pretty interesting. Kind of like to try living a life of a pirate :D
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| Oh thiefy :3 |
The most exciting part of our short adventure in CB4 would definitely be our sailing experience. We didn't have time to build a huge sailing boat, but we were so eager to sail out so heck it, 5 of us squeeze into our pathetic row boat and started our adventure anyway! :P
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| Chicken Burgers! This is really too cramp and no leg space! D: |
We set off in the day from Nuia's Dewstone Plains to Haranya. On our way there, we discovered some small isolated island where nobody resides and somebody planted mushrooms there lol.
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| Small deserted island! |
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| Dotted line marks our route! It was really fun! |
It took us quite long by manual rowing. Not to mention there were also sea bugs and gaint jellyfish jumping about and attacking our boat during our ride! It was so scary. We quickly jumped off our boat and 4 of us died leaving our tanker alone in the open sea! D: She was so afraid and could only swim to the shore of Haranya while the jellyfish continues to whack our friend's boat ><. 4 of us eventually managed to row our boat AGAIN via a shorter route to reach Haranya. We reached at dawn and was in time for the beautiful sunrise :D
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| Arriving at Haranya at dawn with our friend from Haranya welcoming us! xD |
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| Successfully arrived at Haranya after much ordeal :D |
You can see the obvious difference in the environment and terrain when you arrive at the opposing faction. Haranya is beautiful ^^ Buildings and trees look different as well :) When we first disembarked on the shores of Haranya, we were careful to look out for any possible enemies because we could be ganged anytime X) Luckily only a few were on shore. We couldn't understand what they are saying because you could only see gibberish texts :D makes it all the more realistic ^^ You gotta learn their language at a later part if you want to understand what your enemy is speaking.
We went on to venture into the lands of Haranya, only to be chased after by NPCs! Hahahaha, 2 of us died and was resurrected at the temple LOL. Our spy friend from Haranya was telling us that other Haranians were shouting to call on other Haranians to come to kill us xD
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| I really like this liondance mount! Way too cute! LOL. |
We met some friends over here as well, but couldn't communicate hahahhaa. Looking forward to Open Beta which starts this 4th Sept!
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| Nice scenary :) |
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| I shall take a selfie ^^ |
Phantasy Star Online 2 BETA Keys now available for SEA players
Hey folks, finally the much awaited Phantasy Star Online 2 is available to SEA region now in English! If you're in the SEA region and have been longing to try out the game, BETA keys are now officially available at:
http://bit.ly/PSO2BetaGiveAway
Here are a few more sites giving away free Beta Keys :)
SGCafe: http://bit.ly/1gQgynJ
GamesInAsia: http://bit.ly/PmarNo
MMOCulture: http://bit.ly/1jE7mmO
Game8Indo: http://on.fb.me/1dOQBFY
Geek Culture: http://bit.ly/1gR8NOl
Beta Key Activation: http://bit.ly/PSO2BetaActivation
Closed Beta Test officially opens on 10th April 2014!
Phantasy Star Online 2 is a F2P MMORPG, developed by SEGA and published by Asiasoft Online for SEA, and so you need a PlayPark account to play.
The setting looks kind of futuristic, with high-tech armours and equipments in parts of the environment.
There are mainly 3 classes to choose from, Hunter (e.g. melee fighter), Ranger (e.g. gunner) and Force (e.g. mage).
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| Hunter |
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| Ranger |
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| Force |
There are also 3 race - Human, Newman (e.g. Elf) and Cast (e.g. Mecha).
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| Human (Male) |
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| Newman (Female) |
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| Cast (Female) |
More updates to come along the way!
Halloween
Ohh, after the lunar 7th month is over, halloween's around the corner ^^ Have you got any ideas yet where to go, what to wear, how to play? I think this year's halloween scene in Singapore is quite happening.
There's a few venues having parties and events. For one, the popular RaceTheDead to be held at Sentosa has overwhelming responses, and extended its event for another day. It's a 5km run with obstacles for the survivors, and hordes of zombies to stop you from running to the safe house. It's like playing L4D in real life, only without weapons.
Sentosa has many events going on, just for Halloween alone. There's a night event on the same day as RaceTheDead on 26 October called the Zombie Party at Wavehouse. Seems like zombie theme is very popular nowadays. Too much L4D and zombie apocalypes movie or what? Haha ^^
11 Oct - 3 Nov 2013
This year there's also the Halloween Horror Night organised by Universal Studios Singapore again, after 2 consecutive successful years. The event is going to be on for almost the whole month of October on every weekends starting from 11 October till the 3rd November. Only thing for this party is that, participants cannot dress up and go for this party...Erm? They explain it's for the safety and security of the guests and the scare actors. Prolly don't want to mess up the real actors and the guests haha. Ticket is at $68/each and $60/each for early bird. Not cheap ehh to get yourself scared....
19, 25, 26 & 31 Oct, 1 & 2 Nov 2013
The next event in Sentosa, is the Sentosa Spooktacular Night at Fort Siloso. Wle, I think for this I definitely would not go because I have a small kokoro and I cannot take fake scares and maybe real scares also (I don't know but Fort Siloso used to be the place where real war happened in the past you see). Apparently the organisers understand that there are people like me so they have a special pass for this event call Kia Gui at a cheaper rate of $16.60 ^0^~
FREE EVENTS (26 Oct 2013)
We want to play, and all these events make us Pay-And-Pay!!! Are they any free parties then?!
Yes, you can go walk walk with fellow zombies for free at Singapore Zombie Walk on 26 October (like Big Walk but zombified? Hmmm the name is not very creative huhhh :3) Event will be held at The Cathay, and you will be part of the zombie horde (chiong ahhh* runs after boomer bile*) However, they have a cap for this event at 500 people so that it is only capped at 100 irregal gatherings? :D
Another free event would be at Asian Civilisation Museum on 26 October as well. There will be performances and ghostly movie screenings. Actually I think if they just close the whole museum and let people wander on their own may be more scary.... Because it's night at the museum... :O
Other events which are free could be those organised by clubs or nightbars. I remember last year Zouk's Halloween event is to let participants who dresses up enter free, while those who just went as normal being has to pay for the usual cover charge ^^.
Any ideas for dressing up for Halloween? What characters would be interesting? Shall skip the usual hot girl with flashing horns, and draculas.. My friends and I are thinking to do a zombified Crayonpop since we're going for the Zombie Party at Wavehouse. But, does anybody know Crayonpop in Singapore? :/ Or maybe a female hunter would be cool as well :) Comment below if you have got ideas to share lol :D
