Pre-Release Review
See the potential in this game and want to play a better one that is very similar? Play DFO.DFO has the lame fatigue system, but other than that it is amazing.Screw the fatigue/stamina systems in general though.
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Ive played this for years, ever since Raven first came out( Before it came to Steam mind you). Things were great at first, fun combat made
my actions planned and less forced, nice mix of characters each with there own unique story, and having my character seem to actually age when i'd reach the next class made me feel like I was growing in the world.But as time went on, things changed. PVE stayed the same (after some minor additions to help remove inactive players) But everything else began to seem wrong. PVP is broken, I've seen people play as Chung, and picked the class Tactical Trooper, and not even need to fight. I saw these 2 players, both level 70 at the time, face off, and while the other was busy attacking chung, he just sat there, gaining MP from the blows. When he had enough, he pressed ONE skill, dropped a nuke, and it was over, all of the other's HP was gone. And thats COMMON in PVP, just one example of thousands.Next is the costumizations, yes theres alot to choose from, and most are amazing, but they cost way to much. The only reason people buy them is because if they don't they can't have that crutial edge in a fight, as the best costumes all have fairly decent,(if not overpowering) stat boosts. But to KEEP these little outfits you MUST PAY DOUBLE PRICE TO KEEP IT. If you dont specify that you want it permanently when you first buy it, it will disapear forever after only 30 days. Making you waste all that money is a low blow.The community isn't to bad, I had a great guild and i'd been a member for most of my time there. But in the more competitive areas thats not really the case, PVP pits you against others based on Rank and not Level, meaning as a poor level 15 I may have to fight a level 80 De-ranker....Yes people derank themselves by losing to people on purpose, then fight there way back up for ammusment. I recommend not even bothering with pvp until your final job class is unlocked at level 35.The last and probably the worst is what happened to my younger brothers account. He's young and naive so his password wasn't the most secure, and he was unfortunatly targeted by a hacker, after I appealled to costumer support on the is1. Have my previously used password2. a SCREENSHOT of you playing as a character on the account3. emal address and so on... I was finally able to give the info and when things seemed to be looking up.THEY DELETED HIS ACCOUNT, on the grounds that &Sharing your password to others is prohibited& as if all the time he had spent on his character wasn't bad enough, all the items bought even with real money were erased. My brother was crushed and quit forever, myself shortly after when something similair happened to a guildmate. The support is poor when it really counts, and isn't afraid of quickly saying 'Theres nothing we can do'.I'd go on but there are many other reviews you could read that have the finer details of the games issues, and to be honest i'm getting a headache remembering all this crap.Try it yourself if you want, but for your own sake don't buy anything until about 3 months into the game, see if its right for you. No need to break the bank for that swimsuit costume that gives more stats than any armor set...Not even gonna start on THAT one.
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Used to be a fun game until the community went down hill. Consumers arent having fun then before, barely any new contents, literaly went from entertainement to marketing, items are over priced, pvp is 100% P2W if you're not willing to spend money to this game, dont play PvP. The only thing i enjoyed about this is the PvE and the new Hero mode, that's the only reason im playing this game. Basically new update in this game means new items in the item mall, 8$ per piece, prices doubled if you want a permanent costume PART. The ice burners are the only thing feeding the developpers with *profit*. New costumes? Get it from ice burners only, you know the item which you have ???? luck / RNG even after spending 800$. Even the halloween costumes are dumb, why arent the creators that won the halloween costume contest 2016 getting the costumes they made if they won? Instead give them K-Ching (in game monney currency) that allows them to buy the costumes they made instead of giving it for free sure. I had high hopes when they started to put new game modes, but its hard to enjoy them if the servers aren't stable. Instead i see players teleporting or me getting the connection interrupted message while my internet speed is good enough to run a game without lag? They DID listen to the consumers but that was only for the balance patch. TL:DR The game is becoming worst and worst, PvP is pure P2W (Unless you do spar with a friend), new update means that you need to spend money to get the new items, game is purely focused on marketing instead of *Entertainement*, community is not friendly at all even players in game that spam *Git Gud* or *Lagger/Runner*, used to be satisfying, pve is still fun (But now they limited the grindings you need to do to get gears).
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(Note this is a long rant about this game so I wrote a little summery about the game at the bottom of this review to save your time. If you like to see the quick summery of it just scroll to the bottom (I won’t blame you….this is long….no pun intended) if you want details on what I find bad about the game than continue ahead)________________________________________________________________________________Although steam says I have w.e many hours I have I’ve played this game way before it even got to steam and when the newest character was the 4th one (Raven) and all I can say is this game is terrible (in comparison to its older version). And it’s mainly due to stupid design choices starting withPvEMainly untouched by the f***ery that is until you get to the higher levels and the divines hand comes down with a smite of a difficulty spike with ???????t enemies hitting with the forces of semi-trucks loaded with nukes and simply requires you to have a bunch of potions and people just to fight through one redundant dungeon to the next (btw the story is go here do it 3 times sometimes more to get a drop or some ???? than move on to the next)PvP (The bulk of my argument cause PvE is just so boring to even talk about)Oh where do I begin....this blight on everything divine and holy is the main reason why I have issues with this game. And it starts with the claim that it’s a “Technical skill pvp& but that is ???????t and here’s why. let’s say you’re
lvl 21 just starting to get into the ring trying to get your bearings,First match:
you'll match up with someone around your level a nice balance gameSecond match:
another match that’s balance what’s wrong with this again?Third match: ????ING LVL 80 now you'd think oh no big deal surely the game auto scales us to a similar level or something to keep everything equal? Well...Your ????ing wrong that bastarad lvl 80 will be dealing 80 lvl damage while you’re doing your 21 level damage so you could be great at the game and be able to out play everything your opponent does but you better have the grace of a swan and the unpredictable movements of a f***ing alpaca cause the instant that lvl 80 gets you he will steam roll your ??? in a single combo...sort of like a mouse fighting a person with a nuke launcher, sure the mouse can wiggle his way around get some bites in but the second that guy pulls that trigger you better have your last will and testament cause you won’t have enough time to type the “f*** you lvl noob!!!” in your spurt of rage. Now here’s another issue in pvp and that’s the damn lag, the pvp lag is so bad you can even tell when you’re going to have to deal with it simply wait in the pvp loading screen and if someone marinates on 30% for too long guess what you have a lagger to deal with. And the reason why this is so bad is that it breaks the fundamentals of the game which is to cause a person to flinch so you can lay down your punishment, but laggers will slip out of these combos and be able to attack you causing you to flinch and letting them to combo you instead, And after a little testing the lag isnt caused by your internet but it’s the game its self that causes it (note this applies to some). For example if I pvp with my friend whos a block or so down from me no problem if I hit him he flinches everything is alright but lord help me (Or by freyja boobs *just look them up on the wiki…seriously*) if I pvp with someone who’s not even in my f**king city cause from that point lag starts to set in and it’s not your fault the game doesn’t have any dedicated servers to individual zones so your fighting people worldwide which leads to delayed reactions messing up your combos or a person would use a move a good while ago (which didn’t execute cause you hit him) but will pop out of nowhere damaging you and allowing the f**kward to roam free like a b*tch I mean bird. Oh and while we’re on the topic about breaking the fundamentals of the game, SOME OF THESE CHARACTERS ARE DESIGNED TO BREAK THEM. There are characters who have moves that put them in a super armor state which prevents flinching or it’s there damn passive (I’m looking at the damn elboy family) in conclusion screw pvp in this game period.
it’s not fun to much of the time and even without the lag the laziness to not have the game scale me and my enemy
to a f**king common level will ruin games that you could have won had the game stop being a lazy azz.Pay to win?F**kYes&Oh only thing you can do is buy costumes that’s not pay to win& --the elsword loyalist to everyone&F**k off you cheeky ???????& - me to those loyalist who say the previous statement and here’s whyCostumes in the game will give your characters stats like extra health, attack speed stuff like that. The problem about that is they not only give you these stats which will offset the balance of pvp if the other person doesn’t have one of those costumes but these costumes can be thrown into anvil of f**kery
and upgraded even more. This completely causes the costumes to have more bs stat potential than anything you can get in game (watch someone try to defend that by saying how to brought it and they deserve the stat boost and blah blah blah “&F**k off you cheeky ???????& ) putting this into perspective the average person would have about 5 pieces of equipment (not including accessories) now these pay to win masters would have about 11 a costume for each of the 5 pieces and hair now that’s without the damn enhancement stones which adds even more disgusting boost to the costume making your more powerful than the average player (and let’s not forget about the set boost you get adding even moreeeeeeee stats). and before you ask no there is no way to have a permeant costume in game you do get a costume but don’t get attach to it cause it will expire in about 10 days unless you buy the ????ing thing note I didn’t put accessories into the count so that’s even more to deal with._____________________Summery and Conclusion_________________________________________This game is just a mess from the PvE in late game to the PvP from the beginning, PvE is the definition of insanity doing the same ???? over and over again for something different, PvP is worked against by the core of the game in total and by the way its design. And to top it off the game is boring (mainly due to the broken PvP and redundant PvE), the only reason I really play it is because of the characters which I personally like as there really interesting due to their different job changes (think of Pokémon but when it evolves you choose from 3 different evolutions or 4 for one of the characters) there different play styles always were fun and the combo system in the game is actually really fun to play around with although it does have a learning curve but after you learn it you can do some real fun combos. But I don’t think the reason why we play games is just for one thing and I honestly will not be dropping a dime for this game in anyway shape or form cause it hasn’t earned it and instead of buying things to customize my character ( ironic how the steam page says how you can customize them as much as you want which is a bull face lie cause you need real world money and will buy a set of clothes cause of the set boost it gives) and note I have several characters to waste several bundles of dollars of several different characters is disgusting and more of a cash ????? than evolve was at launch. If you play this game play it for the characters and to see their abilities if you find something worthwhile in it enjoy it although I don’t think it will last you a very long time .
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It was fun when the game first launched in NA, it's just not worth it anymore despite it being free. Tricks you into buying crap (Keep in mind gloves in the mall is about 5 dollars!) and the server overall is bad. Many toxic players roam along with P2W players take up the majority of it. It is a VERY Grindy, and that ruined my experience in Elsword. PvP isn't fair with lag issues, Character balances, and gear advantage. Dungeoning is very boring, some of them are fun, but it's just very dull grinding the same dungeons over and over again only to get very little reward. Elsword will swallow your money, and make you feel like a total piece of crap. I'm an old player and I spent probably over 200 dollars onto this game, and it wasn't worth it AT ALL. I have nothing really positive to say other than making a couple of close friends, and the older character designs. It was much more balanced before, however with more patches buffing characters it's far too strong for unexperienced player who have never played the game from the start. KOG's new &balances& and &patches& is just lazy game design, and also very unhealthy. Pay to win with very little strategy to use unless you have had spent COUNTLESS hours practicing and perfecting one combo, only to have it crushed by a pay to win player. Who can practically almost kill you in one combo. Sure they kinda have good events, but it's not fair when everyone gets a free 60 levels.. I loved this game when I was younger and I thought it would get better, but it was ruined by KOG's greed. Just don't
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where to begin... the cash shop is VERY expensive, about $30+ for a costume and $10 for extra skill slots (which should be there to begin with) i would say the balancing sucks but there is no balance. they just buff whatever they want to buff and make it overpowered to one shot in PvP. as for the community it's the most toxic community in the entire history of any game i've ever played in my entire life (yeah even worse than CS:GO and every MOBA out there) and the people who run the game pay ZERO attention to what the community is saying. i swear they're just stealing KR's updates and just using those cause of how lazy they are... even though they have said they do it different than other servers which is complete BS i follow KR so i know what they do and it's EXACTLY the same. they don't do sht to their own server... my advice? don't waste your time with this game. go play B&S or DFO something i promise you'll thank me in the long run.
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This game is not a good game... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1.Developers want to suck your money out of you2.There are broken characters3.These new events are pointless4.Stats system dosen't feel like it works and it ends up being broken5.Characters without defense get owned (Such as squishy characters)6.The quests are pointless besides the job classes7.THERE IS NO AUCTION HOUSE WTF!!! (Dungeon Fighter Online Has A Auction House)8.Grinding Repetitive dungeons on weekends are the best way to level--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------This is all i have to say... you would be better off trying dungeon fighter online or trying out the new games such as closers online.Final Verdict: 4/10
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I give the game an 8/10. The game is great but stuff like inventory expansion is unavailable unless you put actual money into it.
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