Some thoughts, some bugs  

Posted by SpearDriver in , , ,

We've had an event going on over the weekend on 9D Germany and I've had a few thoughts on it, and I found a few bugs. The experience rate hasn't been too bad and I made it to SM7 last night. The normal experience rate is 2x the base rate, and this event is supposed to be 2x that number. With an xp card on I can level up in about 30 to 40 minutes, but that's me. I know exactly where to grind and which mobs are worth to use an xp card on.

As a melee hybrid I'm looking for high aggro melee mobs that gang up on me. Kill One and Heal, repeat for 30 minutes and avoid ranged attack mobs so that you don't have to move for the entire 30 minutes that the xp card lasts.

The skill xp rate was also supposed to have been doubled, but this isn't great. It's bearable as an event rate but training skills past c8 well and truly sucks. There is a complete lack of manuals in the game too which isn't helping things. I'm not looking forward to the rest of this week, and getting these skills done.

And lastly, the drop rate is just pathetic. I was not able to collect enough drop material to be able to build myself the Wan Daye RL weapon, and I had 6 Blood Essences already from the Games Campus forum quizzes a couple of weeks ago. There are 2 quests where the reward is a level 2 non-dungeon elixir, so I had to earn 1.5 million in gold to get the other 3 elixirs needed to build that weapon.

I leveled right past the stages where that weapon would have been useful and never got that much gold. I bought almost nothing in the early stages of the game too, because I know how useful that weapon is. I pick up every single drop in this game and quite frankly if I can't get a Wan Daye RL weapon, the game drop rate is simply too low. I hope Games Campus will consider this carefully.

As for bugs there are still a few, and a couple of them were known in the beta test phase. They haven't been fixed yet and I'm a little disappointed by that.

Der Aufmerksame Sohn, or The Mindful Son quest in Hefei has a text bug. You absolutely must have a German style computer keyboard in order to complete the text of that quest. That's one of the quests where you have to repeat some text and in English the answer is "Green Orchid". In German the answer is "grünes Orchidee".

I don't have that "u with an umlaut" character on my English language keyboard. According to standard German spelling "gruenes Orchidee" should also be acceptable but that answer doesn't work in the game. I posted about this problem on the Games Campus forum and got no response.

Edit: Based on Jim's comment I have now changed my text file to English. I don't need that, as I can read in German just fine, but I'm not interested to have to type in German. For starters I can't spell worth spit.

Otherwise there is a text failure in the instructions for the Corrupt Elder Monks quest, and there is a very similar text failure in the series of quests concerning the Five Eagles of the Brotherhood. There are also some text failures on the naming of some weapons, mostly Blood Dragon Gloves.

The last annoying thing in the game so far is the disconnection rate. Games Campus is using Game Guard to protect themselves from hacks. That system will disconnect you from the game every 30 to 40 minutes no matter what you are doing, and that isn't going to help Games Campus to sell XP cards.

That's all I've found so far. Did you find any other problems in game? Please post in our comments section if you did, and screen shots are always helpful too.

- AxtTreiber

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5 comments

vaga didn't get those leveling quests where rewards were temporal deco, however it worked during first beta. rest leveling quests works fine in this "second beta".

while using courier transports, those red dots are pointing to the wrong coordinates. this might be because we use G1 language file?

drop rate sucks, i saw my first BE at high RL and that was when i had to buy it from someone else. made enough GT to get 160 def set (2 mids).

then i noticed about skills that they level very fast to the C5/C6 and thne rest goes very slowly... exp curves messed up?

December 27, 2010 at 9:11 AM

As AxtTreiber wrote the drop rate sure is ridiculously low...
On their (german) forum they said they would "maybe" rise the drop rate for at least some days (read here: Gamescampus Forum), but as far as I know they did not.

English players experienced that they are not able to complete the quest "Mount Yanmo". It is the same problem like with the quest "Mindful Son". You have to repeat a text and the word "King" is translated with "König" and if you have not got a german style keyboard you are not able to type the "ö".

- geht aka JimDiGriz

December 27, 2010 at 9:32 AM

If you change to English text file you can type in as English.
Drop rate is low, agreed, my first BE was high RC, but when i made RL, i had to go hunt bosses to get my BE and drops.
I'm now FD, and im grinding in CC with happy drops, in one hour of grind, ive had BE, lvl 3 ess, and a blue cloud sachet.
As to the GG DC thing, i've not had a DC on this server yet...

Though i notice since i play 9d in windowed form, everything gets shrunken.... that's not real issue, i kinda like, but one thing is when i use couriers transports the red dots aren't even on the map....
Also, whilst playing in windowed form, quests with timers don't show timer in centre, it's moved to top left quadrant of screen.

December 27, 2010 at 2:57 PM

Good Luck guys, its still a beta game. Hopefully it will get better there. x3 event till New year on Gamersfirst. All my buffs close to C10. :P Now for the money for the books. ^^

December 28, 2010 at 9:53 AM

what... i haven't had any disconnections caused by gameguard <.<
i hate that i only got under 100K gold and that there's no manuals whatsoever. just those sucky ones in clan base

December 28, 2010 at 9:25 PM

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