Glorious Alpha Two Testers!
Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
For our initial launch, testing will begin on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific and continue uninterrupted until Monday, January 6, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. After January 6th, we’ll transition to a schedule of five-day-per-week access for the remainder of Phase II.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
For our initial launch, testing will begin on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific and continue uninterrupted until Monday, January 6, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. After January 6th, we’ll transition to a schedule of five-day-per-week access for the remainder of Phase II.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
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Which is why the racial skins have always confused me. Like I was saying before, Intrepid is half assing this philosophy. The racial skins is essentially a limited race change. It would be more constant with their own design goals to just not do racials, and not sale any more racial cosmetics.
Keep the choice of race something that is only done once at character creation, but not have any stats or abilities that can affect the meta. This way everyone still gets to make the hard choice once. The handful of angels, demons and what not out there will still exist, but since everyone can still choose from a pool of looks without having to worry about what race makes the best "X" class. Everyone wins.
This is my personal feedback, shared to help the game thrive in its niche.
Nah, no race change is a mechanics thing.
If they are going to add race specific quests, things either get messy or get hampered if you allow race changes.
No name change was an identity thing.
I can't see how a person would ever tie a person's in game look to their identity. I know I never have - its too easy to change how characters look to do that.
I notice these things. Even in FFXIV where some people change their race/class all the time, I notice when someone is a different race/class than the last time I have seen them. Even people I don't even know, if the name is something that catches my eye then I bet I know what race/class that player was the last time I seen them.
This is my personal feedback, shared to help the game thrive in its niche.
Though there is precedent. I remember as far back as EQ, the Enchanter class could change their race. And that was a game where certain races were murdered by NPC guards when they went to the wrong city. But that was a temporary thing from a spell and it had limits.
But then, I also don't like the idea of someone in a full suit of plate armor, holding a sword and shield standing off in the distance casting fireballs at me.
Or even better, someone in that same full suit of armor, holding that same sword and shield, somehow being able to go stealth and be undetected as they walk up right behind me and backstab me.