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Shroud of the Avatar Release 66 Lands on QA - MMORPG.com
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Shroud of the Avatar Release 66 Lands on QA - MMORPG.com
For Shroud of the Avatar players who are inclined to help the devs test the next addition to the game, Update 66 has landed on the QA server. It includes a number of additions such as new Warding and Taming skills, Leacherboards, updates to the new user experience, new emotes alongside bug fixes and other technical improvements.
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It is also heavily zoned, so tedious traveling around... graphics outdated, mechanics from 20 years ago and, BTW, it is p2p based (no client-server) so very easy to cheat as well.
Absolutely. The game is a lot harder than most of the spoon-fed titles out there, but if you're OK with a challenge, it's worth getting into. It's actually more of a sandbox, than it is an RPG, so take that into consideration (i.e., you have to set your own goals). Also, all the content is free-to-play, so you can give it a try without any cost greater than the download. If you do, look up Gravidy in game.
It's worth seeing for yourself. Once you get past one Oustkirt, it shifts away from that very hand holdy experience to "do whatever you want". When you do finish that Outskirt, tell the main NPC there "Deed" to get your land, and "Gear" to get some stuff.
That is not true.
The game is heavily instanced: either that, or practically every review of this game that lists heavy instancing as a con is untrue.
One only needs to look at undoctored screenshots from this game to tell that the graphics are outdated.
The game is P2P--here's a forum post that confirms that: https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/forum/index.php?threads/even-though-p2p-is-disabled-sota-is-still-trying-to-connect-to-remote-clients.46369/
So which part of ramdy's post were you saying isn't true?
Be honest, you know it's true. The game is a scam that even Lord British is avoiding like a cancer.
Best advice , stay away guys.
Dude, the game is empty . Nobody is playing this wanna be game. Do yourself a favor, don't waste your time .
It's not true that it is easy to cheat. The one video of a guy doing so is in Single Player. Cheat all you want there.
ok and what about It is also heavily zoned, so tedious traveling around... graphics outdated, mechanics from 20 years ago and, BTW, it is p2p based (no client-server) so very easy to cheat as well.
You first said it wasn't true. Now you're taking about cheating.. meaning you were wrong on the P2P and the outdated graphics.
Don't try man.. the game is bad and the devs are liars. Oh, and what about that book .. did you get your novel or they lied about that too?
Eventually I gave up and uninstalled the game again .
The guy is a legend you got to give him that. What he did with UO is in my mind nothing short but legendary! However this game is just a walking joke!
mmorpg junkie since 1999
Everything is broken about this game, broken, unfinished and unpolished. Graphics and combat mechanics are dated and broken since day one, with very little improvement since beta. Don't expect the living, breathing, open worlds of the classic Ultimas - the world here is a tiny mess of a hellhole comprised of a series of empty small generic instances linked together by a top down overmap. NPCs are thinly scattered, and are all plain, generic, and meaningless.
The combat isn't fun to play, the world not interesting to experience, the story and characters not unique or memorable. The plot, the writing, the... everything. Even the music was disappointing. I literrally have nothing good to say about this game. Granted, last time I revisited it was back when it officially launched, which was a while back now, so things might've changed, but goddamnit they couldn't even put mounts in - they promised mounts but apparently couldn't do it for some reason, so you know what they did? Gave folks ingame coconuts, and horse hats, so they can run around clapping the damn things. COCONUTS. WTF?!! URGGG.
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Try a MUD today at http://www.mudconnect.com/Where these mmorpg's need to go is imo EVENTS,one's that bring all the people in the nearby villages together to protect the village.I guess you could say similar to Rifts but done better.Perhaps a group of giants wander across the lands and stumble upon a village and set upon attacking it.They might kill and capture npc's within that village meaning you lose those services.Then you have to form a group to go out and free the captured npc's to get their services back.
This game imo was never meant to break any ground,never meant to be a game set in 2019,it was meant to try and cash in on the Garriot name,bring back some simple ideas from the past.I am looking for modern,WELL THOUGHT out designs,not kickstarters or crowd funders.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
And thus leading to the complaints about regurgitated meals.....
If you are holding out for the perfect game, the only game you play will be the waiting one.
to be fair, he was a legend to create UO, no denying that tho.. he should have not create SOTA to ruin his legendary status in the gaming industry. now he lost that status with this joke.
So What Now?
One of the biggest disappointments in gaming and really tarnished my image of Lord British.
This game isnt worth the electricity to download, sadly.