Very informative livestream is up:
- 30m of construction shown..
- Two wipes planned. One from alpha to closed beta, and another from closed beta to open beta
- First wipe you'll lose your plots, and character progression
- Second wipe is "softer"
- In both situations, you will keep your templated creations
- All Founder perks will persist, forever
- The tools won't degrade. The pick is the best tier 1. The axe is the lowest tier 5 axe, and can harvest anything requiring an axe.
- The higher grade item in the tier, the faster it can harvest
- As you play the game, you unlock builder tools, including flight
- HUD shown : Traditional MMO hotbar with a bunch of tools mapped to it (Keys 1 - 7)
- Create / delete shapes of different sizes
- Heal Brush - Restores world back to it's original state
- Smoothing Tool - Block / Sphere Brushes that can erode / smooth at varying sizes
- Painting Tool - (Material Menu shown) Moss painted over stones, grows random plants while painting
- Line Tool - Create with arbitrary angles, select any two polygon and create an angle between them. Change size of the endpoint (good for buildings, rooflines, etc.)
- Selection - Grab different faces, change the size of a volume, and effect that selection with your other tools (like fill, delete, etc)
- Copy/Paste
- Axis Rotation
- Template Saving (these can be sold)
- Smallest voxel is about the size of a characters head
- Props: Premade items that are created through recipes and can be placed in the world
- Props can be rotated and fine-tuned after placing
- Alpha will have NDA, others are undecided
- Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Modern styles all doable. Nothing is strictly enforced
- Biomes : Lava, Swamp, Temperate, Mountainous, Beaches, Tundra, Desert, Jungle, etc. All the typical climates
- Water : Of course, it's just not finished
- More environments will be added over time
- How big is the world? Continent-based, continents are around 4km x 8km x 1.5km high
- If you heal, do you get resources back? Yes
- As EQN is being developed (stories, quests, etc.) all of those features are going into Landmark. By the time EQN is out, Landmark will be filled with it's own worlds
- Landmark is never going away. It's a fully-supported game, not a phase
- If you don't want to build anything, is there stuff to do in Landmark? Exploring, collecting resources and selling them to builders. Freely explore between worlds. Combat will be coming eventually
- Exploring beneath your feet. Higher tiers are lower down; have to find or trade for the best resources
- Can give permissions to your claim (or open up to everyone, if you wanted)
- Customization : Gender, Face, Hair, Skin for starting
- Well-done player creations will be spotlighted by devs
- Opening/closing doors will be in by launch
Twitch - EQN Landmark Livestream: 11.13.13 at 4PM Pacific!