Gersh on Upcoming Rift Patches:

Morning folks,

We mentioned at E3 that Hammerknell is only the begining of the new content we'll be launching in the next 3 to 6 months. We've got a ton of stuff coming down the pipe including
New 50+ outdoor zone
New 50+ dungeon
New 10 man instanced slivers
New largescale battle Warfront & and open world PvP events
New dynamic rift content & world events

Of course the details on these updates will be released a bit later on when we're closer to launch. But we are actively working on new content for all of our subscribers.

Thanks,
Gersh

wonder how they're going to handle open world PvP with the current rendering issues...

The "Rendering Issue" isn't an issue it's a feature to keep the client from crashing. When people disappear its because either you or the server is eating too much processor. They can turn it off but that would result in wide spread crashing. My guess is their going to have to reduce the detail in high pop situations like every other MMO out there.

That seems like a weird "feature" lol. I am excited for the new stuff though!

» Edited on: 2011-06-20 11:07:32

that actually makes a lot of sense - Mythic had to reduce their spell effects and character models back in DAoC to deal with large scale battles.

Ya I would rather have spell effects scaled down then not seeing people lol expecially in an huge epic battle!

My guess is they'll go to a radial spell effect system where the further away you are the less animations you see. The other thing if they have an RvR zone most likely they can set it to a different threshold

I hope the PvP stuff is more on the "3" than the "6" month end, I do not foresee myself playing this game for more than a couple a few more months as is... but I do think if I come back in a year it'll be pretty fantastic with the speed at which they roll out updates, so maybe I will just stick around.

Well if they don't do something before GW2 comes out they'll lose the PvP market all together. As it is they would have to do something astonishing not to lose the PvP market when GW2 goes live. They know their racing against time, Trion's not stupid.

I know they aren't stupid but I can never figure out if they really even want to hold onto the PvP market or if they are content with pvp as a side experience for people who just want to occasionally hop into smallscale instanced PvP. I feel like the crowd the game was originally marketed to - a lot of WoW people - never really knew how amazing RVR or anything other than warfront/scenario/BG pvp really was so they don't know what they are missing. Even before I found the family, I loved RVR in DAoC and WAR, but there is literally nothing comparable to RvR with you guys in any game. Overall Trion has already impressed and surprised me (in a good way) so I am not dismissing any chance of them doing so in the future... if I did, I'd already have unsubbed. :)

» Edited on: 2011-06-20 15:41:24

The rendering issue is the same they had in WAR as well. I thought it was just the Dark Elf Witchblade skipping merrily toward me at first, but then I noticed everyone skipped merrily toward me.

Them releasing a new zone is what stood out for me there... In my eyes this means an expansion is going to be longer away than say... At the one year mark; Which is definitely a good thing in my opinion, I liked WoW better when it was two years between expansions, not one. Overall this looks like a lot of content, but unless I am reading it wrong I didn't see any raid content there... Which makes me a bit more calm about getting into raiding in hopefully a month or so, because I will hopefully be able to do a bit of catch-up.

» Edited on: 2011-06-21 03:37:27