New World

Valderen said:

Possibly going to sell items or boost to help leveling up character and trade skill experience. Really?

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Was in first alpha but can't recall, was there some kind of experience pool when rested for experience (character and skill)? Potions to increase effectiveness of that as a catch-up mechanic for casuals might work. 300% rested potion, etc.

/shrug

Burns said:

That's not what people usually mean when they use the word classes, in accordance with MMOs. A class based system is like EQ or WoW, where you pick a class, and all your skills and ability options are set according to that class. A skill based system is like Ultima Online or Elder Scrolls, where you have X number of skills and you can mix and match how ever you please.

This game is a skill based system, like UO or ESO. You can skill up every weapon you want (the only cost is time), and respec your stats to match them (for gold). If you chose to wield a Rapier, a Musket, and wear Heavy Armor, you aren't magically going to be called X class in game (because there are no classes).

rhinohelix I don't know if the guy just got in the alpha or he just failed to make that part of the video clear, but small correction, there are 3 factions (Syndicate (Purple), Marauders (Green), and Covenant (Orange)). He is currently in the Syndicate faction, and they page he pulls up lets him chose to switch to one of the other two (that he is not currently in).

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-The defined class vs. open class system is always a big debate, and I know lots of people are going to come down on each side of the fence. As long as it's more like Elder Scrolls/ESO and less like ME: Andromeda, it won't be so bad. In games where you know the system or they give you a role-based framework to work within, it's not so bad and can be great; In games where you can easily "gimp" or smudge yourself into being bad at a chosen role, its terrible. In the video, I wondered about this when the guy said, I keep forgetting I am not tanking. If you have the respec be easy enough that you can do it enough to correct mistakes or change "class/roles" that's great but IMO but not so often that you are changing roles for every dungeon.

The name of the game escapes me but I remember playing a game where you unlocked different class titles depending upon your attribute/possibly skill choices which was awesome.; hell, it may have been Wizardry, all I know given I am a little under the weather.

-The three factions thing is cool and very ESO; I was hoping for a world of more regional faction choices but I guess with the overarching PVP that was never going to be a thing; you would need an EQ continental system to enforce that, which would work in a colonial-style Old World/colonial bases/New World way I had in my head cannon but it seems this is more Greedfall, nm, I guess.

- Agree with Xerge and Daidraco et al comments on the cash shop. They just make too much money for the companies for there to not be any monetization. As long as they don't make the game more punishing or grindy to encourage spending in an obvious way, again pointing to GW2, nothing in the game felt like it was designed to make you want to spend, its a necessary evil of 2021 just so long as they don't abuse it. I did a spreadsheet on how much I spent on Marvel Heroes and it shocked me out of unmetered spending on these games.

Xerge said:

That's the problem with content that doesn't use a scaling system. Each dungeon is geared toward a level and they out leveled it during the press demo. Which makes me wonder about the unique loot that comes from the expeditions. How good will the loot be? Will it be a WoW thing where you go crazy over deadmines drops only to level up later and replace with greens/crafted.

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Random skins. Right now everyone looks the same with gear. I imagine that's the real money going forward.