Posts by DAOWAce

It's the gold sellers and population decrease.

People finally wised up about buying cash shop items and selling them on the market. They saw they were getting completely ripped off compared to people participating in RMT. As a result, Cash items have pretty much quintupled in price. Example:

Gameforge hasn't done anything to stop it, and as such the market is getting completely destroyed.

If you're a F2P player and haven't already bought outfits and other cosmetics along with VIP packages back when they were cheap, you're SOL. Things will only continue to get worse.

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As mentioned already, it will be done. We simply can't do it right now since we are still in beta and we are collecting feedback, improving technical stuffs and resolving some issues. But please be sure that as soon as we can, we will provide more details and announce the commercial release. Thank you in advance!

Nice to see the announcement is "we're still discussing things, nothing is changing" along with the game's "commercial release" done right out of the blue.

Are we concerned? That's not even the question anymore.

Welp, there's proof 'open beta' was just a scapegoat.

"nothing is changing, we're still discussing stuff, oh here's some rewards"

And now they changed the VIP to be based on real-time instead of game-time, which was amazing because not many games have buffs only count down when you're online. This has let me and numerous others wait for issues to get fixed (I can't even log the fuck in because of the "server overloaded" shit) and wait for improvements to the game.. but nope, all our VIP is now going to waste after this maintenance.

Disgusting company, as many people have warned about.

Is this not happening to anyone else?

I've been restarting the game over 10 times before I give up and can't get beyond this damn message. I haven't been able to login for 3 days now.

Makes no sense since the game's been bleeding players and it's early in the morning. Doesn't seem to matter when I try, the login server is just atrocious.

So it'll only take a year for any improvements to start coming over here.

Onward, to 2019, where far better games will come out by then!

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As many people already said - you'll get used to it. It's the only real option you have. I got used to this FOV. Not to mention - different FOVs on different people leads to unfair advantages. I personally am glad there's a unified thing here.

You have no right to speak on FoV as you clearly don't understand it whatsoever.

Do yourself, and everyone else, a favor by educating yourself on what field of view is and how it affects the human brain.

Here's a headstart: https://www.howtogeek.com/2412…what-you-can-do-about-it/

AAA localization.

The no-ui slow-down on boss kill does this as well.

The game is just terribly designed.

The only thing you can do is read the chatlog afterward to see what was said.

Don't play an alt until you're 55 so you get that bonus exp.

With how ass awful our exp rates are, you need all the help you can get.

As for me, I'm struggling to even get to 55 on a single character because of how atrocious the game is designed, both from core gameplay/technical issues and the fact that we have the horrible Korean version instead of the Japanese one.

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at the moment there's still issues that are going on with server stability (having to fix NA twice in 2 days now, along with random crashes and lag ongoing)

Is this lag you are currently experiencing, or are we speaking overall? I've talked to a few people and they mention they have almost unplayable lag right now. I have a feeling there might be a routing issue with certain variables.

I've been seeing gameplay affecting issues since the last patch with the 'server stability optimization'.

Skill cooldowns and lack of SF to use a skill isn't working correctly. The skill stays lit up and if you use it your character just freezes for a split second while the chatlog is spammed with either "cooldown not ready" or "not enough SF".

Prior to this patch, the skill would be greyed out and fully unusable. I don't know if this is due to some latency related issue or core game change in the patch, but it's a really poor experience in comparison to how it used to be.

Of course, it's also coupled with server lag spikes affecting combat (delays on hits, warping/rubberbanding of both you and enemies, getting hit out of skill hitboxes, etc). Also sometimes enemy collision boxes stay there after they die along with their icons on the minimap; makes fighting and gauging the enemies left a complete hassle.

But I guess it's fine, 'cause we get more $20 costumes while every other issue is ignored, right?

Oh and just as I was about to submit this post I started up SW and was greeted with this:

Quality.

Edit: And connecting to the NA server after this took about 30 seconds before I was brought to the char screen. Gonna assume the game is barely playable.. never seen it like this before.

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Another thing they did in the update, is they fixed the Vip Energy bug.

Wait, something too pay to win even for Gameforge? Well I'll be..

Where's all the above at all times?

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At the point when they said no wipe this game left open beta testing territory and stepped into soft lunch territory.

+ taking people's money from the cash shop.

Doesn't matter what they want to excuse the issues as; the game is launched as far as the playerbase is concerned.

Google "SoulWorker zoom tool"

Fixes the issue the developer/publisher probably will never.

Alternatively, you have to play in a 4:3 resolution because the game is Vert- FoV scaling. Only 4:3 (or 5:4) was comfortable enough for me. 16:10 still felt too zoomed in, but maybe it's your middle ground.

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.. and u have to jump..

Jumping doesn't actually do anything but let you use the awful aerial normals or single aerial skill you have (at least for Haru).

Everything on the ground still hits you.

AAA design.

obligatory "git gud".

Lily doesn't have i-frames on dodge, really? That doesn't seem right.

I believe I did this without really getting hit. You can see he's going to use an attack and preemptively dodge to avoid it. Ravan's attacks are mostly all predictable. Bunker Bot though, dunno, haven't fought it more than twice.

The only issue really is playing in a party where particle effects are covering the screen and you don't know who he's attacking. Also the random floor mechanic, which affects every member when in a party too (one person stands on stun square, everyone gets stunned).

But yeah, wouldn't surprise me if there's bullshit anti-avoidable attacks. Gotta get you to buy respawners somehow, right? I especially love the enemies who have AoE skills that will one shot you if you're melee when they activate because the projectiles shotgun you, even if you're 20+ levels above them with 70% damage reduction.

Other games do combat mechanics much better.

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Nobody would invest over 100€ to buy an expensive costume over 5 times just to sell it that way.

You underestimate what whales are willing to do.

So long as there's no purchase/sale limits, people will spend thousands to get a major ingame advantage from selling cash items.

Hmm, strange.

Wouldn't surprise me if the game didn't support higher than x1080 resolutions.. but also wouldn't make much sense unless it's really badly made. (kind of is, lol)

I don't have a 1440p+ monitor (2560x1080, ultrawide for life), so I can't help you further.

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I wonder if MMOs will ever move on from the archaic system of "1% success rate, if you fail you're shr3k'd m9".

Eastern ones won't because they're full of P2W, regardless of being F2P or B2P wherever it's released.

Western ones don't have any of this.

Frequently Asked Questions about the game

See: "How can I manually adjust the screen resolution?"

Alternatively, go to SoulWorker\GameEtc and edit SupportWindowResolutionList.ini to include your own custom resolutions selectable in the dropdown menu.