@Xzoviac
I know and I'm on the same page with you. I was addressing the fact that some ways of dismissing other people's concerns on this topic are not exactly healthy and can raise questions for the newcomers.

The thread is 7 days old, so I'll guess you already read your mail and the news from Prometheus' post, but just in case, the test is open for everyone and the server issues were mentioned

-> enchating
Each reagent has 3 possible properties (body, fire, chaos, air etc), each with a different value. You can put up to 5 reagents to get a combination of properties which will activate an item enchant. For the first enchant level, each property has to be at level 2 (out of possible 5). The higher the enchant level, the more property value you need to enchant it. For example, if you want damage increase on weapon, you need to put up to 5 reagents which will get out these values: 2body, 2transform, 2chaos, 2 earth. One possible combination to get these would be: honeynail mushrooms (2body, 3 transform, 3 life), rabbit paw(3 chaos, 2soul, 3 energy) and woolfteeth (3body, 3destroy, 2earth). In total you will have (5body, 3transform, 3life, 3chaos, 2soul, 3energy, 3destroy, 2earth). As you can see, these 3 reagents together as enough to enchant your weapon with weapon damage tier 1. The problem is that you also have a bunch of leftover properties which activate other combinations (enchants) and you can't chose which one you want.
The above combination might fit the requirements for both weapon damage and item durability, but you can't select which one you want so you might end up with item durability instead.
You can find a list reagents and properties combinations in this thread: https://forum.fracturedmmo.com/topic/9927/enchanting-table-chart-alpha-2-february-open-playtest

-> bows
Bow and spear skill are not implemented yet, but I think they will be at some time.

Regarding arrows and poison: if you kill wolves/bears/deers, you get animal bones, out of which you can craft bone arrows with the same stats as the stone ones. At this point poison doesn't work on melee weapons. I don't really mind crafting arrows and poisons, but I see your point.

@Shivashanti said in The New Fractured Trailer Is Awesome!:

Am I missing something or do you mean the older test 1 trailer?

I checked all their social media pages and the latest video is this (not a trailer tho)-> https://www.instagram.com/p/B7lv7T-o1bY/ . Maybe you should also post a source @VyrVandalous ?

Ah, ty! Considering how i check the forums every smoke break, or every few hours when I'm home, and I have a big ass notebook with fractured-related stuff, I'm a bit ashamed for missing that.

One of the major problems I had in the last 2 tests was that I couldn't tell if a certain area could be passed or not. When you are exploring, you only waste about 10min by readjusting the route so it's not a big deal. However, being chased can get frustrating real quick if you can't tell where dead-ends or chokepoints are by looking at the map (especially on asteroids or invasions). I understand many games have this problem, but most of those are not full loot pvp. I also understand that this is an alpha, but this issue seems to be related to how the terrain works (which most likely won't change at release), and to a lesser degree to the graphics style (this could be solved by changing the saturation of non passable areas, and correct the maps by hand; but as I understand some maps are supposed to be randomly generated). I will compare it to Albion to make my point easier.

Pressing M in Fractured (max zoom) vs the one in Albion. The maps in Albion are ugly, but once you get used to the symbols, you can easily tell which piece of land is passable and other useful information. In Fractured however, you have no chance guessing where is the passable land by looking at the map for a couple of seconds. For example, all the red marks are the impassable land I remember around my house. Most of the time I couldn't locate such barriers when traveling to a new area and had to walk along them for a few minutes.

Minimaps suck in both games, so I will just focus on the one in Fractured. There is a lot of impassable area in the radar below. Where do you think it is? How fast can you detect it while running?

And the reason why I started this thread: that's a passable area in both games. For the full image, clicky Fractured and Albion.

I don't know anything about this being confirmed by the devs, but there are possibilities of medium and heavy armor using the environment as well.
The most intuitive usages would be: medium armor being able to grab into trees/ledges and pull themselves to that location. Heavy armor being able to push creatures into walls / off ledges and CC them.

@Kralith
If this makes you feel better I think the average mmorpg player is like you: they care about character progression, but not really about being a completionist and they think chatting improves group activities.

How about me: for the first two weeks or so I generally play solo & am really interested into exploration and game lore. After that, I try to find people to play with and gradually move towards pvp as I reach endgame.

@Tuoni said in How do you think the Economy will actually function?:

Because of several open questions and unresolved issues, I predict fundamental problems.

This is my exact feeling.

At this point, we don't have enough information and it's very hard to predict how the economy will work.

A solution that would make the market usable would be to have dedicated refiners instead of dedicated crafters and only be able to sell mats on the market instead of full items. Instead of having item quality, you have material quality which would be affected by refiner's stats. Crafted items have the same quality as the materials they are made of. Damaged items can be refined into raw materials, which scales with durability. So basically it's the Ikea of MMOs - buy the raw mats and assemble your item. Later on they can add QOL features like preset market orders so you can buy a bunch of different materials with just one click.

@Jetah said in Where is the Feature Spotlight dedicated to Technology?:

i'd love to see the community have to unlock tech stuff. bring back the RTS stuff. think age of empires where you have 1 person stuck in the stone age while another is progressing to information age.

Empire Earth maybe?

Anyway, how would that work? Per city? Per island? Per world?

@Gothix
Ok

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P68_Ks0ovm4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RZINwzceRE

You can't kite groups of people in a game with burst healing. You need to engage and do burst damage.

With collision you can't clamp big groups and drop aoe on them. You kill whoever is in front (most likely, the tanks, which will absorb the damage) and then you're on cooldowns while they run you over. No collision doesn't mean that small zergs can take on big zergs, but at least they have a chance to exploit enemy error or to defend themselves on a chokepoint.

@Gothix
First of all, the game won't be playable with anything close to 3000 players on the same screen because the complexity grows exponentially.

no you will not be able to nuke them all at once there

It's a legit strategy in Albion and pretty much the only thing that gives small zergs a chance to take on considerably bigger ones. With collision on, instead of pulling everyone in the same spot, they will be one next to eachother, and instead of hitting everyone, the aoe can only hit a limited number of people, so you kill some and then you're a sitting duck on CD - no amount of enemy error can make a big zerg lose to a small zerg in this case.

@Gothix said in Hitboxes depending on size of player characters ?:

And it also partly helps against fighting the zergs. It would definitely be harder to fight them without collision mechanics.

How exactly? If there is a collision, aoe spells can only hit so many people on both sides. If there's no collision, a properly coordinated tank pull + DPS aoe can take out an entire group regardless of size.

@Meiki
That's why I asked what are the exact advantages. In every game I played so far, owning a city is a huge economic advantage, that's why guilds fight over them. Owning a city by default as long as you wish because someone in your guild bought an expensive pack doesn't seem right to me.

Well, now I kind of want to know what are the exact bonuses for governors, because at this point it looks terribly prone to being p2w.

@Yitra
It's not really about having trouble targeting mobs, but about the difficulty of hitting away targets with skillshots. I guess the dragons or huge world bosses won't have the same hitbox as the rabbits.

@Kralith
Projectiles should stop in the first collision box they hit. I don't see anything wrong with that and it's a legit tactic for zvz: tanks stay in the frontline and protect the dps by body-blocking skillshots. Anyway, to my understanding, Fractured will have character collision, so 2 characters won't be able to stand on the same tile but imo this only adds more problems, both technically and gameplay-wise.

@asspirin said in Alignment dependant abilities?:

I can only remember beastman shapeshifting spells, that will change once you turn to abomination (by changing your alignment)

To my understanding those are primarily racial skills. Humans and angels won't be access to them if they become good.

@Gothix said in NPC organizations:

Like "church of Babils", and then you have NPCs around the world (maybe even other planets), that give you some extra vendor / interaction options if you "belong to Babils" as well.

To my understanding, everything we get in the game (with the exception of raw materials) are supposed to be crafted by players. NPC factions don't really make sense in this game.

@Rizzardi
Click on a claimed city on this map and select "join". Iirc, you need legend pack tho.