Huh? Nothing wrong with death in AoC. Please don't go popamole and have me have no penalty at all. There's already no xp loss, so don't take away all the consequences of death.
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Shannow
Waster of Time
This. I dislike it in general (= fucking abhor it). Anybody throwing ideas around how spawns could come from "nests" and move through the environment from there? Possibly allowing the players to "shut down nests" for a while by completing a coupled elite dungeon, or some such? Perhaps I'm just asking for something mmos will never be able/willing to provide. And since I'm not an mmo-player, perhaps you shouldn't listenbylam said:
bylam
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Shannow said:This. I dislike it in general (= fucking abhor it). Anybody throwing ideas around how spawns could come from "nests" and move through the environment from there? Possibly allowing the players to "shut down nests" for a while by completing a coupled elite dungeon, or some such? Perhaps I'm just asking for something mmos will never be able/willing to provide. And since I'm not an mmo-player, perhaps you shouldn't listenbylam said:
Sure, you're talking about "monster factories" as we call them and it is almost exactly as you describe (except that the spawns are not coupled to a dungeon, but rather to other spawns). We have those too. In fact every monster has an ecology and quite often ecologies involve spawning mechanics. See from about 2:35 in this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBEkTYoJ ... re=related
But that said a part of the gameplay challenge in an MMO comes from aggro management. If everything is dynamically spawned then designers lose that element of control.
http://www.ign.com/videos/2011/07/07/th ... ugh-part-1
Some new gameplay footage. Graphics are amazing but the human models a bit too plastic. And the open character system sounds stupid, changing youre entire build while in a dungeon to counter a specific problem? Feels like its gonna get pretty diluted, everyone will get the same skills for the same dungeons. " But I wanna dueal wild katanas!" "No this boss requires fireballs, everyone load up on fireballs!"
Some new gameplay footage. Graphics are amazing but the human models a bit too plastic. And the open character system sounds stupid, changing youre entire build while in a dungeon to counter a specific problem? Feels like its gonna get pretty diluted, everyone will get the same skills for the same dungeons. " But I wanna dueal wild katanas!" "No this boss requires fireballs, everyone load up on fireballs!"
Remember Funcom is the dev that thinks that all you need are in-house testers to test 48 vs 48 siege battles, which were meant to be the highlight of end game PVP. Who knows if they even had 96 testers.
And I will say fuck them, and wield my katanas.fyezall said:
As you can see in the demo, the specific roles are still there in the game (healer, tank etc), why would everyone use the same skills when a party needs to be versatile to be effective.
Excidium
P. banal
The skill system looks pretty solid. The benefit is that if your build gets nerfed to the ground you can just use another skill set, instead of being useless or rolling an alt until the next balance patch hits.
Graphics look nice, just gotta polish the characters.
Graphics look nice, just gotta polish the characters.
That looks rather nice. I'm not much of an MMO player after my WoW phase (except for the little bit of DDO with the Codex) but this one seems interesting.
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fyezall said:
Keep in mind that the effect is greatly exaggerated in that video - I doubt people will swap entire builds in a real dungeon run. Mostly to find counters to specific effects e.t.c.
The encounter design is generally based around formulas such as "the group needs to do X damage" and "the group needs to heal x damage over time" e.t.c. in addition to general mechanics shown such as bringing specific effects (like purging the white boss shield) and movement.
The advantage of designing encounters for a "group sized" setting is that it means if a group needs to be able to heal, say 500pts every second you can either have a dedicated healer who brings 7 healing skills that equal that total OR you can have every person in the group bring one healing skill each and focus on themselves e.t.c.
Or any combination between those two extremes.
Excidium
P. banal
Sounds good. Will beta happen this year?
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/game- ... ret/717239
New interview about gameplay, unfortunately there are no new information in it.
New interview about gameplay, unfortunately there are no new information in it.
Excidium
P. banal
I see. Nice, might be sooner than I thought.J_C said:
Looks like the beta signup started at the end of last month. Seems to be some silly community game involving facebook, which I unceremoniously discarded. Anyway, faggotry aside, it's pretty much the only MMO I got an interest on lately.
Excidium
P. banal
Yeah...Gragt said:
I already registered to the beta a long time ago when they launched that hotsite where you choose a faction, hopefully it's still valid.
Shannow
Waster of Time
The fuck? I tried registering for the beta without facebook and it wanted to force facebook down my throat anyway. The only thing worse than mandatory Steam and always online with a single player game? Facebook.
Seriously, I felt like I was in South Park. But since this will just be another version of farmville I'll pass.
Seriously, I felt like I was in South Park. But since this will just be another version of farmville I'll pass.
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I like it too, since it actually makes a lot of sense. Due to the fact that many of the most powerful Loa are ultimately benevolent and would on our side if Cthulhu and bros came knocking.Excidium said:This game has potential.
I like this screenshot:
Voodoo!
Besides, this way the bad guys will finally see Death, and then realize Death is a nigger motherfucker (congrats if you get the reference).
http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/10/13/the-s ... societies/
New developer diary video. Doesn't really say much, but provides a pretty good and short overview of the game, gameplay and factions.
I may have missed this before, but it seems it has an element where player can fight at key locations, and if that faction can keep and maintain their hold on that area, it then benefits that entire faction.
Sadly, I didn't realize this was being published by EA though.....
New developer diary video. Doesn't really say much, but provides a pretty good and short overview of the game, gameplay and factions.
I may have missed this before, but it seems it has an element where player can fight at key locations, and if that faction can keep and maintain their hold on that area, it then benefits that entire faction.
Sadly, I didn't realize this was being published by EA though.....
I bet they're going to beta test that location with 20 in-house testers and then just launch with it.Zed said:
Fuck, man, I picked the Dragon when that page opened up, not thinking about all the weeaboos. And now I can't change it. Fuck.
Yeah I ended up with The Dragon too. I'd probably side with the Templars if I ever got this game though...
Excidium
P. banal
Dragons are the most interesting faction, though.
It is.
But just think about how many animu fans are going to join it.
But just think about how many animu fans are going to join it.
Excidium
P. banal
Hehe, yeah.
Some potatos made a preview of the skill wheel:
http://tsw.mmoz.pl/tsw-skillwheel.html
Looks p. good but it's a shame magic seems to be the usual boring crap.
Some potatos made a preview of the skill wheel:
http://tsw.mmoz.pl/tsw-skillwheel.html
Looks p. good but it's a shame magic seems to be the usual boring crap.
What MMOG's have you played Excidium?
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