Reviews

• Humbug

  Aug 7, 2023

  In general I buy into the full-loot PvP concept. I've played EVE, Wurm, and Ultima. I'm also okay with jankiness. ARMA, Kenshi, and the Elder Scrolls games are all janky but excellent games. I was on the fence about this one since the screenshots look amazing. But ultimately playing through the tutorial, it had the same "early access" feel as something like Medieval Dynasty. Which would be fine, except for two things: 1. It's not early access 2. They're planning a subscription fee If not for the looming threat of a subscription fee, I'd probably keep it and just dip in now and then. But when I have other options for similar experiences, I can't really justify the price, accounting for a future subscription fee. Although depending how the subscription fee is implemented, maybe I'll be back if it's just for extra content on top of a core experience like ESO/LOTRO/etc. Also, the, uh, choice of names by some other players can be detrimental to full immersion.
• mustardtigerking

  Aug 7, 2023

  Star Vault is incapable of providing proper GM services when it comes to exploiters and cheaters. A GM told us if they are exploiting so can we! Glorious. A Game where GM's promote explopiting becuase the DEV team is incapable of making proper fixes. RMT runs the game. Theres like 1.5k players in game at any time but Half of those are farming or cheating/exploiting accounts. Henrik is delusional. STAY AWAY
• dv142762

  Aug 8, 2023

  This game does not have a NA server. Very difficult to compete vs players located in the EU. Too big of a crutch to play seriously.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 29, 2022

  THIS IS AN EARLY ACCESS GAME Do not let anyone, or any development post, fool you about this. It should have an early access label plastered across the steam page with warnings for anyone interested in purchasing it. I am not saying this because I'm too impatient to wait for the game that everyone thinks is coming, I am saying this based on the current advertising and what I actually received for my money. I am not too concerned with the future or a bunch of meaningless promises. I am reviewing what there is to do right NOW and my experience immediately after purchasing this game. Here are a few things that I feel break the game and qualify it for an "unplayable" status. 1. Lack of useful information. This game is tailored for the "hardcore" pvp players that would like games similar to escape from tarkov. No map, useless tooltips, and absolutely no story. There are a few flavorless races and places that have no meaning or connection to you, they just exist and you interact with them. The profession and action tabs are completely over complicated and there are no in game resources to help you figure out what the hell is going on. That will lead you to secondary sources of information. BE PREPARED TO READ SEVERAL NOVELS WORTH OF CONFLICTING INFORMATION FROM DOZENS OF SOURCES GLEANED FROM FORUMS, CHAT THREADS, AND SPECULATORS. Do not jump into this game thinking that you can just fumble around and it will be fine - because you'll end up wasting dozens of hours just to find out that your big idea sucks and doesn't work. Make sure you do the required 20-30 hours of reading before you even log in for your first time. Want to mine minerals? Go for it! Just make sure you know the 40 step process to get a steel bar - oh, and don't plan on using that steel for anything... you've got no skill points left! 2. The sound. It is incredibly buggy, occasionally goes silent, and many times will not be synced with animations. The last pvp fight went like this - 2 guys on horses, holding their hands up and looking at me while my health just keeps dropping. My character makes no reaction to losing health, their characters make no action/sound for casting spells at me. You are better suited to turn sound off during fights so you are not distracted by the delay. Sometimes the sound catches up all at once and you'll get a cacophony of squealing horses, explosions, and tinging blades. 3. Game Balance. It looks like they're using the first wave of people as beta testers (something i never signed up for). The meta is really lame at the moment and there are very few ways to make your character fit that meta unless you reroll, buy a second account, or were lucky enough to choose the right height, weight, age, and race (with almost no helpful in game information to guide you). Many people have chosen to reroll in order to min max the best meta build, which in most cases is a mounted archer. Forget about the deep and unique character creation system - everything else is a "work in progress" and will be available to play god knows when. 4. Criminals and PvP. The criminal system is just not implemented in a way that works to balance world pvp. Often times you'll be attacked and end up being the criminal because you were baited in an obscure way or exploited. Your horses can essentially be freely killed by anyone without repercussion. For those who don't know what baiting is, someone will go out of their way to provoke you (shadowing, stealing loot, aggroing mobs to you or away from you) until you attack. That is when their friends come out of the bushes and totally spank you because you're now the criminal. I don't have a problem with baiters, but when there is a punishment involved for standing your ground against someone being indirectly hostile to you it gets tiring. 2 (or more) versus 1 encounters are in many ways an unwinnable situation so best you hop on discord and endure making friends in this game - which brings me to my next point... 5. Community. I was lucky and found some decent people to play with who were helpful and mature. I say lucky because you will encounter probably some of the most toxic people in gaming while traversing the many landscapes of mortal online 2. Be prepared for everything that entails (racism, homophobia, mic spamming of cringey content/music, etc.). If you're a streamer you have no choice but to mute the sound - copywrited music blasted over the mic, vulgar nonsense spewed, and people projecting their bodily functions overtly will be a very common occurrence for you. There is no indication as to who is making all these sounds (especially in crowded areas) and no real way to tattle on them. How do you fix this and who's fault is it? You don't, and nobody really - that doesn't change that it detracts from my enjoyment though. Sound gets turned off in town. 6. The world. Emptiness upon emptiness. You will ride for hours through uninhabited, featureless landscapes. The game forces you to travel far with only one means of travel - a horse that has a tiny carry capacity. If you're holding your breath for other modes of travel don't bother, they're way off. So be prepared to do hundreds of long trips for a small amount of select resources. It is really stupid to carry anything worth while with you as well since it is highly likely you will encounter some kind of pvp on the long journey and if you are wearing bags, are not speced as a tamer, or have an inferior horse you will be killed. That in itself is understandable, but is it fun? Not really. It is bearable to lose a load of cargo the first few times but not the 10th, 11th, 12th time... you could potentially buy a house, or maybe a fancy keep, but to what end? There are currently very limited options to do even the most basic types of things on your own plot of land. You MUST travel to towns in order to play the game currently, even the best of the best guilds cannot function outside of a town. Some people may say "they're working on that", but as stated at the start of the post I don't care about promises or meaningless words- this is about right now. 7. Ques and the server stability. You will wait in line to play this game. Sometimes a few minutes, but more likely 30m-1hr at peak times. People will post that it's improving, or they're fixing it - I don't care, I'm waiting now and I don't like it. Maybe I only had an hour to play (those of us with jobs or kids will understand). Imagine paying to enter a theme park for a day and you don't actually manage to get on a ride... what did you pay for? You will crash, be randomly booted, get stuck on a node line (research that fun, common little bug), or the servers will shut down temporarily without notice and you're back to waiting. In conclusion I feel a little bit duped here. This is an early access game without the title. There are so many promises laid out that I feel that there is no way this company could live up to them judging by the current state of them game and the limited progress they've made. Their last patch was aired with the developer stating that it is the last "boring" update which tells you what the last updates contained - not much. You can't build a fortress on a foundation of sand... You know a project is too ambitious if they'll promise you the world if you just give them the money now. My recommendation is to not fund this project until some serious work has been done. GAME FIRST - MONEY LATER is my motto going forward, no more of this development hell for the next 10 years. People work harder when they haven't been paid fully in advance. If you can't provide what you've advertised and accepted money for then you shouldn't be in business. This deserves to have an early access label and a firm warning to those who would buy the game - if that had been the case then I would have nothing to complain about because I would have never bought it.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 19, 2022

  This is the most piss poor release of a game I have ever seen. I sat and defended this, even bought copies for my friends. But out of my 95hrs most have been at the menu. And that's not why I'm writing this. With a community manager that straight up trolls, disrespects and antagonizes paying customers who literally just ask a question (i.e. "Hi, what do I do if my login is coming up 'user not found'.) is the most unprofessional thing I have ever seen.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 14, 2021

  Let's make a list of all the reasons you'll rage quit this game, and refund it- 1- The toxic community believes, whole heartedly and loudly, that every issue i'm about to describe will be fixed by full release in January, for the official launch. Anything you say negatively about the game is met with: "Quit. Go play something else.". Got a question? "Google it". Got a complaint or concern about the 40.00 game you just purchased? "Shoulda did your research better". Don't like getting killed in town? At the bank? Corpse camped? Corpse camped inside a bank, inside a town? "What else did you expect from a PVP game, carebear"? Bring up the toxicity and you get told: "Well of course *some* people are gonna play like that. The game lets you, so why not roll with it, or quit?" Edit: There is a nudity option- And if I gave you a penny for every male player with a naked female avatar yelling into local voice that they'd suck my D for gold. I'd be broke. 2- You're probably not going to go to a external site to look up "builds" in what is supposed to be an open-ended MMO. But you should. And once it dawns on you that your bloodline, age, height, weight and race choice likely gimped you for whatever it is you're trying to do? Well bad luck chum, time to start over. 3- The combat: I come from M and B. Directional combat is great. I Love it. . . . Until . . . . The hitboxes get messy or laggy, or both. And the system in place responds about as fast as running across skyrim. Twice. One of these issues would really hamper the combat, but both? Simultaniously? Combined with hitboxes being shrunk with character height? Well if you didn't know this was a game world populated by the lollipop guild. You do now. 4- Connectivity: You buy a game and expect it to load. To connect to whatever server you're logging into. MO2 doesn't quite work like that. Praying that whatever connection issue that keeps kicking people out to the log on screen randomly gets fixed in the next month, is like praying for rain the Sahara. Yeah, there's a chance you'll get it. But until you get lucky, you're gonna lose a lot of progress when you get boned over. 5- Despite how "open" the game tries to be, it's current skill buy system basically forces you into a narrow range of paths. They'd be best served either reworking the way the system, adding another section of passive skills (Resting takes up 100 points of my finite 1100? Running is another 100? Swimming, another 100? Riding a horse, another 100? That leaves you 700 points without even touching combat!) or doing away with the point buy system entirely. While I get wanting to make sure everyone isn't good at everything. Changing the system to something that makes more sense, like say: You can master one type of weapon and one type of armor, the rest can't go above 50 expertise until you decide to give up your previous mastery. But don't mention to the community you dislike the system. 6- The cosmetic weight system is cool, but unfinished. Like most things in this game, it exists. But it's either non-functional or a placeholder at best (They didn't even remove the Lorum Ipsum from the lore/description pages for the Various races in the character creation screen). I'll just wrap up here by saying- 40.00 plus a monthly sub for what i've spent the last 6 hours on? Hard no. And listen- The "It's a beta" excuse might of worked 6 months ago. But there's 6 weeks until full release. The game as you see it, is what it's going to be at launch. No amount of Day 1 patch is going to fix everything here. Maybe in a year, *maybe*.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 30, 2023

  I waited six months to buy this game because of the reviews. It didn't sit well with me that people were leaving negative reviews and then going on to play for hundreds more hours. So I decided to take a chance. I'm really glad that I did. The game is a wonder. Modern graphics but old school mechanics. I haven't felt like this since the halcyon days of Ultima Online. Not even World of Warcraft inspired this since of being a small piece of a grander project. All too often with MMO's you feel as though the game is playing you and not the other way around. You go where you are told, do what you are told and get what you are given. The truest form of those games seems to be one where there are no players and the game just moves the pieces around to amuse itself. This is, emphatically, not that game. In my hundred or so hours I've learned almost nothing. Gone almost nowhere and killed exactly zero other players. I've died a dozen times, crafted thousands of pieces of crappy armor and a handful of nice ones. I've seen darkness and walked from it into the light. Bittersweet, because the only reason I made it was the friends who sold their lives to give me those precious moments to escape. I've been ganked, flanked and ambushed. Picked rice and chopped trees. Killed so many pigs that I fear I've become some dark god of slaughter and now I see half formed plans of deicide in their little black eyes. I've taken screenshots from mountain peaks that, though it may not be true, I believe I was the only player to have ever been there. I've heard rumors. Been lied to. Told false information and been given a fortune in goods that I lost almost immediately. There have been staggering lows. Glorious highs. Laughter and tedium. Friendships formed and memories made. In short, this game has given me what so many others had promised but failed to deliver. A real adventure. Do I recommend Mortal Online 2? You bet your ass I do.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 9, 2022

  Spend your money elsewhere, this is nothing but a troll fest. Only 20 hours played, 16 of those trying to leave Fabernum. 5 minutes in either direction roam bands of horse archers, who kill you without even a pretence of reason. Solo play is impossible. Leave the town, geared, or naked, dead within 5 minutes. Chop a tree naked, don't bother, you'll be dead in 5 minutes. Go to the graveyard to try get money for starter gear, don't bother, groups of horse archers are waiting for you to leave. No one leaves town until they have a group of 6-12 players. Never played a game with such a toxic community, killing their own game. AVOID, unless you're a masochist, repeatedly dying with no way to fight back.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 9, 2023

  this game has gorgeous graphics and an amazing unique crafting system that ive fallen in love with. The only real issue that breaks the game for me is the community and players. Youre unable to do the most mundane basic tasks in an MMO like, farming, training skills, gathering, etc without being ganked by 2-3 people on average. People literally sit outside of town and wait for new players to venture out so they can kill and take what little stuff they have. Ive spent countless hours gathering resources just to be killed right outside of a town. What makes it all the more worse is that threres no penalty for griefing other players. People can kill and take all your stuff 2 feet out of town than walk into town 5 minutes later with NO PENALTY. Most will taunt and shit talk you about stealing your stuff.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 4, 2021

  i like this game a lot so i will tell you what i found out that has helped me when you first get into the tutorial and it tells you to go to the training dummies pause go into your settings go to gameplay and turn on basic attack is thrust and then go spam basic attacks on the dummy after you max out your sword and do the basic dummy quest if you keep hitting the dummy you can max out your dexterity and strength its the best place to level it up because in the area around the dummy your stamina doesnt drain as fast atleast not that i noticed secondly after you max out your strength an dex if you take out your torch and hit the dummy with the torch you can level up your constitution which also hitting the dummy with your torch levels up clubbing if you spend atleast 2 hours hitting the dummy none stop this you should have maxed out your strength and dex as well as be strong enough to go kill zombies naked with a sword atleast thats what i did after you kill like 10 zombies and grab there heads go to the go by the fire next to the graveyard and buy a sledge hammer if you dont know basic fantasy lore blunt force weapons are the best against undead anyway all the basic leather gear and then farm zombies until you hit max weight on carrying heads then sell them then head back to town and look for the book shop the fist book i baught was the great balance skill i my update this later but i plan on staying in the tutorial until ive learned all the books in the library the tutorial is the safest place for you to learn dont be afraid to experiment and take your time im 7.2 hours in and im stil in the tutorial with basic leather gear i baught from a vendor and im at the point the zombies in the gravyard dont even really hurt me anymore i can litterally farm a whole inventory with out healing myself or resting anyway if you follow the steps you sholuld be decently strong by the time you lave tbh idk i havent left yet but so far im 7.2 hours in and i havent died once so Update. After spending 15 hours in the tutorial i felt ready to leave haven i spawned in meduli and seen someone get merced by the guards so i went over to his body and tried to loot him not knowing the guards would shit on me loots body and immediatly dies after wards sepnt the next hour trying to find stuff to sell so i could make a pick axe sold stuff bought the pickaxe mined shitty quality dirt rocks found multiple dead bodies of an alvarin in town bucthered his corpses made leather armor out of them and cooked and ate the head got foo poisoning went and killed zombies with my back up weapon i had brought with me made a maul out of bone and now im making money killing pigs possibly starting a cult as well good times update#2 as theirs a bit of toxic people who like to gate keep knowledge from new comers im going to link a few sites that will help you with stuff you will need #1 https://www.mortalonlinemap.info/location/-80,168231/116,053900/2,5 this is the game map its here you can find resources and other tyhings the community pot and updates as well as make your own private map 2# https://mo2info.com/ this website has all crafting stuff and other info you will most likely need in your journey 3# https://www.mortalonlinemap.info/emulator/?contentarea=emulator this is a tool you will need it has a calculater that tells you the amount of resources for each tool you use depending on the skill to get the best yeild for what your doing i hope this information i posted pisses the lot of you who gate keep knowledge and bully noobs off go fuck yourselfs lmfao anyway its still a great game have fun guys see you in game