Additional races?

Just curious as to what peoples thoughts are for the complete version of the game, would you be happy with the races out now? Do you want more? What races would fit lore wise and still be awesome and not some cutesy little WoW panda/fox that makes me wanna puke?

I love the direction classes are going in this game, it feels fresh after the limitations of other games and I'd love to see more of that same depth in races. The duality of races currently feels great and leaves the window open for additional factions within those races.

I personally want to play an orc straight away because it feels the least human and I'd love to see expansion of the games far from human race design. AoC is so fresh I feel like there is the oppurtunity to do some creative shit with races that will set it apart even more from the standard.

Edit: Forgot to mentionthe Tulnar which of course is an awesome idea I cant wait to hear more about.

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PlagueMonk

Noaani wrote: »

To me though, the reason question I would have to ask is - if Intrepid added a new race, what story would they give us as to why that race wasn't in Sanctum?

This could be explained any number of ways; From some races taking their own unique path off the planet (maybe they missed the initial departure window and had to find some other way off the planet?), to extra dimensional shifting (so they actually stayed on the planet but safe from the cataclysm), to even a race that put themselves in suspended animation through magic means in some deep, dark cavern. Maybe even an undersea race that was not going to be effected by the things happening above?

Lots of possibilities.

Khronus

Nikai wrote: »

Hell yeah give us all the sliders.
And agreed, furries crept into wow and 90% of other mmos and its the worst. Its the same sort of crappy art shift that happened from D2 to D3. Bring back gothic, dark worlds that put you a bit on edge pls.

Gothic/dark/evil/hellish are always so gripping and offer a ton of potential into an untapped area in MMO's since they do turn into fluffy unicorns eventually. I can do WITHOUT cult style stories or lore. I feel that is played out imo.

Nikai

PlagueMonk wrote: »

Maybe even an undersea race

Hell yeah, with the amount of sea based content we should get an aquatic based race

Rhadek

i just want Steven to ban all anime kitten girly child characters people make

Damokles

Rhadek wrote: »

i just want Steven to ban all anime kitten girly child characters people make

Terra... *shudders violently*

Noaani

PlagueMonk wrote: »

Noaani wrote: »

To me though, the reason question I would have to ask is - if Intrepid added a new race, what story would they give us as to why that race wasn't in Sanctum?

This could be explained any number of ways; From some races taking their own unique path off the planet (maybe they missed the initial departure window and had to find some other way off the planet?), to extra dimensional shifting (so they actually stayed on the planet but safe from the cataclysm), to even a race that put themselves in suspended animation through magic means in some deep, dark cavern. Maybe even an undersea race that was not going to be effected by the things happening above?

Lots of possibilities.

All of these - other than an under sea race - would have left an impact on the six races that went to Sanctum. Assuming we have any stories at all from the last time we were in Verra, we should have stories of these races.

This is why I am unsure how they will make it work whe they inevitably do add new races. Anything that was on Verra when we were last there is something we should know of.

The only real thought I have had is that Verra could be their Sanctus. When Verra is habitable again, and corruption of the world has died off, maybe it moved on to their world. When they opened up a portal to a new world to escape the corruption of their world - as we opened up a portal to Sanctum to escape Verra a long ti.e ago - the world that portal leads to is Verra.

This would be a great way to add in 4+ races at once.

winner909098

Noaani wrote: »

PlagueMonk wrote: »

Noaani wrote: »

To me though, the reason question I would have to ask is - if Intrepid added a new race, what story would they give us as to why that race wasn't in Sanctum?

This could be explained any number of ways; From some races taking their own unique path off the planet (maybe they missed the initial departure window and had to find some other way off the planet?), to extra dimensional shifting (so they actually stayed on the planet but safe from the cataclysm), to even a race that put themselves in suspended animation through magic means in some deep, dark cavern. Maybe even an undersea race that was not going to be effected by the things happening above?

Lots of possibilities.

All of these - other than an under sea race - would have left an impact on the six races that went to Sanctum. Assuming we have any stories at all from the last time we were in Verra, we should have stories of these races.

This is why I am unsure how they will make it work whe they inevitably do add new races. Anything that was on Verra when we were last there is something we should know of.

The only real thought I have had is that Verra could be their Sanctus. When Verra is habitable again, and corruption of the world has died off, maybe it moved on to their world. When they opened up a portal to a new world to escape the corruption of their world - as we opened up a portal to Sanctum to escape Verra a long ti.e ago - the world that portal leads to is Verra.

This would be a great way to add in 4+ races at once.

It could also create tension, and double the lore

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