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Xerge

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Pathetic to spend $20 on a cosmetic to Amazon, particularly when AGS is handling the game so poorly. You should feel attacked.
I haven't. I wanted to see the response.

Edit: Honestly - I think the game is being handled fine. The development team is showing progress, learning, and genuinely connecting. I know business is business and you fail, you fuck up, and you lose. However I just don't think that this is the case.
 
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Daidraco

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I haven't. I wanted to see the response.

Edit: Honestly - I think the game is being handled fine. The development team is showing progress, learning, and genuinely connecting. I know business is business and you fail, you fuck up, and you lose. However I just don't think that this is the case.
I just got done watching that. Few things I think they should have addressed that they didnt, but they did cover a lot of ground in that. Im happy the Mutation dungeons are coming in January, or at least to PTR. Also good to know that they truthfully admitted that the reward for dungeons is lacking at best. I agree though, that the dev team "appears" to at least be getting a handle on things. Took them 3 months and losing 90% of its player base, but it is what it is.
 
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tl;dr copy pasta

- They are slowing down to test more before releasing new features

- Server mergers are going well

- They want to add more dynamic events in the open world

- They plan to add more mob variety and cultures to new world. Introduced through new zones and a revamp of old zones to keep all zones relevant.

- "Mutators" seems to be the big feature they are jazzed about

- Big section on bans and bots. Nothing important so far.

- At one point they wrongfully banned people who were gathering too efficiently because they believed no human in their right mind would play the game like this.

- They have a long list of bugs they are working to fix. Most egregious bugs addressed first, then basically the ones that have been around for awhile. Forums and ingame best place to report.

- Leveling up trees in Winter convergence give better presents

- New activities will eventually be available

- more information on the big new feature "Mutators"

- Expeditions you can add Mutators to augment AI in expeditions to make it more difficult for higher rewards

- Sounds like the mutators will change each week

- 10 difficulty levels

- Expect to need to stack things like fire resist or ice damage to be able to complete on the higher end

- Will be in January PTR

- Firestaff will probably get a damage buff. Ice Guantelet should get more CC. They feel they need to amp both up a little bit

- In December expect OPR to have lower afk timers and bot detection as well as changing the score system

- Blunderbuss next weapon to be released

- "Run and gun"

- Greatsword "working on it" -Concept of stance switching

- Daggers - On the table, near front but its not their yet

- Shield + another weapon not on table yet

- Lead dev is a great axe / hammer user

- Doing high level Mutators will give you a brand new resource needed to upgrade specific weapons. This will be needed to do the higher level mutators.

- They will be reducing the distance cost modifier on azoth shrines and adding more shrines in the world to key locations

- shrines will be on the map specifically even before you discover them so you know where they are instead of just a ?

- Working on a whole branch of new quests.

- They are excited about quests where npcs follow you.

- They plan on wrapping up the 1st chapter of main story quests. In the future they will introduce more Historical and Mythological figures into the mix

- They want to add more "discoverable" things. Similar to the Ghost Ship in Monarchs Bluff.

- They heard the community loud and clear that they wanted to see them do a run through Myrkgard. They went under geared 510gs, didn't have their best player and will be releasing the video shortly.
 
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Huh, if anyone still has this installed, maybe play around with beneficial temp stat boosters, see if you can get crazy things to stack. Just avoid the heal reduction one lol :



 
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Mahes

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I am sure that's a brand new game feature that will change the realm of MMO forever...
Yes,

They shall from this time on be called......Escort Quests.

The quests will of course never bug out and have the NPC just run off or get stuck on terrain. That would never happen. The game could not possibly refuse to give you credit for the quest once the NPC got to its location. It will work just fine.

But most importantly, there will not come a point when a player has to hand an item in to the NPC and create two such items. No Duplication bug could ever result from these brand new quests.
 
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tl;dr copy pasta

- They are slowing down to test more before releasing new features

- Server mergers are going well

- They want to add more dynamic events in the open world

- They plan to add more mob variety and cultures to new world. Introduced through new zones and a revamp of old zones to keep all zones relevant.

- "Mutators" seems to be the big feature they are jazzed about

- Big section on bans and bots. Nothing important so far.

- At one point they wrongfully banned people who were gathering too efficiently because they believed no human in their right mind would play the game like this.

- They have a long list of bugs they are working to fix. Most egregious bugs addressed first, then basically the ones that have been around for awhile. Forums and ingame best place to report.

- Leveling up trees in Winter convergence give better presents

- New activities will eventually be available

- more information on the big new feature "Mutators"

- Expeditions you can add Mutators to augment AI in expeditions to make it more difficult for higher rewards

- Sounds like the mutators will change each week

- 10 difficulty levels

- Expect to need to stack things like fire resist or ice damage to be able to complete on the higher end

- Will be in January PTR

- Firestaff will probably get a damage buff. Ice Guantelet should get more CC. They feel they need to amp both up a little bit

- In December expect OPR to have lower afk timers and bot detection as well as changing the score system

- Blunderbuss next weapon to be released

- "Run and gun"

- Greatsword "working on it" -Concept of stance switching

- Daggers - On the table, near front but its not their yet

- Shield + another weapon not on table yet

- Lead dev is a great axe / hammer user

- Doing high level Mutators will give you a brand new resource needed to upgrade specific weapons. This will be needed to do the higher level mutators.

- They will be reducing the distance cost modifier on azoth shrines and adding more shrines in the world to key locations

- shrines will be on the map specifically even before you discover them so you know where they are instead of just a ?

- Working on a whole branch of new quests.

- They are excited about quests where npcs follow you.

- They plan on wrapping up the 1st chapter of main story quests. In the future they will introduce more Historical and Mythological figures into the mix

- They want to add more "discoverable" things. Similar to the Ghost Ship in Monarchs Bluff.

- They heard the community loud and clear that they wanted to see them do a run through Myrkgard. They went under geared 510gs, didn't have their best player and will be releasing the video shortly.
You sound like a pathetic simp paying some thot on only fans for pictures of her nasty ass box.
 
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Daidraco

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Oh Amazon.. I do have to appreciate your tenacity when it comes to promoting your in-house shit.

New World x The Wheel of Time Twitch Drops​

DECEMBER 22, 2021

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Greetings, Adventurers!
To celebrate the season one finale of The Wheel of Time, specially-themed Twitch Drops will be releasing tomorrow. Some of your favorite Content Creators will be hosting watch parties for the finale tomorrow, followed with New World streams so you can start earning the Drops. Make sure you catch up if you haven’t seen the rest of the season yet!

TWITCH DROPS​

The more New World you watch, the more you earn. Watch 7 cumulative hours of New World 'Drops Enabled' streams between December 23 at 9 P.M. PT and January 12, 2022 at 12 A.M. PT to earn all items in the Drop. The Wheel of Time inspired player set features coats, cloaks, blades, and a company crest, which will unlock in the following order - one after each hour watched. Learn more and link your account on our Twitch Drops page.
  1. Nynaeve’s Coat “Listen to the winds for they carry true wisdom.”
  2. Red Ajah Cloak “This color serves as a warning for those who would seek to do harm.”
  3. Tam’s Blade (Rapier skin) “Beautiful as it is deadly. A true guardian's weapon.”
  4. Ouroboros Crest
  5. Children of the Light “Ivory robes can sometimes belie the intentions of their wearers.”
  6. Shadowspawn Blade (Sword skin) “The fearsome claw of a terrible dark lord.”
  7. Egwene’s Cloak “Only the gifted can follow the path of magic.”

WATCH PARTY​

Join the following Content Creators’ watch parties for the finale tomorrow, followed with New World streams so you can start earning the Twitch Drops!
Can’t make it? No worries. You can watch The Wheel of Time at your convenience on Amazon Prime Video, and you have until January 12, 2022 at 12 A.M. PT to earn the Twitch Drops.

ABOUT THE WHEEL OF TIME

The Wheel of Time is set in a sprawling, epic world where magic exists and only certain women are allowed to access it. The story follows Moiraine, a member of the incredibly powerful all-female organization called the Aes Sedai as she arrives in the small town of Two Rivers. There, she embarks on a dangerous, world-spanning journey with five young men and women, one of whom is prophesized to be the Dragon Reborn, who will either save or destroy humanity. Watch the entire Season 1 of The Wheel of Time exclusively on Amazon Prime Video. Thanks for your support! We’ll see you in Aeternum.
 
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RobXIII

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Judging by the subreddit and official forum's first pages, it's gone from 90% negativity to 90% positive threads. So I think we're at a place now where yeah, they lost 95% of the player-base, but the 5% that is there are die hard fans, and it'll take a Christmas miracle to get them to quit.
 
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Daidraco

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Judging by the subreddit and official forum's first pages, it's gone from 90% negativity to 90% positive threads. So I think we're at a place now where yeah, they lost 95% of the player-base, but the 5% that is there are die hard fans, and it'll take a Christmas miracle to get them to quit.
I'd be more rustled about the fact that New World, in the critical condition its been in and may continue to be in - just takes another L for being lumped in with that abortion of a show. Besides, you're still subbed to the reddit even if just to watch the house turn to ash.
 

Xerge

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I find myself logging in more, the expertise system isn't that bad and makes sense at least.
 
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I'd be more rustled about the fact that New World, in the critical condition its been in and may continue to be in - just takes another L for being lumped in with that abortion of a show. Besides, you're still subbed to the reddit even if just to watch the house turn to ash.

Proof Amazon has 0 concept of brand management or quality control. I don't see Disney doing the same shit with any of their studios.

It's weird-- Amazon is willing to tie the show into New World just to maybe sell a handful more boxes off the WoT franchise name. "If we can even sell just 500 more copies man". Smacks of bush league.

There is supposed to be a guy in the meeting that stops shit like this and he's just not there at AGS.
 
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I don't understand the complaints

Amazon owns New World, Twitch, and the Wheel of Time show
Promo advertises WoT, but really just gets people to watch Twitch for 7 hours and give Amazon/Twitch more ad revenue
People who play the game and want the cosmetics have to watch Twitch, giving Amazon more revenue

Twitch does promos like this all the time. It's basically free money for them, why the fuck wouldnt they do it? Even if the probability of effective cross promotion doesn't pan out, free cosmetics are always popular.
 

Daidraco

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I don't understand the complaints

Amazon owns New World, Twitch, and the Wheel of Time show
Promo advertises WoT, but really just gets people to watch Twitch for 7 hours and give Amazon/Twitch more ad revenue
People who play the game and want the cosmetics have to watch Twitch, giving Amazon more revenue

Twitch does promos like this all the time. It's basically free money for them, why the fuck wouldnt they do it? Even if the probability of effective cross promotion doesn't pan out, free cosmetics are always popular.
Ha, bro I just thought it was funny cause there are multiple pages on multiple forums, this one included, where they shit all over the costume designer for WoT - then they go and make a cross over with New World, which has 90% of its cash shop skins looks terrible, too! I'm glad its free cause one is literally just a recolor of one of the skins we already have. Which leads me to believe they never do intend to allow us to customize the colors for cash shop items just so they can do this. I dont hate the game, but I do recognize its faults lol.
 
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Cybsled

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Oh I don’t argue on the transparent predatory practices in NW. it’s clear they intended to charge RL money for lots of shit and backed down at the last minute, but failed to change any game mechanics

They literally tweeted they had plans for a paid fast travel thing, which explains why the Azoth system is so fucking punitive if you don’t own the mb/ck/fl forts
 

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Game is unplayable trash since last patch and this video illustrates why


Zero desire to log on at all anymore
 

Mahes

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I log on and click the tree for 5 seconds of 100 gold. Just in case the game improves at some point.
 

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Game is unplayable trash since last patch and this video illustrates why


Zero desire to log on at all anymore
From that video, it looks like they're doing serverside hit detection for melee and maybe were not before?

While playing, I very impressed with their hit detection combined with the network performance with large scale battles.

Two problem with melee detection are:

1. Small difference in latency mean a hit or not.

2. To do it accurately, you actually have to play the character animation and check if the weapon collides. This is prohibitively expensive on the server.

If they did it client side, they would be able to avoid that but have to deal with cheating.

I imagine they moved it serverside and then did a box/sphere scene query in front of the player. Less accurate and with lag, could produce the artifacts in the video seeing.

It turns out they were not gods - they just didn't prevent cheating.