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Jeremy Gaffney has a Q&A thread going on the Wildstar-Central fansite. It is mostly about the leaked patch notes. He seems pretty cool and refreshingly honest compared to most people in charge of MMOs. Let's hope that lasts. Some interesting bits:Jeremy Gaffney on non-US people getting into beta posted:We intend to eventually include all habitable countries into various phases of beta, and also Australia. on threat posted:I'll speak to this philosophically: If [threat is] a big part of the gameplay it'll be part of the default UI (at least when you're in a group/raid). The exact role of it is being tuned as we do more elder game tests.
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Midrena posted:For a lot of people, I believe it's due to NCSoft shutting City of Heroes down. Culmination of things. The way they shut down COH, what they did to Richard Garriot, and general poo poo treatment of their customers. They faked Garriot signing away paperwork while he was IN SPACE. Cost him millions and millions of dollars. They shut down CoH without warning, even though it was making a profit, and then they REFUSED to sell it to anyone to let it live. What did they do? Offer people bullshit to play their other new games. They didn't even give the awesome awesome dev team at CoH a real heads up they were shutting them down. They were literally about to push a bunch of new content when they got the word.
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For me, it is both City of Heroes, and how Nexon seems to be behind the steering wheel more often than any ideas from Guild Wars 1 in Guild Wars 2. That's not to say I won't be holding up a fistful of dollars, Fry style, if reports from beta are good. Since beta is a ways off, however, I'm going to engage in nerdly righteous indignation.
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Midrena posted:For a lot of people, I believe it's due to NCSoft shutting City of Heroes down. Not just the shutdown itself, but they're refusing to sell or lease City of Heroes. We know there have been studios trying to buy CoH but NCsoft just stonewalls everyone. For some reason NCsoft is actually working to keep CoH dead, its pretty lovely.
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Midrena posted:There was a beta patch notes leak that happened a day or two ago. Carbine decided to run with it and has officially posted those beta patch notes themselves! Of the incident, and the reason they are putting the patch notes up, they say:
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). The notes are quite long and there's a ton of stuff in a number of areas, including classes.
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grrarg posted:Jeremy Gaffney has a Q&A thread going on the Wildstar-Central fansite. It is mostly about the leaked patch notes. He seems pretty cool and refreshingly honest compared to most people in charge of MMOs. I really liked the responses, too. Also, here's a thread for easier access to all Carbine answers: Compiled Q&A
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I was hoping to find a beta invite in my email. No such luck. 
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Thanks for compiled answers dats cool. Can op update thread with our irc channel?
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Midrena posted:I really liked the responses, too. Anyone know what's the class that they leaked? <Redacted> appears a few times in those answers, it felt like the devs slipped up about a new class. Maybe it showed in the patch notes as well but I only peaked through them. VVV I was underestimating these devs, I like them even more now. Merope fucked around with this message at 21:55 on Apr 16, 2013 |
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Merope posted:Anyone know what's the class that they leaked? <Redacted> appears a few times in those answers, it felt like the devs slipped up about a new class. Maybe it showed in the patch notes as well but I only peaked through them. They posted <REDACTED> originally, they're just teasing people.
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It's bunny/guinea pigs and cyborg dinosaurs.
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Has anyone noticed the 7th race in the Race Page banner yet? http://www.wildstar-online.com/en/the-game/races/  Looks like the Exile's Race is a Metal Head Cyborg. e: Maybe not? Lemon King fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Apr 16, 2013 |
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Looks sort of like a female draken? We've already learned that the last two races are furry gremlin things (Dominion) and undead zombie/robot things (Exile).
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Pawl posted:Looks sort of like a female draken? I thought in the AMA thing they said people who believed the zombie things were a player race would be disappointed? Unless they were just trying to throw off suspicion or something.
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Lemon King posted:Looks like the Exile's Race is a Metal Head Cyborg. quote:races pic Nah, that's Granok, female Aurin, female Human/Cassian, Mechari, male Aurin, Draken, male Human.
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Catsworth posted:I thought in the AMA thing they said people who believed the zombie things were a player race would be disappointed? Unless they were just trying to throw off suspicion or something. Once again, they have a goddamn zombie arm in the thumbs-up group shot in the Exiles trailer. They're covering their rear end after telegraphing too much.
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Midrena posted:That's the Mechari.
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Lemon King posted:I meant the one to the right of the Mechari, but it didn't look like an Aurin because of the lack of ears. Yeah, I understand. Aurin have a ton of different ear styles, though (I was relieved the day I found out they weren't all simply BunnyGirls). Someone on the Wildstar Central forums collected a sample of them, here's a pic:  Also, in the Exile trailer that showed off the races, when the trailer talked about Aurin, it showed one that basically looked pretty much like the one in the banner.
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Midrena posted:Yeah, I understand. Aurin have a ton of different ear styles, though (I was relieved the day I found out they weren't all simply BunnyGirls). Someone on the Wildstar Central forums collected a sample of them, here's a pic: All right thanks, I stand corrected. Love that shaggy dog hair style.
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Lemon King posted:Love that shaggy dog hair style. Ha, yeah, reminds me of those "mop dogs" (the Komondor).
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Something jumped out at me in those notes:quote:Public Events now have summary screens available once completed, showing stats for everyone who participated, as well as rewards earned. Public Events are pretty cool in general, so good to see them here.
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404GoonNotFound posted:Once again, they have a goddamn zombie arm in the thumbs-up group shot in the Exiles trailer. They're covering their rear end after telegraphing too much. Nope. We know what we're doing, shockingly enough. 
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Pryce posted:Nope. We know what we're doing, shockingly enough. Well it's nice to know that you are, but after GW2 and The Secret World kept trying to disguise a lack of depth as "holding spoilers back" in their pre-release marketing, I've just become a bit cynical about this. I'm eager to be proven wrong though. Here's hoping you guys are successful as hell... and that I finally get a beta invite. Maybe if I refresh my inbox 37 more times 
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404GoonNotFound posted:Well it's nice to know that you are, but after GW2 and The Secret World kept trying to disguise a lack of depth as "holding spoilers back" in their pre-release marketing, I've just become a bit cynical about this. Next wave probably isn't going out for another 3-4 weeks if they hold true to the timetable they're projecting.
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"phat news coverage which gets us users which gets us money which gets us alcohol, which is an overall priority at Carbine." I like these developers.
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1. Can you ride really fast bikes that ramp off poo poo like in the trailer or are they the slow and boring mounts from every other MMO? 2. Is this the most Disney of MMOs?
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Cabbit posted:Something jumped out at me in those notes: Also worth noting Guild Wars 2 still doesn't have that feature, and 99% of the events in the game are public ones.
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Have they said anything about how character customization works? I know each class has a choice between dps and healing, and you're limited to 7 class abilities at once, and gear can effect spells directly (add procs or reduce cooldowns or increase damage of one spell), but is that all? Is there a "talent tree" anywhere in this game?
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I wish those rock guys could be other classes than just warrior. Mesmer rock dude would own. That green guy from the player housing image in the OP would be nice to have as a playable race too.
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Pindakaas posted:I wish those rock guys could be other classes than just warrior. Mesmer rock dude would own. It's the first few weeks of beta still remember. Just because the rock guys can only be a warrior right now, doesn't mean they won't let them be other classes at some point. Also, they haven't even announced the last 2 classes, so who knows what's in store!
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Pindakaas posted:I wish those rock guys could be other classes than just warrior. Mesmer rock dude would own. They've said the Granok will be able to be at least one of the unannounced classes.
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Any information on how UI customization will work? And is it XML, LUA or Python based? I also got a weird we're not allow to talk about this from Curse: http://wildstar.curseforge.com/ws-addons/ http://www.curse.com/addons/wildstar Lemon King fucked around with this message at 21:53 on Apr 17, 2013 |
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Lemon King posted:Any information on how UI customization will work? And is it XML, LUA or Python based? Lua. They're really trying to encourage UI modding.
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Phoix posted:Lua. They're really trying to encourage UI modding.
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I am hecka hype for this game. First MMO I've looked at and like, wanted to actually play in a loooooong time.
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Lemon King posted:Thats great, I can dive right in ease. Now all we have to do is hope for Lua-controllable raid markers. Getting that removed from WoW was a damned crime 
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"im nt going to space wif a mark on my head"
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Phoix posted:Lua. They're really trying to encourage UI modding. Plus the entire default UI built by Carbine is in Lua (and effectively open-sourced), so you can dive into the official UI code and make tweaks to your heart's content.
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Pryce posted:Plus the entire default UI built by Carbine is in Lua (and effectively open-sourced), so you can dive into the official UI code and make tweaks to your heart's content. I'm glad other people are really good at doing stuff like this, because i sure as poo poo am not.
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