Dragon Raja, the open world MMORPG played on mobile devices is coming out this month. Originally launched in China last year, the game is set to release in America and Europe on February 27th, 2020. Pre-registration is available now on both the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store.
Dragon Raja boasts a fierce real-time combat system with diverse PvP systems. Players can take part in “duels, battlegrounds that hold hundreds of players, and guild matches”. Created with Unreal Engine 4, Dragon Raja’s open world simulates physical collision systems and optical motion capture technology. The graphics, combat, and character customization is similar to Tencent’s Revelation Online.
Revelation Online players are in for a treat with new end-game bosses to challenge in the upcoming Heaven and Earth content update. On May 27th, a new 5-man raid dungeon called Temple of the Twelve will open.
The new raid dungeon follows a theme based on the Chinese Zodiac. The Temple is split into three halls that get more difficult as you progress; Hall 1: Easy, Hall 2: Hard, Hall 3: Expert. There is a limit of three challenges per hall, so a total of 9 boss fights per week.
Revelation Online‘s latest major content update named Mythical Conflict has opened up a new PvP battlefield game mode called Legends of Nuanor. Within this new arena, players brawl in 5v5 MOBA-style (multiplayer online battle arena) matches. Each player controls a prominent legendary hero from Revelation’s backstory and lore to play during each match. The playable heroes are unique and customizable with talents.
Revelation Online will be getting a whole new MOBA game-mode called Legends of Nuanor in its next content update. The new PvP mode allows players to play as one of a number of NPC heroes from the game’s lore and story. With the help of NPC minions, players have to work together in a team to destroy the enemy team’s crystal across a monster infested symmetrical map.
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.
My.com has announced that Revelation Online will soon be joining their other games, Skyforge and Armored Warfare on Steam. Like My.com’s other games on Steam, Revelation Online will be accessible via the Steam version of their GameCenter. The key difference from the regular launcher is that Steam will automatically log players via Steam accounts.
To celebrate the upcoming Steam release and welcome all of the new players it will bring, Revelation Online is preparing special competitions and prizes. More details will be shared soon.
The second episode of My’s Producer Q&A has revealed that Revelation Online will have a new graphic and content update called New Sulan before the end of summer. New Sulan will include a visual update and new features.
Western publisher My has yet to reveal the new features and mechanics, but it is certain that the content in New Sulan will not be identical to the Chinese version on launch. As an example, the MOBA PvP 5v5 will not be included in the first release of New Sulan. The main priority for the update is version stability.
Publisher My.com has announced that Revelation Online‘s Emollion Server will be merged with the Tidewater server on July 9th.
With the recent addition of server vs server PvP, the merge is seen as a necessary move to offer a better gameplay experience. The merging of the two servers will bolster Tidewater with more players to fight with in the server vs server battles called Imperial Wars against the Moonsea server.
