MMO Updates |
- Aventurine reveals a few Darkfall 2.0 changes
- Global Chat: Player-created content edition
- The Daily Grind: Is there a game you would prefer not to beta test?
- The Mog Log: Acquired tastes
- The Anvil of Crom Extra: Silirrion on Turan, open-world PvP, and those pesky Funcom points
- One Shots: When in doubt, blow something up
- Revell and World of Tanks form model tank alliance
- The Tattered Notebook: Let's play 'Keep it or nuke it!'
| Aventurine reveals a few Darkfall 2.0 changes Posted: 14 Aug 2011 09:00 AM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, Darkfall, Game mechanics, MMO industry, News items, Sandbox  First and foremost is the game's new skill set customization which is in turn tied to a new armor system. In a nutshell, your armor choice will affect your usable skills by rendering certain abilities ineffective and leading to highly specialized character roles (as opposed to the current game where every character can learn every skill, given enough grinding). Skill and attribute gains have also been tweaked, and players who focus on skilling up a single role will excel at it in short order through "casual play." The catch, though, is the inability to have more than one specialization active at a time. Crafting has also been overhauled, and the world map has been "completely changed." There's more big news where that came from too, including UI tweaks, alignment tweaks, incapacitation, dungeon and magic school redesigns, and new combat mechanics like momentum and crosshair wobble. Read all about it at the official Darkfall website.
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| Global Chat: Player-created content edition Posted: 14 Aug 2011 08:00 AM PDT Filed under: Opinion, Global Chat, Miscellaneous  As always, we had plenty of interesting chatter among the Massively readers this week, but a few of the most intriguing comments focused on player-created content. In discussions covering topics from exciting new tools of the trade to long-running games, our ever-astute readers made us want to jump in and get involved. Follow along after the jump to see why! Continue reading Global Chat: Player-created content edition
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| The Daily Grind: Is there a game you would prefer not to beta test? Posted: 14 Aug 2011 06:00 AM PDT Filed under: Betas, Culture, Opinion, The Daily Grind, Miscellaneous  We all have games that we're looking forward to, naturally, but there are games that we want to test and games that we'd rather not. Maybe you think the testing will be particularly arduous, maybe you feel that feedback wouldn't be heard by the developer, or maybe you just don't want to spoil yourself on the game early. So is there a game that you would prefer not to test even if you had the opportunity? Would you feel like you missed out, or would you be happy for remaining fairly clean going in?  Every morning, the Massively bloggers probe the minds of their readers with deep, thought-provoking questions about that most serious of topics: massively online gaming. We crave your opinions, so grab your caffeinated beverage of choice and chime in on today's Daily Grind!
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| Posted: 13 Aug 2011 06:00 PM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, Game mechanics, Opinion, Consoles, Final Fantasy XIV, The Mog Log  In the case of Final Fantasy XIV, though, it's a bit more complicated than simply "you may or may not like it." The game is its own flavor of bizarre crossbreed, something that is at once modern and a throwback and filled with some unusual decisions. On the open plains populated by the lions and hyenas of other MMOs, FFXIV strides around looking like an inheritory to the great theropods of the Jurassic, filling the same evolutionary niche while being a totally different animal. Continue reading The Mog Log: Acquired tastes
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| The Anvil of Crom Extra: Silirrion on Turan, open-world PvP, and those pesky Funcom points Posted: 13 Aug 2011 04:00 PM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, Age of Conan, Game mechanics, Interviews, MMO industry, Patches, Opinion, Free-to-play, The Anvil of Crom  As we told you earlier, the pack features a boatload of new material, from new solo dungeons to a new raid to 50 new quests and a large outdoor playfield. While that's quite a bit of stuff, Funcom isn't done yet, as the devs are also hard at work implementing the bullet points Morrison covered in his latest dev update. Join me after the cut as we explore Turan, combo-skipping fixes, the riskiness of AoC's new open-world PvP content, and the question of whether subscribers are getting a good deal in terms of point rewards.
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| One Shots: When in doubt, blow something up Posted: 13 Aug 2011 02:00 PM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, Galleries, Screenshots, EverQuest II, One Shots  This screenshot shows Jamie and Adam, tinkered weapons testers at Gnomeland Security in the Steamfont Mountains. They're quest-givers whose quest series involves you building a series of stronger and stronger target dummies on which they have you test their latest creations (including troll snot-flingers, turkey launchers, and more).It's time to start thinking about next week's One Shots theme, and we'll be revisiting an old favorite: environments. Snap a screenshot of your favorite MMO vista, tell us a bit about what it is, and send it to oneshots@massively.com. We'll be featuring the best of them all next week!
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| Revell and World of Tanks form model tank alliance Posted: 13 Aug 2011 01:00 PM PDT Filed under: Historical, Real life, Culture, Events, real-world, MMO industry, News items, War, Free-to-play, World of Tanks  Many of the game's tanks are already featured in Revell's replica product line, and the company has been offering true-to-life scale model kits of tanks, aircraft, automobiles, ships, and many other kinds of vehicles since the early 1940s. Revell recently dipped a toe into radio-controlled modeling as well, and the company will be demoing an RC tank at the World of Tanks Gamescom booth later this month. In return, Wargaming.net will appear at Revell's booth during the Hobby Spiel exhibition in Leipzig this coming October.
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| The Tattered Notebook: Let's play 'Keep it or nuke it!' Posted: 13 Aug 2011 12:00 PM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, EverQuest II, Opinion, The Tattered Notebook  With a new round of content having just arrived on servers and even more due in a few months, it's time to consider whether some of the older stuff might need to go, for clarity's sake. In this week's Tattered Notebook, we'll play a little game called, "Keep it or Nuke it." Read on for my recommendations, and then add yours below. Continue reading The Tattered Notebook: Let's play 'Keep it or nuke it!'
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