RIFT @ GamesCom 2011

We (Result - Immerwacht EU) have been to the GamesCom in Cologne and had quite some luck to arange a meet 'n' greet with Vice President/Executive Development Director Russ Brown and RIFT Producer Adam Gershowitz. Here's a little summary of the topics:

to patch 1.5:
- 1.5 will go live end of september - beginning of october
- There will be "single-dungeons" as a part of the "Chronicles of Telara". These dungeons are for more casual players who don't have the times like full raiders do. You can easily clear this dungeons with 1-2 players (depends on the equip) but the difficulty will not scale with the amount of players in the dungeon. Hammerknell will be the first "solo-dungeon" so that casual gamers are able to see that type of dungeon as well.
- There will be the "Master-Mode". The Developers said that it is going to be hard to solve these dungeons. It's for gamers between full raiding and casual. Right now, Darkening Deeps and Deepstrike Mines are the first dungeons in testing phase. There probably will be more depending on which dungeons the community wants to see.
- The new "Hammerknell"-Warfront "Library of the Runemasters" will be released
- The first parts of the new "Planar Achievment System" will go live. From level 50 on you will get points for earned EP from daily quests etc. These points can be spent in 6 extra bonus skilltrees to adjust the characters a little more and give them some finetuning.

other facts:
- The new 10-man-dungeon "Rise of the phoenix" won't be released with 1.5 because they are focusing on other things (see above) and it is still in testing
- The new 10-man-dungeon will be as hard as Hammerknell just with 10 man!
- The new Zone won't come live with 1.5
- But there will be new Raid-Rifts with the new zone (1.6 or later)
- The aspect "social-life" was discussed. Developers are planig some fancy features like a "barber-shop" whre you can change the face of your character.
- The "Warrior and leather" issue was discussed. They want to have every class their own equip-class. So warriors won't prefer leather instead of plate anymore in future. so don't buy any leather form you tokens any more warriors because they will adjust the items step by step^^

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[GaryTube18]

LOL Torrac 12k views... thats awesome

ich hätte nen intro bauen sollen..

gruß log

[JanTorrac]

@GaryTube18 wär vielleicht doch besser gewesen 8)

[micaelmorais]

more raid??

do i need to raid until i dye ?????

[JanTorrac]

@micaelmorais yeah

[trickpa80]

damn instance and dungeons, make more open world game and CRAFT 

[JanTorrac]

@trickpa80 omg that is exactly what they just did with 1.4 xD so how can you complain?

[Babeman1]

"Our philosphy at trion is that we have to constantly release new content, customers are paying us money, we have to give them things to do"

Anyone else happy to know that trion isn't sitting on their ass and keeps developing more content? The development rate that Trion is going at, in a year or so it will have more content the WoW.

[Puremallace]

OH MY FUCKING GOD THE HOLY GRAIL OF INFORMATION!

[TheMossad22]

Feed the beast!

[basketcaserb]

lol games on sale for 4.99.... wonder why... terribad game is terribad

[GaryTube18]

Hallo Torrac ich hab das full Gameplay Video von Hammerhall als Response für dich :)

[abbba2]

for some reason I find graphics much better in 1.5 or is it just me ?

[SwobyJ]

@scarhavok Basically my priorities go:

1)If GW2 is great, and Rift keeps up, I can easily play both (GW2 casually, Rift when updates come). If not for Rift, then I just play GW2 and possibly one of the below games.

2)Rift. If GW2 is not good (ha!), I can stick to Rift.

3)The Secret World/TOR tied. I have some interest in both.

4)ArcheAge, TERA, etc etc. Other bigger games coming out, I'm at least interested in their betas.

[SwobyJ]

@dannyt4011 You're treating world events like 'World Special Rare Events'. Rift World Events just show the progression of Telara, and gradual development of the story (along with new zones, Chronicles, raids, epic questlines, etc). It's part of an overall package that comes every 1-2 months.

[SwobyJ]

@MRFgames imo more likely Ember Isle in order to convince people not to unsub in prep for TOR, and another in-progress zone Planetouched Wilds around when TOR launches (or within a month after the launch) to convince people to come back to Rift.

Maybe not though.