Life in Megaten: Closed Beta

I got really bored and decided to write about my experiences in Megaten. Not like I have anything else to do right?

My journey into Megaten begain when I was browsing a random game review website to see if any new noticeable games were coming up, and by a stroke of coincidence I found that the website was also giving out Closed Beta keys for Megaten. Since I had just recently quit an MMOFPS game at the time I decided to try it out since having no MMO to play I have too much free time on my hands.

I promptly made made my character and started browsing around the forums for any idea on what to do. Megaten was a very unforgiving game where if you messed up your expertises it was best advised to restart your character. I was fortunate for being in Closed Beta for I could experiment with whatever I wanted with.

I named my character with my trademark name RikkuHime because of the notoriety I've gained from the Ijji game forums. Truth be told, people really didn't like me over there for what I did. Then there are the few who found humour in my antics. Anyways, moving on.

As soon as I started playing Megaten I was enthralled with the different style it had compared to the numerous other Korean-MMOs I've played. The combat and art style was different and was enough for me to get hooked.

I had rolled in the beginning as a Mage Gunner. I did not even know Magic Bullet existed yet, all I knew was that someone said Guns had high Spell stat so I went and leveled up any skill related to Guns and Magic. It was very painful to go through with this and I learned of Demolition Dash later on, much later on.

The Acts in this game were painful as hell. I did everything solo because I got randomly invited to a clan where no one was on and never talked. I was left alone for most of my time online and anyone that happened to log on wouldn't give me the time of day. In all honesty I managed quite fine until I got to the Act 4 and had to fight the Decarabria or however you spell it. I died roughly 4~6 times in a row and had to walk through the entire floor just to die again. On another note Death Penalty was bugged back then so you didn't lose any exp for dying. I made it to Act 5 before I left the clan I was in and started roaming around solo.

I couldn't get my DB license until level 25 so I was running around doing random dungeons (and dying) until I got to level 24. Cell Bronze took me 20 minutes to solo and only gave me 8%, I truly hated the grind back then.

I believe it was around here that I learned about Demolition Dash from the forums. I went through horrible things to get it unlocked, and very painful things too I might add. I was extremely happy when I got it though because the damage was RIDICULOUS compared to Shot Spells. Because of its high skill modifier and enchanting equipments was not even heard of everyone went DD Mage.

As chance would had it I met FoX the leader of SEED during one of the Sugi Silver trips I got invited on. During the trip I realized that people actually TALKED in this game and was envious because I spent my first few weeks of Closed Beta in complete isolation because of the Clan. I asked if I could join SEED and FoX let me.

This was the clan I stayed in for the rest of Closed Beta.

The rest that happened after that was pretty uneventful. I enjoyed me days in Closed Beta and did all my Acts up to Act 13. Closed Beta was ending shortly and I knew grinding further was pointless. I said my farewells and said we'd see each other again in Open Beta and logged off at level 32.

I think I went through withdrawal without playing Megaten for a while as I waited for Open Beta to approach.

On a final note, I saw someone in one of my Sugi trips that had a weird buff (Enhancement, no one knew what this was at the time) and was hitting for ridiculous damage with DD. How much? 600 Electric DD on Black Slimes. This was unheard of back then when my highest damage was probably only 200~300, or something like that. It was a long time ago.

Anyways, this sums up Closed Beta in Megaten. If I get less lazy I might type up about Open Beta.