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[Huesoo]

The game is a free to play currently in closed Beta russian MMO. The game has a pretty cool story with original ideas. (Im not saying Allods are an original idea)

Link:
http://allods.gpotato.com/

The game's free, but there's an item shop.  It's not a huge thing, it looks like you'll be able to do perfectly fine without it, and none of the high-end content is restricted.  Some of the items are cosmetic, but a lot of them are useful stuff.  Thankfully it looks like a lot of the stuff is rare-drops from monsters as well as salable on the auction house, so I don't think payers will dominate free players.

The grind seems really bad up to level 10, but most people I've talked to say it gets much easier past that.

I really do recommend it if anyone's interested.  It's got flaws, but for a free-to-play MMO in closed beta, it's top-notch.

Oh, and it's PvP-heavy, including faction-based open PvP areas from level 22-ish up, so if that's not your cup of tea you may want to play something more PvE oriented.

As for races, there's Kanian and Zadaganian for the League and Empire, respectively, as the humans.  Empire also has Orcs, which are basically WoW orcs; and Arisen, who kind of remind me of Necrons if they ran out of Necrodermis halfway through.  Egyptian technozombies, basically.

The league has elves, which are basically fairies, and extremely gaudy in their clothing; and Gibberlings, who are these little furry things that always come in threes.  If you play a gibberling you actually play three at the same time, which is pretty crazy.  It's too bad they're ugly and also the goody-two-shoes faction.

The league is the Alliance, so to speak, a bunch of pretty and cute people who want to save the day or something, they might be rebels, I haven't looked at the fluff much.  The Empire is the Empire, they have strong Soviet Russian trappings and everything about them oozes cool.

I Uninstalled Allods not because its not fun but because I just got Warcraft 3.

[Deon]

Honestly, another WoW clone. It was cool at start because it's somehow based on Allods world (if you know first 2 games) and it's made by russians, buuuut.... Grinding grinding grinding grinding grinding grinding grinding grinding grinding...
And nothing really special.

It's ok for those who like games where level is everything (well, and bought items; this game is free but it's hard to play on lvl 70 against other lvl 70 classes which bought rune powder or how is it called).

I consider it a timesink, I prefer open-world MMO where the skill is more or equal to level, not "lvl 55 pwns lvl 50 and is pwned by lvl 60" and all pvp starts at levels >40. Like Ultima Online was when it was glorious.

[Huesoo]

Deon whats your favorite MMO that you play right now?

[Cthulhu]

The grind isn't that bad, and I wouldn't call it badass.  It's alright.

The grind is worse than WoW leveling, but WoW leveling was easy so that's not saying much.  The max level is 40 and PvP starts around level 20.

There's fatigue, which really helps with the grind, every time you kill a monster or complete a quest you get some fatigue, which shows up as blue on your experience bar.  You can pay an innkeeper to rest, which turns all your fatigue into experience.  In two hours I got about 2/3-3/4 of a level in fatigue, plus all the actual experience I got.

The combat feels a little slow, and you have like a ten percent chance to score a glancing blow, which only does half damage, and slows it down even more, but it's not awful.

The style is great.  The Arisen look pretty cool, like Necron Pariahs if they ran out of necrodermis halfway through construction, and the whole Empire has this cool steampunk Fantasy-Soviet feel to it.

Also, at high levels a guild can build a skyship that rides through the ether fighting other ships and Astral demons, one of which you can see on the screenshot in the Warhammer Online thread.  Each member of the guild has a certain function on the ship and it requires teamwork to do it well, it's one of the things I'm looking forward to.

[Deon]

Also, at high levels a guild can build a skyship that rides through the ether fighting other ships and Astral demons

I've found this part to be quite cool. I'm level 40 with a few friends on one of main russian servers so I've experienced most features. It's OK in comparison to many many many current MMOs.

Deon whats your favorite MMO that you play right now?

Actually, none. I play Fallout Online from time to time, but it's not perfect for my tastes.
Thus, on the overall current front of MMOs this one is quite good. But it doesn't mean it's good for an "old school" ultima online player . Probably I just don't fit in current "fashion", that's all.

And the style is quite comical and cool . Although it has almost nothing about old good "Allods".

[Huesoo]

When I saw the space demon for the first time I shat brix andd thought that it was going to kill me. I have looked into Fallout online might try it sometime.

[Jack A T]

They should have just made another Rage of Mages game.

[Cthulhu]

You might want to give the thread a bit more noticeable title, this isn't exactly something that grabs the eye.

Also, and this goes for anyone who plays, don't work too hard at leveling, the closed beta ends in two weeks or so and all characters will be wiped.  Open beta characters, however, will not be wiped when the game is officially released.

The game's free, but there's an item shop.  It's not a huge thing, it looks like you'll be able to do perfectly fine without it, and none of the high-end content is restricted.  Some of the items are cosmetic, but a lot of them are useful stuff.  Thankfully it looks like a lot of the stuff is rare-drops from monsters as well as salable on the auction house, so I don't think payers will dominate free players.

The grind seems really bad up to level 10, but most people I've talked to say it gets much easier past that.

I really do recommend it if anyone's interested.  It's got flaws, but for a free-to-play MMO in closed beta, it's top-notch.

Oh, and it's PvP-heavy, including faction-based open PvP areas from level 22-ish up, so if that's not your cup of tea you may want to play something more PvE oriented.

Maybe you could put some of this stuff in the OP, Huesoo, it's kind of bare-bones and not everyone wants to look through the thread if the OP isn't compelling.

As for races, there's Kanian and Zadaganian for the League and Empire, respectively, as the humans.  Empire also has Orcs, which are basically WoW orcs; and Arisen, who kind of remind me of Necrons if they ran out of Necrodermis halfway through.  Egyptian technozombies, basically.

The league has elves, which are basically fairies, and extremely gaudy in their clothing; and Gibberlings, who are these little furry things that always come in threes.  If you play a gibberling you actually play three at the same time, which is pretty crazy.  It's too bad they're ugly and also the goody-two-shoes faction.

The league is the Alliance, so to speak, a bunch of pretty and cute people who want to save the day or something, they might be rebels, I haven't looked at the fluff much.  The Empire is the Empire, they have strong Soviet Russian trappings and everything about them oozes cool.

You could play the league, but then you wouldn't be able to pway wif meee :<

[Tilla]

Willing to give it a go, as I do with many MMOs.

Btw, if anyone wants a closed beta key, Massively.com has plenty on their giveaways page it looks like.

http://www.omgponies.info/massivelyCodes/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.getCode&codeInfoKey=31

[Cthulhu]

It looks like I didn't mention this in my previous posts, I'm Muffles the Arisen Sorceror on US 1.

[Deon]

Communist pig! Tzardom will kill ya!

Actually, the difference between "runed" items with inset runes which are avaliable only via multiple buying per real life money (it says that there're drops of that special powder but we didn't see a single one, I mean me and 4 of my friends, while we were able to buy an astral ship already) thus it's obvious that payers will dominate free-to-players on lvl40 with proper builds, however I haven't seen anybody actually getting those runes on open beta (there will be no wipe in russia because it's a long time in open beta) but a lot of people bought smaller bonuses like increased backpack size etc, so I think there won't be a lot of "imba" people like that, because it's really expensive on russian servers to "fully upgrade" your items, I would never spend such money on any game.

[Cthulhu]

I'm now level 11.  The leveling can seem really bad if you're used to stuff like WoW, but once you get past level 10 it gets much easier.

Once you reach level 10 you can buy rubies, which are used for talents, arrayed across a chessboard-like field.  You can only activate a talent adjacent to one you've already gotten, which adds some planning and strategy to it.

I am sad to report there are no dwarves in this game.  There are goblins, which kind of look like really ugly dwarves, but they're not playable and generally despised by the civilized races.

[Ze Spy]

COMMUNISTS!

on-topic : i find playing the gibberlings quite fun , but this is another WoW clone , so i did not really like the game itself

[Xombie]

another WoW clone

[Cthulhu]

That argument starts up in /zone chat all the time.  All MMOs have essentially the same gameplay, barring games like EVE online, so I don't see why being similar to a popular MMO is a deal-breaking flaw.