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Title: Game mechanic questions Post by: Cheddar on November 14, 2006, 06:33:15 PM Figured it would be nice to get a fresh thread of questions going, since we have an influx of nooblets.
What is mood, hope, and dread? I noticed it tonight for the first time, and was wondering what the hell it was for. Title: Re: Game mechanic questions Post by: CmdrSlack on November 14, 2006, 11:52:19 PM Has anyone checked out this beta player's guide that is in the LOTRO directory? I need to read some kind of manual, it seems. Is it going to be worth reading or will it make my brain hurt?
Title: Re: Game mechanic questions Post by: Trippy on November 14, 2006, 11:55:53 PM There's a player's guide?
Title: Re: Game mechanic questions Post by: Arthur_Parker on November 15, 2006, 12:30:53 AM The beta manual is in the install directory, it's about 7-9 pages long from memory and doesn't really have much in it.
Mood, Hope and Dread have just been added in the latest patch. I believe they affect your stats, as your stats affect your skills, higher Dread (after a recent death) just weakens you a bit. The major change I have noticed is area based elements to this, Rivendell has a positive effect on your character, this might boast stats slightly (I'll have to check) so eventually it might give a small bonus to crafting criticals. At moment there's a couple of localised areas in the North Downs where Dread badly affects your character, you are stunned for about 4 seconds and cower in fear, this repeats every few seconds, it's really annoying. The areas are SW of Fornost and on the road to Angmar, it's clearly something they will adjust in future patches. The Dread doesn't affect the whole area as if you manage to get past the gates on the road to Angmar the small part of the road beyond that you can enter is not affected. The most useful tip I have for game mechanics is that the delete key highlights the closest clickable object, so if you are looking for an object to collect for a quest, running around and taping "delete" then doing /follow helps a lot. It's useful for finding chests in the wilderness as well. Title: Re: Game mechanic questions Post by: Trippy on November 15, 2006, 12:52:00 AM The beta manual is in the install directory, it's about 7-9 pages long from memory and doesn't really have much in it. There's the Alpha 2 quick start guide but that just has an explanation of the basic controls.Title: Re: Game mechanic questions Post by: Arthur_Parker on November 15, 2006, 01:12:30 AM http://beta.lotro.com/showthread.php?t=449
Quote The Beta User Guide is located in your LOTRO directory. Assuming you used the default directory, it should be located here: C:\Program Files\Turbine\The Lord of the Rings Online\en Yeah there's not much in it, but Turbine refer to it as the Beta user guide, so if there's another user guide I don't know of it. |