2015-08-11, 11:07 AM
About party play, I don't think Nexon knows how to do a decent/OK party play.
MS2 is the best evidence, so far I've noticed no reason to party up with someone and kill stuff, Let me elaborate... nothing changed from solo play, Do mind that since the moment I got out of lith harbor I was in a party of two.
However I didn't feel like the party benefited us much, I didn't feel like the exp was better or worse, our map coverage was alright and nothing really changed.
But ignoring mobs, let's talk bossing.
MS2 and MS1 suffer from the same issue. Bosses are poorly designed. If MS1 has stupid scaling wait until you see MS2... 2 million HP on level 15~20 bosses, not even that late in the god damn game, WHEN YOU HIT 100's on the darn things.
Forcing you into "party play" bossing isn't a good thing either, I was actually very happy back when you fight that Bear boss with 8k hp in lith or was it the previous place before lith? Anyways it was fairly challenging and fun, but then the next boss you encounter has 2 million hp?! What the pineapple Nexon? I don't want to go to CH1 and search for 100 people circlejerking around the damn boss and "feel" like I am doing some party play, that's not the damn answer.
Even with 10 friends it would take too much time. See? Scaling is an issue for them.
Sure you shouldn't expect to solo everything but there's a line for off-brand "party play" as well.
MS1 still has somewhat decent party play without forking people entirely, two not so funded players can still have fun bossing.
Both games are the far edge of the spectrum but somehow I feel like MS1 is closer to the middle.
MS2 is the best evidence, so far I've noticed no reason to party up with someone and kill stuff, Let me elaborate... nothing changed from solo play, Do mind that since the moment I got out of lith harbor I was in a party of two.
However I didn't feel like the party benefited us much, I didn't feel like the exp was better or worse, our map coverage was alright and nothing really changed.
But ignoring mobs, let's talk bossing.
MS2 and MS1 suffer from the same issue. Bosses are poorly designed. If MS1 has stupid scaling wait until you see MS2... 2 million HP on level 15~20 bosses, not even that late in the god damn game, WHEN YOU HIT 100's on the darn things.
Forcing you into "party play" bossing isn't a good thing either, I was actually very happy back when you fight that Bear boss with 8k hp in lith or was it the previous place before lith? Anyways it was fairly challenging and fun, but then the next boss you encounter has 2 million hp?! What the pineapple Nexon? I don't want to go to CH1 and search for 100 people circlejerking around the damn boss and "feel" like I am doing some party play, that's not the damn answer.
Even with 10 friends it would take too much time. See? Scaling is an issue for them.
Sure you shouldn't expect to solo everything but there's a line for off-brand "party play" as well.
MS1 still has somewhat decent party play without forking people entirely, two not so funded players can still have fun bossing.
Both games are the far edge of the spectrum but somehow I feel like MS1 is closer to the middle.