Korean game developers All-M sent word that a new class has been added to the Korean version of the action-combat brawler MMORPG Kritika. The new class is the Female Warrior who wields an elegant longsword. Check her out in the preview video below.
After nearly two years of service, En Masse Entertainment will be ending service for Kritika Online‘s North American and European versions on April 30, 2019. As of March 6, players can no longer create new accounts for the game. Spending EMP (En Masse Points) on Kritika has been disabled.
All cash shop items have been reduced to 0 Kred, so players can purchase and test all cash shop items to their hear’s content until the servers go down. All existing Kreds on player accounts will be converted to EMP so that they could be spent on other En Masse games.
The new Archer character has arrive in the action-packed MMORPG Kritika Online! The Archer, as the name suggests is a bow wielding female character with a powerful bird companion. Publisher En Masse Entertainment has added a free character slot as well so that even the the most hardcore players can try the new class. On top of this, three new Challengers zones have been added and new difficulties for several old zones like The Eeri’s Library, Dusk Pirate Den, Eternal Library, and Secret Warehouse have appeared.
Anime MMOs offer anime-inspired characters, world, graphics, themes, and/or features. In some cases like Sword Art Online: Memory Defrag, the MMO is based entirely on a specific anime and shares the same world. Here is a list of the top anime MMOs of all time.
We are listing these games based on their titles. This list is on-going and will be updated when new anime MMOs arise. Please let us know of any MMOs you feel deserve to be on this list!
Action combat is a type of combat mode that allows players to manually utilize complex movements like dodging, evading and pointing to hit to their advantage in combat scenarios. As opposed to tab-target combat, action combat generally requires a players to trigger their skills within an opponent’s hit-box in order for attacks, buffs or heals to successfully land. It is also common for enemies to have advanced movements like flying, dashing, grabbing and jumping. Here is a list of the top MMORPGs with impressive action combat.
We are listing these games based on release dates in descending order. This is an on-going list that will be updated when a new impressive action combat MMORPG reveals itself.
European Beta: Live – March 2, 2018
Developer: Booming Games
Publisher: Netease Games
Model: Free-to-play
PvP: Controlled Army Warfare, Castle sieges
Conqueror’s Blade is a sandbox MMO warfare game that combines action combat and tactical movements. Players control single commanders and give commands to their personal armies. The gameplay includes controllable medieval teams where players command dozens of powerful and varying troops in large-scale siege-like scenarios.
Western Release: Pre-alpha – January 24, 2018
Developer: ArtCraft
Publisher: ArtCraft
Model: Buy-to-play
Crowfall is deemed as a “throne war” MMORPG with an open world setting played across campaigns where players fight in a large open-world arena for resources and bases. Skills are leveled over time, so players can create the builds they prefer without worry. Players can play any of the available characters at any time, which adds uniqueness to the exciting non-target action combat.
Western Release: Live – November 7, 2017
Developer: Naddic Games
Publisher: En Masse Entertainment
Model: Free-to-play
Closers is a side-scroll MMORPG where players battle interdimensional monsters as kinetically-powered teens known as “Closers”. Movement is done within 2.5D environments, dungeons and player hubs. Left and right are the main points of direction.
Western Release: Live – September 28, 2017
Developer: ALL-M
Publisher: En Masse Entertainment
Model: Free-to-play
Kritika Online is a dungeon crawler MMORPG with an extremely fast paced action combat. The game offers small scale PvP such as 1v1, 3v3 and other tiers for various arena modes. Each of its six starter class is vastly different from the others in terms of combat and even more so when they upgrade to one of over twenty different advanced classes. The wide variety of very different play-styles for each class and the speed of the combat make PvP encounters unique.
Release: Open Beta – March 6, 2017
Developer: NetEase
Publisher: My.com
Model: Free-to-play
Revelation Online is a Wuxia-themed MMORPG set in a seamless open-world with flying beasts and dragons. The action combat features extend and make use of the game’s flight system. The open-world is open to punishable player killing, which from my experience may be too punishing. The battlegrounds and arena PvP are mostly objective based where teamwork is greatly rewarded.
Western Release: Live – June 8, 2016
Developer: Black Eye Games
Publisher: Black Eye Games
Model: Buy-to-play
Gloria Victis is set in a medieval fantasy world where players fight for realistic goals like territory and resources. That means the PvP takes place in real-time in the open-world with no instances whatsoever. Players fight in lifelike scenarios with non-target combat, sandbox crafting and a player-driven economy.
Western Release: Live – March 3, 2016
Developer: Pearl Abyss
Publisher: Kakao Games
Model: Buy-to-play
Black Desert Online is a sandbox MMORPG with a flashy and fast-paced action combat. To progress and level up, players must grind by defeating creatures in the seamless open-world. Perfecting one’s combat style allows players to be one step ahead of others in PvP and PvE progression.
Western Release: Live – January 19, 2016
Developer: Team Bloodlust (NCsoft Developer Division)
Publisher: NCSoft
Model: Free-to-play
Blade and Soul offers a skill-based action combat system using the player’s ability to properly time attacks and adapt to situations with the use of limited dodges and blocks. Small-scale arenas, especially 1v1s, test the player’s skills and judgement with invulnerability frames and critically timed abilities.
Western Release: Live – April 4, 2014
Developer: ZeniMax Online Studios
Publisher: Bethesda Softworks
Model: Buy-to-play
Elder Scrolls Online is a fantasy MMORPG based on the Elder Scrolls series. The game offers an extensive action combat system, public dungeons, player factions, various fields of PvP and more.
Western Release: Live – September 2011
Developer: Eyedentity Games
Publisher: Previously Nexon, currently Eyedentity Games
Model: Free-to-play
RaiderZ offers a complex and impressive combat system that was ahead of its time. Characters have the ability to dodge, aim, and make decisive combat movements while enemies have advanced skills like dashing, jumping, biting and flying around.
Western Release: Live – September 2011
Developer: Eyedentity Games
Publisher: Previously Nexon, currently Eyedentity Games
Model: Free-to-play
Dragon Nest incorporates a non-target action combat system and highly customizable skill sets to provide fast-paced battles. Player vs. player combat is skill based in nature. Player interactions are tailored for balancing purposes, with different cooldowns and rules for skills in PvP and PvE. Dragon Nest is a fantasy MMORPG set in the beautiful world of Alteia, created by the goddess Altea. The game’s story incorporates the history of Alteia and the dragon slayer heroes.
Western Release: Live – October 2010
Developer: devCAT
Publisher: Nexon, Tian City, Garena
Model: Free-to-play
Vindictus is a prequel to the popular MMORPG Mabinogi and is referred to as Mabinogi Heroes in Asia. Vindictus takes place several hundred years prior to Mabinogi in a time of great hatred and war. The world consists of instanced zones with some open areas.
Kritika Online has announced that The Prodigy class has arrived with the game’s latest content update. The Prodigy uses a wand, a staff, a hammer and various other over-sized weapons to blow her enemies to smithereens. She is the only child-size playable character. The new class also brings two Advanced Classes called the Artifex and the Elemancer.
A new Ultimate Zone called The Eternal Library has opened its doors to players looking for precious knowledge and loot. This new zone can be accessed from the Windhome Danger Zone Highway.
En Masse Entertainment has updated Kritika Online with a new set of class awakenings for players to upgrade to, new Danger Zones, Pet Gems and a skill rebalancing for PvP and PvE.
The latest classes to receive their class awakenings are Catspaw, Assassin, Wolf Guardian, Psion and Vamp. Class awakenings update appearances, unlock new skills to use in combat and provide the Noble title. The new skills will come in handy as players tackle two new Danger Zones with Extreme Difficulty levels called Coldsnap Village and Corsair’s Cave.
Kritika Online is due for another content update and the latest one in store titled Dawn of Awakenings is already available in the Public Test Server. The update brings the Awakening system which allows players to advance their characters a second time and gain new skills. Characters at level 70 or above with a Combat Rating of 170,000 or more are eligible to be awakened.
At this time, only the following classes are able to unlock their Awakening quest:
— Warriors: Berserker, Doomblade, Fire Lord
— Monks: Star Monk, Void Monk
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