Anyone still play secret world? what's going on with this game?

I hated faction locked areas. I liked the Templar library but don't like playing Templar. It's weird as hell, they're barely even a secret society. They're right there out in the open.

Story was weird as fuck but entertaining. All I remember is Loki was trying to use Excalibur to activate some kind of power sources embedded in the Earth. Also black goo and bees were involved.

Kingsmouth is still comfy. I stood around in that fortune teller's place for an hour looking at her decorations and listen to the music. I went through all of that and couldn't stand any more of the game. Fuck Egypt.

>I hated faction locked areas.
I liked the idea in concept, but in practice the game just didn't have a big enough population to make the faction hubs feel alive, and most people just hung out in London anyways.

it's basically what Deus Ex was meme'd as: every conspiracy theory is true

This game is so fucking good, shame it's so unpopular

What parts of London? I'm a New Yorker. It's smaller but I like the views better.

The game was built around 2012 doomsday scenarios. It's frozen in 2012. It's long past 2012 so the hype is dead.

From my experience it had great concept and story execution but the gameplay was kinda eh. But the lore, and what you needed to do to solve some puzzles were really cool. How’s Legends by the way?

Too much Joss Whedon influence, too much quipping, too much leftard talking points.

I'm blanking on the name of it right now but usually that bar/pub area in London was the most popular with RPers.

Did the thing in Tokyo get resolved? Did it move past that at least?

The game is basically Deus Ex, Dan Brown and Assassin's Creed's retarded MMO rape baby and it sucks shit

The "final boss" took place in Tokyo and the game received a small expansion that takes place after that. That was last year

They haven't add really any story shit since it became Legends.

Templars: Boring
Illuminati: 2011 memes
Dragon: lol so randumb

yeah, tokyo is finished, so its on investigating the Morninglight now

>I adored the Illuminati and Dragon intros.
I felt like I had to be Templar because they're the only ones who don't threaten me or force me to join. Then the Illuminati chip you, do you ever remove it? Also Templar kinda remind me of Hellsing and that was cool; probably why they made the cover girl a gunslinger.

It's dead Jim.
The re-release turned into pay 2 win shit.

your mom is pay 2 win

Templar was the main focus back when it was going to be a singleplayer game before they shifted to MMO and made multiple factions, so it always felt more natural and appealing because it had the most work done.

>play a girl
>join Dragon
>get a blowjob
lolwut

You know I'm right faggot.

Also Templar is the only correct faction choice. Dragon doesn't know what they are doing and think that they can out-chaos Cthulu, and the Illuminati is like working for EA.

>Illuminati: 2011 memes
What does this mean?

you've never given a beej to a girl?

no npc girls in templar

I quit Templar as soon as they gave me a NIGGER for a boss

I miss it boys.
The new updated version fucked it up.

Why does this NPC look so familar

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Not true. There are plenty of female guards although why you would care is beyond me.
>giving a shit about thots when you're busy saving the world from eldritch abominations

>I think I enjoyed the New England zone the most though, despite that being the starting area. The first "dungeon" was pretty cool with Cthulhu as the final boss.
I agree. The whole zone was absolutely phenomenal. I wish the game hasn't been killed with the re-launch.

>Then the Illuminati chip you, do you ever remove it?
Nope. You're a company man now, son.

its been a while
how long did it take to release tokyo again?

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What's he supposed to be in game?

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How fucked is the current game? Can you play it if you own the original?

The game's cover even has a girl Templar. Even on Legends they made Rose White the current cover girl. Then you have that arrogant Judi Dench senior talking down on you in HQ and female guards trying to lecture you on etiquette. Templar is literally the strong womyn faction.

How the fuck is it pay to win? They added a subscription model that's similar to what many other MMORPGs do but it doesn't give any gamebreaking advantages.

And what about the bald handler dude?

I go back to it every once in a while but I don't think I've ever made it out of Kingsmouth. The world is insanely cool but the gameplay is so fucking boring.

Sure you can, it's f2p. However the progress doesn't transfer aside from some cosmetic purchases so you're starting from scratch

idk, he's just some hobo standing in the library in london, dumps a lot of lore

Has it changed mechanically?

blacking your waifu

no waifus in templar though you get female handler waifus in illuminati and dragon

I don't do waifus.

Yeah, they reworked the combat system. It doesn't have the old wheel thingie and they put in something close to a skill tree. Much less varied but also less confusing.
They also removed a lot of the grind that was in the old game like the AEGIS.

Yes. They made the gameplay itself slightly more bearable, but put really really stupid gimmicks on top of it.

See People who do 'waifus' need to kill themselves.

then why do girl npcs matter?
You get a temporary female handler in Dragon. And Illuminati Lady Gaga is insufferable.

They don't.
That's the point, shitter.

You're drinking that 'shine, ain't you

Sounds about right.

Pretty much sums up my thoughts.

I bought the ultimate edition a long time ago and never played it, game looks really good on every level except gameplay. You lads think it'll be shut down at any point in the near future? I would hate to think I never did a run through the zones at least once

They slightly made the gameplay better, but shat on the build diversity

There was no real build diversity, it's true there were tons of options but only a few were truly viable

Just started. Is Warlock good for soloing the story?

Sure, I finished it with blood magic only

is there a lot of story behind big raids and shit? I don't see enough people to group with.

it's dead jim

I don't know what the fuck's wrong with the writers they want to fuck dead women in the cemetery

That probably has to do with the game not being very populated in general. I suggest finding a good guild to do stuff with. I know there was a Yea Forums-/vg/ one but don't remember what it was called or if they're still active

ROMINDER:
The developers have aquired the right to FUCKING DUNE this year.

Closest you'll ever get to a World of Darkness MMO.

I heard so many good things about it that I bought it ages ago. Didn't really get very far, was kind of boring. Guess I kind of skirted around all the good content? Or the good content is just higher level, like most MMOs?

>the game is kind of dead now
I don't understand why almost every MMO is unprepared for this. The only one that solves this that comes to mind is Guild Wars and I'm scared that the servers may go down soon.

at least a new VTMB is coming out

Two VTM games, one of which is VTMB 2, and one Werewolf game. Hope they don't fuck up.

They're making a new single player game set in the SW universe by the way
youtube.com/watch?v=YkhrCJF8Y4s

They already did that Park shit and it sucked

don't like VtM or furries. I'm a Mage and Wraith man.

>we get to play Isaac Clarke all over again, what with constantly shitting your suit every time something happens

I'm just glad they're willing to explore the IP

Oh, I started playing that not too long ago.

Got up to Transylvania. It's alright, but if you want to gun for all the optional goals you really need to be on that membership program. I didn't keep the membership so I got bored pretty quickly.
Otherwise, you know, it's fine. Can solo pretty much all of the content, I didn't play the old version so I don't have a good comparison point.

>the last one involved that one mom that went into the amusement park to find her kid
>kid is dead
>lady got traumatized & bee'd, becomes immortal in the process
>halloween quest has you basically prevent her from killing herself and prolonging her suffering

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>those spoilers
are we the baddies.jpg

Idk if I should go with guns or a sword. Which are more effective for solo play?

You'll need to max out everything to really solo for endgame, anyway, so it doesn't really matter.

Shotgun is super meaty for beginners, though. 1-shots most on-level enemies.

Top tier story. Best horror/supernatural game since VTMB.

Play it like a single player game and you won't be disappointed.

Endgame is kinda dead now though and there is probably zero hope of any new content.

i thought this was shut down?
apparently funcom bought it to rape its corpse, kind of like BLC?

PS. Dragon is best faction

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>Too much Joss Whedon influence, too much quipping, too much leftard talking points.
This but a little less ironically.

The Secret World (2012) is alive but unsupported legacy. I don't think you can even download the installer anymore.

They released it as F2P model Secret World Legends (2016) and it's an improvement with more content. Even if its F2P you don't need to pay to win.

>more content
they cut loads of story based stuff

They're missing one raid as far as I know

Everything else they put back already. Also all the previous paid 15 issues(DLC) are built in for free

didnt they fuck up the skill system or something

Is the combat still terribly boring?

Depends on your perspective. They reduced the hundreds of skill trees to a few dozen.

I like the simple skill tree personally

It's still an MMO, yes.
It's much faster now, though. Like they took every enemy's health bar and quartered it.

It's more engaging now because it's basically a TPS game in the refresh

So if you hated tab targeting you'll like the change

That´s all I needed. Tab targeting to shoot guns was terrible. Is shotgun + sledgehammer combo still a shitty pick? Cause it´s the only one I care to use

Top Tank option, also high tier for DPS

Great. Guess I´ll start a new character and see what´s going on with the game then. Thanks for the info, user

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I think the combat rework killed everything

Rng for heaps of weapon types as part of their regular core gameplay

What final boss?

someone explain the lore to me
is gaia the bad guys or filth the bad guys, i dont know who to side with

See Templars I can respect. The "church" fighting demons is timeless. The Dragon though, what a bunch of fucking morons

>Illuminati: 2011 memes

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>how to identify someone who has never played WoD tabletop.
I'd believe you if you said Changeling. Mage has never been good.

god I miss old TSW.
Loved TSW, played every bit of it. Wanted season 2. What I got was SWL and I feel like I was dragged behind a dumpster and raped.

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did you play the game? All of Lady Gaga's texts are dumb memes from the time the game was developed.

I don't really pay attention to her texts
>Snoop Lion
ah now I understand

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>They're right there out in the open.
well yeah templars basically own europe

They own a lot of shitholes

odds'n'evens shotgun > %

Lilith, a Nephilim

MORE ZOMBIES
MORE ZOMBIES
ALL I NEED IS MORE ZOMBIES

Can you play it solo?

Fuckin janitor gave me a warning
Fuck you, janitor

for the story parts, yeah pretty much

Yes

goddamn the writing is atrocious

They rebalanced and redesigned everything to make it restrictive and prohibitive to play absent microtransactions.

They did not, unless you're talking about dungeons and even then

They fucked it up back in the days when they kept releasing episodes when the game purchase model was to buy the game once and then do whatever the fuck you want.
Then they introduced the itemshop with a trillion cosmetics first, then blatant p2w bullshit like the motorcycles.
The game died when they nuked the entire game to release it altogether "remastered" with all the content, drastically changing the game in ways that the old loyal fanbase didn't appreciate.
They thought making the game F2P would attract more people, but in turn it only pissed off the fanatics.
Egypt was an ungodly slog to go through, and Romania was only cool for the first 10 hours.
Everything else was forgettable and retarded.
The endgame was one of the worsts i have ever seen in a MMO.
Telegraphed attacks were fun for the first 20 hours, then you realized how soulless and repetitive they were.
And pretty much every single ranged class was useless, either you picked Chaos or you weren't invited at all.
I have fond memories of this game, but it's now history as the game is dead and there are way better MMOs on the market to play.

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>then blatant p2w bullshit like the motorcycles.
Motorcycles were just skins for your sprint and did not actually make you go any faster

I stand corrected then.
It's fine, i stopped playing that game way before that started to happen.
That doesn't change the fact that the game could have been way better but instead they went full kikemode.
I still have nightmares of that flash UI, and all the fucking addons i had to make it work.

>dragon intro
Can't go wrong when a random girl goes down on you as an initiation ritual

I mean the game wasn't making any money regardless, there was very little wrong with them selling cosmetics

Should have been a single-player RPG desu. Would've sold better too

>offer no cosmetic options in the game that are available to everyone
>but in the shop for real money
Yeah nah, that was a problem.

>offer no cosmetic options in the game that are available to everyone
But they did?
There were shops at every hub where you could purchase cosmetics for in game currency

I occasionally log in.

They were abysmal compared to the actual amount of shit in the store.
Come the fuck on now.

That's what you get for fucking with the Illuminati.

No I'm pretty sure there were more free ones you could buy and earn through the game than premium ones

I should give it another chance, i pretty much dropped legends right inside the tutorial area, even though I had my main at romania

Secret World is indeed a sack of shit.

>PC gaming

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