Aion The Tower of Eternity.Follow

The 'new' that this Korean produced game is supposed to be bringing to the fantasy MMO is in-flight person to person combat (PvPvE). This 3-D fighting is not really new, and, if it's anything like trying to fight underwater in EQ's Kedge Keep - I'm skeptical. The graphics are supposed to be phenomenal however.

It's in beta, but not sure if it's in beta here - might just be in Korea??

Anyone know anything more.

A couple linkshell mates have been keeping their eye on this as well. It looks decent, but I doubt I'd play it.

it looks fun but the pvp i think i will pass if you have to do pvp to get to the pve

Edited, May 1st 2009 12:59am by scottyjames

I'm actually playing on the chinese client right now. I can tell you, the graphics are Really nice. The battle animations are pretty sweet too. Lot's of quests to do, and missions. The flying thing is a little strange. You can't fly everywhere, only in certain areas.
As for PVP, i haven't got to it yet. I'm a lvl 12 Assassin atm. You can duel people, but i haven't as of yet, and have only had 1 request to do so.

I have some screenies, so if you want to see them let me know.

Edit: also, if you have any questions about the game, i'll try to answer them to the best of my limited knowledge. ^^

and about PVP, like i said, haven't got there yet, but it seems you could PVE all day long if that's what you want. An occasional duel with a buddy if you don't care for PVP that much. I do like AION's concept of PVPVE though. You have 2 PC realms, and a NPC realm that will either fight against you, or with you depending on the situation.

Sorry for the wall o' text edit lol.

Edited, May 2nd 2009 10:18am by Tenfooterten

Well played my good man, well played.

Honestly, i'm not sure i'll be able to make it to end-game, before my time runs out. I do know, that the main PVP starts at lvl 25. I think that the lvl cap is 50 atm. There is a place in Sanctum called the Colosseum where you can pvp in small groups.

So when can I expect to play this game in horribly broken english, instead of straight up moonspeak?

No specs released in english yet. The english patch you get for the game is pretty good though. I haven't seen anything really bad.

The graphics options in game are pretty versatile . I'm willing to bet you can play with some pretty low-end pc, and still like it. I have mine turned up to half, just because the lag. I am playing on a Chinese server after all.

I have a mediocre system at best i guess.

AMD Athalon 64 dual core. 2.o ghtz

4 gigs of DDR2 ram

160 gig sata HD

Gforce 8500 GT. (went for the 1 gig of vram over clock speed when i bought this. Before i realized how useless that was ><.)

Running windows 7 Beta 64-bit.


Edit: Heres another SC. This one is in the asmodian city "Pandamonium". The previous one was a teleporter . That's one of the ways to get around.



Edited, May 14th 2009 6:43pm by Tenfooterten