How's the progress going?

Hi to all the form lurkers!

I've shelved the game for a few months, now I'm curious to what progress has been made and if it's worth installing the launcher again.

1. How's the exploits? People still opening recruiting for exploits? Has that been address by Intrepid?
2. How's the overall atmosphere of the game? Still toxic and cringe at the POIs? Lots of cool people out there, but the POIs were turning into cesspools.
3. Any changes to the Mega Churches... I mean guilds? Zerg still the pvp meta?"
4. How's the gear balance and progression? Every class still only care about their power level?
5. Enchanting balanced?
6. Gathering still spawn a super node on server start?
7. Crafting have any use as you level? Or just hit cap then gather/craft?
8. Still grinding POIs to cap or are there some interesting quests to engage in?
9. The world expand at all? Last I was in the desert was new.
10. Caravans fix? Do they crash, despawn, ect? Are there name plates for them?
11. Are there nameplates on ashes?
12. Any new features out? I tried the rogue for a day but just couldn't bring myself to reenter Vera in it's current state.

Not sure if the game will be for a gamer like myself. It seems to be catered towards large groups, no-lifeing (node spawn camping meta and other mechanics like that, grinding isn't a no-life thing imo), and exploiting griefers. This ain't a blast towards people who like that stuff, I'm just not interested in it myself.

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Volgaris

Noaani wrote: »

Volgaris wrote: »

Noaani but you must. People care what you think, you must be compelled to reply to everything even if you have no value to add. Do it do it do it.

No they don't.

I've been posting on these forums (and the previous version) for the best part of a decade. In that time, I have not once assumed anyone cares what I have to say. Not players, not Intrepid, not you, not even me a lot of the time. I have said as much in discussions you have been a part of.

I'm sure you don't understand this at all. I'm sure you think "person posts a lot, must mistakenly think people care", but that really is a reflection on you and your obvious assumption that people are one dimensional and you can pick out peoples motivations based on online activity.

The list Noaani. You forgot the list! WE MUST KNOW!

Volgaris

@Azherae The 3 hour breakdown you have doesn't sound bad to me. A good balance of everything the game might have to offer at launch. On the point of all those life skill features though is they are bad right now. Not just the UI but the underlining mechanic of how they function and integrate with other systems. Yes it's alpha, but refactoring the life skills isn't on the road map. Which is concerning because it should be. It's as bad as FFIV was before Realm Reborn. And these systems are met to support all the other aspects of the game.

I guess what I'm seeing still is an unclear picture of what these systems will be. Most systems. I think they got the combat pretty locked down and each iteration seems to bring some good changes. I still think they have some massive technical mountains to cross though. Between the server meshing and performance in these dynamic Nodes. Then some architectural challenges of how each of the features will interact and support each other or they'll just conflict and negate each other. None of this is talked about in detail it's glossed over in dev reviews and interviews. These are things that are traditionally worked in alpha, and maybe they just ain't there yet, but beta isn't that far away... At the current pace beta will be moved to the right. Seems like the efforts are put in the wrong place and resource are getting wasted. I mean damn they have different meshes for armor depending on your race. It just magically poofs to new armor from race to race... 1 armor had to be created 6 or 8 times, they could have created more armor. So many more assets, makes me feel like all the presales went to that.

Lol I guess it's the same worry as any game, delay release or release it unfinished and broken...

Azherae

Volgaris wrote: »

@Azherae The 3 hour breakdown you have doesn't sound bad to me. A good balance of everything the game might have to offer at launch. On the point of all those life skill features though is they are bad right now. Not just the UI but the underlining mechanic of how they function and integrate with other systems. Yes it's alpha, but refactoring the life skills isn't on the road map. Which is concerning because it should be. It's as bad as FFIV was before Realm Reborn. And these systems are met to support all the other aspects of the game.

I guess what I'm seeing still is an unclear picture of what these systems will be. Most systems. I think they got the combat pretty locked down and each iteration seems to bring some good changes. I still think they have some massive technical mountains to cross though. Between the server meshing and performance in these dynamic Nodes. Then some architectural challenges of how each of the features will interact and support each other or they'll just conflict and negate each other. None of this is talked about in detail it's glossed over in dev reviews and interviews. These are things that are traditionally worked in alpha, and maybe they just ain't there yet, but beta isn't that far away... At the current pace beta will be moved to the right. Seems like the efforts are put in the wrong place and resource are getting wasted. I mean damn they have different meshes for armor depending on your race. It just magically poofs to new armor from race to race... 1 armor had to be created 6 or 8 times, they could have created more armor. So many more assets, makes me feel like all the presales went to that.

Lol I guess it's the same worry as any game, delay release or release it unfinished and broken...

I don't think that beta would be soon, in case you didn't know, part of the reason you're not seeing 'progress' is actually that Alpha II Phase 3 start was delayed until August, and in the meantime we're getting a few stopgap fixes to keep testing 'not unbearable'.

It's also somewhat likely that they don't have a clear picture of how some of these systems will work, since other aspects of the game's design were shifted to fit Steven's preferences in certain things (I hope this isn't a misinterpretation of what happened) and with those shifts, came some additional uncertainty.

Usual curse of MMORPGs, I guess.

You're luckier than me in that regard, I don't even like the combat...

Noaani

Volgaris wrote: »

Noaani wrote: »

Volgaris wrote: »

Noaani but you must. People care what you think, you must be compelled to reply to everything even if you have no value to add. Do it do it do it.

No they don't.

I've been posting on these forums (and the previous version) for the best part of a decade. In that time, I have not once assumed anyone cares what I have to say. Not players, not Intrepid, not you, not even me a lot of the time. I have said as much in discussions you have been a part of.

I'm sure you don't understand this at all. I'm sure you think "person posts a lot, must mistakenly think people care", but that really is a reflection on you and your obvious assumption that people are one dimensional and you can pick out peoples motivations based on online activity.

The list Noaani. You forgot the list! WE MUST KNOW!

Ok,.

You are wrong on all points.

That is the list, you now know.

Volgaris

@Noaani how? tell me oh tell how I'm wrong. What's wrong with my opinion? How can be more like you? Just tell me the answers oh great one!

Noaani

Volgaris wrote: »

Noaani how? tell me oh tell how I'm wrong.

By thinking someone has to answer all your questions when they only want to answer some of them.

By thinking you are trolling or otherwise pissing me off, when really I don't care enough about you to be pissed off by anything you type.

By thinking I care when I couldn't be more ambivalent.

But mostly, by expecting the same kind of issue remedy cadence that you would expect with a released game.

When a game is released, the developers spend their time dealing with these kinds of issues. RIght now, they are spending their time making the game. Expecting things like gear balance in an alpha test is just wrong - that isn't what we are here for.

Volgaris

@Noaani The list! Where's the list! I need your opinions! Tell me how I'm wrong to ask questions just one more time please!!

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