What are your thoughts on Pax Dei? Official FAQ & Dev Vision: FAQ: playpaxdei.com/en-us/faq

@dyllanweich

24 күн бұрын

I have been with EA and FnF, the devs are doing great, major leaps and bounds and alot of updates, they have started replacing the basic animations finally (didnt expect it) , and alot more balancing during EA. They are listening full and well to the community and its progressing quickly.

Problem with these "social MMOs" is that as soon as the pop dips it kills the entire economy. Needed items become scarce and it becomes almost impossible to play.

Square building foundations inside a round boundary/property marker says it all. :P I'm all for the next improved Wurm Online but will avoid if they setup a predatory system.

I mean, it's a social sandbox MMO. It's based around older games like UO, QA, Runescape. It's not really supposed to be a sandbox MMO, or raids ect ect. They are very direct on this, and have been since their announcement, and all of their interviews.

hold shift when building to not snap homie

That's why I love this game, you cant rush everything

This game is not for everyone in the current state, me and my guild love it and are waiting for more features, in the meantime having fun!

@archaic78

Ай бұрын

This ^

@drewhernandez2680

25 күн бұрын

what serfver are you on i wanna join

@isaiahsroom

25 күн бұрын

@@drewhernandez2680 cernnunos

@isaiahsroom

25 күн бұрын

@@drewhernandez2680 cernunnos

Same vibe as start citizen, as in. It's not ready yet. But with start citizen people just get angry 😅

hmm the whole PVP idea of building a huge castle and wall to block of an area and force tolls is a nice idea, but the plots belong to the player who bought them, right? So in real life you could steal land, but surely you can't steal a plot in this game.. so that just won't work.

its an expensive, unreal 5 demo for a building simulator

Would be good for rp if it has in game chat.

I'm enjoying it. Not perfect but wad within reason during development.

thanks for your review, initially i thought this would be something i would enjoy, but alas no i wont be buying this thanks again

It's not really a game yet, only a building simulator with some unbalanced crafting. I can't believe they're charging for it!

@likeorasgod

Ай бұрын

They aren't charging for that, your paying for a pre-order of when the game releases. You just happen to help play test it until release. There a big button on the top of the screen that says feed back.

@danascroggins9271

Ай бұрын

@@zalem3598 I think that's the issue though. that if people drop money on a game, the expectation is that they will enjoy it within their first day of playing

@mattshroom33

26 күн бұрын

@@zalem3598 After 60 hours.. hurray. 1 dps spell, yay I have 200 health and the 3 second cast (7s cooldown) healing spell restores 5% of my health. What level are the enemies? No idea guess I'll go look on a website. Can't wait to logon and run to a wolf cave for 45 minutes , stand on rocks to avoid wolves and fireball them to death. So much fun. I get it. I make games, and what they have already takes a hell of a lot of time and skill; but they should have let this thing cook for a bit longer instead of taking the Snail Games route.

Everytime I look up "Pax Dei cannabis" there aren't any results for an update or mod so it's not my type of game yet. Same thing with KCD.

If they made it more solo friendly with regards to the time requirements into the crafting especially, I would be all about it. Many others would so from a business perspective I don’t get this hardcore direction. You want mass appeal.

@arbitration2481

Ай бұрын

Hard disagree, Not every game has to have mass appeal. Look at things like squad for example, if they went full CoD, they might have a higher playerbase, but it is designed for a niche customer. That is why they specifically released a massive patch to overhaul the game back to its roots when they felt they had gone the wrong direction. This is not a game for everyone, but for some people it is a borderline perfect game. And that is just fine. I also am playing it solo and absolutely love it. But I also understand the time investment required, as well the need for trading. That is why if I cannot craft something or find raw goods, I take my blacksmithing things out and trade them for what I do need. That is what this game is about, the community aspect and open world sandbox feel. A lot of my best experiences so far in this game would be impossible if they took it towards a mass appeal, Just another survival game on steam, Direction. Honestly getting really tired of people not looking at what the game is, buying it/playing it, being disappointed because they want it to be something else, then complaining about it to change it. The devs know what they want it to be, the players that like it, while niche, love what it is. If you don't like it, there are plenty of other games that fit the mold perfectly fine that you can play instead. I don't understand people (especially a lot of streamers I've seen) rush as fast as they can through the game with their massive following, getting everything done in a day, then complaining the game is incomplete. I am 25 hours in and just got to a point where I'm starting to work with wrought iron, have a full house, working towards tier 2 in armorsmithing/weaponsmithing. This game is what you make of it. Edit: Just to give you an idea of what I mean. Because it isn't solo friendly, I RP as essentially a wandering trader that sells blacksmithing wares. During this time, I was trading with a lot of people, and eventually a day later 2 of them stumbled on my little solo build camp in the woods. It's a dangerous area, so I'm the only one building there. They are getting chased by 3 wolves and run towards me, I help them. end up sharing some food I just learned to cook, then they tell me they are going for hides to level their leatherworking, I also need to go find flax to finish up my roof on my house, So offer to go along with them. End up hunting with these dudes for 30-45 minutes. They help me find flax, in the end we trade supplies we all need, and go their separate ways.. That is the kind of community driven gameplay that works out, if everything could be solo'd easily there would be no need for any of it. And now, when I go out trading I have friends and loyal customers to trade with, and they know my house is a safe haven in some kinda dangerous woods. The world building and RP potential in this game is borderline limitless, which for the target audience of this game is perfect.

@letbulletsfly9862

Ай бұрын

You afraid of people? That’s why you don’t have a friend

As long as the devs keep their promises regarding the content they are going to add over the year, I think pax will be extremely successful. I am still concerned regarding the combat system.

I am really enjoying it.

@TimeSinkingLoser

Ай бұрын

Me too but I don’t really know why 😂

@Grekerr

Ай бұрын

Same

This nothing like new world lol😂, New world had dungeons end game zones pvp and fort battles. Pax Dei barely has combat… No town no story no nothing . Grind resources buil house on to next game. Hopefully gets better.

@evilliving8196

Ай бұрын

Literally. This has nothing and he’s comparing it to a game that actually had content at launch. Just not enough for hard grinders.

I’ve had high expectations for Pax Dei, especially since we are developing a very similar game (Tales of Shadowland on Steam). As a CEO, my opinion is that it was a mistake to go into Early Access so early, and it has been an important lesson for our small studio. Our current plan is to have the game (or at least the early and mid-game) 70-80% complete before launching in Early Access. If we can manage with a fraction of their investment, I'm sure they could also wait for a more polished game. Hopefully, someday you will honor us with a video about our game as well. Keep up the great work, and thanks for this excellent video!

@everlonggaming1966

Ай бұрын

Why dont you release it when its 100% done and hire testers instead of making players pay to play an unfinished game?

@VNZ-Games

Ай бұрын

​@@everlonggaming1966 Just this weekend we had a closed test with over 1000 concurrent closed testers, so we are hiring testers, but there are things that you can only test with larger audience from different regions. Anyway, our game will be free-to-play, so people can always wait for the complete version and play for free on the release if they are not comfortable with a 80% finished product. We are fine with that as we know that Early Access is not for everyone.

@pvprangergod4024

Ай бұрын

yes just what we needed, more garbage pax dei clones

@m123g

Ай бұрын

Releasing a game that's 70%-80% done sounds like a god awful idea and your ratings will likely never recover from that if it's poorly recieved. Release a game when it's 100% done and ready otherwise your reputation will get demolished like the hundreds upon hundreds of early access flops before it. Bad and risky idea for a small studio with no existing customer base. Games like sons of the forest 2 for example can do that, because the first game was super popular, the 2nd game was highly anticipated and it had a built in audience....For your game, it will be an instant refund and negative review then people move along to the next game and never look back. The current state of games is so god awful that you unironically want me to play a game that's "70%" completed and pretend like that's somehow normal...

@pvprangergod4024

Ай бұрын

@@m123g there is a 99.9999999% chance his "game" is just an asset flip with no real features or content

Bro says this like he beat the game after 60 hours lol

Cool game, but the sub will 100% kill it.

Well, you kept bringing this up as a survival game and such, and if you actively look at their posts, they state it's NOT a survival game and all these other things it's not that people think it is. Pve is more then a little jank. Bows rarely hit their mark, if you don't special, you're wasting your time in combat. And moving to the next teir of armor/tools/weapons out of the starter area really blows. The sudden jump from being fine killing Boar then seeing let's say an infected boar. You are reminded how unbalanced the gap is when you should be hunting with 10+ people? Na mate, that's poor balancing because they seem to have little clue on what they are trying to do right now. Now before you think it's all doom and gloom, it's not. It's a really pretty game, I just don't think they are remotely close to be ready for Early Access. If anything, this is more of an alpha then anything else, which they shouldn't be charging full price or $100 (Let's be honest here, you need the plots) for something so unfinished.

@araborntelcontar8150

Ай бұрын

The bow thing is wrong, you just gotta aim better, the weapon gap is true tho

@likeorasgod

Ай бұрын

@@araborntelcontar8150 and raise your skill, like anything when you level up it gets batter. Though the physics of the arrow path is a bit odd. I'm hitting way better than I was at level 1-2. Also bows aren't straight line in real life, you have to arch them to hit a target at distance, same with the game.

@JamesClemmons-h5y

23 күн бұрын

The bow are basic archery skill you have to lead your target as well you have to calculate the arrow drop I think the bows are dope I’m a primary bow user I love it

@rolaensin3219

22 күн бұрын

@@JamesClemmons-h5y The problem is the sudden arrow drop, and if you are shooting something too far away, your arrows will not do damage, but they will still show in the mobs.

Great video.. really informative. My 2c is that you repeated yourself quite a lot, and could have cut 3-4 mins out just by removing that. Also, some separated parts of the video would have helped both you to make it, and organise it, and us to find what we're looking for. Great vid otherwise.

You would think the devs would have noticed the major cause of poor server performance after the first video of this game aired. You even hit on it. The amount of Kilns and furnaces needed to make a single item is astronomical unless you wish to spend weeks making a single set of gear. All those Smelters and kilns with their graphical smoke and flames multiplied by 5k-10k players have to have a huge impact on server stability and performance. The other thing is what they envision the whole road tax thing which does not exist as there is no encouragement to PVP, there is no PVP solution at all. Player 1 " I would like to pass " Player 2 " You must pay the toll" Player 1" No " End of the story, you can not fight them period, you can not tear down the gate, if you refuse to pay the toll. The only PVP you can have would require both player 1 and player 2 to travel to an area two zones away to engage in any form of this game's janky combat / PVP. The game is not survival at all and that is not only my deduction but the Devs own words, as there is no impact from not having food, water, or shelter. The only thing that seems to be fleshed out with a bit of forethought is the flawlessly working cash shop and that should be alarming to most of you.

@danascroggins9271

Ай бұрын

This! Conan had a similar issue on their servers. People would have multiple crafting benches for everything because at the time there was not way to adjust output speeds and farming yields so it was just massive factory like crafting that would give you all heatstroke and give lag

How I heard about this MMO project was through hearing that a bunch of OG EVE Online devs founded the company. That makes a lot of sense given what this project says it wants to be. EVE Online is a social MMO in the same way. Most things you cannot do in an enjoyable way on your own/with one character. Pax Dei is not EVE but I think there is an influence where it comes to player built economy and the devs have faith in that people will find a way to organize and manage the economy. All of the sudden 1 hour smelting time makes more sense because that really does mean a division of labor and roles for people to specialize and focus on. I think there problem will be having compelling PVP. EVE has always had that. EVE also has always had pretty meh PVE. I don't think their marketing has attracted the hardcore PVP type players that would bring that PVP environment to the game. Without that I think the player base of builders will end up saying "what for" and moving on. I'm going to buy the game and give it a try, I hope it becomes a game where players write the narrative by interacting with each other. I think that is going to require things to fight over, like territory, and resources. Overall I think the devs know all this and will steer the game in that direction. I think its a question of whether the audience for this game finds it, and if that audience is big enough.

El juego es un espectáculo, aún estando en acceso anticipado. Falta mucho por hacer, obviamente, por eso está aún en desarrollo, pero desde luego tiene un potencial tremendo. Lo que veo absurdo es gente criticando al juego cuando lo han jugado 20 minutos y solo, le habrá dado tiempo a picar dos piedras y talar tres árboles y ya dice que es aburrido, penoso el personal. El juego se disfruta muchísimo jugandolo un grupo de 5-6 personas, de ahí en adelante, la interacción entre clases hace que para progresar en tu profesión tengas que ayudar a tus compañeros a progresar en las suyas y viceversa. El pve y pvp están bastante mejor de lo que se ha dicho de que es lo peor del juego, muy muy disfrutable. Muchas críticas malas de gente básicamente inútil.

It's a scam. But a better scam than Ashes of Creation, at least you can walk simulate with this.

perfect unwinding game... haha

Game is GG, hopefully T&L doesn't drop the ball...sigh, if that does, hopefully AoC is good...will we ever see a good MMO since 2004 WoW?

@dyllanweich

24 күн бұрын

Not GG, a ton of updates and the game has drastically started improving with full-on feedback that isnt just Alpha , im supporting them as myself and my friends have supported this game from the get go with FnF and Alphas. So far alot of quick and great improvements and fixes in quick and timely manners, animation replacements, teleport fixes, storage upgrades and balancing overall since the launch of EA. They also have a link to where you can see whats priority and whats being worked on from bug feedback. To add to this post is the fact they are already hard at work on the engine upgrade from UE 5.2 to 5.4 to fix alot of graphical/building issues with environments.

yea seems this game promotes greefing

It doesn't alienate anyone, anymore than Pepsi alienates coke enjoyers. It's a different product. Alienation has nothing to do with it and that's a poor use of the English language that many are guilty of. It doesn't say "you, we don't want you" it says "we made this for this reason"

@ErielleClary

Ай бұрын

I disagree. It alienates half the gaming world...solo players and couples. It's impossible to progress unless you're in a group of at least 6 or 8 and larger because of the unbalanced crafting/progression system. And yes, I played the alphas but I will not spend money on this empty shell of a game.

@likeorasgod

Ай бұрын

@@ErielleClary I been playing this whole weekend and I have been crafting a lot, I just can't do it at a level that a group would be able too. Would be nice if some one gave me a steel axe or something, but I could trade for that later. Maybe later I might join a guild, maybe not, but I'm not currently playhing it for the group content. Also when it releases I'll prob join a guild and add my plot towards it to make it easier or I might just go be a hermit in the woods hunting animals to bring back and sell my leathers.