In the yard 2008. Dmitry Medvedev led Russia briefly, and Fidel Castro resigned. At the head of the United States, Barack Obama, the first black president in history, will soon stand up. Roman Abramovich left the post of Governor Chukotka, the Spanish team became the Euro-2008 champion. Apple I started the sale of the iPhone 3G and opened the App Store app store. A Nival Online The open beta testing of Chinese online role-playing game has begun Perfect World.
It's hard to believe, but since we first stepped on the lands of the ideal world, twelve years have passed. About the iPhone 3G, everyone has long forgotten, Obama works on Netflix , Abramovich invests millions of dollars in a gaming publishing house 110 Industries , Euro 2020 will take place only in 2021 if the pandemic retreats. But Perfect World is still alive – and, moreover, the next major update was recently released to it, in which we can take care of a couple of gods. Whatever you say, and this is a good reason to look into it again.
Millions, millions
However, the history of Perfect World began even earlier: Chinese company Beijing Perfect World released the game in her territories in 2005. At that time, the market ruled Everquest , World of Warcraft And Lineage II , But the newcomer managed to instantly stand out against their background due to the possibility of flying – everywhere and always, albeit not for all heroes at once. Recall that Aion , also putting flights at the forefront, appeared only at the end of 2008.
The bosses of the new dungeon, the tomb of the whisper, are extremely inventive. Players will even be forced to dance to survive!
The attempt was already successful at the start. In the advertising leaflets that Russian players showered at the start of the Perfect World test, we were talking about 30 million players around the planet. It’s easy to believe in this: about a millionth player from Russia Mail.Ru Group announced already in May 2009, and by 2011 5 million accounts were registered in the game. We make a discount on trading cats, Twinkov, trial and abandoned Akki – and still we get an impressive amount. This is also proved by more accurate parameters: only in 2009 the game brought its creators $ 300 million.
Few of those who have had a computer with a more or less stable access to the network in those years did not visit the ideal world. After all, unlike its other contemporaries, the game was free, and you could come across a banner with an exotic beauty anywhere. Client Perfect World could, in particular, find even on the disk " Gambling ". For many, she became the first online role in her life – this is not forgotten.
At that time, Perfect World looked great: bright, exotic, with a full -fledged editor of the characters, and not by assembly from ready -made templates, as in World of Warcraft or Lineage II. In addition, she was simply crammed with all kinds of social sparkles and baits: from the abundance of catchy emoticons in the game chat and ending with weddings, bright costumes and no less bright mounts and pets.
“I want, I want, I want!" – and the pages of the game store shout. There is nothing mandatory to buy there, but spending money is great easier for life
A special catalog was added for fashionistas and fashionistas, and awards are even laid for filling it out
Twelve years later
But time is ruthless, and Perfect World could not resist. Everything that is not covered with decorative special effects looks dull and angular, and distant objects are completely lost in the blues and fog. And this implies the idea that all these years the game not only survives, but also feels great not thanks to appearance.
In 2020, that seemed to be a discovery and a revelation, it is easy to criticize. And the interface, at the same time bulky and small until incorrectness. And the abundance of currencies and resources that have to be sorted out for weeks. And kilometer distances to the next level. But experts and fans of the Eastern MMO can recall how many subsequent projects borrowed a lot from the ideal world.
This is what the perfect world looks not on art, but live. Yes, you will not see your own character right away
In Perfect World, fortunately, when pumping, you can rely more on quests than on aimless grind. Quests in the game – an avalanche, both story campaigns and side lines and simple daily. They were added with the thoroughness and zeal characteristic of Asians. As a result, our journal of tasks is constantly cracking from instructions of various kinds – mostly time -consuming and giving only a symbolic reward. But they have to look closely at them: firstly, so as not to miss rare opportunities, for example, an increase in the warehouse. And secondly, because in practice one hero has to gain more than 300 levels: the characters must pass two rebirths to become truly strong.
Not everyone coped with the power of the sky -high gods, but very soon in the vastness of the ideal world it will be possible to see divine contractions
The game is easy to reproach with the abundance of grinds, the presence of a gaming store (although costumes and spectacular mounds occupy the lion's share in it) and the general old -fashionedness. But that you can’t blame her is the lack of diversity. The entire last dozen years of Perfect World developed both in breadth and inland: three new races, eight new classes, a lot of variations in development and amplification. Progress is noticeable even on the world map, although not all available locations are displayed on it. For example, the kingdom of adventure is a permanent fair with special tasks and awards. Or the world of people where players can influence the development of the plot with their actions, or rather, could, because on most servers the historical movement has already been completed. And in the sky -high lands you can build your own estate with a garden, machines, an animal and a mass of purely decorative trifles.
A map of the ideal world does not show a lot of special territories, but it can also be understood on it how much the boundaries have expanded from the moment the game is launched
Kill my girlfriend
PVP lovers are difficult to complain about inattention to their own needs. At first, the kingdom of the spirits of Morai appeared in the game, where players are divided into fractions and from time to time enter a large -scale battle. Samiland sister sites Then a whole continent was opened for them – the northern lands – where everyone can participate in inter -server battles. And this despite the fact that the battles of the territories with sieges of castles were in the game from the very beginning. And now the royal battle was also added to these entertainment … What is the royal, take it above: imperial! In it, 90 players beat both with monsters and among themselves, and try to stay alive in the framework of the gradually narrowing safe zone. In general, the scheme is familiar – except in Perfect World, any player can choose whether to take a special standard equipment for the battle or stay with his good.
In the imperial battle, you have to withstand battles not only with players, but also with powerful monsters
By the way, in a fresh update "Crassic deities" The inter -server northern lands have become even more. Scouts found the way to the ice city – a new high -level location with a special chain of plot tasks. It provides for five different finals, and you can get to them in 162 ways – depending on the decisions that you have to take at every step. Those players who opened all five endings become the heroes of the ice city, and the whole server learns about them.
Only the strongest survive in the ice city, and just getting into it is also not so easy
And, of course, the game has the old-shared arenas. The Aurora ares in the arena of seasons, but you can participate in team battles for groups of three or six players at any time. Heroes arena are a weekly event, and only 320 users can get to it: who was the first to sign up, it passes five stages of the battles in the “Everyone for Himself” mode. Awards are divided by ranks, but even one who failed to kill anyone receives their prize.
The northern lands, as well as the surroundings of the Ice Palace, are not like the central continents. They are more like the edges of the Vikings or even Siberian expanses
I am a pretty young god
Perhaps the most interesting (and time -consuming) innovation of the update of the “sky -high deities” was the opportunity to shelter and educate his own God – and not one, but as many as six. True, this entertainment is available only to high -level players – a hundredth level, second rebirth and all that. They automatically receive an invitation of an astronomer from the city of dragons: he saw a rainbow star falling from the sky, and calls for a search for her. But this is a trick – a quest, of course, is useful, but not mandatory at all. He only explains that the gods sent their children to help the inhabitants of the ideal world, but they knocked too much on the ground and lost their souls.
The Heavenly Mother passes the victims of the gods to the custody of anyone who fits the criteria
To help the gods return their essence, we must go to the Western lands, to Nikia – there the special NPC will give us our first random deity. If we choose a boy, then after 15 days he will be able to grow into a powerful defender Giro, the killer-Fiu or secretive and deadly Jolie. And a tiny girl can be a quick ranger of Shogri, the Sunji ice magician or a healer Ju. Yes, and here the almighty ray rules! However, not everything is so scary: as soon as our first reception god will grow, it will be possible to accept the next.
The first divine baby and its future mentors. They are divided not only by the rank of power, but also in schools: each is responsible for special aspects of development
The upbringing of God is a slow and difficult process: the child must be developed, performing special quests and choosing suitable mentors to him. But if you shoulden the system properly (and if luck is on our side), then we will get incredible power: deification. Thanks to the new skill, we can temporarily turn into a chosen God, albeit only half a minute and half an hour. But each transformation not only gives us divine skills – it also restores health, relieves all negative effects and gives immunity to them.
It is easy to estimate that only the collection of all available gods will take months. But everyone needs not only to grow, but also to develop, increasing its levels (up to 105) and ranks (up to 10). Well, what did you want: you thought, God be just becoming?
Fifteen years – a solid age for any online game: only the strongest survive at long distances. And the fact that the Russian version of Perfect World is confidently holding on the market for more than a decade, while its more eminent competitors have long abandoned individual servers, also talks about something. Yes, the game looks old -fashioned, requires serious investments of time and effort, and understanding all its aspects is not easy. But she has a rare advantage: the local community is not perfect, but extremely friendly – especially to beginners.
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