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When you are offline, your character exists in the world as an NPC to make you money or do whatever. As a player, you can kidnap other offline players and sell them for money. You're FFA attackable by anyone with no penalty when you are carrying a kidnap victim.

As a player, you can kidnap other offline players and sell them for money.

I.... Ok then, interesting. Hows the combat?

Basically, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et5sPb5PFCQ).

Wow. The combat could easily be the slowest and stiffest I've ever seen in a MMORPG since EverQuest (the first). What a bummer.

When you are offline, your character exists in the world as an NPC to make you money or do whatever. As a player, you can kidnap other offline players and sell them for money. You're FFA attackable by anyone with no penalty when you are carrying a kidnap victim.

Yes, I got into the all female faction, Eimi I think is the name. I like everything about this game except the combat. I even like the rock-paper-scissor mechanic, and the fact that there seems to be a bazillion of skills, and styles, and schools, and life activities (I'm a painter now), and lore, and PvP, and meta-everything. When I realized schools can steal relics from each other (even though I have no idea how) I was squeeling. Seriously, I might get lost in this game and never come back and die happy. It's just the combat. It's almost turn-based but doesn't have the elegance of a turn based. Maybe it's just that I need more skills or a different school, but when I realized that when you hit an ability the character automatically positions (warps) herself in front of the enemy in order to perform the animation, regardless of where it was a second before, I realized there was something really wrong with it. I mean, how does it even deal with fights that are not 1 vs 1?

I think i got the cultivation thing down but i am still incredibly lost about almost everything.  So far I've done about 95% running 5% fighting, but i didn't think the fighting was particularly bad.  Also, fuck you it's Wu-tang not Wudang.

Also, 1 hour per day is evil.

Wait, what? 1 hour of play per day and your character can be kidnapped at any point when you are logged off?

The best experience and money in the game is generated through PvP.

However, the way the game implements this is insidious. Guild escort missions are simple escort tasks where a guild party guides a cart to a destination. There is no PvE opposition, but other players can ambush the cart. If the attackers win, they get a small amount of money and XP -- not a terrible amount, but enough to encourage a bit of mayhem. If the escorters make it to their destination, they get a large amount of money and XP as well as guild fame. It's unlikely for players to want to attack a well-armed escort (as the rewards are low), but thrill-seekers might just take on the challenge. You may do dozens of escorts without seeing a soul, but you also might get jumped at every step.

Spy missions are another way that players can interact. Players can take on the role of spy, stealing intelligence from another school. Spying gives huge rewards, so players are heavily encouraged to try. While spying, you can be outed as a spy if your skills fail to steal intelligence, but the real danger comes from player patrols.

Patols are given a skill that can be used to raise a spy's suspicion meter by 30%, but they have no idea who is a spy. Anyone from another school could be a spy, so you have to find people and follow them around, checking them out until you're sure they're legit. It's an interesting cat-and-mouse game. Patrols are rewarded continuously by given a slight boost to experience conversion rate, letting them level slightly more quickly. If they catch a spy, they get paid some silver and get a good chunk of XP. It's not as lucrative as spying, though.

This dynamic creates one of the most exciting elements of the game. Spies want to avoid anyone with the patrol icon above his head, and spies who have been revealed will have to weigh the options of aborting their missions, returning with the intel they have, or continuing on to 10. If a patrol spots a revealed spy (or reveals one himself), it leads to extraordinary martial arts fights and incredible chases.


Involuntary PvP: Protecting the victim

Any open PvP game carries the risk of PKing. The question is, what kind of punishments are there? If you get PKed, you lose some money and get a painful stacking debuff that lowers your fighting power and movement speed.

PKers get a label called "slaughter value" that goes up steadily as they kill more players. A non-zero slaughter value changes a player's name to orange, letting everyone know he's a villain. Higher levels change it to red, then to pink. If a PKer is killed by police NPCs, he is sent to jail and must stay in jail until his slaughter value decays, which occurs only while he is online. A pink-named player will stay in jail for 24 hours (online or not) and then be beheaded, which doesn't actually kill the player but does hit him with a 24-hour debuff that dramatically reduces his combat stats.

If you've been griefed by a PKer, you also have a defense; you can put a bounty on his head. Any player with a bounty gains a glowing red icon that spins around him, and constables (player characters) can hunt him down and collect the bounty. In a way, putting a bounty on criminals encourages constables to be active and hunt criminals down because you're paying their wages. If a player with a bounty is killed by a constable, it's just like if he were killed by a police NPC, except the jail time is higher. However, police NPCs also aren't like EVE's Concord. Players are the police, so putting bounties on criminals is important.

You can also put a bounty on any player with a slaughter value, even if he didn't kill you. If a criminal is rampaging around killing your poorer friends, you can put some money down and make sure that criminal serves his time -- and he will, unless he quits the game

You lose the money you would have made while offline.  You get sold for cash to local businesses like brothels.

Consequences of Being Kidnapped

* lose all earnings accumulated during your offline period
* receive a 5-hour debuff when you get back online. this debuff makes it that when you log off, you will not be able to accumulate any earnings. to clear away this debuff:
- stay online for 5 hours OR
- pay for your freedom with Silver

 note that this will count towards your daily 360L spending limit
also note that when you are offline, other players can pay for your freedom; if they do so, they will earn 1 Chivalry point

MMO Culture has a brief look at the wedding system that just made its way onto the game's Taiwan server. The marriage mechanics include a proposal, some sort of engagement process, a dowry, and a wedding banquet. Apparently there's also an NPC who handles proposals and functions as the Ming Dynasty equivalent of a singles website. It's worth noting that Shaolin players can only propose after they've obtained the Secular Disciple title.

Updated 2 days ago into the Taiwan server, the new wedding system is the major content being added for Age of Wushu. Small details such as proposing, engagement process, wedding banquet etc are all included, which makes the whole experience more authentic. And of course, choosing the right date for the big occasion!
 

Partner selection – There will be a NPC to handle choosing of the suitable bride. It is something like the modern dating websites, where details of the players such as hobbies, habits etc can be seen. Players will search via this NPC to find his or her preferred in-game spouse. Female players can indicate they are looking for the suitable groom, while the male players can send confessions through.
 

Proposal – Through the same NPC, a male player can propose to his potential in-game spouse. If the female player agrees, she will receive a sum (from the guy) as the dowry, while the amount will be returned to the male player if rejected. The proposal can be canceled if the female player does not reply in 2 days. Once both sides agree to the wedding, a new status will cause both to be unable to propose or be proposed to. Shaolin characters can only propose if they have obtained the “Secular Disciple” title.
 

Agreement – A female player may receive several proposals, but can only agree to 1. If a proposal is not agreed to within 3 days, it will be canceled.
 

The wedding – Once both sides agree, a wedding date must be chosen, which cannot be changed. An in-game banquet package must then be chosen for the wedding dinner, followed by sending invitations to friends to attend. Both players will then receive a “Wedding Ring” item, allowing them to teleport to each other.

They are not exactly secrets, since everyone will know eventually. I am talking about the 2 new ultimate skills recently added to the China and Taiwan server for Age of Wushu, the Sunflower Manual (葵花宝典) and Star Absorbing Skill (吸星大法). The former will require male characters to virtually castrate themselves in order to master the skill, and after castration, the character will have a decrement of 30% in movement speed for 1 day due to the pain… Note that the information below is directly translated from a fan guide on the Chinese forum. Update: Both male and female characters can learn the skills!

Anyone know how to invert the mouse? Spent a few minutes looking in the options but couldn't find it.

How do i mine while offline? and does anyone have a guild?

You cant invert the mouse.  They're working on it.  This lack of choice alone almost makes me not want to login; I'm getting motion sick from the camera.

What the fuck is this game? 

This game is the reason I've stopped playing Gw2, TSW, MWO and PoE.

You should have gotten some food from the very early quests.

The dogs are sitting here lifeless, how am I supposed to read them?.

:headscratch:

The dogs don't have any attacks to speak of and so no tells, they are just target for throwing darts tutorial.

When fighting human opponents the 'tells' seem to boil down to "is currently blocking" (so you might use a feint move to counter that) or not (meaning you either throw block up yourself, or punch them in the nuts) At least early on, maybe it changes later.

They sure attacked me, in fact he asked me to fight them before getting the knives. All I am pointing out, is your first taste of combat, does not follow the theory of the games combat.

The game is a lot of fun if you are willing to put in the time to learn how it works.  Don't judge the combat until you get into a school and have real styles to work with, the starting combat is pathetic and pointless.  That should take about 30 mins tops though so it's not a big deal.  Find a good guide for new players, pay attention to how exp --> cultivation --> skills works and you can level as fast as anyone else playing around an hour a day.  Find a good guide.  Really really do.

Not tried it and not going to but why not try the other thread like 12 topics down on the page (http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=22906.0) for some answers?  :oh_i_see:

What the hell, there are commercials for this at literally every commercial break today. Is anyone playing this? If so, how are the panties?

I read the SA writeup linked in the other thread and I'm sold. Time to be a badass calligrapher.

There will be two new servers launching later today, you will probably have more fun starting on a clean server than an established one.

Really lost interest in this when my month ran out and I no longer received offline skill gain.

I'm sitting at like 35.75 / 36 for scholar inner. Might be worth checking out after another year of westernization.

So you're saying that the game isn't good enough to merit your financial support beyond 1 month?

I ask because I'm considering giving it a try. 

No, I didn't think it was worth playing beyond a month. I gave 'em some cash, did some interesting stuff. It's a real rough translation with interesting (somewhat difficult) controls with ALL ROOK SAME characters doing crazy movies at 92343 per second.

Dunno. Not my thing. I really, really didn't like how my expanded inventory space disappeared. There's a timer on fucking backpacks. They don't last forever.

So I'd have to resub to gain offline exp and then I'd have to RMT to have bag space enough to cover what little shit I currently have on my body.

Asian as hell. Lots of creepy dudes playing it, like TERA. High level dudes two shotting you from treetops.

There will be two new servers launching later today, you will probably have more fun starting on a clean server than an established one.

This game is strangely intriguing. Might have to give it a try.

You didn't answer the question.

Why would you have to RMT to get bag space? a bag cost about what half a kidnapping gets you and lasts for a month.  You don't have to RMT to do anything, the offline leveling and extra money from kidnapping are totally worth the 9 bucks a month vip costs.  Some people seem to equate "you can buy money from the store" to "you have to buy money from the store to afford even the most basic items" which is ridiculously untrue.

They are spamming commercials for this on Comedy Central and Adult Swim pretty much non-stop.

They are spamming commercials for this on Comedy Central and Adult Swim pretty much non-stop.

Wait, they can afford to buy ads on Adult Swim (which is not cheap), but not pay for a localization that's better than "Google Translate and hope for the best"?

It is going to take some loving patches to make it palatable to most MMO players, but it is strangely addictive as it is. I haven't REALLY had fun yet, but I feel like the fun is right around the corner somehow. Probably once I figure out half of what the fuck the interface is trying to tell me.

Just because you smell horseshit around the corner, doesn't mean you'll find a pony there ;)

 :heart:

This would be perfect in the Camelot Unchained thread.

Just because you smell horseshit around the corner, doesn't mean you'll find a pony there ;)

It is going to take some loving patches to make it palatable to most MMO players, but it is strangely addictive as it is. I haven't REALLY had fun yet, but I feel like the fun is right around the corner somehow. Probably once I figure out half of what the fuck the interface is trying to tell me.

Skills with range do mention the range.

Recipes, as in cooking stuff? what problems are you having with the trade menu?  They drop from forbidden instances and the martial challenges, usually up for cheap in chengdu.

I dunno sorry, we basically throw most recipes away at this point.  They drop like candy everywhere.  Does your guild not run any instances at all? recipes are the only loot and the grand majority of them don't sell since supply is so high.

It is going to take some loving patches to make it palatable to most MMO players, but it is strangely addictive as it is. I haven't REALLY had fun yet, but I feel like the fun is right around the corner somehow.

Definitely in favor of.  We were actually extremely surprised nobody had thought of it before.  The goonball is overall way more effective but those that don't get scripts will straight up murder you for them.

I was only asking about the Goons in order to see how other guilds view that kind of behavior. I'm in a guild of mostly random pk'ing trolls and I'm not much of either. They are all cool with me but meh I don't want to play like that.

Don't mind me. I'm just frustrated in general right now.

In Europe it's still in closed beta. So annoying.

I finally gave up. Too much unexplained through the UI, and I couldn't figure out WTF I needed to be doing at any time. Very interesting idea, but implementation in dire need of some serious polish.

I hope not. And since they are $35 US maybe they won't destroy the game balance too much.

http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/05/30/snail-confirms-age-of-wushu-dev-layoffs/

They mention working on the expansion, though. Wonder if that includes the self-castration become-a-god content.

I have no idea what that is but I'd like one  :why_so_serious:

If anyone is still playing the American version of this, I got a handful of these "Premium Loot Cards" from E3 - they come with 'some silver pieces', some 14 day items (middle equipment, middle item, roll ink (set), return dust (set)), "nine flowers jade dew pill * 30" and "highly-refined emerald ginkgo pill".

I also got a stack of keys for some weird game they are publishing called Black Gold?

I also got a stack of keys for some weird game they are publishing called Black Gold?

http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/06/12/e3-2013-hands-on-with-steampunkish-black-gold/

I'll dig through those when I get home. Steampunk Vs. Fantasy, I saw dudes riding around on like steampunk tanks fighting against guys riding around on giant tigers.

I would also like to check this out.

That would be nice. I have a nice guild in Wushu though and a Virtuoso so I don't have a lot of incentive to change.