So? What did I miss in the hangout?

Any epicness to share from the event?

 

They removed Instancing.
In a suprise move all zones are now connected.

The Overland Map is now the new mininap.

The NPC AI received a major overhaul.
They speak now and respond to you talking to them. Not typing.
They all remember how you did behave to them. They all have now a own house and a day life cycle. They have for everything they do a animation.
Some are good or bad - some steal your stuff or try to lure you into a corner and then attack you.


Every Add on Store Item is removed , but you can craft and sale Items with real money and SotA takes a 10% fee.

They did add 10 suprise NPC only towns - to recreate unique towns.
At those areas the most immersed solo experience will take place.

Leonardo di Caprio revealed that he has the same love for the Amazon and tribes as Richard.
He will support just because of that the Game with a additional 100 Million

If you end up as a PvP or PvE player is now entirely based on your ingame decissions and karma.

The Game will open up a free to play for 1 month now and will advertise this.

Items will now drop everywhere and it will not cause any lag

Your Avatar now grows hair, a beard and needs to bath once a month or he will look dirty.
You now have a new profession - a bath house owner.

And all Items that looked almost like pledge rewards are reworked to look different so the uniqueness restored.

And instead of Christmas, Easter and world events- they are now replaced with Novia Events that are almost the same but different still to fit in gaming world.

And you can have sex and Reproduce and have a family

And there was no talking about the combat system and tuning during the entire hangout


That was all. Grin.


And sarcastic talk away - i do not expect alot of suprises anymore at this stage of development.
I think they are at the last 20% and fine tuning.
All is set in stone majorly for the game.
And that is what you get on information.

I expect alot of content

 

Guess that was well deserved hehe.
Non the less you are a terrible troll ;-)

Nah of course not, you are right. But they announced some stuff about crafting on twitter. Wanted to find out if it was worth the announcement at all ^^

 

Yeah, would appreciate a serious tl;dr since I missed it.

 

You can watch it here.

 

No time.
That's why i am asking

 

Yeah I'm watching it now, but a summary still wouldn't hurt for people who can't dedicate 2 hours. Whaaaaatever!

 

I watched the replay while mining. The only thing I took away was patterns/molds are coming, and theres been 1000 artifacts dropped so far. Probably much more said but I forgot the rest already *shrugs*

 

If that's the best sum up you can come up with i guess i didn't miss much ;-)
Thanks!

 

They also mentioned that Dev++ access will be opened to any backer who has accumulated the minimum amount of pledges/addon store purchases required.

 

Fair enough i guess.
There isn't anyway anthing left that is exclusive beside a few screenshots of new stuff.

 

...and I forgot to mention that PvP specific item drops are coming for PvP areas. No specific details but Starr was definite about that.

 

And this:

Watch the postmortem, it's worth it.

 

I found the answer to "When are we getting 6+ skull content added to the game" quite worrisome. The game needs this content but their response was something like this....

- They wont be making any new zones that are 6 to 9 skull . Just adding 'pockets' of harder content inside existing 5 skull zones is the plan.
- They mentioned The Rise as a 10 skull zone and mentioned something about another 10 skull zone being added, if I recall correct.
- They claimed that there was already enough zones in game to make for a great launch.

I didn't find this very encouraging. I believe we do need more zones and a lot of them too. I don't feel there is enough content yet... and 'jumping from 5 skull to 10 skull' with no content inbetween other than pockets of harder areas? It was very disappointing listening to that section of the stream

 

It might not sound like enough if they aren't finished filling out the current zones; everyone stays in just a few zones because that's where the loot and hard monsters are. I think if you look at the population and the number of zones sitting idle, all it would take is for them to finish fleshing out the current zones they have with better mobs and loot.

 

Focuse regin being fixed.
Dmg skills fo moon tree coming.
Something about artifacts and how awesome they are. No high skull areas just pockets of mobs in current zones. No real elaboration on pvp worth mentioning just that its still in progresss. Balancing coming for all skills n such.
The other 95% was extended talk about decorations and that stuff.

 

You are right there is not enough content but more scenes won't give that. We'll get those with more episodes that bring in more virtues. I'm hoping more content coming in would be reasons to go back to scenes like side quests, achievements, and discovery reasons; such as; treasure maps, different types of fish in different areas to complete fishing quests and contests, surprise creature content added in areas or npcs added due to ability to swap out hexes to change up scenes and always as well I want exploring to be in the achievements added to the game. If you climb a mountain you'll find something and if you are fishing you may get a message in a bottle. This is also content. Now I am wishing of course but some thoughts I'm hoping will be utilized

 

Agreed. But the kicker is, if the side quest is go kill this mean bandit leader, and hes green to me, the content was kinda useless.
Need CHALLENGING content with the filler.
I agree theres plenty of unused zones they can build out of. Im fine with areas having packs of higher end mobs and not just being based on a skull levels.
But contents only good to me if it adds a challenge or a point to hit for progrssion.

 

Ah so they focused on the really important stuff......,

 

Exactly what my guild was saying during it. Probably less then 8 minutes of stuff that wasnt cosmetic.

Giving them benifit of doubt and hoping they left the tough questions for the write up where they can take time with. (Which makes sense, long as they dont 1 word answer those )

And in their defense.. i looked through a lot of the questions.. and most things being asked are cosmetic stuff.