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Check out Alpha Two Announcements here to see the latest Alpha Two news and update notes.
Our quickest Alpha Two updates are in Discord. Testers with Alpha Two access can chat in Alpha Two channels by connecting your Discord and Intrepid accounts here.
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50 minutes to ride north to south on one of these continents, not even the time to cross the ocean east to west which is probably significantly more.
From the easternmost point of the western continent, to the easternmost point of the western continent, it's likely to be 20 minutes at the most. From there proceed on land you've crossed the western continent in probably 20 minutes at most.
I still don't feel like it's that long to cross an entire MMO world, especially without loading screens in between areas to artificially inflate the time it takes.
One worry I have, however, is that the larger the map, the more "meta" Scientific nodes and their Metropolis superpower become. I hope that the other node types' superpowers are on par with the fast and faster travel of Scientific nodes, or else there might not be enough motivation to level focus on anything other than those types of Nodes.
No it doesn't feel like scope creep
They are just making more room for what they have .
It's like taking a dungeon and making the rooms bigger and the halls longer because the first design felt cramped
I was actually discussing with my beloved whether it was retrograde.
Is the sun gonna rise in the West and set in the East in Verra in order to make the circulation cells make sense according to the map shown?
Meteorology/astrophysics nerds weigh in. Film at 11.
This would give the central biome and east of Frostthorn fell access to the ocean via river (A dangerous river to take a boat up but it there as an option)
Yeah but my immersion...
On the other hand, (in case anyone thought I was joking), the Sun and Moon rise in the west and set in the east in BDO and it drives me crazy.
I know why they did it, I think, but I'm actually kinda hoping Ashes doesn't. With this map though, particularly now that I've seen your models (thanks, they're perfect), and the fact that there was no day-night cycle in Alpha-1 to confirm it either way, this may very realistically be a thing again.
Stuck between 'being annoyed at navigation' and 'being annoyed at navigation the other way' won't be fun if this is seriously considered/intentional and they base the wind and currents on it for sailing.
eheh took like 5 mins with an online tool, I'm sure someone with more patience than me could finesse it more, this was quick and dirty hehe
and in this you can see why you cannot as yet circumnavigate verra by ship, there's a huge buttcrack in the middle of that ocean that swallows ships
I would love that idea to have a raid against a great witch of the north like in Finnish epic called Kalevala!
Pohjola was the land where the witch Louhi (Pohjan akka) ruled and Suoma is an old Finnish woman name.
Here is a better rez version