Do you at all see the irony of you making a "welcoming space" and then ban anyone who says anything negative to where the unofficial subreddit has 5x the weekly visitors than this one? Seriously...do you?
Its a subreddit for a game we were excited about and now we just have a steaming bowl full of anal soft serve in front of us instead of a game.
As a returning player here is my feedback on the PTR... It hardly feels any different. It feels like you just turned off all the crafting. That's basically it. I'm wondering why you'd even announce a wipe and devastate live servers for this. To me, as a player, it doesn't feel different really at all.
[Edit: Here is more traditional feedback (on Warrior) if its more helpful: 1) The charge (Storm): when you run out of range to use it as an interrupt the mob will sometime TP to the location the charge initiated from. 2) The Interrupt (Bash): DO NOT keep this as a 75% failure rate. What player with a brain would ever use a 75% failure rate skill? None, so you're training new players that interrupts aren't useful. False! Don't force noobs to randomize literally the most important combat effect . It doesn't make any sense. They just wont use it and so won't learn their rotation.]
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For some time now, players who enjoy robe-wearing classes have given us feedback that our spellcaster robes just didn’t look very good. We agreed with that assessment. We’re pleased to announce that as part of the Combat and Progression update, we will be doing something about that.
To fix the problem, we needed to rework the way we are building armor for player characters. The old way we were building armor was contributing to a number of visual problems when trying to make it work across different races, many of which our community has reported as bugs over the last year. Full-length robes are especially tricky due to the way that they interact with player animations. No one wants to see their character’s knees clipping through the robe as they run. At the same time, we also needed to make sure we set things up in a way that allowed us to create a large variety of different looks without having to spend many hours within the animation department trying to account for each and every style variation. Our new approach uses a series of overlapping clothing/armor meshes that we can show or hide as needed to achieve the look that we want, while still keeping everything skinned properly to support character animations, and that still plays nicely with texel density and everyone’s framerate, especially in situations like raids where you might have many different players on your screen, all wearing different armor. These systemic improvements will apply to all the player armor that we create moving forward, and all of our existing armor will be getting updated as soon as we are able.
Here is a sneak peek at some of the new robes. These are out-of-game renders, but alongside all the gameplay changes, we are working on bringing these into the game and getting everything hooked up so that we can start using them.
I apologise if this has already been mentioned, and I accept game is still in its teething stages. I cannot help but to think though there would be a tremendous amount of similarities to Everquest (The original), As yet I have only logged in as a Summoner also known as a Mage in EQ, but the spells, Pets even sound on achieving another level is the same. I very much enjoyed playing Everquest through the 1990s, and made a pledge to this game some years ago so will not talk it down. I look forward to seeing what Pantheon has for the future of the game and wish it well
Today’s PTR Patch Notes are located here.
The PTR launched last week and many of you jumped in and found a lot of bugs we could get to work on. Unfortunately, we were unable to have the Steam client available for the first week, but that has now been rectified, and we are happy to have our Steam players join us on the PTR this week. Later today, Steam players will be able to access the PTR directly from their Steam Library. It will be listed as a separate title called “Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen (Public Test Realm).” If you don’t see the PTR in your game list, please head to the store page for Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen on Steam and click on Request Access for the PTR. You will be automatically granted access.
The PTR server comes down today at 7am PDT and will be back up a few hours later. There is no exact downtime estimation this week.
In the meantime, we wanted to say thank you to our players who have been able to jump in so far and start providing bug reports and feedback on the level 1-10 experience. It is invaluable, and it has already enabled us to find several immediate problems we need to fix. As we keep moving forward to the production release of the Combat and Progression Update, we’ll be using player feedback to help dial in everything and make sure that new systems and mechanics are working before it comes to the regular play servers. We also have plans to leverage the Avendyr realm (the PTR server) for testing some of the server improvements we have planned for later this year, so even once the Combat and Progression update is out, there will be more things to test in fairly short order.
To set everyone’s expectations, our immediate focus this past week was on fixing bugs. We successfully identified and fixed several issues that were breaking some low-level class abilities, and we are updating the server with those fixes today. As part of that update, we are performing a character wipe so that we can generate a new baseline with those fixes in place and use that information to help drive tuning for our lower-level content. In the upcoming weeks, we will be enabling access to the remaining classes as they become ready, and we will also begin lifting the level cap as we work through tuning everything. We may do a few more character wipes on the testing realm before it is all done to help make sure that everything is getting dialed in properly, but this is part of the testing process to make sure that we get it right when it comes out to the regular play servers.
Of course, we’re not only working on bug fixes and tuning.
We have a few new things queued up for you all that will be coming to the Public Test Realm when we update it next. Here are the highlights. You can access the complete patch notes here.
Here are some screenshots to show you what we mean:
Our goal here is to give you the flexibility to configure your UI in the way that works best for you. While we’ll still have a default UI layout, ultimately we know that everyone’s preference (and monitors) are different, and we want to try and accommodate that. As we update additional parts of the UI we plan to try and leverage this same philosophy as much as possible.
Thank you for joining us in Week 2 of the PTR. See you in game!
