Mythos

Here are few news tidbits I've gleaned from the official boards regarding Overworld:

State of the Overworld:

tbaldree:

There will be a lot of that jiggering around as part of this process.

This is honestly pretty raw - we assembled it as fast as humanly possible, while still trying to do a reasonably decent job of getting it together. We expect to move, mess with, and alter things as a result of the feedback we get from you guys on the Test Center.

That's all sort of the point of the Test Center anyway - to beat this up a bit and adjust where required before we lob it into the real Beta.

Mounts:

tbaldree:

It shall be

I can 99.9% guarantee you that we'll have mounts too

tbaldree:

Quote:

Can you say whether mounts will be an item purchasable in the cash-shop, or are they available to everyone?

If we have mounts, I can guarantee that there will be RMT purchaseable ones. That's not to say that there won't be 'normal' currency ones. I just don't know.

At the end of the day though, since currency will be tradeable, everybody will be able to have one no matter what.

Follow Camera:

tbaldree:

The 'follow' cam will be getting a ground up overhaul. I just didn't have time to do it for this initial Test Center release -

tbaldree:

Already speeding 'em up

As mentioned in my initial notes, the cam is going to get a complete overhaul.

Travel time:

tbaldree:

It sounds like your primary issue at present is travel time - at least that's what I'm hearing.

In the previous Beta you still had to walk to get to a dungeon - it never warped you straight there, so I want to pin down which pieces of travel seem the most tedious to you.

My current beefs as a dev are -

1) - dying takes you back to your last shrine, and we haven't put back in the guy that you can pay to warp back to the floor.

2) - Not enough anchorshrines close to the Rune Gates. I think I want a Runegate right in town.

On the other hand, when I'm in a party now, I can open a Recall charm and my party members can meet me directly, instead of having to trek to the clearing.

Any details and specifics you can provide would be helpful.

In a nutshell, Overworld is brand-spanking new, but very raw, which means it'll be a while before it's released to the beta server.  This also means Open Beta probably isn't going to happen very soon (soon being in the next couple of weeks).

Since Overworld is pretty small, mounts won't be required.  As non-essential "fun" items, they'll be available through RMT.

~Ripper

There aren't any invites anymore - it's totally closed until open beta.  Thanks for hijacking my thread, btw...

~Ripper

I think they are going to release a solid game. They listens to the community, the few flaws are going to get ironed out.

Any news regarding the OB date? This game seems very promising and the fact the devs really listen to the players' suggestions is a major + in my book ;) So...when we'll be able to test it (yup, I'm not one of the lucky CB testers) ?

Hmm, that is very interesting.  Could be worth swinging in to check out some of the changes to kill time til WAR comes out.