MasangSoft, the company that’s working on re-releasing a re-vamped version of the action MMORPG RaiderZ has released a video that shows the improved game systems of RaiderZ.
Several systems have been changed altogether like the skill progression system while some were only lightly altered. See the video below for a look at the new character creation process, changes to the evade system, introduction gameplay, and more.
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.
Developers at Masangsoft have revealed new information about the combat changes that will be in the remake of the action-combat MMORPG RaiderZ. Important mechanics to the non-targetting combat system will be changed.
Dodging was a key function in the original RaiderZ’s battles because each dodge came with a limited invincibility effect. The developers of the new RaiderZ have decided to remove that effect so that dodging will not be saved as a “damage nullification move” and instead be used for its primary purpose of avoiding visible attacks by moving in a certain direction.
Developers at Masangsoft for the yet to be released remake of RaiderZ have announced that the “capacity of item expressions will be enhanced” in the remake to address the concern of releasing with low-quality and dated graphics. They state that they are doing their best to improve the game’s graphical experience without drastically increasing the PC requirements to play the game. Texture sizes have been increased and high-quality animation effects have been implemented on items.
We don’t want to raise the user’s PC requirements to play the RaiderZ. However, we couldn’t ignore the internal opinion that we must not release the previous graphics(low-quality graphics). It was the opinion that the RaiderZ ‘ s competitiveness can be damaged because of low-quality graphics.
We first heard of news regarding RaiderZ‘s revival quite suddenly in the last stretch of last year. Its new developers at Masangsoft started this year nicely with a development roadmap that revealed information about planned changes for the game. Now Masangsoft has shared more information about the upcoming re-launch and released a survey via Facebook asking fans of the game where they live.
The survey will be used to help the publisher choose which regions RaiderZ will be available for. It is a Google form where you answer only a single question. If you are interested in playing the re-release of the game and want to help ensure that your region will be supported, here is the survey. There is no account or additional information required.
