Elsword

I was a bit annoyed at Dragon Nest since I didn't know what to do nor how to add someone for help, so if I can start playing at the same time as one of you bilingual folks, I might give it a try.

/S4 withdrawal

Why are you using a proxy for the download? You're supposed to turn off VPN just after you press "game start." It won't crash if you have your VPN off.

Oh I dunno, I tried turning it off before and it stopped the download. Must have been a coincidence. So you're telling me I can download the game without fear of my internet cutting out midway now? Because earlier I was 9 minutes away from finishing (I'm downloading at like 50~200kb/s from home and it takes like 3 hours so that was really close) and my mom decides to start up her torrents and the downloader quits. If I can't get this pomegranate to work by tomorrow evening I'm just gonna say pineapple it.

Oh I dunno, I tried turning it off before and it stopped the download. Must have been a coincidence. So you're telling me I can download the game without fear of my internet cutting out midway now? Because earlier I was 9 minutes away from finishing (I'm downloading at like 50~200kb/s from home and it takes like 3 hours so that was really close) and my mom decides to start up her torrents and the downloader quits. If I can't get this pomegranate to work by tomorrow evening I'm just gonna say pineapple it.

Yeah. The very instance you click game start, go to your task bar, right click VPN and click "disconnect." It'll disconnect before the downloader starts up and you'll be 100% on your own connection. You have to be quick, though.

Yeah. The very instance you click game start, go to your task bar, right click VPN and click "disconnect." It'll disconnect before the downloader starts up and you'll be 100% on your own connection. You have to be quick, though.

Well damn, it's going a lot faster now. Thanks for the tip.

Double posting

I finally got a chance to give this game a spin. The installer was still stupid and would close if my internet stopped working, but at least I was downloading at ~400 kb/s without the proxy open and everything worked out. I still have a lot of complaints about the process of getting the game to run at all, but I'll get to that later. If the game comes out in English, I assume it won't be nearly as difficult.

The actual game is actually quite a lot of fun. There are a ton of parallels to Dungeon Fighter, so I'll have to compare the two. You have a small town that acts as a central hub with quest givers and shopkeepers, and then you have a large number of dungeons to explore that get progressively harder. The area leading to the dungeons is a little map where you can assemble a party of up to 4 people. The gameplay is also in the 2d side scrolling beat-em-up format. The only real difference that I saw here was that the characters in Elsword look a lot better than the ones in DFO.

I only got to level 5 and didn't understand enough Japanese to bother raising any skills, but so far the game looks better than Dungeon Fighter overall. Instead of a flat field like that of TMNT, Punisher, and all those other arcade games, it's a platformer. You have some terrain to work with to approach enemies from different ways. I prefer this style; you may not. The innate arsenal of skills is also much larger. You start with two skills as in DFO, but DFO has a very limited number of character actions that are not skill-based. In DFO, you have normal attack combo, dash attack, and an aerial attack that remains the same no matter if you're jumping forward or straight up. In ES, you have two basic attack options, which lead to many combos that you can do right off the bat. The control is also a lot more fluid, although I found it pretty difficult to consistently do some of the combos that involved holding a direction midway through my normal attack combo.

Playing the Japanese version of this is a real peach, though.
- Need to do the VPN pomegranate
- Need to close the VPN at the right moment if you don't want the download to be really slow
- Installer closes if your Internet hiccups
- For some reason the site never lets me log in the first time; it forces me to enter a CAPTCHA in Hiragana. I know enough Hiragana to get half the letters and where to look at a reference chart for the others; good luck if you don't know any.
- I couldn't get the game to run without the VPN open; the game closed as soon as it loaded due to what is presumably a lack of a connection. This wasn't too bad though, nothing was slow except picking up items, which is automatic anyway (just run over them and watch them fly to you a few seconds later)

Playing the Japanese version of this is a real peach, though.
- Need to do the VPN pomegranate
- Need to close the VPN at the right moment if you don't want the download to be really slow
- Installer closes if your Internet hiccups
- For some reason the site never lets me log in the first time; it forces me to enter a CAPTCHA in Hiragana. I know enough Hiragana to get half the letters and where to look at a reference chart for the others; good luck if you don't know any.
- I couldn't get the game to run without the VPN open; the game closed as soon as it loaded due to what is presumably a lack of a connection. This wasn't too bad though, nothing was slow except picking up items, which is automatic anyway (just run over them and watch them fly to you a few seconds later)

The VPN connection for the site isn't that bad, really. It could be a LOT worse, like JMS is. lol

I have no idea why the site keeps doing that stupid "login attempt failed" crap. It happens to me on a lot of the Hangame websites if you try to log in to a game website rather than their main page.

You can't run the game itself without a VPN at all? O_o That's... strange. I didn't think there was an IP block on the game at all. None of my other friends have any problems connecting to the game itself.

ALSO, if you want a list of skills, go here : http://elswordhq.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

There are also user-made guides on their forums, if you decide to view them.

I was going to play this game, i could even accept the requirement to use the VPN every time you want to log in.

But i must agree with Dusk. pineappleing seriously, i give up.
You must untick VPN in the pineappleing right time, if you don't, it may close, or the speed will become really pomegranatety.
Took me a few minutes just to get the installer into a decent speed, and when it did donwload 40%, it closed.
AGAIN decided to try it, closed at 197/869mb.
But once again, decided to try it and leave it while going to school, closed lacking pineappleing 50 mb.

The website doesn't let me log in until the third attempt. Internet Explorer is slow with the default speed, and way slower with VPN.
It takes a few minutes just to do that process and reach the game start button. While it would take less than a minute to do so in Mozilla, Chrome or whatever.
Seriously, i've lost my patience with NHN, it outpasses any other company. Dragon Nest requires a COMPLETELY japanese OS, and now this game has NO download link, only opens with IE, and requires a VPN each time you log in and if you fail to untick that VPN, you must start over and wait forever for the page to load.

That game is completely awesome, too bad it's run by such a pomegranatety company.