Durango

Durango is an MMO game set in the prehistoric era of dinosaurs. Players not only face a harsh survival environment but also need to explore this ancient world, collecting various resources and materials to build their town from scratch. Players can choose to play solo or cooperate with other players, strategically allocating tasks, crafting tools and weapons, building various defensive structures, and capturing and hunting dinosaurs to become their mounts, thus dominating this ancient era. Players can invite friends to join their community at any time to jointly defend against attacks from dinosaurs and other players.

Features of Durango:

Durango is an upcoming mobile survival MMO where players are thrust into the prehistoric age by a time warp and are challenged to survive in a harsh environment. Enter a detailed 2.5D world that features graphics and mechanics that stretch beyond the typical mobile game. Band together with other players to build villages and survive as a community against the attacks of carnivorous dinosaurs. Its developers have dubbed it a "Pioneering Open World MMORPG" to emphasize its focus on sandbox exploration and ability to build towns from the ground up. Craft an endless variety of tools, fortresses, clothing, meals, and more that use resources found across the game world. Hunt, capture, and tame dinosaurs to ride and utilize in your community building, making full use of the world's resources.

Survival Gameplay on Mobile: get your survival fix on the go, a relatively uncommon genre for mobile games.

Prehistoric Game World: enter the game's prehistoric world full of carnivorous dinosaurs and lush natural resources.

Build a Community: bring or make friends within the game and build massive fortresses to defend against dinosaurs and other players.

Catch and Tame Dinosaurs: catch dinosaurs and tame them to ride into combat, allowing players to co-exist peacefully with some species.

Flexible Crafting System: utilize a wide variety of the game's resources to create a multitude of tools, equipment, and structures.

Useful Tips of Durango:

After almost two years of Beta testing, Nexon is finally releasing Durango Wild Lands to the global market. In fact, today is the first day it is available in North America. The game starts out with a normal train ride, but then a time warp creates an alternate universe. In this alternate universe, we are forced to survive side by side with dinosaurs. The game is a lot of fun with some really cool concepts, but there are a few things that are not intuitive, so today I have 61 tips and tricks to help you guys get started.

The first decision you have to make in the game is what skill you want to start out specialized in. This is not a huge decision because your skills cap out at whatever level you are, so whatever you choose will stay at level 20 until your character reaches level 21, so a lot of your other skills will catch up by then. That being said, some of these specializations are better than others so let me go over them. Durango is not a difficult game, but if you want to make things easier for yourself, then picking the weapon/tool specialization is going to give you the biggest boost. Being able to craft better weapons will help you in combat far more than the melee specialization, and better tools are important for getting better resources. This will also let you build a bow right away so that you can start working on your ranged skill. But as I said, Durango is not difficult at an early level, so if you consider yourself a skilled player, I recommend choosing construction. Choosing construction won't make the game any easier for you and while you do get to build some better things around your base, the main reason I'm suggesting construction is because it is the hardest skill to level up when you're just starting off.

After you choose your specialization and appearance, the game will take you through a somewhat long tutorial. This includes fighting a raptor on the train, getting resuscitated by a strange woman named K that has the face of a 12 year old girl, and then doing a bunch of objectives for her while she rides around on her motorcycle.

The tutorial ends with you getting on K’s new hot air balloon and floating to the island which will be your new home. When choosing your Island, keep in mind that you cannot build on the blue river or brown rock areas, so this one would be a good choice if you wanted to build a really cool port, but these would be a much better choice if you want to make a giant square with your max of 50 domain spots. Resources on your main island do not regenerate so don't choose your domain based on that. I recommend trying to find a place near the dock because even though you can warp to the dock from anywhere on your island, and at first you will be able to warp back to your base by clicking the “to waypoint” on your map screen, if you ever change your waypoint when you are exploring, then you will have to make the walk from your dock when you come back.

When you're in your domain you can click this little fence for all your options related to your domain, including the ability to expand it. I recommend doing this immediately and then building at least 6 baskets to all store your stuff. 100 inventory slots might feel like a lot, but it gets filled up really quickly. That being said, depending on which island you are traveling to, it is good to keep one or two of some basic items in your backpack because missions often require you crafting items, and this will make it go much faster. Unlike similar games, in order to move a structure, you need to click the package button which will give it back to you and then you can go place it somewhere else.

When you are farming resources, this symbol means that the source will disappear when it is collected, so make sure to gather everything else you want first. You can establish a gathering queue by clicking faster than your character can collect and it will even remember the order that you chose. Every item you collect has its own level and every item you craft has their own level based on the items you used to craft it. This level effects the stats on that one item, so for example, a level 10 basket will have a lot more storage spaces than a level one. There is a max level for each item in the game, so higher tier items not only have better basic stats, but they also have a higher max level.

Player Comments of Durango:

It's a mobile MMO that takes itself seriously. It rarely if ever uses Leaning on the Fourth Wall, it doesn't glorify the player, it just wants to show a world and tell a story. There isn't much Pv P (player clans are mostly for building stuff together). The effect of this on the player base is amazing, the whole experience is more creative than destructive and the community is friendly. Instead of monsters or zombies, Durango has dinosaurs. Since dinosaurs are cool, the point is not to become the best dinosaur killing machine around. They are an obstacle, but also a marvel.

The concept is simple: Durango is a parallel world that people and things get thrown into through one-way Warps from Earth. It's a world made of constantly shifting islands, inhabited by eclectic fauna and flora, a world roamed by shadowy organizations, primitive clans, and all kinds of eccentric individuals. It's full of rumours and theories and indisputable facts (such as a hungry Allosaur chasing you).

The lore is first wide and only then deep. Lots of tiny self-contained stories are scattered, "Rashomon"-Style, all over the game, in loading screens, found memos, long-term organisation communications... Heck, even the trailers and ads had very little gameplay, instead showing stories of Durango citizens (like a 15-second spot of a guy burning banknotes to stay warm at night). All of it adds up to a sense of what life in Durango is actually *like*. It's also generally well-written, gripping, with a sense of humor and fun to read.

There is no single style or mood, black comedy mixes with horror mixes with silly moments mixes with philosophical musings. You see Durango through the eyes of numerous one-off characters, and that includes big quest lines, because...

The plot is at once archetypal and specific. There are five quest-giving organizations representing various interactions between humans, society, and the world (roughly: industry, environmentalism, libertarianism, authoritarianism, science). But they also have members who have their own ideas about how things should be run. Because of the chaotic nature of Durango, those on top only have limited oversight over how plans are actually executed, and ordinary people are left on the ground to make the decisions. The world is kitchen-sink by design, it's a patchwork where big ideas constantly collide with ugly reality.

Summary:

Durango is an impressive MMORPG in every sense of the word. It's not just the fact that the game have spectacular graphics, much better than other similar games in the genre; or that it offers an overwhelming amount of content. The fact of the matter is, everything this game does, it does it well. And it does a lot.