Release 51 Post Draft: Feedback Please

If bag mode is going away, the instructions should reflect that. A suggestion for the text. Removing the strike through text

 

In the "Known Issues" document, under "Pledge Rewards and Add-On item Functionality/In-Game Status"

1. Fyndoro's Tablet of Finding: Unable to be used to find another character.
   

Should be removed as this document states it works in R51.

 

From the OP: "Also as usual the links to instructions and known issues are pointing to R50 so I don't need to be told that. "

 

Consider "Rumors tell that she alone knows the secret to crafting such a log home, and keeps the recipe hidden somewhere within." Gets rid of the duplication in the sentence, and sounds more like a rumor.

I still think "They claim the only way" would sound better here, and rather than simply kill, how about "murder the foul lord." Goodness knows we kill enough bandits in this game, but cold-blooded murder might make one pause...

"Added a quest to help new players obtain upgrades to their starter gear." The way it is written makes it sound like you could potentially upgrade any gear.

I'd avoid naming the skill level; the only visible version of this is "grandmaster" at 100. Consider instead "All require the player to be very accomplished (skill level 80) in..." Also, the previous section just noted how many skills can be trained or maintained, so just saying "only grant bonuses if they are set to train or maintain" should be clear.

The chaos magic section should probably include the same numbers, so "Chaos magic gains +1 chaos attunement but suffers -1 magic resistance to all other schools for every 50 levels." Also, is this penalty resistance or attunement, since there are both?

In the Player Vendor Variations section, should note that "In addition, vendor animations and behaviors were updated as noted in the Crafting and Economy section." and in the Cash Registers section, it should note that "Patterns for these cash registers can be used on any player vendors." Just kind of tying these three sections together.

There is no list following this (probably in progress).

The R50 instructions said the Wolf Head Trophies would also be updated in R51, but I don't see them in the list.

There is an extra bullet in this list.

 

Will do what?

- Lao Tzu

 

Hmm, range of 7.5m usually refers to meters. 7.5M generally refers to million. Probably pedantic...

 

fixed most of these. The wolf trophies were actually updated in R50

 

I'm slightly confused that the Physical Items section includes this -

"Collected Notes of Akalabeth and the Story of Mondain: The digitized version of Richard’s original notes from his DnD campaign have been completed and they look amazing! Scottie made them look like they were on a kitchen table complete with dice and everything!"

Is the 'physical' item a print of the digitized artwork and images Scottie has done? Or have as usual completely misunderstood something...

 

good point. Added clarification and moved this

 

• Batching Exceptional Gear: You can now get exceptional (higher durability) weapons and armor when batch crafting.

This should also make clear whether they also earn exceptional experience for crafting them?

 

• Performance: In Release 51, we were able to reduce load times even further and take our first steps towards improving frame rate in high player/creature situations! Frame rate still needs much more work though, and efforts in Release 49 will receive our first major focus in that area.

Shouldn't that 49 be 52 or something higher, or be removed completely if 49 is correct?

 

• "All Bludgeon Weapons: The base damage on all bludgeon weapons has been increased slightly BUT also now have a -25% poison effectiveness penalty."

Actually this change was only to non edged bludgeoning weapons. Axes were not changed.

 

Agree, already tried to explain that.

 

After seeing the Female Shopkeepers on Sketchfab, I have to say I'm bummed they are not included until next month. However, if they are delayed, they shouldn't be in the list of new recipes and patterns.

 

Vendor pattern and shopkeeper pattern two different things

 

Yes, but both the "Female Player Vendor Pattern" and "Female Shopkeeper Pattern" are listed.

 

fixed

 

numbers don't match what chris originally wrote

 

I would rewrite this to convey more information:

• Critical Successes during Batching: You can now get critical successes when performing any batch crafting operations. This will result in exceptional (higher durability) weapons and armor when crafting gear for example.
• Critical Successes during Batching: You can now get critical successes when performing any batch crafting operations. This will result in bonus crafting XP during every critical success, and exceptional (higher durability) weapons and armor.

Also, it should be either "any batch crafting operation" or "all batch crafting operations".

 

There are six pieces, so 12.5% is correct.