Your thoughts?

[Asq]

I think I missed out on something while being online a little less. Haven't found any threads about this new expansion (is it an expansion or merely a huge download again?) Your thoughts on the subject?

From: http://www.stratics.com/#newsitem1052172671,87895,

Mythic has announced the second of three expansions to be released for Dark Ages of Camelot this year, Dark Ages of Camelot: Trials of Atlantis. Here's the PR:
Mythic Entertainment to Release New Expansion TitleDark Age of Camelot: Trials of AtlantisTM in Q4 ‘03
FAIRFAX, Va. – May 5, 2003 – Mythic Entertainment, developer and publisher of the worldwide success Dark Age of Camelot, will immerse fans in a new expansion, Dark Age of Camelot: Trials of Atlantis, later this year. Designed around a series of exhilarating trials available to players of all realms, the expansion will challenge high level players to survive this all-new underwater domain. Rendered with a visually stunning new graphic engine, Trials of Atlantis will continue to keep Dark Age of Camelot at cutting edge of graphics in the MMORPG world.

“Once again Mythic is extending the world of Dark Age of Camelot,” Mark Jacobs, President and CEO, Mythic Entertainment, said. “Fans will be excited by the new quests, new races, Master Level system, not to mention our new graphic engine that will deliver sophisticated underwater and improved above ground visuals.”

Trials of Atlantis will introduce the ability for players to swim, discover and explore the submerged civilization. The expansion reveals that the citizens of Atlantis, foreseeing the demise of their society, built a series of Trials into the ruins of their civilization. The Trials were designed to challenge future cultures that discover and seek to explore the ancient lands. In Trials of Atlantis, the three Realms have each found a hidden portal to the fabled continent. Now it’s up to the populations of Hibernia, Midgard and Albion to take on the nine Trials and uncover the mysterious powers amongst the ruins. To suceed, players must master the perilous ocean and confront terrifying monsters, both on land and undersea.

Trials of Atlantis is designed to further challenge high-level players by introducing a Master Level advancement system. As a player moves sequentially through each of the nine Trials, they will achieve a corresponding Master Level. Emphasising group play, the Trials will have to be surmounted by groups of players journeying through the portal together. Players will be able to travel by boat, explore islands with ruins, swim to submerged dungeons and battle new creatures in underwater caves. Additionally, the expansion will add one new player race per Realm, dozens of new monsters to encounter, as well as new objects and treasures to uncover.

The game’s graphics engine will be upgraded to NDL’s state-of-the-art Gamebryo, which will enhance ground texturing; improving all landscapes in Dark Age of Camelot as well enabling visually advanced underwater scenes. The expansion will also add a new graphical tree system to make trees and undergrowth more realistic everywhere in the game. Trial of Atlantis will also offer a skinable user interface with more options for customization.

Dark Age of Camelot: Trials of Atlantis is slated to ship to retail in Q4 2003. The expansion will require the original Dark Age of Camelot as well as the Shrouded Isles expansion. This expansion, one of three slated for release this year, will further develop the compelling experience which has already come to define Dark Age of Camelot and its first expansion, Shrouded Isles and will only be available through retail. The other two free expansion packs, including the recently announced housing expansion Foundations, will be made available to all Dark Age of Camelot subscribers.

Currently Dark Age of Camelot has more than 220,000 paying subscribers. The popularity of the game is evidenced by the fact that more than 60,000 people play simultaneously at peak times.

Dark Age of Camelot: Trials of Atlantis will be distributed by Vivendi Universal Games in North America, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Dark Age of Camelot and Shrouded Isles were developed by Mythic Entertainment, co-published with Abandon Entertainment and distributed by Vivendi Universal Games.

Special thanks to Auz for the news. Be sure to check out Camelot Stratics for more information about Dark Age of Camelot.

 

[fanaticalace]

No new rvr content as far as i understand it =/
Otherwise: more of the same - in a new package.. for good and for worse

 

[alme]

Dunno what they can do to improve rvr tho ? New zones would be fun perhaps to lessen the zergs. But lets not forget we have HW that is barely used

 

[-Freezingwiz-]

Originally posted by alme
Dunno what they can do to improve rvr tho ? New zones would be fun perhaps to lessen the zergs. But lets not forget we have HW that is barely used

hehe givf a Water RvR zone... Mastery of watert4tehwin!!!11

ermmm not... ;P

 

[greenfingers]

better graphics engine = more realistic enviroment

new exp area, and as far as I see it, it is also some sort of RvR area, because all realms can sail to Isle of Atlantis, so it SHOULD be a EWUL high lvl exp area AND a RvR area too

 

[the_smurflord]

Originally posted by alme
Dunno what they can do to improve rvr tho ? New zones would be fun perhaps to lessen the zergs. But lets not forget we have HW that is barely used

The 3rd of the planned expansions is one dedicated to RvR, and is meant to completely overhaul it. It's planned for autumn this year, and will be a free download, like Foundations. This was in the announcement on the Herald a few weeks ago.

 

[Khalen]

"Retail" should ring a bell

 

[arrakeen]

Allways nice when a expansion is comming for a game, and i have liked the atlantis theme since i played "indiana Jones something with atlantis "

i just hope you can dive in all excisting water allso, would be nice to hide on the bottom of lakes while a Fg chasing you

 

[Galiryn]

Originally posted by arrakeen
Allways nice when a expansion is comming for a game, and i have liked the atlantis theme since i played "indiana Jones something with atlantis "

i just hope you can dive in all excisting water allso, would be nice to hide on the bottom of lakes while a Fg chasing you

ah, Indiana Jones and The Fate of Atlantis..... those were the days..

 

[Archeon]

Originally posted by Galiryn
ah, Indiana Jones and The Fate of Atlantis..... those were the days..

That was such a cool game, those beads we're a pain in the ass though. I ended up spending half an hour mass producing beads because i got so pissed off with having to get to an area and suddenly find i didn't have enough of the little bitches to make machine X work, to open door Y which lead to machine Z which did fuck all!!!!

Still, the drill-machine bit in atlantis was nice. And lets not forget the fist-fights with the Nazi's

 

[Cawr]

Oh funs - new gfx car ahoy!