Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: climbatize on 07 February, 2013, 12:13:48 AM
Just hope they dont fail on kickstarter!
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: gersimi on 07 February, 2013, 08:57:34 AM
nice :)
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: Sagafar on 07 February, 2013, 09:00:27 AM
Question is, will it live up to all the expectations from all excisting/old DaoC'ers?
I do hope that he'll bring something awesome to the table and take the good stuff outta DaoC and improve it with modern technology. Grab bits n pieces from the sweet games out there, mix it up and release a game where we can get that good feeling back. I sincerely enjoy reading/listening to what he has to say and I'll keep my fingers crossed that this will happen.
Oh the joy!
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: SIzzling on 07 February, 2013, 11:38:32 AM
I hadn't heard of kickstarter before, but damn if this isn't a brilliant idea:
edit: oh the game does sound interesting, will probably take a long time to develop though :o
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: Joric on 07 February, 2013, 05:49:16 PM
If you don't have to follow a publishers idea but can do your very own stuff it might come out something really good. This is a chance... let's see what happens in the future with this project.
With all the MMORPG's out there I can't think of a true "revolution", though.
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: Lembit on 07 February, 2013, 06:35:16 PM
Not getting exited about this just yet. Why?
- Funding not secured, and if secured its going to be limited/restricted. - Apperantly Kickstarter is like Dragons Den, if you dont get the full amount, you dont get anything. - Pure RvR game will turn out more of a Call of Duty type of game, you need the mix. - Mark Jacobs has failed in the past - Its going to be atleast 3-5 years before we see it if it gets the funding. Anything less then its prolly ending up as a free to play game.
And the last of many points i cant be arsed to to type here - Daoc was great because of us! It was never designed to be played the way it was by us! The salespitch was one of epic battles of hundreds n hundreds fighting for relics and keeps, not roaming a 8 man grp. It was also great. Also, can you imagnie a game like Daoc coming along now? You would quit within a few weeks unless you had a steady grp of people to play with all the time. I only stuck with it cause mmo´s was a new thing for me and there was really not much else to play, apart from footie manager :)
My two cents atleast.
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: Zoolis on 08 February, 2013, 12:55:20 PM
3 thumbs up!
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: Stonie on 02 April, 2013, 07:12:58 PM
Hey all, been a while :)
Anyone else that backed this mmo? Kickstarter for it launched today. (285k $ in the first hour :)) I backed 180 for internal testing.
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: Aerendur on 03 April, 2013, 12:26:50 PM
I have done the same, after reading your post! ;) So good work making me wake up!
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: Fenderon on 03 April, 2013, 12:59:17 PM
It does indeed look quite interesting. DAoC 2 kind of interesting.. I wonder if I can get a new summ sm :)
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: Aerendur on 04 April, 2013, 10:57:34 AM
It's supposed to be PvP oriented Lembo! Why would you want a Summon SM! :P
Loving all the updated (4 in a day!). Sounds more interesting every report! But still a long time to go!
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: weatherwax on 04 April, 2013, 12:19:37 PM
will go fore 180 me to if not dub is teling me to do all me $ aye can hear him noo erik go fore the 10 000$ reward :P hmmm but then agen dub is prob out locking fore fast work to get $ to giw them
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: SIzzling on 04 April, 2013, 12:30:49 PM
I do hope that new table is partly incorrect. Why would a 180 get less than a 120 on many points! :)
I think 180 gets alpha access and 120 doesn't, but 110 does. It's all a bit odd.
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: climbatize on 04 April, 2013, 06:56:56 PM
erik buy an island!!! =)
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: Dub on 05 April, 2013, 12:52:20 PM
gonna back with roughly what a game costs , maybe bit more 8)
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: Killrake on 06 April, 2013, 01:45:14 PM
Damn Lembit u are so negative, be positive for once, and DaoC is STILL a good game better then all pf the rest IMHO, its nowadays purely RVR but it is still a great game that have changed through the years, To solo theese days is damn hard i know that, but i dont play the game to play solo i like to grp up with my friends, DaoC RULES!!!
- Funding not secured, and if secured its going to be limited/restricted. - Apperantly Kickstarter is like Dragons Den, if you dont get the full amount, you dont get anything. - Pure RvR game will turn out more of a Call of Duty type of game, you need the mix. - Mark Jacobs has failed in the past - Its going to be atleast 3-5 years before we see it if it gets the funding. Anything less then its prolly ending up as a free to play game.
And the last of many points i cant be arsed to to type here - Daoc was great because of us! It was never designed to be played the way it was by us! The salespitch was one of epic battles of hundreds n hundreds fighting for relics and keeps, not roaming a 8 man grp. It was also great. Also, can you imagnie a game like Daoc coming along now? You would quit within a few weeks unless you had a steady grp of people to play with all the time. I only stuck with it cause mmo´s was a new thing for me and there was really not much else to play, apart from footie manager :)
My two cents atleast.
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: Muylae on 06 April, 2013, 02:57:04 PM
I do hope that new table is partly incorrect. Why would a 180 get less than a 120 on many points! :)
because 180 (which i pledged) makes you internal tester (pre alpha, as soon as they have an engine and can put characters in an open green field and have some combat mechanics in place, we are in) which none of the other tiers gives afaik. with the 180 tier, they want hard core people who are willing to spend a lot more time and effort than the usual beta testers and who are expected instead of asked to write bug reports. it's also the only tier that comes with an NDA. this is not an 'ooh, more shinies' tier. i'm (relatively) sure there will be nice stuff to compensate for the efforts we put in at the end, but which they explicitly don't mention as not to attract the wrong people for those 500 internal tester slots.
yes, this tier doesn't fit in the logical hierarchy of the rest of the tiers.
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: Aerendur on 06 April, 2013, 03:02:23 PM
I hope so Muy! Might be fun to actually work 'with' them on fixing bugs and such. Very interested to test all sorts of skill and class balances and re-evaluate formulas and the likes! :o
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: rhayn on 10 April, 2013, 01:32:37 PM
Over a million $$ pledged now. More than halfway there with 22 days to go. :)
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: Muylae on 11 April, 2013, 01:54:36 PM
new tech trailer for those people who are not on the mailing list.
In my first update last week, I showed off some of the rendering tech we want to use for Camelot Unchained, and talked about why we need to build a renderer and certain other components ourselves: Off the shelf, there's nothing that scales up to the epic battles we want to create.
Then, our art team showed off two of the races we're planning to put in the game: The Tuatha Dé Danann and the Vikings. There's some great concept art in those updates, as well as high-quality models for in-game.
Obviously, the next step is to put them together -- so we did! There are some further refinements and optimizations to the engine, and plenty more to be done, but I'll let the video speak for itself.
The next step for this, in terms of showing off what we want to do, is to hook this up to the networking layer of "CSE SmackHammer" from last week. We're working hard on this and a whole lot more, but for now, enjoy the show!
-Andrew
p.s. - We'll have a part 2, with even more video, first thing tomorrow morning.
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that's starting to look very sweet imho :)
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: SIzzling on 11 April, 2013, 03:40:52 PM
Makes me wonder if my PC will actually be able to run it :o
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: climbatize on 11 April, 2013, 04:06:22 PM
Yep on low setings probably.
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: Aerendur on 11 April, 2013, 04:38:34 PM
By the time this hits your computer it will be a new rig anyway! :P
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: TenzorDK on 12 April, 2013, 06:41:59 AM
It is two years from now and they expect about 5oo per map.
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: Muylae on 12 April, 2013, 05:28:27 PM
the biggest FAQ that i have come across yet about CU,
2 years idd, but any info about it in case the kickstarter fails? i kow that you get your money back, but what about the whole project?
Depends on how badly it fails, if it's like 100k short of the goal then they'll retry. If they're 500k short then prolly not.
if they are 100k short, i think MJ will add those 100k himself at the last minute... 500k short... i don't see that happening, surely not after yesterday's update...
First, sorry for the delay in releasing this update. Unfortunately our video guy (who is also our lead artist & lead animator) had his back go out on him last night. He’s pushing through it but it has taken longer to get some things done today (amazing how pain does that to you). So, let’s give a big shout out to Scott and Michelle who over the last week have really made a herculean effort to bring these updates to you despite “stay at home” illnesses/injuries. Today's updates are presented in two parts. The first part is the basic intro and a shout out to our backers and an acknowledgement of two packages we received this week. Sorry I had to break up the video into two parts but I talk a bit too much about the stretch goals, especially the second one. I wonder why? ☺
Secondly, thanks to the folks who have sent “duck-inspired care packages” to our office. You guys and gals really are the best! I hope you enjoyed seeing them as much as we enjoyed getting them.
Finally, it’s stretch goal time! Our first goal is a fairly predictable one for any RPG Kickstarter, new races and classes. If we make our first goal, we will create three new races and classes with each realm getting one additional race and class. While the race is 100% TBD, our leading candidate for the additional class is an archer. Again, we don’t expect anyone is going to be surprised at that but hey, that’s what easy to reach stretch goals are all about on Kickstarter.
Now, as to the second stretch goal, this might be a somewhat controversial one. Rather than spend a lot of time talking about it now, I will end this update and let you watch the videos.
BTW, as to the “Here, every true son & daughter perishes” tease of last night well, it both as a tease, warning and if you take the first letter of each word you get: H E T S D P = D E P T H S. ☺
Enjoy the videos and if you like what you see, spread the word. Hell is not coming but The Depths await you in Camelot Unchained.
Part 1 - Intro and more ducks!
Part 2 - Stretch goals
-Mark
omg, Darkness Falls makes a comeback ! and a crafter might really be a fun class after all.
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: SIzzling on 13 April, 2013, 04:50:02 PM
This looks like the first dungeon ever that I might enjoy :P
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: Muylae on 13 April, 2013, 07:38:42 PM
For the people who didn't play DAoC, Darkness Falls is a gigantic, non linear rvr dungeon with 3 entrances, one in each realm, but only 1 entrance is open at any time. The realm which holds the most towers/keeps in the rvr zone has access. so at times there is a real struggle to capture that extra tower in rvr to get access to DF for your realm. When a new realm has the most 'structures' in rvr, that realm's 'gate' to DF opens and the other realm that had most access until then, their 'gate' to DF closes. This had the extra benefit that the 'dominant' realm would see some/loads of their players leave the rvr zone and hurry to DF, which is a great balancing tool. How is that a balancing tool ? Well the realm that has access would lose some of it's population in rvr because some of it's players would go to DF, thus decreasing their numbers in rvr and making it easier for the 2 other realms to conquer parts of the rvr map and get access to DF for their realm.
My interpretation of what MJ said in this update is that the Depths will have a similar mechanic of getting/losing access to the Depths.
I just love it.
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: Joric on 15 April, 2013, 12:31:05 AM
The more I read/hear/see about CU the more I get curious ;)
I still think one major point for me is classes/skills/balance and such things. I really want to know how the CU Team wants to approach this AND I really hope, they don't end up changing and balancing (read: nerfing) everything I prolly might enjoy.
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: Stonie on 15 April, 2013, 04:04:51 PM
@ Joric : Just level one of each class and play the FOTM :)
I'm in for interntal testing at 180 dollar (140 euro or so). Worth it I guess... Ever since I quit daoc, I'm longing for a game which can equal it. For 7 years now nothing has come close...
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: Muylae on 16 April, 2013, 01:57:46 AM
@ Joric : Just level one of each class and play the FOTM :)
I'm in for interntal testing at 180 dollar (140 euro or so). Worth it I guess... Ever since I quit daoc, I'm longing for a game which can equal it. For 7 years now nothing has come close...
same, internal tester when it happens and i have been searching for something since the end of the EU daoc servers that can give me a similar experience.
CU is probably the closest thing that can give me a similar experience.
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: Aerendur on 16 April, 2013, 11:24:10 AM
And as internal testers, we might actually have a small way to influence the actual outcome! :o
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: Joric on 16 April, 2013, 06:44:32 PM
@ Joric : Just level one of each class and play the FOTM :)
I am not interested in playing FOTM, I want a stable class/skill/ability System.
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: Muylae on 17 April, 2013, 06:08:32 PM
Mark Jacobs has arrived in the freddyshouse forums (i can't think of places where more hostile opinions about the man have been voiced over the years) and is answering questions.
^^if you still want the game for 25 $ (in 1.5-2 years time) and beta access.
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: Aerendur on 01 May, 2013, 06:41:49 PM
It's close enough. Mark already said he would fund another 2m anyway. He can just fill any gap if needed! 8)
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: Audhild on 02 May, 2013, 12:45:46 AM
Goal reached now :)
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: Dub on 02 May, 2013, 11:38:24 AM
/vic
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: Audhild on 02 May, 2013, 01:37:41 PM
And while we wait you can come and play stealther Dub! I still feel a bit lost on sb, but atleast i'm Learning to kill all the speedwarps for the zerg :p
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: Muylae on 02 May, 2013, 06:59:23 PM
time for a CU subforum :p ?
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: EchelonIV on 02 May, 2013, 07:35:23 PM
meh ;)
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: SIzzling on 02 May, 2013, 11:54:16 PM
There's not really that much to discuss yet I think :P
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: sumadebbie on 03 May, 2013, 11:37:28 AM
interesting... wonder how much it will cost to play every month though.. I for one would love to gather materials and build houses.. heheh.. ;D
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: SIzzling on 03 May, 2013, 12:55:53 PM
My guess is around 10 a month. Quite liking the crafting / building system, just afraid those characters won't have a place in any roaming group, meaning you'd have to lvl up two character simultaneously.
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: sumadebbie on 03 May, 2013, 01:40:10 PM
My guess is around 10 a month. Quite liking the crafting / building system, just afraid those characters won't have a place in any roaming group, meaning you'd have to lvl up two character simultaneously.
indeed... no place in game for slackers.. hahah. Will probably be spotted by enemies and being killed instantly.... ??? :P
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: climbatize on 03 May, 2013, 04:47:11 PM
well dont run alone , guild grps and you're fine =)
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: SIzzling on 03 May, 2013, 05:09:45 PM
Prolly crafters are only going to be for people with dual accounts using /stick to drag their crafter around :P
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: Stonie on 04 May, 2013, 12:44:00 AM
Prolly crafters are only going to be for people with dual accounts using /stick to drag their crafter around :P
I fear this might be the case... if you need a donkey to carry your mats from the mine to the castle and afterwards from castle to building lot...
Anyway, nice to see we funded. Ik pledged 180+25 so i got some FP's ontop of the internal testing :) anyone else got IT?
i got the internal tester too.
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: sumadebbie on 05 May, 2013, 01:00:39 PM
cool..
also on youtube:
Guildcenter - Interview with Mark Jacobs on Camelot Unchained (over an hour interview in details about the game)
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: Aerendur on 06 May, 2013, 10:34:04 AM
Nice interview that one! Surely sounds promising! Will be insanely hard to pick a realm for all of us I fear! I'd like to be the underdog again, love fighting bigger numbers! But that would mean we would be Hibernia! ;)
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: SIzzling on 06 May, 2013, 11:15:51 AM
I'm guessing TDD wouldn't be popular because people can't even pronounce it.
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: Stonie on 06 May, 2013, 07:38:25 PM
Indeed since MJ said you'll have tools to fight the zerg (not like gw2 :)), i'd love to be the underdog which will prolly be TDD...
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: Muylae on 10 May, 2013, 06:12:22 PM
Nice interview that one! Surely sounds promising! Will be insanely hard to pick a realm for all of us I fear! I'd like to be the underdog again, love fighting bigger numbers! But that would mean we would be Hibernia! ;)
hard to tell what will be the underdog realm now.
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: Muylae on 10 May, 2013, 06:17:33 PM
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: Stonie on 10 June, 2013, 09:36:36 PM
i'm also lurking on the backers forums (I bought the Internal testing tier so i can get my hands on CU asap :))
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: SIzzling on 10 June, 2013, 09:46:35 PM
People post way too much on those forums though, is anything interesting said there? I can't be bothered reading it all :S
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: Aerendur on 11 June, 2013, 10:42:45 AM
Biggest problem is that there are many parts to each discussion. You can't discuss balance part by part... So all the talking so far hopefully just gives the devs some good ideas or thoughts. But I doubt it can be taken as a serious discussion to shaping the game!
Still it's a fun read every now and then! Love the '8 man vs zergling' discussions! :o Some things never change!
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: SIzzling on 11 June, 2013, 11:04:28 AM
Biggest problem is that there are many parts to each discussion. You can't discuss balance part by part... So all the talking so far hopefully just gives the devs some good ideas or thoughts. But I doubt it can be taken as a serious discussion to shaping the game!
Still it's a fun read every now and then! Love the '8 man vs zergling' discussions! :o Some things never change!
There should be room for both in my opinion. There's a lot of people that like zerging or just don't have a nice group ready for them to join and just want to randomly team up with a huge bunch. As long as it's not the only winning strategy this should be fine :P
Title: Re: camelot unchained
Post by: Muylae on 07 September, 2013, 01:46:24 PM