Feldon
More of a quick summary of this panel… Lots of clips of Othmir. Videos of enemies and friendlies. Showed bump maps and texture maps of Othmir. With the rewrite of mounts, they no longer have to make 42 animations of each mount. Now a mount can be done in 3-5 weeks. First saw this on the prowler. Part of this was to prevent tails going through mounts and fix problems with capes. For example when Tom added Othmir on a t-Rex as a demo he didn’t have to make animation of how the othmir moves on the mount. It...
Day: August 6, 2010
Live blog from Fan Faire with q&a on EverQuest II.
Sorry for blurry pics. Here’s what I got. I also recorded the first part on video, but didn’t get the Q&A. 
EverQuest 2: Destiny of Velious PART ONE This is part 1 of Velious.
The #1 reaction SOE has been receiving from players re: station cash, rmt, and free to play has been a resounding Not in My Back Yard. We commented about this on Wednesday. And this may need to change if we want to have eq2x to eq2 transfers. If there is one thing I know about EQ2. If enough players ask for it, and it will make SOE money, they will add it. So who knows they might put Beastlord class on stationcash. 
No doubt the best part of Fan Faire is talking to the developers. So far I’ve gotten to ask Rothgar both serious and geeky questions about the new UI, server upgrades, guild halls, and of course free-to-play. I’ve made no secret of my concerns about the logistics of free to play seemingly cutting off the flow of new players to the live subscription side of EQ2.