MMORPG list Philippines: December 2020

Thursday, December 31, 2020

MMORPG ANIME LOG HORIZON: The Legendary "Debauchery Tea Party"

The Debauchery Tea Party (放蕩者の茶会 Houtou Mono no Chakai, lit. Tea Party of Libertine) was a non-guild group of players in Elder Tale. It was present for two years before they disbanded, but it remains notorious even after the Catastrophe.

Aside from the nine members of the Tea Party that were trapped in the Elder Tale world due to the Catastrophe, the rest of the twenty-seven members come from the Mamare Anthology, a fan book, and were adopted into canon by Mamare.^[1]

Debauchery Tea Party was famous for completing several large-scale battles called raids before the disbandment of the group.

Several personal reasons lead to the indefinite hiatus of the group, including Kanami's retirement and relocation to Europe, Naotsugu's busy work schedule^[2], and Indicus' fits of rage stemming from the former two reasons^[3].

Only eight of the original members were logged in at the time of the Catastrophe: Shiroe, Naotsugu, Nyanta, Soujiro Seta, Nazuna, KR, Indicus, and Kazuhiko. Since this was counted according to Shiroe's friend list, Kanami was not counted since she was both on the European server and using a new account. (In the anime, KR wasn't online when he checked his friend list, meaning that he already was in China by that point.)

Three years before the main storyline, and one year before the group disbanded, Shiroe was its youngest and newest member. Soujiro hadn't yet joined, which means that six of the Tea Party's female members, plus ★Kurama☆, hadn't yet joined, either.^[4]

When Elder Tale was just a game, they were known for always charging ahead of others, attempting to be first in the history of the server to complete Raids like "Hades Breath", "Rhadamanthys' Throne", "Nine Great Prisons of the Heilos" and others, even though they had a relatively small group.

The Debauchery Tea Party consisted of 26 members, all at level 90 before the group disbanded. The group successfully completed several high-difficulty raids with such a small amount of members that it gained much attention in the server, and its members are known by Adventurers almost throughout the server.

After the group disbanded, some of those who continued playing, like Shiroe, essentially became mercenary players for guilds. It was during this time that Isaac met Shiroe and tried recruiting him into his guild, although Isaac said that he valued Shiroe's playing skills, not for being part of such a famous group.

Members

Name	Former Rank	Class	Status
Kanami	Leader	Swashbuckler	Active
Shiroe	Strategist	Enchanter	Active
Naotsugu	Tank	Guardian	Active
Nyanta	Chief	Swashbuckler	Active
Soujiro Seta	Member	Samurai	Active
Nazuna	Member	Kannagi	Active
Indicus	Adviser	Sorcerer	Active
KR	Member	Summoner	Active
Kazuhiko	Commander	Assassin	Active
Suikazura	Member	Guardian	Inactive
Gorouhachirou	Member	Samurai	Inactive
Hayato	Member	Monk	Inactive
Nurukan	Member	Monk	Inactive
Aihie	Member	Assassin	Inactive
Touri	Member	Assassin	Inactive
Suzuna	Member	Bard	Inactive
Whistler	Member	Bard	Inactive
Stallbourne	Member	Cleric	Inactive
Saki	Member	Cleric	Inactive
Calm.H.Dale	Member	Druid	Inactive
Gingami	Member	Druid	Inactive
Tsukine	Member	Kannagi	Inactive
★Kurama☆	Member	Kannagi	Inactive
Yuko	Member	Sorcerer	Inactive
Yomi	Member	Summoner	Inactive
Taigamaru	Member	Summoner	Inactive
RamMutton	Member	Enchanter	Inactive

Trivia

The group was originally just called the "Tea Party". KR added "Debauchery" in jest of Kanami's wild tendencies.^[4]

Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Crossfire 2.0 Philippines

Overview⇣

CrossFire is a team-based FPS title by GAMECLUBPH. With the new Crossfire 2.0 update, this game features updated models and textures, new characters, new weapons and more.

Features:

New characters: Classic soldiers have been remade with a level of detail never seen before.

New weapons: Weaponry such as the Knight SR25 Ares CQB, M4A1-S Ares Dual Mag, M37 Stakeout Ares Slug and the MP5-S Ares JHP will feature enhanced gameplay and increase the chances for survival.

Player Profiles: Show off your achievements and accomplishments to all of your friends with the renewal of the Profile pages.

Starbreeze Studios, makers of the Riddick FPS and owners of Payday devs Overkill, have announced a new co-op FPS based on Smilegate’s F2P mega-hit CrossFire(pictured above). How big a hit? Up to six million players online at once big. I’m familiar with South Korean developers making free-to-play versions of western FPS–and still fascinated by Counter-Strike Nexon Zombies–but can’t think of many times it’s gone the other way. Fingers crossed their CrossFire embraces the original’s weirdness.

I’ve no idea what sort of game Starbreeze will be making. CrossFire started as a riff on Counter-Strike (I’m being generous here), but its various modes now include ninjas with swords fighting mutants, co-op wave survival modes with zombies, supersoldiers, and all sorts of zany things. I’ve no idea what’s going on with its character lineup. But that’s the CrossFire I’m more interested in. We have so many straightforward modern combat FPSs where terrorists and militarymen run around dusty cities. What I most enjoyed in CS Nexon Zombies was poking around at oddities, like discovering it has a mode making CS a (pretty fun!) survival game with hours-long rounds and base-building. A few mutants and ninjas in CrossFire would be okay with me.

Today’s announcement doesn’t say much, mostly that “Starbreeze will develop an all new premium first-person-shooter (FPS) co-op game for PC based on Smilegate’s CrossFire franchise, aimed to attract western gamers in particular.”

Starbreeze will focus on the boring militaryman side, won’t they? Boo.

This is part of a larger deal where Smilegate are investing $40 million into Starbreeze. It’ll also see Starbreeze releasing Overkill’s Payday 2 and The Walking Dead to Asian markets through Smilegate’s platform.