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Neocron 2 News - Present and Future
Posted by Jon Wood on Dec 16, 2005 | 3 comments in our forums
Now that the game is up and on its feet, Neocron 2 has released a look at the game so far, and a look to the future, talking about the Christmas patch and Evolution 2. So read on, below we offer you the introduction, click the link at the bottom to get the whole story.
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We were very happy with the positive feedback coming from the community. It assured us regarding our new strategy we are able to follow since July of this year. It’s a strategy of careful but lasting development of Neocron itself. But it also includes a certain development of the product framework which represents Neocron towards new customers. The first step in this direction was the completely new website. Another very important part of this strategy is the enforced activities in sense of marketing and communication. Meanwhile Neocron is represented with banners even on well-known websites like Game Spot, IGN, MMORPG.com, the Warcry and the Stratics network. We also improved the communication policy towards the community. Instead of posting only a few big updates we are delivering smaller news in a regular basis. Our new webpage is helping us a lot to make this happen. We will unfortunately not be able to establish the “in development” rubric. It’s just not possible to express and explain all details without having a constant problem with misunderstandings. Due to the fact that such a section would be very static and would not deliver what you would expect. We hope you will understand our decision. The overall package has increased the user count significantly. Encouraged by this success we decided to continue our chosen way. With this I’ll come to the outlook on our next steps: |
Read it all, here.
I'm amazed how this game and Horizons survive.
Fix the graphics of character models and the game world, work some on the gameplay and hell even i might give it a shot. They definitely need a better billing system and more advertisments.
Better AI and animations for the NPCs would be nice, too. Enemies seem to be so random and not really... smart. In one of the sewer areas I got to the enemies seemed to kind of run in endless circles, not take cover.
It seems odd to have a gunfight against an AI and it either A) stands in one spot taking massive damage or B) running around randomly to avoid fire, but not really doing anything other than randomly moving around. Perhaps the AI got better, but from what I saw initially, it was really weak. =/
And yeah, the models need a lot of work. Especially a "relaxed" animation. Walking around Neocron always makes me laugh. The guards all have these FREAKING HUGE GUNS that they hold outwardly extended. It looks really bad, really... fake. When they redo the player models, I REALLY hope they give the NPCs some additional animations. The guards are in dire need of an "at rest" position.