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Ok basically I want someone to sell me on MO. I am currently playing Darkfall and have been playing it for about 3-4 months and I am having fun. I don't have a lot of time to play but the short periods I play I have fun. Before I even got Darkfall I was interested in MO from all the things they said you can do in the game. I am interested in a lot of the gameplay features that I have "READ" about. I tried Mortal Online OB and wasn't very impressed with my first impression. Now granted I know I didn't spend much time playing and just like Darkfall my initial reaction was that I wasn't going to like Darkfall but I stuck it out and I very much like Darkfall, so it could be the same.
To me when I first logged into the game the world looked really nice to me and I was trying to figure out the controls when all of a sudden I was attacked in town after playing for about 15 minutes. I was killed and turned to the Ghost. I couldn't quite figure out what to do next so I did some research and found out I had to talk to a priest. Well I walked around forever to find one and I could not find one. Then I found an option that will automatically teleport you to the nearest priest to be revived so I did that. I revived at a priest but then I was out in the middle of nowhere. I walked for like 45 minutes trying to find the town I was in or at least something but it was mainly all flat land with a couple trees. I seen a few gazelle or deer run by in the 45 minutes of searching for something. Now I finally figured out how to attack and I thought I would attack it. So I figured out how to equip the axe and swing on the gazelle. Well after I swung it took a few seconds for the game to actually recognize I hit the gazelle. Maybe it was just server lag at the time, I wasn't really sure. Is this a common thing? It really seemed like a second or 2 of lag before it would hit the gazelle. But I got past that and killed the gazelle. I wasn't very impressed with the death effects of the gazelle just disappearing and guts falling to the ground. Is this how it will always be when you kill something? Also to me it seems like all the combat animations aren't very "synched" or "fluid" at the moment. Maybe that's the wrong impression I am getting but It just seems like something is missing with combat animations. I guess its hard for me to explain. Well anyways I searched and search some more to find something but all it seemed like was a couple of hills and flat land with mountains in the background. So I pretty much gave up at that point.
I wound up logging back in at a later time and create a new character and things seemed a little smoother for me at least. The reaction times seemed a little better so maybe it was just lag my first time in. But I walked around for a bit and didn't really give it much of a try that time around.
I like ideas of being a thief but I don't know much about that yet. And is there a prison system or a Bounty Hunter system? And I believe I read there are all kinds of jobs or professions to choose from to skill up in. I like there being a lot of "choices". One thing I would like to know about too is if there will be any motivation to specialize in a certain skill like Melee or Magic or Archery. In Darkfall everyone pretty much jump cast R50 nukes with a few cycle of other spells in them. Archery isn't used for much at this point and Melee does good damage but there's not much specialization to be a pure Melee type. I have read good things about player housing in MO and also do you have player ran cities and how does that work exactly?
I just basically want to be sold on this game because I think it has a lot of potential but I am just not finding myself being able to get very into it at the moment.
Also how close is the game to being "release ready"? Are they fixing bugs/glitches and updating things regularly and do you actually see the changes on a daily basis?
Thanks to whoever wants to have an input in this.