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February newsletter is supposed to be dropping tomorrow. Hopefully its pretty beefy on the info given their silence for the past couple of months.

Nows a good time! Content builders have started the process of building quests and setting npc behavior, mostly in Tursh so far.

Most of our information comes from data collection, the majority of which was in the last 6 months (post-sunset announcement). It would be great if DBG would release the database to us, but its probably not going to happen (We've asked but no response). We have hundreds of thousands of npc...

Yup, I edited my last post. I went and looked it up and did see that it says alpha, not pre-alpha.

I think pre-alpha (not alpha) was supposed to start by the end of the year, but either way you are right and they are behind schedule (unless we won't actually even hear when pre-alpha starts due to NDA reasons). It could be going on now for all I know. EDIT: I stand corrected, their Faq does...

It sounds like they recently got a second round of funding that I think they mentioned was going to partially go to artists. Hopefully that means custom character models and animations and my guess would be they start releasing new gameplay videos after that. By all accounts, they have a...

The writing format is still pretty over the top, but I like the zone artwork. Reminds me of Caiel Brael in vanguard.

You can attack and kill stuff with auto attack but using your spells is getting some TLC on the back end so those are temporarily not working. More and more spells should be coming online soon though. You can also do a bunch of quests in isle of dawn and see the beginnings of diplo being...

Only time will tell if the implementation here is any better. I wouldn't be upset, though, if a lot of Vanguard's mechanics made it into Pantheon. Hmm, I don't remember what that was. In our emulator database, we have all the attributes and stats that were present at the sunset, and there are a...

Thats hysterical! I absolutely wouldn't mind if that was the Pantheon death animation.

Speaking of perception, there was a raid mob in Vanguard called Zodilfin. He had an obscene amount of hit points and was basically unkillable unless you had enough casters there who could counterspell his big nuke by reflecting it back onto him. To be able to do that though, you had to have a...

On a side note, as I was looking at the race pictures, I couldn't help but think how awesome it would have been if the human model was displayed with Brad's face. I would have given him so much credit for being that brash.

I don't know if this bit was mentioned yet here because it was kind of buried in the FAQ. This is exactly what many here said they needed to do in order to develop a game. As Convo and a few others have pointed out. I think the update is going to be much more than a website. If the above is...

Yup, I stand corrected on that one.

I have never said people should not consider previous facts. My post was directed at the people who refuse to introduce any new facts into their worldview, such as the current team (the 20 odd people in addition to Brad) being stable for the last year and making tangible progress as evidenced by...

That would probably be next to impossible to prove, so I highly doubt it. As an aside, I think a few of them have returned to the team.

Yes, and I am completely on board with that. They have stated that alpha is supposed to start by the end of 2015. Nobody should get indefinite credibility, and if people are still saying "Alpha is just around the corner" after delay after delay, they are the ones that have lost objectivity and...

I'm not talking about everyone who naysays the project because Brad definitely dug himself a deep hole right from the start, and there have been a lot of valid criticisms (Rerolled tried to save him from the kickstarter with excellent feedback). I'm not even saying people arent right to distrust...

This is definitely a frustrating aspect of this whole thread. I don't get excited about Pantheon because of Brad per se (although I like his design ideas, in general), but I do get excited and feel optimistic about what the rest of the team is doing and what they have accomplished in the last...

I think at one point an official source said there were about 500k items in the game, which included the huge number of permutations for crafted gear. We have about 1/10th of that number in our item database. There simply weren't enough people collecting to get all the mob dropped items in our...

I have heard that too, so I don't really know how much he had to do with the class design. I'm hoping the class releases coming soon will be innovative, like the disciple, and bloodmage. A lot of the traditional classes of Vanguard had interesting takes on them as well. I loved the Necro pet...

I could have been clearer with that statement. After the initial implosion, I did not believe the game would ever see the light of day. I stopped following it for a bit, but started again during the sparkling era because it was pretty entertaining with all that drama. After Chris took over, I...

I think you are right, but the downside is that only a very few people seem interested in making an EQ style game. Brad just happens to be one of them. I'm perfectly fine playing a niche game with a small population though. I like what Chris Perkins is doing for the project and I'll remain...

I believe that screenshot was taken as an "after" shot at the same angle as the before shot to show how the look of the game changed with Unity 5 and incorporating the new atmospheric concept art.

Hah, yeah, thats another one we plan to revert. It'll definitely take some tuning though.

You're right, "final state" is a bit confusing. We are trying to recreate the game largely as it was at sunset, because the items, quest dialogues, spawns, etc... were all collected from the last 6 months. That doesn't mean we won't be making changes to how the game plays. For instance, I am...

Things like the death penalty can definitely be changed and it would be easy to disable any or all of the rifts. The continental boats would be harder since we don't have a collect of them spawning since they were removed from the game prior to our collection efforts. It would be possible to...

We are shooting to build an emu for Vanguard in its final state just because thats what we were able to packet collect. A lot of the fed ex quests will probably be missing though since we didn't have time to collect them all. We did get a lot of the major quests though, such as all the parts of...

Reposted from the Ragefire name thread. Does TFO accept hardcore vets who are forced into the playstyle of a filthy casual due to RL commitments? I'd play half the day if I could, but sadly I can only manage 0-3 hours at most. I have a high level necro on Tunare so I'm going with a necro...

I actually did make my char on Lockjaw after seeing that the guild moved. I just figured both of these threads were probably in use. I'll post this over there. Thanks!

Does TFO accept hardcore vets who are forced into the playstyle of a filthy casual due to RL commitments? I'd play half the day if I could, but sadly I can only manage 0-3 hours at most. I have a high level necro on Tunare so I'm going with a necro again (named Tesseract) so I can see what it...

You're right, we can't take donations of any kind or it could lead to a cease and desist. We are still working on it and making some steady progress though. We are working on the attribute system now and then we will start implementing combat.

I have no interest in how fairly credit is apportioned in the gaming industry. I also won't profess to know what he is or isn't contributing to this project, as that's between him and the Pantheon team. I just want a challenging, group oriented game without spreadsheet, boring itemization. Maybe...

Thats pretty much what they said. They are working towards Alpha 1 later this year supposedly in which the level 1-10 areas will be tested with 5 (I think) of the classes. They implied that they have multiple zones in progress. The stated goal is to test the combat mechanics, skills, and...

Stirhaad has so much potential. I did a run through with my monk and grabbed spawn data for the whole dungeon. It shouldn't be hard to turn that into a sebilis style dungeon with rare nameds with good loot and a raid component with syranoth. We can make our own raid mobs too. Just need some...

No worries. When you take it for a test drive before buying, go back in time and invest all your money in Apple. Asking price = covered.

I was thinking the exact same thing. I can't think of a reason why they would remove the lifetime sub option right now unless VC was a very real possibility and this was maybe a contingency of that funding.

The unity store assets are not a huge thing to me if they at least make their own custom avatars and equipment models. As it is, I thought the video looked good. IMO the environments are as good or better than most games out there right now. I would have no hesitation in playing a game that...

Hah, that sounds awesome. I played a rogue from release, later played a monk, and ultimately played a necro. I toyed with a wizard, but only took him into the 30s and that was after CV was changed. The original iteration sounds like big rewards for big risks. I think we can accommodate that. We...

How about that database?