While it may not hold up to World of Warcraft or Guild Wars, Vindictus certainly holds a candle in the free to play realm. Vindictus is one of the most appealing free to play games that I have ever played, both in visuals and in gameplay. Even on computers with low specs, it will still appear visually beautiful, and combat will move smoothly.

A good illustration of the game at its best: killing

As of today (Ver 1.25), Vindictus sports four completely different characters, in terms of both equipment and play styles. There is Evie, a mage who can wield either a scythe or a staff, Fiona, who I can only summarize as a defensive character who uses either a shield and a sword or shield and hammer, Lann, a highly offensive character who wields either twin swords or twin spears, and Karok, the most recent character, a giant who wields a “battle pillar,” and deals massive damage, as well as excels at taking hits.

This being said, each character is highly customizable in terms of gears, and abilities. No single character will play alike from one player to the next, nor will any battle experience ever be the same. Many hours can be put into this game, and they are very rewarding.

As far as the game is concerned, for the majority of the time, you will be sent to embark on “battle quests,” in which you can take up certain extra requirements, called “bonus missions” and “oaths of honor.” The oaths of honor are generally harder, and require much more patience than the bonus missions, which are generally more along the lines of chance. Oaths of honor can set you to a certain time limit, raise the attack power of the enemy, or even make you run the battle quest wearing no armor! This is one of the few things that sets Vindictus apart from other MMOs, and it is a welcome change. An example of a quest will be given at the bottom of this article.

Quests in this game are not turned in to visible NPCs, for the most part. Most script will be going on inside buildings, in which characters are portrayed by an avatar that represents them. The characters are vivid, and full of personality. There will be twists and turns which I will not reveal, as I would rather have the readers discover this themselves! You are going to be come attached to certain characters, almost certainly, and you will grow to hate others. There is a marketplace, where you can buy some quest items early game, but later on in the game, most quest items cannot be purchased, and you will find yourself doing battle quest time and again to get these items; that is the one flaw that I have seen with this game so far, repetitiveness, to a certain point.

Abilities are learned through an “AP” system. You earn AP by going through the dungeons at hand, and the more you run through them that day, the less AP they will give (to discourage grinding.) This is a good change, but it can also become disappointing as well, as often you will find yourself running through dungeons that give little EXP for the AP alone. The actual ability system in itself, however, is very customizable, as you can put your points into whatever you please, making the characters between players very different, and this isn’t even talking about equipment.

In summary, Vindictus is certainly a game to keep your eye on in the free to play realm, and it is going to be an interesting game to see just how it evolves.

Attention Combat Arms Users!

Combat Arms fans and musical theatre aficionados alike now have a treat to look forward to. Rapidly gaining support from Broadway critics, Nexon America is thrilled to announce that Combat Arms the Musical will now be coming to a venue near you! Tickets will be on advance sale to select Combat Arms users, as well as those who have a VIP Off-Broadway Association Membership, starting Mid-April, and go on sale on July 10th to the general public. Once we receive confirmation, we will provide official box office information early next week.

Here are more details on the show:

Combat Arms the Musical is a new musical comedy from the creative producers at Nexon. It tells the story of an up-and-coming model, Eliza, who has a penchant for cold-blooded carnage. Although she’s been handed a life of luxury on a silver platter, Eliza’s true heart’s desire is to travel the world as a contract killer. When she’s approached by a talent agent who cares less about her looks and more about her reputation as an expert recreational submachine gunner, Eliza becomes “Mei”, and her life is turned upside down with one hilarious assignment after another. However, when Eliza meets and falls for the ambitious mercenary Bryan, or “Baron”, and discovers he is sabotaging every job he can, she is brought to a professional and personal crossroads. In matters of the heart, and matters of homicide, how do you choose the path meant for you?

The critically acclaimed, soul-stirring soundtrack features gems such as:

• Springtime for the Infected
• I Wanna Get a Nut Shot
• No One Mourns the Hackers
• Ol’ Man Baron
• I Feel Nooby
• The Point of No Respawn
• Think of Mei
• Oh What a Beautiful Permanent Black-Magnum
• The G36 with the Scope On Top

*The soundtrack will be available for 12,900 NX in the Black Market with our April Time Release Content Update.

“Absolutely enchanting!” –The New York Entertainment Guide

“We laughed so hard we cried…a must see!” –LA Acting Group

“Eliza is such an engaging character, you can’t help but fall in love…” – Off-Broadway Quarterly

–Combat Arms Command–

I hope this is a April Fools joke (which I assume it is), but who knows. Nexon is stupid enough to do it.

What did I think about it? Well to me, the whole new skin seemed EXTREMELY confusing. And I know what I’m doing, I mean I’ve been playing for a year now so I’m familiar with the system. Anyway, when I open the game (on the direct start (And yes there is one, just browse your CA folder for it)) I was completely blown away by the new start button and silver skin outline. So the opening screen is the same along with the little man running on the bottom right, that you can still make jump with the space bar. I saw that they had the same background picture on the log in screen. So I log in and…..WOW. For about 5 seconds of my life, I was proud of Nexon! so I went into the Alpha server, same business with the low, moderate, busy, full capacity. I went into channel 6, and completely took back of what I said about being proud of Nexon.

What were the problems that I noticed with the lobby? First of all, I had to lean towards my screen a WHOLE 12 INCHES just to read the game name, players, and type; the font size I imagine is about 8. It used to be about 18. Second, CA wants you to work hard in finding the right kind of game. It’s not like it used to be where you can say, “Oh this game’s waiting.”, or, “Oh these people are playing, but there’s still room left in the game. How do I know you might ask? Well it’s quite, simple: THE FONT COLOR IS YELLOW!” Well I’d hate to hurt the feelings of whoever’s reading this but….they don’t do that anymore, sadly. Instead they reduce the font size (And yes i know that I’m stressing that, because I have the vision of a rock) and turn ALL the font gray, except for the word ‘waiting’ to blue, and the ‘in game’ to green

So when i get in the lobby right kind of game, it takes me awhile to find the ready button, 10 seconds exactly, even though it takes up about 1/8 of my screen. The switch teams button is a little different, along with the chat. But the good thing is that when going into the modification screen, or the buying items screen, you can still see the chat lobby chat. Oh and I just can’t wait to tell you about the store menu!

So I went to check out the store, to see if anything changed, and WOW do I have news for you: IT’S TERRIBLE, and yet again, confusing. The menu is just a list. That’s it: A LIST. Do you want me to say it again?: A LIST. Anyway, I went to browse the guns, and I found out that in order to get a view of the gun that you’re buying, you have click on the weapon. And if you’re looking to quickly scan the list for permanent weapons, good luck. It’ll take a while. Or if you want to know if it’s an smg, AR, SR, Shotgun, etc., you have to click on that too.

So my first game was death room, elimination, 6v6. The usual countdown was there, but it made no beeping sounds; that depressed me. Anyway, no depletion in the loading time, I went through the loading thingy (Even though I only see it for 2 seconds) and got in the game. So I started to pwn some noobs as I normally do, and I noticed an in-game text stating: NOOB HACKER KICK HIM PLS! Only this was no ordinary text. The text was red. I used my common senses: red=bad, green=good. And 2 seconds later green text popped up saying: OMG NOOB G T F O (of course there were spaces in between the letters, for they wanted it not to be blocked). So I was correct on that note. I then experimented with the team chat: the team chat’s white, instead of lite blue. So I wasn’t that disappointed about it, just had to think about it. So I went out of game and saw that the chat was still there from the previous games. That was cool. I still have yet to check out the ingame clan chat color; who knows, it might be yellow. lolz.

The downside is that we can’t pwn noobs anymore, because CA is becoming less and less user friendly. If they would have kept it the same, our KDR’s might actually increased. So in this new patch of CA, some good things arose from it, mostly terrible things, but I’m sure that they’ll fix it in the next few weeks or so. Will Nexon ever do anything good for a change? And also, the new skin was “taken” from other FPS F2P games. So now CA is NOT unique in it’s own special noobish way. It’s now made for, I guess you can say: “Players that can actually play and enjoy the game like real PC gamers and don’t complain about noobs/haxors/lag all the time.

This is the clan’s second YouTube video, showcasing Combat Arms’ new mode, Quarantine. I like it. It is fast paced and bloody, even if you do not have an 18+ account.

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Has anyone seen the vid for the new Nexon.net game Dungeon Fighter Online? If not, take a look.  It hasn’t been realesed in the US yet, but it seems that Nexon.com (Korea) has it, and some people have played it, with mixed reactions.  Someone on the chat also said there is an anime…

If I remember, I’ll keep you all posted