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2.3 leveling is A+; BG daily quests - not so much

Indelible — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:11:46 GMT

Does this mean I'll finally be able to get my Druid to 70 without feeling the experience of leveling is a horrid and tedious sensation or is it just slightly less horrid and vastly less tedious than before? :-P

2.3 leveling is A+; BG daily quests - not so much

Kody — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:11:45 GMT

Vastly less tedious. Horrid... hmm, hard to say. I may level a character fresh to see what it's like all the way, as well -- most of my alts are already into their mid-20s or higher -- so my perception could be flawed slightly by the fact that: A) My alt I'm leveling right now is Horde -- a faction I haven't played in a ''long'' time and B) I started the patch at level 46.

Unreal Engine 3 is kind of a big deal

asp — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:20:04 GMT

I spent a lot of time reverse engineering the Unreal engine while working on the Vanguard database stuff. It really is a great piece of technology even though the Sigil team kind of hacked it up a bit. It is so well engineered and well structured that understanding how it fits together was easy even without the source code which is a great compliment to the architecture.

If I was making a AAA game I would seriously take a look at what the Unreal engine can do for development time.

/end advert

Unreal Engine 3 is kind of a big deal

Jarlaxle — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:20:03 GMT

yea, the early UT engines were really widely used, together with the Quake engine. Atm I play Rune ( runegame.com ), 7 years old game made on the UT 1 engine, it's still pretty awesome in multiplayer, even the graphics aren't that bad for such an old game.

The trick here is that Rune is a third person hack and slash (melee, medieval weapons) game, which really shows how flexible that engine was.

Unreal Engine 3 is kind of a big deal

Indelible — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:20:02 GMT

Nice lol I've always thought the UT Engines were amazing but never thought they would be used outside of the gaming world lmao A+ to those guys though ^^

Rumor Central: Battlefield 3 Info Leaked

Flisher — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 05:33:29 GMT

While it may be true, document intented to Investors usually only contain buzz word, technologies name and sale pitch... but rarely indepth detail about the game itself.

Live and see!

A Look at the New Curse Office!

Jarlaxle — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:25:46 GMT

So, is San Francisco worth living in ? For example, I heard LA is a shithole

A Look at the New Curse Office!

Kody — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:25:45 GMT

It's a very nice town, yes. From what a lot of the guys from Europe have said, it's probably the most European city in America that they've been to. ;)

A Look at the New Curse Office!

Jarlaxle — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:25:44 GMT

I thought that was New Orleans

oh snap

And European doesn't automatically have to mean better. I mean european cities have much more culture, long traditions, longer histories, but it doesn't mean they are better to live in

A Look at the New Curse Office!

Flisher — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:25:43 GMT

Montreal is more european than any town in the USA :-) but we have only conventional gaming job here. while there is a few thousand of people working int he gaming industries in montreal, it's about localisation and console games most of the time.

A Look at the New Curse Office!

Flisher — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:25:42 GMT

24 inches, widescreen monitor on each desk? You lucky guy got a good boss :)

A Look at the New Curse Office!

Kody — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:25:41 GMT

Well, to be fair, they're iMacs. There aren't many screen size choices, and we needed the better versions for development reasons. ;)

So, this is pretty cool.

Jarlaxle — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:46:18 GMT

Well nothing revolutionary, but still good to have. I also remember some video embedding back in v2. Or is my memory failing me ?

1 more thing... it would be actually good to make those videos start streaming when you click on them or the Play button, not this way - they start streaming as soon as the page loads. That way users don't need to waste unnecessary bandwith (especially if there is more than one video embeded).

Maybe you could also make people able to embed youtube videos ? Sure, it could be abused, but so can this.

If you ever gonna do the youtube thing though, I wouldn't allow it on the forums.

So, this is pretty cool.

Kody — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:46:17 GMT

Osso is working on changing it so you have to start the video manually, yeah. Streaming won't start right away.