[Outspark] Emergency Patch

**Blaaaaaaaah** · 06-15-2008, 02:50 AM

Originally Posted by lvramire

Put yourselves in the shoes of someone first starting the game. First thing you see is a relatively dead starter town (depending on which server you are) and then is the flood of messages from the spam-bots. You likely don't know about the block function so you attempt to use the in-game report button. You send off the report like a conscientious player and stare at the 'Reporting' message on-screen for 30 minutes. You quickly come to the realization that it doesn't do jack. You plunge ahead and get started on quests. Then get disconnected.

I would hate it if that happened to me but I couldn't stop laughing after reading that.

**Ivramire** · 06-16-2008, 12:28 PM

For fun and giggles, I reinstalled Fiesta and got a new character to level 20 on Teva. A nightmare most of the way. Spammers seem to have increased their spam-speed (?) and I lvled so fast because of the new quests I couldn't do much of anything. Dunno if that's a good thing or not. I tried playing with the mind of a new player so I went and checked out the in-game faq which really needs to be improved. Heck, a lotta people here can make a better one, though it was a improvement over the first blatantly wrong one. KQs were as big of a gamble as ever, they really should implement a real tutorial like other games to show people how to do stuff. Consistently out of 6 KQs, there were at least 3 leechers in every one, there really needs to be penalties for this.

I checked out the quests and leveled like a madman. The quests that disconnect you though are a serious ****. The buggy animations and general weirdness gives a whole half-done feel to everything though they'll likely iron that out in the future. Trying to play from the experience of someone new to the game, it wasn't very good at all.

**Blaaaaaaaah** · 06-16-2008, 12:47 PM

^ Ouch. Ever gonna try forwarding your input to someone important at the officials? o: I think that's a pretty useful feedback for them. A lot of people might say they will ignore you but if you type properly, I'm sure they'd at least read it.

Eru · 06-16-2008, 06:01 PM

Originally Posted by lvramire

[...]Trying to play from the experience of someone new to the game, it wasn't very good at all.

Just as confirmation, about 3-4 weeks ago I had recommended to a friend to try Fiesta as he had recently quit WoW due to cost. I told him up front it was more anime-ish and not as "deep" as WoW, but free was good, and that I had fun with it.

We got together this weekend only to find out he had only gotten around to downloading the client *after* the latest patch and he seriously thought I was just pulling a prank on him. He said he tried playing as both a Mage and a Fighter and commented on the buggy/twitchy animations, and he also got very frustrated by the "tutorial" not leading him through many things. And he never got to do even 1 KQ. His overall impression was this was a half-done game that "had potential" if they ever fixed it

**Ivramire** · 06-16-2008, 06:03 PM

SKiNG, get over here and read this.

I'm not going on officials again.

**booyah8876** · 06-16-2008, 06:43 PM

Originally Posted by lvramire

For fun and giggles, I reinstalled Fiesta and got a new character to level 20 on Teva. A nightmare most of the way. Spammers seem to have increased their spam-speed (?) and I lvled so fast because of the new quests I couldn't do much of anything. Dunno if that's a good thing or not. I tried playing with the mind of a new player so I went and checked out the in-game faq which really needs to be improved. Heck, a lotta people here can make a better one, though it was a improvement over the first blatantly wrong one. KQs were as big of a gamble as ever, they really should implement a real tutorial like other games to show people how to do stuff. Consistently out of 6 KQs, there were at least 3 leechers in every one, there really needs to be penalties for this.

I checked out the quests and leveled like a madman. The quests that disconnect you though are a serious ****. The buggy animations and general weirdness gives a whole half-done feel to everything though they'll likely iron that out in the future. Trying to play from the experience of someone new to the game, it wasn't very good at all.

Doesn't that sound like BK a little?

The Ã¼ber lvling speed without the tutorials to show you how to do anything part...

the spammers/ks/leechers in KQ not so much.

=)

Originally Posted by lvramire

SKiNG, get over here and read this.

I'm not going on officials again.

Lol xD

**Hessah** · 06-17-2008, 01:07 AM

Originally Posted by Eruantien

Just as confirmation, about 3-4 weeks ago I had recommended to a friend to try Fiesta as he had recently quit WoW due to cost. I told him up front it was more anime-ish and not as "deep" as WoW, but free was good, and that I had fun with it.

We got together this weekend only to find out he had only gotten around to downloading the client *after* the latest patch and he seriously thought I was just pulling a prank on him. He said he tried playing as both a Mage and a Fighter and commented on the buggy/twitchy animations, and he also got very frustrated by the "tutorial" not leading him through many things. And he never got to do even 1 KQ. His overall impression was this was a half-done game that "had potential" if they ever fixed it

KQ use to be the thing that gives Fiesta a "+" compare to other games (in terms of uniqueness...) but from wat lvra said... you'd be lucky to win nowadays...

well that is if the newbies know about KQ... i've came across so many ppl that complains about lvl at lvl 17! turns out that they didnt know about kingdom quest...

I think all newbies needs to be linked to OUR wiki's KQ tutorial

Slime KQ is when they get their 1st taste... then before you know it, they're thrown into Mara where you could easily pull too many bosses...

maybe they are lvling too fast.. they cant even get use to the gist of the game yet, and they're thrown into the next stage...

**Sero** · 06-17-2008, 10:22 AM

Hell yeah it's half done

Almost everything has mistakes... Dun get me started

And I'm not only talking about monsters and quest captions, and monster names and drop and quest item names and ugh many many things...

And I think I read in a recent thread from someone who posted and said that the change of animations happened because it is the same as BK and Shine Online or whatever...

DO WE HAVE TO BE THE SAME WITH THEM?! CAN'T WE BE ORIGINAL?!?! WEREN'T THE ANIMATIONS GOOD ENOUGH ALREADY?!?!?!

Well except for like 1 or 2 animations which are better than the old animations, such as that of Devastate... And I dunno but yeah what I think of majority is LAME >_>

Villi · 06-17-2008, 11:31 AM

Fucking true, they messed it all up. Fucking failure!

**Ivramire** · 06-17-2008, 12:32 PM

I'd wait and see how they iron it out before coming to such drastic conclusions.

We were moving towards merging all along, where do you think all the new content comes from. Might not even be up to Outspark how the actual gameplay progresses per their agreement with the actual devs, I wouldn't jump ship so soon. All the translating and adapting for the international version which is what we're talking about is done by a small core of people and though I hate to say it, it technically is still Beta however stupid that may sound. Bugs and broken stuff by the boatload is part of the agreement.