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Cardboard Fox posted:Can't wait for the battle royal mode announcement. If they are smart they'd lean into the hardcore type playstyle that is extremely popular right now.
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I might've given an "EverQuest but cartoon-y" a shot but not from these clowns lmao
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Sep 23, 2023 00:21
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that fire beetle is my friend and the flames they painted on his abdomen make him run faster (like jboots, which this game will also have when it launches)
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Sep 23, 2023 00:59
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Looks like discount WoW. Which I guess fits with their gameplay goals now as well.
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Sep 23, 2023 01:10
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Ancient Alpha pledges get you into the 247 test, so away we go. The new art style is fine, but man this Tarkov style of you die, you're whisked back to a hub and lose all your poo poo is loving terrible for an EQ1 style game where mobs never leash and one link is the difference between life and death. I know they said this is is supposed to drive players to do more testing as their testers were not doing enough because they couldn't turn out content fast enough to keep them engaged, but I find this setup SUPER unappealing. Movement and climbing with their stamina bar feels nice I suppose, but I'd rather play RO with 1x XP than deal with this. And to be clear Tarkov mode is only for this current test thing to set if it gets more testers actually playing. At which point if it fails, they go back into MMO mode which will only be pre alpha pledgers.
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Oct 2, 2023 13:43
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i'm sure this piece of poo poo game with less than a year's worth of development progress despite a decade of funding is going to be a tremendous success when people see the shelled bat with disturbing nipples and crazed eyes this is the worst piece of MMO concept art i've ever seen and i played every single MMO that came out between 2003 and 2010
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Oct 2, 2023 20:19
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I want to see it in motion first, I appreciate getting weird and stupid with monster designs
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Oct 2, 2023 20:27
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yeah I mean I definitely dig an exotic and distinctive world, and that bat is certainly distinctive, but feels like it verges more on the "hired a hosed up fetish artist from fiverr" than michael kirkbride on mushrooms inventing the cliff racer
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Oct 2, 2023 20:31
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i hope its eyes bulge out more when you hit it
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Oct 2, 2023 21:04
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I really like the nipplebat
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Oct 2, 2023 21:16
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LFM bat nipple quest. Why is the drop rate so bad?
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Oct 2, 2023 21:25
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I assume that bat has 3 eyes because one of those eyes is directly centered on the bridge of the nose.
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Oct 3, 2023 00:34
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I understand switching to a more stylised look to save on artists' time and system requirements, but man, that model.  The googly-eyed bat seems perfectly okay for a completely different kind of game. Fortnite, maybe. It certainly doesn't have the og EQ vibes (although it did have plenty of weird critters). Then again, this is never coming out in a decent state anyhow, but watching it somehow go even more off the rails is interesting.
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Oct 3, 2023 00:56
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r0rb posted:I assume that bat has 3 eyes because one of those eyes is directly centered on the bridge of the nose. thank you for pointing this out because i thought it just had loony toon rear end wobbly eyes
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Oct 3, 2023 02:12
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it's standard for a bat to have 2x the nipples of its average litter size
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Oct 3, 2023 02:13
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Do you think the nipples shoot acid? Or maybe there is a fire bat version that spits nipple fire streams.
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Oct 3, 2023 17:58
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onesixtwo posted:Do you think the nipples shoot acid? Or maybe there is a fire bat version that spits nipple fire streams. ROADMAP TO ALPHA - TO DO: Finish nipple bat emergent gameplay systems
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onesixtwo posted:Do you think the nipples shoot acid? Or maybe there is a fire bat version that spits nipple fire streams. That's a gas bat, so I assume it farts out of its nipples.
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Oct 3, 2023 22:03
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As previously mentioned my Alpha access got me in and they're doing some weird Tarkov style thing to try and get people testing more let's see how we fair. Alright, I like casters so let's do a Wizard first. https://i.imgur.com/c2Gpnls.mp4 On second thought, Wizards suck, let's do a Shaman. Ah yes, our first victory. World looks nice honestly, digging the new artstyle, I feel like my "armor" doesn't really fit the Shaman aesthetic, but eh we're just level 1. https://i.imgur.com/QOhwrsu.mp4 The rest is just me running around and taking in some scenery for a bit. Honestly I think the new art style is pretty nice overall, just a shame it's 7 years in after investors and pledges were asked to chip in using entirely different material. Also that this late in development is the least amount of races and classes actually playable since like... 4 years ago? https://i.imgur.com/jtkHlkm.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/NNWZ1JX.mp4 I absolutely cannot stand this Tarkov style of extraction gameplay though, so that's it for me.
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Oct 3, 2023 23:04
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how much did that cost you? asking for a friend
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Oct 3, 2023 23:19
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shirunei posted:how much did that cost you? asking for a friend I believe I gave them $200 yeeeaaars ago, pledges have changed since then though. It looks like the current alpha pledge is $250. This 247 test is available to Alpha tier, but when they go back to Pre Alpha normal testing that is expected to end.
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Oct 3, 2023 23:50
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Well, it kind of looks like Fortnite so maybe they will be able to capitalize on the new audience.
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I can’t think of a pair of genres and fanbases less compatible than old-timey Everquest fogeys and Escape From Tarkov twitch streaming sweatlords, other than their proclivity for playing like twelve hours a day
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Oct 4, 2023 00:18
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I dunno, have you seen the EQ raiding scene? Those guys and the Tarkov guys are like peas and carrots
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Oct 4, 2023 05:48
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the grass snake resisting your spell was my favorite part Was that snake your same level? even in EQ at level 1 you could kill a lowly snake.
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Ehud posted:the grass snake resisting your spell was my favorite part Yeah you can't see in the chat box I clipped to protect my name, I checked the snake and it conned white, so same level. The level 1 mobs on my Shaman seemed fine? I think that breed of snake is just over tuned.
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Oct 4, 2023 13:00
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is this a real thing from ben dean? it's floating around on reddit and people seem to think it's real, but I can't find a source other than a post on mmorpg.comquote:Ben Dean October 12, 2023.
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Oct 17, 2023 14:58
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oh hell yeah, we reached the 'MOBA pivot' phase of the kickstarting MMO life-cycle
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Ehud posted:is this a real thing from ben dean? it's floating around on reddit and people seem to think it's real, but I can't find a source other than a post on mmorpg.com Yes the monetization thing is legit, this is the email I got today. I was actually coming to this thread to post about it but see I've been beaten to it. quote:As you are eligible for Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen Pre-Alpha testing, you have been sent this survey to help us gather your input on some important decisions to be made for Pantheon and the potential of monetizing the 247 play mode. For further information on the 247 mode and its purpose and goals, please refer to the 247 Detailed Breakdown post. The concept of using this mode to help fund Pantheon is discussed in the 247 and Monetization post. Project Faerthale was supposed to be a years worth of pencils down, hardwork that went less than nowhere. The past few years is the least anyone has seen of the game since ever pretty much. Can't imagine why funding would've stalled recently. I'd still love if this game actually came out and followed the ideals it set out too. But now I'm expecting an announcement that they're changing engines from Unity next year and need to refactor everything again, and another class gets cut from PA. PrinnySquad fucked around with this message at 19:41 on Oct 17, 2023 |
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Oct 17, 2023 19:36
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what the gently caress is 247 anyway? what kind of game could you possibly make using MMO assets and gameplay loops (especially ones that look this awful) besides an MMO?
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Oct 17, 2023 20:24
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I knew this game wasn't going to anything even remotely like EQ but I'll admit I wasn't expecting it to be a MOBA battle royale.
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Sachant posted:I knew this game wasn't going to anything even remotely like EQ but I'll admit I wasn't expecting it to be a MOBA battle royale. oh lol. i can't even imagine how the relevant systems would intersect here. grinding grass snakes EQ style to die and start over for ???? benefit? even the freak old backers on the subreddit are jumping ship in droves over this ed: well, almost all of them, lmao 
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Oct 17, 2023 20:47
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Frog Act posted:what the gently caress is 247 anyway? what kind of game could you possibly make using MMO assets and gameplay loops (especially ones that look this awful) besides an MMO? A gacha old-school Everquest where every mob that you kill spins a roulette wheel and you can increase the % of cool item drops using Pantheon jewels that are purchased from the ingame store?
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i look forward to maxing out my pantheon fortnight rank exclusively via training sand giants onto all of the nerds grinding caimans on the beach
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Frog Act posted:what the gently caress is 247 anyway? what kind of game could you possibly make using MMO assets and gameplay loops (especially ones that look this awful) besides an MMO? The gifs posted in this thread are of 247. 247 uses all the same base gameplay of the MMO except they added Tarkov like elements -You start from a hub and login to a 1 hour session -You must form parties (even in PvE mode) outside the session in the hub -You have 1 hour in the zone to do whatever your task is or anything else -Healers cannot rez, there is no getting around you died from any reason you're out -You cannot adjust your spell loadout (maybe gear too? I forget) unless you're in the hub -If you die, you drop all your inventory, equipped items, and are ejected from the session Personally I find the notion of making exploring excruciatingly punishing, and making it harder to do social things like group to be pretty anathema to the whole purpose of their game, and find the whole mode is super unappealing. But I guess it's driving more player traffic then they were previously getting from testing the same zone/classes for a year straight.
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quote:Nothing like a good, very minor, art reveal 9 years into the making.
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poor cohhcarnage is gonna be so sad
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MMO Bomb did a nice write up of the whole current situation going on with the game. https://www.mmobomb.com/yep-i-m-officially-worried-about-future-of-pantheon-rise-of-fallen-now --- Also man, it's already been 3 years already since they did this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDpAxe-ccIA Which was 2 years after Project Faerthale kicked off: https://www.pantheonmmo.com/news/producers-letter-october-2020/ quote:By the end of 2018 we began work on Project Faerthale, which was to incorporate all of Pantheon’s systems into a playable version of the game. It was an ambitious project for our scrappy few, but it was the next logical step. And we went for it. All of 2019 and much of 2020 was used for Project Faerthale. Good thing they took care of this years ago, and dodged the bullet of having to redo any work, like all of their art assets and environments again.  quote:Pre-Alpha 5 is the culmination of Project Faerthale. By the end of PA5, the game will encompass the actual feel of Pantheon. It includes most systems (there is still a chance that we may need to hold off on some systems for this stage, depending on timing and resources) and it will include a full progression path from 1-50. Even though we want PA5 to offer a full adventuring gameplay experience for Pantheon, it is still a pre-alpha phase. It is not content-complete and all zones outside of big sections of Faerthale are in a grayboxed state. Previously-seen zones like Thronefast and Avendyr’s Pass have been redone to graybox spec to allow for the proper pipeline and optimization. 3 years later and you can get to level 10 in an extraction mode, in the dev admitted not MMO mode, of this MMO. PrinnySquad fucked around with this message at 20:08 on Oct 18, 2023 |
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Ehud posted:poor cohhcarnage is gonna be so sad Isn't he a major investor in the project now? Fools and their money.
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Do they really have so little content? Seems like if you're making EQ style grind, you could add a remort function and it wouldn't take much content to feed the beast more or less indefinitely.
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