All Posts by Asamof

Oh, so this is horizon? Why the hell did they change the name? I thought a new major game got added to the release list

Originally posted by ronan32

from an artistic eye, and most people who are artistic will tell you that wow and war game artists are more talented than the vanguards ones..it doesn't matter what your opinion is, that fact wont change..its like how asians mmo's artists are head and shoulders above western ones.

Completely agree here. VG's artists are a step above EQ2's, but that isn't saying much really...(not counting the SOGA artists)

Most of the people who think the player models look good just don't really know any better. It's like people who think Ctrl+Alt+Del is a compelling comic with great art, jokes, characters, and writing. Obviously art is subjective (like everything else), but there is a standard and level of quality. Some people just don't get it, and will react to criticism by calling people arrogant snobs

But the fact of the matter is the character models ARE poorly made, and they'll stay that way forever until the get remodeled

The mentiong of SOE and Smedley (especially in the same sentence) immediately has me assume whatever new thing they're involved with will be instant shit. and it will be.

The texture on that model right there is extreme plasticky. Just kinda proved his point by posting that right there

hahaha wow, one look at your characters face and I started cracking up. The armor looks fairly good, but oh man that face

Just wow. Just another case that a strong consistent art style > technology

I've been interested in the free trial

Then I saw the topic for the new models

Pass.

Onto warhammer for me, so happy

Hi, so i've been trying to level harvesting for future crafting, but it's a huge pain. I've been told by everybody that it's always a pain to start out with (especially with the god awful silan starter quests) but that it actually gets fun later, especially on ML

So I did the silan quests (with a helpful guide) and got my harvesting up around level 20. My problem was that I had trouble leveling it up because whenever I would use the tracker, prospecting was a bitch to bring things up. Fortunately I found this lovely little island on silan that has super easy prospecting, and I grinded there until level 30 and got mat specific trackers and 40 degree angle prospecting. Harvesting is still a total bitch

Now that I have mat specific tracking, it drains my focus like mad. By the point I get within 1-2m of the deposit point, I only have a little over a 100 focus left. It wouldn't be a problem if prospecting brough up  nodes everytime, but it doesn't. Sometimes it will bring up oil nodes, and i'm told that mats overlap so i'll need to pop a bark tracking stanza in my prospection. Then that brings up nothing. Moving back to make sure i'm not standing brings up nothing. Moving 360 degrees brings up squat. Moving around the area doesn't do shit. Then you have to wait for focus to regen only to waste it again, searching with a blindfold on....fun!

Also i checked out the market for focus jewelery, and the focus improvements that I could find seemed so minimal that it wasn't even worth buying

so basically I want to enjoy this game but it keeps kicking me down and spitting at me. Can anyone tell me what i'm doing wrong so that I can actually pull stuff out of the ground efficiently?
 

Originally posted by windstrike1

Originally posted by Asamof

 

Originally posted by windstrike1

NCsoft is the most diabolical game company ever to come into existence.  They knew bots would be created for L2, so they went ahead and made the bot themselves.  They knew that RMT was going to happen, so they cornered the market themselves (without the bad PR of a Item Mall). Very clever if you ask me.  Very underhanded though since they still pretend like they are fighting it when they are actually in control of it.

 

alyndale; Its not much help, but the only evidence I've seen is a video put out by NCsoft.  The video was a promotion for a Chronicle (Interlude? I'm not sure)  Its a developer interview.  The camera is on the developer as he speaks about what they are working on.  Behind him you can see a monitor with L2 running, you can see 3 charachters standing there.  Suddenly as he is talking (his back is to the monitor), the buffer starts buffing on its own (using the bot presumably).  This backs up the idea that NCsoft uses the bot as a development tool, and may well have created it initially for that purpose.

 

lol! dude, you're just like those people on the discovery channel yapping away about UFO's, bigfoot, and the government hiding the truth. Do you think that terrorist attacks were planned by the USA?

I have evidence for what I claim.  So, now what?  Still have faith even in the face of the evidence?

UFO experts have evidence too! www.youtube.com/watch

Originally posted by windstrike1

NCsoft is the most diabolical game company ever to come into existence.  They knew bots would be created for L2, so they went ahead and made the bot themselves.  They knew that RMT was going to happen, so they cornered the market themselves (without the bad PR of a Item Mall). Very clever if you ask me.  Very underhanded though since they still pretend like they are fighting it when they are actually in control of it.

 

alyndale; Its not much help, but the only evidence I've seen is a video put out by NCsoft.  The video was a promotion for a Chronicle (Interlude? I'm not sure)  Its a developer interview.  The camera is on the developer as he speaks about what they are working on.  Behind him you can see a monitor with L2 running, you can see 3 charachters standing there.  Suddenly as he is talking (his back is to the monitor), the buffer starts buffing on its own (using the bot presumably).  This backs up the idea that NCsoft uses the bot as a development tool, and may well have created it initially for that purpose.

lol! dude, you're just like those people on the discovery channel yapping away about UFO's, bigfoot, and the government hiding the truth. Do you think that terrorist attacks were planned by the USA?

is garbage and for weaboos only

You have an "WHICH FINAL FANTASY CHAR R U?!?!?!!" sig

everything you've said has been immediately disregarded, good say sir.

I hope I run into you in an online game someday page

you sound like such an easy target

I'm sorta for this and against it, but definitely not from SOE. Smedley looks like such a scumbag in the opening post, lulz

it's appealing to not have to pay monthly fees, but then again during a darker time in my life when I played maplestory, I wished that it did have a monthly fee. I'd rather have the benefits of less idiots and cash shop items being available in the game at the cost of a monthly fee than have to pay for goofy clothes and be swarmed by tards in every direction for free

too bad so many of the quests are throw away crap ones. My theory is that the department in SOE that is designated to copy everything that WoW does saw how many quests they had, and said "they have this many, we'll make this many more! we'll be twice the better game!" the problem though is half the quests are trash and you have to sift through which ones are worth doing and which ones are dogcrap. You get the ultimate feeling of being overwhelmed because the sheer amount of quests, and figuring out which ones blow and which ones don't. WoW does a good job guiding you through each quest and area, in EQ2 they just churn out a billion and dump them in every corner without a single care. Typical SOE fashion

www.wolfquest.org/preview_video.php

This is a great thing, these games desperately needed more variety in the content in terms of skills, quest, and monsters. And less extreme grind, pleease

Originally posted by NecroHelium

If you'd take a moment to look at the details in the faces, even the horribly created one you've been so proud to make an example out of, I think you'll see that, when zooming out and looking at just the faces themselves, the EQ2 one does indeed have better graphics.  (Not more realistic, better)

and like I said before, technology does not make a good looking game. Artists do. Unless you're one of those sad people who freaks out over specular lighting and realistic water effects

Originally posted by swaindaddy

Look at the grass (or is it just green vomit) on the stone. Look at the lack of detail on the face of the model. Look at the Castle textures. Look at the hands and bottom of the model. All garbage. As for your obsessions with EQ2 - I'll ask you two to get a room.

Uhh my thinking EQ2 looks like dog crap means I actually love it? lol whut? okay I'm done here, you can keep spouting your hate for WAR graphics without me pointing out the flaws in your claims. have fun!

Originally posted by swaindaddy

 

Originally posted by Asamof

well that's what discussion boards are for

I think those points aren't valid with the one dwarf in the tavern screenshot I provided earlier. the game isn't all brown. It has colors but it isn't super ultra saturated like WoW. The textures are painted and meticulously detailed, and I still don't see where the "cartoony" comment came from.

 

Like I said from the beginning though, I have no say about the animations. Never seen enough of them to really form an opinion

 

I can't do anything for someone who is blind. If you don't see the cartoon like style then I guess your beyond anything said here. Moving on.

Says the person who thinks this

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looks the same in quality as this

mythicmktg.fileburst.com/war/us/media/images/screenshots/ss_june8_02.jpg

well that's what discussion boards are for

I think those points aren't valid with the one dwarf in the tavern screenshot I provided earlier. the game isn't all brown. It has colors but it isn't super ultra saturated like WoW. The textures are painted and meticulously detailed, and I still don't see where the "cartoony" comment came from.

Like I said from the beginning though, I have no say about the animations. Never seen enough of them to really form an opinion