• Runic Games 2011 Fansite Event Coverage

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    Webbstre
    Published on 11-18-2011 06:46 AM
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    NDA-Lifting day has come! Here's how I'm going to present this to you. Directly below this paragraph will be a large number of links. Some of those will take you to our own articles from Jerich, hawkn and Sp3tSnAz, as well as our media exclusives such as the video tour of Runic Games' office and one of three released music tracks from the game given to us by Matt Uelmen. Alongside that will be links to the other fansites' articles and media, as well as to Runic Games' podcast and anything else they may happen to post.
    Below all of those links (which will be updated as necessary) will be my general outline of some of the biggest points from the event. If you don't want to read all of the massive amounts of text you can stick to my outline for all the main points. Here goes!

    DISCLAIMER: All content is not to be considered finalized or necessarily representative of the final game! Many things are still in transition and it is obvious there is still a fair amount of artwork that is transitional (like for skill icons)!

    SECOND DISLAIMER: With only two specific exceptions, we were not allowed to share any video or photos from the visit. The exceptions are the office tour video and the picture of the new Journal so that you can see all of the statistics available to you. This means there are MANY walls of text!

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    Webbstre's Very General Outline:
    • Release: As you saw yesterday, the game's release was delayed until next year. This wasn't to add huge new features or revamp things, it's just the time they need to complete and polish the game.
    • Polish: When this game is done, it's going to be around (or at least near to) the quality level of polish that games like Diablo 3 and Skyrim are getting. It won't be as big, because there aren't hundreds of people working on it, but it's already more than 3 times the size of Torchlight 1 and is above and beyond the quality level of its predecessor.
    • Beta: There will be a beta. It will likely have several hundred people invited to join it. It will only contain the assets for part of the game, so no one can crack it and pirate the entire game before it even gets released. The purpose will be to test balance, multiplayer stuff, and the usual bug fixing.
    • Pets: There are many new pets, with the original Cat and Dog possibly available via fish transformations. The pets in Torchlight 2 are the Ferret, Chakawary, Bulldog, Panther, and a Hawk, with a possible second kind of wolf (I got conflicting reports on this matter). The new dogs and Panther do not appear to be reskins of the pets from Torchlight 1.
    • Enchanting: Enchanting has been completely revamped. You find Enchanters in the wild or in town, with the common ones being able to enchant your item just a couple of times. You can only remove these enchantments by paying to have them removed. In the wild there are very rare random Enchanters who may be able to give your items further enchantments, or enchant them with specific powerful enchantments for their specialization. It will not be easy or cheap to enchant a perfect item this time.
    • Gems: We need further clarification on this, but you can no longer transmute gems, because there are no longer gem tiers in the game. This is to prevent hording and then never using the gems. There are now many more types of gems, and it one of our reporters said he found multiple gems of the same type, but with different stats (for example, two fire damage gems, with one doing more damage than the other). This mostly implies that the system probably isn't finalized yet.
    • Private Servers: Officially Runic-owned secure servers? No. Will there be player-run private servers? Possibly, but the answer on this is still that it will either come after release in a patch, or in a possible expansion of some sort (this is NOT confirmation of an expansion, just hypothetical). Max and Travis really want to do it, so hopefully they can.
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    1. Trappski's Avatar
      Trappski - 11-18-2011, 06:49 AM
      The music... It's classic Uelmen, and i love it! Can't wait to explore the environment it's "describes"

      Nice with the office-tour vid. Was fun to watch. Now i have a bunch of articles to read through.
    1. Webbstre's Avatar
      Webbstre - 11-18-2011, 06:49 AM
      Ok y'all, that's everything I got right now. The skills just will take a while to transcribe and Jerich and hawkn need time for their write-ups (real life in the way). I'm calling it a night, but I suspect Sp3tSnAz will be up for a while yet if you have any questions.
    1. freddy's Avatar
      freddy - 11-18-2011, 08:05 AM
      SECOND DISLAIMER: With only two specific exceptions, we were not allowed to share any video or photos from the visit. The exceptions are the office tour video and the picture of the new Journal so that you can see all of the statistics available to you.
      I am very disappointed about that. Was expecting more after all the promises that the infos would be so great.

      Having said this, I love the music!! Hearing it since I discovered the link

      Not that much in general. I was hoping to get more precise infos.
    1. zidders's Avatar
      zidders - 11-18-2011, 09:23 AM
      Thanks to everyone for getting all this awesome info. The last two days have been bittersweet-the delay being the bitter, but the sweet definately makes it more than worth it. Personally, I'm tickled pink and giggling madly about the pet shopping list. I love the way the Runic folks think. <3 Thank you so much for the hard work!
    1. Naihonn's Avatar
      Naihonn - 11-18-2011, 09:58 AM
      OK. So I registered here to say... What a lovely dog!!!
    1. Sp3tSnAz's Avatar
      Sp3tSnAz - 11-18-2011, 10:01 AM
      Ha yes, Falcor was awesome!

      He's just so friendly and pretty much follows everyone around.
    1. Seer's Avatar
      Seer - 11-18-2011, 10:17 AM
      I feel overwhelmed. Excellent work everyone!
    1. Rusty's Avatar
      Rusty - 11-18-2011, 12:30 PM
      Webbstre (when you wake up) thanks so much for doing all this. Amazing work. And a big thanks to all who went to the event and did the write-ups.
    1. Webbstre's Avatar
      Webbstre - 11-18-2011, 02:02 PM
      I'm alive! And it's not that big a deal for me, just a day or two of cramming. The real thanks should go to everyone who went. Telias and Mika had huge international flights with layovers to get out there :P
    1. jamesl's Avatar
      jamesl - 11-18-2011, 02:58 PM
      Quote Originally Posted by Webbstre View Post

      Other websites
      Diablo IncGamers (Will update links later today)

      Diablo: IncGamers
    1. Webbstre's Avatar
      Webbstre - 11-18-2011, 03:48 PM
      Posted! I need to do the german site next, since there is a new music track over there as well!
    1. freddy's Avatar
      freddy - 11-18-2011, 05:12 PM
      OMG... can't stop listening to the soundtracks The act 3 theme is the best piece of ingame music since D2.

      ps: You can edit the link for our track. Almost erverything that could be interesting is in english there
    1. Thormodr's Avatar
      Thormodr - 11-18-2011, 10:07 PM
      Thanks for the info. Listening to the music now.
    1. Webbstre's Avatar
      Webbstre - 11-18-2011, 11:36 PM
      I want IncGamers to put their track online so I can load all three into my iPod! :P

      Also, I just finished listening to the Podcast. Wish I could have been there!
    1. Webbstre's Avatar
      Webbstre - 11-19-2011, 06:25 PM
      Updated with hawkn's Part 2: http://www.runicgamesfansite.com/con...up-part-2.html
    1. Rusty's Avatar
      Rusty - 11-20-2011, 08:54 AM
      It does seem odd that the team wants this game to have more Polish. Do they speak it or something? I didn't really hear any of it being spoken during the podcast. Just wondering. Oh well. I guess they can delay it for those Polish people. Just kidding...
    1. Webbstre's Avatar
      Webbstre - 11-24-2011, 03:58 AM
      Updated with Skill Listings and IncGamers' Max Schaefer interview.
    1. Dusho's Avatar
      Dusho - 12-05-2011, 06:48 AM
      Where is Jerich's write-up ??? is he slacking again?
    1. Webbstre's Avatar
      Webbstre - 12-06-2011, 02:52 AM
      He is overworked, but it's gonna be extra long to make up for it. Of course, now I'm overworked too, but I'll try to get it up within the end of the weekend after he gives it to me.
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