Pvp mmo

Early access for Rend is just around the corner, which means hype for the game is picking up. Frostkeep recently invited us to check out its studio and dive back into the alpha and see how the game’s been unfolding. While there’s an embargo preventing us from taking pictures or videos, we’re allowed to talk about our experiences, and talk we shall! We should first note that the game isn’t a traditional MMORPG, but even in its alpha state, it seems to be doing more right than most other games firmly entrenched in the genre. And that was before a recent patch that finally fixed a bug that threatened the game’s early access reception. To prepare for my studio tour, I hit the alpha servers over the weekend, going through the newbie experience a few times on two different servers. Alpha is the key word here, as the game really was in a rough state at the time. Nodes being unharvestable, factions largely being glowing tattoos attached to a … [Read more...] about Rummaging through Rend: Alpha impressions of Frostkeep’s blissfully social survival MMO

Support Massively OP on PatreonWere you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMO news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review! E3 is already shaping up to be interesting before it even begins: So far, we’ve heard more about both Anthem and EA’s new Jedi-centric Dark Times-era Star Wars game as well as posted up our wish list for Bethsoft’s Fallout 76. Meanwhile, Valve abdicated all responsibility for what it profits from on Steam, CCP announced a mobile EVE Online game called Project Galaxy, Hi-Rez launched Realm Royale on Steam, Bless Online tried to recover after its messy launch, and we posted our post-launch impressions of Elder Scrolls Online Summerset. Read on for the very best of this week’s MMO news and opinions. THIS WEEK’S TOP STORIES E3 2018: BioWare’s Anthem has soloable co-op open world, no lockboxes, a sweet trailer, and a February 22 launch - At this afternoon's EA … [Read more...] about MMO Week in Review: Before the Dark Times (June 10, 2018)

Welp, you can’t accuse Hi-Rez of not chasing trends: Not only is it introducing a battle royale mode to SMITE, but it’s actually just launched a standalone free-to-play battle royale game into Steam early access today. It’s called Realm Royale, and the company is calling it the “first 100-person fantasy Battle Royale” title. You might remember it from its previous incarnation as Paladins: Battlegrounds, a mode originally planned for the MOBA-shooter Paladins (and we liked it when we played it too). “Players begin each round of Realm Royale by selecting one of five traditional fantasy classes. Each class offers a unique playstyle; Mages can soar above the battlefield and rain down fireballs, while Engineers deploy turrets and shields in hero shooter-style combat. […] Each round unfolds in true battle royale style, with 100 players dropping from a zeppelin into a massive fantasy-inspired map full of goblin villages and mushroom forests. Players … [Read more...] about Hi-Rez launches standalone F2P game Realm Royale, a mix of ‘open-world PvP MMO and your favorite hero shooter’

We’ve been keeping an eye on Tale of Toast since last year in the lead up to its early access launch back in February. It’s one of those hypercute MMOs that tricks you into thinking you’re in for a fun romp, then whacks you upside the head with hardcore PvP and painful death and corpse looting. That description right there was probably enough to convince some of our readers to close their browsers, but it seems the devs are having a change of heart after the reviews started to pour in. “When we started creating Tale of Toast, we set off with the mind that it would be possible to have a no-rule open world PvP MMORPG,” Toasty Leaf AB writes on Facebook this week. “From feedback, testing and such we have come to the conclusion that while this concept is great in theory, it didn’t turn out as good in practise in our game.” To fix the problem, the company will disable PvP in the game by default and instead create a “brand-new dedicated … [Read more...] about Tale of Toast is giving up on being a free-for-all PvP MMO