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I'm debating with myself whether the fact that Delsin's an Indian somehow makes running down black dudes through the streets of Seatle somehow less racist. It's certainly less conventional in its racism...

French Revolution should be interesting, but I do hope they're willing to hang up the sabers-and-muskets era after this; it'd be nice to see something a little more visually distinct for the next one.

They updated the roadmap again:https://forums.station.sony.com/eqnl...roadmap.18810/ So caves have been officially pushed back to phase 2, but the rest of phase 1 should be implemented in the transition to beta.

Yeah, I wouldn't be terribly surprised to find that they try to power through all or most of the remaining phase 1 stuff so that they can implement it during the transition, as it would make sense to have things like caves in the beta build from the get-go.

Well, that and the fact that the beta package was advertised as starting on or before March 31, so they kinda had to switch to beta about now.

They said in that post that currently-existing characters won't be losing their traits, so this new system will largely be for new characters. Although I imagine current characters will still need to go out and collect the new traits they're adding. And since the option to buy traits is...

I'm kinda the same on the whole hard copy vs ebook thing; I'll do the occasional series as ebooks, but I generally prefer to go for the hard copy of the book. And I definitely can't do part of a series in physical books and part of it in ebooks. That's just madness.

Having seen some videos, it does look quite fun; and looking at the website, it looks like these devs are aware of the lore of the previous games, and are making a good effort to make this game fit in well with the greater story. I might actually pick this up when it releases. That said, I'm...

Latest roundtable video, on weather in Landmark: The idea of music changing in response to weather changes is a cool touch, and the fact they're even willing to discuss the idea of weather making substantive changes to the world's geography is pretty awesome, even if they're nowhere close...

From what Ponytail's said when talking about combat, it sounds like "no trinity" could be better described as "tanking not based around aggro," but rather through physically restraining the mob from getting to the other players or making the opportunity costs too high for the mob to want to...

They're doing that next week, evidently.

They've updated the roadmap post with some dateshttps://forums.station.sony.com/eqnl...roadmap.18810/ Caves are still a question mark, but aside from that, it looks like they're planning to have phase 1 finished in the next two weeks, and (I would imagine) start in on phase 2 with the last...

The simple fact that they're taking longer than a year to make this one is reason enough to feel hopeful that this'll be better than DA2 (really, how the hell did they think they would crank out a AAA rpg in a year?). Combined with that leaked demo video, I am, dare I say, cautiously optimistic...

The latest ebook, Rise of the Ringhttps://www.everquestnext.com/downlo...f-the-ring.pdf Deals with the dragons, and with the division between the Claws of Veeshan and the Ring of Scale. It also sounds like Kerafyrm exists in the EQN canon, as well.

Yeah, bugs were Origins' major downfall. I got the game somewhat late, and after it had been patched, but even then there were still a couple persistent bugs (although none that were truly game-breaking). Honestly, if they were to fix those (which they've explicitly said they won't), I would...

With this officially being the last Arkham game, I wonder if we can expect them to try their hands at other superhero properties? After the success of this series, I have to imagine Rocksteady just about has carte blanche with DC's roster; could it be time for a good Superman game?

And I believe they've said before that they consider the whole assassins=ninjas thing to be a little too obvious, so they aren't exactly in a hurry to do Japan.

Well, as I understand it, player housing in EQN will be based off of templates created in Landmark, so if you want to do the player housing thing but don't want to play Landmark, you'll have to make due with the things other people make. That's more or less it.

You can add me to the Infamous fanboy list as well; definitely looking forward to this.

Nice to see a roundtable that actually is shaping development, although they could've stood to expand a little more on what the new plan actually is. It sounds like the plan is a single tutorial for everyone, and then you get dumped in the city of your choice, but it could also be interpreted as...

According to the livestream from yesterday, the new biomes will be tundra and old growth forest.

Supposedly, they're putting a lot of their eggs in the monetizing-the-Player-Studio basket. Aside from that, I'd expect the the ability to pay upkeep with cash rather than resources, and shit like that.

Gameinformer gave it an 8/10 Also, here's Totalbiscuit's video on it He brings up a couple bugs he found in the game, and mentions that some of the levels are a little too "here are three paths through the level, pick the one you want to take" rather than "here's this big open space...

And here's the longer video they promised; turned out to be more like 50 minutes. An early (and evidently outdated) build, but still looking pretty damn awesome.

If we're still updating the list in the OP, you can officially put me down for the beta; finally got around to grabbing the settler's pack.

There are a couple EQN-related advantages to playing Landmark; not huge ones, but they're there. -if you create a character in EQN on an account that's also been used for Landmark, then you'll start out in EQN with access to the Adventurer class, as well as whatever regular starting class you...

As in letting players outright make mobs from scratch? As far as I know, that was never on the table. They've talked about letting players place mobs on their plots, and letting them fiddle with the mobs' Storybricks AI, but I imagine that's going to be a post-launch thing. Summer or Fall...

The latest video, this one on AI, which looks like it's going to basically be a moderately improved version of Skyrim Not as exciting as the previous videos, but they end it by saying that the next one will be 30 minutes of gameplay, which'll be cool.

I imagine we'lltechnicallybe in Phase 3 for part of beta, but functionally it will be more like Phase fixing-the-shit-added-in-phase-2, rather than seeing any Phase 3 features actually added in beta.

I'd imagine that would fall on the post-launch side of things. Although, they have been really cagey about promising other races, so we'll see if they show up at all.

Georgeson finished the development roadmap; reading now. Link Bah, ninja'd. EDIT: okay, so it sounds to me that Phase 1 is about getting all the basic functionality in place, and will probably be something like 2/3-3/4 of alpha, Phase 2 is for feature addition, and will be the end of...

My guess would be that the statue is one claim, while the McDonald's is a second claim someone managed to squeeze in under the buffer zone of the first one.

This one's come up a few times in discussions about Kickstarter, but I feel it warrants its own thread. So yeah, Kigdom Come: first person medieval rpg that looks like the love child of Skyrim, Mount and Blade, and pure awesome. Made its Kickstarter goal in, like, a day. Kickstarter page...

On or before March 31st. However, alpha was scheduled to hit on or before February 28, so take that as you will.

Yeah, Discworld is one of those series where it took the author a few books to really get a handle on how to write them. They should still definitely be read in publication order, but with the understanding that they only get better as the series progresses.

As I understand it, they aren't going to just grab random people's builds to stick into EQN. I recall them saying they'll do stuff like release concept art, and make a contest out of who can build it the best, and putthatin EQN, but not just any build they like the look of.

Huh; the link's working for me, and I'm not in alpha. Look's like the forums have been made public.

Well, the on-or-before dates they originally gave us for alpha and beta were only a month apart. Assuming they're still planning for only a month-long alpha, they do sorta need to start firing out new features pretty rapid-fire from here on out. I'd be a little surprised if next week doesn't...

One way to lessen the griefing potential of mobs being able to damage player structures would be to make it so that structures subject to that sort of damage would heal over time, just as the landscape heals outside of plots. That way you could still have mobs hulk-smashing their way through the...

The downfall of GW2's group combat was that their solution to getting rid of the trinity was to make it so all classes could perform all three roles at once; everyone could tank and/or CC, everyone could dps, and everyone had a dedicated heal slot on their hotbar, and everyone could do them all...