Did Everquest 1 - Project Monster (?) ever make it to alpha or beta? PC mobs

Goatface

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think it was call Project Monster, a server where players would control the mobs. remember reading posts about it, but was thinking it was just internal testing
 
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It made it to live servers briefly. Was very cool. People learned pretty quickly now to grief with it tho. I remember popping up as a kobold in the Warrens and going way far in, hitting another kobold, and starting a giant train that wiped out a couple Erud groups. There was a mob level limit that was pretty low- maybe 6 or so? So it's not like you could be a badass Lguk mob
 
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It was live, but mostly because of faction issues it was too easy to grief noobs with. If they made the monster you possessed kos to all, it would of been a fun little thing to use.

Spawning as a lizardman shaman was great.
 
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I remember this. Unfortunately I missed the one day or so it was on live. My buddy said it was super surreal to be fighting in Everfrost and mobs would just start walking backwards. I believe this was '00 / '01.
 
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It was an amazing amount of fun. Sad that they never made a server out of it or a special event in random zones once in a while.
 
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About what time did this happen? I wanna say I vaguely remember this. Sounds amazing.
 
Arbitrary

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Blitz said:
About what time did this happen? I wanna say I vaguely remember this. Sounds amazing.
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It was one of the best ideas that never went anywhere. While the propensity for misuse was high they really should have brought it back for special events. With a few tweeks it could have really been something. Incorporated in to an expansion with a few high risk high reward zones in which players could run some of the monsters and there could have been some real cool emergent game play.
 
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Blitz

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If they ever wanted an idea that might bring in people that have never even played the game, that might be it. Badass idea, a shame it never happened.
 
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It was great my pvp guild went to Karana and were able to all get in Freeport. We ran around like it was devils night griefing noobs.

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I kept getting snakes in Butcherblock and Kick was an actual attack skill.
 
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I remember back in classic there was what I thought to be a GM event where you could select a random monster during character select. And it was always random. No way to save the progress/levels you've earned. But there was some really strong monsters that people managed to level up. It was a fun experience. I was a green snake in West Commonlands and a Batling in GFay (I think). I got bored of it quickly, but it was fun for a bit, just to go and hunt down players by being a psudo badass NPC. I remember moving/circling a lot as the snake to attack newbs from the back over and over.
 
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Arbitrary said:
It was one of the best ideas that never went anywhere. While the propensity for misuse was high they really should have brought it back for special events. With a few tweeks it could have really been something. Incorporated in to an expansion with a few high risk high reward zones in which players could run some of the monsters and there could have been some real cool emergent game play.
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There's a version of it apparently in Doom Eternal. You can have two players drop as demons on a doomslayer playing normally (if he's checked the box allowing it).
 
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Masakari

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I remember this, I was wondering what happened to it lol. Jesus I would have paid a higher subscription premium just to be able to control mobs in places like Velketors or Kael Drakkel.
 
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