Everquest Next Landmark Alpha

[BloodOmen]

Kicked off last night, been playing it all night and without going into detail for NDA reasons I can simply say this - worth the wait, amazing game even in its alpha stage.

 

[Agell]

NDA is now lifted but servers down ;/

 

[BloodOmen]

NDA is now lifted but servers down ;/

Aye, they're updating it atm as there were a fair few issues with people losing claims today. When the servers are back up i'll be streaming it though over @ www.twitch.tv/bloodomeneu

 

[old.Tohtori]

Foes Mark Jacobs know you're cheating on him

 

[BloodOmen]

Foes Mark Jacobs know you're cheating on him

In my defence CU isn't in Alpha yet lol

 

[Tilda]

How is it then? NDA is lifted!!

 

[BloodOmen]

Will be streaming it when the servers go back up.

and its brilliant.

 

[BloodOmen]

annnnd up again, lets see if it stays up this time

 

[Everz]

Will be streaming it when the servers go back up.

and its brilliant.

Is it like EQ1?

 

[BloodOmen]

Is it like EQ1?

no

 

[BloodOmen]

gonna get some sleep, server keeps spazzing out so i assume this will go on all night.

 

[BloodOmen]

stream going live - wont be any mic today tho as son is running around screaming like kids do.

 

[Raven]

What are the F2P mechanics like? Pay2Win or just fluff?

 

[Agell]

At the moment it's gathering/crafting only... think voxel based Minecraft using the PS2 engine. There are no mobs or quests, but they are supposedly incoming before closed beta starts (No later than end of March). You can make things and if you like them you can create templates. If the templates are good enough, SOE may buy them to put into EQN, or you may be able to sell them to other players (tbc). Diving back in again as servers are semi stable (after a slight faux pas when they realised that the 2 servers (read instances) were not synchronised and they had to rewrite some code.

 

[Athan]

 

[BloodOmen]

From a forum post by someone who is quite far on tier wise

"It doesn't matter what you make your house/castle/fortress out of as you can paint materials over other materials later on, the materials that are currently on the blocks will be refunded to your pack when doing this"

Nice to know

 

[BloodOmen]

SOE scraps 32bit support for Landmark and Everquest Next


"Hey folks,

It's just not realistic for us to pursue 32-bit OS any longer.

Landmark (and EQN) will be 64-bit OS games *only*.

If your machine is a 32-bit OS and you purchased a Founder's Pack, then you only have two options:
a) Upgrade
b) Request a refund from Customer Service

We're sorry, but it's just not technically feasible for us to pursue 32-bit OS any longer. We apologize for the disappointment should you choose to not upgrade."

 

[old.Tohtori]

"Technically feasible", or "financially feasible"?

 

[Raven]

Does anyone still use a 32bit OS?

They probably don't want to spend time fucking about with RAM restrictions.

 

[Mabs]

to be fair, the last 32bit OS was what ? XP ? everything beyond that comes in 64 bit and they dont support XP any more

and if youre a gamer you cant really complain they arent supporting years old tech :x

 

[Poag]

to be fair, the last 32bit OS was what ? XP ? everything beyond that comes in 64 bit and they dont support XP any more

and if youre a gamer you cant really complain they arent supporting years old tech :x

They come in 64bit. But Win7 is commonly packaged onto pre built PCs in the 32bit variety. PCWorld and co do it so they can gouge you twice for a upgrade.

New RAM sir? Excellent...well you'll need a new OS aswell!

 

[Hawkwind]

I helped my mum purchase a HP machine last year and specified a Win 7 64 bit build. Of course it came as 32 bit and then had to argue with them about getting the 64 bit build disk. I think quite a few people will get caught out by this.

 

[Mabs]

They come in 64bit. But Win7 is commonly packaged onto pre built PCs in the 32bit variety. PCWorld and co do it so they can gouge you twice for a upgrade.

New RAM sir? Excellent...well you'll need a new OS aswell!

well yea, but most gamers switched to 64 with vista/7 tho so it became the norm for people who are bothered by it, rather than random members of the public

 

[Poag]

Most informed gamers will have yes.

But I never ceased to be amazed by the shear number of uninformed gamers trying to run games on things that are ancient. Inspecting the forums of pretty much any game always yields dozens of "Can ym PC run this" threads with terrible PC specs

 

[old.Tohtori]

I hate elitist gamers more who scoff at anyone who doesn't know PC limitations, ram needs and which p is best for which dpi etc and just wants to play a game.

The true master race people help -anyone- if they can, without judgement. Those who don't, create console fanboys. Shame and poxes upon you

 

[Litmus]

first i've heard of this game, is it just pve?.. any trailers?

 

[BloodOmen]

first i've heard of this game, is it just pve?.. any trailers?

It's basically Minecraft with modern graphics + more customization options for buildings etc.

 

[Everz]

Most informed gamers will have yes.

But I never ceased to be amazed by the shear number of uninformed gamers trying to run games on things that are ancient. Inspecting the forums of pretty much any game always yields dozens of "Can ym PC run this" threads with terrible PC specs

And then people wonder why console gaming is so popular.

 

[BloodOmen]

And then people wonder why console gaming is so popular.

Everquest Next is coming to the PS4, dunno about Landmark, can't imagine why it wouldn't as well though.

 

[BloodOmen]

Video update of coming features - sooo good.