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| "Life and Death are intertwined in battle. So are light and dark. One cannot be without the other. The Conflict shapes us, lets us grow, and trims us down to our essence." A quote from The History of Conflict by Dr. Gretchen Sentendo of History |
| Febuary 4, 2001 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Second report: the Crossroad's round table developer chat is over. There were some good questions ie: Shoan: Will each profession be best suited for one or two of the 6 nanotech skills or will they tend to draw the best medical related Nano Formula from each of the 6 skills. Meaning, will a Doctor be mostly specialized in Biological Metamorphose and only dabble in the other 5 skills. blackmane: Each profession has a different cost in the various nano skills. But, that doesn't mean that they cannot have nanos that utilise those skills. It just means that the skill requirements using those skills will be a lot lower than if they are good at those skills. blackmane: But, the primary nano lines for each profession generally use those nano skills that the profession is 'best' at. (as a rough rule) You can read the rest at Crossroads Klaric Sobeski |
| Febuary 3, 2001 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Hi I'm Klaric this is my site dedicated to Anarchy Online. My page isn't exactly finished but enough of the way to look at. This game is going to be the best game. I can't wait. Check back I'll be reporting as often as I can. Hopefully that will be daily. Klaric Sobeski |
| Febuary 4, 2001 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Ao.mmorg.net asked Dai-Galen a couple of questions: Brandon: When anarchy online is released will it be on 1 cd or multiple cd's or maybe even a dvd? Darren: Right now that is under discussion. Brandon: Whats the deal on pets? What classes get them and how do they summon/create/tame them? Darren: Right now it is only the Engineer and Meta that have them. Brandon: What will involved in beta IV? How many people and how long is it expected to last? Darren: Right now we are working on beta 3 and will be looking forward to beta 4 in time to come. Brandon: What is the current group size, and are there any plans to change this during beta? Darren: Hello again. There is no limit and yes we will be experimenting in beta as well Klaric Sobeski |
| Febuary 5, 2001 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Tommy & Darren of The AO Crew replied with answers on 2 questions sent regarding character name and alias: 1.) Regarding the name and alias that people will have. I understand everyone will have a unique alias and a common 1-2 word name. In normal usage if you look at someone or talk to someone, will you see: * Player's full name * Player's full name and alias * Player's alias * Configurable by you * Or something I totally missed.. :) When you left click at someone you will see Tommy "Chac" Strand Firstname "uniqealias" Lastname 2.) a) Will this alias be the same as the one we currently use to access the officlal boards, chat rooms and beta application? If the player chooses and it is not taken when he/she first enters the game. There is no link to the player name and the character name. b)The alias being unique, will they be reset AFTER the beta for when the full game comes out? Yes - Tommy -- Darren Scott (aka Dai-Galean) Funcom Support dept & Community Co-Ordinator Klaric Sobeski |
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AO-Basher is releasing screenshots (wheee!). They're going to release three screenshots a week. |
| Anarchy Happy is having a contest. Submit your character creations with a story and a pic. Great prizes!! Klaric Sobeski |
| Febuary 7, 2001 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Some questions I wanted aswered good thing: 1.)I understand there is a disguise skill? An OT Agent (for example) goes undercover using this skill and enters a Rebel base. If one of the Rebel players looks at him what do they see for name and alias? Can the disguised agent manually change his alias (as well as name )? The disguise skill has been slightly downgraded right now but will be reprioritised later in the beta. You will then be able to disguise your profession, side affiliation and breed. There are various degrees of disguise from detectable to undetectable. As for changing your name, we have no concrete plans to implement this before release. 2.)Regarding conceal and sneak skill, is this checked against your skill as you move along or hide by the minute, or for a set distance or if someone is looking for you based as well on their perception, etc.? If you have extremely good conceal skill, a person with low perception can be standing on top of you without detecting. The concealment and invisibility is implemented in two iterations. Iteration includes, undetectable by NPC's but you will still show up on player maps and Tab-Switching. The second iteration will include client occlusion, where clients of characters that fail the perception test will not even get updates from the server where the concealed character is. This also makes it unavailable for third-party sniffer tools. 3.) Will terrain have any effect on ranged combat? (If I am kneeling at the corner of a building firing at a target in the open for instance) No. The only way terrain will help in combat is that you might evade your opponent because he can not see you Klaric Sobeski |
| Febuary 7, 2001 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// One new screen shots one from AO-Basher and another screenshot from AO-Breeds: |
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| Febuary 9, 2001 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// First off I'm not going to be doing the news for a week cause I'm going on vacation. In the news the Official Site has updated their FAQs so check it out. Also, AO-Basher has gotten some questions answered by Tommy and Darren. 1.)Some players are wanting to use voice-game software, is there any products currently being tested or is there a built-in feature coming it the future etc? We had implemented Roger Willco in the client making an automatic connection to the members in a team when a new one was created. The RW server was running on the team leaders machine. The problem with this is the broadcasting of a persons IP address. Once you have the IP address you can cause grief on other players you might be doing PvP with or that you know are in a hard combat with a monster by crashing their Windows. Until we find a secure way of dealing with game-voice without routing all through our server it is up to the players themselves to run this software in the background. Since AO runs in a window as well as full screen it is no major problem to set up your own RW or similar servers. We might even make a FAQ explaining how you best can use the different voice-chat engines with AO. 2.) Latest news on a Linux build? As stated in the first press release on the subject of the Linux version, "It will not be started until AO is released on the Windows platform." After Funcom has worked on 15 titles through the ages on 60 different skews we have come to learn that dual production hurts both products. To make sure that both the windows and the Linux version gets full attention we do one at the time. This will cost US a lot more, but it will benefit the players. Klaric |
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| Febuary 7, 2001 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// In honor of beta four I'm going to attempt to make my site an RP site so all my info is gonna go. I will have an ooc link to this but now new news. Not like anyone reads my site anyway but. If you do read this email me so I can feel good. sir_klaric@hotmail.com |
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