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From Rothgar on the EQ2 Forums: Just a heads up on the change coming with GU60. You will now be able to change your spoken language on Nagafen (and Vox). This will enable you to communicate to the other team via /shout and /say commands. By default, your language will continue to be Lucanic (evil) or Antonican (good). If you don’t change your language, the other team will not understand you.
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A lot of us have been putting 2 and 2 together and getting that Multi-housing would be included in the forthcoming Game Update 60. So many of us were sent into a tizzy when the Game Update 60 preview omitted multi-housing and today when Zoltaroth, wrangler of multi-housing code, posted this: Housing will likely not be released as part of a GU. It will be a seperate update with its own set of notes etc. Fortunately, our interpretations that multi-housing was now far off in the distance were unfounded. Multi-housing is something we’ll get when it’s ready, and it’s...
Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) today announced the landmark 60th game update for the iconic massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), EverQuest®II (EQII) The Children of War. Scheduled to arrive to the world of Norrath on May 17, 2011, the update will continue the storyline introduced to players in the recently released EQII: Destiny of Velious expansion pack as part of the Age’s End Prophecy saga and deliver content for players of all types, including battlegrounds and PvP improvements. From April 14 to April 21, 2011, former players are also invited to log back in and experience the unparalleled...
You’ll recall SmokeJumper‘s posting on April 5th about the notes/plans/announcement for Game Update 60…. The GU 60 notes we post later this week should set the pace a bit. Amnerys updated us today with the explanation for the hangup: The press release is going out today and I’ll have an article for you this afternoon with more info. Yay! It was originally planned to go out on 4/5 but Marketing requested a small delay to align the timing with other things going on. and just to confirm, SmokeJumper had a 1 word answer when asked when the notes will...
From Dave “SmokeJumper” Georgeson on the EQ2 Forums: So, you’re probably curious how EQII will be growing and changing in 2011, right? Well, it’s finally time to share. This year is all about content and entertainment and we intend to give you plenty of both. The following outlines some of the broad strokes to get you thinking about what’s coming…and possibly just a little excited, as well. First of all, if you’re a “Destiny of Velious” owner, you’re going to be *extremely* happy that you made that purchase. Why? Because DoV is going to be the biggest, best expansion...
Anobabylon from Oasis posted some questions about multi-housing coming in Game Update 60 and SmokeJumper provided some answers: Q: While you are putting in the ability to own more than one home, could you please also add in the ability to share homes with other characters? A: Prestige Homes allow this already. Add each character to the others’ trustee lists, then link the homes together via portals. Voila! Now your homes are linked and you can edit them freely. Q: Change *Guild Port Doors* to be heirloom/attunable (heirloom selfishly because my main character buys all the doors for my...
As always, this is subject to change based on any number of code issues, delays, etc. but we now have a soft timeframe for when Game Update 60, or at least the Multi-housing (the ability of 1 character to have multiple houses) will be hitting the Test server. It sounds like it may be on Test for several weeks for players to test everything out and make sure there are no problems with houses and guild halls. Undoubtedly a change like this requires major alterations to the database. We haven’t got anything concrete how what changes will be made...
EQ2 PvP Guru Olihin has given PvPers a taste of Game Update 60: GU60 will bring lots of changes to PvP. Fame is being reworked Fame and title gains will now have their own EXP BAR, no more trying to figure out how long or why you gain/lost a title New armor and adornments Ongoing balance changes (this will never stop and will never be perfect in any realistic way) New Battleground Enhancements to the Matchmaker for Battlegrounds Cross faction communication There will be more details as we get closer to GU60.
In the run up towards Game Update 60, there are several things of note regarding Player Housing and Graphics that we’ve been meaning to cover. These include House Item Limit Expanders, Prestige Houses, the Network Status Page, and also a tip of the hat to Ryan “Imago-Quem” F. who has moved on to PlanetSide 2 and incoming graphics guru Alex “GermInUSA” who continues to polish up the EQ2 graphics engine while adding new features.
In response to a concise Berserker Class Issues post-Velious thread created by Bremer, Xelgad said that we should see some of these fixes hopefully before but at the latest by Game Update 60: Hey guys, thanks for the thread! We’ve got a bunch of quick fixes for these issues on the way. They’ll be live by GU60 at the latest. Most of the changes are pretty straightforward and some are exactly as suggested here. and later in the thread, Xelgad posted that he was able to make Death’s Door a more prominent effect to allow healers to more easily...
From Windslasher on the EQ2 Forums Okay, I have it on pretty good authority that a solo shard quest is on the way. Probably GU 60. It will not have anything whatsoever to do with public quests, however.
From Olihin on the EQ2 Forums: Greetings, With GU60, a new battleground will be added that will allow for a 18 vs. 18 combat setting. We are currently working on possible additions to the achievements earned while in a battleground and we would like to hear some thoughts on what you may want to see. We will also evaluate the current achievements and look for ways to reward those that have earned or are in the process of earning them. We believe that someone that can help control all the towers while at the same time having the highest...
Believe it or not SmokeJumper posted a bit about Game Update 60, which will be anywhere from 1-3 months after the Destiny of Velious expansion launches. It’s expected to have some Battlegrounds and PvP tweaks. His post also talks about EQ2X marketing and EQ2X PvP servers: Answers (but you might not like them): 1) We haven’t started spending marketing cash for Extended yet. That’s slated for January. The reason I bring that up is until we bring more people into Extended, we have no plans to open up a PvP server because too many servers dilutes the population and...