Sony Set To Launch Online Virtual World
by Shals on December 10th, 2008Sony on Wednesday said it would launch its online 3-D social networking service, Home, Dec. 11, ending months of delay in the long-awaited service for users of the company’s PlayStation 3 video-game console.
Home is similar to LInden Lab’s Second Life in that it lets people create virtual characters, or avatars, to interact in cyberspace. PlayStation 3 users will be able to join the virtual world through a free software download.
Posted in Other MMO's | Comments OffStory in Star Wars: The Old Republic
by Abban on December 5th, 2008From Star Wars: The Old Republic official site (source): Creating great stories in video games is a hallmark for both BioWare and LucasArts. Star Wars: The Old Republic marks the beginning of a joint effort between these two companies to bring epic storytelling into a massively multiplayer online game. We believe that there are four pillars of the roleplaying experience: progression, exploration, combat, and story. Achieving a high degree of quality in each of these will create a rich, challenging, and emotional gameplay experience. Among massively-multiplayer online games, story hasn’t always received the same level of attention given to the other pillars. Star Wars: The Old Republic brings a new dimension to the MMO experience by putting story front and center.
Posted in Other MMO's | Comments OffPublic Test Server – Patch 1.1.0 is Coming!
by Shals on December 5th, 2008From Warhammer Herald (source): The Public Test Server is coming soon, so in the meantime we wanted to provide you with instructions on how you can get onto the server as well as how to copy your characters and jump right into testing.
The purpose of the Public Test Server (PTS) is for the players to help us refine and test the latest version of the game by experiencing the changes firsthand and providing feedback and bug reports to Mythic. As such, we want to remind you that the content introduced to this server is still considered “in development”, and that bugs and issues not found on the LIVE server may occur on the PTS. All features and fixes listed below are subject to change until we release Game Update 1.1.0 to all live servers.
When leaving Feedback or Bug Reports we encourage you to provide details on why you feel the way you do or why you think something needs to be fixed. It’s also important to note that when you submit a Bug Report, it automatically records your location in game so be sure to submit them at the location where you experienced them when you can!
To read more about the Public Test Server and all the Highlights with 1.1 please click the source link above.
Posted in Warhammer | Comments OffServer Update – All Servers
by Shals on December 5th, 2008From Warhammer Herald (source): We’ve been hard at work finding ways to enhance your experience in Open RvR. Patch 1.1 has a lot of great changes in the works; to compliment them we’re introduction several changes that we hope will reduce the amount of crashing experienced during massive assaults. This is our first step to improve your performance during large scale battles and make Open RvR and Fortress raids even more exciting!
Dark Crag was the first to experience this change as the forces of Order and Destruction clashed in a mighty battle of over four hundred players during prime-time last night! We’re excited to bring these changes to everyone today and look forward to seeing your feedback. Please let us know what you think!
Posted in Warhammer | 1 Comment »Hot Fixes
by Shals on December 3rd, 2008From Warhammer Herald (source): Greetings! We have the following hot fixes for you this morning:
General Changes and Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that was causing erroneus messages to be broadcast into player chat channels in certain zones.
Content
- A healer NPC has been placed in the High Elf Chapter One area.
- A healer NPC has been placed in the Dark Elf Chapter One area.
Quests & Public Quests
- Messin’ Wif Da Stunties: The Dwarf Supplies can now be destroyed, and the quest condition properly completed.
- Handle With Care: Fixed an issue that was allowing players to accept this quest twice.
- The Raven’s Eye: This scouting quest, which is associated with the Heavy Metal live event, is no longer repeatable.
- A Wrench in the Works: This scouting quest, which is associated with the Heavy Metal live event, is no longer repeatable.
- Report to the Wastes: The waypoints for this quest will now properly indicate where players need to go.
- Poisonwing Canyon: This Public Quest now grants the proper influence amounts upon completion.
- Well of Whispers: Warghon the Despised in this Public Quest will now properly come out of his paused state without resetting to full health.
- By Dawn’s Early Fight: The Wreckage Suvivors in the first stage of this Public Quest will now properly grant influence.
Realm vs. Realm
- Black Crag: A healer NPC has been placed in the Order warcamp.
- The feature to auto-queue for scenarios will now function properly in the High Elf versus Dark Elf scenarios.
- The hot oil siege pads in the Covenant of Flame Keep are now more reliably targetable by ranged attack.