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I don't think Darkpaw would be willing to take the risk of buying a new IP that's stuck in such an early stage of development-hell when they're clearly making decent money from people's nostalgia for a 1999 game. They're not Smed-era SOE that was willing to take a punt at things.

Vaniki seems pretty well populated currently.

I think the main difference is this will have players. The other severs are apparently dead and it seems the community has been waiting to jump on this one for a while.

What did he stream? The unfinished zone and non-functional netcode? Any link to VOD I must have missed it?

You can get 40 on Vaniki in a couple days grouping, especially with potions. Lots of zones available and lots of people levelling up and grouping in them.

Speaking of big streamers covering Pantheon. Has Cohh jumped off the train? I don't think he's covered or mentioned anything to do with Pantheon in quite a while now.

I imagine the people who are interested in downing raid targets ASAP are on Vaniki. Yelinak is more of a casual-p99 nostalgia server.

Atlas has a release date: June 24th Patch 1.65 Came out in October 2003: https://camelotherald.fandom.com/wiki/Patch_Notes:_Version_1.65

The fact they've managed to convince you that a single unfinished game is an equivalent hobby to Warhammer is quite remarkable.

If more people were more willing to let Druids etc into groups instead of being myopically min-maxy about holy trinity classes then they wouldn't need to solo kite so much.

Have you ever waited for a game release so long you started conversing with AI-generated forum text posts? I hope you sort out your mic popping & sibilance issues before you start your podcast.

There's no one being interviewed at 1:14. The host is still doing their intro and then there's silence for about two minutes.

Since when did anyone watch EQ on Twitch anyway? Vaniki seems to have more of the hardcore raiders. Yelinak is a standard progression server that people will get tired of when they get their fill of nostalgia and/or realise that if they're going to do old content they might as well do it...

You run this?

Have you considered you might be missing some social cues from peoples' replies in this thread?

Furor was playing EQ and running PUG raids while working for Blizzard? WTF?

Yeah they have zero incentive to move close to release when the current "crowdfunding" situation is paying salaries.

How are queues for Yelinak? Vaniki was ~40min at launch

Wow they really lucked out randomly picking the name of someone who would be willing to spend the next five years doing unpaid promotion for their game out of a hat!

Bazgrim really should disclose whatever it is VR are paying him.

Hey Spotify you know that pervy guy that got fired from Blizzard? How would you feel about sponsoring a podcast about a guild he ran for a game in 1999?

Can we talk about Pantheon?

The last world-first FoH had was Lucifron in January 2005. Since then it's been totally eclipsed by the big WoW guilds in terms of reputation.

I think it's time for Mr Sox to start his own thread.

Literally the FIRST question asked of them they ignore and skip. It's not unreasonable to ask when alpha will be at this point. They should also answer questions like "how many clients have you had connect to a server thus far" and "how many zones are currently functional" rather than bullshit...

This looked better. Notice how the mud/road/grass textures are properly blended together instead of just painted straight onto the terrain with a hard circular brush. And doesn't look like someone's first Unity project. I'm guessing this stuff they played with Cohh is no longer compatible with...

Mining comfirmed!

In which case they will have successfully implemented a feature EQ2 has had since the Faydwer expansion.

Returned to EQ2 recently for a bit and was surprised at how high level (and few and far between) the quests and mobs in the Antonica zone were. Forgot that there actually used to be low-level zones WITHIN Qeynos that you spent a while in. The new player experience is very different now.

Pantheon's going for the semi-realistic look of Vanguard, but its models look like they're from 2012. M&M is deliberately going for a more timeless deliberately low-poly look which also fits its theme.

It's bizarre

Furor is not, and never has been, a developer. He made quests and was later a "creative director" for a game that already existed when he joined the team.

Thank fuck they saw fit to update us that they're considering implementing a feature that's basically been standard in MMOs since 1997.

No wonder. Their key pitch point was Brad and now that he's gone they're stuck with trying to explain to a bunch of guys in suits how "y... you have to group" is going to be a good return on their investment.

What did you see? (Or not see)

Who is Bazgrim anyway? Is he being paid by VR or is he some sort of fanboy?

This aged well... https://www.wolfsheadonline.com/the-rehabilitation-of-blizzards-alex-furor-afrasiabi/

So TorilMUD

So the multiplayer demo they showed with Cohh was just some standard 8-16 man multiplayer hacked together with Photon or something? Have they ever stated at any point the maximum number of clients they've had connected at once?

Why does a project that after eight years still has a "roadmap to alpha" have artists on board? Why are they employing people to do things that usually come much later in a game's development when they have less of a core product to show than many hobbyist projects?