General Discussion

Today, the folks at Tabula Rasa released a video highlighting the new hybrid races that are coming to the action-packed MMORPG, along with a Q&A from Lead Designer Paul Sage.

MMORPG.com:

Can you explain how the concept of hybrids came about? What made you decide to put them in the game?

Paul Sage:

Community feedback had a lot to do with this. Richard felt strongly that the story of Tabula Rasa was a human story. Throughout the history of his games, it has been about the player actually being in the world. So it seemed natural that at launch we told the human story. The internal and external community feedback was that they wanted to play alien races as well. So now it is time to tell the story, still human, but with a twist, or a splice, if you prefer, of alien DNA.

Hybrid Video NCsoft has released this video featuring the new hybrid race system.

Check it all out here.

Cool!!! That might actually make me take a second look at it down the road...When are the hybrids available? lol

I'm guessing this part about PvP is what they have planned for endgame. Which could be nice if there's some kind of gear reward or any kind of positive bonus for participating. I'd like to see it instanced like wow's. I mean wow got to be what it is by copying everyone, i don't see how copying wow could be a bad thing. They even claim when you quit for another game they have everything other games have to offer so...

Personnaly i'm just waiting for mires to be fixed, did all i could without resorting to grinding. Well except 2 instances in mires but it's too late today to start looking for a group for those.

Originally posted by pussaykat

 I mean wow got to be what it is by copying everyone,

True but only half-right.  WoW copied everyone before them but then they also cut out lots of the garbage from the stuff they copied.  

That's always been Blizzard's greatest skill - they didn't invent RTS games, they copied those too but they cut out a lot of the garbage and made Warcraft and Starcraft more fun and playable. 

Copying alone isn't a good idea, you need to be able to selectively copy the best parts and toss the junk :)

TR can only benefit from adding more races into their game, only being able to select humans was boring, but why are all the alien-hybrids bald?   Hair isn't considered a favorable genetic trait for future warfare? lol

Originally posted by Alienovrlord

 

TR can only benefit from adding more races into their game, only being able to select humans was boring, but why are all the alien-hybrids bald?   Hair isn't considered a favorable genetic trait for future warfare? lol

Because hair is the hardest part of a character model.  Basically, they probably didn't give their artists enough time to do good hair, so they had to leave it out.

Hair was replaced by skin spots and scars.

I've played this game for 2.5 months and in that time I've managed to get 6/8 classes to level 30+ and I was close to get last two (biotech class line). My engineer was 49.9 when I got really pissed off because instance I was in wigged out. after that I was basically done and canceled my account.

Overall game is fun but right now there is nothing there to keep you playing once you hit 50. I will take another look at the game once they put in the following:

- flash points (raids)

- fix all the mission bugs and add more content from 40 to 50. because once you hit 44+ you will need to grind to 47.

- add drivable mechs

- add more level 50 content and fix pvp

- Squad comntroled CPs

Big bonus for this game is fast pace but that pace is hindered with bugs when it comes to weapon switching among other things. But back to pros. Another pro for this game is that instance trash doesn't feel like trash because they are just regular mobs. If only other games would take the hint and reduce raiding time invested due to the amounts of  tedious trash clearing.

I hope TR puts in the things that would keep me and countless others interested in it.