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Needs some evolution? I call it regression.
We used to have good game ... very good looking monsters ... and now we have these MANGA like creatures.
Since when DSO became manga crap comic book?

Compare the old monsters and the new monsters ... the old monsters are looking so good in every aspect ... but not those new, indistinct manga creatures.
The main boss is a top of the cake ... I feel like I am playing Pokemon ... where the hell Drakensang Online went.

To summarize it ... we already knew those in charge for the game development were noobs ... but now we know that the art designers are noobs too.
So there you go ... to make it complete we have a bunch of incompetent noob team that brought this game to extinction.

PS ... check your employees ... i think some of them are working for other company's interests.

Edit ------ POEKEMON ONLINE should be the new game title.

 

have you not said consistently when asked that drop rates will improve in lor'tac, and now saying....meh it might change in the future?

 

You have to understand ... it is not CM's fault ... they have only the info that was given to them by those dev noobs.
I am sure about that 100%. CM are just telling us what they have been told to.

POKEMON ONLINE!!!!

 

yeah, wasn't assigning blame, was just trying to work out if should read any other comments as they might not be true either if the devs are giving out different information. like a politician does, says what the people want to hear, and once the people discover the truth its too late they already voted in...

 

@CM Haruki ,
You would make a most excellent politician!!! That was smooth the way you answered that question without committing to anything and I must agree with Trakilaki on the monsters, they are quite hideous and not in an appealing sort of way, the landscapes I have experienced so far are quite nice, but quite a giant leap from a place that might have been "real" to cat people living in trees. No matter though I am looking forward to playing the new maps on the live server because after all new content is new content and it will be nice to actually have new quests and new things to discover. and BTW, Thanks for answering I see that you are paying attention, now could you make sure everyone else is?

 

POKEMON ONLINE!!!!

 

This was exactly my reaction when I saw your post.
Really? POKEMON ONLINE? What
How is Balor in any way related to Pokemon?
And what does Manga have to do with those mobs??

 

extension of 2 weeks for lortac event? why?

r155 only comes in 2 weeks?

 

My bad sorry.
It is not manga like ... since they are moving it is ANIME like.
Now look what monsters used to look like


that is why people start playing this game ... it looks realistic.

And this is how they are looking now





And this mount can be called a Dragon ... just like those in the Teganswall region ...



And this failure of a bag full of ... uhm ... dirt ... should be the main end boss



They removed the clawstriders because they were realistic and cool ... and they said: we removed them because they were not fitting into our concept" ... now I can see what their concept is .... the Crapwalkers and stupidity toons.


POKEMON ONLINE!!!!

Edit: the main boss Balor is not fun playing at all. Everything with him is wrong ... come on ... "Herald of Corruption" ... is that what they can do the best ... when out of creativity?

POKEMON ONLINE!!!

 

well somewhere days have length of a week.

 

WOW NOW " WEEKS FOR LORTAC WELL DONE FOR THE DELAY AS ALWAYS -___-

 

Call it whatever you like ... it is not DSO anyway.

That is what mainstream "science" want us to believe.

ATM ... there are few major bugs on TS ... present even with R155_16.
One of them is the bug connected with using the skill points. You have enough (or more) points but you can't select the skill.

 

@CM Haruki
for rangers very hard to find a PVE group, everyone searching for mage or warriors for m2 map groups, deadly blow was our best skill for PVE and now u decrease the damage from %100 to %80, please increase the damage back to %100,i dont care the speed but rangers need damage for PVE because we dont have double hand high damage bows
our long bows are trash items,nobody use them
please increase the damage back for deadly blow.

do you think rangers will be the populer class for the m2 groups like the mages and warriors ? mages have high damage, warriors have high damage with dobule hand and rangers have what ?
armor break 3 sec for pve and 2 sec for pvp, pvp is ok but for pve very short 3 sec, u can do it 5 sec for pve 2 sec for pvp and then people want the rangers in their group.

 

Hello there!! Yes, I said consistently that the drop rates are improved in Lor'Tac, cos it's true. Still, there are lower drops and higher drops and I was personally sharing my emotions with that 5 andermant drop... Which I personally consider a little bit meh. And the fact that the drop rates have already been changed does not mean that they will not be changed again in the future.

No, content expansion comes on Wednesday.
They just decided to give you guys extra two weeks of the Lor'Tac Bound event - maybe some people need to farm more tablet fragments. If you are one of those who will not use the extension time provided, then simply disregard the event, since you will be able to trade the fragments for treasure chest as soon as you lay foot in Yatepetl.

Trakilaki, calm down, man!!
Drakensang Online is not Pokemon Online although, I will give you that, it's a catchy phrase.
We are sorry we took Totodile (aka Clawstrider) from the list of enemies - apparently some sectors of the community did not like it...

I would personally love if you stop calling the devs and the artistic people here "noobs". You do not need to be insulting to make a statement more valid, do you. They are certainly not noobs at all, they put a lot of work in what they do and if you see the general feedback that the community has given to us regarding the bestiary, or have a look at the comments on the trailer video, it seems as if a lot of people kinda like Balor and they like the general vibe and peculiar new shapes of the Lor'Tac enemies. There are a few comments on the behavior of those creatures, their enchantments and their difficulty levels but so far, we have not detected any resentment when it comes to their general physical shape.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I have been quite the manga/anime consumer for a lot of years and I cannot really see any ultra-manga inspiration in the figures of the flesh eaters, the chimeras, the temple protectors, the Toltac, Nefertari, the orbax, the venom scorpions... But again, this is a matter of subjective perception and opinion.

About the release and known bugs
Please, bear with us, we will provide with our patch notes a list of the known issues that are on the immediate bug fixing pipeline.

Write to you tomorrow!!
Cheers!

 

Question
Well, saw that the background of the web page was now the new boss,the content expansion arrives the day after tomorrow. can we expect that the wait time for patching will be soon? as you said in the roadmap, change in release cycle ?

 

I know I didn't start playing the game because it looked "realistic". To be honest, the game looked like crap back then, compared to what it looks like now. Also, are you saying real skeletons look like those..?

Well, yeah I agree with you with that the mummies/fleshwalkers aren't the best looking mobs in the game, but that's not a reason to bash the art team, they are doing a fantastic job with everything else.

Balor looks more like a real dragon, unlike those "Dragon-brood" warriors, they are supposed to be half-human, half-dragon.

My guess would be that they removed the Clawstriders because of this thread. So maybe they even once listened to the player feedback .

I agree; the boss looks really uninspired and bringing out Herald is just lazy. Haven't fought the boss yet though.

Yeah keep saying that, if it makes you feel better.

 

Why do you plan to release the new wisdom and PvP skillsystems then, when a big part of community dislike it ? You didn´t remove Clawstriders because people didn´t want them, but because you recieved a lawsuit warning, just admit it

 

"Officially balanced". What a perfectly nice way to say (better edit myself) you players, we don't care that you have worked so hard on your characters or spend so much money on your characters. We are taking away what we want and if you don't like it, stop playing.

I guess that is better than saying, we spent months trying to figure out how to improve your characters, but no matter how hard we tried none of us could come up with any ideas. However in order to prove that we can come up with a thought, we decided to nerf you.

 

Hey team, thank you for the answers and keeping the feedback loop. I do not have extra questions, even though I feel like those I already asked were not answered. Instead, I would like to tell you one thing. as a professional in the process models, as a certified agile trainer and coach, as Lean practitioner, switching to 3 week release cycles is a wrong thing to do. I have seen teams saying they need longer cycles lots of times. Trust me, instead, the best thing to do would be switch to one week cycle.
I'm not sure if you 've got any agile coach in place already, but looks like you have not. If you have had one, he would tell you Im right. You guys are not fixing you real issues, the root causes. And 3 weeks won't be enough too. Really guys, hire some coach so he can show you the way to go, the way to decrease the technical debt, the way to do the in-sprint QA and real automation, continuous delivery and improvement, the way to to the backlog workshops, grooming meetings, story slicing etc. Just saying, guys, you do the wrong thing, fundamentally wrong.

 

What he said ^
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