The Making of Elysium Mines

@Sea-Wolf
On the game settings i have on the preset "Fastest".
Strangely though, its only like this when I first zone in. If I go into the options and change it from Fastest to something else it fixes it. Even more strange is that once I've done that I can go set it back to fastest again and the fix stays.
Also had the wife try on her pc who has a much better system than I do AND runs different quality settings and she gets the same ghost effect.

 

I was able to repro the problem. Seems to be a shader issue. Thanks Scoffer!

 

@Sea-Wolf It Looks amazing and I can't wait to try it tonight. I am sad to see gold removed but copper is a fair replacement.
don't forget the Easter eggs.

 

Initial feedback:
Please note that I only spent about an hour on there so take this with a pinch of salt...

The ore clusters are a great idea for such a vast zone. It means that while there maybe a 2 minute run from cluster to cluster at least when you get there you are getting to mine 4-5 nodes each time rather than just 1. Even though the ores are spread across the zone the cluster make up for it.

I ran around for 20 minutes after learning some of the layout and managed 50 silver and 25 ish copper so over an hour so the 260-290 ish ores an hour seems about right once the best routes have been figured out.

The diamonds on the hill side near the top of the zone seem to have a LOT of light around them, at first I thought it was part of the mirror puzzle since it looked like a giant spotlight as highlighting them.

Spoiler: Spoiler

Remus is a pain the ass as a melee sword user. The death shield, his high avoidance and dodge means the first time it took me almost 20 minutes of auto attacking to actually kill him since I quickly ran out of focus even though he only has 650 health. Ended up having to switch it around and pile dots on him (rend doesn't work on ghosts...) so only had 2 combos that would work, the rest of the time I was waiting the full minute for death shield to wear off before spam hitting my attack buttons and trying to do as much damage in the 3 seconds it takes him to recast it. Maybe increase his health but reduce his dodge/resist/avoid?

The 3 chests in the Remus room also respawn. The encounter from what I can see is on a 5 minute counter and by the time I had killed them all the second time around the chests could be looted. May have to watch this for people camping that room for the loot

 

I recently moved the white crystals down to the lower level because their lights have a very short cull distance that I don't want to mess with. I could also see how it might cause confusion with the mirror puzzle, and having them down low makes it better for miners. Moving them to the lower area just makes more sense. Should see the changes on next QA build. Thanks for the feedback!

 

As suggested I did jump into QA which I usually do a little of each release anyways. So I am thinking players will like what was done here from what I saw. I didn't look at the whole mine since I like to explore new areas with a friend but from what I saw I'd say you did a great job with the ore. Spawning is reasonable and mining areas are very well thought out and the whole area well the parts I saw are really awesome looking. There is copper and silver which is very nice.

edit I just set my shadow distance to low verses none and I could see in that mine where before that I had the white foggy situation going on as advised.

 

As someone fascinated with classical antiquity, I cant wait to spend a lot of time in this scene.

 

hmm... is there a way to reset the white shade issue? It still seems to be a thing in 601. Ive tried exitng/re-entering, exiting to menu, and re-logging in while in the mine. I remember this was an issue in Artifice, and talking to an NPC would fix it (the archers don't want to talk to me).

 

Anyone else seeing this?



My settings pic.

 

Problem solved. Turn on some shadows. Thanks @Lexie

 

Looks great and i like the updates, apart from no gold....

From these pictures and the settings all a mess at moment i presume this will take another few months, maybe 6, to complete to your satisfaction.

 

Worked for me too, thanks!

 

It's hard to get a feel for mining rate, but I definitely appreciate the approach of having clusters of nodes.

The part, however, that made me groan, was the ghosts. In terms of being annoying to fight, they're second only water elementals. I don't think that'll be well met. At one point I was up against an archer, a ghost, and a crossbow-turret.

The earth elementals were a bit of a grind to worth through, but at least they weren't difficult to hit, didn't cast, and didn't heal themselves. Though this is more my complaint with ghosts in general.

 

Very nicely done. It is still a silver mine!

 

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Played around in there for a little less than an hour, great job! Very pleasantly surprised!

 

Ran around a little bit, cannot wait for R49 to explore more carefully .

 

@Sea-Wolf
I was so concerned about this zone, but spent some time there and see no mining issues other than I miss my gold. Of course now I have to walk uphill in the snow 3 miles with no shoes in a blizzard to go to another mine not so close to my house. HAH!

 

You really should put off the one ring. It might attract the Nazgul.

 

touché! Now that, was a good one.