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Wakfu; An interesting game; the only winning move is to hips
Topic Started: Oct 17 2014, 08:46 PM (1,380 Views)
cliffracer
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Wakfu is a Tactical MMORPG from the French company Ankama. It's deep as hell, with a fantastic art style and alot of fantastic mechanics in it.
Wakfu is big on the player involvement in the in-game government and environment in each of the areas. You can extinct an entire species of animals in one area, or propogate them to bring them back. You can plant seeds and saplings to make huge gardens and orchards, which are alot of the resources you need for crafting.
Anyone with a subscription can take part in the in-game government, which gives you control over alot of the hourly and daily quests each area has, or perhaps a position as the head guard or primary environmentalist.

The game has a tutorial area you can go through before you choose a class that teaches you all the mechanics of the game. There's an introductory questline afterwards that takes you to about level 10-12, and from there you need to level up to 18 in order to join one of the four nations.

The game has fifteen classes in it, which I'll give a rundown on below the spoiler. All of the classes are actually seperate races as well, which is a really neat lore thing that you will learn while playing. You can look at the classes and their skills here if you don't want to read my summaries.
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Wakfu is free to play, and is on Steam if you like ease of download. Once we have enough people playing, we could perhaps look in to a VGCW guild, but we would have to all pick a single nation if that were to happen.
Edited by cliffracer, Oct 17 2014, 08:47 PM.
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Blauze
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Redeemed.
I played Dofus, Wakfu's prequel that recently celebrated its tenth birthday, for years. If you compare MMOs by their communities, Dofus is the French equivalent of Runescape, with really young and immature players but once you found yourself a good guild, you can start to enjoy the game and realize it's pretty great.

I consider Wakfu to be vastly superior, and I was a beta-tester on this game (during the closed beta, too). But sadly none of my friends and guildmates were interested by it as much as I was, so I never really got into it after its release... and pretty much wasted a year-long subscription.

I'l love to get back on this game and join this VGCW guild if it becomes a thing. ;)

Also, go watch the Wakfu anime. It's great.
Edited by Blauze, Oct 17 2014, 09:16 PM.
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Blauze
Oct 17 2014, 09:06 PM
Also, go watch the Wakfu anime. It's great.
Oh shit yeah, that's something I should have mentioned.

Ankama is a fucking crazy company and have effectively found a way to get media in a shitton of formats. They have the Wakfu and Dofus MMOs, they have their Krosmaster BOARD GAME, they have comics, and they have the fucking anime.

The anime is on Netflix if anyone has an account there, but it's best watched in the original french with subs. The dub, while official, isn't great.
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So when are we making a VGCW Guild in here? I've got a bit of a backlog but if we can buddy up in game I'd totally pick it back up. Playing a Sacrier right now, pretty fun for a first class.
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TCook
Oct 18 2014, 10:28 PM
So when are we making a VGCW Guild in here? I've got a bit of a backlog but if we can buddy up in game I'd totally pick it back up. Playing a Sacrier right now, pretty fun for a first class.
I don't really have the dosh to start my own guild, and I wanna wait for enough intrest in the game from other forumgoers.

Also; should we base our guild out of Sufokia?
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From what it looks like, its "subscription" service is a bit more of a hassle to set up than I'm used to, in that you have to constantly buy Ankama's funbux in order to actually pay for a subscription.

I suppose that's one way of getting people to keep pouring money in.

Don't get me wrong; I'm interested in the game, but I was actually considering the subscription option offered.
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Yeah, Ankama's ogrins system was always a bit weird. You don't need a subscription to play at the very least!
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I'll give it a go and see how I take to it.
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Karthulu
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Yeah, I'm a fan.
My only concern is, will I be limited greatly if I don't pay a monthly fee? For instance, levels, items, gear, etc.?
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Karthulu
Oct 19 2014, 09:46 AM
My only concern is, will I be limited greatly if I don't pay a monthly fee? For instance, levels, items, gear, etc.?
Nope. The only privelege I've seen so far that subscribers have is the ability to take part in nation government.
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There was a bit of an icky figuring out period but I think I've broken into it now.

Turn-based grid strategy combat is very interesting when you've never played a game that's had it before. Especially so when it's one of these F2P online MMORPGs.

I picked a Feca to start with because I interpreted the description as "Support Tank" and I love playing those. May not have been the smartest idea when they're technical as hell.
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Yeah, I'm a fan.
I downloaded it, but it says Java isn't updated to 1.6, only, it's at 8. I download 1.6 and it says "A newer version is already installed." I don't want to delete Java 8 to just download 1.6.
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Karthulu
Oct 19 2014, 01:49 PM
I downloaded it, but it says Java isn't updated to 1.6, only, it's at 8. I download 1.6 and it says "A newer version is already installed." I don't want to delete Java 8 to just download 1.6.
There's an option to use Ankama's version of Java in the launcher, so use that instead.
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Yeah, I'm a fan.
EDIT: Lolol, I was in tutorial.
Also Cliffracer, skype pls.
Edited by Karthulu, Oct 19 2014, 02:22 PM.
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For anyone who has watched the show, the OVAs have landed and are being translated by #based frenchie anon. The first two are already translated, and the third will be done on Wednesday.
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