Some new footage in this overview from David Bass- also a nice intro to someone who has no idea what Wildstar is about.
http://www.readycheck.org/videos/MCylDtNtAH2f/
Also- a play by play from the Pax Panel
(they had me at DINOSAUR MOUNT WITH SIDE MOUNTED LASERS) I also love that when you discover cool mini puzzles and such out in the world, you can 'bring them home' to be a mini dungeon/activity to do with your friends on your home plot.
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12:04 Introductions for the staff of Carbine
12:05 Showing off different systems of housing and how they interact.
12:06 Can have different skyboxes, with fireworks, snow, etc etc.
12:08 Chad Moore describing the aurin style of housing, very nature driven.
12:10 Elder game will give you stuff to put in your house, and ways to upgrade it.
12:11 Describing various plugs for outside area.
12:12 If you do really good in a challenge on Nexus, you have a chance to win a plug for your lot which is a copy of the challenge. (examples given were jumping in a tornado to collect crystals, and a tower defense including Osun)
12:14 You can put a telegraph training facility on your plot.
12:17 You CAN put a bank on your plot.
12:18 You can get decorations for your house through vendor, rep vendors, challenges, some mobs will drop their heads so you can mount them on your wall.
12:20 12 Character slots currently.
12:20 Stream disconnected.
12:21 Stream back up, talking about action combat, and crowd control.
12:21 They're inside of a dueling arena on a plot for a house, dueling a friend.
12:23 Housing dungeons are called expeditions, they scale to how many people are in your party, up to 5 total.
12:24 World bosses adapt to how many people are currently in the fight.
12:24 Talking about mentoring; a level 50 will be scaled down to a level 25 for a dungeon.
12:25 While inside of the expedition, there is a timer in the bottom right of the screen. Challenge for the expedition maybe?
12:26 Q&A
12:28 Max health for a stalker at level cap is 27k, with a 7.5k shield.
12:28 120,000% not pay to win.
12:29 Launch will have various battlegrounds, arenas, and 40v40 warplots.
12:30 Possibility of random events organised by GM's throughout the game world.
12:31 Audience member asked about toys such as hanggliders and airplanes, stephan frost replied "cant talk about it, but you will s**t your pants it's awesome."
12:33 Talking about how they don't want people to just hang out around your houses and not go into the world.
12:34 Very, VERY supportive of addons. Will be made through LUA, and anybody who wants to make an addon has the same capabilities as someone who works at Carbine.
12:35 In-game machinima tool was made through Houston, which is the addon-program.
12:37 Friends interface through a website, possibility?
12:39 Entire zones dedicated to elder-game PvE stuff
12:41 Spectator more won't come at launch, but they want it.
12:42 Web interface for world-first, server-first, tournament info, stuff like that.
12:43 Unable to answer about how long it takes to get CREDD in-game.
12:45 Using a bank or auction house at your house will include a fee, to encourage you to spend time at your capital city.
12:49 Multiple ways of character customization, besides the character creation screen. Aren't able to elaborate further.
12:49 Can dye your armor.
12:50 Can have a costume.
12:50 Can customize your mount.
12:50 Dinosaur with laser guns on the side, hell yea.
12:52 Final two classes will be revealed soon™.
12:56 Telegraphs will have a colorblind option.
12:58 "Nothing to say on Guild Housing".
12:59 More stuff for your alt character, mounts, can stay at your main character's house.
1:00 Tons of stuff to do during the middle-game.
1:01 Closing panel, talking about party at the hard rock cafe.
See. It looks really fun with a ton of stuff you can just bang away at to amuse yourself (houses with floor pianos anyone?)
I think for a game that is just fun and great to play with other people Wildstar is (hopefully) going to be great. I really hope people are going to give Wildstar a try. I know the guild was founded in EverQuest but I could spend a couple of months just collecting stuff to make my house look awesome in this game. And the different types of PvP looks awesome. I want to get back to the days of playing Huttball with all the peeps. That was awesome. And if by playing more PvP we can make a better WarPlot that is even more incentive!
Honestly, Gith, Wildstar does sound fun, but I think the kicker for me will be the sub fee. I know it's no more than any other MMO sub, but I've come to enjoy the Free to Play/Buy to Play/A'la Carte model far too much to go into another sub game as quickly as I once did. I'm not sure if I can afford another sub game. If SWTOR didn't have such a crappy F2P model I'd have canceled my sub there long ago.
I like being able to snap up a couple of shinies in a cash shop to support a game I like when I have a bit of extra spending money, but know that I don't have to give up my game during months when I can't spare the sub fee or don't play often enough to justify paying it. With F2P games I can easily pick the game up and put it down in a pattern that perfectly fits the fluctuation of cash flow and scheduling.
I do wish it didn't have a sub fee, but then we slim down our budget in other places (like not having cable tv). It's equal to us going out to one movie a month.
It's pretty probable Wildstar will come out at least 3-6 months before EQN, we're hoping to split our time between there and Landmark. We've been missing challenging dungeons and other PVE content so we might be able to get our fix there.
Maybe when the time comes, interested Saga people who want to play can designate Wildstar nights so we can get enough to dungeon run. :)
I'm hoping everyone is down with playing the Exiles, I just can't get myself to play too much on Red-side. :P