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Heallun
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I love this talk. I hate not being able to see anything but NPCs walking around reacting to items :| Too far out to tell I guess. SOE's always suffered from shitty optimization, though, and them playing with voxels just seems dangerous.
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No doubt, if you were around for planetside 2 pre-release they had big issues with forgelight well through their release. Lots of appologies.
I wouldn't put it past them to have similar issues with voxels and storybricks through release either.
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Well, StoryBricks doesn't seem like it's going to be an issue of poor optimization, though. The shit will either work in a cyclical pattern or will bug out very quickly near launch. And I was around pre release (and a few days post) of PS2 launch. I had unbelievably bad performance -- I believe it was related to my AMD CPU. Couldn't hang at the crown, you know? :3
But EQ1 ran kinda like shit for the era (dem load times), EQ2 has literally never stopped running like shit as far as graphics were concerned, Vanguard isn't their fault but still -- SOE product before demise. The company is filled with good ideas and poor execution, especially when you consider just how fucking good the WoW team has been / still are at making shit work. Complaints levied at blizzard are rarely about the smoothness of the experience and there's a reason for that.
Well at its worst landmark plays about as slowly as eq2 did at its worst, so with another year of tweaks + hardware advances I dont see eqn being as big a disaster as eq2 or vg
Blizz sets the bar for smoothness for sure but if we manage to get ps2 smoothness the game will be fine.
Blizz sets the bar for smoothness for sure but if we manage to get ps2 smoothness the game will be fine.
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Don't they plan to release EQNext on the PS4? Pretty sure they've said it already. The hardware is the hardware, I'd imagine Sony will want 60fps @ 1080p on it...
Then again, Landmark isn't coming to PS4, and perhaps the performance issues have more to do with the Landmark model than the Next one.
Ya fuck hardware advances they should build the game to run on 10 year old tech. ITs only a MMO with with voxels and destructible content so that should easily be playable on a tablet bro. Its not like CPU and GPU manufacturers put out new products and refreshes adding more horsepower and features on a bi-yearly basis........oh wait......
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The silicon Story Bricks needs, but not the silicon EQN deserves.
Yes let's design a game that relies on tech that's not out yet. Don't quit your day job.
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Trolls
or fucked up emo aliens
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Thats a trend i so despise with recent mmos. Theres not fat or ugly races. They all look like gay ass elves. And i love my elves but holy shit, give me variety. The last mmo i remember to deliver on the race front was warhammer online with them goblins for me.
Different races like those gives them personalities and helps me connect to them. Its like mmo developpers are trying to please to one crowd. And that crowd is the fucked up players trying to play the sexiest female toon in a social game. There i said it. Youre fucked up for trying to play a sexy female toon if youre a male gamer. And man do i have buds that fall into this category. I play a game to disconnect from reality. Give me fat ogres or weird iksars. Not iksars animated by human motion capture. Eq lizzards had a distinctive feel that went all the way even to the manner they swam around. Shit was awsome.
or fucked up emo aliens
Thats a trend i so despise with recent mmos. Theres not fat or ugly races. They all look like gay ass elves. And i love my elves but holy shit, give me variety. The last mmo i remember to deliver on the race front was warhammer online with them goblins for me.
Different races like those gives them personalities and helps me connect to them. Its like mmo developpers are trying to please to one crowd. And that crowd is the fucked up players trying to play the sexiest female toon in a social game. There i said it. Youre fucked up for trying to play a sexy female toon if youre a male gamer. And man do i have buds that fall into this category. I play a game to disconnect from reality. Give me fat ogres or weird iksars. Not iksars animated by human motion capture. Eq lizzards had a distinctive feel that went all the way even to the manner they swam around. Shit was awsome.
Well the EQN Kerrans are digitigrade, have an all-fours sprint, and a roaring animation; I imagine each race will get lots of unique animations this time around (come on, dwarf roll!).
Ogres are in their pre-cursed forms; more militaristic, intelligent
Iksar concept art looks very promising:http://i.imgur.com/4MRPkC3.png
Orcs, while not a playable race, seem pretty ugly
Hard to tell, but I like what I'm seeing so far.
Ogres are in their pre-cursed forms; more militaristic, intelligent
Iksar concept art looks very promising:http://i.imgur.com/4MRPkC3.png
Orcs, while not a playable race, seem pretty ugly
Hard to tell, but I like what I'm seeing so far.
Wouldn't playing something that isn't normally you IRL qualify as disconnecting from reality? What about a Puerto Rican guy playing an Asian character? Is that lame too?
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To be honest... the Luclin and EQ2 models all looked like "something done to a human" because they where- in order to do the armor as armor on top of the model- everything was one single skeleton just made bigger smaller etc... hopefully they move away from that and give us our unique races again.