NEVERWINTER ... Updates and Info

Nice, thanks MS9,
I feel a tug-o-war occuring inside as to where to place focus on ESO < > NWO as far as that realm is concerned

ArcheAge being the 3rd contender in a 3 way tug of war. I wonder if this will end up occuring .... Well it won't because I am aware of this as a possibility, and do intend spending more time enjoying gaming
When intensely involved with gaming is when I go into somewhat 'silent/stealth mode'

It is funny as I let both NWO & ESO update #3 download overnight too;
Yes yes, still stuck with 20Mbit/1Mbit service until they finish the ground works for the area I live in for the NBN 100Mbit/40Mbit fibre service. So downloading 6+ GB for updates requires a few hours until such time

This looks awesome and gives me more reason to come back to catchup on modules 2 & 3 as well

 

All duties for today finished, lovely meal consumed and the dlc content is now good to go.




I think I will pop in tonight to get my bearings once again as I do miss the awesome scenery in NWO.



Note: Artwork, not an actual in game screenshot, those are many times better

 

Hi MS9,

I think I have my head around most things again now Or do I ...
Some of it is new to me so I will read a bit more up on those things. The swords of the coast minigame to increase companion specs is interesting, something I can do when working on other things
Also I left 'Ghost Clan Legacy' guild as co-leader as most of the members are playing ESO or Archeage now.
Lasermax will continue on to manage things there when he is not tied up in the other games
I hve no idea what this boon thing is, that is totally new to me. Something to do with module 2+ I guess.
Stoner is still active as my companion I will work on that and see what else is new, artifacts etc.

Anyway here is the pics of where things are at. The crafting needs a lot of effort put into it and I managed to stockpile a few stacks of resources before I left the game before.

FL request sent (again) lol sorry I cleaned all last login and got your ingame messages thanks.
I will start a new archer class character tonight to get a grasp again on the combat system
Crafting him some stuff for level 9 now

Mug shots, no order:



PS. There are heaps of people around and lots of instances of the main city too, is it always like this or is this due to module 4 being available soon ?

 

LOL damn, I turned off the on-demand content to speed up loading of assets/content.
Another almost 6Gb heh, I might be back in after this lot downloads.
9pm now and 4am training session tomorrow so probably tomorrow.



In the meantime, did Mac finish off his foundry quest ? I am looking forward to trying that one out.

I thought this foundry quest was good "Tired of being a hero", one to add to the list to try out for later.

EDIT: Let's try that one again. Damn that last version of it the guy playing through it drove me batty.
Some people really just shouldn't stream their gaming lmao. Anyway this one is better:


Part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3:

 

Hey MS9,

Thanks much for all the info, that did fill in a lot of blanks for me
I have most of the day off tomorrow, so I may be on in the morning and I am trying to rearrange the weekend a bit too to have some more time available ... Not sure how it will go as I have got the first round of founders packs for ArcheAge to hand out also. I will see how things go, though I am keen to get back into NWO to whatever level I can Aye, the time will need to be split, send my regards to the others in the meantime.

LOL and the download is still going. So yes morning definitely, 4 hours till training time.

Ciao for now, time.

 

Whee new ranger created, liking him already, sneaky and powerful!
Evasive by nature as an unknown free radical in the realm of Neverwinter

Thanks for invite Star, enjoy the additional guild bank space
I had to spend those AD on something worthwile
Don't stay up all night reorganising banks now lol

And so ShadowSniper's adventure begins ...

The hunt is on ... She is so going to get what's coming

 

Your most welcome, I hope the entire guild benefits from it.

It was a win win for both of us My gameplay will be more challenging with less AD to spend and it will drive me to put a greater focus into crafting now also.

Time to reenter the realm of Neverwinter, rest well.
I might play a bit aorund with the foundry later too, it seems a lot has been added to its functionality.
Maybe Mac might be interested in these too *smiles*
Walk-through from the producer. Part 1 to 3.

For those who do not know who the villain posted above is;

 

You guys may be very interested in this link:

http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/forumdisplay.php?1151-The-Foundry

 

have fun playing with the foundry. I did that at little while the few months I played but never did much with it. My one silly foundry based roughly on the map of zelda I game was kinda time consuming to put together but I learned a lot about the foundry then... that was before they did the update with the fairy stuff... would probably be funner now with more options. If you do the foundries study the forums, and your interactions between things in the timeline or whatever it's called because once you start making things really interactive it can get very complex... last time I was trying it real if/then logic didn't exist and I doubt it still does, but you can still get pretty complex with pretending it exists if you loop some of the dialogue texts in the right ways. Also, water planes can be fun, but also a hassle... I had a maze of water planes on one foundry I was working on with some of them turned at various angles... it gets hard to understand them all from the diagram/radar thingy since that's overhead view only... so you get good x/y locations, but z is a lot more complex on that stuff, especially if you use the large 1000x1000 planes and a lot of them like I was. You can access the 'outside' of some maps that lead outdoors by rotating it the right way and using stuff like water planes or bridges placed in the right places at the right angles to gain access to the outside of the map, which gives you some otherworldly type of oddball feeling potential as you are technically on the outside of 3d maps that only have textures on the inside side of the vertex planes.... which makes for some really oddball looking stuff sometimes, but that can be really interesting to fiddle with if you are inclined to do it. The one boss level that has that wide opening that looks like a mouth leading outside was probably the easiest to get the outside planes created doing that stuff... also if you connect stuff like low ceiling dungeon rooms with huge high roof stuff you can sort of do likewise where the two rooms meet with stairs and things like that but you have to really test it a lot to get the holes leading through the walls to the outside of the maps the right height for characters to fit through height and widthwise... based on some of the flying castle things I've seen in entropia that sort of doing stuff outside of the maps seems like something you folks might be interested in trying out from time to time.

I can't remember the zelda map name or if it's still in there since I haven't played in a long time, but if so it's something like the adventers of adlez or something stupid like that as a name if you do some search on it... One thing that was really interesting with that map that I discovered is that you can put teleporters in the air, so that you take damage from falling... that was one part of the maze in that maps conception... and you can use various fx like flames and smoke to help hide the teleports on that type of thing, but if you do be careful since some of the fx are solid instead of non-solid so you can like stand on top of some of the fog, etc. Also some big items that I used for walls like bridges turned sideways or upside down are only solid in one direction, so you need to do a lot of work with invisible walls to get it all right, and those are also somewhat hard to work with in the editor since they are invisible in the 3d mode, so it's hunt and peck guessing at exactly where the edges of them are that you are trying to fill up holes in walls, etc. Lots of fun potential in there though for oddball stuff... I was going to try doing some elemental maps where you hopped and jumped from cloud to cloud, but quit the game before I got too much in to it... I may need to go back in to it someday.

If you get too deep in to the foundry, remember, that the other games by the same company uses a similar foundry type thing - Star Trek online.

 

Cool, sounds good.
Thanks for the link OzTwo and the heads up Mesh :)

I have been playing around a bit with the Divinity (OS) game designer, but it still has some bugs in it so have put that on hold for the time being. So far the Divinity one has blown me away with what you can do with it, but it is a challenge to get started in. (Complex and lacks instructions)

Anyway I will have play with the Neverwinter Foundry down the track depending how ArcheAge pans out once it goes live in September or there abouts. So many are G'd for ArcheAge after the last Beta weekend, it was absolutely unreal. Actually unreal is not the right word to describe it, it was EPIC

The next one I am looking forward to as well - Blood & Bounty Beta weekend 3.

These weekends are more as a tieing up of loose ends before live and testing out the their monitoring tools as well to capture botters etc. They are pretty full on as far as that side of life goes with quite an advanced system in place to detect potential cheaters and suspend their accounts. Unfortunately quite a few legit players got caught on BWE2 *grins* but it was funny too in some respects and to be expected.

Anyway, thanks again for the info guys, I will see how time pans out for NWO Foundry.
For now, it is just cruising and having some fun with the others in guild as time permits.

Take Care,
Viper/DCB

 

Thanks Star, I will probably get those founders packs out for ArcheAge this morning and then likely be back on NWO for a while ;)

I will also ask Calli if she would like to join in too with NWO. I know she is heavily tied in with others from GW2 now with BMW in ESO and also to soon be involved with ArcheAge *grins*

I think we need to teach her better timeslicing/multitasking techniques *laugh*

 

Hey Star,

I caught up with the dev stream about the changes coming to heroic encounters in Module # 4.
Quite interesting > http://www.twitch.tv/perfectworld_community/b/551231802

This ... "The Tryanny of Dragons campaign is the first campaign where people begin while they are still leveling up for the game. Players can begin that campaign at level 26 when you’re going through Neverdeath. It reveals, over time as you’re leveling up, the story behind the Tyranny of Dragons and what the new sect of the Cult of the Dragon is up to. Not to give too many spoilers away, but Severin has convinced some of the Cult to work with live dragons rather than just dracoliches. This is why you’ll see a lot more live dragons in your adventures."

And this ... "The Heroic Encounters will be instance-specific and will start at different times. We will allow instance hopping as well." .... woot!

Seems like the right time to start a new character *grins* I got shadow to 10, slow and steady lol.
I will stop progressng him at level 25, though I doubt I will get to that level before module # 4 is released.

 

Yay all done, 3pm, early finish Incoming to NWO ... soonish.

Added:
Lookies at what I found Star, yes indeed, its time to play the role of villain, muhahahaha!


Added:
I still need to do the villain one, though I wandered into the tower district and picked up a local foundry. Damn it was funny. I had forgotten how good some of these are and how creative people are at making these in NWO. I won't ruin it for you ...

My adventure started off wandering around and behind each building near the entry to the Tower District leading up to the tavern, when I stumbled across one of those 'lost relics' from a running treasure hunt (random timer zone event). Anyway I picked it up just to see where I would end up on the event list and headed to the tavern.

There were a few players hanging around, though not too many. I started to do the bar drinks quest and came across the orc dancer and orc brutes looking on *grins* Then whola, 1st on the treasure hunt! lol.


Once I completed the drinks quest I ran over to the foundry quest npc at the bar and picked up the local area foundry quests of which I started one caled: "Tower District Travails", I highly recommended for a laugh

I attached some screenies from the journey; reviewed the foundry quest and tipped the creator some AD for such a funny storyline, it well deserved in that respect


Now off to eat dinner, the chef has made an awesome meal tonight or so he claims, something new to try involving mushrooms lol. Catchup in the morning or later tonight if your awake by then
Have fun.

 

Good Morning

Aye, lots of fun to be had in the foundry in NWO, it has grown quite large since my last visit.
I should be on NWO in an hour or there abouts. It is 8am now and finishing up the morning routine.

Now you have my interest perked, though really it is not necessary to do something for me
Thanks ... uh ... not sure how to respond. Send my regards to obie and the others and see you soon-ish.