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Earthrise News - Exploring the Lowlands
Posted by Jon Wood on Sep 25, 2009 | 8 comments in our forums
The team from Earthrise returns this week with a new deveoper journal, this time highlighting The Lowlands, located just off the Northern coast of the island.
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On the eastern side of Enterra, just off the northern coast of the island, lie the barren, desolate steppes of the Lowlands. These somber prairies are constantly subjected to the violent sweeps of harsh, dry winds and the cracked soil is mercilessly baked into a rugged patchwork of dirt that expulses noxious clouds of choking fine dust, which without the proper filtering can prove deadly. Shallow canyons and low prominences offer a small measure of shadow for the wary traveler, otherwise there is no refuge to be found from the scorching heat of the day as very little vegetation exists in the Lowlands. Hosting only a handful of brambles and twisted yucca trees and supporting only highly adapted hostile mutant life forms, the Lowlands are the part of Enterra that most resembles the original state of the island's nature before the terraforming efforts were undertaken by reemerging humanity.
The game gets more interesting with every new realesed information about it.
Honestly I'm still waiting to see actual gameplay...and a much better improvement from what I saw months ago....=/
The animations we saw from the last gameplay video wasnt that impressive... actually, they were horrible. Apperently they are working really hard to fix it? They are also rebuilding the combat system, that was very slow earlier... We can only hope they build something that feels and works like Mass Effect... or at least Tabula Rasa.
If they fix the animations and a nice combat system, ill buy the game!
I can't believe people are still complaining about animations from alpha footage. It's like you've never followed an mmo before. And they never showed us the full combat system, just a demonstration of the targeting system. Regardless, they are making changes to it.
We have heard the "it will be fixed before launch" before. (Darkfall anyone?) This time though we really hope they wont do the same mistake as so many others and belive the "gameplay > graphics"-crowd and release an unfinished product.
I normaly never belive in devs, but somehow i belive Masthead will deliver.....
I really want to like this one, given the size of the studio though I hope it isnt another 'great idea, not enough resources' gig like Darkfall and Fallen Earth...this one and Global Agenda (if they get the MMO persistence parts right) are the ones I am most looking forward to
We have heard the "it will be fixed before launch" before. (Darkfall anyone?) This time though we really hope they wont do the same mistake as so many others and belive the "gameplay > graphics"-crowd and release an unfinished product.
I normaly never belive in devs, but somehow i belive Masthead will deliver.....
People had 8 years full of warning signs for Darkfall. So far MastHead has been nothing but a class act. There's no reason to drag MastHead down to Aventurine's level.
The Game Is very interesting, i cant wait the Beta