Airships?

[Hawkwind]

Was nosing around in the TOA directories and under \sounds found the file airshipdamage.wav!We gonna start seeing Goblin Airships over the DAOC skies? seriously, anyone know what it's for?

 

[Urme the Legend]

How did it sound?

 

[Archeon]

MMMMmeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwKPOSSHHHH!!!!!

 

[cHodAX]

Probably something they pulled before beta and forgot to delete, nice find though Hawkwind

 

[Xeanor]

maybe something for future expansions.... like mastery of water? Oo

 

[Sarumancer]

flight is one thing they really need to implement in Daoc

For those who have played WOW either in the closed beta or the stress test, taking a wyvern from Crossroads to Ogrimmar was breathtaking. Not the poxy flying mounts to the extra SI areas, where they go straight to here, up to there, across here, turn then down to there. Nope, the wow mounts swoop and bank and fly "naturally" rather than daocs "mechanically", so much so that some routes are -fun- to fly. The best one I found was the undead undercity to the Tarren farms, you flew up into a sewer system, did banks round corners, barrel rolls, swooped down over an abyss, it was worth watching the flight, rather than the usual, hop mount and go afk in daoc.

That said, I predicted catacombs and the hib class being Banshee over on prydwen.net ages ago, so Ill go on record here. Upcoming expansions next year will be "Capitals", much like foundations only it will entirely revamp the capital cities in all 3 realms (some need it more than most) and the pay for play expansion will be something to do with the Undead. Along the way, we`ll probably see "flight" being worked into the games mechanics, along with increased abilities to teleport around.

 

[Jeeves]

Gifv hovercrafts for toa x<

 

[Laston]

flying carpets? :worthy:

 

[cHodAX]

flight is one thing they really need to implement in Daoc

For those who have played WOW either in the closed beta or the stress test, taking a wyvern from Crossroads to Ogrimmar was breathtaking. Not the poxy flying mounts to the extra SI areas, where they go straight to here, up to there, across here, turn then down to there. Nope, the wow mounts swoop and bank and fly "naturally" rather than daocs "mechanically", so much so that some routes are -fun- to fly. The best one I found was the undead undercity to the Tarren farms, you flew up into a sewer system, did banks round corners, barrel rolls, swooped down over an abyss, it was worth watching the flight, rather than the usual, hop mount and go afk in daoc.

That said, I predicted catacombs and the hib class being Banshee over on prydwen.net ages ago, so Ill go on record here. Upcoming expansions next year will be "Capitals", much like foundations only it will entirely revamp the capital cities in all 3 realms (some need it more than most) and the pay for play expansion will be something to do with the Undead. Along the way, we`ll probably see "flight" being worked into the games mechanics, along with increased abilities to teleport around.

Thats what Blizzard do better than anyone, they polish the game and always put atmosphere ahead of programming difficulty. Mythic on the other hand just throw it out in a patch and then spend the next year fixing it.

 

[Arlone]

Thats what Blizzard do better than anyone, they polish the game and always put atmosphere ahead of programming difficulty. Mythic on the other hand just throw it out in a patch and then spend the next year fixing it.

*whistles* diablo 2 anyone?

Anyway I agree. Blizzard = eyecandy for the win and their trailers/teasers are always better animated than most "real" movies

 

[harebear]

There was some set path flying mobs in mid SI? ><

 

[Sarnat]

There was some set path flying mobs in mid SI? ><

All realms have flying routes in SI. Before WoW did. Not that they were anything spectacular, I'm sure WoW looks a lot better from above.

 

[Morchaoron]

Ah yes... i can already see the next expansion....

Dark Age of Camelot - Open Skies

where you can control gigantic airships which function like keeps, you can /bind there and fly it over a keep and drop down from above, or ram into other airships and take them over!!!!!!

 

[Tilda]

I loved the flying in WoW, rather than making them like horses, they acctually tried to make the ride spectacular, great curves etc, showing off the landscape really well.
The ride from Org to Thunderbluff was ace, but the ride (imho) from the dwarf capital to the human one was even better

Tilda

 

[Sendraks]

*whistles* diablo 2 anyone?

Played the game to death. Yup you can't beat Blizz for really sorting out the atmosphere and background of their games.

Then they get a load of Chimpanzee's, in a room with typewriters, and get em to bash out the game code. Blizz was actually started as an experiment to see how many Chimps and how long was needed for them to accidentally type out the complete works of Shakespear and in the process wrote the code for D1 and D2.

Love Blizz. Love their games. Hate their coding!

 

[Rookiescot]

Ah yes... i can already see the next expansion....

Dark Age of Camelot - Open Skies

where you can control gigantic airships which function like keeps, you can /bind there and fly it over a keep and drop down from above, or ram into other airships and take them over!!!!!!

Yup ..... and the Mid version has 1 large button on the flight deck marked as "INSTA NUKE FOR TEH WIN".

 

[Athinz]

Next daoc expansion = Midgard Nerf Megatron 3000

(minimum requirements 6billion mb ram)

 

[Ctuchik]

Yup ..... and the Mid version has 1 large button on the flight deck marked as "INSTA NUKE FOR TEH WIN".

id guess alb would get a "insta zerg call" button then and hib get a button that spawn a gzilliomillion of smaller airships just to make the enemy LD...

by the way, mid already have insta nukes... well, lifetap but same shit

 

[Rookiescot]

id guess alb would get a "insta zerg call" button then and hib get a button that spawn a gzilliomillion of smaller airships just to make the enemy LD...

by the way, mid already have insta nukes... well, lifetap but same shit

Agreed

 

[Shadoo]

Horizons implemented flying for the dragons, dont you think airships will kinda seem un realistic for camelot?