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Monsters and Memories Anonymous 10/11/2025 (Sat) 11:15:24 Id: cce29e No. 1837265

Monsters and Memories is an upcoming MMORPG which is, as described the game's developers, a love letter to Everquest. A classic style MMORPG with camp grinding, zone lines, trains, corpse runs, slow combat, reliance on other players, obtuse and lengthy quest lines, secrets, long reputations grinds, massive cities, etc, etc. The game is currently set to release in "early access" (more on this below) during Q1 2026, with the devs trying to push for a January 2026 release. The devs are currently finalizing a few more core systems before they can launch into closed beta. There is an upcoming open 10 day test starting on November 1st. <Features >Monthly 15$ dollar subscription >fresh modules every 3 to 4 months including new zones and potentially new classes, races, professions, etc >trained in-game GMs that actually understand and write English >large zones that can currently hold up to 500 or so players before things get laggy >tons of dungeons both, coming in in all sizes, and with tons of secrets to discover >a MUD system where you can use commands to interact with the environment and NPCs, stuff like /inpsect barrel, /pry gem (while holding an object capable of prying on your cursor), /taste liquid, /pull rope, etc, etc >mount system where you can tame or buy mounts and use them as either beasts of burden or as rideable mounts; equip them with bags or armour depending on your needs >multiple types of server including box, no-box, enforced RP, and PvP; potentially more exotic servers depending on player demand >religion system with a pantheon of gods to choose from, able to change religions, gain boons and abilities from your god, convert others >starting cities for EVERY SINGLE RACE (currently Human and Half-Elf cities are in, Deep Elf city coming in the first post-launch module) <Design tenets >game is based on familiar, tropey, fantasy stuff >"timeless artstyle" over amazing graphics >"We don't accept money until we're ready to launch the game" The devs have/are staunchly refused to accept money from players until the game goes into EA. >no micro-transactions, no P2W, no pay for convenience, no pay for out of game services like name change/server transfers If you want to support to the devs outside of your monthly sub, there will be merchandise, and the ability to buy subs for specific players or to buy subs for the game devs to hand out in give aways and whatnot. >no instancing unless it's absolutely necessary They might include area caps for bosses to prevent zerging, but it's not in right now. >it's important for non-murderhobos players to be able to progress and achieve things in the game >strong possibilities for RP/trading due to systems like caravans >end game raiding mostly coming in the form of Expeditions Expeditions are events that require massive prep work from a guild. The current model they're working on is you charter a ship, gather supplies, ready consumables, and after a few weeks of work you embark on an Expedition which will be a raid zone detached from the game's main continent. Eventually guilds will be able to purchase their own ship/hire their own crew. >zones are not made to feel like a theme park Most zones will have a wide range of monster levels. You're not supposed to get to a new zone and go "oh this is the orc zone" and 80% of the stuff in the zone is just orcs. >dependency on other players No class can do everything, no one can solo everything. It's a grouping game, and you're supposed to interact with others frequently. There some decent solo potential, but you're expected to group up. There's plenty of stuff to do for smaller group sizes. >open world housing That's right, open fucking world housing. There's also stalls in cities that you can rent for a day in order to sell stuff to other players. <Links https://monstersandmemories.com/ <--- main website https://monstersandmemories.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page <--- very incomplete wiki https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKp7Os1smchzDc0R16evBdA // https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/channel/UCKp7Os1smchzDc0R16evBdA the youtube channel https://monstersandmemories.com/our-world <--- races, classes, lore https://monstersandmemories.com/media <--- the media

Anonymous 10/11/2025 (Sat) 12:50:24 Id: cce29e No. 1837440

A few final things to mention. >community and reputation will be essential, if you're a dickhead or if you're shit at the game, people will tend to shun you >you drop EVERYTHING on death, including your spell book, but you can have multiple spellbooks for corpse runs and whatnot; casters and re-bind you outside of dungeons for easier corpse runs and with the mount system you should be able to have access to back-up spellbook + gear in order to do corpse runs easier >their planned post-launch release cadence is to have 3-4 zones + some extra released every few months until the main continent is done, all the classes are finished, and all system are finalized >once that's done they'll release 1.0 on Steam; however there will be NO WIPES for EA characters >it's REALLY fucking dark at night, can be a turn off for some people >music is awesome, made by a band member of Turisas (look up their Rasputin cover, or End of an Empire) >they're still actively changing and finalizing systems, so expect nerfs and big changes >lots of little and big things not implemented >giants look awesome in-game, didn't take screenshots though >combat animations are surprisingly decent >a lot of the game's style isn't properly conveyed by my exceptionally poor artistic talent and inability to take good screenshots, instead take a look at https://monstersandmemories.com/classes and https://monstersandmemories.com/races and https://monstersandmemories.com/media

Anonymous 10/12/2025 (Sun) 12:06:21 Id: 7ed7f5 No. 1840247

>>1837265 >>fresh modules every 3 to 4 months including new zones and potentially new classes, races, professions, etc Dropped. That's a horribly unsustainable pace for "updates for the sake of updates". It's going to be unplayabley gimmicky and bloated in 2 years. Why can't people just make something nice and enjoy it for a while?

Anonymous 10/12/2025 (Sun) 13:19:08 Id: c7731e No. 1840356

This looks really neat, probably going to give it a try when I get some time off soon. Haven't ever played EverQuest though so not sure what exactly to expect. >>1840247 That worries me too, but also just the general concept of trying to make a classic style MMO work, I just don't think there's the actual interest by enough people (or normalfags) to keep it afloat. There's a reason p2w and microtransactions do so well, even if they are cancer. Most importantly, how hot are the goblin girls?

Anonymous 10/12/2025 (Sun) 14:25:23 Id: cce29e No. 1840446

>>1840247 Four months sounds reasonable to me for 2-3 zones and a dungeon. This game isn't bloated with cutscenes, voice acting, phasing, overly complex world events, battlepass garbage, and whatever other modern design crap we see in modern MMOs. Hell, I'm pretty sure three zones and a dungeon could be itemized in less than a week by less than five people. Not like this is razor thin spreadsheet balance like in FFXIV or WoW, so something being 2% "better than it should be" isn't a real concern for this type of game. >>1840356 The general gameplay for murderhobos is to get to level two or three solo, and then try to find a group for the lower level camps. If you can't find a group, ask people you see out and about killing stuff if they want to group and either take on the smaller camps while waiting to fill up, or you just roam and kill solo mobs. You quest, explore, gather, and craft when you can. The team is also very much aware that this is a nice game for a niche audience. They're also intensely aware of the fact that this could be a complete failure, though I think there's enough hype for over 10k concurrent players at launch. I'm guesstimating about 3-5k concurrent players during content drought based on the weekend tests. If they don't spread the player base too thin by releasing too many servers, the game should be able to keep that "alive" feel AND be quite sustainable until they reach 1.0 and hit Steam.

Anonymous 10/12/2025 (Sun) 14:27:25 Id: e77eda No. 1840451

>>1840446 Show me the halfling girls.

Anonymous 10/12/2025 (Sun) 14:51:10 Id: 26258e No. 1840500

>>1840446 Look, it's a good idea and everything but at 3000 concurrent players, that's like not even half a million a year in term of budget with just the subscription model. And with such a budget, then the team is what, about 7-10 person total? This seem entirely unrealistic workload wise to release content every four months when you consider the maintenance, bug squashing, and everything else that come with the MMORPG package.

Anonymous 10/12/2025 (Sun) 14:53:05 Id: 285f40 No. 1840511

>>1840451 For a split second I misread that as "Show me huffing the girls"

Anonymous 10/12/2025 (Sun) 14:55:11 Id: 6e667b No. 1840517

>>1840446 Damn, I had my hopes up based on this pic from their website. Maybe it was a halfling or dwarf girl. I do quite like the concept art and general design but the spoiled monstergirl loving part of me hopes the other female models go through a bit of a redesign.

Anonymous 10/12/2025 (Sun) 15:00:08 Id: 26258e No. 1840530

>>1840517 >That deep dwarf male soyface I lol'd

Anonymous 10/12/2025 (Sun) 15:03:20 Id: cce29e No. 1840538

>>1840500 You're having a grave misconception here anon. 3k concurrent usually means 10-12k daily active players and about 20k-25k total subs. >>1840451 God damnit, now I can't fucking unsee it.

Anonymous 10/12/2025 (Sun) 15:12:29 Id: 26258e No. 1840558

>>1840538 You... are quite right. I did mistake 3k concurrent for the total amount of subs. But 3k active daily players actually sound like what it would pull post initial hype and whatever traction it would get at first. You said it yourself, it's a niche game for a niche community. One which you expect people to dedicate hours of their life toward whilst paying monthly. On a game model based on a MMO pre WOW. My concerns are quite high as to whether they'll be able to actually retain players and make enough money doing so to keep it going. Still, wish them the best of luck.

Anonymous 10/12/2025 (Sun) 17:09:47 Id: 622468 No. 1840833

>>1837265 >a love letter to Everquest so a chatroom with extra steps?

Anonymous 10/12/2025 (Sun) 17:45:18 Id: 13cb31 No. 1840952

>>1840833 F-list with graphics

Anonymous 10/12/2025 (Sun) 18:58:43 Id: 510c6d No. 1841133

>>1840451 >Halfling >Huge tits Either pick one or go Dwarf. >>1840517 If you can't be Deep Dwarf with insane sneak skills, the game will be shit and never will come close to replicating the Evercrack formula. >Big titted Halfling Why make the youth race if you're just gonna make them Dwarves but without muscle.

Anonymous 10/12/2025 (Sun) 19:11:56 Id: 6befb4 No. 1841182

>>1840517 LET ME PLAY AS A MANDRAKE

Anonymous 10/12/2025 (Sun) 20:31:37 Id: e77eda No. 1841459

>>1841133 Why does dwarves get to have big tits but not halflings? Halfling girls are great.

Anonymous 10/13/2025 (Mon) 00:32:03 Id: b2010d No. 1841939

I'm tentatively optimistic in trying this, plus it'd be a lot of fun getting into a new MMO right out the gate. I'll also say I've never played EverQuest either so I'm not entirely sure what to expect, but one thing I do notice is the amount of classes seems a bit staggering for launch. Understandably some of them are still unfinished but balancing eighteen classes sounds like a tall order. >A mistake most MMOs do is that they make the "old world" obsolete once they start pumping out expansions. Players converge on the new cities and there's little to no reason to go back to the original launch areas. EQ did this, and so did WoW. Once The Burning Crusade came out, the vanilla world became a ghost town. One of Monsters and Memories' design tenets is that once they reach 1.0 and start expanding the game beyond the starting continent/underworld, the devs will ensure that players will be forced to return to the main hub cities like Night Harbour. The way they're doing this is super simple: they won't put in permanent settlements in the new areas they'll create outside of the continents. One of the examples the game's producer gave is that "if we send you do the moon, there won't be any convenient cities there to vendor your loot, stash your gold and items, replenish your consumables, craft, etc". So they're idea is that players will leave to these new areas, fill out their bags, and their mount's bags, and their caravan, and then go back to the old world to handle the piles of loot they've gotten. On the other hand I also really appreciate this approach to new content. Older zones becoming ghost towns once they weren't part of the "current thing" really irked me with WoW and some other MMOs. This kind of approach instead sounds like it'll really help keep players converged on the same area so even newbies will be interacting with seasoned veterans regularly.

Anonymous 10/13/2025 (Mon) 10:32:22 Id: 9eccd8 No. 1842997

>>1837265 God I wish I wasn't a poorfag... Also did really one from the team/fanbase shill this game here?

Anonymous 10/13/2025 (Mon) 10:54:17 Id: 3136ee No. 1843040

>$15/month subscription for a new low-budget MMO that looks like shit Failure on the horizon. Why the fuck would anyone pay the rate of already established MMOs for something like this? Promises of no P2W and no microtransactions are just that, promises. Its impossible to know what the developers will do until it's already established as a game and by that time you could be hooked into it.

Anonymous 10/13/2025 (Mon) 12:27:25 Id: cce29e No. 1843203

>>1842997 I'm just an old jaded anon who's been around for decades. Plural. >>1843040 >low-budet MMO uhm akshually it's not low-budget, it's zero-budget since they're not taking in any money. Jokes aside, they've been working on this for 5 years and have been refusing to take any money for all that time. Any server/legal expanses have been paid out of pocket. All the work is volunteered. There's a point where handing out trust feels like it's a safe thing to do, and this team's attitude has earned them the right to earn that trust. https://monstersandmemories.com/costs

Anonymous 10/14/2025 (Tue) 07:55:14 Id: cd62d5 No. 1845450

>>1843203 Is that a nigger blasting a furry? Is that a goblina confronting her daddy? You want to play that?

Anonymous 10/14/2025 (Tue) 10:50:09 Id: 9eccd8 No. 1845749

>>1845450 Anon... there were furries and niggers in everquest.

Anonymous 10/14/2025 (Tue) 12:08:26 Id: 67055f No. 1845945

Anonymous 10/17/2025 (Fri) 12:54:10 Id: cce29e No. 1853651

There's going to be a technical stress test starting at 13:00 east coast time on Saturday the 18th and it will last still Sunday the 19th at 23:59. Only the Relle server and the Night Harbour zone will initially be available since they want to cram everyone in one zone. The other two servers will become available once they've collected enough data. There was another similar stress test a few weeks ago where they also tested server merge tech. There WILL be lag, although last test the lag didn't start to cause issues until 450+ players.

Anonymous 10/18/2025 (Sat) 18:12:47 Id: cce29e No. 1860068

They reached 1000 players online in a single zone with little to no lag. The only real issue is an ongoing one where NPCs, mobs, and pets start having issues moving around and start taking 5+ seconds to move and reposition. They do fight fine once they're in range though. Overall, the stress portion of the test was a massive fucking success and showed huge progress in just a few weeks' worth of optimization.

Anonymous 10/18/2025 (Sat) 18:14:23 Id: cce29e No. 1860072

>>1860068 To clarify: the issue with mobs struggling to move happens when there's too many players in a zone. Three weeks ago this started happening at 400ish players in the zone. Today it was around 650 players.

Anonymous 10/30/2025 (Thu) 15:11:44 Id: cce29e No. 1893657

The ten day test starts tomorrow on Friday the 1st of November at 13:00 EST. Some essential links for newcomers: >account creation https://account.monstersandmemories.com/ >game basics, READ THIS https://monstersandmemories.com/new-player-guide >the unofficial wiki https://monstersandmemories.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page Some other important and helpful tips: >consider everything, there's higher level mobs in the newbie yards, and there's hostile mobs there too >there's some areas of Night Harbour with hostile mobs, with more spawns at night >there's a shifty gnome in the newbie yard that gives a quest; he hands you a 6 slot bag as part of the quest >you can put bags in your bank slots for extra space >there's an NPC in the Sojourner area (west gate, north of the bank) that has a quest for beetle armour which is basic starter armour >campfires and inns give you a buff that increases EXP gains >always keep a torch on so you can find your way at night and in dungeons >you can buy a second spellbook from most caster spell trainers, useful for corpse runs or for trading; your starter spell book is no trade, the bought ones can be traded

Anonymous 10/30/2025 (Thu) 15:38:07 Id: 2b3110 No. 1893736

>>1893657 Thanks for reminding me, I'll give it a whirl once I get home from work tomorrow. Any good recommendations for class/race combos, or should I just go ahead and have fun with it? Actually here's a good question: will anything carry over after the test if you subscribe or is it just a standalone event?

Anonymous 10/30/2025 (Thu) 15:47:36 Id: cce29e No. 1893756

>>1893736 For class/race combos, racial abilities aren't fully implemented yet. The devs have said that they're planning on reworking the character creation system for racials/major combat traits, so what was in the game in the previous playtest isn't going to be different from EA launch. Pick an Infravision race if you don't want to be bothered with the darkness as much, otherwise it's whatever. For classes, it depends on the role you want to fulfill. Higher level groups will always want SOME form of CC, so Enchanter/Bard/Ranger/Inquisitors will always be in demand. If you want solo friendly classes, you'll probably want to play Bard/Enchanter/Druid/Ranger/Necro. EA launch will be a full wipe and it will the final wipe the game ever has. Once EA launches, the devs have committed to no longer having any character wipes as they consider EA to be the "real" launch of the game. And this is a completely free test that anyone can participate in, you can't sub until EA.

Anonymous 10/30/2025 (Thu) 15:48:53 Id: cce29e No. 1893763

>>1893756 character creation from previous tests will be different than what we'll have in EA*

Anonymous 10/31/2025 (Fri) 09:24:44 Id: cce29e No. 1895692

>>1893657 I'm an idiot and can't read calendars, it starts on Saturday.

Anonymous 11/01/2025 (Sat) 16:50:16 Id: fed8b6 No. 1898951

>>1895692 Oh shit, so it's going to be ten minutes from RIGHT NOW

Anonymous 11/01/2025 (Sat) 17:24:28 Id: cce29e No. 1899033

>>1898951 It's up. Super laggy in Night Harbour for some reason. The two adjacent zones are completely lag-free however, and there's plenty of lvl 1 mobs to kill there too.

Anonymous 11/01/2025 (Sat) 19:28:33 Id: f21f1c No. 1899369

trolls have the curviest females on this sheet >>1841939 >18 classes >straggering you are like little baby [spoiler] warrior armsman hero thane paladin champion berserker mercernary blademaster skald shadowblade infiltrator nightshade hunter scout ranger ___ minstrel runemaster wizard eldritch spritmaster cabalist enchanter __ sorcerer mentalist __ theurgist healer cleric druid shaman friar bard [10] [12] [10] a 32 class launch [/spoiler]

Anonymous 11/01/2025 (Sat) 20:39:34 Id: b2010d No. 1899536

Installing now, will be sharing screenshots if I can later. >>1899369 Nice formatting

Anonymous 11/02/2025 (Sun) 00:29:16 Id: b2010d No. 1899969

Got a chance to roll a character and dip my toes in the water for a few hours. Still leveling and getting used to how abilities work and the general layout of the map. Biggest takeaways besides the game being super laggy due to stress testing obv are how BIG the main city is, how limited your starting inventory is (only 8 slots at first, more added with bags & backpacks), and how only specific vendors buy specific goods. I can see getting used to it once you know the layout of a city well enough but until you get to that point it's a pain. Also seems like there's no quest log unless I missed it (though you do get a log of previous conversations with named NPCs) or an in-game map (though you can use the /look command to get names of nearby places and ask NPCs for directions). One other thing that did stick out to me was how clogged the main chat window gets with all kinds of info: OOC messages, combat info, global messages, and even nearby character stuff. Could just be I didn't figure how to filter all of that but hopefully a tab system gets added like what World of Warcraft has for ease of use. Forgot to get decent screens but I'll be hopping back in the next couple days while I continue to explore and try out a couple different race/class combos. Started with one that focuses on using a pet, but with the latency might try out a couple direct damage dealers like archer or fighter instead.

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