All Posts by RJD

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Originally posted by Garthilk

I entered a few basic commands I had shoulder surfed from a developer and loaded up Barak Varr. A few more entries and I endowed my avatar with the powers of super speed and flight.

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Originally posted by callmetoby

Here's what Richard Duffek had to say about it;

Mythic will not run our own "official" forums. We believe, as I'm sure all of you do, our money is better spent making the game the best it can possibly be. There are plenty of great communities on the web already for us to frequent and use for the dissemination of information that having our own really wouldn't accomplish anything other than spending development time and money on their upkeep, staffing and maintenance.

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Originally posted by Enigma
Today I bought Battlefield 2142 since I was an avid fan of BF2 and the earlier BF 1942.

However, like an idiot, i never bothered to do any research on the game before shelling out 54 bucks (tax included) only to open the box and see a big, fat, adware notice accompanied with the instructional manual. 

EA has partnered with a spyware site and when you open the security seal (hence cannot return it) it says you have to agree to these terms or you cannot install the game.  VERY shadey business practices.

So,

do you think EA will pull the same devious, ugly stunt to WAR as they did with BF2142? Remember Dice made BF2142 but EA still were the ones responsible for the adware.  You think EA will have Mythic do the same?

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*waves to Murt*

I'm still around, just in a different capacity these days. :)

There are no plans to put advertising in Warhammer Online, Dark Age of Camelot or Ultima Online. EA reviews the appropriateness of in-game advertising on a case-by-case basis. We would only put ads in a game where is makes sense inside the fiction and enhances the fantasy experience.

And also, taken from the official BF2142 site:

Sorry for the delay in getting to this thread, I've been in Vegas for the DAoC Roundtable since Thursday.

No, we will never have Official forums.

Many of the reasons why have already been repeated above by many others.

1) I am the WAR Community Coordinator, I am active on every "active" fansite for the game in existance. I may not post on all of them every day, but really, this far out, there isn't much I can say anyway.

2) I also frequent a couple different IRC channels devoted to the game.

3) No important announcement from Mythic will ever be posted on a message board anywhere, that is what the Herald is for.

4) Every "Official" forum for any game I've ever visited has only been marginally above what I'd classify as a cesspit.

5) No, I can't hit EVERY message board created everywhere on the net that remotely relates to the game, but I hit quite a few, and as the communities in others grow, I'll have a presence there as well.

6) Yes, it DOES cost the company money to create/maintain/host their own forums. That in Mythic's opinion is money better spent on the development/maintenance of the actual game.

7) As stated above, rather than making everyone come to us, we go to you, in the communities you feel most comfortable in. You like the forums here on MMORPG.com but hate the ones on VN? Cool, stay here then, and I'll be here to read your discussions. Love the WHA forums but don't like these or VN? I'll be there too... Don't like any of them and want to start your own fansite? Assuming you have an active community, I'll be there as well.

I challenge you to find any Community Manager/Coordinator for any other game/company who posts as much on their Official forums (or any forums) as I do on fansite forums.

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Originally posted by Kyoruto

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Originally posted by Alle90
 hehe, i just love how mythic interact with the community, he got totaly pwned!

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Totally... I love the fact that its not only one their forums... Which I should probably visit... Makes me wonder if they will be a big part of the online community.

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Please disregard the troll, he has apparently wandered too far from his bridge and is confused...

Beta has indeed not started yet.

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Originally posted by VideoXPG
I am really glad everywhere I go people are making positive feedback toward the game. Makes me want to play it more but alas, I am sitting here still trying to get into Beta.

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1) I don't see how fixing problems on these forums in any way relates to whether or not Mythic will fix problems in the game... As Mythic is in no way related to this site... We don't own it, we don't run it, I just pop in and answer questions occasionally, I don't even have Mod powers...

2) If you go to "Your Account Settings" in the top righthand corner, then click on "Alert Settings" in the menu on the right, the first option you can set/change on that page is "When you post in our forums, do you want to subscribe to the topic by default?" Yes or No...

I know if I was commuting 3+ hours each way to and from work, had just adopted two children from Russia, who without saying are going to need a LOT of attention, and someone just dumped a large sum of money into my lap I'd be taking some extended time off as well... But thats just me. The sky really isn't falling every time something thumps you in the head... :)

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Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.85 Release Notes
Quest System and Class Changes
July 27, 2006
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NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES

- Art has been updated for players in shade, mummy, and stone forms (Catacombs and newer clients only).

- A number of NPCs erroneously displayed that they gave Master Level experience when they did not. This has been fixed, and they will no longer indicate that they are worth Master Level experience.

- Advanced trainers have been stationed in the starting towns (Cotswold, Mularn, and Mag Mell) by their guilds. Note that many of these trainers are new to training and may not offer all services those in the capital city might (such as beginning the epic quests, etc.).

- Fixed two bugs in the user interface in which tooltips were not being positioned correctly in tree controls.

CLASS CHANGES AND FIXES

Cabalists

- Simulacrum pets will now perform the entire range of emotes granted to other pets.

Hunters

- Hunters have a new instant-cast pet at spec 40 and 50 in Beastcraft with the following details:

40: Hunter's Elder Protector - Spawns at 85% of the Hunter's level and has a chance to proc Disease (Rabies) as well as perform various melee styles on the target.

50: Hunter's Elder Avatar - Spawns at 90% of the Hunter's level and has a greater chance to proc Disease (Rabies) as well as perform various melee styles on the target.

Necromancers

- Necromancers should now be able to purchase and use the Realm Ability Purge.

- Fixed a rare bug in which Necromancers would not lose shade form when their pets went away.

- Tinderbox items can now be used by Necromancers while in shade form.

Left Axe Changes

- Decaying Rage is now a side positional style with a 5 second stun.

- Aurora Borealis now chains off of Decaying Rage.

Axe

- Valkyrie’s Shield will be based off Evade for Berserkers and Shadowblades

Sword

- Frost Cut will be based off Evade for Savages.

Slash Changes

- Riposte for Infiltrators will now be based off Evade.

Dual Wield Changes

- Reflection for Infiltrators will now be based off Evade.

Thrust Changes

- Beartooth for Infiltrators will now be based off Evade.

- Ricochet for Infiltrators will be based off Evade.

Blades

- Horizon blade will now be based off Evade for Nightshades and Rangers.

Piercing

- Tarantula will now be based off Evade for Nightshades and Rangers.

Master Level Ability Changes

Sojourner

We’ve strived to make Forceful Zephyr a more balanced ability, allowing it to be more reliable in use and more defensive in nature as per its original design.

To that end, we’ve made the following adjustments to this Master Level ability:

- Forceful Zephyr is now a targeted pet summon spell very much similar to a Theurgist Earth pet in terms of speed and functionality. The ground target aspects of the ability and thus the unreliability have been removed entirely. The caster must face the target during the initial casting and have adequate line of sight. This line of sight is not limited to just X and Y planes, as targeting on a different Z axis is possible.

- Forceful Zephyr will only ever hit the person originally targeted by the caster. It will no longer sometimes hit other enemy targets in its path.

- The Zephyr will chase after the target and only the target designated by the caster. It is possible to outrun the Zephyr during its lifespan if conditions are right.

- The Zephyr is immune to Crowd Control spells of any type and will not deviate from its target.

- The ability now has a 2000 unit range and remains an instant cast ability.

- The initial lifespan of the Zephyr is 10 seconds. If it catches its target the Zephyr will last an additional 7-10 seconds as it buffets its target around. If the target out runs or out maneuvers the Zephyr for the 10 second duration then the Zephyr will vanish.

- The Zephyr will randomly choose a direction when it hits its target and buffet the target in that direction, albeit at a slower speed than the initial burst of velocity demonstrated from caster to target.

- The Zephyr will chase a target under water if the target dives after the ability is used, though the caster cannot use the ability on a target above water if the caster is under water. The reverse it true for using the ability underwater.

- While the Zephyr is buffeting its target for the 7-10 seconds, the target is immune to damage through a pulsing melee and magic ablative. This immunity drops as the target gets dropped.>>

- The recast timer of the ability has been lowered from 15 minutes to 10 minutes.

- ***FOR TESTING PURPOSES ON PENDRAGON ONLY: The recast timer for Forceful Zephyr has been lowered to 60 seconds. This is only to help us test the mechanics of the change, and the official timer will be ten to fifteen minutes (see the above note).***

NEW FRONTIERS NOTES

General

- When zoning from the Frontiers side of Druim Ligen and Druim Cain to the homeland side, the player will no longer appear beneath the geometry.

- GTAE spells, such as Earth Wave should no longer do double damage to players on rams.

- Players should now receive realm points while operating a ram.

- All battlegrounds now award 25 percent more realm points per kill.

Leirvik Battleground - General

- The size of the center island has been enlarged. - The center island terrain has been contoured to allow many unique play styles. The center keep is now on a raised hill.

- All towers have been moved further away from the center keep. Each realm will have a tower near the vicinity of the bridge that connects to their portal keep island.

- Each realm's portal keep island now has a direct bridge route to the center island. You may still swim if you wish.

- Various texture enhancements have been introduced throughout the zone.

- 'The ground is too steep' restrictions have been removed from Leirvik.

- All boat merchants and docks have been removed from Leirvik.

- A number of new vendors have set up shops near each of the realms' portal keeps. The new vendors include a recharger, a smith, a poison supplier, and an arrowsmith. All merchant NPCs may be attacked by the enemy realm and will offer the chance to drop loot, upon death. Protect your citizens!

Cathal Valley Battleground - General

- Ever since the discovery of Cathal Valley, adventurers of all realms have wondered what the mysterious portal at the end of Cathal Valley represents. Observant adventurers will notice that the portal has shifted and revealed an enigmatic keep at the end of Cathal Valley! Guarded by the spirit of the previous keep lord, Keep Orseo is a mystery to all the scholars of each realm and a call has gone out to each realm's heroes to claim the keep so that the other realms will not be privy to whatever secrets the keep represents.

- With the revelation of the central keep in Cathal Valley, players have the opportunity to claim this strategic point for their realm. Once a realm claims the keep, it will populate with a contingent of guards to defend the keep on that realm's behalf until another realm comes along and kills that realm's keep lord.

- Several new vendors have set up shops near each of the realm's portal keeps. The new vendors include a recharger, a smith, a poison supplier, and an arrowsmith.

- Seeing an opportunity for profit, wood merchants have set up shop at the towers that overlook each realm's milegate. The wood purchased here can be used to repair the postern doors on the milegates or the keep doors on the new central keep.

- A number of vendors can be found at the new central keep in Cathal Valley. The vendors available in the center keep include a recharger, a smith, a poison supplier, a wood merchant, and an enchanter. All merchant NPCs may be attacked by the enemy realm and will offer the chance to drop loot, upon death. Protect your citizens!

CAMELOT CLASSIC WORLD NOTES

General

- The switches that open the door into and out of the border keeps on the home realm side have had their interaction radius normalized so they all operate similarly across realms. This corrects a small discrepancy across realms in how close you had to be to operate the switches.

Albion Monsters

- The mighty dragon Golestandt is no longer referred to as female by emotes displayed during the encounter.

- Slythcur should no longer wander into West Downs.

Hibernia Monsters

- The Siabra Queen and her entourage will no longer spawn on top of their tower in the Bog of Cullen.

Dungeons

- Additional entrances to the level 1-10 task dungeons were added to Ludlow and Vasudheim in 1.84. Because the dungeons exit to Cotswold and Mularn respectively, a npc was added at each of these entrances to allow players easy access back to the entrance at Ludlow and Vasudheim.

SHROUDED ISLES WORLD NOTES

Albion Monsters

- The Spirit of Lord Emthoro is now properly set to give Master Level experience.

Dungeons

- [Crystal Cave] Fixed an issue in which Xanxicar's champions would not properly come to his aid when called.

TRIALS OF ATLANTIS WORLD NOTES

Oceanus Quests

- [Master Level 1 Final Encounter - Cetus] The Cetus encounter has been modified to prevent players from inadvertently killing Cetus with the mindslayers spawned from using 'Rassa's Mirror'. This means that the item should no longer be usable if the monster falls below 50% health and should not do enough damage to kill Cetus whenever it is used.

Aerus Quests

- [Master Level 9 Final Encounter - Phoenix] The 'Phoenix Ozos' monsters that patrol the southwest generator will now path correctly all the way around the generator.

Item Notes

- Healers who were previously unable to trade the current version of Eirene's Chestpiece will now be able to trade it for a version with different stats.

CATACOMBS WORLD NOTES

Instanced Adventuring

- In the Plutonian Shores adventure wing instance, a Plutonian Wizard that was spawning and becoming trapped in the world geometry has been moved slightly to prevent this issue.

Dungeons

- Abandoned Mines (Albion) - Grayfur should no longer zephyr people through walls or to invalid places within the dungeon.

DARKNESS RISING WORLD NOTES

Quests - Albion

- Rebellion: The Race to King's Crossing - Players who do not receive quest credit for defending Sergeant Connelly may now speak with him after the encounter to advance.

- Conspiracy: Dark Development - Players who do not receive quest credit for defeating the demon in the tower may now speak with Kelec after the encounter to advance.

Quests - Midgard

- Rebellion: The Race to Hagg Dalur - Players who do not receive quest credit for defending Sergeant Malagin may now speak with him after the encounter to advance.

- Conspiracy: Dark Development - Players who do not receive quest credit for defeating the demon in the tower may now speak with Morkosis after the encounter to advance.

Quests - Hibernia

- Rebellion: The Race to Clocha Liatha - Players who do not receive quest credit for defending Captain Fearghus may now speak with him after the encounter to advance.

- Conspiracy: Dark Development - Players who do not receive quest credit for defeating the demon in the tower may now speak with Brother Esras after the encounter to advance.

FOUNDATIONS NOTES

- Doors to the tavern and other non-player owned properties in the Broughshane housing zone will now open properly when interacted with.

- The horse route from the Albion housing entrance to the Stoneleigh market should no longer freeze along the route.

COOPERATIVE SERVER

- New spell effects have been created and added to the Relic Fragments.

- Additional treasure has been added to the Relic encounters.

- Beer Run - This quest has been disabled on Gaheris since it requires players to enter the Battlegrounds.

- Gone but not Forgotten - This quest has been disabled on Gaheris since it requires players to enter the Battlegrounds.

Well, the Serenity RPG (pencil and paper) did win RPG of the Year at Origins this year and is up for more awards at GenCon...

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Originally posted by Billius8 

[As far as the comment about a Mythic Rep "owning" a potential customer, no one "owns" their customers.  The customer always wins, because the customer takes his credit card and goes somewhere else.  The guy can go back and brag in the boardroom about how he slammed a former Mythic player (yes, I was in DAOC for a time), but he won't be counting my dollars in this revenue figures.]

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Originally posted by TookyG

Of course it seems like WoW....but wow is just like every other game out there.  Not to mention that the warcraft universe is very very similar to that of the warhammer universe.

I had the change to play a short demo at Origins as Mythic had a booth setup and I liked what I saw.  It was only running one quest but it gave me a small taste of the combat and for an alpha build of the game it was pretty fun and quite amazing what they've already accomplished with the game.

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Originally posted by Blurr
The only thing that scares me about WAR now is the fact that EA bought Mythic. That makes me very very nervous for this game which I want to love. It's like hearing your girlfriend tell you that she might have an STD.

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Yes, I assumed that was what you meant, but no, it wasn't blatantly obvious. Like I've said, I have met people who held that opinion. It wasn't meant as a flame, mini or otherwise. You'd be surprised how many people there are out there who were introduced to the MMO genre by WoW and really haven't looked at anything else, therefore don't really know the history of the genre.

Back to your actual point though, yeah, WoW reached the MMO market with the art style first, but well, can't much be done about that. Seeing as the Warhammer Universe is closing in on being 25 years old and Warcraft didn't come along and steal the look until about 12 years ago, I don't see WAR changing its Art Style just so we don't look like WoW.

IMO there are many things that seperate WAR from WoW and the other games on the market. For one what was mentioned right above... It is being set in a 25 year old world full of history and lore and content; a world full of conflict and strife, great locations and characters, a perfect setting for a MMO.

And most importantly to a lot of people, our RvR (PvP) system, which DAoC introduced, and WAR will take to the next level, is incorporated into all levels and aspects of the game. We didn't tack it onto the end of the game as some half-forgotten after-thought like a lot of games out there. The design philosophy for Warhammer Online is "War is everywhere!" and you feel that in everything you do. When was the last time you felt like you were in a war in WARcraft? Even the PvE content in WAR is geared to help further the ongoing battle effort. Some is just atmospheric, killing NPC Dwarfs trying to invade your Greenskin starting village for example, while other PvE content actually has an effect on the RvR side of things.

I could go on and on about why/how I think WAR is different/better but most of you would probably just write me off as being biased since I work for Mythic or just spouting the company line I was fed and told to deliver... Those who have known me here for a while though know that really isn't my style.

So again, sorry for the confusion above and sorry if it came across as a flame. :)

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Originally posted by EliasThorne
but... as far as MMOs go WOW got there first.

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