everquest.com

Sargeras · Post by **Sargeras** » April 13, 2003, 7:36 am

Mmmkay, look at this...

http://everquest.station.sony.com/

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » April 13, 2003, 7:40 am

man that guy really got hooked up at the fan faire.

noel · Post by **noel** » April 13, 2003, 7:49 am

Is that a Blade of War?

Akaran_D · Post by **Akaran_D** » April 13, 2003, 10:54 am

They said they were doing a RTS a while back.
Never heard anything about it, tho that iksar looks like he was rendered in a modified WC3 engine.

Somali · Post by **Somali** » April 14, 2003, 10:46 am

All I know is I want that leezards cool shogun type armor.. lol
It will lot phat on my katt

Cotto · Post by **Cotto** » April 14, 2003, 10:52 am

Even the dwarves look very World of Warcraft

Ennia · Post by **Ennia** » April 14, 2003, 11:12 am

why is that an image and why I can't click on anything?

nice way of introducing new customers to the game

Llaffer · Post by **Llaffer** » April 14, 2003, 11:14 am

It's called a tease - knowing people will be coming back wondering if any new content has been added yet to the teaser.

Brilliant strategy if you asked me.

Ransure · Post by **Ransure** » April 14, 2003, 11:38 am

There are no rangers in that picture....

masteen · Post by **masteen** » April 14, 2003, 12:25 pm

World of WarQuest?

Ennia · Post by **Ennia** » April 14, 2003, 12:32 pm

Llaffer wrote:It's called a tease - knowing people will be coming back wondering if any new content has been added yet to the teaser.

Brilliant strategy if you asked me.

didn't look at it that way

first thing that came to my mind was are they changing character graphics again? and will I have to upgrade my machines again to play that?

I'm scared

Shaerra · Post by **Shaerra** » April 14, 2003, 12:43 pm

Ransure wrote:There are no rangers in that picture....

Then things are as they should be...

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » April 14, 2003, 12:45 pm

Heh. Looks like VI is stealing straight from Blizzard's WoW with the character styling.

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » April 14, 2003, 2:05 pm

Animalor wrote:Heh. Looks like VI is stealing straight from Blizzard's WoW with the character styling.

Who stole everything from Games Workshop's artists.

It's a circle.

Drolgin Steingrinder · Post by **Drolgin Steingrinder** » April 14, 2003, 3:09 pm

There is no VI. There is only SOE.

Sionistic · Post by **Sionistic** » April 14, 2003, 4:15 pm

the knees, they are weak

Sabek · Post by **Sabek** » April 14, 2003, 4:17 pm

Iksar looking like Shoguns > Iksar looking like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » April 14, 2003, 4:23 pm

Who stole everything from Games Workshop's artists.

Hardcore. The majority of Blizard ideas are basic Warhammer and 40k.

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » April 14, 2003, 4:32 pm

Lifted this from shadowknight.org... some people are too smart/have too much time to figure this stuff out...

Guys,

Take a very close look at the source folders.

First Image: images/esbhsppn/iksarzoom1.jpg

Second Image: images/itjmfbc/groupzoom2.jpg

Now look at the folder names.

esbhsppn
itjmfbc

Subtract 1 letter from the alphabet of each folder.

Example, a = z, b = a, c = b, d = c, and so on...

With this formula, the first folder; esbhsppn makes Moorgard backwards.

itjmfbc spells Baelish backwards.

Want more?

Well here is a new URL recently discovered.

http://everquest.station.sony.com/images/nbabilbmmb/

nbabilbmmb spelled backwards using the same spelling formula makes AllakHazam.

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » April 14, 2003, 5:03 pm

I would also like to add that SOE needs to fucking fire their texture artists now. With the kind of money they are raking in those textures are unbelievably ugly. Everquest shares the ugly texture syndrome too.

Planetside and SWG seem to have decent texture artists though, but I think a lot of members from both teams are veterans from other game developers.

But man, those textures are just ugly. That ground looks like a bad quake 1 total conversion map. The skins on the models aren't that much better.

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » April 14, 2003, 5:11 pm

kyoukan wrote:I would also like to add that SOE needs to fucking fire their texture artists now. With the kind of money they are raking in those textures are unbelievably ugly. Everquest shares the ugly texture syndrome too.

Planetside and SWG seem to have decent texture artists though, but I think a lot of members from both teams are veterans from other game developers.

But man, those textures are just ugly. That ground looks like a bad quake 1 total conversion map. The skins on the models aren't that much better.

I dunno. I kinda like that style. I agree on the ground texture. It's looking a bit pixellated however the rest just look fine.

Krimson Klaw · Post by **Krimson Klaw** » April 14, 2003, 5:49 pm

No, it looks like crap, sorry to inform you.

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » April 14, 2003, 6:56 pm

Less polygons, less video lag, more ppl able to buy and play the game.

Has worked well for Blizzard

Krimson Klaw · Post by **Krimson Klaw** » April 14, 2003, 9:58 pm

When did Blizzard apply the "crappiest......textures...ever" rule to their games?

Xzion · Post by **Xzion** » April 14, 2003, 10:17 pm

ok...il be fuckin dead before Xzion looks like that panzy ass peice of cartoon bullshit

noel · Post by **noel** » April 14, 2003, 10:39 pm

Animalor wrote:Less polygons, less video lag, more ppl able to buy and play the game.

Has worked well for Blizzard

Hate to break it to you, but the Polygon count and complexity of the graphics has not a damn thing to do with lag. All of that is done client side, and is completely dependent upon the system speed, and video card.

Lag is caused by the amount of network data being transferred to and from the client, and exceeding the maximum bandwidth available.

The only reason you perceive there to be 'lag' on a large EQ raid is because EQ has the most poorly written graphics engine on the market today. It's a hack, written on top of a hack that was designed by a startup gaming company who were doing the best they could. While I don't think it looks horrible, it performs horribly with more than X number of people on the screen at one time. This is entirely due to the shitty engine.

In Planetside, and another game I am beta testing that will remain nameless, I can be looking at over 30 people moving around in front of me, AND Aircraft, AND Vehicles, AND Turrets, AND explosions, AND tracer animation, AND sky, weather, water animations with no noticable degradation in frames per second.

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » April 14, 2003, 10:58 pm

video lag

Please read my posts thx.

I didn't mention anything about bandwidth issues and whatnot.

And with a Athlon 1800 and 512 BM ram and a GeForce2 GTS I get plenty of that lag in planetside anytime where's a number of objects on the screen at a time.

*edit* Spelling

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » April 14, 2003, 10:59 pm

Krimson Klaw wrote:When did Blizzard apply the "crappiest......textures...ever" rule to their games?

If you want excellent textures. Why don't you spend more time in RL k thx

noel · Post by **noel** » April 14, 2003, 11:14 pm

Animalor wrote:And with a Athlon 1800 and 512 BM ram and a GeForce2 GTS I get plenty of that lag in planetside anytime where's a number of objects on the screen at a time.

Well, yeah. Not really surprised by that. If you had a GeForce3, I imagine it would perform significantly better.

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » April 14, 2003, 11:21 pm

Probably. The next upgrade I get is a Video Card. I need it.

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » April 14, 2003, 11:27 pm

The good thing about Planetside terrain is that it gives you a sneak peak at the EQ 2 terrain.

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » April 14, 2003, 11:54 pm

It doesnt use the eq2 engine.

noel · Post by **noel** » April 14, 2003, 11:55 pm

Animalor wrote:Probably. The next upgrade I get is a Video Card. I need it.

My desktop is currently a P4 2.0Ghz w/1GB DDR RAM and a Geforce4 Ti 4700.

My next upgrade is going to likely be the processor to the P4 3.0Ghz. The bad part about that is that I'll need to replace the motherboard and memory at the same time, so I've been holding off on the upgrade.

Spangaloid_PE · Post by **Spangaloid_PE** » April 15, 2003, 12:06 am

Aranuil wrote:My desktop is currently a P4 2.0Ghz w/1GB DDR RAM and a Geforce4 Ti 4700.

My next upgrade is going to likely be the processor to the P4 3.0Ghz. The bad part about that is that I'll need to replace the motherboard and memory at the same time, so I've been holding off on the upgrade.

what's your point?

noel · Post by **noel** » April 15, 2003, 12:13 am

Spangaloid_PE wrote:
Aranuil wrote:My desktop is currently a P4 2.0Ghz w/1GB DDR RAM and a Geforce4 Ti 4700.

My next upgrade is going to likely be the processor to the P4 3.0Ghz. The bad part about that is that I'll need to replace the motherboard and memory at the same time, so I've been holding off on the upgrade.
what's your point?

I write complete sentences with correct punctuation and grammar relatively consistently. You should try it sometime.

Spangaloid_PE · Post by **Spangaloid_PE** » April 15, 2003, 12:16 am

Aranuil wrote:
Spangaloid_PE wrote:
Aranuil wrote:My desktop is currently a P4 2.0Ghz w/1GB DDR RAM and a Geforce4 Ti 4700.

My next upgrade is going to likely be the processor to the P4 3.0Ghz. The bad part about that is that I'll need to replace the motherboard and memory at the same time, so I've been holding off on the upgrade.
what's your point?
I write complete sentences with correct punctuation and grammar relatively consistently. You should try it sometime.

so, what's your fucking point?

noel · Post by **noel** » April 15, 2003, 12:25 am

Spangaloid_PE wrote:
Aranuil wrote:
Spangaloid_PE wrote:
Aranuil wrote:My desktop is currently a P4 2.0Ghz w/1GB DDR RAM and a Geforce4 Ti 4700.

My next upgrade is going to likely be the processor to the P4 3.0Ghz. The bad part about that is that I'll need to replace the motherboard and memory at the same time, so I've been holding off on the upgrade.
what's your point?
I write complete sentences with correct punctuation and grammar relatively consistently. You should try it sometime.
so, what's your fucking point?

I've made several. Here's another: I can also read and understand conversational dialogue without the need for an explanation of said dialogue after every post. See if you can get one of your fellow soldiers, preferably one of the ones who scored above the 60th percentile in reading on the ASVAB to help you with comprehension.

Your use of profanity in the last post made the dialogue seem much more urgent and important. Thanks for the emphasis.

Spangaloid_PE · Post by **Spangaloid_PE** » April 15, 2003, 12:29 am

Aranuil wrote:I've made several. Here's another: I can also read and understand conversational dialogue without the need for an explanation of said dialogue after every post. See if you can get one of your fellow soldiers, preferably one of the ones who scored above the 60th percentile in reading on the ASVAB to help you with comprehension.

Your use of profanity in the last post made the dialogue seem much more urgent and important. Thanks for the emphasis.

you're welcome dip shit. so what the fuck is the point?!?!?!?!

why do you feel we have to know wtf you're gonna upgrade your fucking desktop to?

noel · Post by **noel** » April 15, 2003, 12:34 am

Spangaloid_PE wrote:
Aranuil wrote:I've made several. Here's another: I can also read and understand conversational dialogue without the need for an explanation of said dialogue after every post. See if you can get one of your fellow soldiers, preferably one of the ones who scored above the 60th percentile in reading on the ASVAB to help you with comprehension.

Your use of profanity in the last post made the dialogue seem much more urgent and important. Thanks for the emphasis.
you're welcome dip shit. so what the fuck is the point?!?!?!?!

why do you feel we have to know wtf you're gonna upgrade your fucking desktop to?

Perhaps you could use context clues within the post to determine why I volunteered that information.

Spangaloid_PE · Post by **Spangaloid_PE** » April 15, 2003, 12:42 am

Aranuil wrote:Perhaps you could use context clues within the post to determine why I volunteered that information.

why don't you just answer the fucking questions?

maybe this will help you...click here

Midnyte_Ragebringer · Post by **Midnyte_Ragebringer** » April 15, 2003, 1:07 am

excellent flamage you two....grats

Toshira · Post by **Toshira** » April 15, 2003, 1:13 am

Mennix says "Patience is a Virtue"

Get ready for the mother of all time sink expansions.

Krimson Klaw · Post by **Krimson Klaw** » April 15, 2003, 1:25 am

Animalor wrote:
Krimson Klaw wrote:When did Blizzard apply the "crappiest......textures...ever" rule to their games?
If you want excellent textures. Why don't you spend more time in RL k thx

WILL DO!

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » April 15, 2003, 4:20 am

Spangaloid_PE wrote:
Aranuil wrote:Perhaps you could use context clues within the post to determine why I volunteered that information.
why don't you just answer the fucking questions?

maybe this will help you...click here

Are you too goddamn stupid to understand English motherfucker? He spoke on upgrading his computer in response to Animalor's post. Did you even follow along for blindly try to flame someone. Jesus, no fucking wonder you went into the military, I doubt you would even get accepted into a goddamned community college.

noel · Post by **noel** » April 15, 2003, 4:41 am

Midnyte_Ragebringer wrote:excellent flamage you two....grats

I don't have a flame on this thread. Thanks for the input though.

Cotto · Post by **Cotto** » April 15, 2003, 7:46 am

Today it looks like an RTS game, such as Warcraft.

WTF is going on.

oh and it has a countdown clock too.

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » April 15, 2003, 7:46 am

Aranuil wrote:
Animalor wrote:Probably. The next upgrade I get is a Video Card. I need it.
My desktop is currently a P4 2.0Ghz w/1GB DDR RAM and a Geforce4 Ti 4700.

My next upgrade is going to likely be the processor to the P4 3.0Ghz. The bad part about that is that I'll need to replace the motherboard and memory at the same time, so I've been holding off on the upgrade.

Sadly it'll be a long while before I can free up the funds for a ssytem of that caliber. Car bought now, wedding in August and going to try to move into a house(or a bigger place) in the fall.

This year is the one where I move on with my life it seems

Akaran_D · Post by **Akaran_D** » April 15, 2003, 8:00 am

Today it looks like an RTS game, such as Warcraft.

WTF is going on.

Maybe..

They said they were doing a RTS a while back.
Never heard anything about it, tho that iksar looks like he was rendered in a modified WC3 engine.

Just guessin'.

Ogbar · Post by **Ogbar** » April 15, 2003, 10:27 am

Hmm, I wonder if this version will have some sliders controlling reality factors, like, say, control over how much your pieces whine over a loot drop awards before they get back to business.

masteen · Post by **masteen** » April 15, 2003, 10:46 am

Ogbar wrote:Hmm, I wonder if this version will have some sliders controlling reality factors, like, say, control over how much your pieces whine over a loot drop awards before they get back to business.

ROFL!!!