Alpha First Look: Video 7 – Levequests and Party Combat

[Triairy]

Solo guildleves and party combat are the subject of the seventh installment in our Alpha First Look video series.

Much like the quests introduced in our Quests and Combat video, levequest objectives are displayed in the Duty List, and will update automatically as you make progress. The towering enemies engaging our heroes in mortal combat are but a taste of the fearsome foes players can look forward to facing.



* The battles in this video involve low level enemies. Targeting and actions are demonstrated with the mouse instead of keyboard for greater clarity.

* The battle system is currently undergoing significant revision, including changes to all damage algorithms and the claim system.

* The music played during combat is different than the music currently implemented in the alpha.

[Naraku_Diabolos]

Sweet! That looks outstanding!!

[Elexia]

When animation blending and physics is implemented I really hope that twitching gets toned down on monsters lol.

[Endigiont]

When animation blending and physics is implemented I really hope that twitching gets toned down on monsters lol.

I 100% agree, the twitching / jerkiness when enemies are hit needs to be turned down, maybe only for critical hits or when they're nuked, it almost hurt my eyes to see big hulking immovable boss like monsters recoiling after every single minor attack.

[Eekiki]

I 100% agree, the twitching / jerkiness when enemies are hit needs to be turned down, maybe only for critical hits or when they're nuked, it almost hurt my eyes to see big hulking immovable boss like monsters recoiling after every single minor attack.

The twitchiness is only there, I think, because at present the actual hit animation isn't complete, and they had to do something to give the player visual feedback that the monster was hit.

Like this. I'm sure the animations will be appropriate upon release.

[Endigiont]

The twitchiness is only there, I think, because at present the actual hit animation isn't complete, and they had to do something to give the player visual feedback that the monster was hit.

Like this. I'm sure the animations will be appropriate upon release.

Thanks for pointing this out. :3

[Arximiro]

The twitchiness is only there, I think, because at present the actual hit animation isn't complete, and they had to do something to give the player visual feedback that the monster was hit.

Like this. I'm sure the animations will be appropriate upon release.

This is how fights against Malboros looked after release for comparison. You have to jump a bit into the video to see them but they are there, or you could watch it all and enjoy the nostalgia like me!

VIDEO

[Bittereye]

When animation blending and physics is implemented I really hope that twitching gets toned down on monsters lol.

I made a post a while back about this very topic; I cant stand how the enemies bounce around like they do when they get hit. It looks terrible!!!

[Crevox]

I made a post a while back about this very topic; I cant stand how the enemies bounce around like they do when they get hit. It looks terrible!!!

Alpha is alpha. They already said many times that animations weren't final and weren't fully done, but properly constructed negative feedback would still be useful for them.

[Klefth]

Aaaaaaand combat does indeed look like a spamfest. Do people really want it to be even faster/more spam-happy than that? :/