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Embers Adrift Adds New High-Level Content, New Zone, New Factions, Loot, and More | MMORPG.com

SystemSystem Member UncommonPosts: 12,599
edited December 2023 in News & Features Discussion

imageEmbers Adrift Adds New High-Level Content, New Zone, New Factions, Loot, and More | MMORPG.com

 The Embers Adrift team reflects on new high-level content, and more to come as the team prepares to close 2023 in the newest State of the Game devblog.

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  • TokkenTokken Member EpicPosts: 3,644
    Good news! I hope that helps them get people to play the game!
    Sovrath

    Proud MMORPG.com member since March 2004!  Make PvE GREAT Again!

  • caalemcaalem Member UncommonPosts: 310
    edited December 2023
    Couldn't stomach an hour of this game, dreadfully boring, and that's coming from someone who is fine grinding in classic Everquest.

    [edit]
    Also, the awful performance. Made our entire group who was trying it out quit afaik.
    Post edited by caalem on
    Mensur
  • DattelisDattelis Member EpicPosts: 1,674
    Wouldn't they get more players by putting it on steam....?
    Tokken
  • KapyongQKapyongQ Member UncommonPosts: 8
    The development team has been very active, much has been added to the game in the last year. Frankly I'm impressed with what this small team is achieving - seems like strong team with a real Vision for the game.

    Sure - it's slow pace, it's not easy mode, you have to think and figure things out - making mistakes along the way is part of the fun. No quest signs, no glowing lines to next target, no mini-map showing enemies. Have to work it.

    I've been having a blast, community is friendly, and dungeon crawls with a good group are huge fun with exciting loot. For me, it's the best fun since EQ. Even BETTER fun 'cause it's new, up-to-date, and with thoughtful new design features.
    ValdemarJTokken
  • ExistentialistExistentialist Member UncommonPosts: 60
    edited December 2023
    Easily my favourite MMO of the year. Just wish more people knew about it.
  • KyleranKyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 43,975
    Existentialist said:
    Easily my favourite MMO of the year. Just wish more people knew about it.
    After a four year hiatus you found your way here again, welcome back.
    ExistentialistTokken

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    Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm

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  • KyleranKyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 43,975
    KapyongQ said:
    The development team has been very active, much has been added to the game in the last year. Frankly I'm impressed with what this small team is achieving - seems like strong team with a real Vision for the game.

    Sure - it's slow pace, it's not easy mode, you have to think and figure things out - making mistakes along the way is part of the fun. No quest signs, no glowing lines to next target, no mini-map showing enemies. Have to work it.

    I've been having a blast, community is friendly, and dungeon crawls with a good group are huge fun with exciting loot. For me, it's the best fun since EQ. Even BETTER fun 'cause it's new, up-to-date, and with thoughtful new design features.
    No offense, but you come across as a ChatGPT post, or one of the Embers  advertising team.

    If you are for real, my apologies, keep coming back.


    HengistKapyongQSarlaTokken

    "True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde 

    "I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant

    Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm

    Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV

    Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™

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  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,273
    edited December 2023
    KapyongQ said:
    The development team has been very active, much has been added to the game in the last year. Frankly I'm impressed with what this small team is achieving - seems like strong team with a real Vision for the game.

    Sure - it's slow pace, it's not easy mode, you have to think and figure things out - making mistakes along the way is part of the fun. No quest signs, no glowing lines to next target, no mini-map showing enemies. Have to work it.

    I've been having a blast, community is friendly, and dungeon crawls with a good group are huge fun with exciting loot. For me, it's the best fun since EQ. Even BETTER fun 'cause it's new, up-to-date, and with thoughtful new design features.
    Welcome to the forums! :)

    You may be Embers advertising, but I recon you are not chatAI, actual people always get a welcome.
    KapyongQ
  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,273
    Good to hear about the new zone, they still have a long way to go though.
    Tokken
  • NaitakalNaitakal Member UncommonPosts: 74

    No offense, but you come across as a ChatGPT post, or one of the Embers  advertising team.

    If you are for real, my apologies, keep coming back.




    Now being positive on the internet makes you sound like an AI or ad. Good times.

    Anyway, I am also enjoying Embers Adrift right now. Beep bop. And that's me who spent 500h mostly solo on New World just this year, a completely different kind of MMORPG.

    I started playing EA like 5 days ago because I read there's no longer the requirement for a subscription, something that kept me from checking it out when it released. The subscription is also not really mandatory but a requirement if you want to actively play more than one character.

    My time spent in Embers Adrift has been such a positive experience. Everyone I came across has been friendly and helpful. The world chat has never been toxic. Group play is fun, so is exploring the world. Visuals (mostly animations) and performance could be better though. Combat is really slow but I heard it's getting faster at higher levels when you have better stats (haste?) and more skills to use.

    That being said, it's a niche game for a certain audience and definitely not for everyone.
    SovrathExistentialistKyleranValdemarJTacticalZombeh
  • MensurMensur Member EpicPosts: 1,531
    Great to see the devs are adding stuff to the game. hopefully this will expand their playbase in the future.
    Tokken

    mmorpg junkie since 1999



  • KapyongQKapyongQ Member UncommonPosts: 8
    Whoa, I am a human being, but I think of myself as a writer, (and people say I am rather wordy). Also, I really like Embers Adrift so I have used some of these phrases before.

    It's certainly a niche game, but it's absolutely MY niche :)

    It is just not well known yet, but growing slowly by word-of-mouth - as it scratches that old style MMO itch. Sometimes called 'EQ3' (even though it is quite different.)
    Scot
  • KapyongQKapyongQ Member UncommonPosts: 8
    Thanks Scot.
    Turns out I already have the Ancient Membership badge here.
    Haven't posted much though ;)
  • waveslayerwaveslayer Member UncommonPosts: 589
    I am definitely getting this game soon, looks right up my ally, all though I have become more of a soloer in my old age, would buy it now but to involved in a couple single player games I want to play to completion at the mement, plus I prefer to wait a few months after an MMo is released to jump in

    Godz of War I call Thee

  • KapyongQKapyongQ Member UncommonPosts: 8
    Hey waveslayer :)

    Can certainly solo in Embers, I did 3 characters solo to about 20 so I could do all the 9 craft professions (though it's rather slow.) Plenty of oldies here too.

    Recently been getting into groups and dungeons and having super fun, especially with an organised group that knows their inter-locking roles.

    Of course, have also had the odd total group wipe - but that risk/challenge is important for the fun, can't have it too easy.

    You may know that old EQ had corpse runs after you died. Embers has a milder form of that - which actually captures some of the old EQ risk/reward fun.

    The advertising budget is still zero though, so it's just word-of-mouth. I'm spreading my words because I am really enjoying this unusual but very well designed game.
    Sovrath
  • SarlaSarla Member UncommonPosts: 401
    I tried this game on one of the free weekends and I liked the grafix style, the combat was fine too, but every vender is cut and paste, when I got to first big town it was completely dead and ruined it for me. The 2nd thing was the lack of questing past the first zone.
  • NaitakalNaitakal Member UncommonPosts: 74

    KapyongQ said:


    Turns out I already have the Ancient Membership badge here.

    Haven't posted much though ;)


    Same, and obviously there is no badge for 20 years yet. What a shame! :D
    Kyleran
  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,273
    Naitakal said:

    KapyongQ said:


    Turns out I already have the Ancient Membership badge here.

    Haven't posted much though ;)


    Same, and obviously there is no badge for 20 years yet. What a shame! :D
    Hey you need to post more my forum friends. :)
    Naitakal
  • KyleranKyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 43,975
    Naitakal said:

    KapyongQ said:


    Turns out I already have the Ancient Membership badge here.

    Haven't posted much though ;)


    Same, and obviously there is no badge for 20 years yet. What a shame! :D
    Yeah well, no badge for having over 40K posts either..... (Or 35K or 30K etc.)
    TokkenScotNaitakal

    "True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde 

    "I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant

    Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm

    Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV

    Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™

    "This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon






  • KapyongQKapyongQ Member UncommonPosts: 8
    Sarla said:
    I tried this game on one of the free weekends and I liked the grafix style, the combat was fine too, but every vender is cut and paste, when I got to first big town it was completely dead and ruined it for me. The 2nd thing was the lack of questing past the first zone.

    Well - 

    The game is more developed and town is busy now.

    There are various different vendors for different crafts etc.

    There are more quests - many quests past the first zone.

    Hope to see you back again for more fun :)
  • QuizzicalQuizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,483
    Kyleran said:
    KapyongQ said:
    The development team has been very active, much has been added to the game in the last year. Frankly I'm impressed with what this small team is achieving - seems like strong team with a real Vision for the game.

    Sure - it's slow pace, it's not easy mode, you have to think and figure things out - making mistakes along the way is part of the fun. No quest signs, no glowing lines to next target, no mini-map showing enemies. Have to work it.

    I've been having a blast, community is friendly, and dungeon crawls with a good group are huge fun with exciting loot. For me, it's the best fun since EQ. Even BETTER fun 'cause it's new, up-to-date, and with thoughtful new design features.
    No offense, but you come across as a ChatGPT post, or one of the Embers  advertising team.

    If you are for real, my apologies, keep coming back.


    If KapyongQ's account was created to advertise Embers Adrift, then that's impressive foresight.  The account was created in 2011.
  • KapyongQKapyongQ Member UncommonPosts: 8
    Ah yes, like the sinking of the Titanic sent ripples back in time to the infamous 'Wreck of the Titan' (AKA 'Futility'), the creation of Embers Adrift sub-consciously impinged on my thoughts all those years ago ...
  • BrainyBrainy Member EpicPosts: 2,164
    This post is getting high Embers adrift high representation.  What around 10%+ of the active players are here on this very forum posting?

    If the game is so great, why doesnt anyone play it?

    It started last year as B2P with a requried SUB, lost everyone except for about 25. concurrent players.
    Then went to B2P with an Optional Sub, short surge of a few hundred players, then collapse to 25.
    Now they are doing Month Long F2P, short surge, not sure what its at now, probably 25 players.

    Last few steps will be permanent F2P, or Paying players to play or ???


  • SovrathSovrath Member LegendaryPosts: 32,780
    Brainy said:
    This post is getting high Embers adrift high representation.  What around 10%+ of the active players are here on this very forum posting?

    If the game is so great, why doesnt anyone play it?

    It started last year as B2P with a requried SUB, lost everyone except for about 25. concurrent players.
    Then went to B2P with an Optional Sub, short surge of a few hundred players, then collapse to 25.
    Now they are doing Month Long F2P, short surge, not sure what its at now, probably 25 players.

    Last few steps will be permanent F2P, or Paying players to play or ???



    Well, maybe it is great but for a small audience? I mean, "great" is subjective. People think World of Warcraft is great. I think it's well made and dull.
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  • BrainyBrainy Member EpicPosts: 2,164
    Sovrath said:
    Brainy said:
    This post is getting high Embers adrift high representation.  What around 10%+ of the active players are here on this very forum posting?

    If the game is so great, why doesnt anyone play it?

    It started last year as B2P with a requried SUB, lost everyone except for about 25. concurrent players.
    Then went to B2P with an Optional Sub, short surge of a few hundred players, then collapse to 25.
    Now they are doing Month Long F2P, short surge, not sure what its at now, probably 25 players.

    Last few steps will be permanent F2P, or Paying players to play or ???



    Well, maybe it is great but for a small audience? I mean, "great" is subjective. People think World of Warcraft is great. I think it's well made and dull.
    True maybe in this case an extremely small audience.  However its interesting that of the 25 people playing this game, most feel the need to be here telling us how great it is.  Yet all the other games out there with millions of fans dont seems to want to be here pumping it every week.

    Maybe Embers just has the most loyal 25 fans ever.
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