I think in part I’m hopeful because of NCSoft’s heritage of MMOs, including Lineage 2, a game that I devoted many hours to when I was first discovering PC games. Throne And Liberty feels like a natural successor to those classic MMOs of old - with some modern trappi
The scale of the world itself is very impressive. It felt like I barely made a dent on the available regions, but the free and instantaneous fast travel helps you get from place to place with ease. Draw distance is excellent and, although the world was mostly empty during this review period, you still get an elevated sense of scale when you’re surrounded by other players going about their business. This is most evident in the packed city centres. You are also technically your own mount, as you’re able to transform into an animal famil
The Crossbow is considered a powerful weapon type in the game because of its high single-target damage and debuff potential. It allows you to deliver accurate, powerful shots from a distance, making it a perfect choice for long-range combat, which is effective in both PvP and PVE scenar
Throne and Liberty 's morphing mechanic has a similar problem. Per the lore, certain individuals (mostly the player characters) have the ability to transform into various animals. At the beginning of the game, these are a wolf, an otter, and a hawk, and different species may be unlocked later. Again, this is a lot of fun in concept, but each morph really only amounts to a simple traversal ability - wolves for sprinting, otters for swimming, hawks for gliding. The other animals you unlock at higher levels do improve traversal incrementally, but basically only amount to cosmetic differen
Some of the leveling up in Throne and Liberty is done through experience points and increasing stats, but a lot of it is also done by crafting upgrades. You rack up a ton of crafting materials just by playing through the campaign - different materials are used for upgrading weapons, equipment, accessories, and skills. I rarely found myself having to scramble for the necessary materials to reach the next level, but did quickly discover that you really need to spend all the crafting materials you get in order to stay competiti
In many ways, **Throne and Liberty plays like a typical MMO ** . Players explore a variety of different fantasy environments, fighting a variety of different monsters with a variety of different class-specific abilities. There’s an extensive main quest, side activities like crafting and fishing, multiplayer dungeons, competitive player-versus-player matches, and everything else you’ve come to expect from the genre. It has a handful of unique ideas, but they don’t always go far enough to carry an otherwise generic
Much like the time travel concepts introduced in the story, real-time defense and animal morphing are unique ideas, but they don’t go as far as they could. There's a possibility for them to be expanded on in future expansions or updates, but in their current form, **they fail to make Throne and Liberty as interesting as they could
At the end of the day, Throne and Liberty ** is a pretty new game** . It has its flaws, sure, but there's still plenty of time for it to resolve its issues with progression with more mechanically complex classes, to add new morphs that actually make a difference in gameplay, or to renew its focus on the thrilling
It offers an increased movement speed, which allows you to strategically position yourself while attacking. The Longbow mastery tree is divided into Support, Checking, and Sniping. You can combine the Longbow with a Crossbow for a fully ranged build at all times, or with a Greatsword to maintain a high DPS out
"Everything about Throne & Liberty, from day one, was built with, I would say, the right word is 'massive'," Lafuente says. "Massive scale, everything about it, the world, the buildings, everything. And the tech being built is going to allow things like the castle sieges that have thousands of players participating in a castle siege. That's not an exaggeration, that's already something that has been seen in the Korean life service is thousands of players participating in this castle siege. That's probably the biggest event that we have. And then there'll be other things that have hundreds of players, going down even to guild vs guild battles, which will be more along the 50 v 50, 60. v 60 type of range. Scale is a big part of what we expect in Throne & Liberty, particularly when it comes to PvP battl
At Summer Game Fest earlier this month I played two of Amazon's MMOs, New World: Aeternum and Throne and Liberty lore & Liberty , having previously dabbled in their other MMO Lost Ark , while the company has also announced, cancelled, and re-announced anew a Lord of the Rings MMO. This isn't all Amazon publishes ( Blue Protocol is on the way, Crucible was scrapped, it picked up Tomb Raider recently too), but it’s definitely a trend. So when I sat down with Daniel Lafuente and Merv Lee Kwai from Amazon to discuss Throne & Liberty, this trend was on my mind. Though, apparently, not on the
