Friday with Means - August 12th, 2011- Press Q to Attack

[Means]

Again with the vacation..sigh. Genele and Macrosun are visiting New York this week and I hope they are having a good time. Genele has begun the process of discussing some of the other aspects of rebalance work (ie: ACs, NR, Caps) with the professionals and will make these ideas public when they have been well discussed.

Before he left Macrosun completed some a great "on screen text" feature we will be using in the New Player Experience. The ability to put a large message on the screen out of the chat will come in handy during a tutorial process...looking for needed messages in the chat while playing isn't exactly ideal.

Press "Q" to Attack!

Parsed has been busy the last couple weeks integrating fixes we have received from the central rendering group. With the latest version of the Conan engine out and stable on the Conan live environment they have found a lot more time to work with us...which has been greatly appreciated. Work the last couple weeks has been on trying to sort out some minor differences in ground geometry between the old and new clients. The actual collision used is generated in the old version of the engine (all gameplay mechanics are still adjusted in the old systems) so if the ground isn't a good match it makes for floating buildings/people etc. Part of the problem was stemming from triangle diagonals in Conan ground being parallel while being alternating in old AO. (AO's system is better!) Shadows have also received a first go at optimization. Go Parsed, GO!

The version that was supposed to hit TestLive last week was finally deployed yesterday with a huge number of fixes to daily missions and adjustments to the two new single team instances. Nice to see this enormous update getting closer

Have a great weekend everyone!

Edit: German Translation

[Niles]

That's all folks!

[Manicmouse]

Third, do I get a bronze medal?

[wyldebeast]

I can has hats nauw, plz?

[Barbapappan]

Hi Wylde =)

[Gridpain]

It's Press Q to Play ... not Press Q to Attack ...

[Aikey]

*presses Q!!!*

[snakeeyes]

7th! Doh....

[Technogen]

Means, will the new engine let you have move able walls?

[shou]

... and another week gone by without any significant information on the nanochanges progress *sigh*

[Tazalanche]

The version that was supposed to hit TestLive last week was finally deployed yesterday with a huge number of fixes to daily missions and adjustments to the two new single team instances. Nice to see this enormous update getting closer

So Maybe™ the shirt prizes from May's QQ contest will hit live Soon™?

[haxi]

It is target guard and "press Q for quest".

[Mastablasta]

Before he left Macrosun completed some a great "on screen text" feature we will be using in the New Player Experience. The ability to put a large message on the screen out of the chat will come in handy during a tutorial process...looking for needed messages in the chat while playing isn't exactly ideal.

Press "Q" to Attack!

Hope you have this not be hardcoded text, but draw it from the actual settings the player may setup during this, as you tell them how they might change all their settings, or if they feel the need to go edit the controls as the first thing they do

[Obtena]

... and another week gone by without any significant information on the nanochanges progress *sigh*

I guess you missed the part where people are on vacation.

[MidgarClan]

Qq!

[Gridpain]

Hope you have this not be hardcoded text, but draw it from the actual settings the player may setup during this, as you tell them how they might change all their settings, or if they feel the need to go edit the controls as the first thing they do

yeah, on my screen it would be : Press Q to turn left !

[Cago30]

Vacations are overrated!

[-Zagadka-]

the New Player Experience

Sounds ominously like SWG's move to its terrible fate

[Technogen]

... and another week gone by without any significant information on the nanochanges progress *sigh*

I think you skipped over stuff in Mean's post.

Genele has begun the process of discussing some of the other aspects of rebalance work (ie: ACs, NR, Caps) with the professionals and will make these ideas public when they have been well discussed.

[Means]

Sounds ominously like SWG's move to its terrible fate

That would be the NGE. This is the new way to introduce players to AO. But yes with all the changes we are making it is ominous...however we are actually discussing the changes with our population and acting on the the feedback...quite unlike the process of the legendary NGE.