The positive:
The graphics in this game are beautiful. The fact that a full scale MMO was created using the unreal engine with partial physics is amazing ... I love the scenery and the level of detail in the landscape.
The UI for questing which includes the quest tracker and it's functionality is the best i've seen. The fact that you can click people and items in the quest description and have it show you the general location is invaluable in a game where a lot of leveling is needed.
The PVP system in this game by it's very nature is flawless. I think Tera nailed the world PVP aspect. It's good that there is only one faction and also balanced that you receive such a harsh flagging for ganking lowbies. This makes you think twice before doing it. Also the guild vs guild battle system (although annoying for members that are just trying to quest) is flawless in that if you flag war on another guild you are simply at war with them all the time and the other guild doesn't need to approve the altercation.
The Negative:
There is way too much grinding in this game. The quests suck and there aren't enough of them. Mobs are recycled over and over again and there isn't a large enough player population to warrent the amount of BAM 5 man quests currently in the game. Thus soloing in this game is difficult and you end up skipping most of the 5 man quests leaving you with fewer quests to choose from.
The lack of vendors in outposts is terrible. Not only by it's very nature are MMOs riddled with useless items that suck up bag space inside of minutes but there is no where to dump any of it because the closest vendor is in a main town which you either need to teleport to via a scroll that you have to buy or run to. FAIL.
Although instance matching is a great idea the que times for instance matching are the worst i've ever seen ( i don't care if you are dps or not you shouldn't have to wait 2 hours to get a group) .
Death in this game is painful. Far too painful if you ask me. We live busy lives and death happening for whatever reason be it a stupid one or some [filtered] ganking you should not result in several golds worth of crystals being lost, you being sent back to a town really far away where you then need to buy more crystals, teleport back to the nearest outpost you were at, and then mount up and ride all the way back to where you were. This is mega FAIL.
The lack of day and night cycles in this game makes the world feel flat. I don't care how good the graphics are it makes the user feel like they are existing in time when there is some part of an MMO that's grounded in the reality they live in the the real world this means day and night cycles and weather effects. This game has neither ... which i understand is the result of the lore surrounding the tera univers being dreamt up by two sleeping titans. Doesn't matter it feels lacking.
The lack of viable none world PVP in this game ( yes i know there are battle grounds coming ) but make them good and give us something to work towards like good armor.
Speaking of armor. The lack of variety in the number of weapon models in this game is jaw droopingly bad for a game with such a vast univers and beautiful graphics ... i'm staring at the same sword model over and over again ... boring EPIC FAIL.
Probably the thing that gets me the most and i know some will defend this. Is the fact that you can't swing and move at the same time... I've heard all sorts of arguments that "this is the way it should be and it's how it would be in real life" you know what though i tried to rap my head around that but i don't really care about real life this is an MMO. In terms of fun factor not being able to swing my sword and move my character at the same time makes me feel like i'm playing a chess game not something that claims to be live action combat .... again I don't care what reason there is for doing this i'm sure there was a good one but it still feels sluggish and not live action to me. Take some notes from a great free to play game called Vindictus if you want to see true live action combat... probably the best face smashing combat i've ever seen in a game that's close to being an MMO.
Last but not least. No target combat is fantastic yes and does represent something closer to real action combat but not when there is a 2 second lag on all abilities used in the game... for whatever reason probably technical in how this MMO communicates to the server that you've swung your sword is wrong. It is way too slow and unresponsive for the kind of fast action this game claims to have. It makes the overal playing experience crap and feels sluggish.
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The graphics in this game are beautiful. The fact that a full scale MMO was created using the unreal engine with partial physics is amazing ... I love the scenery and the level of detail in the landscape.
The UI for questing which includes the quest tracker and it's functionality is the best i've seen. The fact that you can click people and items in the quest description and have it show you the general location is invaluable in a game where a lot of leveling is needed.
The PVP system in this game by it's very nature is flawless. I think Tera nailed the world PVP aspect. It's good that there is only one faction and also balanced that you receive such a harsh flagging for ganking lowbies. This makes you think twice before doing it. Also the guild vs guild battle system (although annoying for members that are just trying to quest) is flawless in that if you flag war on another guild you are simply at war with them all the time and the other guild doesn't need to approve the altercation.
The Negative:
There is way too much grinding in this game. The quests suck and there aren't enough of them. Mobs are recycled over and over again and there isn't a large enough player population to warrent the amount of BAM 5 man quests currently in the game. Thus soloing in this game is difficult and you end up skipping most of the 5 man quests leaving you with fewer quests to choose from.
The lack of vendors in outposts is terrible. Not only by it's very nature are MMOs riddled with useless items that suck up bag space inside of minutes but there is no where to dump any of it because the closest vendor is in a main town which you either need to teleport to via a scroll that you have to buy or run to. FAIL.
Although instance matching is a great idea the que times for instance matching are the worst i've ever seen ( i don't care if you are dps or not you shouldn't have to wait 2 hours to get a group) .
Death in this game is painful. Far too painful if you ask me. We live busy lives and death happening for whatever reason be it a stupid one or some [filtered] ganking you should not result in several golds worth of crystals being lost, you being sent back to a town really far away where you then need to buy more crystals, teleport back to the nearest outpost you were at, and then mount up and ride all the way back to where you were. This is mega FAIL.
The lack of day and night cycles in this game makes the world feel flat. I don't care how good the graphics are it makes the user feel like they are existing in time when there is some part of an MMO that's grounded in the reality they live in the the real world this means day and night cycles and weather effects. This game has neither ... which i understand is the result of the lore surrounding the tera univers being dreamt up by two sleeping titans. Doesn't matter it feels lacking.
The lack of viable none world PVP in this game ( yes i know there are battle grounds coming ) but make them good and give us something to work towards like good armor.
Speaking of armor. The lack of variety in the number of weapon models in this game is jaw droopingly bad for a game with such a vast univers and beautiful graphics ... i'm staring at the same sword model over and over again ... boring EPIC FAIL.
Probably the thing that gets me the most and i know some will defend this. Is the fact that you can't swing and move at the same time... I've heard all sorts of arguments that "this is the way it should be and it's how it would be in real life" you know what though i tried to rap my head around that but i don't really care about real life this is an MMO. In terms of fun factor not being able to swing my sword and move my character at the same time makes me feel like i'm playing a chess game not something that claims to be live action combat .... again I don't care what reason there is for doing this i'm sure there was a good one but it still feels sluggish and not live action to me. Take some notes from a great free to play game called Vindictus if you want to see true live action combat... probably the best face smashing combat i've ever seen in a game that's close to being an MMO.
Last but not least. No target combat is fantastic yes and does represent something closer to real action combat but not when there is a 2 second lag on all abilities used in the game... for whatever reason probably technical in how this MMO communicates to the server that you've swung your sword is wrong. It is way too slow and unresponsive for the kind of fast action this game claims to have. It makes the overal playing experience crap and feels sluggish.
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