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@aries said in Attention:

Sense link realms is closing down and a few that do still play like me are we able to still be refunded our remaining credits/realm time?

Hi Aries, I've had nothing to do with Mythyn Interactive for almost 1 year now. Try writing to their usual email address, contact@linkrealms.com, provided that still works... and good luck!

@holya said in Attention:

Fractured was a bit of a controversy, as Prometheus, along with all other developers, stepped down while announcing Fractured.

Just me and the game designer (and long-time friend of mine), Uriel, quit. Which means half of the Linkrealms team, yeah, but not the whole Mythyn. We also didn't own shares of Mythyn, just to make it clear - we were regular employees, disregarding how big my decision-making power was.

Well, we are as well! Player cities in Fractured will be much more than conglomerates of player houses with some shops built here and there - but you'll have to wait little for a full dev journal on the topic!

@holyavengerone said in Feature Spotlight #3 - The Knowledge System:

Have you / will you guys be considering to have the respecs require significant in-game work to accomplish as opposed as to just costing in terms of (insert whatever currency here)?

Yes, we did - but as I've said, it's too early to ask now - we'll make it public when we've reached a conclusion :slight_smile:

@killerqueer said in do we have a discord channel?:

but is there a discord lol

Not yet, we'll make it public together with the upcoming referral system announcement :slight_smile:

@Kapier said in "Extra-planetary" travels? Interesting!:

I assume each planet follows its own distinctive rules, how does that work if someone travels from one planet to the other. Is he then subject to the rules of the planet? And is that a system similiar to "low security/high security" which punishes acts of crime differently, like a rogue planet with high risk and reward?

Yes, you're subject to the rules of that planet, which don't include only PvP rules and the "criminal system", but also racial buffs / debuffs, and more. Tartaros is probably even more than the "rogue planet" you're suggesting - it has open PvP and zero consequences for criminal actions.

@luccheno said in Feature Spotlight #1: Three Races, Three Gameplays:

Different speed mounts - the end of "all the same for cosmetic sake"

The fact mounts have different speeds (and other stats as well) doesn't mean you'll be able to buy faster/stronger ones in the store :slight_smile: You only buy skins in the store, which can entail dramatic changes to the look of a type of mount, but not to its power!

@Askariot yeah, it broke after the latest platform update, we've fixed it earlier today Thanks for reporting!

Test post!

@Thomas said in Building your on Cities:

@Prometheus Sounds really good How big are the cities going to be?

We expect most will grow to small/medium sized and stop there because they will be controlled by a single guild. However, there are spots in the world where a city can grow much more than that. It will be up to the players really - if several large guilds can get together to form an alliance to manage a town, you'll be able to see real a metropolis

@apollo said in Feature Spotlight #4 - Skills Galore:

I'm really curious how this will all tie in with the crafting side. Can we expect to see similar skill progression there? Will we be able to do both simultaneously or will mastery require focus on one side. Some of the descriptions already show links to effects in crafting, but will crafters be required to go into those few offensive trees?

To put it briefly, the process of learning crafting recipes is close to ability learning - which was covered here. Therefore, just like with abilities, your character can learn any recipe in the game - you don't have to go into "trees"! We'll have a couple spotlights dedicated to crafting specifically in the future with everything explained in detail :slight_smile:

@lukezamboni said in Feature Spotlight #4 - Skills Galore:

you have some skills exclusive to this combination which could be shooting 4 arrows at the same time from your instrument

There are abilities meant to be used only when holding one or more specific types of objects - but I'm afraid you can't "combine abilities" to create new ones, if that's what you're asking :slight_smile:

@holya said in Feature Spotlight #4 - Skills Galore:

Hey @Prometheus , so it might be a bit early to start talking about balance but I really feel like wind strike is overpowered.
Invocation in general is bad, but you have to invest so little into wind strike that it's super overpowered when other classes spend the minimum knowledge requirements to obtain it, and get nothing else from invo.

Ahahah Luckily Fractured won't be plagued by the several core design shortcomings we had to put up with on Linkrealms

@logain said in Feature Spotlight #4 - Skills Galore:

'Mage has a 'Magical Strike' spell, which deals 5 damage to a target in front of it,
Warrior has a 'Fist Strike' ability, which deals 5 damage to a target in front of it.'
That would be 'two different' abilities to learn, but they are exact 'game mechanical' clones of each other (deal x amount of damage to target on position y), despite the different name and graphic.

Eheh ok, sorry, now I get it. We'll try to avoid this as much as possible, but examples like the one you've just made might and will happen. Notice however that even if the two abilities you mentioned had the same overall effect ("e.g. cone damage in front of you"), they could differ in many other ways: width and length of the cone, casting time, mana cost, type of damage dealt, interruptable or not, total damage, single damage or repeated, channeling or not, stacking with STR or INT... and the list could go on. Enough parameters to make them both relevant in different builds and contexts :slight_smile:

@tuffs said in Feature Spotlight #4 - Skills Galore:

omfg... if I understood the right way, I can't wait to see how a fire ball or wathever the other spell you're using, will work when it's raining/snowing or at any of the other atmospheres of the game's world

You did!

@30Thrd thanks for the feedback, that's always appreciated, even more when it's so gently put :slight_smile: A question for you since you've mentioned PoE. In PoE, you can zoom in very close to your character. What type of zoom you need for immersion purposes? As for the animations, don't worry - game balancing will come later on, nothing in those clips is final in that regard. That summoning ability you've seen is a Channeling spell though - they have longer casting times and can be easily interrupted. It's what makes them hard to use - that's not the only one! :slight_smile:

@Kellock93 said in Will you be able to play instruments ?:

I loved the Music system in LotR-Online where you could actually "play" music, so I ask in every MMO-Community I join, will there be a feature like this or similar?

This is not on our list as of today, I'm afraid. We need to focus on the core features of the game - and there's already a ton of them That being said, never say never!

@chrightt what @Rofus explained is correct. One thing I shall add is that the The Foundation is less than half complete, tons of rewards and quests are missing. We're going to give it a nice update this month already if possible!

@fibs said in Feature Spotlight #5 - Character Creation, Attributes And Resting:

As I understand it, Charisma is the "bard stat" that determines the ability to socially & psychologically manipulate other entities / your NPC entourage, so it influences how many pets, mercenaries, summons, or undead you can control at once, yeah?

That's a good approximation, yeah. However, the "summoner" or "necromancer" gameplay isn't necessarily linked to playing as a "mage" (casting spells from afar, lots of INT) :slight_smile:

@kairosval said in Feature Spotlight #5 - Character Creation, Attributes And Resting:

It seems weird that the cost of attribute increase for 7 and 8 are both 3, but that the cost of attribute increase for 10-15 is 2 per level. Then the cost per attribute goes back to 3 for 16 and 17, then up to 4 for 18 to 21.
Having 7 and 8 cost three seems like a weird deviation from the rest of the pattern.
I'm not complaining about it. Just curious as to the reasoning.

It's to make it more viable to lower a stat below 10, given the penalties for doing so are quite heavy. You made an example of a character with 6 PER and CHA - that's one who would have a hard time doing PvE (can't identify items, has very bad luck) and in PvP would be smashed by any half-decent user of Assassination and/or Illusionism. Doesn't mean it's not a viable character, but very unbalanced

@neomurdoc said in Will have any type of faction system?:

Hello all, im very interested about this new game, a faction system will be good for this type of "grind".
The mass PvP in some maps is good for get fun

Hi neomurdoc! Fractured won't have a "conventional" faction system. However, the three races are in many ways factions already. Demon guilds will likely team up when it's time to invade other planets, Beastmen as well when it's time to protect Arboreus, and so on. Humans, well - you never know about them

@ezmoh as @Karuro said, but there are plenty of screenshots coming soon, and later in the summer video footages as well

@finland said in Feature Spotlight #6 - PvP, Alignment & Crime:

So do you consider sabotaging guilds (as spies) an exploit? If yes I supposed that will be able to report. I really hate those who join just to check the movements of a guild only to inform their main guild and organize gankins and so on.

No, it's not an exploit. I agree it's a despicable behavior, but there is no bug being abused there.

@deity said in Feature Spotlight #6 - PvP, Alignment & Crime:

is there going to be a big difference of karma gain or loss between executing, knocking unconscious or just attacking or looting since that would point to support type players falling behind just because of their choice of skillset.

There is a big difference, the Karma change for just attacking is minimal. Anyway, if you want to raise your Karma, temple offerings, divine quests and PvE is the way to go. "Hunting" Evil players is secondary.

@deity said in Feature Spotlight #6 - PvP, Alignment & Crime:

it would definitely be better if we weren't allowed to change our alignments but the things we did changed our alignments and we had to live the consequences of it. "alignment" is not a thing that you can control by just saying you belong to one.

Yes, that would be more "realistic". However, we have to sacrifice realism on the altar of gameplay here :slight_smile:

@logain said in Feature Spotlight #6 - PvP, Alignment & Crime:

That said, I would have preferred you giving a rough figure on what 'large area' means in context of PvE only. I'm sorry, but I don't see what you said here in any shape or form:

Between 30% and 50% of the planet I'd say, but it's hard to tell right now. Also consider this information is not vital - how much content there is in Good-only areas is more important than size.

@logain said in Feature Spotlight #6 - PvP, Alignment & Crime:

People can flat out state that they are going to bot in the game on this forum, or even state that they have hacked and stolen items from people on other games (a real life crime) with no consequences to them. And there's going to be 'large areas' of a botters dream. That's kind of... the opposite of 'not being gentle'?

By "not being gentle" I meant we'll run both scripted and manual controls, systematically. We'll get as sophisticated as we can. As for big talks, it's just big talks, can't pass judgment on "intentions".

@logain said in Feature Spotlight #6 - PvP, Alignment & Crime:

'you are quickly drained of all vital energies if you step into a Good-only area'. Which would imply that you can enter these areas and can initiate a fight in them as evil character (which I'd appreciate)? But what is 'quickly' in this context?

Quickly means you have enough time to run out after noticing - a few seconds instead of immediate death. You can't enter and initiate a fight, sorry!

@logain said in Feature Spotlight #6 - PvP, Alignment & Crime:

And you haven't explained the 'in game mechanical benefit' to being a Demon. Actually, it seems to be far more enticing to choose a Beastman for a competitive PvP player, since the Beastman has a better grasp on resources, can decide when and where to initiate combat and have an easier time to retreat.

It has a better grasp of Arboreus-specific resources, which are different from the ones of Syndesia and Tartaros :slight_smile: Since there's no hostile PvP on Arboreus, I don't get what you mean by "easy retreat" - if you're doing PvP on Syndesia with a Beastman you have no advantage compared to Demons and Humans. If you're doing it on Tartaros, you're heavily penalized compared to Demons and quite penalized compared to Humans. Last but not least, you're cut off town conquest. I'd definitely say Beastman is the worst race if you want to PvP, as it's meant to be :slight_smile:

@dybuk said in Feature Spotlight #6 - PvP, Alignment & Crime:

In the spotlight it is mentioned, that Good alingment players won't be able to loot other Good or Neutral players.
Are there any exceptions from this rule? For example looting a friends corpse and holding to his items till he respawns?

You can allow your Party / Guild members to loot you :slight_smile:

@darian said in Feature Spotlight #6 - PvP, Alignment & Crime:

One question, how important will your alignment be in regards to championing neutral gods? I mean, i'm more inclined to play good but lore wise, I'd love to be a champion of Galvanos. Will I be able to do so with a really high karma?

Yes, you will. Neutral Gods don't care about your Karma

@askariot said in What is the gameplay like?:

I think it can be like albion online.

Nope, not really! From world building to races, from combat to graphical style, I'd say Fractured is very different from Albion. We're both making a top-down sandbox MMO, but that's about it :slight_smile:

Hi @Targarris All the info on dates we can release as of today are those available in our FAQ.

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