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LFG systems never work out, a global chat channel for finding groups would be preferable. The LFG system in Vanguard was hardly ever used, it was only useful for getting a list of people for your level range and then whispering them. I know some people hate global chat channels but I think it's...

Also thought he handled the VG question well... except he has never elaborated on why the game's code was just a mess. You can't blame that on Microsoft regime changes or the early launch. To this day SoE can't patch the game without a ton of game breaking bugs being introduced.

Silius was the man behind the level cap increase which was VG's worst content update it ever had. It forced people to grind mobs in the shittiest zone ever (Shores of Darkness) after he nerfed the xp on all standard lvl 50 content (Nusibe, Old Targ, Rahz Inkur, etc.) Our guild resorted to...

He looks like David Brent in the dark.

He was in my old guild. He raided with us in Pain for a while if you remember.

Except they half-assed it. It released the same week at WoW's first expansion in a barely playable state; it doesn't take a genius to realize what was going to happen.

Was going through my old photobucket account and found these. The first few are from the first week of launch.

I think i'll upgrade to the 250 if this thing gets funded.

Sounds kind of interesting, you can't just slap together 8 abilities without regard for what school of magic/combat they are in. It also makes sense from a balancing perspective, you can have a higher number of very power abilities but you might not be able to fit them all into a single set.

I'm not defending the kickstarter but they said this from the beginning. The KS is the first step of their development plan, the 800k is just to prove that an audience exists for this type of MMO. When the real development begins they are going to look for full funding from either a 2nd...

Brad not posting in a few days + strange renaming of the Shadowknight was all it took to send you guys into a fritz. This place never disappoints.

Not sure if this was posted yet, but I noticed the class reveal was already listed: 1. Cleric 2. Dark Knight 3. Crusader 1/24/14 4. Rogue 1/31/14 5. Enchanter 2/4/14 6. Wizard 2/7/14 7. Shaman 2/11/1 So 2 tanks, 2 dps, 2 healers, and 1 CC.

Night time doesnt seem that dark

You guys are crushing my dreams.

Doesn't look like my Halfling Bard is gonna make it.

I still say it's 50/50 whether or not it gets funded. They missed out on the initial surge because of the poor execution/hype, I still think it can still be salvaged but we'll have to wait and see. The biggest problem is making all the old EQ players aware that this project exists and is aimed...

Didn't UT say he was an ex-NFL player in the old 38 Studios thread?

I started a thread on the Emerald Dream forums (Vanilla WoW emu server).

Nice shitty Dell monitor and vanilla UI.

I think it will just barely make the funding goal at this rate, at most the first stretch goal. The question is which publisher are they going to pitch this too?

In fairness, Shroud of the Avatar looked awful in their first videos when they were using all placeholder art, and that game looks totally different just 9 months later. But the smart thing Garriott did was make sure the game was instantly recognizable as a spiritual successor to Ultima. The...

The problem with Telegraphing in recent games like Rift and FFXIV is that you must 1) Zoom all the way out 2) Stare at the ground & 3) Avoid the red circles, line, or cone. That's what you had to do for almost every dungeon and raid mob in both of those games. Positioning and movement should...

I just don't think the KS page properly hyped the features that makes the game 'old school' and 'hardcore'. Look at Project Eternity for example, their whole PR campaign was built around the idea of Baldur's Gate + Planescape + Icewind Dale meshed into a single game. The pantheon page/video...

Brad, I'd like some clarification on the difference between the open dungeons and instanced ones. I mean, why would people go for contested named mobs when they can just enter an instance? This makes the loot situation potentially very idiosyncratic where loot from instances are in abundance...

The biggest problem with the Kickstarter page is you don't get too good a sense of how different it will actually be from the myriad of WoW clones that have come and gone over the years. If I didn't know much about EQ or VG and saw this page it would seem like a pretty standard MMO to me...

KS is up! Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen by Visionary Realms, Inc. Kickstarter

So I guess there will be instances.... meh.

There are already 2 Kickstarter MMO's based on PvP: Camelot Unchained & Pathfinder... so why should Pantheon make it a priority? There is no hardcore PvE MMO out or even in development, they should stick to that.

Hopefully the KS page launches tonight.

Vanguard actually had a pretty good system called Equipment Expertise where every piece of gear had a % value based on your level. You could wear all your gear as long as all the %'s added to up <100% - so you could equip gear and weapons higher than your level but they would be a higher % than...

This happened because the combat system was drastically changed after most of the class abilities were already created. I believe it was towards the end of Beta 2 when the "Reactive" combat system was scrapped for a more traditional one; this is why as a Bard you had spell damage abilities not...

Since everyone is armchairing I may as well throw my 2 cents in. This assumes of course there is more leveling content than anyone one character can complete like in EQ or VG. An idea I've had for one aspect of AA's is this: If you mentor down to any major area or dungeon and "complete" it...

Mixed feelings about Silius being on the team. He created some good things in VG like Equipment Expertise and the Crafting system... but the "Shores of Darkness" and "Expansion" updates for VG were a disaster.

I would actually be very surprised if it doesn't get funded and is indeed vaporware. Everyone knew what state Vanguard was in when it launched and yet it still sold ~200,000 box copies; the allure of a current gen "hardcore" PvE mmo was enough to get people to buy. And my suspicion is that...

I watch this once a day.

No forced first person thanks.

I like the art... but those shoulders and sword need to be given back to WoW.