Maplestory Classic

Why did it have to be announced so early? I want it to come soon...

Just play on any of the classic servers right now.

What other games do you play?

have to go vote on the top list every day to get points so you can slowly hp wash

i'd rather wait

based blackgoku

shant fall for nostalgiatrashbait

They're all ran by trannies with poor sense of community and twisted ideas of """balance""".

You can just play on a server without that.

Name one (1).

all the servers with a decent population have that

decent population

All servers with a decent population also don't even talk in the game. They're secluded in the server Discord or their exclusive guild Discord.

so people are going to hide in spots and cheat for like 30% xp bar and then log out when they see someone. thats all i remember about classic maple story.

Maple legends.

yes it has hp washing we know

Maplestory was never good. Take off those rose-tinted glasses, fag.

i only have nostalgia for sin/dit but I kind of want to try bishop or fire/ice mage... are fire/ice mages good?

"I can't wait to grind hours to get less than half a level."

This user is underage.

You can play MapleOdyssey beta right now if you want old MS with 1x rates. never tried Phoenix so idk. I've played private servers for 10+ years so i'm kinda done with MS, maybe if they make some QoL changes or add original content that fits the version.

some QoL changes

apparently they're making it so you're far less dependent on pots and removing the necessity for hp washing entirely

Which one has the most players?

The answer is always Royals.
But you don't want to play Royals.

There's only one thing I would change about classic MapleStory and that's having potion cooldowns. Having thousands of potions on you at once and just spamming potions to never die as long as you can survive 1 hit was always retarded design, and it's no wonder all anyone cared about was damage.

Do we know how far back they're going? They said pre-Big Bang but I wonder if that means the game will always be exactly what it was one patch before Big Bang. Which is fine I guess, all the classic MapleStory elements were retained till that point. Classes were still relatively grounded, towns and maps were still their original format and not fucked. I might have preferred no 4th job though. Which era would you guys prefer?

they ended up designing the game around having unlimited potions as part of your rotation
i like the way some MMOs do it by giving you self sustain with long cooldowns in your rotation and limited potions

Regular grinding doesn't ever necessitate potion spam outside of mage ults (which deserve every nerf they get anyway). Bosses would have to be redesigned because Zakum/Horntail are literally "just tank it bro" bosses, which is the whole reason HP washing became popular in the first place. If potions have cooldowns, all it takes is for them to throw consecutive, unavoidable 1/1 attacks (which happens frequently) to wipe an entire squad.

People have analyzed the gameplay footage from the video, and have concluded it's a mishmash of various versions. The map shown is really old (v16), yet there's jump down (v65).

go to their website

click download client

link sends me to an astolfo video

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I just started playing Royals yesterday. I have no idea what the fuck I'm doing but I got like 8 Maple weapons from grinding boars and idk how to sell them but I think they're worth a decent amount.

tfw don't have yellow fever anymore so I don't won't have 15 online azn gfs to give crush rings to

it won't be the same

they ended up designing the game around having unlimited potions as part of your rotation

what do you mean by "part of your rotation"?

I haven't had a gf in almost 8 years. I don't see that changing even if this server literally took us back to the mid 2000s.

I wouldn't want to drastically change the game but removing 1/1s and adjusting damage numbers doesn't seem like a lot of work, especially in a game that was always not balanced very well. bumping into enemies to avoid high damaging magic attacks was always a strategy, albeit a very gamey one.

I wasn't even aware there was a reveal trailer, now I have concerns about it being "classic" maplestory.

too bad royals is a botted hellhole. but almost all pservers are anyway. Official too.

They got the OG Lead Game Designer from 2001 Wizet to helm development of it. That counts for something, I feel.

royals has the highest population

except 80% of them are chinks

and everyone is multiboxing 3-5 clients at all times

and instead of fixing hp washing they just nuked leeching from orbit so now there's no way to actually get enough HP for endgame content aside from doing a daily +10 hp quest

and you will get permanently banned for saying nigger or chink

if you just started playing yesterday, nothing you drop will be worth anything. Especially because Royals has a custom drop system where items first roll a 1/10 chance to be "godly", and then godly items have their stats increased randomly from +0 to +5 on all applicable stats. So the chance of getting a truly perfect weapon is somewhere from one in hundreds, to one in thousands.

Do you think the release of Classic will affect Royals' population in any way? I feel like 90% of the population is just suffering from stockholm syndrome.

I think the population of every pserv will tank for about 3-4 months while people get their hands on the official classic server. But eventually people will trickle back to pservs like they always do when faced with the unbearable grind of 1x on top of nexon's jewishness.

The 1x grind is only unbearable if leveling up is your main goal.
Maplestory is unironically about the friends you make along the way (or at least it used to be until they went full shonen starting with Cygnus' addition and hasn't recovered since).
Unfortunately the internet isn't what it used to be 20 years ago. Discord has consumed any and all online interactions and sense of community. People will socialize in-game for about a week, tops, because of the novelty until they either laser focus on grinding or retreat back to their Discord/PServer Discord of choice.

At the very least, the OG Maplestory encouraged and fostered community interaction with party play, party quests, and bosses. The former two are basically nonexistent in modern Maple due to everyone constantly having to switch between 20 alts to power up their main.

I agree with you, nowadays people don't play games to socialize with strangers. They play them to sweatlord and be "da best". If they want to talk with others, they join a public discord filled with tranny groomers. Even if PQs happen, people will expect them to be rushed nonstop and Nexon will capitulate, adding enough channels where nobody has to wait outside with tracks, which means no downtime to just chat and socialize.

But also people don't like seeing the number go up slowly. Players in MMOs are conditioned to 'complete quest, get 10-15% exp towards next level'. Once you reach the 30s-40s on 1x MS, you're lucky to get a couple percent at most. There's gonna be a massive falloff of playercount at around week 2-3, when the average normie reaches that range. Then of the few people that stick around, once they hit the 60-80s, they're met with the even worse brick wall of no good levelling zones and monster damage spiking by tenfold. Good luck affording pots on a clean 1x server with no nest eggs of mesos to fall back on.