For those of you that don't always look at the Dev forum. See Stephen's post.

Okay, some feedback:

1. New dungeon...Nice! Level 55+, the gap between Abby/Shadow Queen and Ratsputin which is perfect. Please don't make it into another Abby/SQ. Also, no notes about whether or not Abby/SQ is going to be adjusted in difficulty?

2. Snowman summoning skill...sounds neat. Gah, I need to figure out which alt I'm switching for this. I need more character slots.

3. Yay for class specific jewelry...now can you refund the 400 KCs I spent just to get a decent mage ring?

4. Permanent waypoint and waypoint expansion...excellent. No need to just have a second account just to store waypoints.

5. I think the two bug fixes that standout in my mind is the level 90s PvP fix and the monster bait fix.

6. Ice mage gear! Sweet! But my shadow mage is still sad.

Oh well, really looking forward to the new build, Stephen. Hopefully, it'll make a fast pass through QA, etc.

I love 99% of the coming updates.

The other 1% is the idea of advertising in the form of item links. I pay explictly to avoid advertising.

Abby difficulty has been adjusted.

I do believe that the mythic item pass adds more shadow gear as well as ice... I'll verify that.

As for the marketing items... the "Ten Ton Hammer" is an experiment. We've worked out a deal with the Ten Ton Hammer folks to provide an item that looks like their logo. When you look at its tooltip you will see a link to their website. It's not that intrusive. In trade, they will give us some good treatment on their website.

Although, to be clear, if there's some demand for this kind of item placement then we'll take advantage of it. Of course, only if the item makes sense for our game.

steve

Just remembered: what happened to guilds/posses? Is that going to make this build?

Posse support is coming with Chunk 3. This build is a Heave. Heave, Chunk, Heave, Chunk... just like a hangover morning!

Also with Chunk 3 there's an open group browser instead of the "Find Group" feature... and a totally upgraded social window. The updated social window almost made this build, but we pushed it to make sure it's good.

steve

I knew you guys were out on the edge with "Monster Bait", "Offensive Gesture" and Awesome Cleavage" but “Balzack’s Burrow”?

Do we need a Roshambo skill to take down the boss?

All kidding aside, the patch looks great and full to the brim with DR goodness.

51 quests for Embercore is fantastic! As far as I recall there have never been any quests in Embercore. If you can get Shadows Embrace quests into the next Chunk then you will have bridged one gap in content, the one between 50 and 75.

Like FSeries I was also thinking where's the adjustments to Abbadon for difficulty, sometimes though it's nice to have a few surprises on patch day.

The "branded" weapon is pretty genius as well.

Stephen, thanks for dropping in to give us the good word, please tell the whole crew thank you for all of their hard work. Go QA!!!



Edited by Mama_Anarchia (01/22/08 10:27 PM)

We just doubled our design staff... and hired a new technical artist. We still have two programmer openings to fill.

What does that mean?

Tons of new content at an unprecedented rate... that's what. Quests for Shadow's Embrace is just the beginning. We still have another 10 dungeons to make!

steve

It seems like we've heard a lot less from the devs for alittle while now, any reason why that is?

stephen was on world 1 for an hour today answering questions. if you mean on forums probably b/c they busy pushing out this next patch

woot woot for 2 handed rifles thanks stephen you killed my social life yay!

bugs fixed, perfect!

new gear always good new spells and summining even better.

wel i guess deleting my main char was a bad idea... of to tank to lvl 100 now i guess *sigh*

/giggles like Beavis and Butthead...

Two handed rifles, can't wait! These chunks just keep getting better and better, imagine what DR is going to be like in the next 12 months

Some questions about the new features:

2-handed rifles- Would you verify that these would be available for the lower level players for us? I know of no one that had seen the Judge and Duke Blaster for players in the teens. We would love for these to be across the board.


Matching system- what will happen for groups? Will the matching be based on the highest level member of the group? Will 100s still be able to group with low levs?


New mythics -- awaiting details.. hehehe

I'm really stoked on the ice mage gear this is waht i've been waiting for months =p ice mage 4 life!

I'm sure all Mythics appear at least as low as level 10, if I am not mistaken... or maybe they even appear to all levels, I dunno.

I wonder how the 2 handed rifles will turn out =\

I've verified that the new rainbows for mages include shadow, fire and ice! Woot!

steve