Anyone else playing Vindictus? I haven’t found a free game I like before, and usually I’ve stuck to the bigger titles, but Vindictus has been quite interesting for its combat and environmental action and its differences from the standard formula. It still in the early phases of live play in the US and Europe. The level cap just was raised again and they are steadily adding content, but the frenetic combat is the best part. This is like half RPG, half fighting game with swords.
Throwing a huge Ceramic pot at a boss gnoll to stun him and then running in to attack some more is a blast. I constantly throw or swing stuff at enemies. The ultimate in this kind of attack was when I swung a box at a bunch of spiders and they all died, in an instant. That was awesome.
The settings could use some variation, from level 1 to 9, I’ve been doing my battle quests in various reskins of the same location, basically. Its heavily instanced, and by default, if you prepare a battle quest, someone else can join and help out unless you make the group size “Alone”.
While its fun to fight together with others, I didn’t find a lot of synergy yet, we kinda were so destructive that we were taking away kills from each other on the regular enemies. This may be because of the low level enemies. In the boss fights, the boss seems to scale to the number of people, so it didn’t go significantly faster with three than with one, but when I had three we were all tanks, so who knows.
I’ve spent perhaps too much money on buying throwing spears. I love the spear throwing mechanic, but man, they are expensive compared to my current meager earnings. There was a gully in my last mission last night, and on the other side I could spot a bunch of gnolls, so I killed them all with spears.
I want a spear throwing class, or maybe an archer class…badly. Its a lot of fun, cause you have to adjust for the drop over distance, and get your shot off before they rush you. And it usually kills regular enemies.
The regular attack sequences with Fiona (the tank) are kind dull right now, although the animations are still pretty varied based on how many regular attacks I make before my smash attack. But I imagine that will get better once I can do the signature Fiona counterattack.
Right now I get the most fun out of using every weapon other than my basic sword + shield. When I can get a mace, I grab them. I use small vases and urns all the time. Boxes too. Spears, hell yes. I love that you can smash a column to pieces and possibly hurt yourself and a boss if you attack that column with too much force.
This game has a better destructible environment than any MMO I’ve seen before. I just want to see more maps, and a few patterns different than: fight a bunch of enemies, then fight more, and then fight the boss.
Maybe start out with a boss, or have minibosses, or maybe have a swarm of enemies once instead of a boss.
The game was out in Asia first, so there are some other classes played there, but in the US & Europe (where its now offered) there are:
Fiona - Tankish with strong blocking and countering (you can dodge attacks too though)
Lann - Duel Wielder with dodges and fast attacks
Evie - Magic. At low level the magic seems to be fairly short ranged compared to other games and I was still using my physical weapons plenty.
I play on the East server if anyone wants to join in the fun, and I think they have guilds or clans or whatever they call them. This seems like the kind of game that could be fun for a while at least.