Hey everybody, Duncan right here to reply just a few high of thoughts questions straight from the group. Bear in mind if in case you have a query you don’t really feel has been answered do submit in our discord, reddit or e-mail us.
Goal Viewers & Neighborhood Engagement
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The way you outline the audience for the brand new FO?Our best gamers are:
- Sandbox RPG MMO Fanatics – Those that love freedom, persistence, and player-driven economies, whereas exploring the world by constructing, crafting, and commerce.
- Motion Fight Followers – Gamers who get pleasure from fight with motion, skill-based skills and precision photographs.
- Aggressive Guild & PvP Gamers – Giant and small guilds on the lookout for structured, significant PvP, the place territory management deliver advantages.
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The way you’d describe the consultant participant of the brand new FO?
- Somebody who’s desirous to have extra MMO than conventional Motion RPGs, who additionally get pleasure from principle crafting builds and revel in social features of older mmorpgs.
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As soon as 1 and a couple of are identified how can we the group who’ve been following for thus lengthy be aside of the key updates? Will you ship surveys? Attempt to seize again the outdated participant base? When ought to we attain out to outdated guildmates, outdated associates and so on and provides the updates (query 1 and a couple of) one other strive?
- We will likely be doing all of the above:
- Surveys for suggestions
- Public Improvement Milestones
- Reengagement in outdated participant base
- Attain out to associates when public testing begins
Advertising and marketing & Launch Technique
Just like query one, when ought to we anticipate a serious Commercial push? Will this be a rebranding as properly?
- We’ll start promoting after we start public testing of those modifications.
Character
Can we maintain our character names we now have now?
- The gamers with title reservation will be capable of pre-choose their names earlier than re-launch. Everybody else might want to select their title at launch.
Cosmetics & Monetization
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Will the previewed Kickstarter armors even be obtainable within the beauty store?
- After discussing with different backers many have been pleased with this concept to assist fund the brand new improvement, nevertheless the Sigils will make the armor customized for the Kickstarters will solely be obtainable to the Kickstarters.
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Will the system of exchanging tokens for forex (Dynamight -> gold) live on?
- Monetization remains to be being mentioned
- Will the skins bought from the pores and skin retailer be robotically linked to the character?
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Are you considering of implementing a system the place the participant receives the pores and skin as an merchandise that may be exchanged if it isn’t activated and when activated it’s completely linked to the account that activated it? In order that older customers can retailer future collector skins and alternate them with different gamers sooner or later, as already exists in Albion On-line?
- No this finally ends up bringing actual cash into the in-game economic system
Core Techniques & Gameplay Design
- Will the merchandise restore system obtain modifications?
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How does the group take into account the ingame outcomes of the dying/kd/purple well being system? Is it one thing that handed the take a look at or there are talks whether or not to verify it or not?
- If that is referring to the diminished well being after dying or knockdown, we now have not mentioned this element but.
Crafting & Financial system
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One of many historic problems with grind-based crafting is that it’s all the time extra handy for a bunch to have a single individual craft every little thing. This has all the time been seen as a flaw of the present Fractured design too. Will there be one thing to forestall it this time?
- Crafting is being revamped right into a “career” like system but when teams resolve to focus sources to at least one individual I dont consider we are going to design round that however I’ll take this to the group and focus on extra.
