After checking again on the email (I was on mobile), there is no notification whatsoever to indicate that I have the access to the game. So I turned to my PC, get the mail, click on it and I got this.
Taken from My.com
First and foremost, let me introduce to you the world in Revelation Online called The World of Nuanor. This is an open world basis, MMORPG game which includes mounts and wings for flight and exploration of this huge map. According to the website, The World of Nuanor consists of 10 provinces and 3 great cities. Across this entire map lies 7 strongholds that is not limited to only land but also the sea and sky.
Like any MMORPG, this game relies heavily on its ability to construct a story that could capture players' hearts (for example: Blade & Soul and Wildstar has some interesting stories whereas Phantasy Star Online 2, Skyforge, and Dungeon Fighter Online is a dungeon basis game). So, Revelations Online has story quests, dungeons, raids and of course, bosses for the players to indulge in the world of Nuanor.
This game has open world PvP which means that in certain areas and after a certain level, you will be opened towards attacks from other players. This, in my opinion, has not been something I am very keen about. I avoided these kind of games but so far, I have seen no one in the same map as I am (phew!). HOWEVER, bullying is not tolerated so penalty will be given to those that abuse the PK ability of this game.
This game also has castle sieges where you join a guild and conquer one of the seven strongholds as mentioned above. In the website, they mention literally thousands of players will guard and attack to conquer each so I can imagine the amount of lag I will get if I were to join so heads up, I am not joining.
Not only that, they have arena (for those PvP craze players), aerial combat (if you have flight, you better fight), and battlegrounds (which consists of different kinds of PvP modes such as seizing the flag, classic battleground to test your ability as a PvPer).
Let us start with the most important part of every MMORPG,
Character Creation.
Pick your class. There is six classes to be picked. Each has both genders, though the body size for each classes are limited (will be explained further with more pictures!). After choosing your class, there will be a small animation played out for each character (fancy moves!).
Occultist class. Specialize in magic attack and healing. This class is an AOE, ranged, support character. The class uses dark magic to attack, and light magic to heal. Great for those that like to hit and run, the stay-at-the-back characters. Decent damage but not a damage dealer.
Occultist Male
Occultist Female
On the side of each class choice is the gender and body type. On the left is for male and right is female. There is 3 body types but some are locked where if you noticed, the greyed out are locked while the slightly golden ones are choices. You shouldn't bother much about the body type because you can change that in the after choosing your gender.
Spiritshaper Male
Spiritshaper Female
Vanguard Male (huge ass spear, compensating for something eh?)
Vanguard Female
Blademaster class. Blademaster as it is, is the master of blades. Surprisingly, this is a tank class that specializes in parrying, close combat and crowd control skills. With high damage, the aim for this class is not to tank it but to kill it as fast as possible while taking the hits.
Blademaster Male
Blademaster Female
Gunslinger class. As the name mention, this class uses guns as their main weapon. Ranged abilities that can crowd control, this class is much feared for being one of the damage dealers in a group.
Gunslinger Male
Gunslinger Female
Swordmage class. Swordmage is a class that does not use sword but summons astral swords as a ranged weapon for them to throw at mobs. AoE, ranged, damage dealer, this class is almost similar to the gunslinger class.
Swordmage Male
Swordmage Female
Now that you have chosen your class, let's move to,
Character Customization.
As you can see, this is what you get after choosing your gender and body type. For now, I have chosen a female occultist. On the right are the presets, top right is the save and load buttons for those who have customized and wanted to reuse the same choices, top left is a small video for you to view the flight and apparel, and bottom left is poses, apparel for classes, and wings for flight.
Each round sub-buttons signifies the area for you to modify.
Note: There is a slight problem for this part. The right side for each sub-buttons (other than the presets) are very tiny. The sliders, the text, the images are incredibly small. So the images after this are only for the right side.
Body > Hair
Body > Skin
Body > Torso
Body > Legs
Body > Body
As I have mentioned earlier, there is not much to worry about body type because you can customize to each detail of the human body,
Face Customization and sub-buttons.
Face > Skin (look, moustache)
Face > Eyebrows
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Face > Eyes
Face > Makeup (I'm bad at editing images, forgive this noob.) You choose different colour for each eyes (go crazy!).
Face > Lips
Face > Face
Note: Honestly, even the male of this game looks so much more prettier than me. Not forgetting the ladies. This game is killing my self-confidence. More gym! Get slimmer!
You are allowed to have 6 characters. Enough to try each classes.
Yeah, that is me. Holla, if you see me!
After a few hours, you are finally DONE! Time to get into the game!
Loading screen. I really love the art.
Story time! It's not translated yet (speaks in Mandarin). Don't bother asking me what the story is about. I don't know too.
This appeared straight as you enter the game. Three types of mode of playing. Lock on target (where your actions will focus on that target), click to move (the classic Ragnarok Online click that area to move to that area) and the free aiming (ever played Tera or Wildstar? Yeah, like that.).
We will jump straight into the next most important part,
The UI (User Interface).
UI Editor
This is something that most MMORPG developers include in their games. The UI Editor. UI is one of the most important part of a player's experience. Based on how clean the UI looks and how user friendly it is, it can be a success or failure area of an MMORPG. The UI for this game is pretty simple. From 12 o clock, you have the mob details and notice, system notice and battle notice, gift notification for beta testers, map, quests details, secondary skills shortcut key, menu icons, main skills shortcut keys, EXP bar (tiny blue bar at the bottom), chat, HP and MP, name, and shortcut keys for settings. The colourful squares are the buffs and debuffs notifications. I like to move all of these to the edges of the screen and keep my human character right in the middle, completely clean from distractions.
For me, the UI seems very tiny. This is at 100% size.
This is at max 130% size.
I made it to 110% size. The text is still quite small but bearable.
You can click on the underlined text in the quests area to move your character automatically. (Easy for lazy people, a turn off for me.). Additional to that, there is green arrows on the ground pointing towards your target. This may sound quite immature of me but I find it the arrows to be an unnecessary feature. A simple quest indicator on their heads (which they have) would suffice. Markings on the map is also sufficient enough to point me towards the target. I don't need no arrows and auto-move, I ain't no small kid.
The small icons consists of character/wings/dossier, inventory/auction/shop, skills/action/craft, group/squad, guild, job, friends/proximity characters/chat/camera, battlefield/arena, rating/achievements, events, and esc/settings.
Character window
Class path (still not sure what it does, will tell soon)
Crafting window
Factions Window
Honor window (something like a merit point system)
Inventory with the classic bag extensions (encourages you to play more/spend more).
This game has a few types of currency.
Gyph Notes : To trade with NPCs
Gythil : To trade with other players.
Aurum : In-game points bought with real cash.
Ausgyth Points : Honor certificates earned to exchange rare items.
Combat skills
Special skills (no information about this yet)
Flying skills.
Mounts will be obtained at early level. At level 69, there will be your own class mounts. Special mounts allowed two players to mount together. Wings will be obtained at level 29. The wings can be upgraded later at level 49. Wings also can be purchased through crafting, dungeon, NPC, quest and of course, cash shop. Wings allow players to have aerial combat (the first I ever had so far).
Achievement window
Dungeon Queue Hall. This is a norm in modern MMORPG where by players are able to join teams of parties for dungeon runs, raids, battlegrounds without meeting up at the same spot. This makes everything so much easier.
Example of quest acceptance.
One of the many animations during the story quest.
Yes, I would adopt Jibi as a pet too. (That small egg on my feet.)
TL;dR: I can't give an exact rating to this game but so far, I would say I am 8/10 for this game.
Pros: I love the vibrant colours, the art, the character customization, the UI, mount, wings, the animations, and classes.
Cons: I dislike the PK system and the translation to English is still not done and I really want to know the story, and tiny customization on the right side.
What I hope I can get from Revelation Online is the changes to the customization, translation, PvE only server and hopefully this game will never, ever be a pay2win type of game.
Note: I will not be able to play this game during this whole week because I will be away for Chinese New Year. The opinions are my own, based on the one hour that I had gone through Revelation Online including reading the website and playing the game.
All pictures are taken by me as screenshots from the game, Revelation Online unless indicated.
Happy Chinese New Year!
Zira.
