GU56 - Halas RebornFollow

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Edited, May 24th 2010 5:41pm by Calthine

I'm off tomorrow, yay! Gonna start up my frog monk!

Can't wait to explore these new lands. Drooling over all the potential AA I can chronomage to get. =)

On Test server, we ******* about that map, the size of it, the fact that it's not movable, etc. But they no listen. Maybe if the general Live population ******* enough too, they'll fix the damn thing. That, and the fact that if you're in a zone with in-zone travel like griffons, you have to click the NPC, then click "I wish to travel" then click on the map. Yes, it's only one extra un-needed click, but it's UN-NEEDED.

You get used to the map. I promise you, I spent three weeks cataloging all the travel changes, and you *do* get used to it.

Now the quest to get the eggs is optional. In fact, I think they removed all pre-reqs for travel. Now you can go anywhere at any time. New level 1 character that really wants to fly around Kylong Plains? As long as he's got that sokokar, he's good to go, no need to visit all the posts first. This of course was just an example.

I was in a part-guild group the other night, making my way through Feerott to CT and we were discussing these new travel changes. That led to a lengthy discussion, reminiscing about the grand adventures of traveling in early EQ1. Some of the stories (like the several dozen deaths, and two month quest it took to get my newbie woodelf ranger from Freeport to Qeynos)...ahh, those were the good old days(??).

I started playing EQ1 about... a month? before Kunark was released. I remember staying up all night to level to 20 so that I could join my friends in the exciting new land of Kunark, where I immediately died horribly at the spiny hands of drachnids. It was like, exit the tunnel, scream, run, die horribly.

But before that, I was on the boat between Butcherblock and Freeport, and got killed on the boat. By a shark.

That corpse recovery turned into an epic tale, haha.

Hey,
Does anyone know if voiceovers are going to be added for this new area. I came back on a trial to check out the new area. Missing the voiceovers, they always add a great amount to the immersion.
Anyone know anything about this?
Thanks.

My wife just moved into a new 5-room Halas apartment and wants me to move in with her to help fill all the space! She already has a library/study set up for me and a spare bedroom.

I suspect, but have never been able to confirm, that there are no new voiceovers because a while back the Screen Actors Guild decided that voice actors had to get royalties instead of fate-rates for video game voiceovers.

We should get together and offer to do them! We don't have SAG cards, they don't have to pay us anything.

A nice idea but unfortunately recording voice overs is a lot more complicated then hooking up a desk mic and speaking some lines. I'd be willing to bet that the average level of quality from whatever was submitted would be dismally low and likely unusable.

And beyond the quality of the mic (quick show of hands - how many folks out there currently own a large diaphragm condenser mic?) things like background, traffic and air conditioning noise would probably render most recordings beyond salvageable.

I love & miss the VOs too and I hate to be a downer but I just don't see this as more than an "I wish we could..."