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Also, looks like they listened when I posted about booting up a twitch stream for character modeling:

Next Tuesday at 2:00pm CST, we'll be doing a twitch stream of the creation of the Guinecean Duelist character model! Our friends and partners at OMNOM workshop (who we rely on heavily to help us sculpt our game characters) have graciously offered to allow everyone a chance to see how the sausage is made. In this case, the "sausage" is a talking guinea pig with the saber and a flintlock pistol.
HAHA ya I saw that and its like hurm guinea pig or woodchuck not sure which. I think I will pass on groundhog engineers.
 

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Richard Gere confirmed alpha tester.
 

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Fuck me I am a sucker for small races (Halfling in EQ1, Ratonga in EQ2) and that looks awesome. Has there been any actual screenshots released so far from this game?
They're doing the modeling for the Guinea on twitch next tuesday. So no ingame guinea related footage yet it seems.
 

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is.. is the marmot is holding a god damn flintlock pistol?

With its "digging" specialist icon and side arm it seems to be a "tunnel rat" or sapper as seen in Vietnam.Tunnel rat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

also, another Frostweaver screenshot

The particle effects look dope.

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And according to thephysics FAQI now know which two Archetype Ihaveto roll.

Q:Can I use Physics to push another player off a cliff? Or down a mountain?

A:Absolutely, assuming the force applied to them is enough to move their mass. Some of the characters have much more mass than others like the Centaur or the Champion.

So, reading this snipet from the Duel's lore segement...

"Our artist, the inventors of sculpture and stagecraft. Our duelist, the finest masters to wield a blade. Our engineers, the only to unlock the secret of munitions."
I'm guessing their professions, discipline, or perhaps other archetypes include Bard, Explosives bro, and Rogue. Intradasting.
 

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Yes. The Voxel Farm technology library has been used by Daybreak Game Company on their titles Landmark and up-coming MMO, EverQuest Next.
Voxels and Physics? If they can pull this off they will have me more than EQ or WoW ever did. But I'm HIGHLY skeptical. Real physics in an MMO setting seems like it would be massively difficult to network info on. Still, damn, I love the fact that they are trying. Also, woot friendly fire and actual formation fighting. Will be nice to not have to have taunt in your game because larger warriors can actually, you know, form shield walls.
 

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I remember when a certain large scale pvp game flipped the switch on unit collison and kept crashing their servers.

I'm a bit skeptical on the whole subject as well, mainly from lack of qualified games to compare the concept with, we'll see how it goes.
 

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All of this sounds great on paper. I'll wait on the hype train until players get in and say they were able to make it actually happen though.
 

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The hype train is the best part of an MMO since you'll be disappointed anyway. Might as well jump on board now. Enjoy the hopium.
 

Big Flex

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The hype train is the best part of an MMO since you'll be disappointed anyway. Might as well jump on board now. Enjoy the hopium.
This. I'm mainlining hopium on this one, because I know I won't even be able to pretend to be excited about the next volley of next-gen Runes of Magic style, ground breaking, evo-revo-lutionary MMOs. Then back to the Pantheon thread with me.
 

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This. I'm mainlining hopium on this one, because I know I won't even be able to pretend to be excited about the next volley of next-gen Runes of Magic style, ground breaking, evo-revo-lutionary MMOs. Then back to the Pantheon thread with me.
There really isn't any other game on my radar. It was Black Desert but that's going to be a huge bust in my opinion. Some terrible design decisions from what I've read. Star Citizen will be interested by god knows what they are doing so I refuse to be hyped. EQN? lol
 

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There really isn't any other game on my radar. It was Black Desert but that's going to be a huge bust in my opinion. Some terrible design decisions from what I've read. Star Citizen will be interested by god knows what they are doing so I refuse to be hyped. EQN? lol
Completely agree.

Reading Crowfalls forums and wondering why the shadowbane players are calling this game a game made for carebears. This might just be the best PvP game ever made. Having the high ground will matter, archers and boulders oh my. I can see the 300 actually happening in a game like this thanks to its physics engine.

Yes i am hyped and hoping for something amazing, it's already past any mmo on my radar as well.
 

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Completely agree.

Reading Crowfalls forums and wondering why the shadowbane players are calling this game a game made for carebears. This might just be the best PvP game ever made. Having the high ground will matter, archers and boulders oh my. I can see the 300 actually happening in a game like this thanks to its physics engine.
Two-part explanation.

1) Muscle memory: PvPers have become quite accustom to calling all games Carebear games since Darkfall launched, and the 7 or so years before DFO and Shadowbane. Its a natural knee-jerk response.
2) CF has rulesets with varying degrees of hardcoreness and also makes concessions for styles of play aside from hardcore PvP. Eternal Kingdoms, Crafting, and any form of PvE. To some, anything short of a MMO version of counterstrike is a carebear game. This is dumb.
 

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I hope they don't have the technical fail that shadowbane did. I got shadowbane on the spur of a moment and I wound up playing it a lot and actually really enjoyed it even though its graphics were not very good even for its time. But after a month of sb.exe and not being able to play I just unsubbed and never went back.
 

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This game can come out with facebook graphics for all I care as long as it doesn't CF.exe it's way into the trash can.
 

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I hope they don't have the technical fail that shadowbane did. I got shadowbane on the spur of a moment and I wound up playing it a lot and actually really enjoyed it even though its graphics were not very good even for its time. But after a month of sb.exe and not being able to play I just unsubbed and never went back.
This game can come out with facebook graphics for all I care as long as it doesn't CF.exe it's way into the trash can.
SB was literally that team's first game, given a decade or more of additional experience and the haunting memory of those technical failures, I'd assume they'll be more than mindful of that side of things going forward. We'll see though.
 

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SB was literally that team's first game, given a decade or more of additional experience and the haunting memory of those technical failures, I'd assume they'll be more than mindful of that side of things. We'll see though.
If their website is any indicator there's some merit behind this statement. Reinforced even further if you compare it to something recent like TESO's forums/website over at Zenimax.