General

So, how's rebbot?

So for those of you who were able to play for about 10 minutes(I don't actually know, haven't even downloaded the patch yet) How is it?

I only now have all kinds of nostalgia welling up inside me. If it's anything like old Maple, I may even play there for good even though I've spent some good cash on this current character.

Some things I really miss...

Being forced to travel by boat seems annoying and stupid when you think about it now, but when the player base was much more widespread, there was joy to be had. I remember every boat I took to go to a new continent or city and there were just 100's of people crowding the area. All the more exciting when there's a strong monster possibly appearing and betting each other to check or tricking people saying that no Rog's are coming or even dying at the same exact time you enter the portal so you die inside the boat, haha. Anyone who already had a hyper teleport rock at the early stages of the game were sadly missing out in my opinion.

The teamwork when it comes to fighting bosses or LHC mobs(I like to call the LHC/CWKPQ era the 3rd generation). Not being able to kill a zak arm in literally less than a second where the animation of the arm being destroyed takes longer than it existing gives a sense of true bossing stature. When I came back to find that Czak can be completed in minutes with no funding I was kind of flabbergasted. Normal Zak back then(at least when I started doing it), took at least 20-30 minutes(I know when zak first released it took hours just to rid one hand followed by a smega announcing said hand being rid of). In the end, longer boss fights, worthwhile equipment, sense of accomplishment, sense of teamwork, ???, Profit!

Quests.

There was only a few years where optional quests were ever useful. That was way back then. Now, the only quests people really do is boss prequest to fight bosses. Quests these days are pointless, a waste of time, and it could be deleted in the next patch and no one would probably ever notice. In fact, you can just delete every NPC in the game and people probably wouldn't notice until a couple days and when they do notice no one would even f---in care.

If quests become useful again.. it can be another route of EXP gain. I remember training at ant tunnel fighting monsters at my level range while at the same time doing the "hunt 99 of these" to the "hunt 999 of these" sign quests in tandem. It gave me a goal to complete it really and let me finish with a little more exp then I would've gotten. This goes the same for getting useful equips from doing quests. Not only does it help you train but it also gives you reason to explore the world. I personally enjoyed quests that made me travel the world because while I was doing it I would run into other people doing it or have a fun chat on the boat rides. Win win. Everyone remembers the sauna robe, snow shoes, work glove, bamboo hat, pac look. Whenever I ran into someone wearing the same stuff, you already knew, haha.

Exploration, Multiple training spots of the same level ranges, and monster drops

Probably one of the best parts of old maple is exploring the area. The Ant Tunnel is actually one of the biggest dungeons in the game for how old it is. It had branching paths, multiple hidden areas like zombie mushmom, stronger monsters the farther you delve down into the abyss, and quite ominous areas when you make it to the end. Who would have thought that all the way inside that cave there would be a perfectly designed and functional door just waiting for you to enter into it. And that's not all, it had multiple bosses to fight, too! Unfortunately training in there isn't all that much logical. There are better spots, but hey, increasing spawn or exp isn't too hard. Not only that, but I do miss fighting monsters for specific items. In old maple, once you get past level 40 I think...? You're almost forced to find all the higher level weapons, which is 50+ to like 80, by monster drops. As a Spearmen, I wanted to get rid of my level 40 Zeco so bad looking for a Serpents Tongue from Drakes or whatever dropped them back then. Again, at the end of the day it all led to a sense of accomplishment when you find that weapon that barely even increase your range by like 100 more damage. Just having it was what I really worried about and looking cool in henesys.

So far, I'm quite interested to see how old school kind of maple will look with new school mechanics. As in, all this movement speed with old maple pasted over it. Hope it lives up to my expectations, hah.