vn_taldren posted:

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All I really wanted was:


1) Fixing strafing in the game to match what every other FPS and MMO can do. Its 2011, can I please hold down forward and strafe at the same time, please!?

2) Updated graphics engine (fantasy I know, but check out what DAoC looks like in the crysis2 engine: http://mharjula.blogspot.com/)

3) Change to melee styles so you don't have to go A1, A2, A3 to progress a melee chain and instead just hit the last in the chain (A3, A3, A3) and have it progress for you. (More free quickbar slots!)


But most of all ...


I wanted them to announce "Dawn of Camelot" (DAoC 2)

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RipXaw posted:

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1. I can strafe just fine holding any combo of keys.
2. The graphics are fine the way they are.
3. The only thing the melee styles need changed is being able to spam melee styles like you can casting styles.

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vn_taldren posted:

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1. No you can't. You press strafe and you stop moving forward. Also, left/right turn doesn't turn into strafe in mouse look ... although with how strafe works in DAoC you really don't want it to. Its draconic and a roadblock to many players that want to come back.

2. Yeah, i thought He-Man was pretty good animation too as a kid ... then I saw an old episode after watching Bleach last month and was like WTF?! Why did I think this was good? heh, guess its all perspective.

3. No. Worst part of WoW, and what it brought to all other MMOs, is the melee dps dump spam and it has no need to DAoC ... EVER. If anything, I wish spell casting system was like the melee system.

Global cooldown set by staff speed and quickness. Damage bonus, mana cost, growth coefficients all determined by spell.

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vn_taldren posted:

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actually you bring up some interesting idea's. I'm sure they could adapt the current melee system to work with spells too. You could have reactionaries like "being hit by a bolt", and have a spell that returns the bolt fire or something. Ok so this would make bolts useless but an interesting idea. You could do lots of reactionaries and even positionals too, to use spells on people running away. Only thing is that I don't think base damage would be reasonable.. like you shouldn't go into combat with someone and cast a baseline DD every 2.5 seconds when u have nothing better to do.

But then again, what advantage does this have over the current system, except for making it harder to use? beats me. Also i'm clearly not suggesting they revamp the entire spell system, just saying you could do some cool things just by changing animations, reactionaries, and adding a range variable on the current melee system.

 

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