Posts made by Benseine

@phaethonas said in GvG siege questions:

@benseine said in GvG siege questions:

I'm sure there will be a whole spotlight about this somewhere down the road. But what is the basis of the GvG siege content you devs have in mind for Fractured?

10vs10? 50vs50? 100vs100? Unlimited? Instanced for better performance? Open world for the best sandbox experience? You must have some global picture you can give us, right?

First things first. Instances are out of the game. Even pve instances are unlikely. PvP instances are even more unlikely from my understanding.

This brings us to;

Open world for the best sandbox experience

as the devs aim to;

...innovate the world of Sandbox MMOs by opening it up to audiences that have been cut off from what we believe is the most exciting online game genre out there - and one with exceptional growth perspectives, too.

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That aside, unlimited is impossible for technical reasons (yeah, I know that you were kidding, but still, clarifying, just in case). As for their limit? That is unknown and they haven't made any announcements at a goal, as far as I know.

Considering a number of things like; a) the top down perspective with no heavy graphics, b) Unity, c) SpatialOS, I'd say that they will manage 100-300 tops.

But if they don't instance it, how do you prevent that the defending side pushes the number of ppl at the siege to +500 and crashes the server to prevent them loosing the siege? Or atleast make it so unplayable you just can't win?

@sharo said in Legendary weapons:

Hi devs and other forum members, I am wondering if there will be some kind of legendary weapons; weapons that have a super strong passive or even alter your gameplay/give new abilities, or just look epic like a giant flaming axe etc... These weapons should only be found in faraway hard to reach spots or require an immense grind. I'd really love such a thing!

I have a legendary epic "staff" with super strong abilities in real life. I don't need that in the games I play because I find them too distractive and they break away from the game's experience. Keep it real plz!

I want to know if the devs have thought about character whipes during alpha/beta testing. Pretty much got a guaranteed spot in the pre-alpha and will buy my way into alpha testing in the kickstarter.

I have lots of experience in testing alpha version of games, but haven't done it in a couple of years. In some games it drove me mad that they whiped my character after every new build. Those games had grind in them and I needed to grind again to be able to reach the previous bug location and check if they where gone/back. I'm a patient guy, but after +100 character whipes even I get frustrated. I know it is sometimes needed, but plz try to avoid doing it with every new build. Fractured doesn't have grind, but it has exploration in procedurely generated content. Don't want to run for hours after every build before I can contine testing. Well let's say 10x is okay during an alpha/beta, but not 100-200x

Can you plz take that into consideration?

Edit: Just thought of something else that might be an issue. If the game has procedurely generated content, I might not find/unlock the same abilities and thus I might not be able to reproduce a bug under the same conditions after a new build. Is that correct?

@gambles I'm sure there is a good middleground between most theme parks and EVE Online. But even EVE Online is very succesfull, so I hope the devs are a bit bold.

@gothix Funcom previous game Age of Conan also had lots of chalenging dungeon, especially in the Kitai expansion

@beetmymeet said in Is the game ready to download and play?:

@ember2528 wait whoa so it isn't even going to be free to play? Fuck this

I think this is a troll. A normal person who wants a f2p game won't respond like this, he will just log off

@gothix said in PK punishment:

Sadly most MMOs i followed over past time got ruined by devs catering to carebears.

yes many, including my favorite game Age of Conan. So I have an issue with carebears

@finland well then you have all asian mmorpgs at your disposal. they all have seperate zones for pvp and/or retarded karma system. so don't complain.

@finland said in PK punishment:

@benseine WoW, GW2, TESO, FF end of the story. The only one I liked was WoW. TESO looks good but it's too late. I like to join fresh games.

WoW, gw2 and FF centered around PvP? c'mon, not realy. TESO maybe. An mmorpg centered around PvP are titles such as Dark Age of Camelot, Darkfall, Gloria Victis, Albion Online, Camelot Unchained, Crowfall etc

@gothix said in Dungeons:

Also as noted, most player density on that world, means most PvP available at more constant intervals.

Depends how ofter the eclipses will occur and you can invade the most populated planet with your homeworld buffs

@finland said in PK punishment:

there are not much PvE games around personally I like just WoW and trust me that after 11 years is getting boring.

Are you serious? Almost all big mmorpg titles in the last decade where full PvE or had seperate zones for PvP or only had arena pvp. Only a handfull mmorpg where centred around PvP.

@finland said in PK punishment:

@benseine Dude PvE is PvE and PvP is PvP if you put PvE in a PvP content that's just PvP not PvE so somehow you have to create PvE content. One way is pvp off, another one is pvp off with flag system that allow to kill flagged. This hybrid way with restrinctions and safe zone could work or not.

What? How is that a reply to what I said?

@gothix c'mon Gothix, let them have those few knowledge points on Arboreus we can't reach. We evil demons will just camp the most looked for knowledge points on Tartaros and see if the beastman can lvl more of those +400 skills to lvl 3 then us

@vengu said in PK punishment:

@benseine said in PK punishment:

@finland yes, so they should stick to those save mmo's and not whine so much to turn other/different mmo's into save games too. That is my biggest problem with them.

I don't understand why you and so many other PvP players here have such a big issue with PvE players.

Here is my issue, it's in the OP:

"I'd love to see perma death for most serious repeat offenders"

I don't have an issue with ALL pve players. Just the ones who post stuff like that. To keep it short I refer to THOSE pve players as carebears

@finland yeah well, since that spotlight this tread has had an aditional 130-140 replies. Ppl just want to vent their opinion on PK punishment I guess

@finland then again, it depends on siege mechanics

@finland that depends on the siege mechanics. If for example only the attacking and defending can stay in the area, and all others get ported away (as in Age of Conan or ArchAge), then it is a big difference ofc. And if you have infinite players in a guild, then nobody buys extra guildslot in the cashshop ofc

@finland said in Dungeons:

@benseine devs said that want give end game to both pvpers and pvers

There are several ways how to interpretate that info. We'll see. Each planet can have their own endgame dungeons seeing the difficulty to move from one planet to another

@finland yes, so they should stick to those save mmo's and not whine so much to turn other/different mmo's into save games too. That is my biggest problem with them.

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@finland said in PK punishment:

@benseine said in PK punishment:

PvP servers are full loot

Anyway you have no clue about games tho.

Funcom changes a some PvE servers to PvP servers and "carebears" that got ganked because of it drown Conan Exiles in bad reviews on Steam

Carebears were playing on a PvE server that got turned to a PvP as far as I understand it. Carebears had all the reason to give a bad feedback. They joined there for PvE and they have been forced to play on a PvP server. That was not funny tho. it's better close a server and give the option to free move on another server. Swapping server rules it's a fail. I would have done the same. You can not sell me A and then transfrom it to B.

Yeah they had reason to give bad feedback, absolutely, but they are a small part that gives nearly ALL the bad reviews, while they pleased the majority, the PvP players, with less queues, but you don't hear them. That is my whole point, and that is why I call this "carebears vs PKing" because I've seen this so many times over the years in mmo's