Riders of Icarus

This game was fun until a few years back they "Reworked" everything and removed everything from my acc cus i was inactive 10/10 scam, stole my money. Give me my items and Lvls back.

I played ROI for a few years, ending in 2019. I really enjoyed the game and had lots of fun. But recently I saw a Facebook post saying they were removing some of their servers, so I thought I'd check in on my account and see if my sever was one of them. Turns it was, but it was so long ago that they already deleted my account and I cannot get anything that I worked so hard for back!!! I never got an email or anything notifying me that my server was being taken down. I spent good money on this game, even though it was 'free to play' I bought tones of stuff in the cash shop. I should have been a 'valued' customer! But obviously not. Don't play.

The game has transferred from Nexon To Valofe. All accounts made with Nexon were deleted unless you transferred in a two week period they neglected to announce. Do not support this company.

After some transition thing that i got no notification/warning about, my account was deleted and all my paid content, which included founders stuff, was gone.

Avoid at all costs. The main attraction for me were the mounts, and they are super underwhelming. The combat is average and the world is a ghost town. Additionally, if you need support for any reason, you will never get a reply. Decidedly average overall, non-existent customer support and boring gameplay loops make this a hard pass. Go play Black Desert Online, Invictus or Lost Ark.

I don't need to say anymore other than the company sold out and let the Cash Shop go pay to win, If you want to do good in this game, Be ready to get out your wallet over and over again.

The game has been ruined, i used to love it, now i haven't played it in months.

And the taming of Animals is all about RNG not skill, You could push every button on time but still fail to cap bacause of the terribe RNG.

I don't understand all the hate about this game. It's not perfect by any means and I've yet to experience this game's entire content, but so far I'm loving it. It's got a good mix of main story quest (which is actually kinda good if you actually pay attention to it instead of skipping through the chat), subquests which blend in together nicely and dungeons that you can solo or group for (depending on difficulty, of course) which have their own subquests and reward you with cool items sets.

The biggest complain I see is about the combat... I for one am loving the combat in this game, feels like WoW combat but flashier, more immersive and with more positioning. I feel that the main reason why some people get turned off by the combat is that they expect this to be a full action game with dodging like TERA, but that's not what it's about. This is a traditional MMORPG combat style but with more fluidity, the dodge mechanics aren't exactly "dodge", but escape/positioning mechanisms that differ from class to class (mages with teleport, rogues with sidestep, ranger with backstep, etc).

The only major complaint I have so far is a few combat bugs (the only bothering one so far is charge skills not working on certain terrains), but I have hope that this will be fixed, especially if people give this game a chance and the company can have a bigger budget.

TL;DR: Don't listen to the haters demonizing this game, it's really awesome (especially once you reach lvl15, which doesn't take too long). Judge it yourself, try the game. It's free anyways, so worst case scenario is you'll get a couple hours of fun for free. You're reading this review so chances are you're bored anyways, so why not?

I totally love this game. I don't agree with people when they say it's pay to win you can achieve everything without having to spend a single dollar BUT it takes a lot longer. When you pay for premium access however, it doesn't take as long. You get a lot for your money, though and it makes the whole experience a lot nicer.
I recommend trying the game. Nice graphics, and since the last update finding groups is a lot easier as you can play with members from all of the servers of your region (US or Europe).

The game idea is great, the oriental version of this game is rated as being in the top 3 the last 5 years or so. HOWEVER the people who are publishing the game here, are merely purchasing the graphics, and engine. SO they pretty much had to code all the abilities and a few other things. But that being said, this game is done very horribly from the current developer.


It is NOT pay to win, HOWEVER without paying it can take months (and yes I do mean more then several months) to get even remotely close to what someone pays $10 for. So imagine someone paying $20 or even $50, and how long it would take you. Also keep in mind, there are world raid bosses, so unless you are willign to put in a lot of $$ and try to get in to one of the top guilds. You are just pretty much wasting your time. NPCs are registered by who does the most dmg (as a group or raid, or guild), not who hits it first.

They keep saying they wil fix somethind or they will ban bots,,,,which they don't. Makes you wonder if the devs are the ones who are botting. Anytime someone disgagrees with a forum mod or dev, they get banned, I have not had this happen, but have seen it happen several times.

It is a shame, this game had a lot of potential and to see it ruined due poor management is very disappointing.

With a decent amount of time spent in a game, it's always hard to justify a negative review. To me it feels like if you really want to enjoy it, you need to go all in with ROI. In my opinion, this game isn't designed for casual players but since it's F2P, give it a try and decide for yourself :)

Lets start with the positive aspects

The devil is in the details

Elluns as a special mention

Conclusion

Thanks for reading!

Pro tip! Read reviews from people that have spent a lot of time in the game, versus those that have just tried it out and wrote a review about their first playing experience.

With that being said, this is my first review of a steam game, and unfortunately it ain't a good one. Honestly, this game had a ton of potential. If you enjoy the taming aspect of the game and collecting all the familiars this game is a huge bonus.

However the current state of the game is a nightmare. The company philosophy is to roll out the game in chunks, which leads to extremely grindy and boring gameplay. Its an RNG grindfest to get the best gear, and don't bother playing it if you are playing alone. Taming those heroic or even legendary familiars isn't as easy as taming the common or elite ones, and require a lot of hours crafting the mats, which can be tiresome for some people.

My biggest issue with this game is the p2w aspect. Although the game started out with a very fair system, it has now revealed its true and ugly form, and by god is this game for the big whales. For some, this may not be a problem, but based on all the information I have written previously, making people spend hundreds, or even thousands of dollars for an unfinished version of an exisiting game, makes me sick to my stomach.

I did enjoy my time playing the game, but that was mainly because of the empathy I shared with my guildmates over what Nexon has done with this Eastern MMO port. Turned it right into a pile of shit.

I got into this game because I wanted to find another MMO to play besides my main of Guild Wars 2 since it's been winding down recently. Me and my significant other saw that you can tame different things and were pretty excited and so we bought the early access packs and everything so we could really try it out and hopefully find a new outlet. It was actually pretty fun during that first portion before open beta. There were still gold spammers which was annoying as all hell, but it was mostly bearable.

Then after open beta started it was complete nonsense. The community is just so utterly toxic it reminds me of why I quit playing things like LoL. The loot system is horrible and only the person that gets the first hit gets anything. Which is one of the things that sometimes drives me nuts about MMOs. Not to mention the heroic mounts are such a massive pain to get because there is hackers EVERYWHERE killing or taming everything constantly. Plus they have such few channels and long respawns you basically have to be a hermit willing to stay up for a full 48 hours and you'd still be lucky to get it. God help you if you have any latency or lag at the wrong time when you've farmed and spent countless gold on the marks for the stupid thing. Plus there is usually one person that constantly farms the stupid mounts to the point of ridiculousness.

Also if you're not in a massive guild have fund being able to get anything from world bosses or succeeding in PVP. They have ridiculous Mega Alliances that will just be complete jerks for absolutely no reason. Nexon has been trying to fix everything but I think everyone is just so hardened by how poor everyone treats one another people won't work together unless you're in their specific guild. I've tried my best to help people just to be screamed at for helping them so I gave up on it. Occasionally you do find that once in awhile a person that is actually relatively kind and willing to help instead of just using you for personal gain and just to leave you dead and for that I thank those people for restoring some faith in humanity.

If you want to give it a try if you have maybe a few friends to play with go ahead, but maybe don't pay attention to the main chat at times because it is just so disheartening to see some of the horrible things that happen.


****UPDATE*****
For those of you asking about the time playing it is because you can leave the game up to level up familiars. I usually do this for when I am sleeping or when I am at work so I can make some space in my familiar inventory. (When you do get heroics it takes a very long time to level them up). I don't have the capability to stay up such long hours. I just leave it up to level everything up.

I definitely recommend the game if you have a few friends to play with for the game. I just do not recommend buying any of the expansion packs or the other things they will try to sucker you into to earn money. It is Free to Play but the reason why I did put the do not recommend is it is not worth the money to spend on it and if you are playing by yourself without any friends it can be a major turn off.

Plus as of recently the player population has declined. While I still stand by my information I encourage you to make your own judgement. I wanted to just forewarn people before they decided to invest a large amount of time before deciding they do not like the game. I invested quite a bit into this game time wise and I wanted people to take into consideration some of the faults. (Unfortunately steam only gives the do you recommend this game not a star system or rating system so I leaned more towards the not recommend.)

I do have a few people I found a guild within that honestly keep me on the game and make it worth the time :) thus recommend at least having a few good friends to play with and trying to help the community become more open and helpful.

I would of GIVEN this game an decent rating, it is over all a solid MMO, yet, beware Steam user of this game. If you decide to pay for features the Nexon company limits your purchase to $60 monthly, through steam. DOES NOT provide portal access to pre-paid services through steam. Trying to get portal access from support you have to wait 1-2 weeks of back and forth e-mail to identify you account, then additional they ask you for Government Identification!
Secondarily, NEXON will not provide support to the game without you submitting copies of Government documentation.

Acceptable forms of identification include:
Government/State issued photo ID, such as: ,Driver License, Passport, Government Employee ID, Certificate of Birth/Adoption (only if under age 18).

Been gaming over 20 years, NEVER been asked for real life Government documents records to get gaming support from a product I have brought. This should be seriously looked at by steam!

This game is taking alot of heat on here for some issues users are having. Most of those technical issues I have not had so I am reviewing this based on MY experiences so far...

-There are some bugs, but again I have not seen nearly as many as others have had. The more serious of these issues is the lag. The lag can at times be terrible if not downright unplayable but its an issue that isnt keeping me from playing as much as I have.

-People have compared this to Tera and that is unfortunate because its not Tera, the mini map and full map are in the same style as Tera and thats where the similarities end.

-The combat can be a bit boring for the first few levels and after a few skills are added to your tool bar you are pretty good. The combat is one of the weaker aspects of this game but not unbearable.

-Graphically the game is pretty solid and with settings turned all the way up it is a fairly good looking game, but nothing to rave about.

-the Taming of familiars (animals, creatures, dragons...) is where this game shines. If you are an avid collector of mounts and pets in any other game you will love this part. There is an issue that you will run into after a short while and thats where the available slots are locked out. These slots need to be unlocked with Elune (in game currency). You can most certainly gain Elune while playing the game and without spending a dime to do so. BUT if you really want these slots opened you will need to buy some. They will be adding more ways of gaining Elune in game in the near future. And this is not something that you should consider game breaking as so far I have not spent a single penny.

- The in game store is full of cosmetics and small buffs. There is not (to this point) anything P2W in the store.

- The dungeons in game are pretty simple, can be done solo or in a group. However there are 3 tiers: Story mode, Elite and Heroic. Elite has 5 tiers of difficulty that you can select before entering and the drop rates reflect that. At current level you will need to be in a group to run Heroic modes.

- Plenty of daily quests

- Map is large enough for the time being with a new zone (large) that will be open later this month.

- Game is almost totally open world with a few intsanced areas here and there.

- No gender locked classes

Some of the more lacking things about this game:

- Level cap is currently level 25, which you will hit fairly quickly.

- There is NO archer class. Classes available are: Barbarian (warrior type), Guardian (sword/shield), Wizard (ranged DPS), Assasin (stealth, duh) and Priest (healer).

- There is only the human race :( male/female

- Character creation is a bit lacking but not terrible (not BDO creation or anything like that) its not all that bad but it isnt exactly great either.


All in all this MMO is not bad at all. Can be fun solo or with a group of friends. It doesnt do anything bad and it doesnt really excell at much either. But at the end of the day its a game thats very fun to play and can be addicting. It doesnt exactly hit a home run at the moment but its not a dud either.

Honestly a decent f2p game. I'd like to address a few of the complaints I see:

-P2W: This is entirely untrue. This launch addressed many of the p2w issues in the asian version, and all items that gave an unfair advantage were removed from the cash shop (save for the ones that you can get easily in game).

-Gold spammers: Yeah they exist. So does a block list, and a "global shout" filter. Super easy to not see spammers. **UPDATE** Global shouts have been disabled in the meantime, so gold spammers should no longer be an issue.

-Bugs: Yeah, they are there. So is the tag "open beta". I see many people take for granted the fact that they have to pay $0.00 to play this game, and that "beta" is meant as "beta testing". None of the bugs are game-breaking, and actually many have been fixed in the past 48 hours.

I would recommend this game. A few positives here:

-It is entirely possible to hit max level with great gear all free to play. The majority of cash shop items are cosmetics (player and mount skins), convenience (no transport fees, storage anywhere, etc), and things like that.

-They also upped the amount of premium currency that drops (as compared to the asian version), so even if there is something in the cash shop you want (like a skin), you can get it very fast in game.

-The mounts are visually appealling, as well as the landscapes.

-The class abilities feel engaging, are flashy, and flow well together.

Negatives:

-Lower tier familiars are pretty useless with low energy (although higher tiers are easy to get).

-PvP is only duels currently (game is expanding through open beta, more PvP will be added before July ends).


TL;DR

This game is 1. free, and 2. in beta. Great f2p game that isn't p2w like its asian version.

Absolutely an amazing game, after playing WoW for 9 years ive tried so many MMOs and couldnt get that feeling back i got from WoW the sense of wonder and love for a MMO. But playing this game ive loved everything about it from the combat, to the loot and farming mechanics, to the taming which is incredibly fun and easy. I tried Black Desert didnt care for it, tried so many MMOs but this right here is pure magic i highly recommend it.

Fun game so far, i like how they are slowly increasing the level caps so that it doesn't feel like a rush to grind out the max level. There should be tons more content for this game as it has been out in S.Korea for awhile now.

The pet collecting is def. a cool plus as you can tame a mount then turn that mount into a pet that fights beside you.

I have encountered a few lag spikes during a boss fight which sucked major balls but that has been about it in terms of issues.

I'm going to recommend the game for now, as the game is in Beta, and is about to hit open Beta soon.

-Optimization. Yeah it's poorly optimized along with I7 4790k, dual GTX 970's(Yes SLI works for me), and 16gb of Ram.
I get random drops to 25fps depending on where I am. Mostly a stable 60FPS(Vsync). This is Beta so I'm assuming this will be fixed in a future update.
Also when I exit the game, it should exit the game. I get left with a black screen and it attempts to use my CPU as a spaceship. (100% CPU Usage).
Random Flickering on names.
Could use an improvements on graphics, but for now it is what it is.
TEXTURE POPPING(NOOOO)
Things in the terrain such as tree and shadows don't load that far out.

-Gameplay
Honestly it's not bad but it's pretty generic. I seriously wish I could hit multiple targets with 1 skill.(EDIT: AS OF LEVEL 16 THERE ARE SOME SKILLS THAT CAN, I AM GUARDIAN CLASS).
Dodging, some monsters you can dodge my simple walking to the side. Except for mini bosses(Haven't gotten to a bigger boss yet). Yeah, I can side walk, try to go behind them, they'll always hit me no matter what.
This is a Tab Targeting game, which means you just hit tab to select/switch targets. Ctrl Tab lets you select teamates. I enjoy pulling my friends into fire pits as Guardian Class(You get to be scorpion).


Overwall I am currently enjoying the game, it's a pretty generic MMORPG which I enjoy. Fast travel, great mounting system, decent customization, decent combat system, new armors look different(fk you black desert).


-Waiting for Open Beta to see where things go. So far I've just got Elite Riders Pack, and the only benefits of this package and the others is just mounts/customizations.

So far not pay 2 win. Pls no Nexon, don't make it Vindictus.




EDIT: AFTER OPEN BETA PATCH: RECTANGLE BOXES ARE JUST FLICKERING IN THE DISTANCE(White flickering). Also Mount Height Limit Meter flickers now and then.

This is pretty much a fun and actually creative version of Dragomon.
Its a MMO with a pokemon-esque basis of collecting mounts. The mounts themselves range from rather mundane to things that make your jaws drop.
Combat is rather fun although shallow at times, being mainly hotbar focused and having a bit of a fuax-action style.
The game itself is rather pretty, being a Cryengine 3 game. The game does have a few optimization issues, its a bit buggy at times with font not being properly placed so its cut off, some moves dont fire off after charging. The character models as a whole could do with an overhual, easily being the weakest point in the entire game.
Cash shop is about regular fair for a F2P game, boosts to EXP and what not being sold, few costumes hopefully they flesh this out, would love to see some amazing costumes in the future.
All in all seems like a nice casual MMO that would please anyone who fancies collecting monsters alone or with friends, plently of variety and alot better than its competitor.

I've been a lost little lamb since World of Warcraft went to shit. Going from MMO to MMO trying to find a replacement. Nothing could hold my attention for more than a day. When I first came across this game, I didn't give it much thought. Everyone knows Nexon and their p2w games. Thought it would be another one of those, I'm happy to report 20+ hrs in I havent paid a single penny (well besides me buying into the headstart :P), I'm enjoying myself so much playing this game. I'm playing solo, but recently found a guild (wonderful people) and did a couple dungeon runs with them. I had a blast, the dungeons can be difficult...it does require common sense. If you are a raid veteran like myself it will be easier to overcome bosses (standard get out of the fire, pay attention to what the boss is casting logic). I will write more as the game releases more content etc. But so far, if you are looking for "that main, go to game" like I have been....this is certainly worth your time to see if it's a good fit for you!

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Riders of Icarus is so far a very good MMORPG. It's the first day of release for the people with founder's pack which means that there are bugs since it's in beta. I haven't run into any major bugs only small ones that will hopefully get fixed later in development. The graphics looks awesome for an MMORPG and is on the same level as Tera in terms of graphics. Something to keep in mind is that the world is not fully open it's instanced which reminds me a bit of Tera. There is a cash shop in-game and it uses the currency of "Ellun" which can be both for real life money or gained from achievements and some repeatable quests.

The combat system start off pretty slow you start with 4 skills. On the assassin class you won't always be able to use a ability as all of them are on cooldown. This is only a problem in the beginning as combat picks up the pace later at around level 10 i would say. The abilities have a unique style with them and some of them are really cool and unique from other MMORPGs.

The taming system which is the biggest part of the game is not something big when you start off. You will learn how to tame and get the tame skill very early in the game at level 2 or 3. For the people that bought founder's pack were able to use their mounts right after the tutorial level. As i am a founders pack buyer i havn't felt like taming another mount as the one i got looks a lot better than the tameable mounts i have found in the world so far. Mounted combat is something you unlock a bit later at around level 12. I'm now level 19 and i have been testing mounted combat with crossbow. There are 2 ways to perfrom mounted combat first one you unlock is with a crossbow which means range. The other way is spear which you unlock from a quest at around level 17. For me the spear has been more useful than crossbow as i like the abilities more. The spear has several AOE attacks which makes it useful for clearing trashmobs in dungeons or just hordes of enemies while questing. The crossbow is useful in flying mounted combat because it's easy to dodge the enemy attacks in the air.


Will update the review when i have played further.




So far the Riders of Icarus have been amazing. It's super fun and the graphic is really good for being an MMORPG imo. The graphic is even on the same level as tera is if not better. The gameplay is fun and the combat is good but it's slow in the start. I picked the assassin class as it looked like the funniest one to play. I was already blown away by the tutorial the cutscenes and just the tutorial level was awesome. After the tutorial the game is still fun so far it's just that the combat is a bit slow right now but i'm sure it will pick up pace soon as it's still very early. I already ran in to a couple of bugs but they were just small thing that will probably get fixed in the beta.