 Okay, I will say this I know the leveling they intended the leveling to feel a little bit slow But I feel like it's too slow I think the mobs should give more XP than they do because I think giving players options of like how they want to level and stuff Is always good because I feel just like grinding Dude what the heck am I crouching tiger hidden dragon like what's happening here? So where am I with my quests? I want to go and try and build up this node This mispire node we need to reach the third altar to yoga Which is up here and there's an apparition here along the way return to scholar Reia over here. So we're gonna go apparition To Reia to finding a foothold and yoga's rat We could go crafting a sword, but this crafting a sword quest is terrible. It is so bad So let's go to the apparition first. This is that new MMO you were on about yeah I mean this is just they this is the early like technical alpha like this is alpha one So this is like the earliest stages of it I do think that it's it looks better in alpha one than I expected it to I think looking for like a legitimate opinion About the game this early on is is kind of just It doesn't really make sense new world is gonna smoke it I mean new world's coming out like two years before this game comes out But dude, I'll be honest man new world does not look interesting to me Like I don't like survival like Minecraft type games that much like games like rust I'm not even a huge fan of them. You're basically playing like a rust MMO. It's not like that anymore. They changed it Oh, really? Well, then maybe I'll try it again The thing is the number one most important thing for all these MMOs is that it feels smooth when you play it If it doesn't feel smooth while you're playing it then then it's just it's not gonna go well If I had to guess it's probably two or three years. I know they're wiping it on Sunday I'm just saying like you still want to test them out and see it Okay, so I'm doing a quest. You see that thing that just disappeared. I'm trying to chase that thing Oh This is bad I'm at Brick I'm gonna go back and then I'm gonna loop around. I'm gonna go to the other quests I'm not gonna worry about the operation for now because that thing's just gonna keep making me chase it I'm gonna go to lesson one zoology over here, and then I'll come back around here eventually It's too hard to give like an honest opinion, right? It's mostly like I mean it's a technical alpha. Hi. Sorry. No time to talk I've studied the habitats of the creatures you listed me Hmm fascinating 31 months poker these creatures are nothing like what we encounter in Sanctus They're evolved to become more aggressive than their counterparts probably due to the fact that they nest in such hazardous conditions Thank you for collecting this data for me. You've been an excellent helper I'd consult with scholar Lodi if you're looking for more tasks. He's around here somewhere Collecting pollen or whatever botanist busy themselves with I'll find her pressing a trade tide breaker mount Is this good? Is this faster? Cool. Thanks, dude That is that gonna allow me to move faster This is a beaver. Is this faster or no now faster is just looks All right, let's go. Let's go up defining it for a while. Why does it mount so loud? Quit bitchin Swim swimmers. Hey look at it swim Wait, is that poison? I'm not swimming unable to use spells while swimming What the I will press H to dismount of you this room bug. Okay reach the third altar I mean, this is okay. These guys are high level. I think I'm supposed to get up to the top of that I need to find the third altar to yoga, which I believe is up there Okay Good. Let's see if he can make it up here. I Swear sometimes you try and jump it doesn't work though. Here. He's got it. Let's see if you can do it chat No I'm combat bugged. I can't sprint. Yeah, I can't sprint either. I think on these rocks. I just want you to sprint Okay, here. Let's see if I can make this jump chat ready Okay Nice, we did it now. We have to investigate the disturbance below. Oh nice. He made it jump this way You can do it. Just believe just believe in yourself. Trust me. It isn't about how much you fail It's about not giving up believe in yourself. You got this Nice You can do it Believe nice. He did it jet nice Oh, so what is the disturbance below? It says check out the disturbance. Oh, hello. Oh yoga What beautiful wheat you bring to me speak? Try to seduce yoga. I've been captivated by your beauty. Oh mighty yoga I offer you my heart if only you will spare my town Do you take me as a fool? I smell your thoughts and I feast upon them If you are unwise enough to bother me again, I shall feast upon your bones be gone. Follow me only if you seek death Okay, we'll frick. Uh wait that screw up. Oh god. I think I messed up I really wish I could set certain sounds right like sound effects and ambience of music You know, I wish I could make the mini map smaller and put a background on it Oh, there she is. Hello yoga. Wait, there's two Yolgas. Oh god here kite kite. So we only to fight one wait, what? Wait, what level are you DJ? Wait, did we finish that quest? Oh, I leveled I'm level four. Wait, these boots require level 12 These quest rewards have level requirements. I'm level four What is this? These guys are way too high level for me. I don't see what level you are. I click the character. Maybe No, I don't see it the XP from killing mobs is terrible and and like I said I understand that that might have been the intent, but I don't think it's good Because if it's so bad that people just want to avoid killing mobs all together That is not a good thing for the game kind of the case right now No, I'm gonna die Brick we shouldn't be here a pride of charges are attacking caravans passing through the road out east I'll need to take them out to the supply. So where is that? Oh Nice, yeah, that'll be a lot. Thank you. That'll be a lot. Well, I mean, it'll be it'll be better than my default weapon. Oh This hits way harder That's this hits way harder I think I need something that returns mana to me, you know So if I go and I have I have this last rate I'm gonna drop that I'm gonna go resounding smash because the delayed hit returns mana Scholar Lodi have you found them the fire flowers? No, I'll keep looking You'll frick you I don't know what quest I'm on like this is this is really not good Like this this needs some this needs some work for sure like like the entire questing Experience is kind of rough. I don't know what quest I want. I don't know where to go There's not enough. There's not an explanation. I mean this game is like two or three years out from being done I'm just saying like that's kind of my feedback right now cave survey. Okay, let's go down there We'll go to that cave down there. Can you play a rep out in this game? You kind of you make a tank and then you for your subclass you choose cleric And then it's it's called a paladin. Okay, so I need to check out this cave, but where is this cave? Hello there traveler. You can call me a swim. Have you seen two soldiers come through here? No, I can't say I have I've only just arrived a few hours ago Okay, well, I'm gonna explore this cave. I see that before you go Would you collect some flowers for me while you're in there to pick that that is It'll be perfectly safe for once the cave itself is quite dangerous What do you mean by perfectly safe you haven't picked any before right? No Excellent, you go pick something in wait. Why can't you pick them? Oh, it's too much too treacherous something like me I am but a humble healer not an adventurer like you. I pay you well 25 gold pieces for five flowers Okay, so if I pick 10 will you give me 15? Don't pick more than five. Why not? Well, the flowers not bloom that is emit a slight allergen. You shouldn't pick too many Okay, so what happens if I pick too many just pick five. Okay, fine. Whatever. It keeps getting better and better. I'm going in It is dark. Oh, no, it's not pick the flower. Wait. Was it pickable? It didn't give me any dialogue Okay, so we're gonna have to jump for all of these Is that what it is? Don't go to hurry. Oh, I'm doing okay. I'm doing okay I'm just trying to evaluate this game here when you when you haven't played the full game like you can't really give an opinion on an MMO until you hit max in my opinion unless I hit max level and I start like doing all the content How am I supposed to have an opinion on an MMO? You know I would even evaluate an alpha. Yeah, exactly. That's that's like my whole whole point of what I'm saying here. Oh my Brick, how's it play so far? I think it's a little bit clunky I think that the movement needs to be smoother studios. Just stop making alphas public Well, usually nobody ever makes like an alpha one like the state of this current game is usually like never public But they did it because they're like look like we want to try something new here and like go with like the transparency angle And just like hey, what do you guys think so far? How dare they I'm mad true feel like a huge illusion is to come to gaming every MMO feels like it has these Small derivatives each other so well Here's the problem right every every MMO tries to beat wow by being like every MMO that was like Oh, this is it dude. This is the wow killer every single one was basically just like trying to copy wow By being wow So you do have to kind of come up with something a little bit different the problem is is Wow is basically like the gold standard as far as it was for like a long time in a lot of ways And I think one of those big ways is is the barrier of entry to wow is not as high like people Talk about like the elitist and the mid-maxion and that but in reality. It's not that high. It's appealing to the eyes It's easy to move like the actual controls. That's one problem. I have with this like I don't like the Like the controls feel like weird to me Yeah, like the animations and the responsiveness need a lot of work And it's it's probably the number one most important thing like if you look at a lot of games And I use this example last night whenever I was playing this game I was talking about like PUBG versus fortnight Dota versus League of Legends Where the ones that are more popular even though like you might like Dota more or you might like pubg more than fortnight Which one is the one that stuck the one that stuck was the one that was just more like user-friendly in terms of like you Could move your character more easily strafing and this is okay But if you're trying to like strafe and run at the same time it feels weird How do I get rid of my red sick and I like pray at my my grave or something? It's an XP debt You have to kill mobs to get it back. Oh my gosh That's just annoying. Do you enjoy it in its current stage? No, not really like I like it's okay, but it's like I if you if you ask me like would I rather be playing my my Paladin on burning crusade like doing arenas and like doing burning crusade stuff at max level Like of course, I'd rather be doing that right, but this is this is different I would feel that way about literally any MMO that I play right at the beginning Yeah, like look at wow alpha compared to yeah vanilla wow exactly there's so much that goes into development process I also think there's like there's way too little of XP like doing quests give you insane XP The the mobs give you like nothing. We got the night bloom. Okay. Let's go. Yeah, we can leave Sharpened one-handed sword tiller for herbs. Do I did do I take a tiller or do I take a one-handed sword? I'm getting the sword see looking at how much XP quests give you versus They give you so much more XP than killing stuff like to the degree of like it's it's like I should just try and avoid killing as Much as possible. I just doubt anything immediately is gonna end up being more fun than burning crusade is and Honestly burning crusade probably in a month is coming out with SSC and tempest keep So if like mid-august early mid-august, we're looking at a serpent trying cavern and tempest keep like I just don't see an MMO being better than that right now This seems like a bad idea I can tank what level are you so I don't even know what level somebody is the level five This is a level 14 elite All right, just run just leave just leave just leave just leave. There's no we don't stand chance Yeah, we know we're after yeah, we're not saying chance return to scholar Lody. Okay Eagles what are these Eagles doing with the brick? Yo, what the lost two birds again? Can you see the quest on the map you can but it's really like really clunky Like you'll see a dot on the map, right? Oh Crashing through is all the way up here dude. It's crazy This is why companies won't make MMOs that often is because the amount of time and money and investment that goes into making the game And then if your game sucks then like then what like honestly even 14 was kind of bad whenever it came out They had to do a big update. I'm just giving over 30 classes It has it's like a grid like you pick one class and then you pick a subclass and that makes another class So if you are a tank that at level 25 picks cleric, then you become a paladin kill curse chargers There's no curse chargers here. Wait, where am I? I'm missing Okay, this looks really cool right here The water does look nice. Yeah, the water does look nice Can you name an MMO where swimming is fun? No, I mean swimming is just swimming. I remember whatever they added swimming into Dark Age of Camelot It was like crazy. It's almost like STV. Yeah, it does kind of look like Stranglethorne Vale a little bit It's very Stranglethorne Vale-ish. You're enjoying it. It's okay Maybe like I've gone to the point where I feel like it's it's a little bit aimless And I just kind of want to explore you know What is this? Oh wait what wait what I'm getting sunlocked the heck a shrine that whispers I got owned Hey, I think I'm uh, I think I might be kind of done with ashes for now I enjoyed looking around and kind of getting like a taste of it and just kind of getting an idea of how like how the game feels so far I think that uh, I mean as far as like what we could see and like honestly like talk about I think it's pretty much over unless like you like I really wanted to get into it and like Start grinding it out like going through all the quests and getting to level 15 and all that But I don't really want to do that. This is a technical alpha It's realistically this game is probably not gonna release for another three years and we're just being honest, right? It is a closed technical alpha. It's not really like a content test Yeah, exactly, but I think as far as like what we can see from the weekend test I think I'm pretty much done with it for now