Since June 2024, the closed beta phase of The Quinfall has been running. Now you can briefly try the ambitious MMORPG on Steam without a beta access.
How can I play the Closed Beta of The Quinfall without an invitation? On various channels, the developers of the ambitious MMORPG announced yesterday, July 14, 2024, that now anyone interested without beta access is allowed to enter the servers.
Simply visit the product page on Steam and select the option “Request Access” under “Join The Quinfall Playtest”. After that, you can download the game client – the “The Quinfall Playtest” folder requires about 53 GB of storage space.
Note that the closed beta runs only until July 16, 2024. So you don’t have much time to get an initial impression of The Quinfall. Additionally, the developers explain that the server capacities of the beta are limited.
In addition to the invited beta testers, another 1,000 interested players should be able to log in at any time. If the demand is significantly higher, the team intends to provide additional capacity.
In this trailer, you can learn more about the caravan system of The Quinfall:
What Beta Testers Say About The Quinfall
What is the feedback from the existing testers? Due to the high ambitions, some genre fans expressed their fears in the past that The Quinfall could be a scam. It is a product that looks great at first glance and is supposed to bring money into the developers’ pockets due to its exciting promises. However, these promises are never fulfilled in reality.
The good news: Thanks to the current beta phase, it is clear that The Quinfall actually contains a playable MMORPG. However, there is also bad news: Various beta testers have expressed disappointment with their experiences.
The streamer Kanon, whom you might already know through his numerous videos on Throne and Liberty, explains on Youtube why The Quinfall is “the worst MMO he has ever played”:
- For The Quinfall, there are two control variants: the action mode to control the character and fight, and the cursor mode, in which actions are selected with the mouse pointer but the fighter cannot be moved. This feels unintuitive.
- Walking or riding through the world is reported to feel bad overall. The horse controls like a tank. Many animations still seem unfinished.
- In battles, hit feedback is lacking, and it’s also unusually tricky to hit fast-moving targets like rabbits or other players with the sword. Expect no massive, feel-good action combat experience like in Black Desert.
- The first quest of the game already requires adventurers to defeat 50 enemies located in a specific area.
- The very first boss in the tutorial was bugged. Even later monsters sometimes do not respond to attacks or nearby characters. There are also additional bugs and an uneven performance (which can make the difference between victory and defeat in PvP battles in the open world).
- The entire user interface feels simplistic and somewhat unfinished.
- The story sequence before character creation shows its AI roots. Graphically, the MMORPG lags behind many older genre representatives.
Are there also positive feedbacks from the community? On reddit, Noxronin describes The Quinfall as “Eurojank”, meaning a complex and deep game from Europe that appears poorly optimized due to budget limitations and focuses little on presentation.
The reddit user praises the vast world that can be explored without loading screens, as well as the various systems such as professions, trade, shipping, fishing, and more, which remind him of the complexity of Black Desert. The building system is also said to be quite good. He also praises the existence of channels for PvP and PvE, so no one is forced into PvP.
Lastly, Noxronin explains that there is no class system in The Quinfall, but rather the selected weapon determines the play style. Those who wish can master all weapons in the game. You can find more information about the MMORPG here: The Quinfall presents its versatile world in a video – shows Viking villages and desert camps
