I think the Dark Knight Trilogy are the best superhero films ever made, and that's coming from a huge Marvel fan. As I get older, I'm starting to enjoy Batman more than Spiderman. I even enjoyed his movies more than the MCU films.
@@PiercingsByVirgo I disagree with your comment the Two first Dark Knight films was good and Heath Ledger was a great Joker the third I agree was trash.
I heard an error in the first few seconds of the vid. Sony first had the IP rights to it as it was first released on PS3 and pc, under the publisher Sony Online Entertainment. Once SOE sold all their ips that was under it's umbrella it was bought and rebranded to daybreak game company. All games under SOE were amazing until daybreak got their hands on it. Rip Everquest.
This game needs to end and they need to announce DCUO 2, literally all the veterans would come back. The game was at its peak and perfection around 2012-2014
I started playing when the skill points cap was 180. As time past it went to 320. I had 305 out of the 320. I stopped playing because it became more pay to play. Fast forward I'm hearing it's like 850 SP. No way in hell I'm coming back to this grind. You would think they scrap this and move onto DCUO 2 by now. Such a failure of a.game that had remarkable potential...
Disagree. This is one of the few ftp mmo's that are actually fun and doesn't require me to keep my pc upgraded. It saves money. I wish they expanded on it actually. I don't care for realistic characters in a comicbook game. Actually think it is better than swtor. Biggest issue is how much they try to push you to spend money to satisfy your own impatience and need for quicker rewards.
The character customization really saves this game for me, the one game where u can truly explore your fanboy fantasy matchups and team ups. Dcuo is the only game where I can play as Deadpool team up with a ninja turtle and fight an evil batman, no other game can provide that experience and that's the main reason I as a comic book fan love this game
I can even say as someone who’s not into comic books, I love the character creator, although I think every person comic book fan or not wants to be a superhero.
this right here lol, making a character n getting to level 30 is pretty fun, but endgame is super grindy... btw I also have a deadpool character lol, used to have an iron man, spider-man, and a she hulk I recreated but i deleted em to make other characters lmao
Remember the game when it was in it's prime... they ruined the power-balancing quite a lot for me. Raids used to be packed to the punch it was quite a lot of fun. Most of the random people in ques sucked real bad, but I always thought of it as another layer of a challenge to overcome. I explored EVERY single place in the overworld for briefs and investigations (a kind of collectible) and farmed hero missions for skill points, I had like 200 when 300 were the limit, which I considered quite the feat haha
@Aikim Shemour Roberts hell yeah! And then you'd wait there with like three or four persons for new people to join the raid midway, but most of them left ASAP 😂 Fortress of solitude was hell with random noobs...
The pay to win stuff doesn't bother me because the main fun is making alts and playing through the content until level 30 anyway. There is a lot of lore and interesting and fun things to do in the open world if you look for them.
I remember when I first got this on my PS3 and the download time was so long that I started it halfway through the day and when I woke up the next day it still wasn’t done. Good times
omg yeah bruh I started on ps3 too with that insane download time and then each loading screen was like at least a few minutes of jus waiting lol now when I play on my pc I dont even get to see the loading screen wallpaper lol it loads in like a sec maybe less!
The game was very nice 10 years ago, when they added time capsules and tied skill points to it, it was damned to fail. For those that are not familiar with time capsules, the company added boxes that drop cosmetics to the game which could be bought with real money and then they tied it to character progression in form of skill points. Many veterans ran away, sooner or later... and on top of that the cosmetics were also tied to RNG. The game maybe has 1000 active players at the highest level across all platforms.
I have been playing this game since launch and have put it down and picked it back up so many times. Peak dcuo was when I was in a very active league and would set up missions, raids, help lower level folks and have costume contests. I recently picked it back up yet against there is just something missing these days.
@@beanorod-zt2nl last time i was on it was noticably way less active than it was around 2013-2014, some of the nightclubs and police stations are empty when back then almost all the spawn locations were packed. there even used to be a queue to enter but i havent seen it for a long time now
Me too hun 13 years an goin i believe 22 characters an I never find it boring wish they do more with PVE Legends that was fun side grind an nice to play the levels with anyone of the Dc roster unlocked still got Supergirl from the show lol.
@@beanorod-zt2nl A lot but find a League if you seriously want to play a lot of kids that do not understand roles well I guess that's always been there lol.
as of the house of legends update all dlc is free and as for artifacts and allies it’s more pay to progress quicker but it is easy to do it as you rank up from dlc 1-44, completely f2p players do have it a little harder but not impossible, premium players are pretty much best option at this point as minus the 150 replay badges and 500 marketplace currency every month plus the extra daily rewards and all powers that legendary players get there’s no difference between the two, best thing to do is one month of membership try all the powers keep the ones you want on your account and your good
Great first impression vid! 👍 4 points overlooked & could be worth of a mention. Since your new to the game it is not necessary easy to spot. 1. Monetization; Model is actually better then before. Content access #DLC use to be lock behind subscriptions, it is now lock behind player's progression #artifact. This made the game more accessible to everyone, specifically FTP. But, yes the whale curve is more steep on end game. Note* Sub is still available, it's more a season pass. Have daily rewards & extra convenience like +inventory. But it is not mandatory. *keep in mind daybreak was also brought recently by a new company focusing on mobile game. This could explain the shift, still for the better. 2. Feats; this is what's keep me playing since 2016, awsome feature to keep you playing. As you progress in the game, everything you do will mostly have a Feat attach to it. Ex: exploration, styles, collectibles, grind, pvp, etc..This is definitely something alot of game's should learn from. Feats turns into Skill Points and those can be use to unlock.. Ex; weapons combo, mouvement, stats, dps, etc.. So this will counters (PTW shortcuts) like lvling skip, gears, artifacts .. since player's have to physically play the game to be a top dog. You will have some feats behind paywall like time capsule, but they only contribute for maybe 25% of all feats. 3. Armory; A feature that is actually the best thing ever in MMO. You can customize combat move, styles, skills, mouvement, basically everything & save it at your lair/base. Instead of changing stance from dps to tank, like you did in video, you swap armory instead. So now, not only your loadout is different, but also the way you look, your stats. So you can kinda have 2 to 16 perso into 1 without re-doing a thing. It's brilliant ! 4. Rehashing: Biggest downer of this game personally. Aside a few DLC like Atlantis, most update re-use same asset. So map look the same, dungeons. So I'm not against it, but there is a limit before it become stale. With the monetization prices they asking it doesn't justify contents they put out over the course of 44 DLC. I feel like a cow eating the same sunburn grass patch for 7+ years, sadly. Any other mentions is described very well explain in your video & on point!
Skillpoints arent AS important now as they used to be. Once you cap the main stats. You are set pretty much. The arts and allies are very grindy yes. But through using the Nth metal detecters. Save the Universe event and daily login correctly. Especially if you become a legendary member. You can make the grind far less painful. It is pay to win at times. But i have been playing freely majority of said time and have almost all i need at this point. Majority of which i have only been grinding out for a little over a year now. I still very much enjoy the game and truth be told the game doesn't truly open up until you get to lvl 30 and explore all the content to the game. Legends pve is anoyher fun side mode that i personally wish would get more love. New playable characters. Updated models. Etc.
??? You get access to all 40+ DLCs for FREE. No need to have a Subscription anymore. That was changed about 2 and a half years ago. All the Subscription really give you now is Daily rewards... more bank space.... and 6 character slots instead of 2. The people who told you that you still needed a Subscription sadly misled you. There is a lot of Haters when it comes to DCUO..... you should be careful if you make a video using second hand information. EDIT; I am a 20 482 hrs player on PS... + no idea how many hrs on PC. ;)
Good video - as a vet of this game (since beta) I'd agree except one important point - the monetization issues almost disappear if you sub, and you get a tonne of bonus stuff if you do. I've kept my sub active for years even when not playing. That's not for everyone, but almost every mmo will ultimately benefit from you subbing at top levels.
You don't even need to pay a sub anymore either. I paid a subscription fee for years but came back last year without a sub and it's not even neccessary anymore.
Just to add to the whole pay wall thing…because you need high level artifacts(160+ x3 at least) to be competent at your role, the game PUSHES YOU BUT NOT FORCE you to spend money in order to play because 1) if you don’t have highs artifacts it’s hard to do your role and will leave u frustrated especially as a newer player breaking into endgame content when you not able to do your role properly. 2) groups tend to ask for certain artifact combos when forming 3) bad performance can lead you to being black listed from the end game content groups 4) if your arts are low, 8/10 you will get kicked 5) there’s no tutorial when it comes to using artifacts taught by the game so people just throw on anyone’s that sound cool and level them up with their money just to find out they aren’t good artifacts 6) lack of fresh content and lack of unique mechanics Artifacts/ dps comps ruined the potential for the game but made daybreak a lot of money from the business side. We didn’t have artifacts when the game first started up until like 2017? So the way they made money was through time capsules and replays mostly and tokens. Finally the leaderboard system. The current state of dc is all about the leaderboard and nothing else. That is the only thing keeping the game engaging for almost all the end game players. But created a toxic community that only cared about the scoreboard and who was on top. Top mmos like ESO do not have a leaderboard and their community as large as it is barely has toxicity amongst them. Just my two sense on the state of the game atm.
Yeah I remember playing around 2011 - 2016ish and I really loved the game. The monetization was a bit annoying back then but it sounds 100x worse now. No way I'm getting back in unless the game gets a total revamp.
I've been able to play alts without having artifacts past level 60. Artifacts are overrated and their importance is inflated by players that already wasted a ton of money on them.
Never cared about the leader board I have a League of Non Toxic players if you ever want to play end content an do not care what relics you use :) hated the relics system an also like it since I'm usually Healing.
@@shadowdouglas450 Yeah was about to say the getting kicked and blacklisted bit sounds way more like a player/elitist problem then the game. There will always be A-holes who don't want to play with you if you aren't at "Their Level".
It's probably worth mentioning that the DCUO premium subscription (Daybreak All Access) also applies to Planetside 2, Everquest, and Everquest 2 all within the same subscription. If you're into any of those games, there's decent value in that subscription.
Ya but all of those games ( and ive played all of them and some still do) rely too much on cash shops except, Planetside 2 once you get to a certain rank and unlock most of your abilities with certs you can easily unlock everything in the CS with certs than cash. I mean there is no reason to play EQ1 or 2 when there is private servers for those , hell most of Daybreak/SOE games are on private servers now SWG, Vanguard, Pirates of the Burning Sea etc. So there is really only 2 games worth playing for that sub is DCU and Planetside 2
im a 10k hr player. theres 2 big things wrong with DCUO. 1: the money hungry devs who grab us by our ankles and shake us to see what falls out. 2: the community its self. most of the community complain the noobs have no idea what to do. then complain theres not enough players for higher content whilst refusing to help anyone newer to gear up to join endgame. the poor newer players are left with a system of 'grind your ass off in content no longer used or buy your way up.' the game could be so much more lively and genuinely better if the devs got rid of the p2w crap and the players gave a shit about the game they love.
The most similar competitor (as another superhero themed MMORPG) out there and active is Champions Online, which afaik doesn't get any updates besides maybe new shop items, but not pay 2 win. It is kind of sad that there are only these two official options in this subgenre (+ some private City of Heroes versions). There were some projects, but I haven't heard about them in ages. DCUO is still an MMO that I would have liked to spend more time on, but somehow it didn't kept me interested for extended periods of time. Still a regular candidate when I need my superhero fix.
City of Hero's an Villain's was 1st game like this an it was epic. But i still have love for DCU online i put so much time in the game. AN have like 20 characters.
You should try City of Heroes. There's like 5 different private servers and they get updated regularly with seasonal events, new powers and QoL updates.
I wish they would have updated the style customization a tad and added some kind of scaling to parts. If I wanted a more alien looking character I could change the shape/size of the head and or limbs or scaling the size of emblems along with the placement would be a nice update
I used to enjoy spending several hours at night trying to beat nexus years ago, even when I had to work the next morning. I used to be one of the top trolls in the game, then I gave up for several reasons, all pertaining to the direction daybreak were going. I tried coming back a few times, but I lost enjoyment and no longer could justify paying $15 per month for a game that i no longer enjoyed. If they went back to how it was before, I would returned in a heartbeat.
All the 44 Episodes are free. I don't know who told you different, but they lied. You can't play the episode until your Combat Rating is higher. After you hit level 30 will will start the get a Combat Rating or CR for short. in order to play episodes 10 - 20 your CR should be say CR 100. To play episode 44 your CR should be CR 310. These are just examples but you get the idea. Paying to play the episode was true but no longer.
@@Ookami20 jus curious why yall prefer skimming? I have a character with each movement style n skimming is literally jus re skinned flying lol but its still cool, I think I like flying/skimming n superspeed over acrobatics tho but acro is still cool too
I started playing in 2011 on ps3 and just got back in last week and am having fun with it. You can use all your money now without membership and have more inventory space
make 10sec text explanash for the mouseover preview and keep the style & jokes man, stopped the vid to tell how much do I love it and think its a great content
For as long as it has been, DCUO did just add new content with the "Milestone" universe, aka Static Shock. So it got something, but yes, its been on dying rampage. It's partly due to monetization and it just being old at this point. Yet, at this current time its one of the only or few superhero mmos out there. There was, I believe, "City of Heroes", but again that died and the publishers shut it down.
Again, like I said, I’m pretty sure that that’s no longer a thing all players free to play or not get access to all the content the last time I played you did it used to be based on the sub but I don’t think it is anymore. the sub is more revolving around things like getting the keys for the lock boxes that you pick up getting, I don’t even remember what the sub does anymore because the last time I played I didn’t solve it wasn’t needed anymore. The sub used to unlock the limits on how much you could spend. For instance, you could only hold 2000 and at the rest when an escrow when you spent 2000 it would get replaced at escrow but your max purchase was 2000 that was eliminated years and years ago. I honestly can’t even talk about what the sub gives you as far as perks go now because I didn’t find it necessary. The last of my played at all and die. If I don’t have to buy a sub if I don’t feel like I have to buy it then nobody feels like it if I play elder scrolls, you gotta buy the sub if you play, fallout 76 you gotta buy the sub for the same reason unlimited crafting stash in both caseseverything else is just a perk to get with it but that unlimited stash required. If you’re gonna play the game seriously this game didn’t feel like that was necessary.
I think the biggest issue with that type of monetization is that eventually the only audience left will be those who opted to invest in it which only serves to reinforce it's presence in the game even with new players, but the reality is far fewer players exist of that caliber than casuals that don't want to shell out their entire paycheck to compete. And since changing that structure or removing the p2w is guaranteed to piss off the people who have already paid but will not guarantee the growth and revival of the game, it's just stuck. Destined to die slowly as better games come out and all but the most die hard DC fans make their Exodus.
I didn't know it is from daybreak too. Damn it is crazy how many big licenses they own or at least the MMOs. I feel like they should take the risk and invest a lot in those. Especially in the marketing and technical base. If I was daybreak I would hire a team to work on a new decent looking engine and then port the games over step by step. One nice engine for lotro, ddo and dcuo would actually justify any cost. I also believe to start with the base game of each as a pilot project might be a nice idea. So transfer the vanilla experience as a test and when it gets a big enough audience continue this way. Great Video as always! And again get well soon!
Daybreak brought a lot of their games from Sony when they was originally SOE, EQ 1 &2 , Planetside 2 and DCUO are the only games they have left and barely put anything into them in terms of investment.
back in the day at its peek in the year 2012 it was really good, in 2016 it was pretty amazing but in this year 2023 nah cause i got bored in the year 2018
I’m pretty sure housing works on the friendship type set up I don’t recall, but I think that in order to go in someone else’s house, someone else is Larry have to be made a friend and a allowed access and then when you go to the door to that particular layer you will have choices. I’m not positive but it seems to me I remember something About that where you normally would just enter your layer at a given entrance like if if you choose the original tiny little air which honestly is all you need, you can put all the crafting tables in it and and the bank in the in the market everything can fit in that layer was designed that way so you can have all the functionality in one space and not have to fly all over your big ass layer if you choose that one you enter Fuck I can’t remember where the entry point is but I’m pretty sure when you walk up to the entry point if other people have that same layer and your friended you can enter theirs. Otherwise you know you gotta know where their layer is and go to the door personally that’s the letter I use because what the fuck is your layer for a few loadout things and crafting tables so you can fast travel to your layer do your shit and then Fast travel back where you wanna gowithout running all over one of the bases and by the way, that little layer has a vendor right outside the door so you got everything you need right there
bro i BOUGHT this game when it came out, cant believe it's still doing well then again, there's basically a single player action rpg campaign with voice acting and a bunch of comic book characters they had hamill joker and cavill batman whispering sweet nothings in your ears (or talking about how they will punch your urethra)
You've barely started, it's too early to get conclusions like this... I see that you are just "creating content" to your channel.... You need to it at least to level 30 to learn more about the game.... people do this level in less than 24 hours....
Frankly I tend to agree with everything he said ….and I played when the game launched . It doesn’t feel the same anymore. And I would like that to be a good thing for an mmo but for this one ..:honestly it’s not
@@slowmojo9355 naaaa doubt it :☺️ my interest in what I like on has not changed in a long time. The game is simply a different game then what it was back then.
I haven't been able to equip or unequip anything in my inventory since I reached level 30 and equipped the rank patch emblem and the lvl30 weapon. That's all I did. I can't move forward because my inventory is full, doesn't matter wich role, switching slots doesn't help, I can't even remove the gear I'm wearing
I heard an error in the first few seconds of the vid. Sony first had the IP rights to it as it was first released on PS3 and pc, under the publisher Sony Online Entertainment. Once SOE sold all their ips that was under it's umbrella it was bought and rebranded to daybreak game company. All games under SOE were amazing until daybreak got their hands on it. Rip Everquest.
Your movement ability. This is a role-playing game. OK I’m in certainly there are people who only play Meadows but when you’re playing brawler character like Superman or the Superman abilities, you don’t choose super speed, but when you’re playing a character, that’s acrobatic you don’t choose flying and likewise, if you have a speed you choose super speed, it’s a role-play game. If you’re not playing it to play the role of a DC hero with certain abilities, similar to known hero then you’re doing the wrong thing you’re turning it into a job instead of an escape from reality and fun.
Flying is kinda lame tbh. Easy to use and definitely the traversal of choice if you are lazy, but as far as having fun while traveling is concerned, it gets old quickly. Super speed is definitely the most chaotic of the 3. You can use your momentum while running up a building to fling yourself into the air or become a living fidget spinner by running around a thing horizontal object like an overhead traffic light. Acrobatic essentially turns you into pseudo-spiderman and also allows you to glide. It's the most balanced mix of ease of use and fun.
I used to play this game when i was younger for many years, then i quit and im kinda missing it now, its been such a huge part of my life, but the monetization is really preventing me from coming back
Yeah, the entire main story quest that you’re talking about is nothing but a tutorial it’s to get you comfortable get all your abilities get you comfortable with gameplay in the various mechanics. The entire purpose of it is to get you used to the game. The real game doesn’t start until after you’ve maxed out your level, and unless you’re going to buy a skip you’re going to be gearing up for a while
Monetization in this game is minimal you can literally buy things for like four or five bucks instead of 15 or 20 you don’t have to buy bundles you’re not really required to buy anything you can play the entire game without buying anything all the content is available to free to play Used to be you had to subscribe to get all the episodic content. You really don’t have to buy anything to play the game but when you do, it’s not expensive I I think I outed my entire layer with every crafting bench every vendor thing like the bank that the marketplace all of that, and I don’t think it cost me 25 bucks, in elder scrolls online it would cost me five or $600 to do the same thing
Games been out for I believe 12 years now and with every update, things change but they stay the same, the holiday events were always the same, the cities were the same, and the combat was the same. I played the game day one and stopped playing around 2016 because the monetization was terrible, the community was toxic and they never really did anything to set itself apart. I remember my guildmates and I saying that they should capitalize on the superhero trend but they never did, I bet they haven't even added new powers since water, they were supposed to add serum/Venom but never did. They want to bring in players? update graphics, overhaul the market and do something unique, stop with the same old same old.
Not worth subbing to anymore , this game needs a private server and the cash shop removed and items able to be earned in the game. Tbh Im surprised this game doesn't have a emulator/private server yet, while COH has one and other MMORPGS as well.
The super speed ability isn't as practical as the flying but i think its the most fun. You can run up the side of buildings and jump off at the top jumping really far. You can even run upside down on the ceiling. Its great.
I've beeb playing this game on and off since launch. Its a great game but its age and monetization are holding it back. I hope we get a DCUO2 or Marvel MMO soon. They also need to get Square Enix's Creative Business Unit 3 to make it.
The combat in this game is far superior to the button mashing in video video may be more particle effects and more spectacular to watch on the screen although I don’t agree I think it’s just annoying, but it’s not better and it certainly isn’t console friendly by any stretch video is a PC game ported the consul not very well mind you but ported the consul. The user interface is designed for the PC and it’s still designed for the PC even on consul, the game itself is designed for the PC to be good at it. You have to play it on the PC actions that can be mapped. The buttons need to be mapped to buttons only available on the PC on the console people just smash buttons this game, however, let you choose how to string together, combos which ability to use at any given moment, as what’s appropriate at any given moment, this game has real rotations i.e. one ability, setting up another ability, setting up another ability done, and in a series repeated until you’ve killed. Whatever it is video you just smashed buttons till it’s dead.
Good job exposing them at the end. The game is great level 1-30. Stop there though, don’t continue. This company only wants your money and doesn’t care about its player base. I was loyal to this game for years and they never improved the game, they only made it worse. To this day, they are still grabbing all the cash out of new players wallets…. Like the audacity.
I don’t know when you made this video but the last time I played, you didn’t have to have a subscription. All the DLC‘s are available to everyone the subscription does give you perks that are valuable but you don’t need it to play the DLC‘s. That is an old business model that has an ex existed for a long time.
nah....everyone should be able to play Marvel Heroes....which was a FAR superior game...and somehow that got shut down and we are left with the dross that is DC Online. Most unfortunate
This is the first video I’ve watched of yours because I was thinking of getting back into DCUO. I was surprised when you were so America in the beginning because being pro USA has been deemed such a negative, I’m glad you are proud of being republican, it’s so refreshing to hear and you have a great sense of humor. I’m considering subscribing. Please tell me you’re obsessed with the new Chrono Odyssey, the new MMORPG that’s coming out??? Speaking of DCUO, I actually don’t like DC, I’m way way way more of a Marvel fan, so I prefer to play this pretending it’s a marvel game and create an XMen character lol
heck at least you can do the raids on DCUO, not like lost ark, you have to pay whales to run your raids because you can't even get into a group or learn the mechs.
Im a veteran player and i have to say, this game as much as fun it is or was haha, it needs to end, and we need a version 2, they really should listen to the community, theres so much they can do in the game that make it great again but hey they do they're own thing
I would agree with pretty much everything. I played it in 2011 and had a good time, but the novelty wears off and I didn't find a reason to keep playing (specially with LOTRO's rise of isengard on the horizon). I would say there are traversing challenges that make use of the rooftops (at least for acrobatic characters) which are really fun. Also, that Josh strife Hayes on third monitor joke was pure gold
As far as the content of the game goes, I really wish that those DLCs would actually give us massive cities to explore, but what we get are at most a few sections of what a city or island would be and the instances of the dungeons/raids. I felt really scammed when i saw that starting areas like Metropolis and Gothan were so massive and imersive and then when we get to central city for the flash DLC we got only a few blocks. As for the quests, i disagree on the point of them being pointless like what we saw from WoW quests where you just go, kill x creatures because a random person told you to only to get the xp, the quests on this game felt actually important for the lore of the world and your character, for example, when you start at Metropolis, your first quest is to go and help with the goriklla attack caused by Grod and even though the start kinda feels like "ok, so I am just killing creatures for XP" the quest goes on evolving up to the point where you are actually helping some iconic character to fight an iconic villain and for this specific quest, you end up having to halp the flash beat up Grod. So unlike WoW that made me feel like a peasant helping other peasants and never actually felt like someone important to the world, DC Universe really give you the fantasy of being this hero on the rise that will constantly be disrupting plans from iconic villains (or helping them in case you are a villain). I had a blast playing the game, but honestly, i felt it was under-delivering in some aspects, they really watered down the pvp mechanics, which was a shame and the DLCS felt underwhelming in terms of content which was also sad, I really hoped they would build up this massive world with massive cities rather then 2 cities and loads of small scale instances. It got to the point where i really didn´t want to keep the VIP just to enjoy the game to the fullest, because i felt there was too little to enjoy.
I loved DCU Online when it released. I bought it (back when that was a thing) day one and made a bunch of my buddies grab it too. We had fun with it initially, but as you correctly point out the questing/story is more than a little flat and they fell off it. I tried to stick with it and focused on my character, but then there was some sort of ownership move and I lost my account and character. I came back to it a few years ago and levelled up again, but I dont think its stood the test of time as well as its fellow old skool MMOs. The story is especially frustrating later when it makes you plays as iconic heroes rather than your character, that kinda killed it for me. I think you have a great take on it tho. There is some fun to be had, especially if you like DC or supers, but I don't see this as anyones 'main' MMO
Yup u only play and iconic mission like a couple of times, unless ur playing Legends or something, hardly anyone plays that🤣🤣. Most of the time ur playing with ur own character by the way end content its only u and ur character no iconics....
DC is a crime but i do love playing. But what gets me is ppl saying omg it takes like 2 or 3 months to max out something. It's a damn MMO not a ps5 single player game. If all mmo's made it so when new content comes out and you're done maxing everything in like one week, you'll start to complain about that as well. OMG it's so EZ. Ppl love bitching about nothing. How about let the whales carry you or just enjoy a game for what it's offering. DCUO is far from perfect. Like waste plant perfect. Damn scumbags, but complaining about needing to grind something is really stupid. Go play a single player game.
I’ve also got several characters good and evil and I didn’t have to spend money at the beginning I only spent on powers but u can become powerful without any of them lol
Will more to the point it sets up the world for why you’re not the chosen one they’re going to be multiple new superheroes and you now know the reason why
real talk: if you say your a dc fan but never read the comics ... you are not a dc fan because the movies are their own thing same goes for marvel if you think you know dc ... you dont ... also ... the intro is an intergrated version of star wars the old republic style who got it from mass effect so... yeah im just going to go ahead and assume your getting a check for this . incidentally yes i do play dcuo and i have currently 24 characters all over 100 so no not a noob or hating on the game just looking for honesty
i think they need a graphics, gameplay and complete customization update. the 3d opening scene looks great wish the whole game looks like that. i think it needs just a MAJOR update. im an old player sorry.
Honestly idk what they could update in terms of customization cause its already better than most games and mmos but the other stuff you are absolutely right! Like bruh what MORE do you want from DCUO's character creator and customization lol?!
I don’t know about achievements dude, but the tops of buildings are littered with shit to collect this game. Explore exploration in this game is a thing I mean if you’re collecting resources, you either fly or run or climb all over the city looking for shit.
One of the biggest issues I had with DCUO was time gating. New players won't see this, older players are mostly unaffected. Its when a new player who gets drawn into the game starts progressing their gear and runs into a wall. Let me see if I can break it down (and understand this is an experience that is not recent, but a few years old, changes may have happened since I last played). Max level in DCUO is 30. The mainstory will take you there in a few sessions (maybe 2-3 if you chug through it, but most will take roughly a week or two). Once you reach 30, your level is replaced by your gear score. I can't remember what its called, but we'll go with gear score. Once you finish some of the main story I believe it gives you a set of gear to get started in some of the first instances. Some of these are 1 man, some are 2 man (I believe) and one or two 4 man (again going based off of a memory here). There are bonuses you get for daily runs. Bigger bonuses for weeklies, and even bigger bonuses for monthlies. These all give tokens for the tier you are in. So the first tier gave enough tokens and you used these to buy T1 gear. You needed to do this to get the required gear score for the next tier. Then you need to do the same in the new tier. Here's the issue. As you progress tiers, you need more tokens to buy each piece of gear. But you can only run things a certain number of times. If you have a subscription, this gets a little better. But even trying to buy your way through this grind doesn't (or wasn't when I played last) really work as an option. There is also no reason to run lower tiers because you need so many tokens per piece of gear that you'd be running these instances like hundreds of times (but they have cooldowns as well, so grinding them out wasn't an option). You simply needed to wait till the next day once your dailies were done. Next week for the weeklies. Next month for the monthlies. This made grouping with other players a chore. You needed to be in a guild (or league I think its called), or have friends to run with. Otherwise it was going to be all solo. There is solo instances you can run. But without the ability to run the group dungeons your progress is going to be even slower. You're personal skill and the amount of time you have to play the game will not matter. You will progress at a set rate, alone. And the worst thing was.. ok.. I played WoW back in 2006-2009, where we had a limited number of Heroic Dungeons you could do, and one raid a week. How is that different? Well cut that content up into tiers that made previous dungeons obsolete, and later ones off limits until you had a full set of gear, and there's not much in the way of drops in the dungeons (as far as I remember). Its almost like once you reach level 30, they discourage you from playing. And I don't remember if the timers were account wide or not. I think they were, which meant working up alts wasn't really a thing, at least I don't remember that being an option. Again old memory here. I hope that was all revamped for anyone looking to play. But the last time I played left a really bad taste in my mouth. And thing was, it wasn't even an issue of being a free to play player. I was subbed. I had an all access membership since I was playing Planetside 2 and Everquest at the time. All Access its quite the deal because you get subscriber benefits across Everquest, Everquest 2, Planetside 2, and DCUO. If you play just two of those games, its one of the best bargains you can find. They definitely should get the time gates out. Even for the freebie players. They can just give bonuses to subscribers as an incentive. But they also need to work in a system similar to how FFXIV is with lower tier content. Give bonuses to veteran players to run random tier stuff that will scale their power down, but give them at tier rewards to help the newbies get caught up and reduce those queue times. Again.. if they haven't already since I've not played this in a few years, so I'm not certain about the current state.
I skimmed through your comment, a lot has changed, their's still a lot of room for improvement but you still have a lot of p2w stuff can be acquired though in-game currency. Theirs still a time-gate for dailies and weeklys, no monthlies. As for the instances (solo,duo,4p,8p) the 3 latest episodes are time-gated, you can replay all the rest of the content at will. The biggest problem right now is server imbalance between hero's and villains. Villain side is almost dead compared to hero's side. Also the game is really old and running on an almost skeleton crew. The lastest 8P raid is a square box where you fight 3 boxes and the previous ones weren't better. Granted they have mechanics rather than just beating a HP bag.
A lot of that time gating has been removed entirely and only applies to the most recent DLC. I leveled up some alts and their CR by doing one raid over and over because it's super fast.
SUBSCRIBE to vote the Dark Knight as the greatest DC movie of all time 🎉
The dark night trilogy is trash same with heath ledger was trash didn’t even play a good joker
I think the Dark Knight Trilogy are the best superhero films ever made, and that's coming from a huge Marvel fan. As I get older, I'm starting to enjoy Batman more than Spiderman. I even enjoyed his movies more than the MCU films.
@@PiercingsByVirgo I disagree with your comment the Two first Dark Knight films was good and Heath Ledger was a great Joker the third I agree was trash.
I heard an error in the first few seconds of the vid. Sony first had the IP rights to it as it was first released on PS3 and pc, under the publisher Sony Online Entertainment. Once SOE sold all their ips that was under it's umbrella it was bought and rebranded to daybreak game company.
All games under SOE were amazing until daybreak got their hands on it.
Rip Everquest.
This game needs to end and they need to announce DCUO 2, literally all the veterans would come back. The game was at its peak and perfection around 2012-2014
yesss i played ts everyday when it was popular 😢
This couldn't be a more true statement
Well I mean it depends they are still coming out with new episodes and great and outfits they still have a good bit to work on
I started playing when the skill points cap was 180. As time past it went to 320. I had 305 out of the 320. I stopped playing because it became more pay to play. Fast forward I'm hearing it's like 850 SP. No way in hell I'm coming back to this grind. You would think they scrap this and move onto DCUO 2 by now. Such a failure of a.game that had remarkable potential...
Disagree. This is one of the few ftp mmo's that are actually fun and doesn't require me to keep my pc upgraded. It saves money. I wish they expanded on it actually. I don't care for realistic characters in a comicbook game. Actually think it is better than swtor.
Biggest issue is how much they try to push you to spend money to satisfy your own impatience and need for quicker rewards.
The character customization really saves this game for me, the one game where u can truly explore your fanboy fantasy matchups and team ups. Dcuo is the only game where I can play as Deadpool team up with a ninja turtle and fight an evil batman, no other game can provide that experience and that's the main reason I as a comic book fan love this game
Lol I have a captain America and a falcon so we should team up some time
@@dontiono add me MaSK_DEADP00L
I can even say as someone who’s not into comic books, I love the character creator, although I think every person comic book fan or not wants to be a superhero.
this right here lol, making a character n getting to level 30 is pretty fun, but endgame is super grindy... btw I also have a deadpool character lol, used to have an iron man, spider-man, and a she hulk I recreated but i deleted em to make other characters lmao
Same still play since the beginning to this day there no game like this.
Any other mmorpg should take notes on Dc universe. From style to combat to gameplay this game is great.
It's crazy marvel doesn't have anything like this in 2023
Its baffling
Marvel is just leaving money on the table
Remember the game when it was in it's prime... they ruined the power-balancing quite a lot for me. Raids used to be packed to the punch it was quite a lot of fun. Most of the random people in ques sucked real bad, but I always thought of it as another layer of a challenge to overcome. I explored EVERY single place in the overworld for briefs and investigations (a kind of collectible) and farmed hero missions for skill points, I had like 200 when 300 were the limit, which I considered quite the feat haha
The game was fantastic when it launched. Crowded, fun, the quests were actually cool. Now everywhere feels dead. They should make a new one.
Stats revamp was the nail in the coffin
Lmao, i remember people use to quit batmans cave raid becuase they couldnt get past the second boss. Those were them nights.
@Aikim Shemour Roberts hell yeah! And then you'd wait there with like three or four persons for new people to join the raid midway, but most of them left ASAP 😂
Fortress of solitude was hell with random noobs...
Yeah, I miss the raids.. kinda got ruin when they made over power trinkets and stuff.. took away the skill of fighting from the game to me
The pay to win stuff doesn't bother me because the main fun is making alts and playing through the content until level 30 anyway. There is a lot of lore and interesting and fun things to do in the open world if you look for them.
I remember when I first got this on my PS3 and the download time was so long that I started it halfway through the day and when I woke up the next day it still wasn’t done. Good times
yes 😭🥺
omg yeah bruh I started on ps3 too with that insane download time and then each loading screen was like at least a few minutes of jus waiting lol now when I play on my pc I dont even get to see the loading screen wallpaper lol it loads in like a sec maybe less!
The game was very nice 10 years ago, when they added time capsules and tied skill points to it, it was damned to fail.
For those that are not familiar with time capsules, the company added boxes that drop cosmetics to the game which could be bought with real money and then they tied it to character progression in form of skill points. Many veterans ran away, sooner or later... and on top of that the cosmetics were also tied to RNG.
The game maybe has 1000 active players at the highest level across all platforms.
I hate those boring time capsules that never get you anything just change colors.
I have been playing this game since launch and have put it down and picked it back up so many times. Peak dcuo was when I was in a very active league and would set up missions, raids, help lower level folks and have costume contests. I recently picked it back up yet against there is just something missing these days.
Players?
@@beanorod-zt2nl last time i was on it was noticably way less active than it was around 2013-2014, some of the nightclubs and police stations are empty when back then almost all the spawn locations were packed. there even used to be a queue to enter but i havent seen it for a long time now
Me too hun 13 years an goin i believe 22 characters an I never find it boring wish they do more with PVE Legends that was fun side grind an nice to play the levels with anyone of the Dc roster unlocked still got Supergirl from the show lol.
@@beanorod-zt2nl A lot but find a League if you seriously want to play a lot of kids that do not understand roles well I guess that's always been there lol.
@@shadowdouglas450 You have to be careful with some those leagues they drop you if you don't pay them and you don't have power up gear.
Couldnt stop laughing at the image of you slowly hovering around menacingly pointing the AK. Truly the protector America needs.
To SERVE AND PROTECT 🤣🫡
If u haven't played it u can't or have no reason to make a video telling people wether to play or not. U have no idea
as of the house of legends update all dlc is free and as for artifacts and allies it’s more pay to progress quicker but it is easy to do it as you rank up from dlc 1-44, completely f2p players do have it a little harder but not impossible, premium players are pretty much best option at this point as minus the 150 replay badges and 500 marketplace currency every month plus the extra daily rewards and all powers that legendary players get there’s no difference between the two, best thing to do is one month of membership try all the powers keep the ones you want on your account and your good
Great first impression vid! 👍
4 points overlooked & could be worth of a mention. Since your new to the game it is not necessary easy to spot.
1. Monetization; Model is actually better then before. Content access #DLC use to be lock behind subscriptions, it is now lock behind player's progression #artifact. This made the game more accessible to everyone, specifically FTP. But, yes the whale curve is more steep on end game.
Note* Sub is still available, it's more a season pass. Have daily rewards & extra convenience like +inventory. But it is not mandatory. *keep in mind daybreak was also brought recently by a new company focusing on mobile game. This could explain the shift, still for the better.
2. Feats; this is what's keep me playing since 2016, awsome feature to keep you playing. As you progress in the game, everything you do will mostly have a Feat attach to it. Ex: exploration, styles, collectibles, grind, pvp, etc..This is definitely something alot of game's should learn from. Feats turns into Skill Points and those can be use to unlock.. Ex; weapons combo, mouvement, stats, dps, etc..
So this will counters (PTW shortcuts) like lvling skip, gears, artifacts .. since player's have to physically play the game to be a top dog. You will have some feats behind paywall like time capsule, but they only contribute for maybe 25% of all feats.
3. Armory; A feature that is actually the best thing ever in MMO. You can customize combat move, styles, skills, mouvement, basically everything & save it at your lair/base. Instead of changing stance from dps to tank, like you did in video, you swap armory instead. So now, not only your loadout is different, but also the way you look, your stats. So you can kinda have 2 to 16 perso into 1 without re-doing a thing. It's brilliant !
4. Rehashing: Biggest downer of this game personally. Aside a few DLC like Atlantis, most update re-use same asset. So map look the same, dungeons. So I'm not against it, but there is a limit before it become stale. With the monetization prices they asking it doesn't justify contents they put out over the course of 44 DLC. I feel like a cow eating the same sunburn grass patch for 7+ years, sadly.
Any other mentions is described very well explain in your video & on point!
Skillpoints arent AS important now as they used to be. Once you cap the main stats. You are set pretty much.
The arts and allies are very grindy yes. But through using the Nth metal detecters. Save the Universe event and daily login correctly. Especially if you become a legendary member. You can make the grind far less painful.
It is pay to win at times. But i have been playing freely majority of said time and have almost all i need at this point. Majority of which i have only been grinding out for a little over a year now.
I still very much enjoy the game and truth be told the game doesn't truly open up until you get to lvl 30 and explore all the content to the game.
Legends pve is anoyher fun side mode that i personally wish would get more love. New playable characters. Updated models. Etc.
???
You get access to all 40+ DLCs for FREE.
No need to have a Subscription anymore.
That was changed about 2 and a half years ago.
All the Subscription really give you now is Daily rewards... more bank space.... and 6 character slots instead of 2.
The people who told you that you still needed a Subscription sadly misled you.
There is a lot of Haters when it comes to DCUO..... you should be careful if you make a video using second hand information.
EDIT; I am a 20 482 hrs player on PS... + no idea how many hrs on PC. ;)
cool to know.
nice
Good video - as a vet of this game (since beta) I'd agree except one important point - the monetization issues almost disappear if you sub, and you get a tonne of bonus stuff if you do. I've kept my sub active for years even when not playing. That's not for everyone, but almost every mmo will ultimately benefit from you subbing at top levels.
You don't even need to pay a sub anymore either.
I paid a subscription fee for years but came back last year without a sub and it's not even neccessary anymore.
Been Subbing since it came out once in a while ill take a Break its had its ups an Downs still one of my favorite games.
Just to add to the whole pay wall thing…because you need high level artifacts(160+ x3 at least) to be competent at your role, the game PUSHES YOU BUT NOT FORCE you to spend money in order to play because
1) if you don’t have highs artifacts it’s hard to do your role and will leave u frustrated especially as a newer player breaking into endgame content when you not able to do your role properly.
2) groups tend to ask for certain artifact combos when forming
3) bad performance can lead you to being black listed from the end game content groups
4) if your arts are low, 8/10 you will get kicked
5) there’s no tutorial when it comes to using artifacts taught by the game so people just throw on anyone’s that sound cool and level them up with their money just to find out they aren’t good artifacts
6) lack of fresh content and lack of unique mechanics
Artifacts/ dps comps ruined the potential for the game but made daybreak a lot of money from the business side. We didn’t have artifacts when the game first started up until like 2017? So the way they made money was through time capsules and replays mostly and tokens.
Finally the leaderboard system. The current state of dc is all about the leaderboard and nothing else. That is the only thing keeping the game engaging for almost all the end game players. But created a toxic community that only cared about the scoreboard and who was on top. Top mmos like ESO do not have a leaderboard and their community as large as it is barely has toxicity amongst them.
Just my two sense on the state of the game atm.
Not 2 scent. U handed them a $100 bill. Literally hit the nail on the hammer.
Yeah I remember playing around 2011 - 2016ish and I really loved the game. The monetization was a bit annoying back then but it sounds 100x worse now. No way I'm getting back in unless the game gets a total revamp.
I've been able to play alts without having artifacts past level 60.
Artifacts are overrated and their importance is inflated by players that already wasted a ton of money on them.
Never cared about the leader board I have a League of Non Toxic players if you ever want to play end content an do not care what relics you use :) hated the relics system an also like it since I'm usually Healing.
@@shadowdouglas450 Yeah was about to say the getting kicked and blacklisted bit sounds way more like a player/elitist problem then the game. There will always be A-holes who don't want to play with you if you aren't at "Their Level".
It's probably worth mentioning that the DCUO premium subscription (Daybreak All Access) also applies to Planetside 2, Everquest, and Everquest 2 all within the same subscription. If you're into any of those games, there's decent value in that subscription.
That’s so cool actually live planet side 2
@@tylerscott4619 I used to play a ton of PS2, I actually still have my PS1 CD somewhere!
Ya but all of those games ( and ive played all of them and some still do) rely too much on cash shops except, Planetside 2 once you get to a certain rank and unlock most of your abilities with certs you can easily unlock everything in the CS with certs than cash. I mean there is no reason to play EQ1 or 2 when there is private servers for those , hell most of Daybreak/SOE games are on private servers now SWG, Vanguard, Pirates of the Burning Sea etc. So there is really only 2 games worth playing for that sub is DCU and Planetside 2
im a 10k hr player. theres 2 big things wrong with DCUO.
1: the money hungry devs who grab us by our ankles and shake us to see what falls out.
2: the community its self. most of the community complain the noobs have no idea what to do. then complain theres not enough players for higher content whilst refusing to help anyone newer to gear up to join endgame.
the poor newer players are left with a system of 'grind your ass off in content no longer used or buy your way up.'
the game could be so much more lively and genuinely better if the devs got rid of the p2w crap and the players gave a shit about the game they love.
The most similar competitor (as another superhero themed MMORPG) out there and active is Champions Online, which afaik doesn't get any updates besides maybe new shop items, but not pay 2 win. It is kind of sad that there are only these two official options in this subgenre (+ some private City of Heroes versions). There were some projects, but I haven't heard about them in ages.
DCUO is still an MMO that I would have liked to spend more time on, but somehow it didn't kept me interested for extended periods of time. Still a regular candidate when I need my superhero fix.
City of Hero's an Villain's was 1st game like this an it was epic. But i still have love for DCU online i put so much time in the game. AN have like 20 characters.
You should try City of Heroes.
There's like 5 different private servers and they get updated regularly with seasonal events, new powers and QoL updates.
@@BaithNa I played it back when it was alive, but I am kind of hesitant when it comes to private servers of these games.
I wish they would have updated the style customization a tad and added some kind of scaling to parts. If I wanted a more alien looking character I could change the shape/size of the head and or limbs or scaling the size of emblems along with the placement would be a nice update
Still play to this day one of my favorite games.
I used to enjoy spending several hours at night trying to beat nexus years ago, even when I had to work the next morning. I used to be one of the top trolls in the game, then I gave up for several reasons, all pertaining to the direction daybreak were going. I tried coming back a few times, but I lost enjoyment and no longer could justify paying $15 per month for a game that i no longer enjoyed. If they went back to how it was before, I would returned in a heartbeat.
All the 44 Episodes are free. I don't know who told you different, but they lied. You can't play the episode until your Combat Rating is higher. After you hit level 30 will will start the get a Combat Rating or CR for short. in order to play episodes 10 - 20 your CR should be say CR 100. To play episode 44 your CR should be CR 310. These are just examples but you get the idea. Paying to play the episode was true but no longer.
I’m a simple man. I see a new State of the MMO, I click. These are so good!
Actually you can play all the Dlcs for free. It's been like that for months and you don't need a lot of sp. The Tc are ruff though
Also with acro u can glide higher and use a zip line thing like Batman basically flying with glide and crawl on walls but my fav is skimming lol
I’m so glad you said this I’m excited but honestly skimming > all lol
@@Ookami20 jus curious why yall prefer skimming? I have a character with each movement style n skimming is literally jus re skinned flying lol but its still cool, I think I like flying/skimming n superspeed over acrobatics tho but acro is still cool too
LET’S GOOOO! Another State of the MMO! ❤🎉
I started playing in 2011 on ps3 and just got back in last week and am having fun with it. You can use all your money now without membership and have more inventory space
make 10sec text explanash for the mouseover preview and keep the style & jokes man, stopped the vid to tell how much do I love it and think its a great content
For as long as it has been, DCUO did just add new content with the "Milestone" universe, aka Static Shock. So it got something, but yes, its been on dying rampage. It's partly due to monetization and it just being old at this point. Yet, at this current time its one of the only or few superhero mmos out there. There was, I believe, "City of Heroes", but again that died and the publishers shut it down.
that game did die but I remember playing it like a year or 2 ago cause the community runs the servers now lol
I went to check my steam and i last played this in 2012 and omg. this game looks exactly the same haha.
Hahaha no big update yet then?! 😂😂
Love how right after new powers one I just bumped into the vid with an answer to my question in mind = should I commit to Dcuo again
i remember when i got my ps4 the first day had no games on it and this and warframe were the only games i could play times flies! 😢
Again, like I said, I’m pretty sure that that’s no longer a thing all players free to play or not get access to all the content the last time I played you did it used to be based on the sub but I don’t think it is anymore. the sub is more revolving around things like getting the keys for the lock boxes that you pick up getting, I don’t even remember what the sub does anymore because the last time I played I didn’t solve it wasn’t needed anymore. The sub used to unlock the limits on how much you could spend. For instance, you could only hold 2000 and at the rest when an escrow when you spent 2000 it would get replaced at escrow but your max purchase was 2000 that was eliminated years and years ago. I honestly can’t even talk about what the sub gives you as far as perks go now because I didn’t find it necessary. The last of my played at all and die. If I don’t have to buy a sub if I don’t feel like I have to buy it then nobody feels like it if I play elder scrolls, you gotta buy the sub if you play, fallout 76 you gotta buy the sub for the same reason unlimited crafting stash in both caseseverything else is just a perk to get with it but that unlimited stash required. If you’re gonna play the game seriously this game didn’t feel like that was necessary.
I think the biggest issue with that type of monetization is that eventually the only audience left will be those who opted to invest in it which only serves to reinforce it's presence in the game even with new players, but the reality is far fewer players exist of that caliber than casuals that don't want to shell out their entire paycheck to compete.
And since changing that structure or removing the p2w is guaranteed to piss off the people who have already paid but will not guarantee the growth and revival of the game, it's just stuck. Destined to die slowly as better games come out and all but the most die hard DC fans make their Exodus.
I didn't know it is from daybreak too. Damn it is crazy how many big licenses they own or at least the MMOs. I feel like they should take the risk and invest a lot in those. Especially in the marketing and technical base. If I was daybreak I would hire a team to work on a new decent looking engine and then port the games over step by step. One nice engine for lotro, ddo and dcuo would actually justify any cost. I also believe to start with the base game of each as a pilot project might be a nice idea. So transfer the vanilla experience as a test and when it gets a big enough audience continue this way. Great Video as always! And again get well soon!
Daybreak brought a lot of their games from Sony when they was originally SOE, EQ 1 &2 , Planetside 2 and DCUO are the only games they have left and barely put anything into them in terms of investment.
6:17 as a german, i will sub for that joke
back in the day at its peek in the year 2012 it was really good, in 2016 it was pretty amazing but in this year 2023 nah cause i got bored in the year 2018
They will never get rid of paywall’s because it’s the only income they have to keep the game online
I’m pretty sure housing works on the friendship type set up I don’t recall, but I think that in order to go in someone else’s house, someone else is Larry have to be made a friend and a allowed access and then when you go to the door to that particular layer you will have choices. I’m not positive but it seems to me I remember something About that where you normally would just enter your layer at a given entrance like if if you choose the original tiny little air which honestly is all you need, you can put all the crafting tables in it and and the bank in the in the market everything can fit in that layer was designed that way so you can have all the functionality in one space and not have to fly all over your big ass layer if you choose that one you enter Fuck I can’t remember where the entry point is but I’m pretty sure when you walk up to the entry point if other people have that same layer and your friended you can enter theirs. Otherwise you know you gotta know where their layer is and go to the door personally that’s the letter I use because what the fuck is your layer for a few loadout things and crafting tables so you can fast travel to your layer do your shit and then Fast travel back where you wanna gowithout running all over one of the bases and by the way, that little layer has a vendor right outside the door so you got everything you need right there
bro i BOUGHT this game when it came out, cant believe it's still doing well
then again, there's basically a single player action rpg campaign with voice acting and a bunch of comic book characters
they had hamill joker and cavill batman whispering sweet nothings in your ears (or talking about how they will punch your urethra)
The game is more fun when you have somebody learn from and or friends to play with sadly cus with out one or the other you are either alone or lost
yea...the game has no socialization cuz the game is dead n players dont randomly chat each other unless friends or guildies
You've barely started, it's too early to get conclusions like this... I see that you are just "creating content" to your channel.... You need to it at least to level 30 to learn more about the game.... people do this level in less than 24 hours....
Frankly I tend to agree with everything he said ….and I played when the game launched . It doesn’t feel the same anymore. And I would like that to be a good thing for an mmo but for this one ..:honestly it’s not
@@azuraquinlilax1245 maybe its that ur getting older buddy😂...interest change and attitudes also with age.
Im still having a blast in this game💪
@@slowmojo9355 naaaa doubt it :☺️ my interest in what I like on has not changed in a long time. The game is simply a different game then what it was back then.
I haven't been able to equip or unequip anything in my inventory since I reached level 30 and equipped the rank patch emblem and the lvl30 weapon. That's all I did. I can't move forward because my inventory is full, doesn't matter wich role, switching slots doesn't help, I can't even remove the gear I'm wearing
The revamp is when everything rlly went down
I heard an error in the first few seconds of the vid. Sony first had the IP rights to it as it was first released on PS3 and pc, under the publisher Sony Online Entertainment. Once SOE sold all their ips that was under it's umbrella it was bought and rebranded to daybreak game company.
All games under SOE were amazing until daybreak got their hands on it.
Rip Everquest.
you killed me! 'oh look, they put my mother in law in this game! That was nice :D'
LOL!!! thanks, i needed a good laugh XDD
The best intro for an MMO is gunna have to go to Final Fantasy XIV but this one is still a close 2nd.
Your movement ability. This is a role-playing game. OK I’m in certainly there are people who only play Meadows but when you’re playing brawler character like Superman or the Superman abilities, you don’t choose super speed, but when you’re playing a character, that’s acrobatic you don’t choose flying and likewise, if you have a speed you choose super speed, it’s a role-play game. If you’re not playing it to play the role of a DC hero with certain abilities, similar to known hero then you’re doing the wrong thing you’re turning it into a job instead of an escape from reality and fun.
Flying is kinda lame tbh. Easy to use and definitely the traversal of choice if you are lazy, but as far as having fun while traveling is concerned, it gets old quickly.
Super speed is definitely the most chaotic of the 3. You can use your momentum while running up a building to fling yourself into the air or become a living fidget spinner by running around a thing horizontal object like an overhead traffic light.
Acrobatic essentially turns you into pseudo-spiderman and also allows you to glide. It's the most balanced mix of ease of use and fun.
They need to give this game an Elden ring budget
I used to play this game when i was younger for many years, then i quit and im kinda missing it now, its been such a huge part of my life, but the monetization is really preventing me from coming back
Yeah, the entire main story quest that you’re talking about is nothing but a tutorial it’s to get you comfortable get all your abilities get you comfortable with gameplay in the various mechanics. The entire purpose of it is to get you used to the game. The real game doesn’t start until after you’ve maxed out your level, and unless you’re going to buy a skip you’re going to be gearing up for a while
Been waiting for all the lantern corp ring power sets 7 years. Still can't understand why my freaking Star Sapphire girl don't have a pink violet ring
This guy deserves to be a much bigger channel. Great video man 👏🏻
Thank you so much man!
Monetization in this game is minimal you can literally buy things for like four or five bucks instead of 15 or 20 you don’t have to buy bundles you’re not really required to buy anything you can play the entire game without buying anything all the content is available to free to play Used to be you had to subscribe to get all the episodic content. You really don’t have to buy anything to play the game but when you do, it’s not expensive I I think I outed my entire layer with every crafting bench every vendor thing like the bank that the marketplace all of that, and I don’t think it cost me 25 bucks, in elder scrolls online it would cost me five or $600 to do the same thing
Man. I see the next ludwig. Goodluck in your journey mate. Let us collab sometime.
Id play more if it was switch cross platform
Basically the gatekeepers of preventing independent super hero mmos from attracting tons of players.
Games been out for I believe 12 years now and with every update, things change but they stay the same, the holiday events were always the same, the cities were the same, and the combat was the same. I played the game day one and stopped playing around 2016 because the monetization was terrible, the community was toxic and they never really did anything to set itself apart. I remember my guildmates and I saying that they should capitalize on the superhero trend but they never did, I bet they haven't even added new powers since water, they were supposed to add serum/Venom but never did. They want to bring in players? update graphics, overhaul the market and do something unique, stop with the same old same old.
Not worth subbing to anymore , this game needs a private server and the cash shop removed and items able to be earned in the game. Tbh Im surprised this game doesn't have a emulator/private server yet, while COH has one and other MMORPGS as well.
For people that like the lore and storytelling, just play till level 30. From there is just random matches without coherence unfortunately...
The super speed ability isn't as practical as the flying but i think its the most fun. You can run up the side of buildings and jump off at the top jumping really far. You can even run upside down on the ceiling. Its great.
I've beeb playing this game on and off since launch.
Its a great game but its age and monetization are holding it back.
I hope we get a DCUO2 or Marvel MMO soon. They also need to get Square Enix's Creative Business Unit 3 to make it.
The combat in this game is far superior to the button mashing in video video may be more particle effects and more spectacular to watch on the screen although I don’t agree I think it’s just annoying, but it’s not better and it certainly isn’t console friendly by any stretch video is a PC game ported the consul not very well mind you but ported the consul. The user interface is designed for the PC and it’s still designed for the PC even on consul, the game itself is designed for the PC to be good at it. You have to play it on the PC actions that can be mapped. The buttons need to be mapped to buttons only available on the PC on the console people just smash buttons this game, however, let you choose how to string together, combos which ability to use at any given moment, as what’s appropriate at any given moment, this game has real rotations i.e. one ability, setting up another ability, setting up another ability done, and in a series repeated until you’ve killed. Whatever it is video you just smashed buttons till it’s dead.
Good job exposing them at the end. The game is great level 1-30. Stop there though, don’t continue. This company only wants your money and doesn’t care about its player base. I was loyal to this game for years and they never improved the game, they only made it worse. To this day, they are still grabbing all the cash out of new players wallets…. Like the audacity.
i know im late but i stand in the starter area because i never forget my roots and i get to see the silly names that pop up
I don’t know when you made this video but the last time I played, you didn’t have to have a subscription. All the DLC‘s are available to everyone the subscription does give you perks that are valuable but you don’t need it to play the DLC‘s. That is an old business model that has an ex existed for a long time.
What happened to Gandalf the White's Staff behind you in the video?
The present time of access and the passage of the stream is not only freedom as ммо 2011-2023 👍😎👍
nah....everyone should be able to play Marvel Heroes....which was a FAR superior game...and somehow that got shut down and we are left with the dross that is DC Online. Most unfortunate
This is the first video I’ve watched of yours because I was thinking of getting back into DCUO. I was surprised when you were so America in the beginning because being pro USA has been deemed such a negative, I’m glad you are proud of being republican, it’s so refreshing to hear and you have a great sense of humor. I’m considering subscribing. Please tell me you’re obsessed with the new Chrono Odyssey, the new MMORPG that’s coming out??? Speaking of DCUO, I actually don’t like DC, I’m way way way more of a Marvel fan, so I prefer to play this pretending it’s a marvel game and create an XMen character lol
when this game went annoying with its monetization I quit n never returned.
heck at least you can do the raids on DCUO, not like lost ark, you have to pay whales to run your raids because you can't even get into a group or learn the mechs.
Hell yeah brother. Try Project Gorgon next!
Dude I gotta try it!!
Great video, you should do destiny 2 next!
This was the best MMO on the market from 2012-2014. The PvP was insanely good. Sadly they ruined the combat system a little after lanterns came out.
Dc universe online was made by Sony online entertainment and later sold to daybreak
Im a veteran player and i have to say, this game as much as fun it is or was haha, it needs to end, and we need a version 2, they really should listen to the community, theres so much they can do in the game that make it great again but hey they do they're own thing
I would agree with pretty much everything. I played it in 2011 and had a good time, but the novelty wears off and I didn't find a reason to keep playing (specially with LOTRO's rise of isengard on the horizon). I would say there are traversing challenges that make use of the rooftops (at least for acrobatic characters) which are really fun.
Also, that Josh strife Hayes on third monitor joke was pure gold
they use the top of buildings to do time attack race challenges
I have played sense day one
I played DCUO when it was a subscription model. It was far, far, far better. It's still fun, but the free-to-play model ruined it.
Mepps said there almost done with the graphics update hopefully some time this year if not im taking a crap in mepps yard
He’s gone now so hopefully it will get better
As far as the content of the game goes, I really wish that those DLCs would actually give us massive cities to explore, but what we get are at most a few sections of what a city or island would be and the instances of the dungeons/raids. I felt really scammed when i saw that starting areas like Metropolis and Gothan were so massive and imersive and then when we get to central city for the flash DLC we got only a few blocks.
As for the quests, i disagree on the point of them being pointless like what we saw from WoW quests where you just go, kill x creatures because a random person told you to only to get the xp, the quests on this game felt actually important for the lore of the world and your character, for example, when you start at Metropolis, your first quest is to go and help with the goriklla attack caused by Grod and even though the start kinda feels like "ok, so I am just killing creatures for XP" the quest goes on evolving up to the point where you are actually helping some iconic character to fight an iconic villain and for this specific quest, you end up having to halp the flash beat up Grod.
So unlike WoW that made me feel like a peasant helping other peasants and never actually felt like someone important to the world, DC Universe really give you the fantasy of being this hero on the rise that will constantly be disrupting plans from iconic villains (or helping them in case you are a villain).
I had a blast playing the game, but honestly, i felt it was under-delivering in some aspects, they really watered down the pvp mechanics, which was a shame and the DLCS felt underwhelming in terms of content which was also sad, I really hoped they would build up this massive world with massive cities rather then 2 cities and loads of small scale instances.
It got to the point where i really didn´t want to keep the VIP just to enjoy the game to the fullest, because i felt there was too little to enjoy.
I loved DCU Online when it released. I bought it (back when that was a thing) day one and made a bunch of my buddies grab it too.
We had fun with it initially, but as you correctly point out the questing/story is more than a little flat and they fell off it.
I tried to stick with it and focused on my character, but then there was some sort of ownership move and I lost my account and character.
I came back to it a few years ago and levelled up again, but I dont think its stood the test of time as well as its fellow old skool MMOs. The story is especially frustrating later when it makes you plays as iconic heroes rather than your character, that kinda killed it for me.
I think you have a great take on it tho. There is some fun to be had, especially if you like DC or supers, but I don't see this as anyones 'main' MMO
Dude that’s GREAT commentary! I love hearing the perspective of someone who has played since launch - thanks for sharing man!!
Sounds like you played DCUO and never got far past level 30 and into the endgame
Yup u only play and iconic mission like a couple of times, unless ur playing Legends or something, hardly anyone plays that🤣🤣.
Most of the time ur playing with ur own character by the way end content its only u and ur character no iconics....
DC is a crime but i do love playing. But what gets me is ppl saying omg it takes like 2 or 3 months to max out something. It's a damn MMO not a ps5 single player game. If all mmo's made it so when new content comes out and you're done maxing everything in like one week, you'll start to complain about that as well. OMG it's so EZ. Ppl love bitching about nothing. How about let the whales carry you or just enjoy a game for what it's offering. DCUO is far from perfect. Like waste plant perfect. Damn scumbags, but complaining about needing to grind something is really stupid. Go play a single player game.
to be endgame relevant (top player) you need to spend around 1000 dollars
I’ve also got several characters good and evil and I didn’t have to spend money at the beginning I only spent on powers but u can become powerful without any of them lol
I can’t even get passed the loading screen now..
Will more to the point it sets up the world for why you’re not the chosen one they’re going to be multiple new superheroes and you now know the reason why
real talk: if you say your a dc fan but never read the comics ... you are not a dc fan because the movies are their own thing same goes for marvel if you think you know dc ... you dont ... also ... the intro is an intergrated version of star wars the old republic style who got it from mass effect so... yeah im just going to go ahead and assume your getting a check for this . incidentally yes i do play dcuo and i have currently 24 characters all over 100 so no not a noob or hating on the game just looking for honesty
Did he say Thanos?
i think they need a graphics, gameplay and complete customization update. the 3d opening scene looks great wish the whole game looks like that. i think it needs just a MAJOR update. im an old player sorry.
Honestly idk what they could update in terms of customization cause its already better than most games and mmos but the other stuff you are absolutely right! Like bruh what MORE do you want from DCUO's character creator and customization lol?!
I don’t know about achievements dude, but the tops of buildings are littered with shit to collect this game. Explore exploration in this game is a thing I mean if you’re collecting resources, you either fly or run or climb all over the city looking for shit.
Get rid of the pay system that is buying feats by buying time capsules. You can literally spend 20$ and get nothing in return. It has destroyed DCUO.
All I used to do was run around and stuff
One of the biggest issues I had with DCUO was time gating. New players won't see this, older players are mostly unaffected. Its when a new player who gets drawn into the game starts progressing their gear and runs into a wall. Let me see if I can break it down (and understand this is an experience that is not recent, but a few years old, changes may have happened since I last played).
Max level in DCUO is 30. The mainstory will take you there in a few sessions (maybe 2-3 if you chug through it, but most will take roughly a week or two). Once you reach 30, your level is replaced by your gear score. I can't remember what its called, but we'll go with gear score. Once you finish some of the main story I believe it gives you a set of gear to get started in some of the first instances. Some of these are 1 man, some are 2 man (I believe) and one or two 4 man (again going based off of a memory here).
There are bonuses you get for daily runs. Bigger bonuses for weeklies, and even bigger bonuses for monthlies. These all give tokens for the tier you are in. So the first tier gave enough tokens and you used these to buy T1 gear. You needed to do this to get the required gear score for the next tier. Then you need to do the same in the new tier.
Here's the issue. As you progress tiers, you need more tokens to buy each piece of gear. But you can only run things a certain number of times. If you have a subscription, this gets a little better. But even trying to buy your way through this grind doesn't (or wasn't when I played last) really work as an option. There is also no reason to run lower tiers because you need so many tokens per piece of gear that you'd be running these instances like hundreds of times (but they have cooldowns as well, so grinding them out wasn't an option).
You simply needed to wait till the next day once your dailies were done. Next week for the weeklies. Next month for the monthlies.
This made grouping with other players a chore. You needed to be in a guild (or league I think its called), or have friends to run with. Otherwise it was going to be all solo. There is solo instances you can run. But without the ability to run the group dungeons your progress is going to be even slower.
You're personal skill and the amount of time you have to play the game will not matter. You will progress at a set rate, alone. And the worst thing was.. ok.. I played WoW back in 2006-2009, where we had a limited number of Heroic Dungeons you could do, and one raid a week. How is that different? Well cut that content up into tiers that made previous dungeons obsolete, and later ones off limits until you had a full set of gear, and there's not much in the way of drops in the dungeons (as far as I remember).
Its almost like once you reach level 30, they discourage you from playing. And I don't remember if the timers were account wide or not. I think they were, which meant working up alts wasn't really a thing, at least I don't remember that being an option. Again old memory here.
I hope that was all revamped for anyone looking to play. But the last time I played left a really bad taste in my mouth. And thing was, it wasn't even an issue of being a free to play player. I was subbed. I had an all access membership since I was playing Planetside 2 and Everquest at the time. All Access its quite the deal because you get subscriber benefits across Everquest, Everquest 2, Planetside 2, and DCUO. If you play just two of those games, its one of the best bargains you can find.
They definitely should get the time gates out. Even for the freebie players. They can just give bonuses to subscribers as an incentive. But they also need to work in a system similar to how FFXIV is with lower tier content. Give bonuses to veteran players to run random tier stuff that will scale their power down, but give them at tier rewards to help the newbies get caught up and reduce those queue times. Again.. if they haven't already since I've not played this in a few years, so I'm not certain about the current state.
I skimmed through your comment, a lot has changed, their's still a lot of room for improvement but you still have a lot of p2w stuff can be acquired though in-game currency. Theirs still a time-gate for dailies and weeklys, no monthlies. As for the instances (solo,duo,4p,8p) the 3 latest episodes are time-gated, you can replay all the rest of the content at will.
The biggest problem right now is server imbalance between hero's and villains. Villain side is almost dead compared to hero's side. Also the game is really old and running on an almost skeleton crew. The lastest 8P raid is a square box where you fight 3 boxes and the previous ones weren't better. Granted they have mechanics rather than just beating a HP bag.
A lot of that time gating has been removed entirely and only applies to the most recent DLC.
I leveled up some alts and their CR by doing one raid over and over because it's super fast.