while in new mmo's solo is king, daoc grouping will provide that much more experience and loot that you will want to group, no group finder needed, groups are what nearly everyone wants. It had a very "persistent world touch" here because you can actually see things happening while work.Ģ. very nice if you've participated in a battle and needed to go to bed early, you could check next thing in the morning who won. the rvr is constantly shifting and you'll see the status of the war. The server is pretty much alive and has everything that really got me hooked to daoc.Ī few points that I missed ever since I left daoc (because of buffbots, that btw don't exist on uthgard)ġ. I think I am not the only one who started playing uthgards freeshard in anticipation of camelot unchained. There has been very little official talk about actual mechanics or even basic attitudes about certain things. In total, while you can tell that things are moving forward none of the developers are really very communicative about the actual game-design. They did mention the similarities between EQ: Next and CU building system and how it will be an integral part of the game, but nothing tangible was actually said except that CU will probably be using a voxel-based engine as well for the building component. Bandwidth usage was reduced significantly throughout the tests but I don't think the latency was really improved.Īs for actual game-design, there has been very little word on that. The results thus far have been encouraging, but not ground-breaking. The goal here was to get the game running as lag-free and fluent as possible, while minimizing bandwidth usage. On the management side I think they recently completed their recruitment process, so the team they have no should be able start all-out production.Įngine wise we've run multiple networking tests using an improvised mini-game called Smackhammer. The art style is rather abstract but suits the game and setting. Any word on CU?They've show off some concept art for their races and how they are putting their own twist o established fantasy.