Fellowship

game is good people are ♥♥♥♥ ..but people are ♥♥♥♥ everywhere..

Solid game. S3 is a significant upgrade over S2.

Игра с потенциалом: есть уникальные механики и ранее не виданные мной способности у аддов и боссов, которых у аналогов нет. Однако, разработчики все пропукали в первом сезоне (самая убогая оптимизация и отсутствие контента), потом оттолкнули остальных игроков во втором сезоне (новые персонажи: Ксавиан и Аеона), то уже никто почти не пришел на третий сезон (5к в пике). Помимо банального плохого онлайна, когда ты мог найти данжик попушить только ночью (на steamdb пик онлайна приходится на 23:00 по МСК), добавления лута как из АРПГ - не делают игру твинко-френдли. Тебе НУЖНЫ некоторые сеты, т.е. гринд только определенного данжа или двух данжей. Потом тебе падает шмот с сетом, но с ущербными афиксами - рерол через легендарную пыль (она очень редка). А ещё по всему этому бьёт эта ужасная сложность данжей - Paragon. Просто мусорный и ненужный дивизион. Это и не энд гейм, но и требования к нему слишком высоки для пивозавров, которые только закрыли первые три сложности без апгрейда шмоток, сокетов и т.д. И происходит закономерная ситуация: есть люди, которые хотят уже попасть в Eternal (энд гейм), но им надо попасть на пачку людей, которые хотят пройти Capstone dungeon на Paragon (финальный данж на той или иной сложности, чтобы продвинуться в следующий дивизион), но они попадаются с людьми, которые только первые три сложности прошли без апгрейдов, не знают страт на боссов в данжах. И после нескольких недель в каждом сезоне образуется пропасть на этой почве: онлайн сосредоточен, либо в Eternal, в который они проскочили на пике онлайна в начале сезона, либо на Contender/Adept/Champion, когда пропустили начало сезона, Тем самым люди застревают в этом убогом Paragon. Кстати, из этого и вытекает то, что в игру невозможно играть на середине/конце сезона - весь прогресс обнуляется в начале сезона =) В условном WoW, если ты пропустишь сезон аддона - ты можешь наоборот просто через профы быстро доодеть персонажа и поиграть. Тут - просто опускаются руки Моя мечта для данной игры - переход на полный синглплеер в будущем, потому что серваки так и так у них 50/50, а вот эта полная зависимость от онлайна и фазы сезона - убивает желание заходить и ждать данжи по 20+ мин. Так и игра будет выглядеть интереснее на фоне конкурентов

Spieler gehen aus der Gruppe und erhalten keine Strafe. Absolut dummes Gruppenspiel so

Game can be fun. Def a little more grindy than what Id like. Community is HORRID. I went into the capstone dungeon from Champ into Paragon for the first time. Psyched myself out and played poorly. We still timed it. Got flamed the whole way by 2 people. Reported them but have been informed that most reports do nothing. Community needs work before I ever try it again.

It is like 25% of a game. You can ONLY chase gear score. That is the only thing to do in the entire game.

First off, I want to start that it deeply pains me to leave this negative review. The game at its core is great, but I have to review the game as it is, not what purports to be, and or what it can be. TL;DR - if you have a 4 stack, disregard this entire review. Please play the game! You'll have a blast. Where to begin? I've played the game every season, and got every character to eternal and got every seasonal mount and enjoy the gameplay loop a lot! Why the negative review, then, after 600hr+ on record? That's simple - the community. Put succinctly, The game is great when I get to play it! "When" is doing insanely heavy lifting in that last sentence! As many others in the reviews have stated, this game has a nasty incentive problem - there's no punishment for leaving, so people leave for any reason if things go south for even a moment, and that's even if you get into a dungeon. As I said before, I enjoy getting each character into eternal - here's a window of what that looks like this season: Wait in queue for 30m, people leave at dungeon select. Wait 20m again, get in, healer makes small mistake in a pull, instant disband. Wait in queue again, end up with group that is new and learning, don't time, people leave immediately after the dungeon clears so I can wait in queue again for an hour. Trying to clear the paragon capstone without a carry with randoms in queue, I spent unironically 6 hours before giving up and asking outside communities for assistance getting some of my alts into eternal. This is not a healthy gameplay loop - and it's unfortunately not uncommon at all. There are some really chill cool people in this game, but it gets overshadowed by the complete apathy others show by not even talking at all, or the complete and utterly unhinged people I've run into. I'm aware this game is WoW M+ simulator and that community is... troubled, to say the least, but it degrades the player experience significantly. I've gotten some high-key comedic moments from people's complete insecurities, some that will live rent-free in my head for years, so it doesn't bother me too much, personally; however, when I want to play the game, not interact with lulcows, it's a real bother. It makes it excessively difficult to recommend this game to my friends - unless we 4 stack, people's toxicity leaves no room for mistakes or for them to learn the ropes, which is a disgusting incentive structure when the game bleeds players every season immensely - at the end of S2 it literally hit 100-200 peak players a day - the game is just non-functional at that point. If you're willing to sit on discord and many other "external" communities the game is a lot better! But it ends up with what I like to call the "discord" problem: Games where people just play on discord makes people not in their voice calls literal "outsiders", and significantly degrades their experience. You'll just get kicked for literally no discernable reason from 2/3 stack groups, and they tend to be the most toxic - husband and wife combos in this game seem to be the absolute worst. Either way, it makes the game solo-que or duo queue experience especially toxic. I think the key take-away from my review would be that while the game is stellar, fun, and great, none of that matters when the average player experience without a 4stack is so utterly abysmal. The amount of times I've spent 4+ hours without a single dungeon clear because of absurd queue times and people leaving the dungeons for the most miniscule of reasons tips the scale in the negative immensely, and for my friends who are interested in playing but need to learn the ropes, I wouldn't let them ANYHWERE NEAR the game's community without a 4 stack. I genuinely have no idea how the developers can fix this community problem, because most solutions would cull the player-base, which is already too small. I am genuinely pained to leave this negative review, but seeing as most of my time playing the game has been starkly negative, I have to. If you do end up playing wanting to play this game, your best window is during the first 2 weeks of the season drop. But if you're solo-queue, expect immense friction. People will expect you to know the mechanics and routes since this game has been out for a year, and will be super toxic at you if you if you don't know these off-hand for "wasting their time". Just play the game with a 4-stack; if you don't have that, I wouldn't touch the game. It didn't work out for me, it probably won't for you either, unless you have an external community you can heavily lean on.