i've never hopped on the prog server hype before. but, i'd be down for a pvp one that stopped around SoL or PoP, especially teams.
but, this will never fucking happen.
but, this will never fucking happen.
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Progression server is inevitable now they've made anything over 3 years old redundant on the normal servers. Just a matter of when. Also don't think the population would die out the way they have in the past.
I'd go as far as to say it would be the most successful thing they've done in a decade.
I'd go as far as to say it would be the most successful thing they've done in a decade.
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Sick of seeing your name here, Flight. Going to go train people in DH near the gnome for a while and laugh.
The tournament is something we did a few years ago to let people use pre-generated lvl 50 characters to fight some of the most iconic raid NPCs over the years. They've been adjusted quite a bit so a single group of 50s can handle them, but we also put a time limit of 40 minutes on the instance.. so it's competitive too.
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Hah that sounds rad. I bet they have a lot of fun playing that if they're oldschool.
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New xpac coming in October/November (depending on your access level). +gooder level cap increase and spells/gear/abilities, homage to The Buried Sea xpac, keyring for mounts, NBG loot system, dinosaurs, next part of current story arc.
They also mentioned they're looking into improvements to quality of life regarding guild and raid management, which I'm very eager to see. The raid tool is not fun to work with. There is currently some manner of mass invite system for raids on test.
They're expanding hero's forge more both on test (Argin-Hiz theme?) and in the next xpac. I enjoy the hero's forge stuff. I do wish they'd go back and add one themed for the Heart of Fear. The whole Thule arc really climaxed with some cool weapon/shield graphics in RoF, and there isn't any armor that matches them. Also you should be able to get an ornament for the collector's weapon if they ever do this so you can perpetuate your disgusting purpleness forever.
There is currently some drama surrounding the power of player pets. Earth pets particularly have a rather silly advantage over some players because they apparently have the highest player controlled health pool in the game, giving their healer a large margin of error for burst dps.
The pets were nerfed then buffed and buffed and buffed on the test server. These changes are not yet live. They take minimum possible damage from the same mob more often than a player in significant amounts of raid gear and max AA according to the parses, but according to the mages the data is being manipulated as part of an anti-mage agenda. A ranger recently entered the fray against mages, arguing similar damage output and far less tanking capacity, to which the response is the familiar "We're a solo class. You're not. We're balanced to be better than you, and that's just how it is."
Someone asked in the twitter Q&A whether the collector's edition would have a house (they said maybe), which made me wonder if we'll ever get more normal houses. They include special houses with some collector's editions, but they're an evil tree and a beehive. I've no interest in the collector's edition, but I do have an interest in more "normal" houses including a few racial housing types like halfling underhill homes.
They also need more mundane stuff for houses. We get a lot of epic or junk items, and not many ordinary things. In my opinion every single "this is a meal/drink" item should be placeable.
They also mentioned they're looking into improvements to quality of life regarding guild and raid management, which I'm very eager to see. The raid tool is not fun to work with. There is currently some manner of mass invite system for raids on test.
They're expanding hero's forge more both on test (Argin-Hiz theme?) and in the next xpac. I enjoy the hero's forge stuff. I do wish they'd go back and add one themed for the Heart of Fear. The whole Thule arc really climaxed with some cool weapon/shield graphics in RoF, and there isn't any armor that matches them. Also you should be able to get an ornament for the collector's weapon if they ever do this so you can perpetuate your disgusting purpleness forever.
There is currently some drama surrounding the power of player pets. Earth pets particularly have a rather silly advantage over some players because they apparently have the highest player controlled health pool in the game, giving their healer a large margin of error for burst dps.
The pets were nerfed then buffed and buffed and buffed on the test server. These changes are not yet live. They take minimum possible damage from the same mob more often than a player in significant amounts of raid gear and max AA according to the parses, but according to the mages the data is being manipulated as part of an anti-mage agenda. A ranger recently entered the fray against mages, arguing similar damage output and far less tanking capacity, to which the response is the familiar "We're a solo class. You're not. We're balanced to be better than you, and that's just how it is."
Someone asked in the twitter Q&A whether the collector's edition would have a house (they said maybe), which made me wonder if we'll ever get more normal houses. They include special houses with some collector's editions, but they're an evil tree and a beehive. I've no interest in the collector's edition, but I do have an interest in more "normal" houses including a few racial housing types like halfling underhill homes.
They also need more mundane stuff for houses. We get a lot of epic or junk items, and not many ordinary things. In my opinion every single "this is a meal/drink" item should be placeable.
Only thing that seems good to me is keyring for accounts (please be account wide), NBG system (I don't understand why it took 23 expansions for this to be implemented), and quality of life improvements to raid management.
The guild changes the team did prior were nice and I'd be interested in seeing what they have in store for more quality of life improvements. Having a hardcoded amount of guilds per server was stupid, especially considering the rest of the packets were sent to only send data as-needed. (null terminated variable length NPC names for example, same with parts of the EQPC class)
Now if the EQ1 dev team can manage to add cross-server open world PVE zones so the game seems a little less... dead (think WoW's implementation of linking servers) that would be fairly cool.
Regardless, these look like some great features, and a step forward in modernizing EverQuest. I hope the NBG loot system isn't limited to expansion owners though.
I'm still waiting for my PoP frozen progression server though.
The guild changes the team did prior were nice and I'd be interested in seeing what they have in store for more quality of life improvements. Having a hardcoded amount of guilds per server was stupid, especially considering the rest of the packets were sent to only send data as-needed. (null terminated variable length NPC names for example, same with parts of the EQPC class)
Now if the EQ1 dev team can manage to add cross-server open world PVE zones so the game seems a little less... dead (think WoW's implementation of linking servers) that would be fairly cool.
Regardless, these look like some great features, and a step forward in modernizing EverQuest. I hope the NBG loot system isn't limited to expansion owners though.
I'm still waiting for my PoP frozen progression server though.
Nope. Everyone gets the new loot system. To be accurate though, there is no need before greed in play here. It's more a hybrid of things with random, master looter, as well as filters to specify to never/always loot things.
If I had a dollar for every time someone said you could "just simply copy <insert game here> code" I'd be a rich man.
I know it's been brought up a thousand times in the past and I think there was even an attempt to do it at one point, but we're pretty well stuck with the current models for now and forever aren't we Elidroth? Most of the time I just default to the old models because as archaic as they are, the animations are so much better than the janky ass Luclin models.
It's hard to imagine that ever being a priority when most people will probably just always accept the current look with a few new raid zones every year. I've got no idea the undertaking it'd require, but I can dream!
I'll probably get a bit more serious into EQ1 when the new expac drops, need to hit that cap again.
It's hard to imagine that ever being a priority when most people will probably just always accept the current look with a few new raid zones every year. I've got no idea the undertaking it'd require, but I can dream!
I'll probably get a bit more serious into EQ1 when the new expac drops, need to hit that cap again.
Pretty awesome, actually, the filters sound more appropriate with the way the game is set up mechanically. I look forward to the system.
Hopefully there's a way to set up a group loot option where you can only roll on items for your class.
Also, something like this mechanically would be cool for trash (items worth pp to a vendor) items but on their own round robin or roll system. Group leader could specify what items are 'trash', and set up a roll/round robin with the press of a button. In the video, I'm killing NPCs with commands and the loot is autolooted and autoinventoried to my inventory upon the creature's death.
EQEmulator's actually working on tools to add new character models and animations from blender. Maybe we could crowdsource some models and get them implemented in EQLive?
Hey Secrets, not sure if you have a good monitor or not, but you don't have to go crazy with the gamma like that. Looks fine, even when it's dark everything is readable.
That video was taken prior to recording with OBS (which fixes that problem), and EQ1 has had this weird bug since DX9 where the gamma gets adjusted in windowed mode. So I tend to not change the setting every time I log in, and the EQ client tends to change it to a setting that is way too high.
My newer videos look better than that one, with less framerate stutter. I'm not sure about gamma, but it looks far better on my setup with OBS than it did back when I used Dxtory.
New models would be rad, but you'd need someone to come up with a big list of what exactly is needed to crowdsource them. Art programs really suck at modifying things when it comes to characters. Any little tweak means a full reweighting / enveloping whatever you use, unless you go with a modular approach and stitch the weights together in an external program (I do that).
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EQ definitely has a weird gamma bug.
Sorry for mischaracterizing the new loot system. I really just thought it was NBG. I'm curious how it works.
Game Update Notes: August 20, 2014
EQResource's Xpac Thread
Sorry for mischaracterizing the new loot system. I really just thought it was NBG. I'm curious how it works.
Game Update Notes: August 20, 2014
EQResource's Xpac Thread
Was checking out Arx Mentis. Pretty cool looking zone, reminds me of Sanctus Seru a bit.
Some Combine Dredge here too
