http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgFEzzrny_E

Official English trailer for this expansion.

Apparently the english servers will get it in spring of 2011, only 2 to 3 months after chinese release, which is damn impressive.

http://mmoculture.blogspot.com/2010/08/battle-of-immortals-2-new-world-map.html

- New World Map
- Concept art of new art style.

New and BIG ammounts of info will be in 11 days, according to official chinese website.

Trailer got released:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXFt4qiddko&feature=player_embedded

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Originally posted by Nephaerius
They already announced in a recent interview that there would definitively be only 2 factions.  They stated that Games Workshop is totally cool with it and for some unknown reason it works well with the game setting.
Here's the link: http://www.strategyinformer.com/pc/warhammer40000darkmilleniumonline/interviews.html

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temporary alliance of some sort, mos tlikely, with story reason;.

It happened in canon a few times.

http://sgcq2.wanmei.com/

According to press release and official website:
- While game retains most of current features like soul gear, its built on entirelly new graphical engine with mor erealistic, diablo-like graphics.
- Travis Baldree and Eric Schaefer of Runic Games (torchlight, torchlight II, torchmmorpg) are part of boi II development team.
- Switch from zoned to persistent world.
- actual diablo-like combat.
- new classes..
- Player Run kingdoms - you can create a Family, a family can grow into a clan and into a state. then an rts-like building elements starts as these player run states build their own towns and realms, war with each other, form alliances, treaties, enslave other states, etc.
- cross server fortress wars between servers, for the sake of occupying the "capital cities" of the continent.
- new more realistic graphical look.
- Most of player complaints(like "how da hell can you breathe and walk underwater) about game design have been answered and thus everything will be redesigned to "make more sense".
- The game will contain quest lines akin to single player rpgs, explaining the story and lore of the game as well as progressing through storyline.

The official website also came online:
http://sgcq2.wanmei.com/

It has a timer when it runs out, we will most likely get some sort of trailer or something.

Oh and here are the screenshots from official press release:

What do you guys think?

by art direction it seems to imitate diablo III a lot, however Battle of immortals can only benefit from more realistic graphics.

Im more interested in the features tho. some of them (like nation system) sound awesome. way too awesome.

Aaaand with this im off the mmorpg.com.
 
Once a great realm, now only ruins remain with savage beasts baiting  you at every post, with evil wizards creating illusions of grandeur upon the new king's clothes, with the citiziens who enjoy tearing others to pieces.
 
Few years in the future this website will only list World of Warcraft, TOR and <insertthegamedevspaidtohypehere>
 
Hopefully by that time the remaining community will only be the hardcore snobs...oh wait...that already happened.
 
 
Obviously world of tanks, a game that will involve thousands of players warring for territories of europe, clans fighting between themselves and players going against each other in graphical enviroinment, is not a mmo game, because:
A) Devs did not pay the website to hype it like most likely happened with TOR/Tera/etc,etc,etc.
B) The Article Author did not like the game.
C) TPTB has a biased view upon this game and would like to write another article about TOR...

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Originally posted by Ozmodan
Isn't this just a Diablo clone?  
So does this mean we can start discussing Diablo III on this site now?

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THIS torchlight - yes.

THE torchlight in gamelist - the TorchMMORPG which will come out after TorchlightII and yes TorchMMORPG is fullscale mmorpg expected to go into beta somewhere mid/end of 2011

TITLE SAYS IT ALL.

Watch it on official runicgames channel in youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejqCZw4Mua4

~50% of concept art and intro.
-50% of gameplay from Torchlight II, including co op.

Originally posted by dar_es_balat

They should have researched their history better.  London makes no sense.  The modern Templar base is well known to be Glasgow Scotland.

http://www.skt.org.uk/January.html

 

1Templars are different as was already said befor eme. They ar not "christians" in this  game.

2. The TSW!London is an alternate universe London. Its not identical to ours. its purposely different. its history, its secrets, its lore is different. There are many things identical to "our world", but for all purposes its an alternate universe london.

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Originally posted by daniel!!!
From the E3  trailer and the gameplay trailer shown on the perfect world website this game looks like it could be amazing and draw me in like many mmorpgs had in the past. But will it just feel like another F2P mmorpg or bring life back to the free games by making them fun again ?

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- NO it wont bring you uber duper action realtime DMC-like combat.
- No its not 20000% sandbox.
- Yes it has the standard mmo class setting, but with certain twists( I bet bards will be played by many more hardcore mmoorpg players just because of how different the playstyle is)
- PVP is very dynamic. Yes its still click-attack stuff, but just standing there and spamming stuff won't get you anywhere, no matter what gear you have. Why? For one, terrain affects the gameplay and the power of your skills. For two, SoulPK system, which changes the meaning of pvp/pk, every correct hit causes it to lose "soul" (think of what happens in Sonic games when you/Sonic gets hit). You will spend more time timing and catching the "soul" of the enemy than spamming the skills. For three - the target can be "disabled" in various ways, be it paralyzing body parts, damaging the sight and etc. Of course the overall system has a lot of room for improvement, but with the changes they are applying to it in Focus Beta 2, it certainly seems promising.
- Guilds....just the guilds....That's got to be one of the most sandbox-y approaches to the guilds possible. Think - Age of Empires meets Sim City meets MMORPG meets EVE. Everything from completely customizable rts-like fortress system, to the ability to actually MOVE your guild base from one place of the world to the other reeks of awesome. I spent most of time in FT1 growing the garden in one of the rooms for the purposes of my herbalism profession.
- Quest approach - Obviously it still has usual killing quests but some quests were....unique. "here I have this short cave tunnel form the forest to the desert area. There's this huge monster blocking my way. Should I try to kill it, search for clues how to defeat it without actual fight, go around looking for some sort of random secret passage or just talk to the bastard" style of quests were certainly interesting. From what I encountered there was also a hide-and-seek style of guest and npc challenging me to a race through a bobby-trapped forest. The usual killing-quests never had more than ~10-20 monsters to kill even at FT1 level cap. Some of them even had certain twists to it (like, "how the heck will i kill this thing that I can't reach or damage?")
- Professions although not all professions were available in FT1, they were different enough. You won't have the typical WoW/PW style professions where all it differs is what can you do with stuff you collect. From the available professions there were silkroad_online-like traders, rpg-long-dialogues-style diplomats/negotiators, more standard alchemists and blacksmiths, lore and exploration based Adventurers and strange-yet-unique information-collection/mapmaking based Collectors.
- Dungeons. Some dungeons play like your character dreams(as in everything that happens is inside your character's head), others are more like "oh here our group just happened to encounter this strange carnival and got stuck in a maze" stuff.
- Most of instance/dungeon/raid loot is handled through getting special tokens from kills that you can exchange for actual stuff. There are "oldschool loot" places and there are places where everyone who participated is equally rewarded.
- AI - well monsters certainly were not standing around and pretty much everything around me acted according to how "powerful" i was. For example: I attacked a certain monster. I was more powerful. He launched skills intended on slowing me down, increased his own speed, ran a bit, called for help. His help in form of 10+ other monsters decided to berserk-rush me, while my target continued to debuff me from out of my range.
- Server Mechanics - everything I wrote above actually affected the server itself. Think of server as of "player" and of actual players as of its braincells. Every decision, every choice was building up to something and I was pretty much surprised that every of Focus Beta1 servers played and LOOKED differently, depending on the choices of player base in them. As player-community progresses, Server according to variables changed by players, enters different "Ages" with various differences caused by players, both small and big.

Overall its not "omg next gen action cryengine innovation", but more like "taking the very best elements that are there and adding some very innovative and new twists to them".

if you want something Entirely different from everything you know, then FW won't be for you. You're better off to games like Secret World(or even the PWE-developed upcoming 100% sandbox, Swordsman) then.

However if you want to get back the fun you had in old-time RPG games or the fun you never actually got in mmorpg games, FW is for you.

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 Unless Torchlight the MMO is going to be a completely different setting then Torchlight the dungeon crawler, I don't consider the game to be a steampunk setting at all.

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Although its unknown how much of it will be shown, pretty much everything that has to do with "magic" in Torchlight mixes steampunk into it.

Not to mention that the "outside" world outside of torchlight mine town(the world which will be featured in torchlight II) seems like industrial revolution times of our world (a huge continent with only railways connecting the towns, people spending their lives building new railways, ).

Everything points to torchlight universe being that of Steam and Sorcery.

Bad bad bad bad korean necromancers >_<

This should stay dead while everyone waits for torchlight mmo.

let's see:

Steampunk - Torchlight mmorpg.

Alternate Reality - Secret World.

as for what would be great and refreshing to see? A Mmorpg based on Dresden Files universe.

Originally posted by atlantis1982

I guess I am the only one curious what kind of fourth class they are planning to add. Personally, I like to see a martial artist kind of class. :)

 

They are not "adding" 4th class.

They are CREATING 4 new CLASSES.

The Alchemist, Vanguisher and Destroyer are NOT playble, but each of them has a role to play in plot (Alchemist has disappeared searching for a horrors that defeated the race that created the ember, Destroyer joins up with you tracking Alchemist, etc)

so far the confirmed classes(names can change) are:

Outlander/Wanderer - "fremen" from Dune style character.

Railgunner/Engineer - pure-steampunk class.

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Originally posted by Lobotomist
COOOOL!
 
 
By the way...what that means for torchlight MMO ?

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no change.

They talked about this previously already.

First its torchlight.
Then torchlight co-op in some form
then MMORPG is released.

Three steps. We are at step2

Official site: http://www.torchlight2game.com/

- Co-op
- Customization
- Bigger game world.

This is step 2. Step 3 will be Torchmmo,

Color me excited.

Please stop hyping this game. Every bit of hype will make it FAIL twice as hard than it would normally.
 
 
There is a Good side to that anyway - Once this game gets shunned by everyone upon launch due to being a wow clone, which ruined KOTOR franchise, Bioware will finally open up their eyes and develop KOTOR III, with actual NO WOW-ARTSTYLE, ACTUAL CHARACTERS and especially A STORYLINE WHERE WHAT YOU DID IN KOTOR I AND II ACTUALLY MATTERS, instead of huge piss at fans with "well your chars from those games are dead and failed, trolololo"

yay failxon.

Yet again Europe is left out while colonies(undeservedly) get it first.

oh well, no terra for me then~

Swore to never play any mmo hosted by frogster ever again.

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Originally posted by LadyAlibi
I haven't played Jade Dynasty in several months, and I am thinking about coming back. I was enjoying it and left because of Real Life getting up in my face. Has anything really game changing gone in during the last few months? 

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Depends on how much these "several months" are.

If its ~2 months or so, then you did not miss much, except for anniversary events, tutorial system for new players, new dungeons, etc. However there's a lot of new stuff coming in upcoming weeks:
- New Expansion is coming in the begining of july, introducing two more factions(one traditional stealth-assassin and one pvp-aoe-support-mage class), new pvp aspects like territory wars(with destroyable enviroinment and siege weaponry) and etc.
- There's also international PVP tournament coming in august(bassically a new temporary server into which selected players from ALL the versions of Jade Dynasty can log in, be given out equal gears and compete in pvp tournament)
- There's also Veteran Rewards coming before the expansion, rewarding you based on your account age.

However if those "several/few months" is something like ~half a year+ then there's a lot of stuff new, including two new classes, induction system, master/disciple stuff, ascension and etc.