Instances?

Musket-Squid

Seen a few of the trailers and dev  ones too. Just wondering if there are going to be instanced zones in the game or instanced battle grounds. I hope not because theat would be a big game breaker for me.

ericbelser

While I agree with you, I expect that TSW will be heavily instanced/phased. FunCom is in love with the concept and have always been one of the companies driving it forward.

Unshra

 

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Originally posted by Bruise187

Seen a few of the trailers and dev  ones too. Just wondering if there are going to be instanced zones in the game or instanced battle grounds. I hope not because theat would be a big game breaker for me.

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I am not aware of any official word as of yet, however Ragnar has made it clear that he does not like instancing so take that for what it's worth.



http://www.massiveonlinegamer.com/announcements/658-the-secret-world-qaa-part-3

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Q2: How will transitions between zones be handled? Seamless, loading screen or other?

Ragnar: As seamlessly as possible. Not a big fan of loading screens myself, so as much as we can avoid it, we will.

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Edit: I wanted to add that we do know that there will be hub that are instanced not unlike DCUO and and dungeons will be instanced like most other MMOs. The world though is something they continue to say is being designed as "open" and "seamless". We will have to wait and see as more information is released to the populace.

MMO.Maverick

Originally posted by Unshra

 

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Originally posted by Bruise187

Seen a few of the trailers and dev  ones too. Just wondering if there are going to be instanced zones in the game or instanced battle grounds. I hope not because theat would be a big game breaker for me.

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I am not aware of any official word as of yet, however Ragnar has made it clear that he does not like instancing so take that for what it's worth.



http://www.massiveonlinegamer.com/announcements/658-the-secret-world-qaa-part-3

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Q2: How will transitions between zones be handled? Seamless, loading screen or other?

Ragnar: As seamlessly as possible. Not a big fan of loading screens myself, so as much as we can avoid it, we will.

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Edit: I wanted to add that we do know that there will be hub that are instanced not unlike DCUO and and dungeons will be instanced like most other MMOs. The world though is something they continue to say is being designed as "open" and "seamless". We will have to wait and see as more information is released to the populace.

I wonder how they plan to do it. There's a reason some MMO companies choose 'stylised' graphics for their world, all the highly detailed graphical worlds have to resort to some limitations to be able to show their MMO world while still being playable. Even if MMO companies want to, it's very hard to have a graphically highly detailed MMO world while still making it completely seamless and stable running.

 

On the other hand, Vanguard which is a lot larger than WoW had a seamless world and pretty detailed graphics for its time. ArcheAge, which has a seamless word as well also looks to be a graphically highly detailed world.