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francis_baud · August 2017

So much magic flowing into our world now...

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What if it triggers a Veilstorm...

We may soon need stormwatch towers

http://camelotunchained.com/v3/its-abot-time-friday-august-4-2017/

time007 · August 2017

i dont get it

francis_baud · August 2017

time007 said:

i dont get it

In today's update we can see screenshots of bots casting tons of magical spells and also concept art of stormwatch towers. In CU a high concentration of magic may trigger a Veilstorm. Stormwatch towers will be used, I guess, to watch for incoming storms.

Realizer · August 2017

I can't wait till they start refining and getting a bit more permanent particle effects for spells. I'm definitely enjoying the direction of the architecture.

Kyleran · August 2017

I can't wait until players get to try it, instead of the bots having all the fun.

MrMelGibson · August 2017

DAoC was my first mmo. My first love I suppose you could say. I remember my Thane and miss him

. Can't wait to see what this mmo becomes.

MightyUnclean · August 2017

MrMelGibson said:

DAoC was my first mmo. My first love I suppose you could say. I remember my Thane and miss him . Can't wait to see what this mmo becomes.

DAoC was my second MMO, after EQ. It was the only MMO in which I've really enjoyed PvP. I loved my Midgard hunter and skald. I especially liked popping clothies out of stealth with the hunter. Cheap and dirty but oh-so-fun.

CrazKanuk · August 2017

Sooooooooo, it took 18 months to get some bots into the game? I believe they had bots before the KS concluded. Color me unimpressed. Glad to see that some aren't wasting their cynicism here, though

francis_baud · August 2017

CrazKanuk said:

Sooooooooo, it took 18 months to get some bots into the game? I believe they had bots before the KS concluded. Color me unimpressed. Glad to see that some aren't wasting their cynicism here, though

I agree that using bots isn't impressive in itself. What I find amazing is that the engine and server tech are performing exceptionally well even with all the stuff they've been adding (biome with dense forests, HDR/PBR, huge draw distance, hundreds of bots and players, projectiles, new VFX, new animations, server-side physics, etc.).

There are only a very few game engines that can support hundreds of players in a small area with decent performances (Forgelight, Spenefett, Unigine maybe), so I consider it a feat already, plus the fact that Unchained was developed by a small studio and on a tiny budget.

When CSE will release a gameplay video showing all what they've been accomplishing in the last year it's going to be easier to be impressed than simply looking at a few screenshots. =P

MarkJacobs · August 2017

francis_baud said:

time007 said:

i dont get it

In today's update we can see screenshots of bots casting tons of magical spells and also concept art of stormwatch towers. In CU a high concentration of magic may trigger a Veilstorm. Stormwatch towers will be used, I guess, to watch for incoming storms.

Correct. That is why the Stormwatch towers were first built. They will also serve a function in the released game.

Realizer said:

I can't wait till they start refining and getting a bit more permanent particle effects for spells. I'm definitely enjoying the direction of the architecture.

We're getting very close to that point. The new & improved VFX system is being put through its paces in the Big Bot tests and we have more improvements and tweaks going in after that. Once that happens, it will be basically Beta 1 ready and Mike can really start having fun with it.

Kyleran said:

I can't wait until players get to try it, instead of the bots having all the fun.

Hopefully, tomorrow afternoon. We ran a late internal BB test a couple of hours ago and everything is looking good.

MrMelGibson said:

DAoC was my first mmo. My first love I suppose you could say. I remember my Thane and miss him . Can't wait to see what this mmo becomes.

Thanks, me too!

MightyUnclean said:

MrMelGibson said:

DAoC was my first mmo. My first love I suppose you could say. I remember my Thane and miss him . Can't wait to see what this mmo becomes.

DAoC was my second MMO, after EQ. It was the only MMO in which I've really enjoyed PvP. I loved my Midgard hunter and skald. I especially liked popping clothies out of stealth with the hunter. Cheap and dirty but oh-so-fun.

CrazKanuk said:

Sooooooooo, it took 18 months to get some bots into the game? I believe they had bots before the KS concluded. Color me unimpressed. Glad to see that some aren't wasting their cynicism here, though

Actually, that's not true. What we showed at the Kickstarter, and we were very clear about that, was the ability to render a lot of NPCs on the client side, we did not call them BOTs and they were not networked. BOTs, on the other hand, are remote, fully networked and autonomous PC clients. There is no game in the world that has shown that they can handle 2K PC players in a small space. The closest was SOE with the Planetside games' engine but even then, they weren't doing server-side physics (like we are) and they topped out at 1,158 (http://www.pcgamer.com/planetside-2-breaks-world-record-for-most-players-in-an-fps-battle/). So, since we had a test last week, with Backers, that went well above that number, I consider it pretty impressive for an Alpha engine. OTOH, your mileage may vary.

francis_baud said:

CrazKanuk said:

Sooooooooo, it took 18 months to get some bots into the game? I believe they had bots before the KS concluded. Color me unimpressed. Glad to see that some aren't wasting their cynicism here, though

I agree that using bots isn't impressive in itself. What I find amazing is that the engine and server tech are performing exceptionally well even with all the stuff they've been adding (biome with dense forests, HDR/PBR, huge draw distance, hundreds of bots and players, projectiles, new VFX, new animations, server-side physics, etc.).

There are only a very few game engines that can support hundreds of players in a small area with decent performances (Forgelight, Spenefett, Unigine maybe), so I consider it a feat already, plus the fact that Unchained was developed by a small studio and on a tiny budget.

When CSE will release a gameplay video showing all what they've been accomplishing in the last year it's going to be easier to be impressed than simply looking at a few screenshots. =P

Thanks, and you are correct. While I don't expect we'll be the only team to do this in the near future, we are certainly already, at least engine-wise, at another level of performance on both the client and server from where we were last year. This is especially true when you factor in the new animation system (which has a few quite interesting elements) and the improved VFX system.

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