Shadowbane goes to no subscription fee

[Shockeye]

Interface was very nice because you could set it up the way you wanted for the most part.

Just FYI, we added a new option under the Windows Menu called "Import Layout".  So if you set up one character with the layout you want, you can use that function to import it to other characters.  That, combined with "Import Hotkeys" (in the Hotkeys GUI) makes setting up interfaces MUCH easier after you have one the way you like it.

Very nice. I always dreaded having to re-set things up for each character.

[Merusk]

I'll give it another shot later this week, assuming I can find a palatable GUI.  Character creation was a wee bit chaotic as well, but I understood some of what I picked so no substantial complaints there.  

From what I remember, if you didn't research extensivly before creating a character, just accept that it will be gimped.  Don't get married to it, but don't abandon it either.  Leveling-up is so damn fast that it's actually worth running through and learning all the mistakes before rolling-up a "real" character.  (And who knows.. maybe my sword-ranger isn't gimp anymore! Hahahaha.)

[Cheddar]

FYI I have the install file downloaded currently.  If anyone has any ideas as to where to host it I can upload it wherever.  Otherwise you have to go through File Planet (the other download site offered never works for me). 

[AshenTemper]

Depending on how old your Ranger is, there are new Ranger-Only swords called Braialla's Blades that are Dex-based.  Dual-wielding Rangers are quite rough, especially rogue-based ones since, by the time you see them, they have probably hit you at least a few times :D

Aelfborn and Human Rogue Rangers are my favorite characters, aside from Confessors.

[Gong]

What's the deal with the billing/registration site that doesn't support Firefox?

[AshenTemper]

I know... been trying to get that changed for some time.  I am on too many websites to not use Firefox.

[Alkiera]

I haven't played since mid-beta, when so many things changed at once that my healer-channeler ended up very gimped.  I'm in line to download now, I'm not playing any MMOs at the moment, hopefully I'll have some time to give this a shot.

Alkiera

[tazelbain]

You thinking of trying it Tazel?  We can get noobified together!

I'll reinstall tonight and check things out.  But there is no point in investing anytime without a nation. It's not like EVE, where one can survive without being in a large alliance(I guess you could, but you'll always be on the lamb).  My experience is from the first few months after release, but I don't think this aspect of the game has changed.

Ideally there is a someone on F13 who has an established guild and wouldn't mind an influx of newbs joining their guild.

[MrHat]

We're all going to get herpies, Hooray!

Sign me up captain oh captain.  I love me some SB.

[Lantyssa]

Just FYI, we added a new option under the Windows Menu called "Import Layout".  So if you set up one character with the layout you want, you can use that function to import it to other characters.  That, combined with "Import Hotkeys" (in the Hotkeys GUI) makes setting up interfaces MUCH easier after you have one the way you like it.

Bravo.  While SB is not a style of game that interests me, I applaud making little features like this.  I know I would love it in other games I play.

[Cheddar]

What server does everyone plan on playing on?



edit.  My guy is on Mourning, his name is Arzhel.  Things are much better now that I have shit re-arranged.  I am about to try out the tutorial.

[Gong]

assuming I can make it through the waiting line on FilePlanet, I'd like to give this a shot also. I'm about to go out of town for a week, but after that things should be decently clear.

[Signe]

SB is going free because you are moments away from releasing Shadowbane 2, right, Ashen?  RIGHT???

PS  I think House Daenyr still exists in SB, just not very many. 

[AshenTemper]

SB is going free because you are moments away from releasing Shadowbane 2, right, Ashen?  RIGHT???

This is one of those times that a picture can speak a thousand words (or at least 6): Link (Warning: To an mage on my website).

[Soukyan]

SB is going free because you are moments away from releasing Shadowbane 2, right, Ashen?  RIGHT???

This is one of those times that a picture can speak a thousand words (or at least 6): Link (Warning: To an mage on my website).

Now that is funny.

[Signe]

He pwnd me.  He used to be so nice.

[Morfiend]

aside from Confessors.

For as much as Shadowbane scared me, to this day I still think of my Confessor as one of my favorite characters. Not many games give you the depth of character that SB did. I have always been a sucker for Offensive Priest classes.

[Samwise]

you'll always be on the lamb

[Cheddar]

Well I played for a bit this afternoon and here are my initial impressions:

Character creation- WTF?  I did some reading here and there and still only had a vague idea as to what the hell was going on.  Figured this was a learning character though, and now I have a vague idea what to go next time.  I made a red devil looking race person and chose rogue as my profession.

Initial log in-  Wow.  Was a serious mess.  Resolution sucked, windows sucked, had no idea what was what, and logged off after fiddling around for ten minutes or so.  Logged back in today and played with it a bit more.  Once I learned how to move windows around (shift + drag) it made things much better.  I fixed the resolution finally (I have my computer set to 1600x1200) and it seems nice.  Read every hint pop up thingy that appeared and found them fairly helpful.  Also added the status window; seeing ones health/stamina is pretty handy!  Also, I am still getting used to the point and click movement.  Camera angle was driving me up the wall, so I mapped the camera movement to wasd keys in a vain attempt to ensure my sanity.  So far it has worked.

First adventure-  Ran north from town and began hitting ants.  Levelled fairly fast, and figured out the different windows and how to raise stats.  Finally got sick of General and Trade channels, so nuked them (someone stated that the nooblets needed to "L2P" and it broke my want for global chats).  For some reason one of my skills was working then just stopped; Dancing Blade I believe is what its name was.  All it would say was "Skill not ready."   My other two skills seemed functional though so I was AOK.

After hitting level 5 I decided to seek adventure out in the land.  Began running north, and found nothing but more ants along with low level snakes.  Kinda annoyed that I would run for 2 minutes, then have to sit for 1 minute to regain stamina.  I finally wised up and looked at the map (hit M button), and I think I am heading to an area with excitement and adventure!   

And thats it for now; I will echo the statement made earlier that the UI is relatively flexible and much better once one alters it.  I do not like the path finding (manually needing to click to get around trees sucks), but after years of being virtually kicked in the scrotum I guess I will survive.


Thingy should be recognized by spell checker!  If VD can create vernacular so should I.  Damnit.

[Furiously]

SB is going free because you are moments away from releasing Shadowbane 2, right, Ashen?  RIGHT???

This is one of those times that a picture can speak a thousand words (or at least 6): Link (Warning: To an mage on my website).

You're taking everyone's soul that plays?

[Cheddar]

For those interested in trying this out here is a link from Corpnews (I am evil  )

http://38.119.37.21/L?T=H&ST=L&PID=0051400051&source=&gameid=2014

[tazelbain]

I am going to take a wait and see attitude on this one, I don't see SB as something you can start playing on a lark.  It looks like Corpnews may mount a serious attempt to "play to crush", so I may join them. If not, no biggie.  EQ2 still holds my attention and GW:F is not too far away.

[WindupAtheist]

I'm going to join just so I can scream for them to add Trammel.

*flees*

[Big Gulp]

All of you people who were bitching about Starforce earlier need to reevaluate your urge to partake in free shit.

SB is run by Ubisoft.  The same Ubisoft that is keeping me from playing games I'd dearly love to play; Silent Hunter III, Splinter Cell 3, and various upcoming Tom Clancy games, all because they've got digital gonhorrea.  SB very likely doesn't, and there are guys here involved with the game who aren't bad people, but they are at the very least employed in an offhand way by a company that isn't doing us any favors at the moment.

If you're serious about a boycott, be serious about it.  No involvement with any Ubi related game, period.

[Target_Erukul]

      Agree with the Starforce thing, if its there then no way spanky! (Hmm maybe on the local rent a net/comp cafe)

      Honestly Haemishs remark hit the nail on the head....and I got penicillin baby!

      SB.exe were annoying as hell, but at least it used to thin the ZERG HERD.

 
       
 

[Jimbo]

Can you re-map the movement keys yet?  I couldn't figure out how to do that and it drove me nuts!  I guess I'm so used to having ASWD that it sucked to have to use the mouse click to move.

[Threash]

All of you people who were bitching about Starforce earlier need to reevaluate your urge to partake in free shit.

SB is run by Ubisoft.  The same Ubisoft that is keeping me from playing games I'd dearly love to play; Silent Hunter III, Splinter Cell 3, and various upcoming Tom Clancy games, all because they've got digital gonhorrea.  SB very likely doesn't, and there are guys here involved with the game who aren't bad people, but they are at the very least employed in an offhand way by a company that isn't doing us any favors at the moment.

If you're serious about a boycott, be serious about it.  No involvement with any Ubi related game, period.

While you have a point its not like anyone is going to give them money, at most all their going to get from this crew is some bad reviews a week from now.

[Cheddar]

Can you re-map the movement keys yet?  I couldn't figure out how to do that and it drove me nuts!  I guess I'm so used to having ASWD that it sucked to have to use the mouse click to move.

I would love it if we could.  I was not able to figure out how earlier.  Remapping wasd to my camera keys gave me an enormous erection though and worked better than I hoped.

[Threash]

You have to move with the mouse, that was one of the things set in stone when i played.

[Lantyssa]

If Starforce is not a part of the product, then it should be okay to support it even if they use it on other products.  It shows that the things they release that do not use it are more popular and gives them something to correlate their sales numbers to.

[Jimbo]

You have to move with the mouse, that was one of the things set in stone when i played.

Ah, well then no way in hell I'm going to play this game again.  I might have given it a whirl again, but that clunky-assed click to move with the mouse stuff got old real quick.

I wonder why they won't let you revamp something as basic as how you move in the game?

[Shockeye]

That was pretty painless to re-active two of my old accounts. Yes, I dual-boxed. Yes, I had multiple accounts. Yes, I played to crush. Yummy.

[sinij]

All of you people who were bitching about Starforce earlier need to reevaluate your urge to partake in free shit.

SB doesn't have anything to do with Starforce, but hey if you want to boycott a title for wrong reasons by all means DO NOT use FREE stuff , you will probably SAVE them some bandwidth costs.

[Flood]

Weee.  I'm moderately interested in this.  I have my old account info, but don't have the client download anywhere.  Ass.

Wading through the slooow download at Corp, yippe for Dagger Rangers, that seemed like a good template on paper.

[Mesozoic]

I wonder why they won't let you revamp something as basic as how you move in the game?

I always understood that the issue was bandwidth.  PnC movement involves giving the server a single set of coordinates and letting it move you there.  WASD movement requires the server to know every point along your route.