There’s also a number of sub-systems within the game’s main menu such as crafting, enchanting, research, companion and mount management, among others and these all require you to think about and interact with. Skill upgrades need to be done manually and with rare items found. I was doing equipment and skill management myself initially, but then I saw you could auto-equip the best items, and also auto-manage the skill usage. Then there is loot you need to sort out and equip. Also, the major story quests have items that reward your progress such as XP, health and mana potions. There are also daily and timed login rewards that you can click to receive. At the end of quest chains, you must manually click to complete the quest, and then accept the next one. I mentioned V4 plays itself automatically 95% of the time. It would take me weeks to a month of playing ESO to achieve that same character level. After just 4 days I was level 51 which is where you start to unlock talents for your character. So I left my mobile on charge and autoplaying the game. I left it autoplaying itself while I was at work and once I get home, I’m busy playing with my girls, preparing their dinner, bathing them and putting them to bed. If I played 20 hours in an MMORPG like The Elder Scrolls Online, being a gamer dad playing 2 hours a night (if that), it’d take me 10 days to achieve that amount of gameplay. Why is there even an option to automatically play the game for you … like what’s the point? I told a couple of my friends that have played a lot of MMORPGs and their response was exactly the same, “what’s the point of that?” Well, I think I’ve figured it out. My character then ran back to the NPC, spoke with them, got the next quest in the chain, and then ran across town to the new destination, all automatically! I watched the game kill the mob, use a healing potion, loot the items that dropped, run over to the next monster, killed that, and killed as many as it needed for the quest. But when my character found the right monsters to kill, it rushed forward into battle swinging my sword and using my character skills. Then I watched the game run me to the quest location – ok this is just like Astellia. Initially I watched the npc conversations, which some are voice acted, and I clicked through the conversations. You need to click to talk to a new quest NPC or grab a job off the town’s request board. However to my surprise in V4, autoplay means the game will play itself about 95% of the time. I’ve played another MMORPG called Astellia, and in that game I can click a quest and it will run me there automatically, but once there I jump off my mount and then need to fight the monsters and talk to npcs myself. Autoplay isn’t a new concept, but it’s also not once I’ve used previously myself. You know, press buttons to move your character, click on a skill in the taskbar or a corresponding keybind to use a skill. Playing games infers the player is interacting with the game. I also found that autoplay was present on this PC version, so I’ll dive into this topic now. It’s as if the game was developed for iOS first and then ported to PC which was a little disappointing. Where you use your left thumb for movement has the same wheel and holding the mouse in this area moves your character, and it has the same skill bar layout on the right. Being cross-platform it was easy to login to my character, however the first thing you notice is it says “Tap to start your journey”, and the UI was exactly the same as on my phone. I figured the PC version would have a more traditional MMO UI so I downloaded the Nexon launcher and logged in. I found one that gave me a zoomed out and above perspective which is how I play on PC, and now it really did feel like I was playing a proper MMO. I thought the game was going to have that view permanently, but then I found a camera icon in the bottom left of the screen that gives you multiple options. However, citizens need not worry! New Eridu has fully mastered the technology to control the Hollow disaster! It even has the ability to extract valuable Ether from the Hollows.Despite the size of my iPhone screen, the game felt a little bit cramped for space, and initially the camera is set up directly behind and level with the character. Ordinary people lost in the Hollows face not only the horror of being attacked by monsters, but have to risk the corruption and eventual mutation. The internal space-time environment becomes disorderly due to unknown influences, and dangerous mutant creatures known as the "Ethereal" are produced. Hollows are an apocalyptic-level disaster, an abnormal spherical dimension that appears out of thin air swallowing everything they touch. The story takes place in the near future, where a mysterious natural disaster known as the "Hollows" occurred. Zenless Zone Zero is a brand new action game.
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