Posts made by Dulu

What mechanics would a 4th race have to separate them from the others?

I think a cool feature for a 4th race would be "Permanent Death". Maybe slightly overtuned characters, but once they die - they are wiped clean. There's a niche community that really enjoyed permanent death features in Diablo 2, 3, Path of Exile, Everquest, and even World of Warcraft (Granted in the last two, there were no features to support it - it was on an honor system).

I think a permanent death race would add a "Wow, THERES A ______!" moment to any encounter.

Of course the race would be PvP flagged at all times like Demons.

It definitely has a very Diablo 2 feel to it, and I love that.

Sort of an MMO version of Path of Exile, perhaps?

Looks very promising.

Playing some Overwatch, wishing I had a good MMO to play.

Monster, classic. Also with a mainline (IV straight to the heart) of Mountain Dew for good measure.

@fibs Dark Age of Camelot and Everquest were two of the most modded games I have played in my life, both had bans for it. Almost no one in the entire history of playing was banned in those games. Heck, more people were banned in Project 1999, an emulated server than actual live Everquest for using ShowEQ and EQ Atlas.

@fibs With respect my dude, I've played with enough savages to know that you aren't banning anyone. You might get 1 percent of the dudes who modify their UI/resolution, but... yeah.

Just make it open and easy so EVERYONE can do it, instead of just the computer literate. Level the playing field.

@finland We certainly don't need another carebear "everyone wins", "free stuff" MMO.

Albion was exciting for the first few months because it offered challenge, and clear winners and losers.

If you sucked, you were a bottom feeding pleb. If you had skill, either in economics, diplomacy, or combat, you rose to the top and became god-like.

Games need that. Plebs need something to strive for.

@finland Your tears sustain us, peasant.

How do you link Twitter to your Fractured account, so it can recognize when you share news to Twitter?

@zwiterion I think it's better to have "natural" games (per se) in PvP. If you add artificial games, like control points, relics, etc.. they become the focus.

But when it's an actual fight for survival, like Albion's Hellgates or open world PvP... there becomes natural games and objectives. Suddenly, instead of holding the control point to get "points", you are holding the choke point - so that your team isn't overran and slaughtered and your gear looted. Instead of capturing the flag, you are looking for high ground, or a structure you can defend. Instead of racing to a capture point, you are running for your life, or trying to elude people who want to do you harm.

I'm not too excited for mounts. They caused a lot of issues in PvP in Albion, and should really be evaluated extensively before the game goes live.

Players purchased expensive mounts like Direwolves, just to have them nerfed...

Frustrating.

@chrightt

I disagree.

I think Albion Online tapped into what the genre needs, but the developers just weren't skilled enough, or listening to the right people. I think that sense of open-world, sandbox, dangerous style MMO is exactly what could save the genre.

I'm not a big fan of these "games" built into PvP.

Capturing control points, running flags, holding relics, etc.

I prefer 'realism' in my PvP - as close as we can get it. Albion's hellgates, "Two teams enter, one team leaves" ruleset was fine enough for me.

It's running off the Unity engine, and looks very similar to Albion Online, so I'm thinking you can use that as a bench mark, but it's really impossible to be sure.

Windows Vista, 7, 8 or 10.
Intel/AMD CPU with SSE2.
Graphics card with Shader Model 2.0 support or better.
2 GB RAM or more.
Linux:
Ubuntu 10.10 64 bit or higher or SteamOS (other distributions do work, but are not officially supported)
Intel/AMD CPU with SSE2.

Excellent summary, thank you.

I agree that Hellgates were an awesome concept, and one of the few things Albion did really well.

I also agree that there was a lack of mainstream content for people in Albion to participate in.

Having raid bosses/PVE content for "normies" would be a great incentive to people who aren't going to be the 1 percent engaging in the high end PvP.

I'll play some sort of tank, but it depends on what sort of tanking mechanics we have.

I prefer disruption/CC style characters.

There will always be addons.

Trying to enforce "no addons" in 2018 is hopeless. Your safest bet is to try to make it as easy as possible for everyone to install whatever addons they like, to level the playing field.

Looking forward to playing alongside all of you.

Finally a game Exploited can return for.