DickTrickle
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Why ask about raid sizes? They wouldn't dare do instancing, would they? NOT IN MY CLASSIC MMO!!!!!!!!!
Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO
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dizzie
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Nearly every mmo that's ever been produced and certainly every mmo I've raided in.
It takes a lot to run these large scale events. You need good code and good infrastructure. It's not just hiring a server somewhere and hoping for the best. Raiding shouldn't even be on their to-do list until way after release if they ever get that done. There's too much shit to shore up and work on, raiding especially at the high end of games gives no value to your average player who probably won't even see the inside of the zones.
Sure, Pantheons going to have hundreds of players in world events or raids. Are you completely oblivious to the snails pace development of this game?
yamikazo
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Because after seven years of "development" they're still spitballing on the backs of napkins.
Meanwhile they've distracted you idiots into thinking they've done some work and you give these hopeless amateurs additional donations.
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DickTrickle
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This was my first post in this thread. September, 2013, page 3. How naive I used to be. It's going on 7 years, people. The game is still in pre-pre Alpha. At the rate they're going, the game won't be out until 2040. Falling gifs is the only thing this game will ever be remembered for.
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Zaide
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The core of the game is done dude, you can see pretty much exactly what gameplay looks like on any of their streams and it has changed very little in the last two years. The stuff we see them working on now is primarily additional content, new zones, enemies, quests etc. If you just wanted a single zone to showcase what the core of Pantheon was like you could point to almost any Halnir Cave stream, especially the one which was filmed during an open PA testing session with > 100 players present, or even the stuff in Black Rose Keep where you've got actual groups of non VR staff filming their first attempts at the zone.
A group of random players tackling Black Rose Keep.
A group of unaffiliated streamers exploring Avendyr's Pass & Black Rose Keep
Stream of Halnir Cave During a Live Testing Session w/ Many Other Groups
Cohh & Staff Exploring Amberfate & South Saol (Climate System Introduction)
Cohh & Staff Exploring Wild's End, Thronefast, Avendyr's Pass, Halnir Cave, and Amberfaet all in one stream.
(We see functioning pets here)
Cohh & Staff Exploring Joku Dah aka Tower of the Reckless Magician
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen Early Monk Gameplay Stream w/ CohhCarnage Pt. 2
We've seen every core gameplay feature on video over the last few years to include combat, abilities, spells, zoning, dying, aggro mechanics, healing, climbing, looting, trading, bags/inventory management, itemization, boss mechanics, pet mechanics, damage over time spells, heal over time spells, buffs, most classes and races, swimming, factions, perception system, climate system, quests, and NPC interactions.
The only "core" gameplay mechanics I haven't seen on a stream or video are dueling and tradeskills.
Another point: I would think that with a bunch of basically randoms testing this game, if there were some critical issues in the gameplay or client at least one of those people would have come here and shit on the game and told us all what major issues they encountered during testing.
Finally, the reason they talk about raids at all is probably because it's one of the most common question they get. Everyone playing on P99 or the TLP servers (a huge part of the intended demographic) wants to know if raiding/end game is going to be some poopsock shitfest.
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Zaide
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There is no way the game is almost ready imho. The core game is mostly done (I think) but I think it's going to take them a long time to produce enough content (i.e.zones, dungeons, quests, raids) to release.
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Zaide
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What does this even mean? What do you consider "core", how does one hobble mechanics together with "crazy glue code", what insight have you had into the codebase of Pantheon vs other major MMO's who do not "hobble together" their mechanics?
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You guys remember when Brad completely bamboozled the heads of Microsoft who had given him 10s of millions of dollars with a fake version of Vanguard to show how complete it was. Yet you dolts actually think these guys couldn't fucking bamboozle you with vaporware clone bullshit in a stream.
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Excidium
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Yeah that 180 sure happened in a handful of weeks. Your hopium makes me weep for mankind.
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