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Re: VKMR: Moonlight Blade Online
« Reply #15 on: July 03, 2015, 08:19:51 pm »
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We need to figure out how to add friends to some list...

...that way we can see when someone else is online.

That's easy, you press U to open the friends interface then do this:

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There's also a guild made for English players, but you need to be level 32 first and pick the Ram head faction.

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Re: VKMR: Moonlight Blade Online
« Reply #16 on: July 03, 2015, 08:45:11 pm »
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I'll obviously call my char Molly if it's free.
Otherwise I gonna update in here. Considering my download speed, that's not gonna happen before tomorrow tho.
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Re: VKMR: Moonlight Blade Online
« Reply #17 on: July 03, 2015, 10:32:18 pm »
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'Abnormal activities from your IP.'

Great.

Cba with this unless there's some incredibly easy and obvious way around it

What even is a QQ account and why is it necessary to download and play a game?

It's a company that published the game, just like Square Enix with Final Fantasy and such. Kinda need an account in most mmos to play :)

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Re: VKMR: Moonlight Blade Online
« Reply #18 on: July 03, 2015, 11:25:11 pm »
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Any idea why i'm getting the 'Abnormal activities from your IP.'  message?

Or how to resolve it without giving them my mobile no.? Molly did something clever, but i'm not clever so i wouldnt know

Should probably let Molly respond with that :D I'm guessing he tried again, or maybe with another email address? Maybe different browser? I solved it by having my friend do it instead of me, with my info.

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Re: VKMR: Moonlight Blade Online
« Reply #19 on: July 04, 2015, 12:35:50 am »
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The more i read about bounty system etc the more fun i think i'll find this, just frustrating to go through all these steps (and fail at the first one!!!!!!!!!!! grrrr)

Think the only way is to register from a different IP (have a friend do it for you):
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What is “Abnormal Activities from My IP”?

You might have come across this error at some point – please do not worry. This error is produced when our server detects an abnormal registration and login pattern from the same IP address. At this point we’d require a mobile phone verification to ensure you’re not a robot or any other malicious software.

You may want to sign up from a different IP address or try again some time later when your current IP address will be whitelisted.

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Re: VKMR: Moonlight Blade Online
« Reply #20 on: July 04, 2015, 12:42:54 am »
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Well, most ISP supply a dynamic IP with a forced reconnect every 24 hours in Germany.
I simply forced that reconnect with my router and got myself a new IP that way. That allowed me to create an account without issue.

Make sure that you use the correct country when creating the account. That was probably my fault, I kept it standing at China, thinking that only Chinese would be allowed to register. Actually tho, there is a complete list of all countries.

Just get yourself a new IP by disconnecting and reconnecting to the internet. But that only works if you are on a dynamic IP by your ISP.

Installing right now... :D
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Re: VKMR: Moonlight Blade Online
« Reply #21 on: July 04, 2015, 12:58:17 am »
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Just try again tomorrow
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Re: VKMR: Moonlight Blade Online
« Reply #22 on: July 04, 2015, 09:11:59 am »
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Well, good for you cuz that thing isn't working for me.
I get some weird pink chinese symbol on start-up and that's it. Not really crashing but not starting properly either.
CPUs show no activity, neither does the GPU.

All that work for nothing :(
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Re: VKMR: Moonlight Blade Online
« Reply #23 on: July 04, 2015, 12:41:26 pm »
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As cool as this seems, it's way too much hassle just to play a game in a language I don't understand at all and will just probably make me rage quit. Hope they do have a western release at some point.

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Re: VKMR: Moonlight Blade Online
« Reply #24 on: July 04, 2015, 04:19:24 pm »
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Well, good for you cuz that thing isn't working for me.
I get some weird pink chinese symbol on start-up and that's it. Not really crashing but not starting properly either.
CPUs show no activity, neither does the GPU.

All that work for nothing :(

Show screenshot. This is when you run the launcher/desktop shortcut?

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Re: VKMR: Moonlight Blade Online
« Reply #25 on: July 07, 2015, 06:15:23 pm »
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Re: VKMR: Moonlight Blade Online
« Reply #26 on: July 08, 2015, 01:05:07 pm »
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Level ~50 impressions update:

Combat
Overall still fun and great to look at. Usually after playing an MMO to these levels/this much time I would already sense if the combat is boring or not and this one isn't. Even now I'm discovering new depths. Your character basically has 6 bars:
- Health, determines when you die
- 'Flying'(stamina) bar, determines how much you can sprint, dodge roll, jump around and dash through the sky
- Block/stability meter, works kinda like a shield before you start taking real damage
- 'Ultimate' meter, determines when you can use certain powerful abilities
- The red and blue meters (no idea what they're called), when those fill up to 100%, some abilities that are marked with either the blue or red icon become stronger and the animation changes, usually adds one more 'step' to the move. For example Beggars move 'grab and throw on the floor' becomes 'grab, throw on the floor and then body slam enemy while they're lying'.

A lot of abilities, at least with Beggar, who's a close combat fighter (and thus susceptible to kiting), have some sort of a lock. That means you're holding your enemy in a lock/combo, if they're block meter is drained, otherwise they can dodge out of it. There's also a special skill to break out of these locks, so you don't just sit and watch yourself get pounded. Then you have skills that are based around dealing damage to enemies block meter, but deal less damage to raw hp. So basically what you need to do is break the enemies block then use combo skills on them before it recharges, otherwise combo/lock skills do not do as much damage.
There's also a skill with every class that works like an 'execute' ability when you use it on a low HP enemy. This instakills an enemy and returns some health to you. Great for PvE. For example my class' execute ability is my guy jumping on enemy, grabbing his head, spinning around him breaking his neck while also hitting all the enemies around him with the spin.
All skills have fairly low cooldowns so it's pretty fast paced.

I actually did some duels with chinese players and the lag wasn't that hindering.


General

Most of your progress until level 35 is by doing the main quest. You can also do side quests and NPC dueling, but it's not necessary, as main quest gives plenty of XP. After level 35-36, the main story ends and then continues at level 40, 50 and 60 (max level is 70). So what do you do if you're out of main story? There's several things you can do to level up. Note that you can do only so much of each of these per day, as the XP is capped. The XP cap stacks for 3 days, so you can wait and then do everything the third day.

So how do you fill up these daily xp caps?

- Meditating at your school master. Basically all you need to do is go back to your school (school=class) area and meditate for a few minutes and you will get xp.
- Job/profession daily quests. There's 4 types of those and they require a party of 5:
  - Finding Treasure - you search a smaller area for these artifacts, you need to find 5 of them and each party member needs to stand on the spot where they found it until all do
  - Escorting Cart - you and your team drive a cart to a location and halfway through it is attacked by NPCs
  - Finding Criminals - you go to 5 different places on the map and beat on mobs
  - Attacking a Cart - never done this one
- Grinding instance - you get into a huge party/raid with other people, get transported to a location where you fight huge amounts of mobs for up to 15 minutes.
- Other side stuff mentioned below

These daily XP caps can be completed quite fast, so it never felt grindy to me so far. It also puts some breaks on the nolifers :)

Side stuff you can do:
- Instances/dungeons - you go through trash mobs and bosses, get loot. Standard fare. One dungeon was especially interesting, as it was a stealth mission, where you go around and backstab guards without being spotted (you can kill the boss by backstabbing him as well). Bosses can be pretty hard, as they're not just tank and spank. They have attacks that can one shot you and you need to know the tactics on how each boss works. For example one boss spawns with 3 adds that all need to die within a few seconds of each other, but cannot be too close to each other, so you need to separate them. In addition to that, the boss does huge arrow rain AoE that kills you very fast unless you stand in the marked safezone, so you need to pay attention. There's a dungeon party finder feature, so there's not a lot of problems finding a party to do these. Dungeon bosses drop good items as well as cosmetic items, which I think is nice.
- Meditating at certain spots in the world to receive meridian points (take meridian as some sort of alternate/additional progress)
- Attack or escort caravans (different from daily missions mentioned before!) - you will receive money depending on how stacked the cart was (determined randomly at start)
- Professions (different from daily missions!) - you have several professions that you can do to get some extra items/money. I opted for treasure hunter, basically what you do is use an item until and it gives you direction (east, west, etc) of where the treasure could be, you locate it, dig at the site and get some loot
- Crafting
- Side quests and NPC dueling - each of these rewards you with either meridian points or permanent stat boosts pills, so you can imagine it's quite important to do them sooner or later
- Open world bosses - require more people, never done them
- pvp, dueling, guild, faction war, etc - have not experienced any of these besides normal dueling
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Re: VKMR: Moonlight Blade Online
« Reply #27 on: July 08, 2015, 06:29:32 pm »
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How important are levels? For example if you're trying to bounty hunt a level 70, and you're level 60, do you even stand a chance?

No idea, I'm guessing you don't stand much of a chance though, yeah.

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Re: VKMR: Moonlight Blade Online
« Reply #28 on: July 13, 2015, 10:07:29 am »
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If anyone is as masochistic as me and still playing this, we have a chinese speaking dude in our guild translating the whole interface/game and writing a huge guide here, very useful:
http://killonsight.info/forums/viewtopic.php?f=202&t=1463

For anyone having bad latency/ping:
I managed to find a ping booster that seriously improved my connection (from Europe) to their server (China). Latency during chinese prime time, when the whole server was full (+queue), was not optimal. Lagspikes were often and fighting hard bosses was pretty difficult. Outside of primetime it worked smooth even without the booster though. But I was surprised that this booster improved the connection so much. From up to 700ms during chinese prime time with frequent lagspikes to ~300ms with no noticeable skill lag and no lag spikes. However, it's not free, costs like 4$ per month :( - there is a 5 day trial which is nice to see if it actually improves anything for you, as it might differ from ISP to ISP, but it worked wonders for me and a guildie from Italy.

http://www.xunyou.com/ (big orange button to dl)
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