Is Full Release good?

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Some people would say “no” - as there is a lot of flaws and “junk” in the update which is annoying.
I finally managed to play it due to multiple problems in my country which are in fact not even solved yet, but I managed to temporarily allow me to use Roblox (Although it crashes sometimes and its annoying)
So! Now it’s my time to rate the full release.

Storyline

From what I have seen… The storyline is kind of lacking. However, it’s actually better than most Roblox games’ storylines and it’s actually readable! It doesn’t use slangs of Gen Alpha children and it doesn’t overcomplicate stuff that much. It still does leave some questions unanswered yet which is good! It allows players to make theories about stuff, however there are general mistakes Vetex did as a writer - he didn’t really allow us to go deeper into the Skyhall atmosphere. And not only that - but the assault on the Fenrir as well. Vetex could extend the story a little bit, allow us to explore more of Skyhall and stuff, and he actually had a lot of potential since Allanon and Callahan actually showed us some small parts of Windcrest and Ivoris. But… That’s it? I can bet more than a half of players while playing the storyline just never explored any nimbus sea island except for the Library of Aneignos, Ivoris and Windcrest respectively. Hell, they could even not complete the exploration tasks for them! Skyhall just DOES NOT have that atmosphere, I didn’t get even slightly interested into exploring the islands… Although thats probably because I play on low graphics, but I have no choice either because if I do play at high graphics my FPS suddenly drops to 10, Vetex pls optimise your game :innocent:

Anyways, Skyhall really feels empty. The Castle of Ivoris does too. There’s quite nothing holding the player onto it except for the fact that those are sky islands, but then you suddenly realize there’s not much spots to make a camp to respawn on for less risk. Furthermore, there aren’t much interesting surrounding the islands either - there aren’t stormclouds or big evil intimidating yellow orbs there (idfk where did I get that from) and there isn’t ANY claimable sky islands. So, what’s really the point of exploring Skyhall? I don’t know. Maybe Vetex will answer?

Same goes for the assault on the Fenrir. Yes, you get the feeling that you’re assaulting a big ship of vikings… But.. I mean, it’s not enough. In the first part you need to somehow defeat 3 patrol ships surrounding the Fenrir - and it makes sense for Keraxe to not get alerted, because the humble General Akeem with the purple (best color) Storm Curse made everything so dark that Keraxe cant see a thing! Uhh… Why do we see anything, then? The stormcloud he created is big enough, well, at least it should be, to make Keraxe on the fenrir practically blind. It should have been much darker.
Later then, we fight a whole ass legion of Keraxe vikings, which conveniently respawns for you to finish them off again again. Honestly its just funny considering the fighting is so intense literally the whole terrain is destroyed and they still appear out of nowhere. Them vikings apparently find teleportation a much more economic way to travel to the battlefield and death, I guess.
Either way it just does not feel like it. Vetex should rework the entire part of this story.
After that we invade the Fenrir itself and… Not much interesting, before you encounter the General Argos on steroids - Jarl Ivar! And honestly the cutscene… Was okay. It wasn’t utter bullshit and it felt actually atmospheric. I don’t know who made it but the guy should get an appraisal.
Either way we beat the general Argos on steroids and leave the fenrir because GOD IS COMING.

And… End of story.
Yeah.

Bosses

New bosses are cool! And minibosses as well!

Uhhh… No.
Okay, most minibosses SUCK. They have no special attacks (Except for Leviathan) and they stink. Most of them are bugged as well.
The bosses like Caesar or Allanon are far better however - and it’s good! But still, there are MAJOR flaws in their bossfights - Caesar has a boring pattern of attacks (Although I still found him incredibly fun), Allanon is just pure agonizing bullshit

There is however a certain Boss who is, in my opinion, really well made. That is the Argos on steroids - Jarl Ivar. Although his attacks take the entire arena, they are really unique and incredibly fun. My only problem with him is that he has that one AoE nuke that takes half of your HP and makes you lose a limb unless you parry, but other than that - Jarl Ivar is a well made Boss, and probably the best one out of them all.

Other…

I’ll shorten it right here - the full release added shit ton of new content like Relics which were waited and were necessary… And some unnecesary ones. What’s the entire point of pouches or other stuff is still unanswered to me, and I will probably never work well with those additions because they are god damn slow and uncomfortable to use. Maybe that’s just me.

Overall? I think Full Release was worth it. Yes, it has a LOT of flaws but Vetex is a human too, he should just fix those flaws next update or add more useful additions to compromise that.

My rating: 7/10

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i try to be lenient because its a roblox game and lets be real, a good roblox game like AO is a rarity. so in that case, FR is good

but with all the jank and bugs, if FR was its own standalone game on like steam, that people paid for, it would def have mixed or overall negative reviews. in that case id judge it like a steam game and say its bad

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I don’t have a long review to say all I can say is that I really enjoyed and have been playing it almost every day since it came out(probably should be taking a break lol).

I do have some disagreements with you but not really anything huge. You and I are opposites on Allanon and Jarl Ivar. I actually enjoyed Allanon a lot once I got his attack’s down and got into the swing of things. I also really like pouches it’s like a second hotbar and I find it makes treasure charts super convenient.

Anyways this might be an outlier with how other people have been talking about the update but I genuinely love it so imo it’s like an 8/10

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I don’t think FR was exactly a good update. It wasn’t bad but AO feels like a rougher patch right now though I do think it can get better with more updates. The story given wasn’t good though and the story bosses even less.

Though I still think AO is fun and enjoyable even if FR is mid imo

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took you to write the whole magna carta so you could say 7/10

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(Gonna be a bit out of order, just writing down what comes first lol.) For me personally, I quite enjoyed the new islands and exploring them. I really love the lore of AO so getting to see more of it through the islands was really nice!

The minibosses were also decent, aside from the bounty ones having completely false sightings at times, I didn’t really mind them. My personal favourite is probably Ormolu (even though he kinda messed up one of my OC’s lore due to him having the Crystal Curse) because we haven’t really had an enemy type like him before and I like the “build-up” when you’re making your way to his arena. The only miniboss I genuinely do not like is Jorund because of his brig, I hate how tanky it is and how much damage it deals :sob:

I think the only part of the update I came close to hating were the story bosses, Allanon and Jarl. Allanon was absolutely annoying due to him flying everywhere and resetting himself whenever I fought him a second time for some reason, only beat him due to him just being in place while I dealt 4k damage lol. And Jarl could’ve been worse if I didn’t cheese him early (waves carried him out of the arena). But to Jarl’s credit I enjoyed the first phase where he coated himself in metal and was giant, that was quite a fun lore thing. I did also dislike how both of them had 2 phases that left you with an injury in the first phase, if the injury was needed it should’ve been after phase 2, where you’re not gonna have another boss for a while

The talents were also a really cool addition, I adore the Stealth one and it’s my favourite by far, but I am interested to see what other talents are added and what the last two levels of Darkness will do

Overall, I think the story was probably the worst part of the update, everything else was pretty great to me, so I would say that full release was good ^w^

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jorund’s ship is just horrible to fight and leviathan just has that ‘you lose half your health now’ attack
aside from that, I think it’s been pretty fun
(also I love levi’s boss music)

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Still wishing we’d get Arcanium Weapons… they are in the game.. just not obtainable nor got any functionality (unique one anyways) ;c

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this is the daily writing I do. Uhh, half of it.