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mh, thats interesting but why 3x pets?

 

Because each of these pets has different value of bonus, something like Essence Spouts. Gilded one has the highes, if I remember correctly it is 20% on legend level.

 

Now that looks more like a capital town. Kings don't normally sit out on the front porch as it is now.

I'm assuming that the fairgrounds are out front the church between the Arena and the Grotto, no?

 

Current Kingshill is more like a large castle rather than a (capital) city, but it's quite cozy, isn't it?
The new one, what I like about it as displayed on Traki's screens, is the entrance to Hiraja on the ship and the fact that the king now resides inside of a building, which is a very unique thing actually in towns of Drakania.

 

I don't see a big dif and still I don't like it

 

perhaps I'm blind, but I can't find Thabo or Zumpe in new kingshill...or is supposed to be in this way?

 

Thabo is searching the stargate




While Zumpe is working to build his new booth




They have a location, but we can't interact with them at the moment.

PS: i'm not an expert to post pictures here, sorry for this really small format

 

I've got exactly the same feelings as you. There's something to the current (live server) Kingshill that makes us like it.

Regarding the inside of the buildings: the "church" is now open, too. It honestly looks a bit like a synagogue. A few NPCs reside there, the entrance to the catacombs is located therein as well.

What I don't like about the new kingshill, is how the hagastove grotto entrance looks overly simple and small... honestly, I'd add to the new kingshill the whole area leading up to the hagastove grotto in the live server version.

Ah, and btw, there's officially a red-light district in Kingshill now:

 

There's such a district in live server kingshill too.
But the bad thin about it is that we can't actually use those services nor see our character getting on the action.

 

You mean being able to use their services in a GTA style? Hehee I'd pay for that ;D

 

but you can't see, so it's pointless

 

I really can't understand why wasting time redesigning the city, as if there was nothing else of priority to do in order to improve the game, or however no hurry at all to do it.

Wasn't it better to release the new cloaks for all the bosses, so at least we had something to do? What happened to these? Have them disappeared even from the 2020 roadmap?


Besides of it, perfect ignorant question: what would the "Andermant drop stack size" be?

 

And how much its a 20% from nothing

 

Well, if the updated version was breathtaking... it would be a very nice change. However... as we see... it is debatable whether the new version is better or worse than the old one.

I'm personally not sure whether I like the new brick textures, kinda cartoonish stair look and the new cobble on the streets. Also, I feel like there should some more plants along the streets. Whether that be grass, trees, bushes or moss - doesn't matter. But I feel like we need that.

Having thought this through, it must be the more prevalent green accents and (seemingly) better stair look; I personally like the old street surface texture more too.
I think as well that there should be at least a part of city walls that could be walked on. That's one of the things I'll miss if it doesn't come: afking on walls.

All in all, while the new Kingshill is not that terrible, map design is slightly better and the only problems I have with it can be easily fixed (adding grass/bushes or improving textures is one day of work at most, looking at Zumpe and Thabo they might be planning those improvements too anyways)... I still don't consider it breathtaking and thus designing it was quite a loss of time.

However... the reworked map reminded me one thing.
The south-eastern (right) part of the stairs to the "church"... can be walked on... or walked in. Depends on what side you walk from.
That is obviously a bug... but think how much more interesting could maps get if we got parts where we can walk above as well as below. Some changes to the way certain skills work etc. would be needed, but it could be worth it. Perhaps not in the arena and not in bossrooms, but that's certainly something potentially more beneficial to the game than just redesigning cities.

They didn't disappear. The "2020 roadmap" is really (as Jesse himself called it) more of an "event roadmap". In every update there is a "F/B/I" section, which stands for "features/bugfixes/improvements", so I guess that those updates are going to contain some cloaks.

 

I think there will always be more important things for the dev team to do than whatever they are working on at the moment.
I hope the new capital city map will kind of mark a new era. A better one.

It'll probably be just a matter of time that we get used to it eventually and will grow fond of it. We already find it looking pretty good.

Yeah, and having doors/gates that could be opened or closed, allowing you to enter different parts of dungeons or some buildings in towns, would be interesting. The new Kingshill is already more interesting because there are 2 interiors now, although they are not accessed by actually opening doors.

 

From the images posted here, it does not seem to be so extraordinarily beautiful, nor particularly innovative, and above all not "necessary" for future expansion. Compared to the current Kingshill, it seems to me only more rational, having eliminated almost all the alleys that led to nothing, and the various locations that now have no practical purposes. But which give to the present layout - that I do not dislike at all - something realistic and characteristic.

Different case was instead the redesign of Cardhun, hypothesized a long time ago (R.I.P.), and which really gave hope for the introduction of an innovative game mode and that really needed a restructuring of the city.

Of course there will be always something more urgent to do, but in everything there is moment and moment. The only explanation that I can now give myself is that in fact they want to give a sign of discontinuity, but I prefer it to be given with facts, not changing the appearances.

 

So they are redoing Kingshill again, why? What is this like the third of forth time they have done it. Are they adding any new dungeons or wilderness areas to play with it? What so some guy can just sit around on a mount doing nothing in Kingshill? What is the point?

What happened to the new Gorga PW map? A little something different to play would be nice.

What happened to all those new cloaks? Or what we just go around collecting yarn for no purpose?

Not impressed very disenchanted.

 

DTU
There are no difficulty restricted progress bars.
There are 8 progress bars all of them have 3900 progress (if not changed later)



Pet body chests available in the shop and on the progress bars



Heroic chests now require x80 keys (keys dropping on lower difficulties as well)

 

Just the same old pets to assemble?