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1. #WILL ASTELLIA BE GENDER LOCKED ON LAUNCH PROFESSIONAL#
2. #WILL ASTELLIA BE GENDER LOCKED ON LAUNCH 240P#

Sure, there’s nothing more satisfying than BDO’s combat, and all MMOs should head that way if we want to have better games in the future. At the same time, we’ve all experienced how “convenient” tab-targeting is, and how much it contributes to an overally casual gameplay experience. Nowadays any MMO that doesn’t use an Action Combat style, is deemed old and outdated. Combat Is Fast-Paced, Even Though Tab-Target This isn’t the case with Astellia, the textures in everything around you are polished, and feel alive!Īstellia’s graphics are far better than TERA, Blade & Soul, or ArcheAge and even stand toe to toe with FFXIV – some things are better some things are worse.

#WILL ASTELLIA BE GENDER LOCKED ON LAUNCH 240P#

It feels like they’ve used ReShade in their own game – there’s a ton of post-processing taking place, and it does arrive with a hit in FPS.īut whatever they did, it just works! The environments are extremely vibrant, alive and inviting, while the characters encompass more than enough detail for you to fall in love with! ?įor some reason, especially South Korean MMOs, place very little value to their environments, which most of the times look like 240p textures, and any building, tree or pavement looks like a jpeg wallpaper from Windows 98. It’s indeed impressive that Astellia has achieved such a high quality visual result, by using Unreal Engine 3 and DirectX 9 (!!). Let’s hope it’s one of the good signs about how the developers are going to treat Astellia moving forward. I don’t know yet if it’ll keep up this way till endgame, but it’s surprising to see that they localized everything for the Western release.

Don’t expect the craftsmanship of The Elder Scrolls Online of course, but it’s definitely not as bad as TERA or BDO. Even though subtitling is still terrible (many words are different that what’s spoken, and it’s even out of sync at times), the voice acting is quite fair. There’s an actual story taking place, without being too extravagant, or too confusing.

#WILL ASTELLIA BE GENDER LOCKED ON LAUNCH PROFESSIONAL#

It’s far from professional of course – even though South Korea produces amazing movies, it seems that their game storytelling skills are abysmal – but it’s not “cringe” at least. We are used to terrible storytelling, voiceovers and cinematics in South Korean MMOs, but it’s apparent that Astellia did try harder on that part. There’s Quite A Lot “Fair-Quality” Cinematics

human by shaping their height, chest size etc. However, it’s worth noting that unlike Black Desert, you can even make lolis look. The biggest example is the “loli” class, Mages.

One “negative” is that each class acts as a “race” at the same time, so each one will have its own characteristics that shape the overall result. is quite flexible as well, and you can nail your favourite color tone without being restricted in just a few like most MMOs. What’s more, coloring your hair, eyes, lips etc. I feel it’s even easier to create a celebrity copycat in Astellia, than it is even in The Sims 4. You can sculpt your face, eyes, nose, lips & ears to a huge extent, and you definitely won’t get dissapointed at the wealth of options for each body part, since all of them are covered! Character Creation is Actually Amazing!Įven though the clunky UI, and the presets you’ll encounter at first will make you feel that the character creator is going to suck, hopefully the “Details” tab is actually very detailed! Your eyes will bleed by the naming of most sliders, but it’s going to be worth it, since I’ve never personally seen such a flexible charcater creation tool in an MMO so far!Įven Black Desert Online that has arguably the best graphics in an MMO, is quite harder to tame, with results that feel way less customizable than Astellia’s. Note: For some reason most sites refer to Astellia as “Astellia Online”, even though neither the Korean or the European version refer to the game using the “Online” suffix. Without further ado, let’s hop in Astellia, and see what all the buzz is about, and whether it’s worth your hard-earned money! It seems that the rising popularity of gacha games, is starting to affect even MMOs!

The main takeaway, is that apart from your main character, you can collect & control many different “pets” known as Astels, each with their own abilities & mechanics. Nexon is known to shut down their games faster than they put out new ones, so hopefully they are not related with the EU / NA version of Astellia, which officially opened its doors in Septemfor North American & European users, after a short Closed Beta Testing between J– July 1, 2019.Īstellia is a tab-target MMORPG, that tries to differentiate itself from the pack. The game was officially released by Nexon in Decemin South Korea, and actually closed down its servers in January 16, 2020. Astellia has finally launched on Steam, in January 30, 2020.