Everquest Next & Everquest Next: Landmark

[Vibe]

https://www.everquestnext.com/about-landmark
https://www.everquestnext.com/about-eqn

This is shaping to be something pretty cool.

[Banok]

there is so much hype for this, just looks bland and immature to me. don't understand it.

[Kafein]

More SOE love

[Vibe]

there is so much hype for this, just looks bland and immature to me. don't understand it.

They really haven't shown much of it yet, so that might also make you feel like it's bland. What's getting people hyped up is the voxel based enviroment and destructability / sandbox, which is a pretty big step from previous Everquests.

[Clockworkkiller]

this is just gonna turn out like every other stinking MMO these days

people are gonna get all excited about it and hype it
when it gets released, people enjoy the hell out of it for about a week, then suddenely begin to shit on it

[Banok]

kk still skeptical about EQN but I've since learned the landmark thing is a separate game and not just offline. its basically a minecraft mmo, and just watched some alpha gameplay which actually looks pretty good.

I guess I didn't read into it much when it was announced do to cartoony graphics and all the marketing hype developer spin in announcement trailerz

[Vibe]

EQN Landmark is now in alpha with no NDA so you can just look up videos of it. Basically looks like Minecraft online without the blocks.

[Banok]

Good video summing up what the game is

[Rumblood]

Good video summing up what the game is

Pretty good description. Also:

[Kafein]

Nope, this is the one

[Banok]

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[Leshma]

[Leshma]

At the end of the alpha, players found a way to exploit the game. Game didn't allow placing claims next to each other, to avoid performance issues. Players found a way how do it and built a city.

Also, original voxel engine had smallest voxel unit size of approximately 15x15 cm cube. Players found a way how to circumvent this and created so called micro-voxel which can be much slower, allowing them to build furniture, weapons and stuff. Luckily, engine is robust enough to run without issues even with large number of micro-voxel. However due to alpha state of the game and lack of optimization, player had serious performance issues in the city they build that's mainly because there's memory leak/cache problem and because there were so many of them in city at the same time (over 200 players).

Also some cool buildings in this video:

[Polobow]

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At the end of the alpha, players found a way to exploit the game. Game didn't allow placing claims next to each other, to avoid performance issues. Players found a way how do it and built a city.

Also, original voxel engine had smallest voxel unit size of approximately 15x15 cm cube. Players found a way how to circumvent this and created so called micro-voxel which can be much slower, allowing them to build furniture, weapons and stuff. Luckily, engine is robust enough to run without issues even with large number of micro-voxel. However due to alpha state of the game and lack of optimization, player had serious performance issues in the city they build that's mainly because there's memory leak/cache problem and because there were so many of them in city at the same time (over 200 players).

Also some cool buildings in this video:

Damn, that's awesome. Love things happening like that. Did the devs respond on this?

[Leshma]

Yes, two developers were touring the city and doing some tests. Main programmer who created voxel engine behind this wants to make stuff like this possible, instead of putting limits on claim size.

Biggest problem will be when dynamic water arrives and in the end when they launch EQN alpha with combat. Because terrain and stuff that is made of voxels (which is almost everything) is fully destructible and can be changed manually. Magic affect surroundings and can put stuff on fire and destroy walls etc. They'll need some serious optimizations to make this work like it should.

Also they will be working on AI and build templates, which means player won't have to manually build everything voxel by voxel. There will be option to delegate AI to build based on a player created blueprint.

Unlike previous SOE MMORPGs, this one is being developed with players in mind.