Violet Hurst
Fedaya Recon
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Posted - 2014.12.16 19:33:54 -
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DaReaper wrote:
How was Black Prophecy? I kinda wanted to check it out, then never heard anything, and found out it was very short lived last year lol
I didn't play it for too long and also my memory is something i only have random access to, but here's what i remember:
The game was very well produced. Very polished graphics, great sound and music combined with an amazing storyline, which was extended beyond the game by a website called Stellarvox Veritas with little stories told in the style of news articles that enabled you to gradually put the pieces of the puzzle together. Iirc the f2p system had the usual advantages for paying customers, but wasn't too restrictive. It did have instances for pve grinders, but most of the game was happening in open world areas. Dogfighting was pretty intense and nothing short of a modern space shooter, you could also invest skillpoints to learn certain maneuvres (e.g. something like up,up,left, right for a barrel roll), but nobody did that since you could simply try to fly like that manually and save your skillpoints for other stuff, which brings us to the bad stuff.
The balancing had some major flaws, maybe even going beyond what you'd expect of such a young game. The crafting system was horrid, imagine timer-based crafting where you actually have to be logged on and sit idle in a station until the stuff is finished. It wasn't really worth it either until endgame, since the "meta 0"-modules you were able to use after a levelup were usually better than anything shiny you could use before that. So, the combat was great, but outside of that there was little to do.
When i left the game it was already in frail health, some weeks later i received a mail offering free stuff to returning players which made me feel like a scumbag ignoring a dying man's cry for help. However one can only play that many games in one's free time. Later on they did a major shift of focus towards player-controlled starbases and bigger, slower (multiplayer?) ships. I was sceptical about that and by the time i decided to see it with my own eyes, it was already too late. |