Tearofsoul
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Ashes of Creation
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
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Tearofsoul
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I already have kid.
For future, it is either Pantheon/Crowfall or this. There just isn't much on the horizon
For now, i am causally in ESO
p.s: I accidentally found PAIN - Pain › News
For future, it is either Pantheon/Crowfall or this. There just isn't much on the horizon
For now, i am causally in ESO
p.s: I accidentally found PAIN - Pain › News
Arden
Blackwing Lair Raider
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Not off base. Anything aside from straight in-game unedited and unscripted footage is totally useless imo.
Korrupt
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Tearofsoul
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Just registered on their site. I know it's early on, but the graphics so far are pretty god damn impressive. Definitely has piqued my interest.
Reht
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Some new pre-alpha video gameplay. It's definitely a good looking game so far, but am not sure whether i really like or dislike it, for some reason i am getting a little bit of an eastern MMO feel to it. Can live without the heavy breathing and grunting PC sounds too.
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Quineloe
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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Trying to play P99 but getting groups seems pretty hard.
Have pretty much given up on PVP games, it's too hard to get interesting fights in those with severe losses and in free deaths it's just endless ganking.
Quineloe
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This kind of vague blah isn't giving me any hope either
Like so many other MMOs have tried? Sure.
RPK were tiresome in Meridian 59. I can do without that.
The main issue with these shiny, short videos is that it's very simple to design a bunch of models, graphics and make a bunch of scripts in an established engine and then basically play a short movie that looks like gameplay, but actually is just a movie, with absolutely no game mechanics working behind the scenes.
And that's exactly what many have done in the past few years.
It looks like they got a lot of stuff done in a short period of time, but it gives me the impression their resources are misspent on making cool looking videos to hype, hype, hype instead of making a solid foundation for the actual game.
Tearofsoul
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Daidraco
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I get a big Kingdoms of Amalur/Reckoning vibe from it. Or maybe even an EverQuest 2 and Fable had a child kind of vibe.
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Ukerric
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It was supposed to be a lot more complex in EQN. The way Ashes work is more basic:
- Each zone has an XP bar and level
- Everything you do gives XP (with bonus based on zone?) to the zone
- The zone level determines what you have at the center of the zone (flat empty @ 0, small camp @ 1, large camp @ 2, small village @ 3, small city @ 4, large city @ 5, capital @ 6), which determines vendors and trainers.
- The zone level determines what mobs, ressources and events are enabled in the zone
That's it.
(there's also a mechanic that wasn't in the presentation that makes that the zone level caps and depresses the adjacent zones level, so you can't have two capitals next to each other. If you want the dragon world boss to spawn and the capital next door prevents you from getting to large city, then you can make an alliance and declare war to the capital and reduce it to rubble in PvP)
- Each zone has an XP bar and level
- Everything you do gives XP (with bonus based on zone?) to the zone
- The zone level determines what you have at the center of the zone (flat empty @ 0, small camp @ 1, large camp @ 2, small village @ 3, small city @ 4, large city @ 5, capital @ 6), which determines vendors and trainers.
- The zone level determines what mobs, ressources and events are enabled in the zone
That's it.
(there's also a mechanic that wasn't in the presentation that makes that the zone level caps and depresses the adjacent zones level, so you can't have two capitals next to each other. If you want the dragon world boss to spawn and the capital next door prevents you from getting to large city, then you can make an alliance and declare war to the capital and reduce it to rubble in PvP)
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Tearofsoul
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Next time they are going to talk about how to destroy those high level nodes, thus complete its life cycle.
And yes it does give me a EQ2/RIFT vibe, which is great.
And yes it does give me a EQ2/RIFT vibe, which is great.
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Brahma
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