By Jim Rossignol on August 8th, 2012 at 9:00 pm.
An Allod, as I understand it, is one of the many shattered bits of the Allods Online world that makes up the floating archipelago in which the game is set. The latest patch, New Horizons, introduces the opportunity for players to own an Allod, as well as build upon it. There’s also a revamped psionicist class, and some other changes to how things work that are intended to please the existing audience. All this is detailed in a new trailer, which I’ve carelessly dropped down the back of this post. It’s introduced, for reasons I can’t quite fathom, by a crab and a troll playing battleships with Allods own flying space galleons.
Allods Online is of course free to play, very pretty, and by all accounts, a bit unbalanced. Still, it might be worth a look if you’re in the market for paying nothing at all.
As a footnote, I still love the look of the Arisen faction. More games should have an undead Egypto-goth technomagic sect.
08/08/2012 at 22:13 aliksy says:
I remember this game. Played for about an hour, got bored. Friend got obsessed, played for a month, afterwards thought he must’ve gone temporarily insane.
08/08/2012 at 22:31 Baines says:
Watched the video and still don’t really know what the game actually is. Or even what an “Allod” is. I just know that it has flying boats, people with fairy wings, and little connection between attack and hit animations.
08/08/2012 at 22:58 werix says:
Yeah, I don’t think that video is supposed to make sense if you actually don’t play the game. Something tells me it you do, things like trade wars and Dragon aspects or whatever makes perfect sense.
09/08/2012 at 08:19 LionsPhil says:
And, apparently, a pirate ship full of little yappy dogs.
09/08/2012 at 12:01 dazman76 says:
My initial thought when seeing the main image was “Ooo, they have Eldar in this game?” :) Unfortunately Firefox has eaten all of my tooltips for some time now, so if the tooltip mentions Eldar please don’t judge my IQ to be in single figures. It’s at least 11!
EDIT: Crap, reply fail. OK, so maybe I was over-selling the IQ thing.
08/08/2012 at 23:40 SeraphyGoodness says:
That Arisen faction looks like its taking some serious design cues from Privateer Press’ Cryx faction.
09/08/2012 at 01:43 daemon23 says:
When I saw the screenshot, first thing I thought was “soul cages?”
09/08/2012 at 08:07 Screwie says:
Oh yes, that was my first thought too. Also the reason why I chose the Arisen in my brief stint with the game last year.
They are Cryx mixed with slightly gothic Egyptian and technological themes… so Cryx meets Necron (meets Khemri)? Ignoring what the game is like to actually play, its character design is rather pretty and the Arisen are the best looking race in it.
09/08/2012 at 08:14 LionsPhil says:
Yeah, my initial thought at that screenshot was “Necrons?”
Then “glowing nipples”.
08/08/2012 at 23:47 hypercrisis says:
I’m getting a Skies of Arcadia vibe
09/08/2012 at 05:08 Whisperduke says:
Update or not. Still a fail pay to win MMO.
09/08/2012 at 08:20 LionsPhil says:
In what version of Battleships™ do you get to move again after a hit?
09/08/2012 at 12:29 lorddon says:
Allods at one point had an incredible amount of buzz going for it, then gpotato shit all over the in-game store and killed whatever excitement people had for the game.
Seriously, how can you screw up ship to ship combat between player-built space galleons? Goddamnit I’m still pissed about this.
09/08/2012 at 16:06 sokkur says:
Imagine yourself that Allodos never existed. Instead there would be a game similar in size based on the Heroes of Might and Magic series. What do you think it would be like?