Test Release Notes - August 20, 2009

[Dr. Zeppers]

Originally Posted by MacIronhawk

I do understand releasing before POTBS, and then redoing a lot of things, but I still don't understand one thing. Does anyone know if they have any plans on reusing the old caves? That's so much area and content they could bring back, and I'm sure that at least some of us don't want to see it go to waste.

I dont see anything going to waste, they served their purpose to launch the game and make it playable as fast as they could. Those rooms were part of the problem, all the same! Not new content? It most certainly is! No longer can you mindlessly run through a room to get to the other side, this steps up the game both from a playability perspective, and from an aesthetic perspective, as well as gives them more to work on story line wise.

Originally Posted by MacIronhawk

Sorry, but I just sort of miss the caves and not for the reason you may think. I do not miss the old cave looks, but I do miss how big they were.

How are we going to be able to level up if enemies are so close to us? While playing yesterday, I had enemies attack me without warning in the caves. If it's bad in one cave, does that mean leveling up in the Tormenta Cave is going to be near impossible?

The aggression of the enemies appears to be based on level. Grey enemies will ignore you, etc. Honestly when I saw the caves, and how they are laid out with so many levels of NPCs, I saw it as a leveler's dream! With the exception of grenades perhaps. Maybe bring a few of them back as new areas, the towns I see as something that would work well, but bringing back something as obviously basic, repetitive and quickly thrown together as a number of the old caves, I dont know. id probably laugh at them if they did, thinking, haha couldnt even make up something new, had to use this old errr... stuff.

So, they have redesigned...

The towns
The enemy levels
The caves and caps

Time for that new story quest?

I'll bet we'll see a redesign of the jungles in the game first.
That IS the next logical step wether its what we want or not, meanwhile us level 40s will be grinding trying to reach 50.