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March 20, 2008

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Items are odd shapes in Hellgate: London. buy maplestory mesos Revolvers are usually 2×2, rifles are 3×2, hellgate Palladium and swords and tall items are 1×3 or 1×4. Plus you’ve got belts and other small stuff that’s 2×1, and whatever part of the game engine that packs these things doesn’t smooth them in very neatly. buy maplestory mesos I often found a sword or other tall item sticking up right in the middle, with 6 or 10 empty spaces to one side that the rifle on the ground could easily have fit into, with some repositioning. wow gold

In a way I missed the earlier inventory style, when items all took up one square, regardless of how large they were. Back then you got 12 slots for large items and 24 for 1×1 items like mods and recall devices, and didn’t have any bother with Tetrising stuff into position. The Hellgate Team has talked about giving more inventory space with quest rewards, and I certainly hope they do, since I was feeling cramped on inventory space by clvl 6.


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These changes can manifest them visually, so that after completing various parts of the storyline you actually see world physically differently due to events you triggered. NPCs might also react to you differently. “Depending on what you’ve completed in the storyline, there will be actual changes in the world that you notice. If I’m level 5 and you’re level 30 and you’ve done a lot more stuff, your perception of the world is probably different than mine,” Roper added. He explained that these are atmospheric changes rather than gameplay changes, allowing players to potentially coexist in the same virtual world even if they perceive it differently.

That said, there are major differences between the games. “The biggest differences between Diablo II online and Hellgate: London are that Hellgate: London has been built from the very beginning to be sustained online as part of the original design, whereas D2 really wasn’t like that at all,” he explained. “We had dreams of being able to do continuing content [in Diablo II] but it really wasn’t possible at all from a code standpoint. Hellgate has been set up to do that from the beginning. The other big difference is that in Diablo II you were in a chat room. Here, it’s like other MMOs: you’re in a town, you are your character, you’re interacting with people and getting quests. But we’re also giving you that single-player experience, which World of Warcraft doesn’t.” maple story

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Drawing from games such as Guild Wars and of course Diablo II, Roper admits Hellgate: London’s online component doesn’t necessarily neatly slide into the MMO genre. So is it an MMO? “I think that just as Diablo and Diablo II started this religious argument over whether they’re RPGs or not,” he mused, “Hellgate will spark that same debate over whether it’s an MMO or not.” But what does Bill Roper think? “It’s really an MMO,” he said confidently. world of warcraft gold

Hellgate: London’s main quest storyline is identical in single-player and multiplayer; maplestory mesos players can get the full story experience either way. However, the online side will contain exclusive content and modes unavailable in single-player. These include guild-related and raid-level events, PvP arena combat, new enemies, quests, and items, and so on–all features familiar to MMO players. maplestory mesos

In many ways, the Diablo series and particularly Diablo II serve as a touchstone for Hellgate. Many of those looking forward to the game were massive fans of Blizzard’s action RPG series, and Roper himself frequently refers to the franchise when talking about his game. The multiplayer concept, which revolves around individuals or groups trawling through legions of enemies in a heavily instanced world, is evocative of Diablo II’s. “There’s even Hardcore mode [available online], like in D2 where you get one life and that’s it,” he added. “Hardcore mode was very popular to a very vocal group of people who took a huge amount of pride in having a high level guy who’s never died. You tend to play the game very differently.” world of warcraft

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(Note: Since posting our original news item on the matter, Shacknews has been contacted by Electronic Arts, which is co-publishing the game along with Namco Bandai. EA noted that there has not in fact been any final decision made as to Hellgate: London’s online pricing model–meaning that it may not even end up a paid subscription based service at all. In the interest of presenting to our readers as complete a picture of the situation as we had, below are Roper’s opening comments given when asked about the model behind Hellgate: London’s multiplayer mode.)

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“We’ll probably have some kind of detail in the next month or two as to our pricing model, but the design is both a standalone as well as an MMO, so we want to be able to hit both markets just like we did with the Diablo titles. There are a lot of people that in some instances actually can’t get online, and there are also people who are online but for gaming they aren’t sure if they want to make that commitment to pay the monthly fee and go online. world of warcraft gold They can get the game and play the standalone, and get 30 or 40 hours’ worth of gameplay. If they like that, they can go online and we’ll have a good ramp of some kind for them to go online and check out some of the services. Exactly how we handle that, whether it’ll be a trial or whether they can check out some of the game for free, we’re still hammering out the final details. Then beyond that it will be pay to play, and again we’re about a month out from announcing more on that. But what you’re getting with that service is you’re getting 24/7 customer service, secure servers, databases, and the biggest thing is that you’re getting continuing content. We’ll have a full dev team that’s on the project from day one. Actually, right when you buy the game, when it launches there will already be content available that you can’t get in the single-player–additional monsters, areas, all the community and economy things, you’ll be able to form guilds, auction houses, all those things you expect from MMOs.” maplestory online

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Unlike most MMOs, the primary storyline is actually finite, and can be completed even in online mode. “You complete the storyline, and get that big overarching sense of completion that you typically don’t get in MMOs,” said Roper. “Then what we do to continue the gameplay past that is to create all these quests you do that take into account that the world state has changed for your character. You’ve completed it, maplestory online finished the task that was set before you. The thing that’s really nice about that is that we can create all this online content that you don’t get in single-player that takes into account that you did finish the storyline of the game.”

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Patch 1.2 is looking pretty good, but we are fixing some last-minute issues that prevent us from releasing it. (There is a problem in the current Patch 1.2 build that really messes up your data files if you install the game and install patches in a certain order.) I’m just as anxious as you are to see the e-mail, Marksman rebalance, the Desiccator and the long list of bug fixes go out to the big servers. I’m hoping that Patch 1.2 will be ready to release on Wednesday or Thursday, but until we have these issues solved and tested we shouldn’t release the patch.

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As our early-morning Hellgaters have discovered, we are experiencing a service outage which is affecting the official website, forum, Shulgoth (US) server, and Test Center server. An update from Tyler Thompson, Flagship Studios’ Director of Technology, follows:

Our main router is broken for our websites and servers. We are currently waiting on new hardware to arrive at the Data Center. After it gets there, they need to install it. The last estimate that we’ve heard would mean that should be finished in another hour or two.

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The folks at our Data Center performed some unscheduled maintenance this morning, and it caused Shulgoth (US), Test Center, and our website to go down for a couple hours. We are sorry about this inconvenience – it caught us completely by surprise as well. Whenever possible we try to alert you about server downtime, but we had no way of predicting that this would happen.

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Hellgate London Release Date

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“We wanted to hit the sweet-spot for release in terms of the development schedule and delivering the highest-quality game to our players,” said Bill Roper, CEO of Flagship Studios. maplestory online “Halloween was the perfect fit as it ensures that Hellgate: London will have an appropriate amount of beta testing, while also being an incredibly fun time to unleash the game.” lord of the rings gold

Get ready to hack, slash, and shoot your way through a demon-infested London this Halloween! world of warcraft Electronic Arts Inc. and NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. hellgate Palladium today announced that Hellgate: London, the premier title from Flagship Studios, buy maple story will start hitting retail stores in North America on October 31, 2007 and in Europe on November 2, 2007 for the PC. Hellgate: London represents the next leap in the evolution of the action RPG genre, combining the depth and addictive gameplay of traditional RPGs with the visceral action of first-person shooters. world of warcraft gold

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Pressing the attack button in a busy area could drop us down to getting one frame every couple of seconds for half a minute or more at times. lord of the rings We sincerely hope that this gets fixed with a patch, but it’s tough to review a game on the basis of bugs that may or may not be fixed down the line - just as it’s tough to assess a subscription online service that may or may not justify its existence down the line.

Throughout Hellgate’s development, much has been made of the game’s online functionality - to the extent that we have a sneaky suspicion that many people actually believe the game to be an MMORPG. 2moons This simply isn’t true, we might add; first and foremost, in theory at least, it’s a single-player action RPG. 2moons

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One major caveat, though, wow gold is that if you’re going to play online, you need to do so from the outset. Hellgate doesn’t allow you to bring your offline, single-player characters into the online environment - not even to play with your friends. We understand the security concerns, to some extent, but it’s still likely to be a frustrating discovery for many players (it certainly was for us).

To be perfectly honest, at this point in time we’re completely unconvinced by the idea of paying money for a monthly subscription to Hellgate. world of warcraft The free online features will probably be more than enough for the vast majority of players, and while we’d love to see the paid service evolving into something more worthwhile, maplestory right now we’re not really clear on the value being offered here.

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The other glaring problem revealed by the online modes - but present in single-player as well - is that Hellgate isn’t the most stable piece of software in the world. wow gold Although we only saw a couple of actual crashes in our play sessions (at least one of which can probably be blamed on a suspect ATI driver), we did experience gigantic problems with slow-down, which got progressively worse as we played the game for longer before eventually necessitating a restart.


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Patch 1.2 Released To Live Servers

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This patch is has some major skill changes, a few vital balance tweaks, some pesky bug fixes, and a highly-requested new feature.

Hello everyone!

We’re also introducing our first “pets with abilities” in this patch. These pets can be found out in the Wild and offer more for brave adventurers than mere companionship. Keep an eye out for those Mysterious Eggs!

We didn’t want to entirely remove the most overpowered Marksman skill combinations altogether, however, and we also didn’t want to leave other Marksman skill issues unaddressed. This would have been largely unfair to the Marksman players. As a result, you’ll see a large number of changes to the skills - such as synergies to the Ballistics, Grenade, and Precision Strike skill groups - that should promote an increased variety of specialized builds and create a more diversified play experience overall. We’ve been doing a lot of balance and tweaking over the past few weeks in Test Center with these changes, and we’re excited to roll them out to all of our players. Big thanks to everyone for all the great feedback!

Chief amongst these changes is addressing the notorious skill/weapon combinations involving Ricochet, Reflecting Shot, Multishot, Rapid Fire, Heightened Senses, Beacon, Dead Eye, and Hollow Points, while using a high rate of fire weapon, such as an Arclight Rifle. While we realize that making choices on skill, item, and mod combinations which complement each other is a fundamental design element most emphasized with the Marksman in particular, there should never be one combination of skills which completely outshines the rest.

Finally, there are a MASSIVE amount of other fixes and additions in this patch, including adjusting the difficulty of the Nightmare end-game, making the big Moloch battle more interesting and challenging, adding a slew of new Unique items and challenges in the Wild, and much, MUCH more.

See you online!

We’re also rolling out the second of our major character class balance passes. In this patch, we’ve done a comprehensive balance pass on the Marksman. We focused on addressing a number of issues that have made the class vastly over-powered in comparison to the rest of the classes and the desired difficulty of the game. There are also numerous areas where we have increased the effectiveness of, or altered skills to give Marksman players a wider variety of builds and tactics.

Thanks again to everyone for their great feedback and continued support of making Hellgate: London bigger and better.

First and foremost is the introduction of our in-game mail system. This is something that we know is of vital interest to our community, and is the foundation for our consignment / auction house system. Players can not only send and receive messages with anyone in the game, but they can also attach Palladium and items to their mail. This makes getting items from one character to another – even your own – much simpler and more convenient. And while you need to be in a Station to attach or receive items and Palladium, you can read your messages anywhere, anytime.


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