Mortal Online 2 in 2023 and Beyond - Should you Play this Sandbox MMORPG? Recent + Upcoming Changes
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Mortal Online 2 is a massive open world sandbox MMORPG with a ton of PvE and PvP content and a lot of promise. It released in January 2022 with some big server issues, but has had many updates and improvements since then and is in a much better state going into 2023. I believe it's currently one of the best MMORPGs available right now, and explain why in this video, as well as discuss what Mortal Online 2 is and the features it offers, and how it's changed since its initial release. It's not only a game for PvP - it actually has a ton of challenging and really well designed PvE elements and this is all discussed in this video. This is truly a hidden gem that will only increase massively in popularity in the near future, especially with its upcoming content including a game engine upgrade to Unreal Engine 5, Territory Control, Sieging, and much more!
While people are looking for new MMORPGs to play and focused on Throne and Liberty, Ashes of Creation, New World, WoW Dragonflight, the Riot MMO, Archeage 2 and others, a pretty new true hardcore sandbox MMORPG is here and has been improving steadily with a huge, thriving community and player base all enjoying the game, and that's Mortal Online 2. The game has exceeded expectations of many and is currently one of the best MMORPG games available both for PvP and PvE players, with a very promising future!
So, from the words of the developers themselves, what is Mortal Online 2?
Mortal Online 2 is a next generation first-person MMORPG in a fantasy setting.
In Mortal Online there are no PvP zones, only an open realistic world where you are free to choose your own path. Experience true real-time combat where you decide every move your character makes and where your personal skill really matters.
Build your own house, or set up a guild to build a keep. With enough power, violence or diplomacy, you and your allies will be able to rule an entire nation.
Choose from many different races and professions. You decide your own style of playing and whether to focus on PvP or PvE, both sharing the same game world. Devote your life to crafting, combat, magic or trading. Discover new skills, tools and resources. Or be the first to explore new areas to put your name on the map.
Mortal Online is not like other MMOs. In Mortal Online any player can at any point attack another player and take everything they own. This makes every encounter with another player a dangerous affair that could result in great loss. It also greatly increase the importance of having strong allies by your side or a powerful guild to back you up.
Mortal Online 2 features an action-based first person combat system. There is no tab-targeting or auto attacks. In Mortal Online 2 the player’s skill really matters and a skilled player will often defeat a player with better equipment. All the combat in Mortal Online 2 works this way regardless if your are wielding a bow, sword or use your mind to cast powerful spells.
Mortal Online 2 is set in the great world Nave. The first continent players will enter is called Myrland and is a boiling pot of different biomes ranging from cold snowy mountains to big open sand fields. Myrland is massive in size and filled incredible resources to find and dangerous dungeons to explore. All rendered is stunning detail using Unreal Engine 4.
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People keep pointlessly hating on this game because it forced PVP and demand for PVP to be optional while failing to realize the game literally wouldn't function properly without forced PVP. I mean I don't even PVP that much in the game myself I mostly just tame creatures gather ore and make weapons all day but even I realized this game wouldn't survive 1 week as a PVE only game. There isn't enough PVE content, nothing to drive demand, and zero reason to use 99.99% of the items/skills in the game without PVP, asking for PVP to be disabled or optional is like asking for SV to delete their game.
people forget that games like tarkov and dayz exist, playing a PvP game like a ghost takes 1000% more skill than attacking anything that moves
I feel steam's extremely limited return policy really hurts games like this.
It's the type of game where you need many hours to experience anything at all, so paying up-front for something potentially very broken or un-fun and no realistic chance to return it by the time you know whether you like it or not is a real deal breaker.
Yeah well, like basically everything IRL. House, car, any goods really. That's why peoples test and play this game, drive the cars etc. Basically giving you feedbacks without the risk of wasting money. Tho I get what you're saying about Mortal time sink and niche gameplay.
I watched a lot from Mortal 2 when it came out. Decided to wait until it gets better. Then like two weeks ago, I checked the game again, after Pax Dei release didn't convince me. I'm having a good time in Mortal rn, even if I only got 30 hours as for now. Joined a guild even before character creation and I can see myself play this game at my pace for many months if not years.
I like how they tended to the game. And I like the niche gameplay even if its got its fair share of issues, clunkiness etc. There's not many game like it. If none. I really got a modern first person Ultima online feeling. (Yeah yeah, UO is more complete and more polished all around, but you get the idea).
I recently had a steppe horse that I needed to sell urgently because my stable was full and I didn't want the horse anymore. So I stood outside the tavern entrance and did a yell if anyone was interested in buying it for 5 gold. Less than 10 seconds later a random player came up to me and passed me 5 gold, I got off my horse and traded it to them in return. It surprised me because I didn't think that it would sell, and so quickly at that.
Thanks for your comment finegaming, the game really has those old school vibes of RuneScape in that way sometimes - glad you managed to sell your horse as quickly as that!
Selling horses is how I first started making money... in more remote towns like Bakti they sell for 5 to 7 gold per low level horse... not bad money at the start. If you get herding skill you can bring back 3 or 4 horses at a time from the spawn.
ok?
What i find very sus is them just going "this will have subscription later" on steam without actually saying how much. So I can basically play it now and then in year they decide on some arbitrary sum and if I don't want to pay that they basically take my game hostage. It's like someone you don't trust just going "you owe me" without specifing what or when.
I played the Original Mortal Online. I personally liked it a lot. I just found out about MO2, so I will give it a try!
How'd it go, 6 months later? With that kind of background you would have a voice that matters.
3k hour Vet here, The game is worth playing, The player base is growing due to elementalism and Territory Control in 2 months. I look forward to the campaigns!
awesome bro thinking of trying this one out, wasn't sure if it was dead or not
Every review on steam from people w over 200 hours day not to play this.
I want to get into the game as a souls invader and OG for honor player but damn are the negative reviews daunting.
what about sub tho?
(im asking because i hear different takes on that and i dont know anymore whether this game will require sub to play or not)
@@nvidiaplay I've been playing it for quite a while dude. I don't think there is a sub
@@nvidiaplay by quite a while I mean 4 weeks
Hey man, what resolution do you play?
I've tried to like this so many time, played around 250hrs, each time I feel like im getting somewhere and venture out of the town area, you get ganked and as you have to move stuff about to build your house or trade it gets frustrating, I mean ive been killed so many times in this game you just feel like you are self harming to keep playing.
Ngl dark and darker basically brought me to this game and almost everyone I've talked to in game came from or loved dark n darker as well
you forgot to add the CEO does live streams on twitch every Wednesday for like 2 hours. i am not really sure exactly what time he goes live but its Wednesday. im west coast and i do notice he goes live sometimes around 10-11 am/in the morning
this looks like what elder scrolls online shouldve been !
I love it, and I play solo alot.
All the negative publicity is due to how SV handled the first game in regards to player staff relations. There were corrupt GMS who had personal accounts and stakes in the game, as well as just ridiculously unprofessional types making a mess of the game world while using the GM tools rather on purpose or inadvertently. Tons of dupes which mucked up the economy on several different occasions. And possibly worst of all the bugs, the horrible bugs which were never corrected and some even persisted into MO2.
So those returning veterans of MO1 after being promised the world of MO2 and seeing that it completely flopped on launch because SV couldn't provide server capacity for the 8k concurrent players (and still cannot not provide capacity for even 2.5k players concurrently) are somewhat objective towards the game. For those players it was like they made all the promises and hype and just completely lied to them for a second time.
I’m interested in getting it but the only thing I’m worried about is that there could be a subscription fee in the future.
How do you want to pay for Gms, Servers and updates?
They say there will be
Get a job
I'm trying to figure out if the game will be subscription based at some point or if it is now
It’s not currently subscription based, but will be in the future, so for now you could buy it and play as much as you want until they eventually introduce the subscription. Hope this helps!
Would it be wrong to equate this to DayZ with swords and magic?
Really want to try this out but the single EU based server is a bit off putting as well as plans for subscription..
It’s not exactly that but shares a lot of similarities. It’s like a survival game in many ways just like DayZ, but also a true MMORPG where progress is always made and carried over in terms of wealth, skills and so on. Definitely worth a try if you’re unsure in my opinion. Hope this helps!
its unforgiving like dayz but its not like dayz in any other way. Its like oblivion or skyrim with hundreds of other players who have their own agendas
I have read comments saying that you cant play solo, that you will be killed by group of other players all the time, but you mentioned there is bounty hunters but NPC bounty hunters to avoid free assasinations or players that collect the bounty? that bounty system prevents that people just kill you all the time?
You will get killed often as a solo player, that much is true. Bounty Hunter exists: you pay 1G to an NPC and get a contract that allows you to kill a murderer player (anyone with 5+ murder counts). Then you can buy birds that will tell you the estimated location of your target (1000 kilometers east, for example).
So the idea is great: you set yourself out in the world, fully equipped, and use birds now and then to zero in on the location of your bounty.
The issue is: you will usually cross with groups along the way, and when you find your target, the chances he or she is alone is close to zero.
So, all of this to say: playing solo is hardly viable if you want to do any form of PvP, Bounty Hunting included.
Hey Star Buck, it's players themselves who can become bounty hunters and take on contracts to kill criminal players. Criminal players can still continue to be criminals but they'll have a much harder time doing so when bounty hunter players look for them, and need to watch out a lot more. It doesn't completely stop players from being criminals and murdering others a lot, but it does help deter them, and there are other systems in place that add to that. Hope this helps clear things up a bit!
@@BullCashish That is good but there should be also free state agents looking for criminals. Image a world without police, it would be like Mortal online, it is nice they make it realist but doing so there should be some kind of police in game chasing murderers without having to pay gold
right off the bat i see the combat system is hilarious
GORMAK HE SAVED ME A LONG TIME AGO!
Fine commercial video you have made here. Tho, you forget to tell about the subscription.
That not only will you have to pay for the game once, you will also need to pay a mounthly fee to keep playing it. Which is quit important information for the customer/player/new player, who you want to bring into the game so it can have a breath of fresh air.
The subscription is not active yet, but will come eventually around the epic release.
"That not only will you have to pay for the game once, you will also need to pay a mounthly fee to keep playing it." Really? I've never heard of an MMO with a subscription!
Anyway it will be a deal breaker for a lot of players specially for those who has several accounts.
The question is will MO2 ever grow in population?
Even if it grows to 2000 avg players, it wont be enough with a monthly sub to keep it running.
@@rasmusdamgaard8846 New player here. Attracted by the state of the game AND the fact sub equals no cash shop. For me, that's much more sane.
Loved MO1 but bought MO2 beta and played combat beta but just didnt like the spin to block and attack. Was really hoping it would not be like that but now after awhile i really miss both MO1 and darkfall so i just downloaded the game to try it again even tho i dont like the combat META that i have seen.
My guy is still on starting island, hes jacked out of his mind so i named him TRENare ANIVARius.. unfortunately I just havent gotten into it.
The secret to not getting ganked is to form a gang lol.
Damn They are updating engine to UE5? i might give it a go then :D it will look sweet!
It might. Depends on how they utilize the engine (assets, lighting etc)
You can put lipstick on a pig, it still stays a pig.
@@timofaust1315 i agree.i would like the game to be balanced and fixed first before changing the engine,that will makes the pig look better :)
thank for the video, im buying it just now
Thanks for your comment Federico, that's awesome to hear and I hope you have fun!
Well. Average players online daily roughly ~ 1300 (steam charts, April 2023).
This game looks great, but there is no impact feeling when landing a hit, as if you throw your sword in the air
I tested it, it can have potential for sure, but unfortunately it’s a niche game & will always be.
Devs are eager on delivering whats on their roadmap and fixing bugs. I'm really curious on whats to come with UE5
The devs have been selling dreams for a decade. Too bad they are not that great of making them reality. Let's wait for Mortal Online 3 ;)
@@timofaust1315 I think their dream is awesome and their capability to deliver is maybe 'not that great' , what still means they are at least average in doing so :) since they are the only dev team ballsy enough to follow such a vision, I have faith in them.
@@sehrgrossesglied5000 Chronicles of Elyria and Dreamland also had an awesome dream and they were ballsy enough to follow it. We all know how that turned out ^^
But honestly, I hope that the devs can make it finally work and bring MO2 to a good standard, for their sake and the communities sake.
@@timofaust1315 imagine the WoW developers describing what they wanted their game to look like in 10 years, you'd be a fool to complain that it isn't that instantly. Also MO2 is a whole new game, it's not as simple as copying and pasting 10 years of content into a new game.
@@gregs9210 Happy with the games development still?
That's why you're in Koto I guess, its hardly a PVP game when you have a guild that runs everything and you're forced to join to live while farming, skilling etc..
I have been having fun with the game, on sale for a few more days definitely worth the $24.
Damn i missed the sale
@@JamieMadroxFFXIV it's on sale again right now for 29 more hours ;)
@@DevilsMenace I bought it after that post lol
still like an early access imo
I like the game for what it is. The loud vocal minority in this game on all online media is insane though, worse than Eve online, can you imagine LOL.
@Princess Goldy people that quit aren't the vocal minority because they are quite literally not speaking anymore. But nice try!
Yeah there's a gang of people, some players who sunk 1k hours into the game and others who were banned, who have made it there second job to ensure nobody ever plays it. I think the reason is the vision for the game is super grandiose and when it didn't net their complete expectations they felt lied to and betrayed. On the plus side about the game, it inspires passion, you don't go on a crusade against something you don't care about.
It’s amazing how many companies don’t make sure their online product can handle the consumers by release. And no, “They didn’t know it would be that many” is not an excuse. They could have people sign up and then make it accordingly.
People signing up and then making it accordingly also does not work because more than half of the people don't care to do a sign up for a game and it gives them a false number to go off of. Also it is a company at the end of the day, if you had your own company that made food on a street corner would you make 200 Hotdogs in prep for customers or maybe call it safe and make about 10 Hotdogs. Same thing with servers, If they predict to have way more than necessary they are just throwing a ton of money out the window its not just a free thing games can fix it cost a lot of money and people for some reason don't seem to understand that.
Ayo man data like that is unreliable. Either you end up with not enough people signing up or too many people signing up but not actually playing. Servers are expensive dude
I forgot this game was a thing, full loot pvp is a 100% no go so still will never play but the world is almost enough to get me to change my mind...almost.
looks fun
It's disingenuous at best to say you can solo PVE this game. Call all your friends. Then have all your friends join a bigger guild. Then maybe you'll have a shot.
This is just a niche game for sweats who camp town exits and gank any new players until they quit.
I’m still skeptical. And with a monthly sub idk
I'd play it if it didn't run like shit on a 1080ti, fps is enough for pve, but for competitive pvp it's impossible for me to enjoy the game.
ive been thinking about dipping back into this but im not sure.the combat always threw me off
lol i seen a guy in the town square just duel like 10-20 people and beating everyone while naked . I duel him and lose this guy seemed to be taking little to no damage he was like "you did good you see what im doing is exploiting dsync and s". yea ever since that im just like 😬idk about this game lol i could put in all the hours but some dude can just use a lag switch or some shit (idk how he achieved the effect he did) and beat me like i was level 1 then ill pass on this game
@@Redrum-707 Most of the combat is wonky and relys on spins/animation hides.
For example, if you are fighting a guy using a 2handed axe and he looks down and to the right, starts an overhead swing and flings his camera back towards you it will look almost exactly like a right handed swing when it is in fact an overhead. It sounds more like the guy you fought was bullshitting you. 99% of combat is learning those animation hides by muscle memory.
Its not intuitive whatsoever and leaves most players (like yourself) wondering what the fuck just happened. Sadly this does not seem to be on their radar to change despite constant outcry even from within the community.
@@nolp2898 every once in awhile I get the urge to play this game I just never have time
It’s okay, but the melee combat could be a lot smoother. I’ve also heard the devs abuse their power in game.
I would do the same
Is it still going to be subscription based? Thats what keeping me out of this game. 15 quid a month seems a lot to my pocket
It is still set to have a subscription, but it's not in place yet. It will probably be at least a few months before it does get implemented, but buying the game gives you 30 days of play time for when that does happen, at least as it stands right now. Hope this helps!
I just hate the name policy so much. 😢
meh looks cook but i hate first person in rpgs
i read that ping for na players are at disadvantage to eu players.
"The game is in a way better state than it was!" shows a turtle T-posing toward the player.
still only eu based severs and im in australia so its still a no ill stick to gloria victis they have severs on all continents if m mo2 wasnt full loot open (forced) pvp it wouldnt matter but these types of games are troll magnets
yeah, unplayable frames per second when there's more then 40 players around u
POV: Me checking steam charts to see if he's right about people still playing the game only 2 months later.
Player count: 79 :(
I think you looked at the wrong game then, because the player count has reached close to 2000 almost every day for a while and has been growing for about 5 months.
@@ValoranVale no i was looking at the correct game that was current playing. Daily Peak concurrent players is 1,876 which is closer to your number
Edit: i was stating the current player base online at that time because of the comment saying you can play at anytime with plenty of people which i think is still slightly false but avg daily peak of almost 2k isn't bad it has definitely improved since this video came out
If you live in the United States this game is not for you. They don't have servers in NA and the latency will always get you killed.
The only reason I never bought and played it, is because it's First Person Melee, and should be Third Person instead!
All First Person Melee games, and obviously this one as well, are lacking the depth comparison between your character height, arm length, weapon size, which better indicate where you will be striking your hits on enemies.
Which is exactly why every First Person Melee game ever created and or played, has the player lunging their character forwards and backwards all weird and clunky...
It's a terrible Melee experience where you constantly question whether or not you are going to hit your target or not because you can't really tell the distance properly, so it's just clunky and very unrealistic, and looks ridiculous as well as a result...
If the game had Third Person Melee Combat, and First Person Ranged Combat, there would be an overwhelming number of people playing this game right now, and would still be a fair amount of people that will stay after they start charging their monthly subscription fees.
Just to be fair, I would pay up to around the $100 mark for the game if it had Third Person Melee, but I wouldn't actually continue to play the game if a monthly subscription fee was charged, even if the initial game and a free month were free. My days of paying subscriptions for games ended over 10 years ago, and will never be a thing I will ever be involved in again, sorry...
I'm also uninterested in any games that sell anything that has to do with making it easier to play their game, or give any sort of advantage at all. I get the whole making money thing, but I refuse to pay more than $99 for a game, and if I do purchase a game, I expect to experience the entire game that I purchased, along with every single piece of content that was coded into the game that I purchased, without being asked for more money after! I will pay for expansions to the game, if they are worth what they are charged, but I won't be a part of the leaking of peoples funds over time for a game that was purchased and paid for in order to play, or offering things that I can't earn in game unless I pay extra money for them! Nope...
Ark and games like that have private servers, and official ones you can play on, so it's not necessary to charge a subscription for people to have to play on your dedicated servers, and rely on the game company to deal with the constant cheaters and scammers. I get that all of that costs money to maintain, but I can and would rather handle who I allow on my game servers my self, instead of paying a subscription fee monthly.
Anyway, the Third Person Melee vs First Person Melee is factual, but the rest is all just my personal opinions and how I roll...
Edit:
I should probably explain that by Third Person Melee, I'm in no way talking about crappy click to move, or tab targeting garbage...
I'm only referring to backing the camera up about 3 feet behind the character model, and raising it a foot.
Without the characters body in view to help compare against, the depth perception sucks.
Recommending this game is like recommending smoking sure you might get addicted but it's a terrible product.
closest thing to this game would be albion online propably
You failed to mention it is SUBSCRIPTION.....hell naw
It’s not. At least not yet.
6:32 And there it is. I've not even played this game and I already know these "new zone rules" are the biggest threat to it. Once you start placating PvE players. You've killed your PvP game. Guess I'll have to look elsewhere for my new PvP game. Thanks for the info.
I share the same concern with you here, but we don't really know the details on that yet or what the implementation will be like and I'm optimistic - time will tell, but I wouldn't say you should look elsewhere if you haven't tried the game yet. I don't think they'd actually not make it possible to attack others from anywhere, but they must have something up their sleeves.
If you haven't tried the game yet I'd say it's definitely worth a try and I wouldn't recommend you discount it just yet based on this alone. Hope this helps!
it's a good thing it's a PvPvE game, those new zoning rules will ensure the player base doesn't run dry when it's full of people who want Call of Duty Mortal
@@gregs9210 That's how it should work in theory. That's why devs make changes like this in games like this. That's also not how it often seems to work out in practice.
What actually tends to happen is such changes alienate the original PvP player base. And then they don't manage to hold onto the PvE players because the game wasn't designed with them in mind from the ground up. Merely modified to give them some accommodation after the fact.
The problem is from any angle it's hard to retrofit a game in order to expand appeal. Target audience tends to be baked into design.
@@The1Helleri very few MMO games have full map, full loot pvp, going deeper into an already niche genre with a niche gameplay doesn't do the game many favours. When you say devs make changes like this in games like this, which games are you comparing it to?
@@gregs9210 The two that immediately come to mind are New World and Life is Feudal MMO.
New world changed its direction almost entirely from Open world full loot PvP to PvP optional level gated, before beta even. Now, New World has not failed (yet anyway). But it's had a lot of early issues it's needed to overcome. Some of which was due to sheer incompetency on Amazon's part. But a large chunk of it was down to making a lot of changes to a game that was fundamentally designed around full loot PvP. It shows that it's not impossible to do that. But it is hard. Even with the work put into fixing it, they're still down from peak players and slow leaking.
Life if Feudal MMO Showed just how hard it is. That game didn't survive. There were plenty of performance issues. But they were making clear progress on fixing that. What did it in was things like reworking managed resources into a PvE trading wet dream and nerfing PvP in almost every conceivable way. They alienated their core and then the PvE players that remained got bored because it wasn't very good as a PvE game. The official reason given was legal conflict with their publisher. But the writing was on the wall long before the final nail was driven into that particular coffin.
But it isn't either figure your shit out or fail in this - I agree - very niche genre. Most never leave early alpha before they manage to drive off their player base or screw the pooch otherwise. Such as Divergence or Population Zero.
There are even those that become brown dwarfs. Microscopic player bases with huge and stagnant sandbox worlds. Sure full loot open world PvP. But good luck either finding anyone to fight or finding anyone to fight/raid. These would be games like Wurm Online. There's actually a lot of these out there. Their usually cheap or free and technically online/playable. But just no significant population to speak of. Someone is just keeping the lights on for those few players still there for it.
Now I can think of one game that started out full loot open world pvp with no level restrictions on gear or who could attack who. There was a toggle for PvE and PvP but it stopped working after 2 uses so players got stuck as being PvE or PvP (most as the latter). That game made some massive changes in the first year of release, became wildly successful, and is pretty much completely unrecognizable from what it started as at this point. That game being Runescape. Of course, it stopped being in that category by even a stretch with the most recent changes to the wilderness. You can argue that it never was in that genre. But I guarantee you, that you are not prepared for that argument, and I will win.
i swear if they implement sub this game will die within 2 months
Well, sorry to burst anyones bubble but the game kinda sucks. The world, outside of players, is lifeless with nonexistent or even interesting lore. There is essentially 0 PVE, and the combat is atrocious-- constantly swinging clunkily and smack your hilt on the wall. Hit a guy in the side of the head in the city and watch the NPCS in T-pose stare at you like 0_0 lmao. Im sorry I wish it was good but it's really not.
Get rid of the ability to hit with the hilt, the ability to sidestep/dodge, make magic actually cool and not tedius, make PVE actually existent and not a vibe kill. Do all of that, and the game will slightly begin to be better.
Pve never was fun anyway
@@escarretada PVE is fun and essential in an mmorpg, and part of the reason others are successful and MO is not.
Bro you are just bad at the game. Get gud man and you won’t be hitting with the hilt. You gotta keep your distance to not hit with your hilt.
@@fbi49 Nah, the combat, story, lore, magic system, all just sucks and thats why there's less than a 1000 people playing your mmo on a weekday lmfao. Would be acceptable if the combat was brilliant but it's far from it and there implementations of "realism" with the hilt just make the game soggier than it was before-- you absolute doorknob
@@KING_NIMROD Not everyone cares about story or lore. Some people just want to feel immersed in a game world and have fun without that story shit. Sure the combat might not be fluid or whatever the heck you are looking for but it’s still fun. I play together with my friend and it’s just fun to go out into the world explore while trying to stay alive. You probably haven’t even left haven to experience anything else.
This review is too glowing for MO2... I get it, new concept for a lot of people... Looks amazing, has a completely different gameplay to other MMORPG's... But thats just not true, this is Mortal Online 1 LITE HD. They basically are STILL porting features from the first game...
The only difference is that Mortal Online 1 actually had a TC system and building system... The game was feature complete... The world wasnt astronomically huge making the game have hotspots... The world didnt feel empty and in a lot of cases completely unfinished...
Mortal Online 2 is not innovative... or fresh... or new... its an old concept that failed because we didnt have the tech and the dev's didnt keep the community involved enough...
Now they are trying again and this time they have the tech to accomplish the goal, but are falling on their face by "releasing" or whatever you wanna call it... WAY too early. If the dev's had given this game another 1-2 years before saying it was "done"... it would of been amazing - even if it only had the core features, like TC and Combat.
I gave them benefit of the doubt when the game came out... I sat in queues for days... I finally got in, got to play...
After a few days I realized how incomplete the game was... So many areas are devoid of life... Have no purpose for being there... After running around, its like variety of mobs is so limited... and they spawn in clumps in certain areas... Just pull up the mortal map and you'll see what I am talking about. And this was something they said they didnt want... they wanted mobs to naturally drift and wander... and spread out... But the server tech isnt able to simulate stuff when you arent there... so when the server starts everything clumps until a player is in the vicinity.
A lot of gear and crafting components make no sense to be in the game... Its fun when you're trying stuff out but like... eventually you realize the best materials for gear and 90% of the other stuff in the game is pointless... and thats if you didnt follow a guide, most people follow guides and just skip to the right stuff. Which make these areas far less populated because why would anyone but a noob go there who doesnt know?
Dungeons... pointless... Well most of them, because of risk vs reward... Some places require 10 people, then when you split it down its far less efficient than solo content. So then people try to 1-3 man areas... to increase the profitability, but were talking minor increases in profit over just farming razorback or something...
And this is just like typical bullshit for an MMORPG... this doesnt include performance issues... bugs... glitches... things that are just absent from the game... skillbooks you can learn that cant be used... stats that get added that dont do anything... I mean seriously the con list is a million miles long...
The only fun aspect of the game is the combat... but that is a rare occurrence. And when it does happen you tend to be in a situation you cant win... So you have to join a guild, which has no purpose other then to give you numbers to go find random fights... This is Mordauh but with no progression or rhyme or reason for doing the fighting.
I have been following the updates... and I will probably go back someday... but that will be AFTER they add the god damn Territory Control. The main feature of MO that is non-existent currently.
To anyone looking to play this game... Just know that after you build your character (which will take a long time, so its not like it isnt content I guess), you will be doing nothing except random skirmishes or planned PvP events between guilds.
monthly subs ? lol
just no next...
I'm sad that I can't refund the game now, but if you enjoy constantly getting ganked by bored pvp players looking to steal your 2 gold worth of loot then be my guest, be ready to say goodbye to that sweet horse that you've bought or tamed (I've already said goodbye to 8, and I left the tutorial area 3 days ago), and also be ready to say goodbye to that sweet armor and weapon that you've bought by carefully farming the heavily guarded areas.
There is no decent quest system and the world is 3/4 empty tundra and forest, features are half baked and the combat is so plain and boring, those user's made "villages" are plain boring bought asset houses or castles (or at least they look like it).
So again, if you enjoy wasting time and money (real and in game gold) to just let it go to ashes because the only players that stayed since the beginning keep patrolling the common paths looking for new players who don't know better to kill (I once had 4 players following me, no chance with my just tamed horse with no armor, had to say goodbye to those hours spent finding crumbs of moolah to buy a single book to deliver to a friend, and that hour running through empty fields to find that single spawn of horses) then go ahead and spend your money, but remember that probably within a year (if it doesn't shut down before that) it'll go pay to play for 15$ per month.
If your main concern is getting attacked, I suggest joining a guild. There is a recruitment channel on discord. Soloing is definitely hard mode.
i played and it sucks, i will never play again, it's not how it looks, it's much worse
@FutaCatto that's why it's good not to lie
TLDR: No!
holy fuck this game looks shitty, how did they manage combat worse than skyrim. Well, either way thank you for the video to help my decision along
No you shouldn't play this scuff garbage. You're welcome
We cannot ignore the very large red flag: they never finished/fixed their first title. They quite literally gave up, made the second one, and released it knowing it was not finished. This studio is a joke, I challenge any of you to go into the discord and have a real conversation with their community manager. Also the community is not as 'willing' to help ad you think. The guides on yt quite literally tell you do not get this game, wait to see if they finish it. This game compared to other risk reward games lacks any kind of comeback mechanic. This pretty much gives you the chance to rebuild any gear you lost. So when you get killed by a zerg of 4 or 5 people, then you start back to zero. Also lag is still an issue and theres no queue because this games player base floats around 500 players. Looking purely on their track record, this studio is not the kind you trust
Oh and theyre working on paid dlc already too
I'll start by saying I didn't like this video because it seemed like paid propaganda instead of unbiased analysis. For the most part, the video states what the game wants to deliver, not what is currently capable of doing.
That being said, there are several pieces of false or misleading information in your comment.
1) Star Vault, the development meant studio is not a joke, at all. They are an open capital company in Sweden. They have stocks, they are audited, and as far as you can trust Sweden's regulator and fiscal authorities, they are an honest company. So, you may not like what they create, calling them a joke or untrustworthy company is a very different thing.
2) By design, Mortal Online (the original game and the MO2) will never be finished. The plan is to continually add content and expand. MO ran for more than ten years (charging a 15usd subscription with all its major issues), and then SV decided the next step in the evolution required a massive overhaul, which is now MO2.
3) Not sure what you meant by going into Discord, but you definitely should. Go there and talk with Robmo, the Community Leader, he is a great guy 😄 Beyond that, you can jump into the weekly Wednesday streams and ask questions to the CEO himself. Good luck finding another company that provides that.
4) Not sure which full loot games you play, but MO2 has one of the least punitive systems out there. When you die, you "only" lose what you are wearing and your inventory, you don't lose any skill points or experience, and most importantly, you don't lose your bank. Adding to that, the majority of the resources are easily obtainable even for solo players, and the game is not solo-friendly. So no, you don't start from zero after you die. After you learn to wear only what is worth the risk you will incur, you actually start to accumulate gear and gold rather quickly.
5) The player base is currently around 1000 at pretty much every hour of the day (around 800 between 3 am and 5 am EST). This requires somewhere between 5K to 10K, depending on how you want to do the math.
6) There is no paid content planned for MO2, except the game itself and the subscription, which will start after the EPIC release.
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Go ahead and check that out for MO. Paid DLC and a subscription service is inherently the same thing. And they charged 40 USD for MO2 knowing good and well it was not finished; thus questiong their intentions is entirely valid. The weekly stream is regurgitating the same thing "were working on it" and "this feature will eventually be added" and other very irrelevant affirmative actions that have not been delivered other than bug fixes. Now I will say they have fixed a lot of things with the game but they are only a few inches into a mile long problem. Can we at least agree that switching engines is not a good idea for the state the game is in? We basically funded a kickstarter at this point. Oh and for refrence I play tarkov, dark and darker, diablo 2, and the division 2. i cam safetly say dark and darker is miles more fun than MO2
nice review but should have mentioned you cant just focus on pve only, theres forced pvp and u ll be forced to fight players
Thanks James, much appreciated! It's true you'll need to take part in PvP at some point for sure, even if only to defend yourself, but you can definitely focus on PvE for the majority of your time and can avoid PvP to a large extent. It isn't fully forced on you but there will be times players see you and decide to attack, so you do always need to be aware of your surroundings and ready to escape right away if needed, but that's definitely possible. Hope this helps!
this YTer is prolly new to mo2, give him 3 months and he will quit like the rest
Short answer, no. Long answer? No. Game sucks, and has a well documented history via searching Google that the developers 'Star Vault' simply can't be trusted to develop a game worth playing. Many of the players who do play this game, religiously I might add, are some of the most mentally unstable and or mentally vacant people you'll ever have the displeasure of interacting with. Just because someone who speaks passionately about it tells you the 'high lights' of the game doesn't make it good.
There is litterally nothing to do except getting ganked. Nothing. Wish there was some sort of pve. Dude, fighting is so boring. Up down left right. Thats it. Being a mage is not viable. Seeiously i regret buying this game and wasted 2 days playing it.
There are dungeons with bosses throughout the map! There are also POIs spread throughout the map with leaders that drop rare and expensive capes. So while getting ganked sucks, there is a lot of pve to do too!
Such a dumb noob, lol
Sounds like you got slapped around and rage quit don’t listen to this guy
You played for 2 days... Haven is there for a reason. You have to put time in before you can enjoy the pve. It's not a game for lazy players.
@@sheadimods2709 The combat is still boring. Bad game.
Star Vault doesn't deserve your hard earned money. This game is a mess.