Camelot Unchained

[Rendakor]

Agreed, much better this way. It's further along than I expected; this might actually be a thing one day.

[Draegan]

Graphics remind me of EQ2.

[LC]

How did they manage to make so many terrible looking races.

[HaemishM]

Did you never played Dark Age of Camelot? 

[LC]

Did you never played Dark Age of Camelot? 

I thought it was just the graphics of that period. I do remember them looking bad. The race I picked looked like a cross of Homer Simpson and Cletus the slack jawed yokel.

[Nebu]

I thought it was just the graphics of that period. I do remember them looking bad. The race I picked looked like a cross of Homer Simpson and Cletus the slack jawed yokel.

Ah, you played Albion.  Perfect description. 

I actually liked DAoC's look.  I wouldn't mind if Unchained looked similar so long as the game plays well.

[Fordel]

DaoC looked fine for the time it was in. You gotta remember just how fucking OLD DaoC was (is?) at this point.

[luckton]

DaoC looked fine for the time it was in. You gotta remember just how fucking OLD DaoC was (is?) at this point.

Is. All 10 die hards are still paying a sub and playing monthly.

Right now.

In 2015.

 

[Nebu]

I played quite a lot last year on an emulation server... for free.  It was still a fun game, but obviously dated and with its own problems.

[LC]

Ah, you played Albion.  Perfect description. 

I actually liked DAoC's look.  I wouldn't mind if Unchained looked similar so long as the game plays well.

Actually i think it was Hibernia.

[Lantyssa]

You're smoking something, Nebu.  DAoC looked old even when it first came out.

[Ingmar]

I don't think I agree with that. I remember showing it to some people and getting 'wow, these online games are starting to look pretty good' type reactions.

[Trippy]

It looked better than EQ.

[Mandella]

DaoC looked fine for the time it was in. You gotta remember just how fucking OLD DaoC was (is?) at this point.

Is. All 10 die hards are still paying a sub and playing monthly.

Right now.

In 2015.

 

Holy crap! Not only are they still running, they posted a fairly funny April Fool's joke this year (pretty sure it was this year, I checked the date this time)...

http://darkageofcamelot.com/article/announcing-dark-age-camelots-newest-expansion

[HaemishM]

It looked better than EQ.

This. It was a damn sight better than the EQ look at the time, and despite the upped polygons, it looked better than the upgraded graphics engine of Shadows of Luclin (the cats on the moon expansion).

[Goreschach]

It looked better than EQ.

This. It was a damn sight better than the EQ look at the time, and despite the upped polygons, it looked better than the upgraded graphics engine of Shadows of Luclin (the cats on the moon expansion).

The render quality was much better than EQ, but the design aesthetics of DAoC were terrible. The game was flat out ugly.

[Nebu]

Holy crap! Not only are they still running, they posted a fairly funny April Fool's joke this year (pretty sure it was this year, I checked the date this time)...

http://darkageofcamelot.com/article/announcing-dark-age-camelots-newest-expansion

Some of it was pretty hilarious if you ever played the game.

Items

820 new Artifacts await discovery!
Each artifact requires 40 scrolls to be found in order to activate it.
Scrolls can only be found on certain monsters.
Once activated, its stats will be obtained as the artifact is leveled. Each new artifact has 100 levels!
Each artifact has a different leveling-mechanic; our favorite of which involves trolls and lurikeens!

 

[koro]

You should've put a trigger warning on that link.

I'm having ToA PTSD here.

[Paelos]

You should've put a trigger warning on that link.

I'm having ToA PTSD here.

Level your pants and STFU you walking wallet. /2004

[Fordel]

Level them in the rain at night.

[zumu]

How did they manage to make so many terrible looking races.

Not to mention unpronounceable. Bean Sidhe, Úlfhéðnar, St'rm... etc.

There's not even a vowel in the last one.

[Mattemeo]

I kind of like the Firbolg design, much nicer than the lumpy faced Goons from DAoC. The Bean Sidhe are also lovely. In fact, I think they've generally done a good job on the Tuatha de Danann from what I've seen so far.

Really not sure what's going on with the ass-winged Dragon race, though. Nice enough that the 'Albs' start out with some non-humans.

That game engine/environment, though. It's as if 15 years of post-DAoC game development never happened, and the only thing they've noticed in all that time is Minecraft.

[Falconeer]

And right when you think we are having more than enough vaporware drama fueled by old crones, here's our old friend Mark Jacobs, Camelot Unchained's CEO and Lead Designer, telling us in details how upset he is that his newly hired senior programmer just resigned, and how that forced them to delay the beta. But hey, apparently that's also good news because -he says- it means they manage to stay inside the budget now that they don't have to pay for that phenomenal senior programmer.

[Hawkbit]

edit: nevermind. Not worth my time, actually.

[Falconeer]

Cmon, this is f13. Speak up!

[Falconeer]

1 hour of new alpha gameplay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h0f_PVDT4I

[LC]

1 hour of new alpha gameplay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h0f_PVDT4I

I love the comments where they tell people not to worry about the graphics and animations being total shit because they are just showing that they can have massive battles.


I still haven't seen anything to indicate this game will look better than a game made 10+ years ago. The characters are still so ugly I want to vomit.

[Ginaz]

1 hour of new alpha gameplay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h0f_PVDT4I

OMG!   That is awful.  I'm having a hard time deciding if this or Brad McQuaid's Pantheon looks worse.  That shit will not cut it in 2015 2016.

[Gimfain]

Urgh!

[Evildrider]

Hah... yeah those graphics are terribad.

[Threash]

Wow, that's horrible.  Haven't they been working on this a few years already?

[HaemishM]

Good graphics are a stretch goal. 

[Sir T]

Wow, never seen game characters run like they have jock itch before. 

[palmer_eldritch]

To be super fair, they do seem to have created a game where a very large number of characters can be onscreen at the same time without everything slowing to a crawl.

[Threash]

Sure, they simply did not bother putting in the things that slow those kinds of games to a crawl.  Whatever performance they are getting now is meaningless without any kind of real game there.