any one sle read this

[zeusmdk]

MYTHIC ENTERTAINMENT ANNOUNCES DARK AGE OF CAMELOT: CATACOMBS

Instanced Content Makes its Debut in New Retail Expansion

FAIRFAX, VA – APRIL 14, 2004 – Mythic Entertainment, developer and publisher of the award-winning massively multiplayer online role-playing game Dark Age of Camelot, today announced Dark Age of Camelot: Catacombs ™, a retail expansion that introduces new challenges based on underground environments. The expansion will upgrade player character art throughout Dark Age of Camelot , add fresh content and challenges to the game, and introduce new player classes. Mythic plans to make Catacombs available in December 2004.

“Catacombs deepens the world of Dark Age of Camelot by adding new content beneath Albion, Hibernia, and Midgard,” said Matt Firor, Vice President of Development and Executive Producer at Mythic Entertainment. “Instanced dungeons support a more casual gaming style by giving players exclusive play sessions for groups of all levels and abilities.”

Catacombs ’ system of “player versus monster” instanced dungeons will allow more casual players of Dark Age of Camelot to quickly find and adventure in exciting and challenging areas geared to their level. By eliminating the need to search (and sometimes wait) for monster encounters, in Catacombs , players generate private adventuring areas for their groups on their schedule.

New technical features for Catacombs include:

Major art upgrade to Dark Age of Camelot player character models utilizing the EMotion FX 2 graphics engine that provides more detailed facial features, hairstyles, and skin tones as well as enhanced armor, clothing options and character animations.
Instanced content will allow player groups to adventure in “private” dungeons.

New content for Catacombs includes:

Players can explore a new underground city for each Realm based on the backstory of one of the Realm’s underground player races. Each city leads to new dungeons, catacombs, enemies, loot and adventures.
One new playable class for each Realm.
Content will be provided for all character levels.
the bits in bold puzzel me
how pirvate dungeons and on a schedule.?

not puzzel but will it do what it is supposed to do remove bb
read some where that is a cross between a rever, tank and cleric! not sure how this will stopp bb but if it did it would mean every one would beplaying one class

 

[Raven]

welcome back from mars! and its 2 new classes for mid/hib 1 for alb btw

 

[Troodon]

Each Instance of a dungeon willl a copy of a master template of that dungeon. When a group enter that dungeon, they will enter an Instance of the dungeon specially created for them. Other groups could be in their own Instances, or enter new Instances at any time, yet no group will meet as each is in thier own copy/Instance of the dungeon. Thus, dungeons on demand, no waiting for mobs spawns or "interference" from other groups. Whether this is a good thing or not is another matter.

 

[PinkyPink]

lol where have u been zeus they have already announced that alb's class will be a zealot (evil cleric).

Pink.

 

[gimpchimp]

I like to see that everyone is stealing ideas from Blizzard.

 

[Claudius]

I like to see that everyone is stealing ideas from Blizzard.

Instanced dungeons is an old concept. A bit odd that none of the big games have tried it out yet, but now Doac and Wow are going for it. Other games in development are implementing it too.

 

[Flimgoblin]

instanced dungeons have been in MUDs forever...

CoH has them already btw, not sure about any other MMORPGs.

 

[Draylor]

The hint was in the 3rd line: it was news back in April.

A bit odd that none of the big games have tried it out yet

To name a few: AO, EQ and SWG already have it. AO for a long time, EQ for over a year, SWG for at least the last 6 months.

So .....

 

[Solstice]

So let's say, my guild gathers a group of 7 ppl and enter one of those customized insta-created private dungeons. I arrive home 30 mins later, log in and notice all my guildies are inside a dungeon. Will I be able to join them? Guess not and that sux imo

It's PvE anyway, not like everyone is gonna waste their playtime farming items/cash after they hit 50. It will be fun for exping tho. Giv realm shared big epic dungeons imo, like DF but open 24/7 for everyone

 

[Troodon]

So let's say, my guild gathers a group of 7 ppl and enter one of those customized insta-created private dungeons. I arrive home 30 mins later, log in and notice all my guildies are inside a dungeon. Will I be able to join them? Guess not and that sux imo

Indeed, unless Mythic are smart enough to include some mechanism where people can be invited to a particular Instance.

 

[Ilienwyn]

Hmmm, maybe they work this out with group and cg/bg invites. As in 1.71 (if I remember correct) you can invite to group anyone ingame and not only someone close.

 

[Solstice]

So they invite me to their group while they're inside dungeon and I'm outside. Then the game calculates what dungeon instance are my groupmates in and when I enter/port to the dungeon it sends me to my groupmates dungeon instance?

I don't believe they're gonna include this feature. We're talking about Mythic here

 

[Sarcon]

welcome back from mars! and its 2 new classes for mid/hib 1 for alb btw

Grrr always on the poor albs well okey alb got 14 diffrent chars, hib 13 and mid 12, but still ;p

Giv realm shared big epic dungeons imo, like DF but open 24/7 for everyone

Oh ye thats gonna work so great NOT.... no one will ever be able to exp or actually kill a mob, without the fear of getting jumped by 20 enemy's that then take their kill thats on 5% hp... it will be one big rvr battleground where you really can't do anything but rvr.

(grrr why does alb rox on all other servers, they get nerfed generally, and where they already sux, they will even more :/)

 

[PinkyPink]

One of the 2 classes that hib/mid will get will be a female only class so i can see an amazon coming from somewhere or something else thats female only. Sounds interesting but more so that evil cleric is like a reaver with buffs kinda like the VW in the cloth sense too. Wonder if incconu's can be accolytes as after all they are the servants of arawn as that is where the zealot will come from.

 

[Raven]

banshee/warlok for hib, vampiir/valkeyre mid, zealot for alb.

banshee/valkeyre female only

 

[Ilienwyn]

Giv realm shared big epic dungeons imo, like DF but open 24/7 for everyone

We got that already (in a sense). They are the border dungeons
In Nf they get some nice drops from what I have seen