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4 August

[SALE] Ellun Box Weekend

[Update 8/8] The sale dates for the discounted Ellun Boxes has been extended until start of maintenance on August 11, 2016.
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Are you in need of Elluns? This weekend is your chance to stock up, as Ellun Boxes are on sale for up to 20% off the original price!

Ellun Box Sale

August 5, 2016 – August 8, 2016 in the Ellun tab

Pacific Daylight Time:
12:00 PM [August 5 - 12:00 PM [August 8]

Eastern Daylight Time:
3:00 PM [August 5 - 3:00 PM [August 8]

Central European Summer Time:
9:00 PM [August 5] - 9:00 PM [August 8]

Australian Eastern Standard Time:
5:00 AM [August 6] - 5:00 AM [August 9]

Pick up an Ellun Box (462) available for 20% off! Or pick up an Ellun Box (266) available for 15% off! Each of these items can be purchased once per Nexon account.

Ellun Box (462) - 39,900 NX (20% off)
Ellun Box (266) - 25,500 NX (15% off)

Visit Ellora’s Shop by clicking the Ellora’s Shop icon from the game menu UI at the bottom-right corner of the screen. You can purchase items with NX or with Elluns. You can add NX on your Nexon account here>>
https://billing.nexon.net/PurchaseNX

Elluns are the in-game currency that can sometimes be used in place of NX. Click here to learn more about Elluns>>
http://forums.icarus.nexon.net/discussion/5017/guide-acquiring-elluns

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4 August

DEV Blog #4 - Play PVP in the Exarahn Badlands

Greetings, Riders! My name is BK, and I manage overseas development for Riders of Icarus at WeMade. We are excited to announce that expanded PvP content for Riders of Icarus will be added to the game later this month! You will now be able to enjoy and compete in large-scale combat activities against your fellow Riders. We hope that guild members will forge bonds in battle and develop rivalries with other guilds through the Exarahn Badlands and Guild Alliance War.

EXARAHN BADLANDS

Riders enter this PvP area through a dimensional rift, which sends them 1,000 years back in time. The Exarahn Badlands is a region that has been left chaotic and lawless after the fall of the ancient Exarahn Kingdom and before the establishment of the Hakanas Empire.

The Exarahn Badlands has a similar topography to the Hakanas Highlands. However, it is a world of eternal nightfall with a looming crimson moon, which starkly contrasts the blue skies and vibrant foliage of the Hakanas Highlands.

This area is restricted to Riders level 28 or higher to ensure that only those that have had sufficient experience in battle may enter. Upon entering the rift and arriving in the Exarahn Badlands, all Riders other than those in your guild, alliance or party will become targetable enemies! So, you will have to be aware of your surroundings at all times when questing or hunting wild beasts. Yes, the risks in this region are great, but so are the rewards.

Because there is no penalty for dying in PvP, Riders who don't usually enjoy PvP should still try out the Exarahn Badlands content at least once. There are quests to be completed and new areas to explore, as well as new mounts to tame for Riders ready to brave the dangers of the Exarahn Badlands.

A PREVIEW OF MOUNTS FOUND IN THE EXARAHN BADLANDS

Nightmare
The most powerful flying mount in the Exarahn Badlands is Nightmare, who you may recall as the black Pegasus Crow was riding when leading the escape from the Prison of Salant. This mount boasts high speeds both on land and in the air. It is also a very powerful seal option for PvP equipment.

Profane Apocalypse
The most powerful ground mount in the Exarahn Badlands is Profane Apocalypse - the twin of Ashuram's war horse, Apocalypse! Apocalypse was tamed by Ashuram, but Profane Apocalypse has never yet been tamed. Like Nightmare, Profane Apocalypse also spawns at a random location within the Exarahn Badlands. Profane Apocalypse is one of the stronger mounts, and may be difficult to tame alone, so get your Alliance and guildmates to help you!

WAGE WAR WITH GUILD ALLIANCES

Guild Alliances can be formed when guild masters from guilds of rank 3 or higher come together. Up to three guilds can be in a single Alliance. Once an Alliance is formed, guild members in the Alliance can share information through the alliance chat. Furthermore, they cannot attack each other even in the Badlands, as they will be perceived as allies.

The founding leader that establishes the Alliance can declare war on other Alliances. We call this an "Alliance War." Alliances that are engaged in battle can attack one another in the Exarahn Badlands and Parna's Coast. Players outside of an Alliance War cannot be attacked or attack others in Parna’s Coast. The ability to PvP in Parna’s Coast is strictly limited to players in an Alliance which is currently engaged in an Alliance war. To protect new low-level Riders, regions that came before Parna's Coast, such as the Hakana’s Highlands and Sea of Hakanas, do not allow PvP even during an Alliance War.

Defeating an opposing alliance member will increase your kill count, and the Alliance to first reach 200 kills will win the war. Alliances that win the war will be able to collect victory rewards. Though these rewards have not been finalized yet, we plan to add special buffs and other exclusive content that can be used by winning Alliance members.

PLAY IN MILITIAS – AN ALTERNATIVE TO GUILD PVP BATTLE

Riders who are not a part of a guild or who are in a guild lower than rank 3 can register for the Militia to experience PvP in Exarahn Badlands. Players who are part of a Militia are allies, and can converse with one another. Militia members can also purchase buffs that will help in battle. More detailed information on Militias and how they work will be coming soon.

MANASTONE BATTLES

Another new PvP event that will be introduced with this update is the Manastone Battle. Manastone Battles take place once a week in the Exarahn Badlands. A server announcement will mark the beginning of a Manastone Battle. Simultaneously with this start, a Manastone will be spawned at a random location.

Essentially, Manastone mode is like capture the flag. Players can interact with and hold Manastones and will see their constitution (health and critical defense) increase tremendously. Riders who have the Manastone must return to town and deliver it to the Vantara Manastone Oracle. The simple rule is that the first Alliance to successfully deliver the Manastone wins!

The location of the Rider that obtains the Manastone will be displayed to all players within the Exarahn Badlands in real time. Members of Alliances or militias that don't have the Manastone must intercept the Manastone carrier and prevent them from returning it to the Vantara Manastone Oracle.

When the Manastone carrier goes down, the Manastone will be respawned at that location. However, if that Rider is intercepted and taken down too close to town, the Manastone will be spawned at a random location instead.

Special rewards will be given to the Alliance that wins the Manastone Battle including exclusive familiars. Riders will be able to demonstrate all the skill and savvy that they amassed from the Alliance Wars and Exarahn battlefields in Manastone Battles to become recognized as an elite master of PvP strategy and tactics.

BATTLE PREPARATIONS

These new PvP features are just weeks away from being introduced in Riders of Icarus. In the meantime, players can level their guild rank, forge an Alliance and otherwise prepare for the battles to come. Good luck in your preparation, and may the strongest Riders be victorious!

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System Requirements

Minimum:

OS: Windows Vista (SP2) or later
Processor: Intel Core i3-2120 @ 3.3GHz or higher / AMD A8-5500 @3.3GHz or higher
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce GTX 260 (1GB) or better / Radeon HD 7670 (1GB) or bette
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 30 GB available space
Sound Card: 16-bit Sound Card

Recommended:

OS: Windows 7 (SP1) or later
Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.3GHz or higher / AMD FX-6200 @3.3GHz or higher
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce GTX 460 (1GB) or better / Radeon HD 6870 (1GB) or better
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 30 GB available space
Sound Card: 16-bit Sound Card

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Posted: 10 August

I would not recommend this game to be played or even install it. due to the game dev's are scum ♥♥♥♥s who cant be stuff fixing or banning hacks. game is a waste of time and a scam, dont waste your time or money on this game....

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Steam launcher didn't work so I uninstalled. I found a forum post where some guy had the same problem and actually recommended that I do a clean install of windows lol.

It's 2016 people I'm going to go play a game from a company that has QA. Better luck next time.

I say this is what black desert should of been for me and iam pretty happy with it even so far, I expect more content and refineries as well and it should be excpected.

Posted: 9 August

very boring

I love this game! It's the only game where you don't have to buy your new mounts

Ehhh

Okay, here is the thing. This game is actually pretty fun. Big focus on finding and capturing familiars (monsters in the open world and dungeons) and mounted (ground and flying) combat. And there it ends.

This game is available for just a month and on every single quest area on every server instance/channel there are hackers. This ranges from speed/teleport hacking to increasing melee range to over 300+m and non-stop attacking on impossible ranges and always getting first kill on all monsters that way.

I could live with that if it didn't impact my gameplay so much. I have a very hard time getting the required monsters for my quests because they are attacked by the hacker first and therefor do not count towards my quests (though are is an exception here and there, mostly on special enemies), but it makes progressing to end-game (lvl 35 as I am writing this review) unplayable.

Reporting the hackers is not possible. Trying to select the hacking character is super hard and if you do, your game crashes. The game can't handle whatever the hackers are doing. You can only send in a support ticket with a screenshot or so and hope they ban that player, only for another 10 to show up.

Nexon is absolutely doing nothing to counter the hackers and their security is absolute ♥♥♥♥.

If you are thinking about playing this game, please for the love of god, don't. Please never ever try this game unless they actually fix this. If you like games like this, go play Tera, or wait for game slike Revelation Online or Bless Online.

Sincerely i can't recommend this game the way things are being handled, even although riders of icarus is a nicely done mmo with fun gameplay.

- Game is filled with cheaters blinking and insta killing mobs and other stuff, try and search google about it and you will see people complaining;
- Gold sellers flooding regional chat everywhere, pretty hard to interact with others because of this;
- Devs not doing a thing to stop stuff like this, at least they don't share too much info in their own forum and only ask people to fill tickets ...

If they get their things together and do something to stop those ruining the game i will gladly recommend it.

I've been looking for a FTP MMO to scratch the WoW itch for a number of years. Having a subscription meant that I felt like I HAD to play WoW to get that money's worth, which was a big part of the addiction for me. I convinced myself (hitting rock-bottom may have had something to do with it) that cancelling my sub and waiting for WoW to go FTP was the only course of action. That was many years ago. In that time, I have played GW2, Tera, Wildstar, the Perfect World, ESO, LOTR Online, Star Trek Online, SWTOR, Aion, the list goes on. If it's an MMO, I've played it, in the hopes of filling that void that WoW left. Nothing even clame close to comparing.
Then I came across Riders of Icarus. I started a Guardian class, and I fell in love. I got the feels, the dreams of the game while I slept, waking only to think about strats and what I would accomplish in game that day. I joined a guild and met people that actually helped, and were happy to give up their time to grind dungeons with me. I began to scour wikipedia to learn as much as I could about this game, and became a wealth of knowledge to my guildmates. Finding ways to counter botters in-game, memorizing locations of rare spawns, bosses and item drops. I found ways to farm gold and crafting mats. I found ways to profit on the AH. Days went by, 3 days after the game's release, I'd amassed 36 hours of game time. I was hooked. I'd found my WoW replacement; hell, in ways it was beginning to outshine WoW. But best of all? It's free to play.

Yes, it's a Nexon game. Just don't make purchases with real currency in-game, and you won't have any issues. (It's FTP anyway, serves pay to winners right).

Yes, botters are a problem, but you can create your own channel, and specify what displays in that channel. As for bots camping spawns, the system works on first hit. The bot timers for this are good, but not perfect. Just get the first hit in through spamming your auto-attack. Changing channels also works for this most times.

Yes, the quests are mostly kill x, gather x, escort x, but at no point did I become bored, at no point did the grind become tedious.

As I've progressed through the game, I've been repeatedly impressed by the difficulty of it. I've marvelled at the beauty of the scenery around me. I've experienced little to no lag (a miracle for an Aust player) I've grown attached to Elite pets and mounts that I've sought out and tamed, I've been saddened at saying goodbye to pets and mounts that had outlived their usefulness or been made redundant by better, stronger, faster mounts, with higher HP and Energy pools.

But my journey has only just begun.

I'm moving interstate for work IRL, and the week between moving out of the house that I currently occupy and the house that I'm moving to before I can access stable internet again will be difficult to endure. But I will be back. I will return to this amazing world, and I will grow stronger. I haven't even come close to discovering all that this game has to offer, and I can only imagine the lands and content that await me when I return.

Visuals: 9.5/10

Gameplay: 8.5/10

Story: 9/10

Overall: 9/10 - It's Free to Play, what are you waiting for? Download it and see for yourself.
Gotta Tame Em' All!

*edited for grammar/spelling and a more detailed solution to botters.

Nexon doesn't put any effort in anything they do, so i won't put much effort in the review as well.

Bots, hackers, goldsellers, bugs that haven't been addressed since day 1, half-arsed "fixes", a lot of "Good day, Riders! Our team is aware of this issue and we are currently investigating." and loads of more ♥♥♥♥!!!

The game isn't that bad itself, but Nexon happened...
If you value your time, don't even install this game.

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Iceace

104 products in account

4 reviews

Posted: 30 July

I would of GIVEN this game an decent rating, it is over all a solid MMO, yet, beware Steam user of this game. If you decide to pay for features the Nexon company limits your purchase to $60 monthly, through steam. DOES NOT provide portal access to pre-paid services through steam. Trying to get portal access from support you have to wait 1-2 weeks of back and forth e-mail to identify you account, then additional they ask you for Government Identification!
Secondarily, NEXON will not provide support to the game without you submitting copies of Government documentation.

Acceptable forms of identification include:
Government/State issued photo ID, such as: ,Driver License, Passport, Government Employee ID, Certificate of Birth/Adoption (only if under age 18).

Been gaming over 20 years, NEVER been asked for real life Government documents records to get gaming support from a product I have brought. This should be seriously looked at by steam!

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Dankrad

12 products in account

1 review

Posted: 17 July

Please keep in mind, this game is in BETA. Things are bound to be messed up. I have played a good amount, clearly. Let me start off by saying that since I quit WoW about 2 years ago, I have been looking for an MMO to fill the void that it left. Riders of Icarus might be the one that fills that void. TL;DR at the bottom. (Also, keep in mind, I've never written a review before, but I feel that this game deserves way higher than mixed reviews)

Pro's:
-Obviously, the taming system. You can tame nearly anything in this game and use it as a mount or pet. As a mount collector in WoW, I loved this feature. Also, you get bonus stuff everytime you collect all mounts in a region.

-The game looks AMAZING. Some say the graphics are terrible but I have no idea what they are talking about. This game is VERY detailed with an almost Skyrim tier character creation screen.

-Gear looks badass and you get badass looking gear early on into the game.

-Class abilities are fun to use (at least they are on the wizard

-THIS GAME IS NOT PAY TO WIN

-Good difficulty. Dungeons, raids, etc. You also need special items to tame some of the better mounts(called familiars). Some of these items are difficult to get, and this gives a sense of accomplishment once you acquire that mount.

-The premium currency, ellun, is extremely easy to acquire without spending a dime. I've gotten over 200 ellun(which is a lot) just from achievements. I did the math on all the achievements and events, and its possible to get 300+. A friend of mine said you can get 25$ worth of ellun a month because of the daily/weekly/monthly achievements that reward ellun.

-Mounted combat. This is amazing. Although melee mounted combat is currently no where near is effective as crossbow mounted combat, both are EXTREMELY fun and satisfying. The only raid currently in the game must be done on flying mounted combat.

Cons:
-Buggy as hell. Some dungeons (the level 25 one) are buggy as all hell. The only raid that is currently in the game, is buggy as all hell. There is a bug that pretty much renders the last raid impossible if some people in your raid are in action rather than standard mode, and it took my guild 3 hours to figure that out, and after we did it was a quick 15 minute fight.

-Servers are unstable. Then again it is beta and I'm sure the game is bigger than they anticipated.

-Lack of classes. Only 5 to chose from, although I'm sure they will add more.

-Lack of races. This really bugs me and was a huge dissappointment, but in reality is no big deal.

-Quests are a complete boring ♥♥♥ drag, but not that bad if you enjoy killing things.

These final points are really up to you:
-Action vs Standard mode. Action mode is your Tera style of gameplay, and Standard is the, well, standard MMO wayof playing (think WoW). I personally play in Action mode on my wizard(even though the game suggests against it) and have not had any difficulty other than a few targetting bugs, until the aforementioned raid where it was impossible to do it in action mode. Some people absolutely hate the action mode, others don't so I'm leaving this point out of the list.

-Lack of content. Currently, there isnt much to do after you do all the dungeons, the raid, and tame all the familiars. HOWEVER, there is more content coming very soon.

-I have no idea what the story is about, some people say its good, others say its cliche, I wouldnt know because I dont care about the story.

TL;DR- Overall a solid game with a few server and game bugs that should be fixed once the game is officially launched. Definitely worth a shot. It's 100% free and not P2W.

Matt Osiris

95 products in account

Posted: 21 July

I would recommend this game, I don't have much to say but everything I have seen has grown upon me so much that I have taken a break from tera (110 days played as a lancer alone) to play this guardian class and ride dragons and my nice horse and tank all the damage I can, I haven't got the greatest skill in this game yet but the taming and flying combat alone are so good to me. Please at least give it a try.

Kaihaku

14 products in account

2 reviews

Personally, I did find myself liking this game quite a lot; the game has quite a few pros and cons but I did not find the cons ruining the gameplay for my experience.

- One thing is I would certainly not call this game 'Pay to win' as players can earn elluns(the in-game currency) in the game by completing various tasks. Personally, I would not mind paying for elluns as the game is worth it, but this is good news for players who don't wish to or can't afford to spend money.
Things you can get elluns from:
- Achievements
- Quests(If I remember correctly; may be wrong)
- Some boxes(No, not the loot boxes that drop from monsters)

- The combat is decent. I've seen people complain about the combat while not mounted but as an assasin, I found out that it requires more skill to fight than just spamming the attack buttons since I had to actually use the dashing abilities to dash through enemies and attack them from behind or just plain dodge the attacks they used. Now, mounted combat is a little easier considering it's more of just a system where you find a combo of attacks that works for you and then use it. While health potions are a must-have in the game, (going back to the elluns) it is easier to simply buy some 100% health restoration potions with elluns than buy the other health potions since they may prolong your death but don't actually prevent it.

- I really love the aspect of the game where you can collect the creatures and ride almost all of them. For some familiars, you need items to tame and I like this aspect because it makes it so that it requires more effort than clicking the taming button and attempting it. This way, some familiars are less seen than others since some people may not go through the work of getting the items needed. Also if you tame a familiar and then release it, it's still logged in the bestiary that you caught it. I enjoy this because it allows me to know which ones I've collected and which ones I still need to hunt after.

- The only real problems I have found is that the game can lag sometimes. But once again, that may just be because of my computer not being able to run the game well enough. I would definitely not call my computer a gaming computer. I may update this review once I end up buying an actual gaming computer since I plan on getting one soon. Keep in mind that this was my experience and other players' experiences may vary from my opinions.

Paco420

57 products in account

33 reviews

Posted: 23 July

First off let me start by saying I really enjoyed this game, as it has its charm in many ways.
Nice sized worlds, nice variaty of mobs and pets to capture as a mount or battle pet. half working alternate combat style, and a pretty decent story.
Sadly though all this is brought down by the typical MMO dead weights...

Typical crafting system
Constant grinding
Repeating fetch quests
Bugs in controls
Buggy Quests
Glitched parts of the map were you can fall through the world.
Invisible walls

These are nothing honestly compared to the plague of bots in the world.
In the week I played this game every day I spent the first 5 minutes blocking between 3-5 bots spamming the chat with links to sites selling gold. The intro into the game was great, the gameplay time wasn't bad and learning the game was quite easy with a half decent tutorial. As usual the first 8 levels are just about given to you with little effort allowing the game to really pull you in. Dungeons are setup so that you can do 3 different types of runs, Simple solo normal for those who just want to run through the story missions. Epic with 6 sub difficulties each giving higher chances for better loot drops and Heroic also with 5 sub difficulties for higher drop chance.
These are were a lot of people seem to be hiding with groups to get epic gear.
The cash shop... Sadly yes, most everything you could want is easily acquired via a payment of around 100 euros in NX. Hard to go into more detail that doesn't seem obvious, skins, extended slot bag sizes only found in the shop,

There are boss's in the world but sadly most outside the starting area are typically farmed by afk bots. A bot account that seems to do nothing but sit there and kill the boss over and over for gear and gold. This is topped off by the bots teleporting around to resources and collecting them as well. I call them bots as the names are your typical nonsense random grouping of letters. They never seem to communicate and always repeat the same actions. Really makes it hard to finish some quests that require you to pick up the loot from the boss as the first person that hits the boss is the one that takes the loot.

There are numerous complaints and reports on these individuals but in my week of playing these bots are in the same place every day during the same tme periods. There has been 1 update and 1 maintance which took 4 hours each down time.

In the end, the game has its potental along the lines of its action combat and collect them all pokemon mobs, but the game is sadly currently bogged down with bots making a lot of things unenjoyable and frustrating.
So is this a recommendation? Ehh... well aside from the thumbs up that I obviously gave it, if the admins or devs of the game get their head out of the butt for 2 minutes and do something against these botters and maybe start adding more content, I feel this is an entertaining MMO and should be checked out... but maybe wait for about a month or two after this review just in case... no need to ruin your gameplay due to these bots.

PhantomX

161 products in account

7 reviews

Posted: 27 July

Ok, I REALLY TRIED with this game, I gave it all the chances in the world for it. So lets get this over with.

First major problem is Nexon, Nexon is a company that is a quick cash grab of IPs overseas to other locations.
In my experience they do not care whatsoever if the game works, balanced, or fair in the contests (which I will get to soon)

Second the videos for the game are so misleading, the ony differnce mounts have is can they fly or not. I also find it funny that while taming the mount has a fire breath that did like 1200 damage to me. I tame it and the same attack does now 100 damage. The balance for mounted combat is way off, mages for example who rely on intelligence have the worst on this area. to add salt to the wounds for mages most of the extra mounted abilites require target ground. that doesnt work if in the air. This game has so much promise that is lost.

Third, Let get back to Nexon for minute and one the main reasons I'm done with the game. They had a prelaunch beta and during which they had a contest, basically Tame 'em all. Well Nexon forgot to add the materials, the recipes for the taming tokens, to tame two of the creatures, Garme and Agnas. Both are Heroic and quite a challenge to tame. But all the other materils that were in the game were for players of 30ish level and had the worst drop rates. they didnt fix that till the last 2 days of the contest basically sabatoging anyone's attempt to complete the contest for the best of the prize a title that gives a 10% increase to taming. Another thing did was add the recipes for Agnas and Garme to a raid that is really tailored for level 28+, but the level cap was Level 25. Never felt so insulted, being exculed from the raid for being a mage as the entire fight was aerial mounted combat.
But do you wanna know what we got for our troubles, two costume pieces. Ok I can live that, but not that they only last 7 DAYS. So for supporting the game you get nothing.

And Finally, one thing ♥♥♥♥♥♥ me off and still ongoing as of writing this the the goldfarmer spamming chat. That was another thing that kept me from getting a raid together was you couldnt use chat to call out raid forming. Yes I know you have party ads, but not to many ppl used them or even knew of them. All it would hav took was adding the domain names to the filter and the problem would have been solved. Plus, anyone who bought from them deserves a kick to the nuts for saying is ok to do that.

Final verdict, as long as you dont put money into this game have at it. it is fun to play, BUT dont expect great things out of it. Pick it up play the game and set it down. there is nothing rewarding from this game to be had.

Dante Winters

43 products in account

3 reviews

I went into this game with an open mind, not expecting much from it.
But this game surpassed my expectations.

Riders of icarus is (to me) essentially a free version of world of warcraft, and is absolutely beautiful. With more attention to detail and completely owning it's style. The combat is fun, fast paced and calculated (all be it that once you know your combo sequence for your character at the level 25 cap it becomes a little repetitive), the amount you can do in this game just for entertainment is phenomenal. I personally spend my time finding recipes to tame high powered monsters (and they've just released a patch recently that enables you to get the ingredients to catch the only 2 heroic enemies in the game) which is exciting! Also, grinding does not feel repetitive and the quests are interesting (I have not experienced any quest bugs yet and i have 2 level 25 characters).

There are a few downsides to this game, but that is the case with most beta releases.

- The game can bug ocassionally (falling through landscapes) but it is very rare, I've only experienced it twice.
- The community in game is for the most part very approachable and supportive, but like most games from this genre, there are the trolls who ninja loot dungeons (so check loot distribution first before you assist in a dungeon).
- Loot generally gets spread evenly due to the looting system (need or greed being the most popular) only letting those who actually need certain class specific gear roll for it.

All in all, this game is beautiful, fun, friendly, visually spectacular, and completely free (the money you put into the game doesn't buy you any advantages, just skins - which I believe is a fair way for developers to earn money instead of forcing you to pay). I love this game, and will probably pump many more hours into it. My only suggestion would be to follow the World of warcraft formula by introducing new races with passives, for a bit more diversity - as everyone being human gets a bit boring. 8.5/10, Would recommend.

Trainwreck

116 products in account

Posted: 12 July

I wish i could give this time a percentage rating because it is in no way a 100% thumbs up, but I like alot of the elements they hit, the flying combat is decent and if you have a few mounts running out of stamina isnt that big of a deal, there is quite a bit to do for being in such an early beta state, however there are so many problems hopefully they can work it all out its buggy and has some optimization issues. the talent system seems like it will be painfully grindy and is seperate from leveling.

this is free and for that reason i recommend it. it is not a bad game but it needs alot of work. for an outdated mmo you would think it would be easier to achieve more as this is not revolutionary in any way its more of the same with a slight twist, and the conted just feels lacking and it crashes and has server problems aswell..

Nosyee

257 products in account

Posted: 11 July

I can't find myself recommending this game, as much as I would love to. The core game is great: taming familiars is fun and the collecting aspect is tantalising, classes are fun to play (though combat in general is pretty horrid), and there is a story, albeit rather cliched.

The reason I am not recommending this game is because of the poor execution of the three main aspects of the game I just mentioned. The actual process of taming familiars is an RNG process and main quests that require you to tame something can be really quick or take ages because of how random it is. Moreover, every familiar uses energy to move and fight. Granted, there are potions to restore energy and energy fully restores on a familiar level up. However, the fact that it takes the familiar's energy to do mounted combat, the game's main selling point, is frankly ridiculous. Mounts that don't require special items to tame have a tiny energy pool and you won't find better mounts until much later in game. Your familiars will run out of energy so quickly when you perform mounted combat and it basically disuades you from even doing it, lest you have to walk to your quest turn-ins as your mount won't carry you with no energy. Therefore, you'll resort to the games player combat which is a mix of action combat and tab targeting, and it's a complete mess.

Early on in the game, it's not that bad because mobs are challanging but doable. I've reached around level 22 at the time of writing this on the Assassin class and it's frustrating to even try and quest now. You have the capability to 'dodge' attacks but mobs will hit you regardless, reminiscent of games like World of Warcraft where a mob could hit you far away. Despite that they can still you hit you when you 'dodge', the game seems to be expect you to be able to constantly dodge and the mobs at this level hit very, very hard. You'll find yourself constantly dying and going to a mender to remove your Dire Wounds debuff which will always, without fail, be applied to you on death. This debuff will make you move slower, hit weaker, and reduce your health pool making it even harder to quest. The game essentially kicks you while your down and the only two ways to get rid of the debuff is to wait 10 minutes or pay some of your money to get rid of it. While a small amount has to be paid, it will stack up as you constantly die to the same mobs or boss which hit like freight trains. I understand what the game is going for but the combination of two combat systems makes for a pretty awful hybrid.

The story itself isn't exactly something to scream off of the rooftops about, though admittedly I tuned out of it once I realised it was just a 'lost princess' story. The graphics are good for an MMORPG and honestly work well for the game. Weirdly, the game has a way to change keybindings that doesn't quite work (for me at least) and preset keybindings are the top row of numbers and the F keys (F1, etc.) Not many skills are thrown at you but enough so that you need two rows of abilities and having to use the F keys is a bother, though this is more of a personal complaint. The max level cap is 25 and will be risen in the future, and this level can be easily reached if you can survive the combat.

All in all, the game has great potential but is direly limited by poor execution. To improve the game, I would remove familiar energy so I have a reason to use mounted combat and perform an overhaul of the combat system so it's not so dreadful. The latter is a much more difficult change and I wouldn't be surprised if we never saw it. The story is cliched but I don't see a reason to rewrite it or anything, I just don't like the cliche they used. For now, I'd hold off on the game and see what directions it takes. After all, the company, Nexon, is known for making P2W games, but Riders of Icarus isn't actually P2W right now.

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Riders of Icarus is pleasant on the eyes and ears. As a new MMORPG, one of its selling points is the taming system ie. the ability to tame most of the creatures of the world and use them as mounts or companions. For the most part, it is pretty run of the mill - with kill/gather questing around a vibrant and colourful world with occasional visits to a throwaway storyline. As someone who loves checking out MMORPGs (FTP or otherwise), this doesn't phase me.

However, RoI has the misfortune of being plagued by several minor annoyances that can hamper immersion somewhat. While the combat itself works relatively well, the controls (especially mouse related) come up a bit short. For one, you cannot left-click drag the camera for some strange reason, nor does the cursor disappear when holding down RMB. Combat itself can be swapped between tab-target (traditional) mode, and action-combat mode - neither feeling 100% comfortable given traditional mode has very sticky targetting, often forcing ESC use, whilst AC-Mode isn't nearly as fluid as it should be and still feels very clicky and tab-target based. Having the option to swap between either one on a whim is a plus, though I do believe the developers really should have picked one method and refined it to perfection rather than try to cater for two.

The game can be very pleasing look at at times, yet for some reason they've opted for many low-res textures in a lot of areas that look very out of place. Sound (music especially) is inoffensive, easy on the ears and very suited to the environments and gameplay, though there are a few minor gripes here as well, such as some creatures being entirely soundless, even when hitting you, being hit by you, or dying. There are some sound-channel issues as well, such as sounds or dialogue randomly cutting out, which can be a bit jarring when it happens. The voice acting is passable, though there are some NPC's who seem to flit between voice-actors - such as the first city Stewart who randomly goes from a high pitched chap to some gruff, old voice out of the blue.

There are a lot more pros and cons to list, but the whole ordeal can be summarized like this: Given RoI is entirely free-to-play (with no noticable P2W), then give it a try if it looks appealing to you -- but don't expect perfection. I'll be eager to see how long it takes for the developers to employ patches to remedy issues within the game (if they bother at all) but thus far, it's not in terrible shape for an Open Beta.

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