Camelot Unchained

[Morreion]

I get a WAR vibe off of that presentation.

CU is going to have 30 classes, which is awesome! Lots of classes was one of the great things about DAoC.


CSE is creating 30 classes for Camelot Unchained (MOP)

Camelot Unchained’s current plans are to create a whopping 30 classes for the game, which means a heck of a lot of reveals over the coming months. City State Entertainment decided to include its community in the reveal process by announcing that it will send out surveys to allow its backers to vote on the order of the reveals (grouped in threes).

In other news-



Camelot Unchained is adding lots of cosmetics without a cash shop (MOP)

Rewards include items that may be displayed in your CU house, on your avatar, or in your C.U.B.E. creations. The stretch goal will be completed by launch, City State says, as it will be outsourced with a minimal amount of in-house oversight, which falls in line with the firm’s long-standing policy of not allowing stretch goals to affect launch.

Jacobs on destroying Camelot Unchained structures and more (MOP)

Mark Jacobs is back with a Friday afternoon update for Camelot Unchained. In it, he says that players will soon be able to destroy structures with spells, after which they will break and fall apart (the structures, that is, not the spells or the players).

Camelot Unchained has made progress on performance, procedurally generated terrain, and more (MOP)

There’s also a blurb about procedurally generated terrain, which is “moving along nicely.”

Camelot Unchained wants stealth but not the sucky kind (MOP)

Jacobs goes to great lengths to describe how Camelot Unchained’s version of stealth won’t be easy mode, or an I-win button, or any of the other things that you may have groaned about when you read the word stealth. “It is a word loaded with more baggage than the Kardashian household on a family vacation,” Jacobs says.

Camelot Unchained’s procedurally generated terrain build runs for over 100 hours (MOP)

“A barely-tested build with a brand new procedurally generated terrain system debuted, and not only didn’t it crash, it didn’t even come close to crashing, during a four-day shakedown cruise,” writes Mark Jacobs. “So, a great debut for a rather complicated and important system, and a big step forward for our game.”

Camelot Unchained adds new team members and injury system (MOP)

“I cannot stress enough how important the additions of Marc and George are to the team,” Jacobs wrote. “We have gone from having eight programmers to 10 programmers in a single week. And not just programmers, but senior (10+ years) programmers.”

Camelot Unchained ran an “IT-only” test this past weekend with the first pass of the game’s injury and wound system as well as improved rendering performance.

[Regolyth]

I've played the beta on a few occasions now, but only for fifteen or twenty minute spans. While playing the game, I found myself running around, trying to figure out what the game reminded me of. Once I figured it out, I laughed out load; it was DAoC.

[Morreion]

*sighs* If only it had PvE, I would so be there!

[Regolyth]

It does have PvE, it's called "crafting."

It still goes to help the RvR effort though.

[tatton]

I came across this board by chance, and it brought back some great DAOC memories. I'm thinking of getting back into gaming when CU roles out. Nice to see names that ring a bell!

Tatton
The Pux

[Morreion]

TATTON! Great to see you here! Wow, memories of yore All of those storytimes on Nimue...those were the days.

Keep an eye out here, you never know who might show up or what the semi-regulars will be doing. If you have anything to share from yesteryear we'd love to read about it!


Here's a little something by Tatton from Dottie's recreation of Nimue Crossroads- Tatton, if you want a story section here, PM me-

Tatton's Tale

[EchoVamper]

So glad I stopped by last week to see what was up here. It was interesting to see that Suile and Tatton had both made visits recently, and it brought back some good memories. I've been reading some about CU. It does indeed remind a few people of DAoC. I'm interested in hearing a little more about everyone's take on its status right now. Is there any real interest in giving it a try, or is the lack of PvE a non-starter for everyone?

Kalyce Taramin, Bard of O'Suilebain

[Morreion]

Hey Echo! Just got back from vacation here Was good to hear from Tatton here too!

My take on CU when I first heard about it was great excitement...DAoC 2, yeah! Then I heard it was PvP only and I was tremendously disappointed for 2 reasons-

1) The big attraction of DAoC to me originally was its masterful combination of PvE and PvP (RvR actually). I mostly prefer PvE in my MMOs and perhaps 3/4 of my play in DAoC was PvE. Yet I played RvR in DAoC the other 1/4 of the time and mostly liked it because of how PvE & RvR reinforced each other- everyone's actions benefited the Realm in some way. I played far more RvR/PvP there than in any other game.

2) I haven't run into a successful PvP-only game yet. It's really hard to make something like that work, and it seems to attract a far less diverse player base than games that also have PvE.

That's my take. I'm not ruling out playing CU but it is not at the top of my list of upcoming MMOs.

I know Regolyth is very excited about CU and will probably have a lot more to add

[Regolyth]

I'm a couple of days late on the update, but CU has went into beta! Unlike a lot of games in development these days, it actually means something over at City State. While I'm very excited about the game, I hope it doesn't come out too soon; I don't have time to play right now. LOL

Folks,

How does one start an email that one has been looking forward to for far too long? Do I start with all sorts of gushy sayings? Do I start with some nice piece of art from our talented team? What about one of my long and detailed descriptions? Or, do I start with something short and sweet. Hmmm… How about this?


OMG, we are actually, truly in Beta 1!


Yes, Virginia, it’s like Xmas in July! Beta 1 has finally arrived, and with it are coming a lot of changes to Camelot Unchained. In the coming months, you’ll see changes in everything from the Reward Tiers for Backers (this was talked about in January) to major technical changes to the game (64bit client, integration of Coherent, Discord), to the actual game beginning to really come into view. I hope you all are as excited as we are because, well, it has been a long time coming. Fortunately, the results of our efforts can be seen in our engine’s unmatched ability to handle large-scale battles. No other engine/game that we’ve seen (and we’ve seen a lot) can do what ours can. Are we where we want to be for launch? No, but as of last week, we were able to show you Backers 750 combatants plus ARCs (Autonomous Remote Clients) in a single battle. If you look at our Kickstarter here, our goal at that time was 500 people in a battle with 30 FPS. If you continue reading through the list, you’ll find other goals that we have already accomplished. Now, this is not to say “Hey, we made it. We’re done!” but rather to say that we have stuck to the vision we articulated during our Kickstarter, and that we’re solving hard problems while building the game that you’ve been patiently awaiting since 2013.

It’s been a long, torturous, and exhilarating process to get to this point. We’ve encountered all the sorts of problems that one would expect, as well as some that leave even Andrew and I scratching our heads in wonder. OTOH, we are surrounded by a great team that has worked very hard to get us to this point, and we couldn’t be prouder of them than we are right now. We have also had the generous and patient support of you, our Backers, ever since this project began, and we are incredibly grateful for that. As I’ve said in other updates, gamers such as us can be portrayed in a very negative light at times in the media, forums, and social media. And while some of us earn that portrayal, the vast majority of us don’t. A larger percentage of us have shown the depths of good feeling, kindness, and caring. You have left a major imprint on all of us, and we thank you for that!

The remainder of this year promises to be exciting for all of us, and I’m looking forward to it with a heightened sense of anticipation—more than I have at any other time in this game’s development, other than when our initial Kickstarter funded.

[Morreion]

I was wondering why there wasn't much coming out about CU after a lot of early info...always leaves you wondering what's going on behind the scenes.