EQN:Landmark Beta Starts March 26th!
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Ukerric
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As I was running around yesterday, I was seeing some pieces beginning to emerge. About everyone started building with Dirt, since you need so much materials, but there were a number of things with a visibly thought-out shape, as opposed on day 1 single-block pillars and blocky staircases.
Sturgeon's Law is going to apply though (90% of everything is utter crap).
My own challenge is a a floating stone cube balanced on one vertex. It is trickier than it looks, because the faces of the cube aren't going to be at 45 degrees or similar stuff (you can build easily 2 pyramids glued to each other, but that's not a cube).
Ukerric
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Full server name list from Reddit datamining: Courage, Liberation, Satisfaction, Understanding, Rebellion, Serenity, Determination, Confidence, Adventure, Gratitude, Prosperity, Success, Triumph, Victory, Opportunity, Inspiration
Laura
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What I love about Landmark is the lack of tutorials or distracting hand-holding crap (I hope it stays the same). You just spawn in the world and you're free. GOD IT FEELS SO GOOD!
Is this hard to do?
Imagine when the game has content for us to discover. Do we really need a "story" or "quests" in a game? How FUN this game feels just for the fact that I don't have to watch an in-game cinematic or follow quests.
Is this hard to do?
Imagine when the game has content for us to discover. Do we really need a "story" or "quests" in a game? How FUN this game feels just for the fact that I don't have to watch an in-game cinematic or follow quests.
Yeah, it feels great, and I haven't even begun to build yet.
There is no way I'm setting down my claim on lower ground, hills or GTFO !
Tier 1 gem on the surface right now. Should be easy to find in desert areas. I can't remember is that is the purple on or the yellow one (there are two yellow ones - one you can do with Iron and one you need tungston for). Use the map zoomed in a bit in desert areas to find the right colored smear.
btw, any of you trailblazers have a spare beta key? Would like one for good friend of me with financial issues
PM if you do have a spare, thanks!
PM if you do have a spare, thanks!
Ukerric
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Beta keys won't work until closed beta in march/april... and each key is valid for 1 week only.btw, any of you trailblazers have a spare beta key? Would like one for good friend of me with financial issues
PM if you do have a spare, thanks!
Ravishing
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Its amazing how many posts in this thread are about turning alpha off for a week+ until things are fixed. This is the point of alpha testing. Landmark benefits in that the scope is MUCH LESS than any other type of MMO. All they need to do is get critical mass in the game and start squashing bugs. Outages are normal. On the bright side, it's not like they have to balance combat, NPCs, quests, storylines, battlegrounds, zones, dungeons, classes, races, etc. Think about any other MMO and how much other random shit they have to deal with. Also think how smart it is that Sony has this kind of testing JUST for voxel manipulation. This will translate to an even more epic EverQuest game. Just dealing with voxels is enough to strain any company. It will take another company a ton of resources to mimic what Sony will have for the next EQ. Sony will have years of testing to make sure a voxel world can be as bug-free as possible.
My last alpha was GW2 and it was kinda the same shit, except much less players. The servers had outages but were never taken down for extended amounts of time. Devs work fastest when they see what the critical areas are. They made progress extremely fast, changing and adding things quickly week-to-week. Watching the progress is refreshing. If Sony can make all the changes they plan to this week then EQNL will already look like a much different game than it did 1 week ago. Watching the progress unfold is encouraging and keeps me wanting to log in.
You will likely lose/delete/recreate your "builds" 100s/1000s more times in this history of this game. Its the same as Minecraft. Us minecraft veterans have started new builds a ton and have lost a ton. Just because your stuff gets deleted doesn't mean they need to turn the game off. Just build something again. It's actually a pretty fun game considering how limited it is and there is a TON of potential to be unlocked. I have high hopes and am extremely happy with the path Sony is taking here.
My last alpha was GW2 and it was kinda the same shit, except much less players. The servers had outages but were never taken down for extended amounts of time. Devs work fastest when they see what the critical areas are. They made progress extremely fast, changing and adding things quickly week-to-week. Watching the progress is refreshing. If Sony can make all the changes they plan to this week then EQNL will already look like a much different game than it did 1 week ago. Watching the progress unfold is encouraging and keeps me wanting to log in.
You will likely lose/delete/recreate your "builds" 100s/1000s more times in this history of this game. Its the same as Minecraft. Us minecraft veterans have started new builds a ton and have lost a ton. Just because your stuff gets deleted doesn't mean they need to turn the game off. Just build something again. It's actually a pretty fun game considering how limited it is and there is a TON of potential to be unlocked. I have high hopes and am extremely happy with the path Sony is taking here.
Bruman
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My favorite part about this having a paid-for alpha and beta period, is that this basically gives it two complete "soft launches" of the game, so that when the game DOES release, many of the "opening day" garbage that we're all used to with multiplayer games will be hammered out.
Not to say there won't still be issues of course - but it'll still be that much better.
Not to say there won't still be issues of course - but it'll still be that much better.
Soygen
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Damn, I was really hoping to snag a decent claim on the new server first thing this morning before I left for work, but I guess they didn't get it up yet? I'm not even bothering until they do, as I just can't be bothered to run for 20+ minutes every time I want to get back to my claim(which was in a Tier I couldn't even farm yet!).
Think about how invaluable this whole experience is for the actual launch of EQN. The entirety of EQNL might as well be an alpha for EQN as they funnel more features into Landmark from the proper game. They've essentially made a marketable testing grounds where people can try and break their shit, then they learn and adapt their upcoming product.
Don't get me wrong, I'm enjoying the shit out of EQNL but holy fuck is it a brilliant marketing move on SOE's end. Hopefully it all equates to a smooth EQN launch.
build a hill in your claim and look down at all the peasants on the ground level.Yeah, it feels great, and I haven't even begun to build yet.
There is no way I'm setting down my claim on lower ground, hills or GTFO !
Jimbolini
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Stuff about crafting and combat.
He is so crazy open with the problems and the decisions behind what they do compared to other developers.
Paraphrased from interview "NDA? Well that is just something to keep information that we have a bad game from leaking. If the players in it are happy, why keep the NDA? Free Marketing!". (Is TESO still under NDA?.....)
Pretty awesome they are doing a PS2 style roadmap. It's a really awesome way to see what the devs are currently planning/thinking about with (usually) a tangible timetable.