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Thread: Trip down memory lane

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    Default Trip down memory lane

    Was poking around looking for old news and came across this:

    http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/g...w/news/page/27

    I started with the oldest news first. Lots of screeenshots and videos (especially one hosted by FC) have disappeared, but here's a link to the gallery that even has user submitted imagery:

    http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/s...anScreens.html


    Scarey jsut how good looking the game was BEFORe release,only to be somehow less-so. I had heard the beta was pretty good only for release (I never got access obviously) to be an entirely differant game almost, but after seeing some of these in game shots, I can easily believe it.

    Anyway, enjoy the likes of the Scion of Set , the Waylayer, the Lich so on so forth. I'll update as I come across more (I really want some footage).

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    It certainly looked interesting until they decided to fall into the WoW raiding model to be competitive. Kithai was an expansion in the good direction for those who stayed but t4 ruined the rest.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Noobody View Post
    It certainly looked interesting until they decided to fall into the WoW raiding model to be competitive. Kithai was an expansion in the good direction for those who stayed but t4 ruined the rest.
    sadly, yes, raiding is all this games is about now... khitai factions became unnecesary, crafting is pointless...

    i stumbled uppon some old videos too
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxCP-icTEeQ
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtfzmgmdhao
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2YnpCO10Vk
    meh...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Belsvard View Post
    sadly, yes, raiding is all this games is about now... khitai factions became unnecesary, crafting is pointless...

    i stumbled uppon some old videos too
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxCP-icTEeQ
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtfzmgmdhao
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2YnpCO10Vk
    I'll have to disagree to a point about crafting being useless. There are some pretty hectic weapons to be had if you're willing to find the resources and have someone who has the recipes (buying from the store is rather expensive unless you have in-game cash to bleed for alts). Lemurian Firestick is still an extraordinarily potent twig. The two-handers recipe (I think drops in Frost Swamp) are the same.

    I've more often than not used crafted blue armour items in T4 for Entity for the incredible protection you can get (+156 elemental for blue gem) to fill out spots I'm missing. Once you've done the hard yards and understand the fight, you realise that not all the old stuff is useless; quite opposite in fact.

    Also, I still put out more base DPS mixing my oiled leather's with the DPS purples for my scrappy PoM's and ToS' than I do with straight T1/2 stuff. Mixing and matching for the occasion. Tier stuff gives more HP/armour, but only your tanks need that! Unless you're doing Farty =P

    Still, I would have liked to have at least seen a minor revamping of the tradeskills, fix up bits and pieces, restore lost recipes, change some stats here and there to be mroe relevant rather than just discard the entire system (those rare gem's from Paymaster in TC aren't worth the monumental effort required to obtain them). Maybe one day when Funcom stop wasting money on other games.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Belsvard View Post
    sadly, yes, raiding is all this games is about now... khitai factions became unnecesary, crafting is pointless...

    i stumbled uppon some old videos too
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxCP-icTEeQ
    What happened to those mouse over effects =O And the item's look more metallic an shiney (before the blood and dust and kinking settles in!)

    Did you see the guy left to push the boar ashore? Hahah, someone have fun with the emote system. Ahhh, the days of the peepee on the newbnewbs. Guess we have to settle for the drunken pirate now on the docks.


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    • Remove daily rewards and the raid finder;
    • remove membership bonuses;
    • disable PVE XP for daily challenges;
    • remove WBs forever on Crom;
    • slow down the AA gain;
    • lower the PVP XP gain or remove the streak system;
    • remove AoE looting;
    • add the missing mobs back to Khesh., F. of the Dead, and Eigl. Mount.;
    • fix the 250+ms ping;
    • take the key away from Saddur;
    • revert T3, T3.5 (10.21.15), T4 (10.21.15), and GGG changes;
    • remove energy and add skills (like taunt) back.

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    A lot that was promised was never allowed to come live. Lots of broken promises along the way.

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp2kXoga5UA

    why did they changed the combat system?
    also the models looks different,, why did they changed everything?
    meh...

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    Is there any old Palace of Cetriss preview to see how it was changed?

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    Looking at my old rules book that came with the DVD's I see the Skills List used to be different too with mana regen, casting and bandaging included to tweak you character.

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