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New race option on Kickstarter at $2.5 million
An underground race of some sort. It will be a beast race. Kobolds?
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[/quote]I'm curious what kind of race they'll come up with. Underground races tend to be lizards, moles, rats, and the like. These guys in the Kickstarter art have tails with a sharp tip and rounded heads. Could be either lizard people or rat people judging by what I've seen. I've seen games where Kobolds are rat people and I've seen games where Kobolds are lizard people, but they are always miners. Too bad we can't see the shape of their noses 100% in the image. We could know what they are if we did.
<div class="d4p-bbt-quote-title"><a href="https://www.ashesofcreation.com/forums/topic/new-race-option-on-kickstarter-at-2-5-million/#post-18791" rel="nofollow">Kyrios_the_Hierophant wrote:</a></div>
RATTSS!!
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I’m curious what kind of race they’ll come up with. Underground races tend to be lizards, moles, rats, and the like. These guys in the Kickstarter art have tails with a sharp tip and rounded heads. Could be either lizard people or rat people judging by what I’ve seen. I’ve seen games where Kobolds are rat people and I’ve seen games where Kobolds are lizard people, but they are always miners. Too bad we can’t see the shape of their noses 100% in the image. We could know what they are if we did.
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You just killed my hype. I really hope its a cat or wolf race _._ like rats are OK but think about the character creator I'm not going to spend 5 hours making a sexy rat character
Would not surprise me if the underrealm race is a Kobold/Rat
<div class="d4p-bbt-quote-title"><a href="https://www.ashesofcreation.com/forums/topic/new-race-option-on-kickstarter-at-2-5-million/#post-18807" rel="nofollow">Hartwell wrote:</a></div>
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<div class="d4p-bbt-quote-title"><a href="https://www.ashesofcreation.com/forums/topic/new-race-option-on-kickstarter-at-2-5-million/#post-18791" rel="nofollow">Kyrios_the_Hierophant wrote:</a></div>
RATTSS!!
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I’m curious what kind of race they’ll come up with. Underground races tend to be lizards, moles, rats, and the like. These guys in the Kickstarter art have tails with a sharp tip and rounded heads. Could be either lizard people or rat people judging by what I’ve seen. I’ve seen games where Kobolds are rat people and I’ve seen games where Kobolds are lizard people, but they are always miners. Too bad we can’t see the shape of their noses 100% in the image. We could know what they are if we did.
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You just killed my hype. I really hope its a cat or wolf race _._ like rats are OK but think about the character creator I’m not going to spend 5 hours making a sexy rat character
[/quote]So far I don't see any cat ears or dog ears.
In some RPGs kobolds are believed to be distant descendants of dragons. I guess how cool things are for this race will depend on a mixture of lore and how cool they actually look.
<div class="d4p-bbt-quote-title"><a href="https://www.ashesofcreation.com/forums/topic/new-race-option-on-kickstarter-at-2-5-million/#post-18807" rel="nofollow">Hartwell wrote:</a></div>
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<div class="d4p-bbt-quote-title"><a href="https://www.ashesofcreation.com/forums/topic/new-race-option-on-kickstarter-at-2-5-million/#post-18791" rel="nofollow">Kyrios_the_Hierophant wrote:</a></div>
RATTSS!!
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I’m curious what kind of race they’ll come up with. Underground races tend to be lizards, moles, rats, and the like. These guys in the Kickstarter art have tails with a sharp tip and rounded heads. Could be either lizard people or rat people judging by what I’ve seen. I’ve seen games where Kobolds are rat people and I’ve seen games where Kobolds are lizard people, but they are always miners. Too bad we can’t see the shape of their noses 100% in the image. We could know what they are if we did.
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You just killed my hype. I really hope its a cat or wolf race _._ like rats are OK but think about the character creator I’m not going to spend 5 hours making a sexy rat character
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I'm thinking the underrealm race going to be something sinister , ideally I would like to see a couple more underrealm races.
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Like with hooves and perhaps an elongated foot whose heel is where the knee should be?
<div class="d4p-bbt-quote-title"><a href="https://www.ashesofcreation.com/forums/topic/new-race-option-on-kickstarter-at-2-5-million/#post-18828" rel="nofollow">Hartwell wrote:</a></div>
By the way, in the art on Kickstarter they kind of show them with flat feet. Flat feet don’t look good on most beast races. If they got any plans for plantigrade locomotion on this race, my only hope for such a race is that they change it to digitigrade locomotion.
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Like with hooves and perhaps an elongated foot whose heel is where the knee should be?
[/quote]I believe hooves fall under unguligrade, but yeah. The heel up in the air generally looks cooler than having it flat on the ground with the toes for beast races in my opinion.
<div class="d4p-bbt-quote-title"><a href="https://www.ashesofcreation.com/forums/topic/new-race-option-on-kickstarter-at-2-5-million/#post-18832" rel="nofollow">TickledPink wrote:</a></div>
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<div class="d4p-bbt-quote-title"><a href="https://www.ashesofcreation.com/forums/topic/new-race-option-on-kickstarter-at-2-5-million/#post-18828" rel="nofollow">Hartwell wrote:</a></div>
By the way, in the art on Kickstarter they kind of show them with flat feet. Flat feet don’t look good on most beast races. If they got any plans for plantigrade locomotion on this race, my only hope for such a race is that they change it to digitigrade locomotion.
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Like with hooves and perhaps an elongated foot whose heel is where the knee should be?
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I believe hooves fall under unguligrade, but yeah. The heel up in the air generally looks cooler than having it flat on the ground with the toes for beast races in my opinion.
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I agree. I think one of the biggest disappointments of the lizard race in EQ2 for me were they had flat feet. It looked "wrong".
The Ratonga were SUPER popular in EQ2.
[quote quote=18842]I remember Ratonga Shadow Knights? in EQ2..the black chainmail looked especially sexy on any race. BTW (just for clarification) These stretch goals are things they’re promising at release? It just seems that if the list grows and they’re promising this stuff on release its naturally gonna push back alpha wouldn’t you think?
[/quote]Alpha doesn't need to include this stuff, as it is basically the testing of the fundamentals, but I could see it pushing back beta if they want these features at release. A new race and underground zone with new nodes needs some beta testing.
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#KEEPtheHYPEgoing
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You know what? I wouldnt be opposed to this...as long as their is a pink option! lol
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Yeah, Ratonga FTW...
I think and i hope that all the stretch goals are NOT in game when the game starts exept the skins and the mounts.
I hope the naval and underrealm comes a little bit later with free expansions because i think if you have too much content at the beginning you have a too much to do. The developer AND the gamer :)