EQN:Landmark Beta Starts March 26th!

Going build a trailer park i think

Springbok_sl said:

CS, believe it or not has been amazing for this game so far. While this game isn't for me, the way they've handled refunds has engendered a ton of good will from me going forward. Can't believe I'm typing this, but other companies need to take a page from SOE on how they've gone about this so far. Not sure why Minecraft got its hooks in me so quickly and this didn't....... Will definitely check this out later on down the road though, no doubt.

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Might be that Minecraft has a faster curve when it comes to digging up shit? Even my Legendary true-silver pick is fast, but it isn't that fast. One of the things I loved about Minecraft is that the cubes scratched my OCD itch when it came to digging (i.e. all tunnels 16x16 or w/e), and the digging in Landmark is messy, until you delete voxels on your claim with the square tool. And yes, SOE is doing an amazing job on this roll out. I don't even recognize them.

I think on reset that I will be trying to maximize my Burled Wood resource. Fuck that stuff is a slow grind and so required for everything.

Not sure where they want people in progression, but I was able to bust it out and get an iron pick in about 5-6 hours. I did not do a claim and have been using people's claim structures to build. Some one built a nice area off the spires in one of the T2 zones and it has good craft stations.

Tharkis, a guildie <Phank> has a nice writeup on how to change key bindings. He is a big fan of ESDF and used that:

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So, for people like myself who the first thing that they do when they play a game is change the keybindings to something comfortable for them to play, the current lack of any keybinding changing options can be very frustrating. But no fear ! There IS a way to change your keybindings right now, but it's a bit of a hack.

The default keybindings are stored in a file in your landmark install directory named InputProfile_Default.xml

If you just edit the file however, it wont take any changes... this is because the patcher overwrites this file (it is the defaults file, and there is no InputProfile_User.xml saved out currently, like in PlanteSide2)

You can however get around this by following these steps

1) Save off a copy of the XML file to a convenient location (for me I did my desktop)
2) Create a shortcut to open your landmark base install directory in the same location
3) Edit the XML file to change the hotkeys as you desire. I'm an ESDF player, so I changed the keys such that the key that was bound to F is now bound to A and the grapple key that was on E is now on W (so my grapple options are W and R on either side of my forward key) and my WASD is remapped to ESDF

4) Now here's the hack. Open the launcher and patch EQN:L DO NOT HIT PLAY. Make sure auto-play is not selected.

5) with the launcher open and with the play button ready, open your shortcut to the landmark install directory.
6) copy your modified InputProfile_Default.xml file to the landmark install directory
7) hit play, enter game, enjoy your new keybindings.


If anyone wants, my modified ESDF profile is saved out at

http://www.tharkis.com/landmark/Inpu...le_Default.xml

You can use that if all you want to change is from WASD to ESDF.

Next up, I'm working on inverting the Y axis on the mouse. (In planetside2 this was done by adding InvertVerticalLook=1 to the [General] section of UserOptions.ini) this is not working currently in Landmark however, though it does save properly and not overwrite when you patch.

Springbok_sl said:

CS, believe it or not has been amazing for this game so far. While this game isn't for me, the way they've handled refunds has engendered a ton of good will from me going forward. Can't believe I'm typing this, but other companies need to take a page from SOE on how they've gone about this so far. Not sure why Minecraft got its hooks in me so quickly and this didn't....... Will definitely check this out later on down the road though, no doubt.

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My experience with SOE customer service and billing has been pretty good in the last year or so. Had two billing errors throughout the year with PS2 as well not getting proper credit for the anniversary stuff, all resolved within a day and to my financial advantage.

Smed has been touting that they turned over a new leaf going forward around the time PS2 was about to launch, my personal experience says that's actually true and not just bull. Of course others may see it differently.

Yeah so after deleting my claim, and not being able to get the same spot back, I have seen literally zero spots to claim on all of the maps I have been to. Agonizing, where is your claim at? I remember there being a couple near there.

was it mentioned how they were going to monetize this later? vanity+cutofallsales only i hope?

If you transfer to a different continent make sure you shut the game down and restart. There is a bug where claims from other worlds will show up after you switch. That could be part of your problem.

driedcatnip_sl said:

was it mentioned how they were going to monetize this later? vanity+cutofallsales only i hope?

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They will take a cut from all sales through Player Studio, that should be a decent chunk if this becomes as popular as they hope. Other than that, expect lots of vanity items + subscription perks.

Will try that Lenas, and see if that works.

By the way, just got a lovely, rage filled message from a poster here calling me a "shill" for this game lol. Love you guys!

*edit* That worked, thanks.

EQ servers down unexpectedly. Wonder if they are shuffling hardware around.

Smed did say a new server was going to be implemented today.

Don't see how anyone could be called a shill. Just about everyone has had positive things to say as of late, even with the problems inherent to the "launch". As many have stated that they didn't like Georgeson at first but his openness and ability to engage the community have made them converts. SOE is, for all their past faults, approaching EQNL the right way. Even the most ardent SOE hater has to give a bit of grudging respect for that.

Blazin_sl said:

well seeing how many recipes I have to go with craptastic amounts of burl wood makes me not want to bother. I'm nearing the end of T3 and needing 1000-3000 per recipe is getting old quick

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Find two trees close together and Auto hotkey that crap overnight

Soygen_sl said:

Someone private messaged you here for being a shill?

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Well they were mad because of something I said, and mentioned that by "looking at my post history" I came across as a shill for this game. I guess you are either an idiot for sharing annoyances with the current alpha ("lol these fags are complaining about alpha? hurr hurr") build (I guess we are all supposed to be stoic androids), or you are a shill for being happy with how SOE is handling things. Not sure how you can win.