EQN:Landmark Beta Starts March 26th!

EQL + PVE .... = EQN... or? What is happening?

Very basic PvE. Minecraft style.

Azeth_sl said:

EQL + PVE .... = EQN... or? What is happening?

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It hurts my brain less if I just think of Landmark as the toolkit for EQN, but without any release content.

Once the toolkit is ready for 1.0, they'll use Landmark to create EQN. Which means, we'll see all the systems EQN will use inside Landmark before, including monsters, AI, and probably even Storybricks.

That's exactly what Landmark is, the EQN toolkit with game play elements required to use them.

So essentially an EQN release date looking to be 2016 Q4 or what? I suppose they could be building the zones, doing the animations, writing the quests, etc., now but when so many underlining systems are not functional yet, it could be a long while before actual release.

Laerazi_sl said:

It hurts my brain less if I just think of Landmark as the toolkit for EQN, but without any release content.

Once the toolkit is ready for 1.0, they'll use Landmark to create EQN. Which means, we'll see all the systems EQN will use inside Landmark before, including monsters, AI, and probably even Storybricks.

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This is probably pretty true. Its also a big sandbox where they can try a lot of stuff from many types of settings into one huge sandbox and see what people like and what they don't. I see landmark as being a pretty amazing test bed they can use to spin off other products down the road because once the teething pains of the voxel engine get ironed out should make doing new games with it a lost simpler.

The patch this week if it goes as planned will have the first iteration of pathing for NPC's which should be an interesting experience because with the very 3d destructible nature of voxels thats likely one of the hardest hurdles they have.

Wuyley_sl said:

So essentially an EQN release date looking to be 2016 Q4 or what? I suppose they could be building the zones, doing the animations, writing the quests, etc., now but when so many underlining systems are not functional yet, it could be a long while before actual release.

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At this rate we may see closed beta by the end of next year for EQN but probably 2016 is about right. That would give them a full year in a live environment of landmark to iron a lot of the issues out.

Patch is 1pm pst.

And game will be down ALL DAY...until Thurs.


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Given what goes into them basically regenerating the islands to propagate all the lower cave systems not to surprising.

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Interesting to see that there are a couple mob types that are not simple floaters like the whisps or stationary things. Those should be an interesting test bed for how well the pathing can work when stuff is blowing up or being destroyed.

Lots of shit in there, may need to log in again.

Gollumconfirmed.

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early Landmark live right now, explaining many things.

The linking and triggering system is pretty crazy.. I dunno how it'll affect server performance, but I can imagine players doing some crazy shit with it

Skanda_sl said:

The ridiculously long patch notes.

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All that stuff you did before, is not how we want you to do it now. I mean I can understand iterating on a system, but some of these changes which invalidate the entire previous crafting progression ( a second time) just seem like they either dont want to show us the real progression, are just coming up with whatever someone thinks is cool, or some combination of both.

Edit: It makes it difficult to care about whatever new stuff they've put in, because next patch it'll probably be removed or changed completely.

I think a lot of the stuff we saw before was placeholder until the other necessary systems were in place

I think the crafting is now closer to the "release form" or at least what they want for open beta. Most of the previous versions were just basic iterations to see what worked and what people liked and they are taking that and advancing it. Those kinds of changes will slow down once you hit open beta.