One of the super irritating things in Lost Ark though is that you get like a mini cutscene dialogue thing for every single item of dialogue, where it pans in from your usual view and forces you to read text in a bottom panel rather than having an overlay as a ui component.
It's really fucking annoying when you're talking to a lot of NPCs: zoom in - zoom out - zoom in - zoom out - zoom in - zoom out - zoom in - zoom out. And then they only voice act the first couple of panels of text anyways so all that work and you end up clicking past un-voiced quest/story text at the end of the day anyways.
Just overlay it in a ui window and let us bypass it, for the love of god.
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
It's annoying being constantly unmounted to talk to an NPC and then having to manually mount up to run a few yards and talk to another NPC, unmount, etc.
Last edited by Fencers; 2022-02-09 at 01:25 AM.
Elyon didn't annoy me with stuff that took away from the main point of the game; killing monsters with a big hammer. I could ZOOOM through Elyon.
The combat in Lost Ark is good and that is fun. but it throws a lot of BS in between that is not well done, compelling, skippable, and inconveniences the player.
When I play Elyoj (I still do daily. Just got a full Legendary set). I can hit CTRL, sprint from area to area, and mash F and exit/accept everything in seconds. I can also totally customize every key and command.
In Lost Ark, I can't even add modifiers like Shift+1 to some keys or rebind H and G. That's stupid.
That zoom in and zoom out on every quest is really throwing me off this game
Half of million peak players with founder packs. Time to create a subforum for this?
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What? Can you record where you get dismounted when you talk to NPC? Because that's just not how it works, at least in starting continent - https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/675312635
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Yea, like how? It looks pretty... poor.
Bloom and filter like in Lineage 2 C3 - 2005 game.
Shadows like in Doom 3 - 2004 game. God dammit, even WoW has soft shadows with raytracing. Shadows are so awful. So god damn awful.
Textures - range anywhere from low quality to mediocre at best. From Lineage 2 levels to Rift levels - 2011 game.
UI textures - on 4k they are pixelated blurry mess. And I'm playing Sorceress. Newest class. Yet that mastery Z/X thingy in the hotbar middle looks like complete garbage.
FX for spells are very in your face, but that doesn't make the game pretty, as these sprites are not high res and because lightning sucks complete balls - they light environment like plasma gun in Quake 3 - 1999 game.
Game is really old graphically and looks terrible and I play with highest settings on 4k 32" display with 1.78x DSR - 5120x2880 res.
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More criticism - it's a korean game. Slutty sometimes underage (Artist class) girls in high heels and pantyhose and g-strings. Jesus, I'm not 14 year old boy, annoys a bit.
Instanced maps - game is nowhere near open world. Just a bunch of corridors.
Story is irrelevant, quests are not exciting, but at least they complete fast.
What I do like are mobs exploding in blood shower from various skills. Never gets old. Also, you can mount while in combat. Damn that's nice - not having to run for 10 seconds from mobs just to mount...
Last edited by ldev; 2022-02-09 at 04:45 AM.
My nickname is "LDEV", not "idev". (both font clarification and ez bait)
yall im smh @ ur simplified english
Lol.... put these games you mentioned side by side and repeat that bullshit you just said.
Either something is broken on your screen or you just don't know what the heck you are saying.
Lost Ark is certainly not the most beautiful, but when you compare it to Lineage or Rift or even Quake (lmao) I don't know what the hell you are smoking. Even if you reduce it to these specific parts of the overall picture (which is way more important anyway), you'd not be correct.
What a waste of time you are with these comments. Why does someone even bother writing this nonsense?
Sorry for being so blunt but what the heck? Let's be fair.
What do you even need 4k for when you obviously couldn't even see a barn right in front of you. Where do all these pixels go?
Yep, I agree. The walking animation during cutscenes is pretty garbage as well, not even "sexy", just garbage.More criticism - it's a korean game. Slutty sometimes underage (Artist class) girls in high heels and pantyhose and g-strings. Jesus, I'm not 14 year old boy, annoys a bit.
Instanced maps - game is nowhere near open world. Just a bunch of corridors.
Story is irrelevant, quests are not exciting, but at least they complete fast.
Can't really say I'm "annoyed" though, I'm more like making fun of it. It's not like they were "suprising" us with that, we all knew what we are getting into.
Quests don't matter, story doesn't either, they are so bad, there is no way you can get invested in anything.
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...Le Poète est semblable au prince des nuées
Qui hante la tempête e se rit de l'archer;
Exilé sul le sol au milieu des huées,
Ses ailes de géant l'empêchent de marcher.
Charles Baudelaire
I just can´t get over the character´s design. They looks so soul-less, like most asian designed generic games out there. Iso camera and click to move is also a big no for me :/
I just don´t see the game lasting on the hype for too long. Time will tell.
Managed to get only lvl 14 within 2 hours of playing but initial thoughts are really, REALLY positive.
I wanted to give it a try on saturday as f2p player but friends convinced me to play with them now.
I am really surprised how non-multi-dollar-company could release title so smoothly.
We are slightly overwhelmed by almost everything in the game.
Combat is really good but mobs are just dying too fast i think.
No lag, errors or bugsplats and the game works really good on my shitty 8 yo PC.
We will stick with the game probably for long time.
Last edited by Mendzia; 2022-02-09 at 07:45 AM.
It helps that it's a 3 year old game, and that this release is more a localization for the western market. I think it kind of falls apart in the localization as well, mouths don't match words, sometimes they don't even bother opening their mouth etc. Voice acting is a bit off.
All the core parts of the game are pretty good though.
Originally Posted by Addiena