I know you don't have an ETA yet...but a few questions.

1) Are you going to have a beta before going live?

2) If so any idea how long the beta will last?

3) Will Alchemy be fully implemented? I know Genesis is missing a lot of recipes.

4) Genesis pretty much killed the Battlegrounds off. Any plans on giving people incentives for playing in the BG's? Extra xp maybe while leveling to encourage people to play there and create more RvR? I always thought BG's should offer xp above and beyond the rest of the game so that people will level in them more and that gives us more action until we hit the big boy RvR. And plz remove /rp off.

5) Any idea what you will do for cross realming? Hopefully put at least a 1 hour timer or remove completely would be my first choice.

1. Yes
2. No
3. I believe we had all alchemy recipes implemented on Uthgard 1.0 (for our patch level)
4. I don't believe there will be any special incentive on Uthgard. They seemed very popular on Uthgard 1.0 without any.
5. We are discussing this, however a conclusion has not been made. We will let you know.

Alpha beta testing phases? wtf this sounds for me like this is going to take atleast half till one year this server is on again instead the next months ...

btw will there be again a wipe after the beta phase ? for the testers i mean.
and is it only a reset or will all accounts be deleted? i mean y have to create char names again?

best would be a forking testserver like it was on old days that way the players dont have to wait like this.
but "some" are the meaning they can give a ****** about the community cause they can do it
this is nothing new on uthgard.

atleast ty for giving infos in forum again to the few gms here

Oh not to take away from gamebuilding time but one other question...

I love old RA's but with old RA's classes like Reaver/Thane and a few other light tanks don't get charge and become almost useless for big boy RvR. Will the light tanks like these be viable or is it like Genesis? Without charge or something comparable people play these for BG's but no one wants them in groups for high lvl stuff.

If I recall correctly, there was mention of the old frontiers battlegrounds map being put back in to Uthgard. That is incentive enough for me to play there. The NF Battlegrounds were mostly overly-technical and bizarre mistakes. I always preferred the old frontiers battleground. Either way though, people enjoy leveling up in a battleground, people will be there. I only played there for about 2 hours but from what I remember Genesis was a mess, no comparison to this.

PS to staff: thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou and thankyou.

Thanks for the Update.

I like the fact that RvR doenst work actually, but i think RvR is the Endgame of DAoC so far.
I dont really get why you spend so much time on things like "pathfinding" of Mobs and stuff.
who cares ? exactly one year... getting RvR and stuff working will take you a lot of time i think.

I know, that this is just the place for cheering to the gods, but i think some kind of criticism would be legal too.

Camelot Unchained is in Alpha actually ( far away from being playable like DAoC ) but Keep in mind, that
that could be a really "playerrobbing" Opponent.

I dont wanna say.. start the Buggy Server, but just figure out what is really important and dont loose time on polishing things nobody probably really Needs.

Thx
Larunja

I could care less about Camelot Unchanged. Maybe if Matt Firor was in it also but Jacobs has proven himself to be an utter prat over the years. No thanks. Uthgard will be just about the only thing I play, and I am working to bring some newbie playerbase to it, some of my friends will never see me otherwise

One question, will the transition from beta to live include a character wipe or will we be playing on with the same characters from beta?

I am fairly certain you can expect beta characters to be wiped before launch. We don't want anyone to spend the beta farming money/xp to get an advantage of the relaunch.

Is there ANYTHING that you want player input on this time around?

Zetetic wrote:I could care less about Camelot Unchanged. Maybe if Matt Firor was in it also but Jacobs has proven himself to be an utter prat over the years. No thanks. Uthgard will be just about the only thing I play, and I am working to bring some newbie playerbase to it, some of my friends will never see me otherwise

One question, will the transition from beta to live include a character wipe or will we be playing on with the same characters from beta?

This. I expect Camelot Unchained to bring a lot of people in and within a year a lot of people will leave. Decent idea but I think the complete lack of PvE will turn away a lot of players during slow times.

It's not even the fact that there's no PVE, but that Certain things which made DAoC great are being questioned. CU is just a roller coaster ride everyone's on just waiting to crash at the end. I see so many things that where promised in Warhammer that are being discussed in CU. The simple fact that CC is questioned when your talking about large XvsX fights is retarded. These are all people who have been influenced by Warhammer, GW's, and ESO.... We all know those games bring nothing about what we love in DAoC. MJ was not the brains in DAoCs creation, for this reason my expectations are pretty low....

Hoooray, thanks for the update and all your hard work!

cheers

I heard the Mids (Vikings) even zerg in CU too.

Austerim wrote:I heard the Mids (Vikings) even zerg in CU too.

Yeah .

CU will fail like any other of those oooooh-so-great games did (in our opinion)... no matter who produces it, times have changed. but there will be at least something new for around 2-3 weeks as usual

edit: their newsletter spam is sooooo annoying