Hey everybody, Duncan right here at Pleased Cauldron Video games. We collected questions from the group round numerous matters. Some areas we’ll share extra particulars in devoted periods and you may also be part of us on Youtube to look at the newest developer updates in our march in direction of the assessments.
When you’ve got different questions not answered you may put up these to our socials together with Discord. Thanks for all of the assist!
Monetization & Tokens
Q: Will gamers have a manner to make use of their in-game efforts to purchase VIP or cosmetics with out having to spend actual cash? (Like having the sport purchase gold from the participant and provides tokens at some set charge, thus not involving gamers immediately.)
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A: At present, there aren’t any plans to have this. Monetization is a sensitive topic total nowadays, and it’s nonetheless being determined internally.
For my part, the very best design is one the place actual cash by no means touches the sport. The subsequent greatest is cosmetics solely, with none buying and selling from the store into the sport.
Gear Sturdiness & Market Programs
Q: What’s the envisioned system for phasing gadgets out? Proper now, the sport has a sturdiness countdown on gadgets with restricted restore capabilities. Will that be stored, or is the crew taking a look at totally different options to keep away from market saturation?
- A: It is a nice query, and now we have not made the ultimate choice on that but. We have now this as a part of the crafting design replace coming quickly.
UI & Visible Options
Q: It’s 2025, can we zoom out?
- A: It’s an choice on the desk. We will probably be exploring digital camera changes in testing, with suggestions.
World & Atmosphere
Q: Will biomes affect gameplay mechanics (e.g., survival, motion, gear necessities)?
- A: We do plan to have biomes affect characters, however not within the present relaunch plans.
Q: Are you planning quick journey or teleportation methods, and the way will they affect exploration?
- A: No, not for the time being. We might fairly allow gamers to spend time on a multi-session journey, as a substitute of making the sensation that they will solely journey if they’ve sufficient time to journey again.
Area & Management Programs
Q: Is there any imaginative and prescient of a PvP area within the revamp?
- A: We plan to have solo duels & social gathering duels for the relaunch. Publish-relaunch, sure arenas are deliberate.
Q: Are action-based mechanics (like energetic dodge) being expanded to different areas of fight?
- A: We’re planning to discover having a dodge mechanic related to your archetype, to permit for skillful dodging, but it surely is not going to function a journey mechanism.
Housing
Q: Will there be instanced housing or solely open-world constructing?
- A: Each. We want instanced housing to assist the goal participant depend. The brand new manner of claiming bigger land plots means there will probably be much less housing house. Another excuse is that not all gamers wish to construct a home and simply want a spot for minimal administration.
Faction Warfare
Q: Why factions and never the earlier guild & alliance system?
- A: The three foremost methods we plan to assist PvP for relaunch are Dueling, Guild Wars, and Faction Warfare. We are going to share extra data on this design within the coming months.
Q: How will you stability factions?
- A: We have now just a few choices to keep up inhabitants stability that we are going to discover throughout testing. A few of these embody be part of restrictions, buffs, reward bonuses, and some others.
Atmosphere Replace
Q: The earlier setting had way more foliage, will we see the teased setting replace be expanded on?
- A: Sure, the teased setting replace was the naked minimal for us to agree on a method. At present our surroundings artist is difficult at work absolutely fleshing out the biome in all of its glory! We are going to share these photos out in socials and future developer updates.
Testing
Q: You had talked about Q3 on the primary participant assessments however what’s the objective to check?
- A: We at the moment have just a few phases of testing already deliberate, the primary being Fight & Networking.
