This game had the potential but the lack of content, players and too much grinding kills it, i also often get disconnected because iam a SEA player and there is no good server with my ping, i can only play at asia with 200 or 100+ ping. There is a match i played with no other than bots teamates that get stuck when chasing enemy I hope they rethink the design and make the gameplay loop enjoyable. I really just enjoy the story, i stopped at rank 60 because i cant handle the grind.
I get that this is supposed to be a multiplayer focused game, but if there's something i'd like it would be more single player content, i like free roam, but i don't always want players to come look for me to follow me around whenever i'm trying to get objectives done. Some easier dungeons for parties of 1-4 players would also be cool for when you have a group of friends to play together with.
Prior to release I thought free roam's "1 to 4 players" meant that would be to total number of players. So that you could go alone if you wanted or with 3 other people. At release I find out it's a bunch of parties of 1-4 people so it's still a mad rush like the other quests. That was a deal breaker for me, I like to go at my own pace and I hate to be rushed. Oh well.
They need to expand free roam for sure. I would say around 60 to 100 players in an instance will be sufficient to have a raid boss and stuff to do outside of mission base structure they have They can tower control mode or defensive mode like Fatal Bullet to cover over that
@@dale7326 You mean raising the amount of players in a free roam instance? I'm not entirely against the idea, but before that i feel like they should prioritize people who'd rather play alone or with a group of friends. Right now, there's no options for playing in closed parties, and if you go into free roam with the intent of playing alone, there's still a chance that you'll find players and they will keep following you around. It's all good until you need to kill named enemies for a mission and a flock of players locks in on the boss that you already got down to 30% health. Not saying you're wrong though, a massive boss fight with up to 60 players sounds like a damn good time, but i believe they should prioritize giving players more options for either solo or 2-4 player parties first, and then expand on the multiplayer modes the game currently has. Sorry for the wall of text 😑
I would hate to be a new player jumping into this game. If players have completionist mentality they already missed out on Trial Season rewards, with no indication if they will return for new players to acquire, the GGO2 cosmetics from the episodes, and others. That friction enough would be enough to just play the story mode and abandon multiplayer due to FOMO. For a game trying to acquire new players this game is doing a terrible job in doing so. At least when I play Splatoon 3 I can acquire missed Seasonal content through the Shell Out Machine, or wait for the season to cycle again. Not sure how this game is all planned out. There is no point continuing a game if you cannot work towards a cosmetic that has a limited time window or exclusive. I've played Destiny 2 and usually the poor development is what causes players to abandon ship. I estimate this game to be supported for at least 2 years in new content until they develop an actual semi-MMO type with customized characters. There's is not much to builds in this game, just wail and spam attacks on enemies, or just race to the end to beat the boss quickly and repeat with hopes of a cosmetic drop happening.
Yeah, I agree, and for me FOMO is one of the biggest things that is killing my interest in modern games. Everything is Time-Limited, everything is full of shop rotations, seasons, events and so on. So if you were not there then you miss it. I hate that because it creates artificial player activity and also can be stress inducing for some people.
The reason for time limit in modern games usually come from sales. If they remove stuff that have flash sale or quick ones. It will not create any incentive for ppl to wait or buy something. The issues aren’t really about limited but rather the execution of those. They usually use this because it also saves them a lot of money to operate or run businesses that has no guarantee returns or available date
Yeah they need to do something about this game, Me and my 2 friends are lower ranked and cant even find matches, its pretty much dead if you arent doing the highest level stuff
Crazy how a coop focused game has less things to do in coop than fatal bullet, though FB didn't have everything on release either. Hoping they add a lot more things to do. I regret not waiting for a sale on this game though, since I'm not having fun with the current content.
Those changes are going to be great! I'm coming back to the game if they get implemented as my problem is the queue time and finding people to play with at lower ranks
No, if you have lower rank equipment, it is better to dismantle them even with good unique features. Simply because… it takes more time to get your gear up to max rank compare to have something around 30 levels in between where you can get the same ones. Here is a list of unique special effec that I can recommend to keep if you have rank 85 and upward: - Unique skill gauge up - Omni guard and guard damage reduction up - Guard skill cooldown up for Melee characters - Atk up effect for weapon skills - Crit up effect for weapon skills That’s all. The rest you can get them from higher rank
I really hope Premiere from the gameverse gets her chance in. So I can heavily have a reason to grind the game again. At rank 80 and stopped playing for a while.
I really like this game, tho sadly after reaching rank 60 (yes I didnt even get to 100) I kinda fell off it, I kept it installed to grab the free SAO GGO2 content codes but thats it, I fell off this game for several reasons like content variety and lack of finding groups in region servers....glad they are looking into adding more maybe I'll return. Thanks for the video and news Havian your awesome!
They need to add more before making them available though. So far, there is no or simply not enough models available to begin. I know ppl already start to modding them lately but not really enough for them to work on
@@dale7326 Add more? I was just talking about the ones that rely on RNG that are currently available in the game right now not getting more cosmetics even though we're severely lacking in cosmetics in general right now.
@@darkshotgun209 The cosmetics on the quest rewards from my understanding is more of an achievement of sort, hence why they are very difficult to get. If more of them, it will split the chances to get one with lower drops. In other words, higher chances to drop. Aside, I have heard some ppl basically just get the outfit in first run so i do believe that RNG has an issue with availability not drop chances base on how many runs you have done with that specific quest. I technically also get the dress outfit from Trommel within just 10 runs of that boss so i don't know whether it is based on accessibility or availability at first. Most ppl i know so far still struggle to get the Sword Golem outfits so that the case. Just in case, RNG based on drops in most games usually based on either fixed chances you have or fixed rate of times you do to get them. I was not really sure about that with this game but it seems to be the other case. In previous SAO, they use a loot table to check which stuff you gonna get at what % (meaning it is easier to acquire the items but not specific ones that you are looking hence why ppl were farming like crazy in a go then just slowly drop it if they didn't get them or not the ones they wanted). However, in this game, they use something akin to gacha system for the loot. Which means, you have higher chances to drop the things you want but lower chances to acquire it. That's why it's so hard to get them. That's from what my understand is.
one of the big problems I have is geting the cosmetics and outfits from the quests or boss raids it feels like you get one cosmetic in 1 month, and also on big problem is the battle pass quest they are taking way to long to complette 15 boss raids, 15 quests ect. ect. with a certain character it gets boring realy quick and just takes to long
It does getting fun again when you’re at max and doing higher contents. Something about first impression is really the problem with this game in particular.
so... in the beggining you showed some video of pitohui and said they teasted some gamepaly of her; but i can't find a video ANYWHERE!! where did you find this footage?
@@HavianCritDmg thanks for the reply. I don't use twitter and googling with terms like 'jp' can't get it to come up. guess i'll jsut have to wait. cheers
This game almost shares all the same issues plaguing Phantasy Star 2 New Genesis. 1. Dialled back gameplay compared to predecessors 2. Abysmal drop rates 3. Lack of map/map variety 4. "Endgame Content" on a timed rotation 5. Most bizarrely of all - A lack of quality of life features like being able to view stats i.e crit rate despite previous games in the series offering that
This game had so much potential but theres like nothing to do and now just filled with bots i didnt really have a reason to keep grinding past just beating bosses a couple times
cool but idk what they meant about the low level effect spheres. i have lv 5 effects on low common, uncommon and rare equipment but its useless since you cant take out those valuables effects. its only the epic and legendary equipment that you can only take out effect spheres
@@HavianCritDmg the part if they are planning on letting us take out those lv 5 effects on uncommon,rare equipment to put them on our legendary gear with good effects. they said something about recommending keeping some gear which is where i got confused on. hopefully they let us take out those lv 5 effects aka advance skill damage lv 5, crit rate up lv 5 on those low rank uncommon, rare equipment
Ohh, they were recommending that you keep low rank Epic or Legendary equipment, so that you can level them up once they add the Item Rank UP system. For effect sphere's, they said they're going to consider adding a different system that will let you strengthen an effect sphere. Most likely letting you upgrade one from lv4 to lv5 for example. This will probably only be for Epic and Legendary weapons too.
@@HavianCritDmg yeah i shouldve known that was it. its still good if they do that, cant wait except for pitohui shes not coming any time soon. until we get a m teaser on how he plays since both of them are a duo. im excited on what their passives will be since on your video they said they were looking at the passives. imagen we get a better guts passive or better crit passive or better heal passive etc
Imo they rly have to change the system for passives. Like 1000 for 1 lv5 is way to much. I mean i started the game 3weeks ago. Iam lv 100 but cant fully Equip even 1 Charackter? Feels like BDO Grind Vibes. But the Game is still nice and iam Hyped. Thanks for the good Video
The fact that they think an SAO game will really live on. Well they're gonna learn and hopefully the community will learn to let that shit go. SAO ain't gonna ever be that online game you wish for it to be. Or a live service game at that. The game and the world really ain't that interesting. Just giving the harsh truth about my subjective opinion.
The SAO games are more known for being an offline RPG that replicates the scale and feeling of an MMO. The .hack series did it previously, but there aren't many other game series that do something similar. Back when the SAO anime was still running I'm sure more people cared about this style of game being set in the SAO world, but these days not so much. So I don't think it's as deep as you're assuming. As for Fractured Daydream, it's the game that deviates from the usual formula by making it an actual online focused game. A lot of people that played it just wanted another loot focused game that they could play in co-op, however in Season 1 the game didn't have the content to support that long term. Whether or not that changes in Season 2 is anyone's guess, I'm not holding my breath though.
It’s not going to be online for sure. But not offline rather since you need to have ppl around. A single player game will likely gonna turn the series into hack and slash or something that you just going to play and dumb away. Unlike other games, so far, I do believe that this series has a huge potential for replay compare to a lot of other series in the same track records. The only problems they have are the executions and ideas that they try to throw around. Some of that are very mediocre or insufficient hence why it isn’t selling well for ppl who are looking for something unique to play. (It wont be lasted 10 years if they really dumb it like other franchises that flopped though so I still have somewhat predicament around this series as a whole)
This game had the potential but the lack of content, players and too much grinding kills it, i also often get disconnected because iam a SEA player and there is no good server with my ping, i can only play at asia with 200 or 100+ ping.
There is a match i played with no other than bots teamates that get stuck when chasing enemy
I hope they rethink the design and make the gameplay loop enjoyable. I really just enjoy the story, i stopped at rank 60 because i cant handle the grind.
I'm loving this game and I hope they continue supporting it for a long time.
I get that this is supposed to be a multiplayer focused game, but if there's something i'd like it would be more single player content, i like free roam, but i don't always want players to come look for me to follow me around whenever i'm trying to get objectives done.
Some easier dungeons for parties of 1-4 players would also be cool for when you have a group of friends to play together with.
Prior to release I thought free roam's "1 to 4 players" meant that would be to total number of players. So that you could go alone if you wanted or with 3 other people. At release I find out it's a bunch of parties of 1-4 people so it's still a mad rush like the other quests. That was a deal breaker for me, I like to go at my own pace and I hate to be rushed. Oh well.
They need to expand free roam for sure. I would say around 60 to 100 players in an instance will be sufficient to have a raid boss and stuff to do outside of mission base structure they have
They can tower control mode or defensive mode like Fatal Bullet to cover over that
@@dale7326 You mean raising the amount of players in a free roam instance? I'm not entirely against the idea, but before that i feel like they should prioritize people who'd rather play alone or with a group of friends. Right now, there's no options for playing in closed parties, and if you go into free roam with the intent of playing alone, there's still a chance that you'll find players and they will keep following you around. It's all good until you need to kill named enemies for a mission and a flock of players locks in on the boss that you already got down to 30% health.
Not saying you're wrong though, a massive boss fight with up to 60 players sounds like a damn good time, but i believe they should prioritize giving players more options for either solo or 2-4 player parties first, and then expand on the multiplayer modes the game currently has.
Sorry for the wall of text 😑
I would hate to be a new player jumping into this game. If players have completionist mentality they already missed out on Trial Season rewards, with no indication if they will return for new players to acquire, the GGO2 cosmetics from the episodes, and others. That friction enough would be enough to just play the story mode and abandon multiplayer due to FOMO. For a game trying to acquire new players this game is doing a terrible job in doing so. At least when I play Splatoon 3 I can acquire missed Seasonal content through the Shell Out Machine, or wait for the season to cycle again. Not sure how this game is all planned out. There is no point continuing a game if you cannot work towards a cosmetic that has a limited time window or exclusive. I've played Destiny 2 and usually the poor development is what causes players to abandon ship. I estimate this game to be supported for at least 2 years in new content until they develop an actual semi-MMO type with customized characters. There's is not much to builds in this game, just wail and spam attacks on enemies, or just race to the end to beat the boss quickly and repeat with hopes of a cosmetic drop happening.
I never played this I want to try it question if I may ask if I’m use to playing games like devil may cry and god of war would I like this
@@matttalks81mw if you aren't a big sao fan, I'd recommend not buying it for now at least.
Yeah, I agree, and for me FOMO is one of the biggest things that is killing my interest in modern games. Everything is Time-Limited, everything is full of shop rotations, seasons, events and so on. So if you were not there then you miss it.
I hate that because it creates artificial player activity and also can be stress inducing for some people.
The reason for time limit in modern games usually come from sales. If they remove stuff that have flash sale or quick ones. It will not create any incentive for ppl to wait or buy something.
The issues aren’t really about limited but rather the execution of those. They usually use this because it also saves them a lot of money to operate or run businesses that has no guarantee returns or available date
Yeah they need to do something about this game, Me and my 2 friends are lower ranked and cant even find matches, its pretty much dead if you arent doing the highest level stuff
You might need to try a different server. Asia server is always packed
Crazy how a coop focused game has less things to do in coop than fatal bullet, though FB didn't have everything on release either. Hoping they add a lot more things to do. I regret not waiting for a sale on this game though, since I'm not having fun with the current content.
Those changes are going to be great! I'm coming back to the game if they get implemented as my problem is the queue time and finding people to play with at lower ranks
I wish the Quests would not require so many players, i was already concerned when the game came out that this will become a problem and i was right.
Thanks for the information
No, if you have lower rank equipment, it is better to dismantle them even with good unique features.
Simply because… it takes more time to get your gear up to max rank compare to have something around 30 levels in between where you can get the same ones.
Here is a list of unique special effec that I can recommend to keep if you have rank 85 and upward:
- Unique skill gauge up
- Omni guard and guard damage reduction up
- Guard skill cooldown up for Melee characters
- Atk up effect for weapon skills
- Crit up effect for weapon skills
That’s all. The rest you can get them from higher rank
I really hope Premiere from the gameverse gets her chance in. So I can heavily have a reason to grind the game again. At rank 80 and stopped playing for a while.
Rank up to 100 so you can flex your extreme boss raid hat at least 😂
@SoullessResident nah I need that Premiere water droplet of content. Please, I need playable silly dps lop
I really like this game, tho sadly after reaching rank 60 (yes I didnt even get to 100) I kinda fell off it, I kept it installed to grab the free SAO GGO2 content codes but thats it, I fell off this game for several reasons like content variety and lack of finding groups in region servers....glad they are looking into adding more maybe I'll return. Thanks for the video and news Havian your awesome!
Everyone world wide is on Asia server. It's not like it was at launch. But at least you can still find groups over there
I'm just waiting for them to add Eydis shes my favorite gameverse character
I hope they make cosmetics easier to get I want to make my characters look cooler but can't
They need to add more before making them available though. So far, there is no or simply not enough models available to begin. I know ppl already start to modding them lately but not really enough for them to work on
@@dale7326 Add more? I was just talking about the ones that rely on RNG that are currently available in the game right now not getting more cosmetics even though we're severely lacking in cosmetics in general right now.
@@darkshotgun209 The cosmetics on the quest rewards from my understanding is more of an achievement of sort, hence why they are very difficult to get. If more of them, it will split the chances to get one with lower drops. In other words, higher chances to drop.
Aside, I have heard some ppl basically just get the outfit in first run so i do believe that RNG has an issue with availability not drop chances base on how many runs you have done with that specific quest. I technically also get the dress outfit from Trommel within just 10 runs of that boss so i don't know whether it is based on accessibility or availability at first. Most ppl i know so far still struggle to get the Sword Golem outfits so that the case.
Just in case, RNG based on drops in most games usually based on either fixed chances you have or fixed rate of times you do to get them. I was not really sure about that with this game but it seems to be the other case. In previous SAO, they use a loot table to check which stuff you gonna get at what % (meaning it is easier to acquire the items but not specific ones that you are looking hence why ppl were farming like crazy in a go then just slowly drop it if they didn't get them or not the ones they wanted). However, in this game, they use something akin to gacha system for the loot. Which means, you have higher chances to drop the things you want but lower chances to acquire it. That's why it's so hard to get them. That's from what my understand is.
one of the big problems I have is geting the cosmetics and outfits from the quests or boss raids it feels like you get one cosmetic in 1 month, and also on big problem is the battle pass quest they are taking way to long to complette 15 boss raids, 15 quests ect. ect. with a certain character it gets boring realy quick and just takes to long
It does getting fun again when you’re at max and doing higher contents. Something about first impression is really the problem with this game in particular.
@dale7326 I am at max that's the point
so... in the beggining you showed some video of pitohui and said they teasted some gamepaly of her; but i can't find a video ANYWHERE!! where did you find this footage?
It was on a past livestream that they made private, but the gameplay clip was from the official JP SAO game twitter account.
@@HavianCritDmg thanks for the reply. I don't use twitter and googling with terms like 'jp' can't get it to come up. guess i'll jsut have to wait. cheers
These are the links to the clips: x.com/sao_gameinfo/status/1863107451643683096
x.com/sao_gameinfo/status/1863107733328724155
This game almost shares all the same issues plaguing Phantasy Star 2 New Genesis.
1. Dialled back gameplay compared to predecessors
2. Abysmal drop rates
3. Lack of map/map variety
4. "Endgame Content" on a timed rotation
5. Most bizarrely of all - A lack of quality of life features like being able to view stats i.e crit rate despite previous games in the series offering that
This game had so much potential but theres like nothing to do and now just filled with bots i didnt really have a reason to keep grinding past just beating bosses a couple times
There is for endgame players but not for ppl who are leveling though. That’s the issue.
Cool
I was very excited to try this game. Then I waited 20 minutes to get into a bot only lobby
cool but idk what they meant about the low level effect spheres. i have lv 5 effects on low common, uncommon and rare equipment but its useless since you cant take out those valuables effects. its only the epic and legendary equipment that you can only take out effect spheres
Hmm, which part don't you understand?
@@HavianCritDmg the part if they are planning on letting us take out those lv 5 effects on uncommon,rare equipment to put them on our legendary gear with good effects. they said something about recommending keeping some gear which is where i got confused on. hopefully they let us take out those lv 5 effects aka advance skill damage lv 5, crit rate up lv 5 on those low rank uncommon, rare equipment
Ohh, they were recommending that you keep low rank Epic or Legendary equipment, so that you can level them up once they add the Item Rank UP system. For effect sphere's, they said they're going to consider adding a different system that will let you strengthen an effect sphere. Most likely letting you upgrade one from lv4 to lv5 for example. This will probably only be for Epic and Legendary weapons too.
@@HavianCritDmg yeah i shouldve known that was it. its still good if they do that, cant wait except for pitohui shes not coming any time soon. until we get a m teaser on how he plays since both of them are a duo. im excited on what their passives will be since on your video they said they were looking at the passives. imagen we get a better guts passive or better crit passive or better heal passive etc
Imo they rly have to change the system for passives. Like 1000 for 1 lv5 is way to much. I mean i started the game 3weeks ago. Iam lv 100 but cant fully Equip even 1 Charackter? Feels like BDO Grind Vibes. But the Game is still nice and iam Hyped. Thanks for the good Video
Can't report players if there is no players me smart.
The company does its best with low sales. Japanese games are reliable. I'm satisfied with enough value even with the collection.
Drop the game faster then some dad the milk bad game
I think all game after hollow realisation is a let down. I like hollow realization combat and feel like its more free.
You didn't like ggo???
The fact that they think an SAO game will really live on. Well they're gonna learn and hopefully the community will learn to let that shit go. SAO ain't gonna ever be that online game you wish for it to be. Or a live service game at that. The game and the world really ain't that interesting. Just giving the harsh truth about my subjective opinion.
The SAO games are more known for being an offline RPG that replicates the scale and feeling of an MMO. The .hack series did it previously, but there aren't many other game series that do something similar. Back when the SAO anime was still running I'm sure more people cared about this style of game being set in the SAO world, but these days not so much. So I don't think it's as deep as you're assuming.
As for Fractured Daydream, it's the game that deviates from the usual formula by making it an actual online focused game. A lot of people that played it just wanted another loot focused game that they could play in co-op, however in Season 1 the game didn't have the content to support that long term. Whether or not that changes in Season 2 is anyone's guess, I'm not holding my breath though.
It’s not going to be online for sure. But not offline rather since you need to have ppl around. A single player game will likely gonna turn the series into hack and slash or something that you just going to play and dumb away.
Unlike other games, so far, I do believe that this series has a huge potential for replay compare to a lot of other series in the same track records.
The only problems they have are the executions and ideas that they try to throw around. Some of that are very mediocre or insufficient hence why it isn’t selling well for ppl who are looking for something unique to play. (It wont be lasted 10 years if they really dumb it like other franchises that flopped though so I still have somewhat predicament around this series as a whole)
I already un-installed lol
Can you create your own character?
@@iShadowBEAST no