Throne and Liberty launched on Steam. MyMMO editor Benedikt Schlotmann observes his wife, who is excitedly playing the new MMORPG. But it’s not just the technology that regularly annoys her.
You can currently try the new MMORPG Throne and Liberty for free in the beta. My wife didn’t need to be told twice and installed the client on her computer via Steam.
Her first impression after several hours of gameplay: The game world is fantastic, but there are some annoying quirks.
Here you can watch the trailer for Throne and Liberty:
Extremely small menus on the TV or monitor
What is her biggest criticism? My wife particularly complains about the messed-up technology, and there are three points that stood out to her (and me).
First, videos and short films look extremely washed out and blurry. I have since identified DLSS or FSR as the biggest issue here. When you turn off the technology, the videos look much prettier. However, there are still some strange bugs.
Second, the menus and texts on a large monitor or TV are far too small. Sometimes, menus overlap, and the fonts are hardly readable unless you’re sitting right in front of the monitor. In one quest, where a text appears over a cart, she explains to me: “I can’t read the texts even with my glasses. They are simply too small.”
While you can upscale and adjust the menus in the settings, it really doesn’t make much of a difference.
Third, there are still strange errors in the game, such as odd word fragments in German. For example, in German texts, it displays the address as “{Gender}|gender(Adventurer, Adventurerin)”, which looks like an error. But it’s still an open beta. Hopefully, all these bugs will be gone by the release on September 17, 2024.
I then tested the game myself on my large monitor (UWQHD, 34 inches) and can relate to the problem with the small menus. Especially when there is a lot of text to read, such as on the right side with many quests, the interface quickly becomes fiddly and small.
“Why can I only fly for such a short time?”
What else is bothering her? My wife has further criticism, especially regarding the “flight mode”: Why can you run indefinitely with the wolf and swim for hours in the water with the otter [Lutrang], but with the eagle, you can only stay in the air for what feels like a few minutes?
She hopes that this will change in the future. I don’t believe so, as the developers want players to experience and explore their world “properly” and not just fly over it. And the best way to do that is on foot. A discussion that is regularly held in WoW: where should flying be allowed and where not?
What is her conclusion? Otherwise, according to my wife, the game world is fantastic and moving as a wolf feels very enjoyable. The controller controls also work quite well, with a few minor restrictions. In the end, she said to me:
This could definitely be a game for me if they would just change the font size.
Until September 17, 2024, there is still some time for the developers to address some of these issues. Everything you need to know about NCSoft’s new MMORPG can be found in the following article: Everything you need to know about the new MMORPG Throne and Liberty – In 3 minutes
