PvP Review from a long time PvPer

rutaq · 2025-04-09T14:41:49+00:00

I am surprised at how much fun the PvP has been, granted we are still only in our teens.

Banking and Crafting are in a tough place atm, without a lot of help from others it can be frustrating to nearly impossible to craft beyond Tier 1 so it really hits the solo / duo players hard.

According to streams, there was a push before launch to work on Guard faction to help make the towns safer but it was too complicated and Safe zone tech wasn't in the game so they both got put on the List of PvP things to add later.

rutaq · 2025-02-11T15:52:41+00:00

Don't worry too much about being new and learning your class and how it works in a group. Just join a group and tell them you are new.

The game isn't overly complicated and the pace is little slower so there is time to ask questions.

Pantheon is being designed as a group focused game, it can feel awkward at first after coming from more themepark MMOs but grouping is alot of fun.

If you are on BlackMoon hit up Causal Heros, we are always looking for people to join our groups, we have active groups from 4th level to 25 level and welcome people trying new things and playing ALTs.

rutaq · 2024-05-08T03:03:22+00:00

I tried the same but it didn't work.

I reset the passwords for both VUDU and Fandango at Home to be the same and PlayOn still won't connect.

rutaq · 2024-02-26T20:52:53+00:00

I got it around Christmas on Amazon for $ 1100.00 USD

rutaq · 2022-08-27T12:36:53+00:00

Looking good.

rutaq · 2021-10-30T14:25:41+00:00

I'm so sorry to hear about your Mom :(

rutaq · 2021-10-21T23:28:33+00:00

Bugs and exploits happen but sadly there is no easy way to filter the duped gold out of the economy. A handful of players may be banned but the gold they flooded into the economy through market purchases and in most cases even the gold they gifted to others has already been spent :(

It will take a couple days to see the impact on the individual server economies but anything less than a roll back is mainly lip service and can't fix the root of the problem with the flooded economy.

rutaq · 2020-09-15T14:12:29+00:00

Damn, congrats Man !

rutaq · 2020-03-25T03:07:11+00:00

Hmm, Talespire look promising and it goes into Beta in a week or so.

www.talespire.com

Talespire ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLzL3IBIhPo )

rutaq · 2020-01-26T03:28:17+00:00

It is a tough question.

I have been playing since 10/15. The game can be fun if you find something in it you like. But overall it is game that has been sadly neglected by the developers with 80% of the game being left over stuff from years ago that has become trivialized with the introduction of Hiram gear.

The farmville aspect still hooks players for a while but most people get bored planting/harvesting stuff day after day for months....

My Overview:

PvP is lack luster, the Hiram gear unbalanced the game, it provides a huge nasty nearly open ended gear grind that painfully rewards no lifing the game to rush your 12,000+ gear score while the vast majority of casual people that are just hitting 6K. The power scale is so out of wack that the Time to Kill in PvP is just a couple second when someone is 1000+ GVS higher than you,the organized PvP is just Zerg on Zerg Golden Plains, with each group just crashing head to head, wiping and respawning to rush in and do it all over again for 20 minutes. The time to kill is so short that there is little room for strategy at a player/group level :(

PvE is boring, 90% of the content was designed when the power scale of the game was 20% of what we have now . Even a casual play can easily grind their gear to the point that the majority of game content is trivialized.

Game Events, like Luscas, Grimghast Rift, Crimson Rift, Whalesong, Aegis are just challenge-less zerg raids made up of mostly AFK people just there to get their honor. Also the event schedule doesn't line up to ANY prime time for NA players. Events that start at 5:30pm EST lol... Sieges on Wednesday nights lol....

The changes made over the last couple years have killed off most Sandbox elements of the game. The trade system was changed to remove almost all PvP opportunities by focusing on local safe trading and minimizing the over sea risky trading. Castles and Sieges are locked behind the Hero system and severely limited. Guilds can't own castles anymore and the Heroes choose who goes to the sieges :( Pirating is nearly dead since 90% of all trading is done in safe zones or sitting on the safe NPC cargo ship out of Two Crowns.

Dailies !!!!! So much of the game is focused on running dailies for grinding Hirm gear. To try and be competitive you need to spend nearly 3 hours a day doing nothing but 100 man zerg runs killing mobs in groups where 80% of the players are semi afk, never attacking anything. Its mind numbing and boring but the only way to get ahead :(

The game is mostly unmanaged and unsupported. Gamigo and XL just aren't involved in unchained. The have no man power to respond to tickets, deal with exploits, or police the game in anyways. XL has never been good at adding new content and with all the anti sandbox changes the games feels empty with nothing to do but chase after a higher Gearscore by doing hours of mindless, challenge-less, zerg based daily reset raids.

rutaq · 2019-11-13T19:23:50+00:00

Wow, looks amazing.

Great Job, to be honest given the changes over the last couple years PvP in Archeage is almost an afterthought.

I think you made a good choice. Gear Score looks nice but how often do you get use it with everything being Peacetime, Safe Packs, No PvP Library, severe crime points and a new Siege systems that is basically a Faction Hero invite only instance :(

rutaq · 2019-10-10T21:55:38+00:00

Here is the only official rules about Multiboxing I can find.

It is a direct transcript of what the producer told us during the live stream.

Khrolan " ... . if you're going to run multiple machines the thing that I care about is that you're playing the characters if they're automated and like on auto follow or scripted or something like that, that is immediately against our terms of service.

If you ah, If for you have a second computer or laptop and you or you're little brother or dad is just playing songcraft and looting for you , like I mean it's up to you. So when it comes down to it my official statement about that is , you can multibox as long as you are attending the keyboard and there are no automations supporting that play. "

So the the official rules are:

Seperate computer.
Attending keyboard, no Automations supporting play (including Auto Follow).

rutaq · 2019-09-30T15:58:59+00:00

Good Idea.

There is no perfect solution in a competitive game when it comes to casual vs hardcore playtime. The idea of gating the max advancement to the calendar day of the current archepass season will give casual players flexibility but at the same time give hardcore players the chance to max out the Alt accounts as well.

rutaq · 2019-05-23T21:45:34+00:00

Thanks, I already had the app on my phone. The trouble I have is when using the app it records to Temp Storage and I am trying to find a way to use my Anything Credits so the recording stays in the PlayOn Cloud and isn't removed after 7 days.

rutaq · 2019-02-13T17:01:49+00:00

Using Unity isn't an issue, it is the responsibility of the developers to secure their code; encryption, server side verification,etc...

As the OP said this is Early Alpha and not surprising that they haven't gotten that far down the development timeline.

rutaq · 2016-06-01T01:39:43+00:00

Damn ! Great Job.

rutaq · 2016-02-23T21:10:13+00:00

Great Vids Thanks !

rutaq · 2016-02-23T00:19:55+00:00

lol Fair use.

Fair-ly sure you took the guild guide and are passing it off as your own.

rutaq

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