@vengu I didn't see those posts before. Reading "progression / re-building" coming from Prometheus eases my mind since they plan to have progression in mind.
About build uniqueness I think we will have to wait until it's released and hope for it to not become the famous 4-man party with 2 dps, 1 tank, 1 healer with all of those always using the same skills since they are just better than everything else.
The alpha has not started yet, as far as I know, we should hear some news about it around mid-2018 with the beta planed for late-2018.
@vengu I believe the talent tree is more like "passives" like the ones you have on Diablo 3, PoE and Torchlight. And while we don't have a major fireball, do we have something like fireball > fire storm > meteor, with the former being pre-requisites?
I feel like the main public to Fractured would be the people who likes the three games I cited + Albion etc and these people, or at least I, like this kind of game because there is a huge feeling of progression with PoE being my favorite since it doesn't limit you like the rest. If you can get Fireball and "Ignite" do use as DPS + Magic Shield + Healing + etc why wouldn't you? Investing more in one tree should make you stronger with that than someone who has a bit of everything.
If yes, are stronger skills locked behind weaker ones? if not we won't feel like it is worth it to invest in one tree instead of being a do-it-all character.
PLEASE, don't make the survival aspects too harsh since lots of players don't like to play around it. For eg, make potions fill hunger so you can fight and don't have to come back to a city every x minutes.
Nice job keeping the player-base informed of what's going on and how things are going, do never stop doing that! This is what keeps a game alive.
I really hope that humans are like the scion on POE, not exactly focused on anything but can have easy access to a bit of everything.
I hope we can combine the different fractured systems into one thing.Something that afaik came form aura kingdom is combined ultimate skills. It would be really cool to see here. Let's say you play with a musician + marksman, you have some skills exclusive to this combination which could be shooting 4 arrows at the same time from your instrument. Maybe musician + conjuration playing songs that deal with the elements and so on.
not so sure it will really provide some sense of "I am becoming stronger/better at this". I feel like some sort of levelling system is necessary to feel accomplishment even if the difference between a new and an older player is just fine-tunning due to auto-balance(eso for example)
