Good, but no free game is without flaw.
User Rating: 8.5 | Silkroad Online PC
Excellent for a while, i played it for almost a year before getting sick of the repetitive antics, such as the gameplay becoming very, very repetitive, some quests are doable multiple times, and one i remember you go into an area, a very small area, and kill 1000 of something, and you do it 3 times. Leveling becomes tedious and takes days at a time. The Europe expansion is about when i quit, i enjoyed the game as strictly Chinese sided, it was less complicated, and i learned the game as such. The game overall LOOKS great, feels good, and plays as such. One problem is the detailed shadows video setting, should never be turned on, just leave em on circle because it tends to lag you up horribly since the detailed shadows were implemented wrong. The game gets fun after 20 or so, when you can perform Trades like Trade running, which is bringing items from one city to another, along with this task is a Hunter, which helps defend you from the thief spawns, and player thieves, bringing me to the next profession, thieving, my trademark. Almost my entire server knew who I was and how boned they were when i threw on my suit and came after em. These professions are for gold basically, and some reputation that can get you more gold. The gold is a major part because you need a steady stream of potions luckily they have an auto potion feature that gives you the potions when necessary once set up correctly, it also administers something called a Universal Pill, that revives status ailments like poisons. The game has a lot of repetitive quests and gameplay. There are 3 types of weapon Sword/Blade and shield, Glavie/Spear and Bow. The Blade and Glavie both have a strength bonus for users to place all their character points into strength (3 given every level up) and Spears, Swords and Bows give an Int boost for Nuker characters that put every point into Int. There are hybrid ones that balance, they typically use bows more commonly. The downside to this game is that botting is VERY prominent, and easy to do, this is provoked by both the people willing to purchase gold (which is most everyone since stuff they want/need is very expensive) and the leveling takes so long that people bot and go afk and live their lives. The downside to this is locked servers, disconnecting you from the game and shutting it down on you, causing you to reboot every time. Things are expensive for Weapon, Shield, and clothing elixers, and the equipment themselves, along with adding blue things to them, Elixers give a + rating to it and make it a percent stronger, while blues with a certain stone give a bonus like frost resist or something. There are stalls provided by others that run overnight, and since these people live globally, they can be in Middle eastern countries, stalling during our daytime, causing a slot to be filled per person. Like i said, good, but no free game is without flaw. I'd recommend this to anyone who doesn't wanna pay for an MMO like World of Warcraft which is my current game. Give it a download for fun. I still casually play.
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