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Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord


Official Website
Release Date: 2019 (maybe)
:siren:Backer Beta: July 4th:siren:

Camelot Unchained is a spiritual successor to Dark Age of Camelot, an old school MMORPG where Realm vs Realm (large group pvp) is the primary content. Several people who worked on DAoC also work on this game, including lead designer Mark Jacobs. This game is still alive because Jacobs secured another round of funding early this year from some investor group in new york.

Unlike DAoC, which had a significant pve element alongside rvr, this game will be much more rvr oriented. You progression is dependent on your realm's ability to take and hold regions, which are divided in a circle with a big important city in the middle.

Like DAoC, there will be three realms, each with their own set of unique races and similar classes. The Arthurians are going to be the most popular realm because they're albions, it's the realm of king aruthur and the unspoken good guys who wear plate armor, they will zerg you to death. The Vikings are midgard and every goon has a rock-hard throbbing erection for them, which means most goons will play that realm until a few months later when they can't prove to stop the alb zerg without pre-nerf zerkers. Tuatha Dé Danann are hibernians, they're the realm albs and mids have their wars in because it's just easier to find fights there and they'll team up with mids to at least try and stop the alb zerg.

In addition, players will get the chance to build structures using a voxel-like system. It's not the voxels from Everquest Landmark so that's a plus, but it also makes things look kinda samey in their blocky appearance. It looks like you can use them to build your own house or guild hall, but also for fortresses in rvr.

Crafters are supposed to be a bigger deal, as in you need them to exploit resources, build poo poo, and equip players with the good poo poo. It's expected that you bring crafters into the line of battle.

This game is lacking in recent gameplay clips, here's hoping we get something interesting out of the backer beta.

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Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord

I said come in! posted:

This is making me want to play Dark Age of Camelot while waiting for Camelot Unchained to go live. There is a user created free server but it's based on classic DAoC and is not even remotely accessible or easy to play for newer players.

You probably can't wait but DAoC will have a permanent free to play option this fall. http://darkageofcamelot.com/content/endless-conquest-faq

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
Make a new one, the old one is archived.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
lol this game is mwo but with tiny mans? crazy.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
Not having any pve is good in theory, but so far nobody has shown how to have level disparity and also fairness. Pvp demands a certain level of fairness, where both sides have inherent/passive values that are the same or very close, leaving only player skill to be the deciding factor.

DAoC made it clear that RvR is a max level activity, only later adding battlegrounds as an alternative to pve, but you didn't get nearly as much xp and it took until trials of atlantis to have battlegrounds for each level bracket. WAR did a little better, but it was clear that those at the high end of each bracket had a big passive advantage over those at the bottom. GW2 did a little better as well, bumping everyone to max level in wvwvw, but didn't address the disparity in gear.

It isn't clear to me how this game is going to approach the problem.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord

PriNGLeS posted:

Yeah they just revamped all the restrictions too, they were pretty brutal before. Not bad, now.

still not allowed to own a house apparently

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
It's hard to care when so many other kickstarted MMOs either didn't make it or were stillborn on release. It's just expected now.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord

bird food bathtub posted:

I think it's funny that it's a legitimate question to ask "Which July is the thread title referring to?"

Make a suggestion and I'll ask a mod to change it.

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Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
The devs will never have to worry about "time to penis" if they don't ever finish the game :smuggo:

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