ambera wrote:I'm not sure I like the sound of this. It's going to be really immersion breaking, no? It seems very artificial, for the main RVR play. I wouldn't mind instanced arenas so you could set up fights with people (like large-scale duels) but for this to be the end game seems kinda wrong.
Dunno, it sounds both good and bad. I guess we better wait until we get to actually try the game before we judge it.
But im not much for duels myself, so instanced areanas doesnt really sound good.
ambera wrote:I'm not sure I like the sound of this. It's going to be really immersion breaking, no? It seems very artificial, for the main RVR play. I wouldn't mind instanced arenas so you could set up fights with people (like large-scale duels) but for this to be the end game seems kinda wrong.
To me it sounds like the lesser of 2 evils. Instancing seems to be the way to go, both for balance and technical reasons, these days. The place you need the most balance and techinical capacity is the end game.
ambera wrote:I'm not sure I like the sound of this. It's going to be really immersion breaking, no? It seems very artificial, for the main RVR play. I wouldn't mind instanced arenas so you could set up fights with people (like large-scale duels) but for this to be the end game seems kinda wrong.
I think those who want balanced 8vs8 kinda fights are generally not that fussed about immersion in this respect anyway. I agree it has got the potential to screw things but I guess we have to wait and see how it's done, the lobby sounds like the worst part for damaging the immersion experience, without that I could imagine it being pulled off pretty well.
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I am an 8v8er. I still like a sense of immersion though. I like the uncertainty. I like the freedom of having the whole frontier to play in, of being able to choose to look for balanced fights.
I can imagine learning to like this arena business, but it leans more towards FPS than RPG play, and that disappoints me.
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ambera wrote:I am an 8v8er. I still like a sense of immersion though. I like the uncertainty. I like the freedom of having the whole frontier to play in, of being able to choose to look for balanced fights.
I can imagine learning to like this arena business, but it leans more towards FPS than RPG play, and that disappoints me.
Instanced part is only about Scenarios and Campaigns (can't recall exactly how they named em), there is an open rvr zone where u can find whatever u want from soloers to zergs.
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