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MMO Friday Fight Episode 1: New World Aeternum Vs. Throne And Liberty | MMORPG.com

SystemSystem Member UncommonPosts: 12,599
edited October 11 in News & Features Discussion

imageMMO Friday Fight Episode 1: New World Aeternum Vs. Throne And Liberty | MMORPG.com

Welcome to the MMO Friday Fight. In each episode, we'll ask one of the many questions plaguing the MMORPG community. In this episode, we Mitch offers his thoughts on Throne and Liberty versus New World: Aeternum.

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  • Nick_ShivelyNick_Shively Member UncommonPosts: 130
    I've personally been having a blast with Throne & Liberty and don't plan to stop playing unless there is a massive content drought, which I assume there shouldn't be since this game has been out for a while in Korea.

    It's incredibly fresh to have challenging dungeons and even solo stages that aren't just about having good gear. Players need to actually learn the mechanics and not face tank everything.
    Splattr
  • VoidfarerVoidfarer Member UncommonPosts: 183
    Yep! Throne & Liberty for me! Its a breath of fresh air
  • Elidien_gaElidien_ga Member UncommonPosts: 385
    Thone and Liberty is a beautiful game and has some cool stuff in it. But I am not a fan so I will be trying out (returning) to NW:A next week. I have a ton of hours in game (I think 550+) and looking forward to it.
    Mallyx
  • coercer02coercer02 Member UncommonPosts: 63
    T&L just feels horrendous to play. Combat is so junky, makes you wonder how they spent 12 years developing that game and ended up with this combat..
    mikeb0817
  • DhampirDhampir Member UncommonPosts: 188
    i have spent more than 1500 hrs in new world and love the game. So far i am over 100 hours in Throne and Liberty and just hit 50 about 2 days ago.

    I just think there is more to do in T & L , granted its heavy focus is pvp. I am having a lot of fun with it.

    I will probably jump back and forth between the 2 for awhile. It will keep me busy when i feel like gaming.
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  • ApridiseApridise Member UncommonPosts: 85
    The drop rates in T & L are so awful, and as someone that loves the Epic genre in books, the stories here are painful to listen too. I think the game for new is just the new shiny, but long term if they don't provide the same updates they have for new world, this mobile phone turned PC game isn't going to last. So I'll definitely be creating a new character on New World!
    Borluc
  • hupahupa Member UncommonPosts: 170
    I'm going to play UO New Legacy, but if I'm not feeling it, then I'm going to try NW. I didn't know it's for solo players which is a plus. I was in the camp that stopped playing when the forced grouping dungeon was up next in the main story.
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  • joshisanonymousjoshisanonymous Member UncommonPosts: 30
    I have 1400 hours in NW and honestly love it for many reasons, but I can't bother with it anymore for the simple fact that they keep undermining all the systems that I like and especially because open world PvP has been an abject failure on many levels in that game, which is my main focus. It definitely has great world building, interesting lore, great combat, fleshed out life skills and crafting, fun dungeons, all sorts of stuff, but they just don't know how to not undermine the systems that they've designed.

    Throne and Liberty, on the other hands, gives the APPEARANCE of having a wide variety of activities, but it really doesn't. They have combat and then some more combat. The PvP system seems interesting enough that it might spice up that combat well enough for long-term enjoyment, but everything else is a facade of an activity that's really just about doing more combat to get more drops.

    For instance, there's literally no progression in the crafting system, meaning also that there's no market for crafted gear. Crafting is literally just buying items with resources rather than currency. Then they have amitoi excursions, but this is just a daily login reward that you have slightly more control of. There's no gameplay involved or anything. Then they have all these different pseudo progression systems like lithograph books, the codex, the level log, the battle pass, but they're all basically the same: kill things to complete tasks to get items. It comes off as complicated but really it's just tons of redundancy.

    T&L feels fun for the moment, but my hunch is that it will quickly fade once people start understanding it better and realizing how shallow all the systems are. It's fun enough to waste some time on, but I doubt it or NW:A will go beyond that.

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  • ArchonoirArchonoir Newbie CommonPosts: 2
    I played both the closed beta for New World and the open beta for Throne and Liberty (both on PS5) and I had MUCH more fun with New World. I have NW pre-ordered and I plan on sinking at least a few hundred hours in to it.
  • mikeb0817mikeb0817 Member UncommonPosts: 171
    edited October 13
    Maybe I need to give it another try, but on console the targeting and combat in T&L feels bad. If I was uing a mouse and kb to tab target and begin my auto-attack and skill firing, it would probably feel okay.

    I played NW on my PC last winter. It was fun for a couple months but I lost interest. I did think the world was quite beautiful and the map seems to have a nice "flow" to it, so I did enjoy my time.

    Maybe I'll try T&L again this weekend, could just take a bit of getting used too.
  • MangledBLMangledBL Member UncommonPosts: 21
    I played New World beta launch a few years ago and lasted about a month, I just was not feeling it. The lack of Mount was a Major issue for me...

    I recently was in the Open Beta for it and it is 200x better in my Opinion, and it has Mounts now. So I definitely will be playing NW again and if it does not stick this time I will give T&L a spin.
  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,273
    Archonoir said:
    I played both the closed beta for New World and the open beta for Throne and Liberty (both on PS5) and I had MUCH more fun with New World. I have NW pre-ordered and I plan on sinking at least a few hundred hours in to it.
    Welcome to the forums! :)
  • GermzypieGermzypie Member UncommonPosts: 169
    Played T&L, did all the dungeons and i didn't really find them challenging. Disclaimer though, did not have to use matchmaking so maybe that is why. It seemed like around every corner, they are trying to get you to get out your wallet. The PvP is absolutely horrible. No other way to describe it. lol

    I still had fun though, for about a week. Will keep it in my library as a casual game.

    New World it is for me. So far, not disappointed at all with NW:A.
  • TheocritusTheocritus Member LegendaryPosts: 9,976
    edited October 17
    Played New World and lasted a couple weeks....nothing special at all...Watched a couple vids on T&L...The combat looks awful...I can survive without either one thank you very much.
  • vanderghastvanderghast Member UncommonPosts: 325
    is neither a choice? They are both pretty heavily lacking for me. New world looks dated and has been super boring since trying it again. T&L's heavy PVP focus coupled with it's arguably pay to win model makes it a borefest once you max level for me personally.

    neither game hooked me in for more than a few days and went back to playing a heavily modded skyrim for like the 8th playthrough.
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