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KickStarter Pantheon - (Brad "EQ" McQuaid's new MMO)
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Late Bloomer
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Wiki says nothing official but was at home. People say OD painkillers at home.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/PantheonMM...oth_explains_brads_situation_during_pantheon/
Timestamped at 28:20 if you feel like being sad
Hobknobling
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Sweeper
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It's either suicide or autoerotic asphyxiation.
Beastro
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No, it should have died when he died.
Same here. I just cannot believe that he would have wanted this game to be the fucking wow cartoon shit.
I'll just keep eating my popcorn and enjoy this ride.
The backers didn't want it to look like that either. The whole thing might fall apart now if everyone starts trying to get their money back or something.
Brad did a lot of offroad dirt biking and I heard he got hooked on painkillers during Vanguard. Not sure if it was from an injury or what. I doubt he used coke but who knows, either way that can screw up your heart. I think he was the guy to keep things on track but he was also the only one anyone would invest any money with because of his track record. Without him I bet they've had nothing but cuck money from backers.
I don't really care what happens with it. I am just sad about Brad and selfishly because I liked his work and knew he was capable and I like what he represented. EQ and Vanguard are amazing.
Brad did a lot of offroad dirt biking and I heard he got hooked on painkillers during Vanguard. Not sure if it was from an injury or what. I doubt he used coke but who knows, either way that can screw up your heart. I think he was the guy to keep things on track but he was also the only one anyone would invest any money with because of his track record. Without him I bet they've had nothing but cuck money from backers.
I don't really care what happens with it. I am just sad about Brad and selfishly because I liked his work and knew he was capable and I like what he represented. EQ and Vanguard are amazing.
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I think they have just expanded on the cartoon shit. Still reeks of Unity trash regardless.
Looks like it's "released" and it's getting absolutely ratioed.
The final cash grab is happening.
The final cash grab is happening.
RatTower
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Hopped in because I wanted to see it before it's gone.
It has all your typical MMORPG launch problems from interface descriptions to latency issues.
But funnily enough, I feel like this game's biggest problems really stem from the change in art direction.
There is nothing inherently wrong with their chosen art style, but I believe there was some flawed logic when the decision was made.
The art direction change was implemented to make the whole project more manageable, right?
The problem is: Just because something is low-poly with hand-drawn textures doesn't necessarily mean it's more manageable at an MMORPG scale.
You still require thousands of different assets to make a scene look good. An empty scene with little texture/asset variety always looks bland. And that's exactly the problem that Pantheon currently faces - despite the change in art direction. It needs some massive detail passes plus more texture variety, plus more thematically distinct (sub-)areas (i.e. more variety in environment assets).
Interestingly enough, I don't think Everquest had that problem. At least not on that level. It had some bland environments (just think of Queynos Hills), but even then it had far more thematic variety (cities, plains, sewers, forests, deserts, etc).
I believe that there was more to the change in art direction than just project scalability. I think it was a performance decision as well, which calls into question whether those required detail passes will actually happen.
It's currently too early to speculate how their finances look, but at the current pace of the reviews, I think their team probably has to scale down to 10-20 people. Will it survive on that? Maybe, but it will need some very motivated developers and players. At the moment the entire server population is roughly the same as that of EQ: Heroes Journey (a private server).
Aaaanyway, I'll still log in today, because despite it all it's a good game to play on the side (lots of downtime for casters). It's also reasonably challenging.
So I'll play it now because who knows what that player count might look like in two months.
It has all your typical MMORPG launch problems from interface descriptions to latency issues.
But funnily enough, I feel like this game's biggest problems really stem from the change in art direction.
There is nothing inherently wrong with their chosen art style, but I believe there was some flawed logic when the decision was made.
The art direction change was implemented to make the whole project more manageable, right?
The problem is: Just because something is low-poly with hand-drawn textures doesn't necessarily mean it's more manageable at an MMORPG scale.
You still require thousands of different assets to make a scene look good. An empty scene with little texture/asset variety always looks bland. And that's exactly the problem that Pantheon currently faces - despite the change in art direction. It needs some massive detail passes plus more texture variety, plus more thematically distinct (sub-)areas (i.e. more variety in environment assets).
Interestingly enough, I don't think Everquest had that problem. At least not on that level. It had some bland environments (just think of Queynos Hills), but even then it had far more thematic variety (cities, plains, sewers, forests, deserts, etc).
I believe that there was more to the change in art direction than just project scalability. I think it was a performance decision as well, which calls into question whether those required detail passes will actually happen.
It's currently too early to speculate how their finances look, but at the current pace of the reviews, I think their team probably has to scale down to 10-20 people. Will it survive on that? Maybe, but it will need some very motivated developers and players. At the moment the entire server population is roughly the same as that of EQ: Heroes Journey (a private server).
Aaaanyway, I'll still log in today, because despite it all it's a good game to play on the side (lots of downtime for casters). It's also reasonably challenging.
So I'll play it now because who knows what that player count might look like in two months.
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