Friday with Means - October 21st, 2011 - Canyon view

This week we have been hard at work putting the finishing touches on the Halloween update which will obviously be out on the live servers next week as my attempts at delaying Halloween were not successful. I'm really exited about the Halloween content this year...and getting to see our new designer's first instance and the new Pandemonium instance at the same time is sure to be interesting.

Work has been continuing this week refining lighting and self illumination effects to really get the mood we all want to see both during the day and at night. I imagine when/if the Rookie gets stuck in here (screenie attached) it will be because he can't believe how good the canyons look now :)

Have a great weekend everyone!

Quicker than you! ;)

good stuff. just gotta read it. :)

I'm sometimes Exited too :p

first?

Any funcom comment on whether or not you guys can put the old healing items back in the shops until rebalancing? I mean it seems that the thought pattern behind the new ones is geared moreso towards your vision for the game post-Rebalance so it would be nice to not make us have to roll RK missions to get sit down heals until then.

new instance - new designer? sounds good...

o.0...

good looks. now get it in the game.

*uncrop*

Wait, is this zoomed in on a heckler?

Rebalance? Or did you guys forget to work on that while chasing shadows?

Yus! I really excited about this patch, both the Halloween part and the new instance. Also: The picture looks gorgeous, get it in game already!

New engine for Christmas you say? :o Why thanks Santa!!

first page!!!

♫♪♫♫ “I like big rocks and I cannot lie...” ♫♪♫♫

First page :p

Purty

Rebalance news anytime soon?

Nice pics, get them in-game.

Can we assume that all the grass and tree replanting has been done (was long ago reported this needed to be done by hand and would consume time as you were not using something like Speedtree)?

Get the new user experience functional and on testlive asap so you can get feedback and have it ready to go live with (or before) the engine arrives.

Get those heads posted, you -will- have work yet to do on some of them once the players see what's there.

I'm assuming that rebalance is on the back burner (which is fine by me) due to no new updates on it for nearly 1/2 a year now?

New heal kits are fine, aside from some concern about the "can't use while teammates/pets have aggro", would like to hear the logic of the argument that won out on that aspect.

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Rebalance news would be very very welcome, but it looks more like they are focosing on finishing the gfx, possibly to attract more customers with shiny shiny new things.

At least that's the conclusion one reaches without further info.

Will we get the Agent Nano documentation any time this year?

Very nice looking Indeed. Can we get a screen of Penumbra? O0