Gloria Victis Review In Progress

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If you’ve kept your pulse on the MMORPG community this month, you may have seen a huge uptick in interest for the medieval MMORPG Gloria Victis following their official launch out of Early Access and a Steam sale that made it much easier for new players to join the fight. However, this huge increase in popularity has also impacted the servers and my ability to actually log in and play the game with friends. Read on to see my initial thoughts of the game before our full review.

One game that I love coming back to time and time again with friends is Planetside 2. You can probably imagine just how excited I was to see that Gloria Victis calls itself “a medieval MMORPG where Mount & Blade meets Planetside 2!” Now, I’ve never played Mount & Blade myself, but I have sunk a lot of playtime into Chivalry 2 and almost 100 hours alone into Planetside 2 . If you can manage to get into the Gloria Victis servers, you get to choose one of three factions for your character: the Midlanders, the Ismirs, or the Sangmar. Each faction has their own unique lore and heraldry with two branching background paths to help you decide what kind of theme you’d like to roll with. For this playthrough, my friends and I decided to go with the Midlanders which are loosely based on medieval continental Europe.

As with most games, the first screen you encounter is character creation. While there isn’t anything that stands out about character creation, I am pretty content with the options that are provided. There is a fairly wide range of hairstyles, skin tones, and complexions to create a decent-looking character. You can’t change or sculpt anything about your body like proportions or height, but it didn’t upset me too much.

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