@kungkaneru Ah, but don't forget that serious hypercalcemia can also cause bone pain, confusion, lethargy, fatigue, anxiety and depression, so you could up with a bunch of bone idle heaps that belong in an ossuary.

@kralith Thanks for the link to content pills, everything makes sense when you know where to look.

@PeachMcD Agreed, this is a primary function that would be very soul destroying to only discover at the end of a hard days toil in the field, free Alpha or not, time spent is still a valuable commodity to new users.

@eurav...... hmmm, you make some very valid points, I have noticed many of the thread are either old, or tend to be rather trivial in nature: I suppose it is a symptom of accumulating points from posts, even to say hello and probably what most watchers are thinking about my own submissions, lol. You are right of course, the dev's won't have time and there is no real incentive to justify the allocation of such a valuable resource to such matters........ I keep forgetting that unlike the forum itself, the foundation is primarily a vehicle for pre- play interaction and may become somewhat redundant on release etc.
Thanks for taking the time to reply. Cheers.

@Specter Many thanks and congrats to all other winners: as the saying goes, "you have to be in to win" so type away.

@jetah Thanks: being new and, as is human nature, I wanted the knowledge (pun intended) immediately. In hindsight I am actually enjoying reading all the info in the news section first hand and found the NDA info in the article about the pre-alpha key. Patience is a virtue, clearly not one that I seem to excel in...….perhaps I should think seriously about making my hero demon.

@logan thanks for the link.: at least that clears up one unknown on total pop as I can now say with conviction that at the time of writing this I am ranked 3918 out of 19,963 [(831 x 24) + 19] if you count Prometheus etc.
So I'm not going to hold my breath for a pre-alpha key.
And as to all those who also replied. thanks for engaging and I do agree that game development is far more pressing than work on the foundation, but I did like the idea.

While I was browsing Q & A pages to see if anyone had previously raised the topic of allowing guild masters to upload a personalised/custom banner icon, I came across an article titled "Banners" which contained links
(Take a look here: Suggestion | Site | Custom Guild symbol type) that when I clicked then overlaid the following message:

Access Denied
You seem to have stumbled upon a page that you do not have access to

Is there higher tier access required to certain questions i.e. messenger/consol that can't be accessed by a whisperer?

Although I would welcome some form of mentoring system, I would like it to extend beyond the basics of game play into wider dynamics of group/faction operation: including how to effectively use supporting mechanisms as discord: a platform I have only recently joined on finding fractured, but have yet to master. (Although I have played mmo's for a couple of years, for the most part it has only been as a solo player, or member of a pug.)

I find the best way I learn is through visual media: so perhaps as the game develops there could be a library heading, with video tutorials explaining such processes and would definitely appreciate an idiots guide about actually running a guild in earnest.

I will try doing a search through the previous posts to see if there is any mention of setting up a tutorial test area as part of future development, I.e. an area where newbies can try out and learn the basics of game play at there own pace without consequences in the real game.

@esher Can't really get my head around becoming an Angel, not sure what advantages it will give to compensate for the locked to good.

I have a foundation level of 361 with a number of old bronze and silver chest awards still attached to my now transferred profile that I would like to fully understand the current value of please? especially given I have multiples of each chest type shown on my forum account and these type of rewards are no longer current (although theoretically aligned with the new pack types i.e. adept etc.) ? Although historically active on the forum and having played occasional open test games, it has always been my intension to wait until beta before purchasing the game so they have not actually been claimed yet and I can only find references to previously purchased packs. Can anyone tell me how these foundation awards are actually accessed and become in game available items if I actually purchase the game during beta as previously intended. Thx

+1 posted

Just got access to the alpha weekend and it opened with the setting option of use "my monitor" ticked ....so it was actually on wide screen (my monitor is 3440 x 1440p) and epic settings, that gave me 88 FPS and no warping, however, not sure what res it actually was because there are no widescreen options shown in the advanced settings even though this clearly worked. The screen was not cropped to fit a window and when I clicked advanced and changed it to the highest setting shown of 2560 x 1440p all it did was crop in the sides and increase the FPS to 141. I did have a hell of job getting it back to widescreen though when I tried to click straight back to the "my monitor" mode, but eventually found that I first had to actually apply one of the advanced settings shown as a window mode and them swap back to "my monitor" option to get widescreen back? Interested to find out what widescreen is supported and would be good to have them actually shown in the advanced option section. As for game play I had pretty good FPS through out as stated above, with a 240s ping, but I did get repeated lag/stutter on motion and combat at regular intervals as well as disconnected back to the server screen a few times during approx. 1 hour of today, which would be too much outside of testing.

@Meltdown . Just got access to the alpha weekend and it opened with an option setting ticked to use my monitors setting, so it did auto open on wide screen which looked pretty good on epic settings that gave 88 FPS and did not warp, but not sure what res it was as there are no widescreen setting options shown in the advanced option even though it clearly works without warping and was not cropped to fit because when I clicked advanced and changed to the highest setting shown of 2560 1440p screen it only cropped at the the sides in and went to FPS of 141. Mind you had a hell of a job getting it back to widescreen using the my monitor setting but eventually found that all I needed to do was apply advanced setting to windows first before them setting to "my monitor" option and apply again and yay came back to widescreen of unknow but looked similar res. So in short widescreen of some res is supported and will be very interested to find out what. I will post on Alpha feedback forum and see what I get. in reply.. cheers

@Meltdown , yes, unfortunately that seems to align with what I found on the forum about widescreen and 1440p support back in 2020. Will also be a showstopper for me if that is as far as it goes, as I think wide screen graphics look awesome and give far greater emersion in the other games I play like Destiny2 and Ark. Fingers crossed it's on the list of things to be done before beta, but won't hold my breath. Cheers.

Hi All,
Does anyone know if there has been any progress on the game support of 3440 x 1440p? The only message I found searching the forums was from back in Nov 2020 that stated "NOT AN OPTION" at that time.
I have recently upgraded to enjoy widescreen at 1440p and was hoping to enjoy the upcoming Alpha trial access next week without letterboxing or distortion from an unsupported res if possible.
I would also welcome any feedback from anyone currently playing the alpha at widesreen of any res on this thread.
Cheers

Today is another day

@KirwinHansel The same penalty also happens on Ark , but that is not to say I like it in that game. There is too much grind that it stops me from enjoying the experience so I stop playing for longer periods each time. Death needs to strike the correct balance between the consequence for failure (in this case grind) against peoples own drive to succeed and because that is a very personal thing I expect it will never please every one. There is the difference between death and unconsciousness to consider in this game, so you get more bites of the cherry (although during alpha tests I have been trapped in a loop where death is just a drawn out inevitability because of repeat PVE attacks before mobility, but hope that is just one of the pitfalls of alpha). I personally would like to see a compromise where even in death you respawn naked but still close enough to actually see your last dead body and have at least some potential to recover items before being set upon again, but I am not that skilled a player and can understand there has to be some consequence for failure i.e. there is little value in success without a healthy fear of the consequences of failure. Guess we'll have to wait and see what the wider audience thinks.

@PeachMcD Agreed, this is a primary function that would be very soul destroying to only discover at the end of a hard days toil in the field, free Alpha or not, time spent is still a valuable commodity to new users.

@MonkP had a similar issue that was further exacerbated by a noticeable delay between keyboard activation to game response ( even though ping and frames were reasonable) that meant the monsters had time to regrouped, return and re- paralyzed the character before it even regained consciousness on my client and you can't do squat, not even bandage !. Servers might have held up, but game dynamics was painfully slow during test for me.