Short review of NGD's recent work on CoR

[Slartibartfast]

I'll just write my short opinion on recent CoR state:

Well done:

• More XP in fight - No more endless grinding is needed. Side effects: less grinding, less drops and less loot -> less gold and less items -> increase gold boosters and boxes sale.
• Battlezone - Gives new end game content with good rewards - champion armor
• Battlezone tickets - Increases war activity, making more fun to fight and giving opportunity for new players to quickly level up in war
• Gold and WM jewelery - Lowers the gap between jewled and "normal" players. Side effects: Every class except locks increases their damage -> more high damage archers -> even more dead locks.

That was great moves from NGD to keep the game alive.

Now the bad things:

• Bugs, bugs, bugs - Tons of unsolved bugs, waiting for years to be fixed. Just to list a few which I find most annoying: Unable to cast when target moves out of range, borked clan ranks, some animations broken on Linux (SoTW)...
• Some of NPC's should be placed somewhere in WZ too (to the castle, for example): trainers, auction house, WM quest NPC's...
• Fort falls -> instant death: OMG! This is urgent!
• Warlock class balance is still not reviewed.

[schachteana]

there were tons of bugs fixed over the last couple of updates. still many exist, yes. the "gameplay problems" section includes 48,43453,4443243 pages of bugs. I'd gladly see through them and list the ones which persist. but what for..

warlocks rebalancing is indeed urgent. this should happen before adding new feeatures
DI+UM.. mind squasher..

[Slartibartfast]

Originally Posted by schachteana

there were tons of bugs fixed over the last couple of updates.

I will list some of bugs which are not fixed, being most annoying to me:

• Dangerous and annoying bug when casting
  
• Equip/unequip item from spell bar
  
• Power tome - problems
  
• Talking with guards who don't have anything to say - Close related to instant death when falling from fort wall!
  
• Finally - Instant death when falling from fort wall. This "feature" brings several bugs with it - check the thread.
  
• Cannot cast after inactivity
  
• Warmaster Portal clicking
  
• Inability to use mount after being hit by mob or after hitting the mob.
  
• Last and not directly related to the game: War results
  

With some of those bugs player eventually learns to live with, but in the end, it really should be fixed.

[Hollow-Ichigo]

Originally Posted by Slartibartfast

[*]Cannot cast after inactivity

The most annoying one for me, I afk a lot and have to relog when returning because I cant cast anything. No spells, mounts or even emotes.

[Kimahri_Ronso]

[PERIOD]I don't like the current state of the game, they added a tournament to make it more 'valid' the huge delay in the roadmap. Or to give us something to do until they 'finish' the next stage?
IMHO this tournament was not necessary at all, only distracting them even more from the roadmap. Gives them more to do, luring them away from more important things, things like: going ahead faster with the roadmap, making progress, fixing years-old bugs, etc.
Really running out of patience... Sorry, I hate to say all of this but this is what I feel right now.

All assumptions ^^, yes, all we can do is guess since they don't take the time to give us a hint about how the crafting update is going, how long does it take to finish ( it was told it will be done by the end of August, now it's the end of September and still not a word about it), feeling tired, mad and disappointed .
The dark side got me....again[/PERIOD].

[Hollow-Ichigo]

Originally Posted by Kimahri_Ronso

[PERIOD]I don't like the current state of the game, they added a tournament to make it more 'valid' the huge delay in the roadmap. Or to give us something to do until they 'finish' the next stage?
IMHO this tournament was not necessary at all, only distracting them even more from the roadmap. Gives them more to do, luring them away from more important things, things like: going ahead faster with the roadmap, making progress, fixing years-old bugs, etc.
Really running out of patience... Sorry, I hate to say all of this but this is what I feel right now.

All assumptions ^^, yes, all we can do is guess since they don't take the time to give us a hint about how the crafting update is going, how long does it take to finish ( it was told it will be done by the end of August, now it's the end of September and still not a word about it), feeling tired, mad and disappointed .
The dark side got me....again[/PERIOD].

I felt the same, like the tournament came up so randomly it was being used as a distraction from what is actually important. But as long as the crafting works out I'm not too bothered.

[Pery3000]

Originally Posted by Kimahri_Ronso

[PERIOD]I don't like the current state of the game, they added a tournament to make it more 'valid' the huge delay in the roadmap. Or to give us something to do until they 'finish' the next stage?
IMHO this tournament was not necessary at all, only distracting them even more from the roadmap. Gives them more to do, luring them away from more important things, things like: going ahead faster with the roadmap, making progress, fixing years-old bugs, etc.
Really running out of patience... Sorry, I hate to say all of this but this is what I feel right now.

All assumptions ^^, yes, all we can do is guess since they don't take the time to give us a hint about how the crafting update is going, how long does it take to finish ( it was told it will be done by the end of August, now it's the end of September and still not a word about it), feeling tired, mad and disappointed .
The dark side got me....again[/PERIOD].

Feelsbadman.

[hellscraem]

Originally Posted by Kimahri_Ronso

[PERIOD]I don't like the current state of the game, they added a tournament to make it more 'valid' the huge delay in the roadmap. Or to give us something to do until they 'finish' the next stage?
IMHO this tournament was not necessary at all, only distracting them even more from the roadmap. Gives them more to do, luring them away from more important things, things like: going ahead faster with the roadmap, making progress, fixing years-old bugs, etc.
Really running out of patience... Sorry, I hate to say all of this but this is what I feel right now.

All assumptions ^^, yes, all we can do is guess since they don't take the time to give us a hint about how the crafting update is going, how long does it take to finish ( it was told it will be done by the end of August, now it's the end of September and still not a word about it), feeling tired, mad and disappointed .
The dark side got me....again[/PERIOD].

were all in the same boat
disappointed

[korag082007]

inactivity sometimes resists the knocks also, some1 dismounted me few mins back but I didn't fall

[Hollow-Ichigo]

Originally Posted by korag082007

some1 dismounted me few mins back but I didn't fall

If you get dismounted but dont fall its because of steadiness. Getting forcefully dismounted counts as a knockdown.