Wayfinder - New MMO First Impressions

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Wayfinder Is brand new upcoming MMORPG in which players explore a stylized instanced fantasy world and take on the role of a character known as a Wayfinder, Each Wayfinder has their own unique abilities and they can each be equipped with any weapon of your choosing.
In this game you’ll spawn into the hub area known as Skylight, this is where most players will hangout, craft gear, take on new quests and step through the giant gloom gate to embark on dungeons.

If I was to describe Wayfinder to someone I’d say it’s an instanced PVE MMO lite that’s designed similar to Warframe, Dungeons are designed for party sizes of 3, there’s open world zones to explore with more traditional feeling MMO quests, a main storyline and world events.
Wayfinder uses an action combat system and upon release will have many things for players to collect such as different appearances for Wayfinders, mounts, Echoes to improve your stats and furniture for player housing.

The following recording was done during the games closed beta test and everything you see in this video is subject to change, so take what you see with a pinch of salt.

What do you think about the new MMO Wayfinder in 2023? Do you think this is a good new MMO lite with solid action combat or would you like to see some improvements upon full release date? let me know in the comments below!
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Wayfinder 2023 MMORPG Steam Description

The World of Evenor is shattered. You must harness the power of a Wayfinder to Control the Chaos that has overrun your world. Join forces with friends to strengthen your powers and control your adventures online with a vast selection of customization modifiers when exploring the immersive world, collecting valuable materials and crafting!

Control the Chaos
Customize every play experience by entering a doorway of adventures with the help of a mysterious device known as a Gloom Dagger. Each adventure has unique modifiers and challenges YOU conjure and control, customizing what beasts you hunt, bosses you encounter, materials you collect and even other Wayfinders.

Become a Wayfinder
Control and harness the power of a mighty Wayfinder! Wield a variety of unique abilities ranging from ebbing arcane magic and lethal melee to mystical tech – you’ll find one to cater to your preferred playstyle. Traverse the immersive world with other Wayfinders and shape your adventures the way you want. Control what you explore and what enemies you fight to best customize how you want to play your Wayfinder.

Explore and Collect
On every hunt and expedition into the Gloom you’ll discover new locations, beasts and materials. Use them to craft new weapons and gear to awaken powerful new Wayfinders. Collect every weapon and Apartment item, read every book, and discover all the locations to complete your Atlas and increase your Mastery.

Stronger Together
Wayfinders are stronger together. Whether it’s making new friends from world events, forming the perfect team for dangerous expeditions, or adding your Apartment and its buffs to fortify a neighborhood, all of your social interactions, character and Apartment progression, and explorations are tied together by the most important thread… each other.

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Wayfinder - New MMO First Impressions

[sir_snarf]

Thank you for the video! All feedback is highly valuable and appreciated. I appreciate you stressing that this is still the Beta build, and the team is committed to working alongside the players to make the best game we can make. There will absolutely be improvements to the combat systems, we are already working on movement improvements and flushing out feedback to make the game feel as immersive as possible. Hope you play again down the line to see how Wayfinder continues to evolve!

[D_Stranger]

One thing I'd like to add is each character should have branching skill trees so that players can really customize their playstyle than having to rely on the the same skills over and over and just the weapon having different movesets and abilities. If they can also add custom character avatars it would make it so much more unique imo.

[jimmyohdez]

MMO’s live rent free in my head, but I don’t think I’ll ever have much time for one again unfortunately.

[laserloui]

Love the art style. Inside the tavern its cozy and overall it just looks quite polished.

[Adirtan]

art style and overall visual feels like something between WoW and Wildstar, lovely actually :)

[legendarybloodlines]

Your videos are always the best mmorpg content. The quality of production and the smoothness of your voice plus your knowledge of games makes watching your videos a must for any gaming fans...thanks for keeping the quality content rolling all these years. I don't think people realize the amount of work it takes to produce videos like this. I am a hobby content creator and I struggle with the video editing atm. I do learn a lot from your videos not just about gaming, but how to make better content.

[Oxy]

This game looks great but I also agree that i wish it wasnt character based. Character based games usually dont have much of an emphasis on gear, so they have to rely on other forms of progression which usually dont visually progress your character, leaving any visual changes to be dealt with usually by MTX. The other issue you run into is the immersion break that happens when you run into someone playing the literal exact character as you, which only gets worse as the META gets solved and 90% of the playerbase starts playing as the current flavor of the month. I think Warframe can skirt this issue as the frames are just that, suits or pieces of tech, that are assembled/built, making it plausible that multiple people could acquire them.

Still very excited to check it out, i just hope it has the depth and staying power to hang around. Love the graphcial/art style the most here. The mobile aspect scares me as well, the moment you mentioned that it suddenly clicked how mobile gamey the UI felt, and definitely explains the "only 4 abilities" combat, wouldnt want to confuse the poor mobile gamers by giving them too many things to think about.

Thanks for the early preview!

[atomparish]

Your overall feedback was spot on. Would be insane if it was a full mmorpg.

[uspatriot]

Agreed. I hate the idea of being locked into the characters. Love the art style so ita a shame you can't create your own character.

[rafaelantunes]

This game looks neat, will try it out when I get the chance. Got massive respect for you Peon, keep up the goodwork its always nice to see these videos of yours the edit is rly on point! Btw the l2 soundtrack at the begining of the video was rly a nice touch, got some nostalgia from it eheh

[TheOnceandFutureJake]

I think them labeling it as "MMO-lite" in the market is going to hurt them in the long run. They need to market this as a third-person dungeon crawling action RPG. People who play MMOs want the personal customization and expect more out of the gameplay and questing, like in this video.

[Silverhawk]

The character-based element is definitely gonna turn a lot of people away. I feel like it could be easily remedied though, with just a touch more customization when choosing your Wayfinder. Nothing crazy in-depth, just basic surface level things that help players identify with their Wayfinder more - Gender, eye colour, hair colour, and body type would be the bare minimum I'd want to see.

[halvordas]

Ahh man the L2 soundtrack at the beggining just brought back a lot of memories...

[JasparJam]

Thank you for highlighting the lack of connection and personalisation to premade characters.
It's been a main thing putting me off a lot of recent MMOs and I hate how it's become such a trend. Keen to see us go back to proper customisation.

[blakekford]

Maaan.... the Lineage 2 music in the background at the beginning of the video brings me back to middle and high school. I wish we could go back :(

[CallenIGuess]

I very much agree that combat and movement need to feel amazing for this to succeed long term.

It's easy to forgive a lot of little things when it just feels so awesome to be doing anything.

[cma-joqx]

Aaa Dion memories, nostalgy, so many wasted hours yet I treasure them like crazy.,

[vwlssnvwls]

The graphics, art style and some of the combat feels a lot like Wildstar.

[strummeris]

i can definitely hear Lineage 2 Dion theme in the backround :o <3

[GroundDragonIII]

L2 Dion theme. First time i heard it was 15 years ago. Masterpiece.