MAPLE STORY: BIG BANG EXPLAINED AND OPINIONS

MAPLE STORY: BIG BANG EXPLAINED AND OPINIONS

"OVERHAUL."

THE BREAK DOWN. WHAT IS BIG BANG? 
Currently, there are a lot of Massively Online Multiplayer(MMO) titles trying to
 squeeze into the Online Gaming Market. The increasing move to console gaming 
(ie, PS3, X Box) at the eastern front had also cause significant effects. Hence 
Big Bang is the huge overhaul of the Gaming System(existing user accounts and character will stay) 
for Maple Story to stay competitive and attractive.


Lets' Jump In. 
Possibly the most crucial changes after Big Bang is it will be much easier to level
 as one character has higher damage range, and new skills in some cases. 
EXP needed to level from 199 to 200 is now reduced by around 50%. So yea, 
it's going to be less painful to level.




CHANGES TO THE MAPS, North is no longer North!
Here are the links to videos of the new maps. New map means one have to reremember how to navigate the dangerous straits 
of Victoria Island.

Henesys

Perion

Ellinia

Kerning City

Lith Harbor

Nautilius Port

Sleepywood

El Nath

Omega Sector

But, this can also be refreshing as for those who played Maple Story for the last 6 or 7 years.

THE GAME PATCH

Since Big Bang is going to be huge, the patch will possibly be released in 3 stages.

THE INITIAL STAGE

• Monster balancing
• Job balancing (skill become more powerful)
• Windowed mode
• Support for 1024*786 resolution
• Game UI skin
• New skills
• New EXP curve The EXP curve is so good that 80% of required EXP has been reduced when you hit level 70. Meaning that the max. level requires half of the total existing EXP. 

THE SECOND STAGE

 A counter movement called Resistance will be added to the game. Meaning new jobs.

This time, an organization called the Black Wings started their plan to revive the Black Megician in a city called Edelstein. The city council, mine and the entire city face total annihilation caused by the Black Wings. Now, a group of desperate citizens from Edelstein built a hideout under their city and named their movement "Resistance"

Battle
Mage
Combat type magician

Position: Tanker

Speciality: Aura skills

The Battle Mage is a character which is, as the names already says, a mage. They use staves (and only staves, no wands) to attack. However, this one doesn't attack from far away, but from up close. The range is around that of a 2h-sword. They get interesting skills, but their main attack move stays the same. It starts with a 3-hit sort of Savage Blow, and it goes up to a 6-hit one in 4th job. There is also a Final Attack which they may which to activate after every attack. They also have pretty good party buffs, which come in the form of Aura's. The Aura's also advance throught the jobs. The best one is the Adv. Black Aura, which is a 4th job skill, which adds +20% attack to all members in the party. It does require the max of the Black Aura, which is a 1st job skill. This works the same with Yellow (speed) and Blue (defence) aura's. The aura's will stay forever (till logoff) after casting, unless another aura is cast.

*For the first time ever, mage has the potential to become  attacker.

Wild Hunter

Riding Archer

Position: Shooter

Speciality: Swallowing monsters

The Wild Hunter is a crossbowmaster riding a Jaguar at all times. He can of course mount it of and on, but he can attack from the Jaguar. And here is where it gets interesting: He is the only bowman that can attack while moving. At least, the jaguar runs, and the character is shooting. He doesn't get that many interesting skills for the rest. 5-arrow-strafe and Hurricane will be their main attacking moves in 3rd and 4th job. They also have SE, and some attack that can swallow monsters, which the jaguar can spit out again, but then it just walks around without harming anything (I still don't get the use of this skill...). He relies, just like all bowmen, on DEX and STR.

Both job come with awesome skills (click here for more details), but will this be enough to save the entire city from destruction?

THE THIRD STAGE

The efforts pulled of by the battle mage and the wild hunter might be insufficient to cope up with the Black Wings, hence on the 3rd stage of Big Bang, a new job: The Mechanic will be introduced.

The Mechanic

Position: Attacker

Speciality: Giant robots

The Mechanics is the 'Reinforcement'. This is a class which rides robot mounts. They rely heavely on summons. They are pirates and use Guns, but they are not using Bullets. There's really not much I can tell you about them... Only that their skills are very complicated to understand D=. Here they are anyways:

VERDICTTM

The Big Bang patch is certainly an interesting one especially to maple fans. But will it live up to the hype? I think it will. But one thing still fell short of the list, the game still stuck in 2D despite the game engine support 3D.

                                    

by Vincent Tey 빈센트 on Sunday, October 10, 2010 at 9.54am