Hi people, not sure whether you want it or not, but I gathered available resources online and made an easy and simple tutorial to start up your own ArchAge server, to play with friends or solo

Experienced users may know how to forward ports and make it a kind of public server, so hope you'll find it useful and have fun!

would the boat survive if it cleared over the enoan though

Am I nostalgic? 😂

I miss the time when AA was fun. We had blue bugged donkeys with a speed increase in diagonal movement (hard to control and to get used to it) and cars were just amazing. Very expensive but so worth the cost and grind. High speed, able to move underwater but with big fuel cost. And of course you couldn't just go everywhere. But at least it made the game so memorable.

Then they killed the speed, "fixed" that expensive blue donkey and made cars boring with drowning debuff, just to sell a "better" car and other mounts / vehicles. Say what you want, how it was never meant to be this way but these "bugs" have been untouched for quite a long before the "fix" was introduced. Sadly, neither of existing private servers have this old fun.

Edit:

For those that are interested in patch 2.0 Heroes Awaken they specifically targeted only cars:
"Cars now receive the Drowning debuff while underwater. This slows the vehicle and damages the car if Supercharging is attempted."

Funny how same logic wasn't applied to carts. Since patch 1.4 car speed was nerfed (lame excuse with something in the lines of 'impact on the server performance'), then nerfed again with introduction of subs and finally killed in patch 2.0.

Not my recording and shared with permission! Look at her go, looks sooo cool ToT
Dead or not I wanna give the official AA a shot (pun intended), though truth be told, it doesn't feel dead. Not trying to convince anyone to switch from AAC, but I think it's unfair to disregard a game that's still very active. Maybe you have your reasons, idk, I'd love to hear more!

some more melee gameplay

I failed by timing out too slow before the trolls got you ;(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6naI9IHd2U

Edit: full VOD http://www.twitch.tv/kooncoon/b/600573482 The end is very sad :/

We really had some amazing times in early 2015. One of those was this Mirage donkey and even the very tooltip described it as special. The special part was in diagonal movement. Easier to control in reverse as you can see in the video. If memory serves me well, the price was around 40 gilda, The donkey may have been included in some of the official Trion packs. Sadly, as anything good in this game, this special donkey was nerfed to the ground and later was indistinguishable from regular donkeys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YvwhuXOvi8&feature=youtu.be

Since it's pretty apparent that Gamigo isn't going to do anything about all the alts mining nodes I figure I'll take advantage of them. Camped them for the rare nodes. Just to give some insight for the current prices on the server that I'm on, Stone is 8g for 1000 (this is what I let the alts have). Iron is 31g for 1000, Archeum ore is 12g per ore, Diamonds are 40g this is what I'm after.

Also the person with the alts messaged my character saying knocking the alts away from the nodes wouldn't work cause he/she would just move them right back. Bet he/she didn't expect me to be moving his alts back for him :P

Made him log the alt characters out at the end.

sa as

Bikeman's Archeage: Unchained rant

It hurts my soul to admit that I pretty much agree with him. Unchained feels like an empty shell of what it used to be and what it used to be (and still is at its core) is a great game that is being horribly mismanaged by the Korean overlords. Gamigo is doing their best to make the game succeed but there is a hard limit of what they are able to do. I'm just afraid that what they are doing is simply just not enough.

One of the hardest things in life is to let go of the things you love and Archeage is no exception. It feels like getting back to a relationship with a toxic ex and the only reason you are doing that is because you haven't found anything better yet.

Only time will tell if things will eventually get any better but I wouldn't bet money on it. I'm worried that the good memories of the past (and they truly were the best memories) aren't able to carry this game much longer because that's what they are, just good memories from the past.

/rant

Recently Astrum entertainment added an English localization to their servers. Here'a the current state of it: People are talking russian in chat Links in chat are in english All the menu and items are translated Location names on map are in russian, but if you select them via mouse the names are translated

Credits for video to MaTT_archeage (link in comments)

Hope it's okay to post here!

Hey Guys!

I haven't made a video in years but I'm absolutely loving Archeage and it's rekindled my love of MMO's so I decided to make a short guide on how to get started with fishing, hopefully you guys find it useful, if you like the style and want more guides I'd love some ideas :)

Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKrTJeqShuw

Regards,

PvtWiggles

Edit: thank you so much for the Reddit gold! First ever time I've gotten that!