Monthly Archives: December 2014

Is it possible to develop a MMORPG that you can play as a single player RPG? Portalarium want to try it with the new MMO Shroud of the Avatar.

It sounds strange, and one wonders whether it can really work. Portalarium would like to offer Shroud of the Avataras a single player game. Once you start the game, you can choose between different game modes including single player and MMORPG, but this will work at all?

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We are thrilled to announce that over 500,000 recruits have signed up for the closed beta of Armored Warfare! To celebrate, we’ve released this video, which focuses on the modern battlefield, PvP Combat, Co-Op Missions and deep Customization!

War is never pretty, but it usually doesn’t lack for participants. That seems to be the case with Obsidian Entertainment’s and My.com’s upcoming modern-day tank battler, Armored Warfare, which today announced that it has registered 500,000 beta signups.

To commemorate this milestone, the team’s released a new trailer showing off several environments and customization options for tanks and crew members — and, of course, tank after tank after tank after tank.

You can still sign up for the beta on the Armored Warfare site. Just don’t get your hopes up for there being an announcement for the 500,001st player.

With only a few days left until the December 12 release of Path of Exile’s player-versus-player-centric Content Update 1.3.0, Grinding Gear Games has released a new, action-packed teaser trailer. This time Leo Redmane, Master of the Arena and Path of Exile’s newest Forsaken Master, shows off a glimpse of the game’s upcoming PvP combat. Click below to answer his call to battle:

Like the other masters, Leo offers a hideout (in the Gardens tileset) with his own decorations and PvP crafting options. His daily missions all involve playing PvP, with rewards for completing different objectives. Unlike other masters, Leo doesn’t take up a slot in the player’s hideout. Players can have him in addition to their regular set of masters. Read More →

Housing has become an important part of every MMORPG. But this is not easy to implement.Housing has become one as good as any MMORPG to do so. Players are very keen to add itself in theirr playing house and decorate it.

In many MMORPG players houses are housed in special zones that are off the intrinsically’s play world. There are several reasons. One is that the game world is not “plastered” by players homes to continue to have the game world as the developers have provided for the adventure. In Ultima Online, for example, it was possible to put a house next to a dungeon entrance and large parts of the wilderness were full houses. The players houses that can be decorated affect the perfomance of the game. Therefore, the decorating possibilities for houses that are open worlds,and usually limited.

However, this implies that many players do not have the feeling of being part of the actual game world with their house. And they can show their home with the decorations not other games. Still, that could displease other players. Often player houses are very individual decorated. Since fountains are stacked or built labyrinths of cabinets. While this shows the creativity of the players, but affects the atmosphere. Strange houses have an effect on the look of the game world, thereby losing their own style, which many players dislike. Read More →

In Rift, this dungeon is designed for players level 63 to 65 and involves fast runs. With four bosses and pretty easy mechanics, it’s fast and easy to get used to.

Glacieus

The first boss you come across in Citadel of Insanity is a large crab-like creature. This battle includes both the boss and minions, although the minions are usually just AoEd down along with the boss himself. If players are using single-target skills, depending on the group’s DPS, the minions can either be targeted down or the boss can be burned. As for the other mechanics of this battle:

• A buff called Coldsnap is randomly used, slowing movement speed. This can be cleansed

• The boss occasionally casts a buff on itself called Deepice Armor. This makes him invulnerable until it’s removed. To remove it, simply look for the water geyser coming out of the ground and walk him over to it. While this happens, he will be getting a new buff: Boiling Mad. This increases his damage, so as soon as Deepice Armor is removed, he should be taken out of the geyser to cut down on his damage output

• Frost Strike is a ranged skill used on a random player. Looking around the ground, you will find shiny items called Frozen Cores. Pick one of these up prior to being hit by the skill to nullify its effects (which otherwise do damage over time and have a stun effect). You’ll know who this is coming for as the boss will emote “Glacieus prepares to throw a frozen spike at (name)!”
Generally speaking, groups will say to ignore the Frost Strike mechanic and the minions and just target down the boss or AoE him with the minions. Most will also just leave him in the geyser, just to keep his Deepice Armor buff from becoming an annoyance later on.

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