Rhys
04-07-2004, 04:07 AM
Well, it's really more of a general rant than a tale, but here it goes:
About a week ago, I find this really nifty game called Survival Project ( http://english.spgame.com ). At first glance, it's amazing. Real-time fighting, nice graphics, and humourous engrish (which, if you didn't know by now, is my favorite pseudo-english way of speech, even above hax0r). So, of course, I decide to download this game.
First, I'm a bit confused as to what I'm supposed to do (and the engrish isn't helping a whole lot, even though it is inducing some mighty hearty laughs). Finally, I find out what to do and I'm off to create my first game. I choose Hawk, because he looks cool (I'll get back to this point in a few minutes).
The game loads up, and I'm in a cave. The music and graphics remind me a lot of Gunbound, but the gameplay is a lot like Zelda. A very good combination, if used correctly. Fortunately, this game does it very well, and the fighting is very fluid. However, the controls are a bit awkward at first, and it's difficult to maneuver my character around. I get the hang of it after a few minutes, and I'm off to collect some crystals. I collect them, and am promptly rewarded with a "Finish!" screen, which is very pleasing.
I create another game, and about halfway through, I get a surprise. Lo and behold, I gain a level. I am rewarded with an item card. I leave my game and I fiddle around with the UI on the chat screen until I figure out how to equip my item card. Then, something hits me... The server I was just in... nobody could join my game. The first server was created just for newbies to learn how to play. Very smart. I join the next server (server 1, the newbie server was server 0) and decide to join my first game with real people.
Which is where the trouble started.
I join a game, and already in there are two other players: both Hawks as well. After a bit of playing, I realize that I had been suckered into playing a Hawk. He was garbage, and the only reason he even existed on the lower level servers was because he "looked cool", which is exactly why I chose him. Knowing that variety is best when in a group, I decide to switch my character to Roland. I go through the game just fine until about server 3, which is really where things started going sour.
If there's one problem with Survival Project, it's the community.
I joined a game with some people, and I find a treasure chest. It looked interesting to me, so I decided to hit it and see if I can open it to get the goodies inside. I do, and I get yelled at. "Share the chests!" they say. I apologize and confess that I didn't know what regulations they had imposed on chest-hunting. I follow the higher-level players in my group through the cave (the environments are very boring, only caves so far for Quest Mode) and they take every other chest they find.
I've decided that they've had their fill (each had gotten about three chests in a total of two games, and I had gotten one), and in the next game I decide to get another. I get it, and I get yelled at again. I explain my reasoning, and before the next quest starts, I get kicked out of the game. Fuckers.
So I decided to try my hand at Player vs. Player (PvP). This was even worse than my Quest Mode experience. I had joined a 3v3 game, and I got knocked back into a corner and I got killed 3v1. Unfair, yes, but I would just have to try harder next time. I respawn, and again, I get thrown to a corner and jumped. Again I respawn, and again I am beaten senseless by an overwhelming horde of people while my team-mates sit idly by.
Fortunately, the PvP in this game is amazingly fun, or I would have quit long ago.
Fast-forward to today. The game is so disgusting it hurts, but for some reason I want to play it. The community is god-awful, the in-game economy is shit, and, while the characters are balanced at lower levels, when you get to higher servers you see nothing but Xyrho's and Shamoo's. I constantly find myself bailing my teammates out in 3v1 situations similar to the ones I faced, but it hardly works, as the mob of moronic children focus their attention on me, or whoever has the lowest life.
When I attack, I make sure it's an even fight. I want a challenge. These people... they care nothing about challenges. They play solely to get better, and they're ruining the game for everyone. When I get someone to a small amount of life, they run away and their cronies attack me until I have about as much life as the person I was chasing, then the person I was just tailing comes after me and, surprise surprise, I get jumped in a corner.
It's kind of sad how a game so good could be ruined by such stupid, stupid people.
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What would I do to fix the game? Simple.
1. Allow hosts to permanently ban people from games. (For example, JoeBob joins a Quest Mode game and takes all the chests. I kick him from the game and start the game. Once the game is started, I can no longer kick people from the game, and JoeBob comes back in during the game and steals all the chests. Again.)
2. Allow hosts to kick and ban people during the game as well (see the example above).
3. Decrease the damage that Xyrho and Shamoo do. This would help alleviate the thousands of players who use them.
4. Decrease the knockback on all projectile shots, except Hawk. This would make people want to use Hawk at higher levels, and it would make up for Hawk's short range.
5. Increase Aurelli's BP. I have only seen about four people use Aurelli ever, and my friend was one of them.
6. Decrease Aurelli's exhaustion of BP. She's useless, plain and simple.
7. Decrease Shamoo's speed.
8. Make elements less valuable by increasing the number of elements that spawn, and decreasing the number of elements required to upgrade your equipment.
9. Patch the god damn game. There are so many hacks, scams, and useless stupidity that goes on in this game. If the developers weren't idiots, they would know to upgrade their game after a while, or it will turn into Diablo 2 all over again (and, while D2 was fun, it was the most hack-filled, moron-ridden game I had ever seen).
10. Possibly a monthly fee. Why, you ask? Well, I feel that a lot of the people that play the game are very young, too young to get a job and earn money. These same people are the ones that jump my teammates and I during PvP games, and they would be exterminated if they were required to pay money for the game. This would also convince the developers to patch the game more often. Less patches = less happy customers (like me) = less money they get.
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Discuss.
About a week ago, I find this really nifty game called Survival Project ( http://english.spgame.com ). At first glance, it's amazing. Real-time fighting, nice graphics, and humourous engrish (which, if you didn't know by now, is my favorite pseudo-english way of speech, even above hax0r). So, of course, I decide to download this game.
First, I'm a bit confused as to what I'm supposed to do (and the engrish isn't helping a whole lot, even though it is inducing some mighty hearty laughs). Finally, I find out what to do and I'm off to create my first game. I choose Hawk, because he looks cool (I'll get back to this point in a few minutes).
The game loads up, and I'm in a cave. The music and graphics remind me a lot of Gunbound, but the gameplay is a lot like Zelda. A very good combination, if used correctly. Fortunately, this game does it very well, and the fighting is very fluid. However, the controls are a bit awkward at first, and it's difficult to maneuver my character around. I get the hang of it after a few minutes, and I'm off to collect some crystals. I collect them, and am promptly rewarded with a "Finish!" screen, which is very pleasing.
I create another game, and about halfway through, I get a surprise. Lo and behold, I gain a level. I am rewarded with an item card. I leave my game and I fiddle around with the UI on the chat screen until I figure out how to equip my item card. Then, something hits me... The server I was just in... nobody could join my game. The first server was created just for newbies to learn how to play. Very smart. I join the next server (server 1, the newbie server was server 0) and decide to join my first game with real people.
Which is where the trouble started.
I join a game, and already in there are two other players: both Hawks as well. After a bit of playing, I realize that I had been suckered into playing a Hawk. He was garbage, and the only reason he even existed on the lower level servers was because he "looked cool", which is exactly why I chose him. Knowing that variety is best when in a group, I decide to switch my character to Roland. I go through the game just fine until about server 3, which is really where things started going sour.
If there's one problem with Survival Project, it's the community.
I joined a game with some people, and I find a treasure chest. It looked interesting to me, so I decided to hit it and see if I can open it to get the goodies inside. I do, and I get yelled at. "Share the chests!" they say. I apologize and confess that I didn't know what regulations they had imposed on chest-hunting. I follow the higher-level players in my group through the cave (the environments are very boring, only caves so far for Quest Mode) and they take every other chest they find.
I've decided that they've had their fill (each had gotten about three chests in a total of two games, and I had gotten one), and in the next game I decide to get another. I get it, and I get yelled at again. I explain my reasoning, and before the next quest starts, I get kicked out of the game. Fuckers.
So I decided to try my hand at Player vs. Player (PvP). This was even worse than my Quest Mode experience. I had joined a 3v3 game, and I got knocked back into a corner and I got killed 3v1. Unfair, yes, but I would just have to try harder next time. I respawn, and again, I get thrown to a corner and jumped. Again I respawn, and again I am beaten senseless by an overwhelming horde of people while my team-mates sit idly by.
Fortunately, the PvP in this game is amazingly fun, or I would have quit long ago.
Fast-forward to today. The game is so disgusting it hurts, but for some reason I want to play it. The community is god-awful, the in-game economy is shit, and, while the characters are balanced at lower levels, when you get to higher servers you see nothing but Xyrho's and Shamoo's. I constantly find myself bailing my teammates out in 3v1 situations similar to the ones I faced, but it hardly works, as the mob of moronic children focus their attention on me, or whoever has the lowest life.
When I attack, I make sure it's an even fight. I want a challenge. These people... they care nothing about challenges. They play solely to get better, and they're ruining the game for everyone. When I get someone to a small amount of life, they run away and their cronies attack me until I have about as much life as the person I was chasing, then the person I was just tailing comes after me and, surprise surprise, I get jumped in a corner.
It's kind of sad how a game so good could be ruined by such stupid, stupid people.
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What would I do to fix the game? Simple.
1. Allow hosts to permanently ban people from games. (For example, JoeBob joins a Quest Mode game and takes all the chests. I kick him from the game and start the game. Once the game is started, I can no longer kick people from the game, and JoeBob comes back in during the game and steals all the chests. Again.)
2. Allow hosts to kick and ban people during the game as well (see the example above).
3. Decrease the damage that Xyrho and Shamoo do. This would help alleviate the thousands of players who use them.
4. Decrease the knockback on all projectile shots, except Hawk. This would make people want to use Hawk at higher levels, and it would make up for Hawk's short range.
5. Increase Aurelli's BP. I have only seen about four people use Aurelli ever, and my friend was one of them.
6. Decrease Aurelli's exhaustion of BP. She's useless, plain and simple.
7. Decrease Shamoo's speed.
8. Make elements less valuable by increasing the number of elements that spawn, and decreasing the number of elements required to upgrade your equipment.
9. Patch the god damn game. There are so many hacks, scams, and useless stupidity that goes on in this game. If the developers weren't idiots, they would know to upgrade their game after a while, or it will turn into Diablo 2 all over again (and, while D2 was fun, it was the most hack-filled, moron-ridden game I had ever seen).
10. Possibly a monthly fee. Why, you ask? Well, I feel that a lot of the people that play the game are very young, too young to get a job and earn money. These same people are the ones that jump my teammates and I during PvP games, and they would be exterminated if they were required to pay money for the game. This would also convince the developers to patch the game more often. Less patches = less happy customers (like me) = less money they get.
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Discuss.