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More often than not – mobs going into anti-exploit seem to be caused by path-finding issues where the mob seem to be on a different vertical plane than the player.
So – when you experience it. Here’s a few tips to get it killed regardless.
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The internetz was hit with an awesome looking game trailer for a MMORPG in development named “The Secret World”. If you have been under a rock like I have, you had no idea this was in the making and that it was so different from everything else currently on the market or in development. Apparently, The Secret World is placed in current day Earth but monsters, myths and legends of old and new are real. The dark fantasy title will start with New York, London and Seoul as first playable locations and is promising some unique features with accent being on story telling. To read more about the title I recommend you visit Massively.com and their GDC ’09 article about the game as well as their interview with the game’s creator. The game is being developed by Funcom (yes, the people that managed to screw up Age of Conan) and still has no release date.
Enjoy the awesome teaser trailer:
Daniel Erickson, Principal Lead Writer on SW:TOR posted another developer’s blog entry on the official site. He goes into depth on what and how certain design choices were made when creating the Bounty Hunter class. It is a very interesting read full of hints about what Bioware’s design philosophy is. Things feel a lot like KOTOR and Mass Effect, which is a good thing mind you. One thing is for sure, this game will not only try to copy Blizzard’s successful design choices. Bioware has enough integrity and faith in its game creation abilities to decide to take some “unorthodox” paths. For example:
There were a few decisions we made early on. First of all, there would be two distinct factions. This was Star Wars™, not Star Neutral Guy’s Adventure. When there is a war that spans an entire galaxy, nobody can stand on the sidelines … The war affects everyone, even if they’d rather it didn’t.
I like this non conditional approach. It is making you make choices, choices that will have distinct consequences and make your playing experience that much unique. I am just hoping they don’t go overboard and make it a directed experience instead of unique. A fine line they have to walk here.
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There are a lot of rumors these days about Lotro. Previous post was about Riders of Rohan and now new rumor says that Lotro may have an Xbox 360 release in its future. Brad Nicholson from destructoid.com wrote:
"The good news is we’re hearing that Microsoft is close to finalizing an MMO model for Xbox LIVE. This is a model that, hopefully, won’t exclude Silver members or force Gold subscribers to pay for two services simultaneously. We contacted Turbine today in order to obtain official confirmation of the console title. Turbine wouldn’t confirm any of the source’s information, yet none of it was denied."
Joystig has contacted Adam Mersky Turbine’s PR director and the answer was:
"We saw that rumor, too… We’re not talking about what we’re working on specifically, only that we’re making a console MMO and actively working with Microsoft and Sony."
This unnamed console project is in progress and more information we can expect on summer.
Star Wars: ToR official site released a very cool new feature called the Timeline describing events that led to the state of events we’ll encounter in the game. It covers events starting 32800 years in the past (force “discovered” on Tython), leading through emergence of Sith and the first Jedi vs Sith wars up to the events of Knights of the Old Republic and Raven’s adventures (very sweet for anyone that played KotOR). The first “video document” entry is about the Treaty of Coruscant, that seminal event that lays out the background for the game’s settings. The event so powerful that even the timeline is divided into BTC (Before the Treaty of Coruscant) and ATC (After the Treaty of Coruscant). To see the cool feature in action clickz0r herez0r!
