| WarCry (Rosethorn) | Welcome to the Asheron's Call 2: Legions developers chat hosted by WarCry. Citan and Ramen will be answering questions on the recently announced expansion. If you
have a question you would like to ask, please send it to one of our Question Takers, [QT]ArgeNTrose, [QT]Roberto and [QT]Deathspawner. Please do not send any questions directly
to Citan or Ramen, they will be ignored. And now for introductions: |
| Turbine (Citan) | Hi, I'm Citan, the live team producer for AC2. |
| Turbine (Ramen) | Ramen here, online community relations for AC2 |
| WarCry (Rosethorn) | And without further ado, we'll start with some questions from the forums |
| WarCry (Rosethorn) | Deathspawner: New Classes, Lands.. Servers? |
| Turbine (Citan) | New classes -- yep! The Empyrean has new classes. New lands -- yep! Knorr is a brand new world to explore. New servers -- well, I'm not big on making predictions of things,
but suffice it to say that we'll definitely support the game with however many worlds we end up needing. |
| WarCry (Rosethorn) | Deathspawner: Will the XP earned be changed in any way? Currently the level 150 cap, is impossible to reach, even for a player that groups often. It would take a LOT of
play to even come close. |
| Turbine (Citan) | Well, it's not really about getting to the end -- we purposefully made it impossibly hard to reach the level cap in AC2. The point is the journey, not the destination. And the new
Hero 2.0 game systems will make the post-50 levels a lot more fun to travel through. |
| Turbine (Citan) | Part of the goal of the new hero system is to give you lots more rewards as you play, and new things to do with your rewards. |
| WarCry (Rosethorn) | Deathspawner: Recently 2.0 Crafting was released, but it get's pretty boring after awhile.
Will there be further upgrades in the xpac, possibly to do even more with it, or make it more enjoyable to do? |
| Turbine (Ramen) | First I'd like to say that we're prould of our work on Crafting 2.0 thus far, and yes there will be additions to Crafting in the expansion pack, including the Empyreans' own set of
craft skills. |
| Turbine (Ramen) | We'll also be introducing a new dynamic to Crafting with the xpack, in form of the Repair skill. We'll share more details on that with you in the coming months on our Legions
website: |
| Turbine (Ramen) | http://ac2.turbinegames.com/index.php?page_id=279 |
| WarCry (Rosethorn) | Tsunji: Even though content will only be updated every other month now, are we going to see bugfixes, or other non-content updated/fixed in the off months |
| Turbine (Citan) | Oh yeah, absolutely. |
| Turbine (Citan) | we dont like to sit on bug fixes; we'll get them in as soon as we can |
| WarCry (Rosethorn) | RedNhax: Knowing how much imbalances Hero 1.0 caused in PvP are you going to address the issues in the expansion pack with Hero 2.0 and will you give us an idea
of what will be done to obtain that balance? |
| Turbine (Ramen) | You have caused Citan to explode. |
| Turbine (Citan) | Yep, we'll be addressing hero-level PvP imbalances, along with PvM imbalances. How will we get it right? We'll be asking for help from the folks who know it best. That is, we'll
be asking for volunteers to help us make sure we get it right. |
| Turbine (Citan) | I'm not exploded! |
| WarCry (Rosethorn) | Clan Aken Lotus: Since the Empyrean's only get three exclusive Class choices will there be cross-race class choices made available to the Empyrean? |
| Turbine (Citan) | Interesting idea, and one we've considered. But there are some technical reasons why that isn't too feasible. However, the three new specializations are broad and interesting,
and Empyrean players shouldn't have have trouble finding one of them that they really like. |
| WarCry (Rosethorn) | Clan Aken-Lotus: Is there going to be new vaults? |
| Turbine (Citan) | That's a definite maybe. :) That's a pretty specific content question, and we don't like to talk about what individual quests will be available. |
| WarCry (Rosethorn) | Clan Aken-Lotus: Aside from the names of the new classes, can you give a few examples of some of their skills, or perhaps tell us what roles these classes might play?
DD, Support, Hybrids? |
| Turbine (Ramen) | We'll be talking more about the Empyreans and their classes on the website...soon... |
| WarCry (Rosethorn) | Cantskate: How is the new continet going to be incorporated into the 01game and how are the seperate level sections going to work and be put in place? |
| Turbine (Citan) | Hmm... don't want to give content spoilers, but the five main regions are broken up differently. Some are separated by geographic boundaries, some are just directly connected,
some require quite a lot of effort to get to. Getting to Knorr is a bit of an adventure in itself... |
| WarCry (Rosethorn) | Inanima: My understanding was that Empyreans were an incredibly powerful elder race. How will that be resolved to make them a playable race? Will players be
"young Empyreans"? I realize this might be part of the lore of the expansion of course but curious... |
| Turbine (Citan) | The eldest Empyreans are in fact devastatingly powerful, with terrible magics the likes of which the other races have never seen. But something has happened... and Avon, our
lead designer, would strangle me if I explained the whole backstory. Sorry :) You'll have to buy the expansion and find out! |
| WarCry (Rosethorn) | Kol: One of your recent posts explained how the continent that will appear in the expansion pack will be superior to what would have appeared in the monthy patches.
Can you provide a similar explaination for Hero 2.0? |
| Turbine (Citan) | Sure. We're essentially retuning the post-50 gameplay entirely. This includes rebalancing monsters, skills, etc.; it also includes an interesting new take on how the Focus
attribute works. Bigger than that, there's a new way to earn heroic powers... and lots more powers to choose from. |
| Turbine (Citan) | Keep in mind that most of the features of Hero 2.0 will be available to everyone, regardless of whether they buy the expansion or not. There are just a few additional features
that are only unlockable by doing quests on Knorr. (And to get to Knorr, of course, you have to buy the expansion.) |
| Turbine (Citan) | hough they're cool features, definitely -- I'm thinking of the new multi-user combo chains in particular |
| WarCry (Rosethorn) | Tinman: In many of the old texts, the Yalani empire is called "Glorious Seaborne Empire of Yalain". Aerlinthe Island had a port. In more recent times, the Brotherhood of
Crafters showed up in an Empyrean ship. All these things point to the Empyrean being a seafaring race. Will ships be included in this Expansion or at a later date? |
| Turbine (Citan) | We aren't really going to be delving too deeply into the seafaring aspect of the Empyrean history. But this is just the first expansion pack... we're definitely keeping our options
open about the next one :) |
| WarCry (Rosethorn) | Platinumstorm: Can you give us some examples of possible chain types, and the number of hits used to create a combo using the combo system? Is there anything
else regarding the system that you could further explain for us? |
| Turbine (Citan) | The multi-person combos are a power derived from an ancient source on Knorr... they're very mysterious. So much so that we aren't going to be giving a list of the combos or
anything like that. There will be a whole lot of them, but players will just have to figure out how they work for themselves! |
| WarCry (Rosethorn) | We'll have some closing statements from Ramen and Citan now |
| Turbine (Citan) | Closing statements eh? |
| Turbine (Citan) | The team is really excited about this expansion. Most everyone has had a quest or feature that we've always wanted to do, and we're taking this opportunity to do a lot of 'em. So
you can expect to see a lot of surprises. |
| Turbine (Citan) | And, um, adventures. |
| Turbine (Citan) | Also features. Rosethorn, how many remarks do I have to do? :) |
| WarCry (Rosethorn) | Hehe |
| WarCry (Rosethorn) | you've said a lot tonight :) |
| Turbine (Ramen) | Guys, we'd like to thank you all for dropping by |
| Turbine (Ramen) | We're VERY excited about the expansion, and we are looking forward to showing you more of what's in store! |
| Turbine (Ramen) | Keep an eye on the Legions website! |
| WarCry (Rosethorn) | And for the last question: |
| WarCry (Rosethorn) | Konerak: Are the Red Sox going to win the World Series? |
| Turbine (Ramen) | HECK YEAAAAHHHH!!! |
| Turbine (Citan) | I hope so or all the sports geeks here at Turbine will be mopey for a month... |
| WarCry (Rosethorn) | Thank you everyone for attending and thank you Citan and Ramen for taking time out of your day to spend it with us. |
| Turbine (Ramen) | Yes, I forgot to mention, if your question wasn't addressed, feel free to ask on our forums and we'll get you an answer...if we can talk about it
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