Feldon
This year, Fan Faire has eschewed the different levels of access to Fan Faire in favor of a single All-Access ticket price of $129 with an early bird discount of $10. From EverQuest2.com: Get ready to celebrate this summer at SOE’s annual Fan Faire with your fellow gamers and the creators of your favorite SOE games! Register now and join us at Fan Faire, the prime time to meet up with old friends and make plenty of new ones while getting a behind-the-scenes look at your favorite SOE titles, participate in live game tournaments, experience live quests, attend developer...
Day: April 6, 2011
GameInformer has landed an exclusive video EQ2 character artist Christopher Atkins. This time lapse video condenses 6 days of work down to 7 minutes of video showing Yelinak being built from the ground up to full bump map and textures. Time Lapse Video: Creating An Everquest II Boss @ GameInformer
Kwill
The Storm Gorge Public Quests are currently denying eligible participants the ability to loot a chest, apparently as a result of the recent changes to weed out PQ slackers. Gninja has acknowledged today there is a problem: We are aware of the problem and are working to fix it. In the meantime, players are reporting lag and the possibility you will not get to loot a chest even if you are participating fully.
Bunji has attempted to clear up some of the confusion about EQ2 Launcher/Updaters: Seems like there is some confusion on the current patchers being offered. The two LP3 choices can be found here: http://launch.soe.com/eq2/ The “Full” version uses PAKs and behaves just like the original LP1 patcher (just has a different skin). The “Streaming” version doesn’t use PAKs (instead streams down needed content into an “assetcache” folder). Currently, if you run multiple clients on the streaming client it will create a second set of assets. What distinguishes them as LP3 patchers is the skin they use. LP1 = Original...
So we’ve been thinking about last night’s Producer’s Letter which lays out a little bit of the future of EQ2. Our thoughts: Think about every quest, NPC, and clicky item in Freeport’s 10 subzones (North Freeport, South Freeport, East Freeport, West Freeport, Beggar’s Court, Stonestair Byway, Temple Street, Longshadow Alley, Big Bend, Scale Yard). Now imagine having to relocate them to a new zone/map/artwork, test them all, and make sure they all still work. Now revamp any flavor or quest text which is long since obsolete such as NPCs wondering when Kunark, Velious, Odus, etc. are going to be...
Fastidious crafters took advantage of yesterday’s update and trundled back to the daily Tradeskill Group instances for a chance to loot one of the two volumes of the new Far Seas Strategic Pricing 3rd Edition. As with past editions, these recipe books allow crafters to create shard armor and jewelry for players with a reduced number of tokens/shards. Interestingly, neither players nor crafters must have faction with the Ry’Gorr to make or receive this armor or jewelry. They do however require the designated dungeon-dropped crystals. With yesterday’s Test Update Notes, we found out that the current Velious shard armor...
Several of us have bugged out Blor Greatbasher‘s repeatable quests in such a way that he won’t offer quests anymore. This is rather frustrating as there are few ways to earn faction with the ever-important Ry’Gorr, who hold the best adornments and shard armor in Velious. Today brings an update from Kaitheel about Blor’s quests: Good news! I had seen a few reports about issues with Blor Greatbasher’s quest line at the Ry’Gorr Keep, like this thread, but was never able to find a cause or to even reproduce the issue, myself. Thankfully though, with the help of a...