Top 10 tips for Allods Online

Oh. My. God.

I've just had my first sight of the "gibberlings". This is ridiculous awesomeness on a scale never before seen at 16:56 GMT on a Tuesday afternoon (except for that day when we broke out the extra special M&S cookies).

I'm intrigued by Allods Online now, the styling looks very cool indeed. Have there been any rumblings about an estimated release date?

Totally open world PVP kind of turned me off to the game...which is sad. Yeah yeah, bring on the "Care bear" comments and flaming. But my idea of having fun in a game is NOT being camped by idiots with nothing better to do than stroke their digidong by killing lowbies.

I downloaded and play the beta the starting quests was interesting and did serve kinda like a intro to the story as well I did like it was all place in a event. However after that part its the normal free to play grind fest. Noting new noting to write home about the mostly the controls feel kinda out of place. And again one of that games that choose a arrow thing over a mini map! Make no mistake this is indeed one of the 100s of mmos coming out that wanna make a quick buck on bored WoW players!

Well, PvP gets narrower with every patch. English ver. of Allods is at least one patch behind Russian. So, currently the Flags are implemented and fixed. 5 min. cooldown and no Enemy player may attack you (well, except those that grinded a special item out of mobs). If you attack mobs with PvP flag, you will be exposed to PvP for another 5 min. That, in brief, is the system.

I didn't care for the characters movements, very rough and simple. Other animations were sub-par as well. I know it a F2P and that content our weighs looks, however, I want to enjoy what I'm looking at along with enjoying the content.

Well, I am not sure about few resources. :) Yes, this point is (and was, and will be) heavily debated at the moment (previous debate was "OMG... I was killed 100+ times in an hour, KILL those gankers!"). As for looks - looks acceptable and quite cute to me. :) Tastes differ, as they say.

@Wensbane - What you described is somewhat along the lines of the RVR lakes in Warhammer which over time didn't get much action. Your twist however, might have made it work in that the QUESTS themselves ARE BETTER, on top of the benefits received from killing other players. So if you want the best rewards you quest in a contested zone and PVP. If you want decent rewards and progression you quest in your faction zones.

On the other hand, contested zones worked just fine in WOW. Or that seemed the case to someone like me, who doesn't mind the occasional annoyance for the thrill of in world PVP battles. I suppose there were others that spent 30 to 45 minutes trying to survive the run from the flight point into Molten Core when world PVP was rampant, might not have had as much fun as I did. Racing across a sea of corpses and making it there at least was exhilarating. :-)

I'm going to give Allods a try because it won't cost me anything but time to do so. Hitting level 20 is couple of weeks for a casual player so you'll know soon enough if their brand of PVP is not your thing.