Bluehole press conference is going on right now. If you want to watch you can at :
https://www.facebook.com/invennews/ Bluehole announced today they are making a new AAA MMO called AIR : Ascent Infinite Realm.
This mmo is being made by Hyung-Jun Kim (creator of Aion) and the old Aion team. They left NCsoft and moved to BHS. (No word if NCsoft will sue again...lol j/k)
AIR is a sort of like Aion . It will be a PVPVE, Realm vs Realm game, and Guild vs Guild. But it will be open world. The theme will be Steampunk, with Airships, mecha, guns. That go with Magic, dragons, flying wings, Fantasy.
The story is similar to Aion as well. Planet is destroyed and people survive now in floating cities in the skies. Players will enter AIR seeking to conquer the skies and whatever is left of the land for survival.
Types of PVP
There will be Ground PVP
There will be Air PVP
This all happens in real time, and in the real world.
Open World Housing, Farming, and buildingJust like in Archeage, Air will feature open world building.
The conference is going on right now, will post more info as it comes along.
This is a PC MMO that will receive a world wide release. Kakao will release Air in the west.
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Idk though lifes pretty good playing an Esport. No of that pride and honor stuff
Finally a AAA PVP mmo.
I have never played Archeage, but I remember that most of the issues it had in the west were from it's western publisher trying to change the game into EQ. I don't think they will be using a 3rd party publisher.
Still I have been a bit out of it on MMOs for the last several years. I will wait for release before judging the title as I probably won't even notice the hype.
LOL dude,
BDO and ArcheAGE are not pvp mmos. Aion was when it launched but it got watered down. A pvp mmo is something like Lineage 2.
Just because you can kill another player does not make a mmo a pvp mmo.
But to each their own. Maybe ArcheAge and BDO are what a pvp mmo is to you but not me.
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Come on dude,
Common sense has to kick in at some point.
It will worth few months gaming , but it may not be the type that make people willing to log in at the end of day .
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The game will use the Holy Trinity, with 5 classes announced so far, Assassin, Mystic, Gunner, Warlord, and Sorceress.
Closed beta 1 will start December 13th. Sign ups start November 13th ~ December 10th. Looks like for Koreans only.
Been reading some of the story and even that sounds like Aion. Planet is destoryed and 2 factions on each side, the middle kinda like a neutral zone where there is unexplored wealth and riches.
We'll see how this goes, but I know what I'm waiting for.
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According to the Korean site the world of A:IR is called "하스". Translated in English would mean Harth.
According to the Lore :
"The home of all life that existed, and the place where humanity lived. However, Harth was destroyed by the desire of human beings—and those who survived the great catastrophe moved to the islands floating on Harth."
I don't know if this will be the official translation. Will have to wait on Kakao on an official English translation.
More detailed World Map
As you can see, the world is a bunch of small continents and small islands floating in the sky.