Cannith Crystal Makeover - THANK YOU

[vryxnr]

I know most everyone was thankful for one of the earlier changes where the crystal could no longer be destroyed by friendly fire... but I kinda miss it lol. Taught me positioning and self control. But I understand that I'm a weirdo super freak for that.

 

[Kryxal]

I know most everyone was thankful for one of the earlier changes where the crystal could no longer be destroyed by friendly fire... but I kinda miss it lol. Taught me positioning and self control. But I understand that I'm a weirdo super freak for that.

I could see that being a problem for a barb, stand in front of the crystal and cleave-cleave-cleave ... failed? But they never reached it!

 

[The Narc2]

I sense an epic or legendary korthos coming, hope they make these quests have access to reaper settings.

 

[saekee]

Frankly, this change makes little sense. Korthos is a forgotten village on a small island in the middle of nowhere. How could they have preserved such technology ? It made perfect sense that they would have retained the crystal, an artifact of bygone times, but it was just a standalone thing, without the machines the islanders couldn't build themselves.

well, we do walk into one of the wilderness quests and learn that it is where warforged were created. So yeah it is a big downgrade from creating sentient machines to a little house heater.

 

[Solarpower]

well, we do walk into one of the wilderness quests and learn that it is where warforged were created. So yeah it is a big downgrade from creating sentient machines to a little house heater.

Yes, it was a long time ago. Now everything is destroyed. We see these ruins ourselves.
As well as the level of technology on the island, in the 'Redemption' quest.

At least they could make that heater old, assembled from scrap metal and garbage, not new and shiny.

PS. Honestly, I did this quest like ~6-8 minutes before I saw this topic on forum, and... I didn't notice this change. Like at all.

 

[kmoustakas]

They changed the lighting in some of the other quests as well. I'm glad you posted this because I thought I was going crazy!

edit: we still have hope for homlet starting area!

 

[kmoustakas]

Sorry but hard disagree. Keep on the Borderlands is orders of magnitude harder than Korthos and is a terrible starter area for brand new players. Goodish starter area for veterans though who dont even notice the difficulty spike.

edit watch the Josh Strife Hayes video on DDO to see why Korthos works as a starter area (introducing mechanics through emergent gameplay) things that we vets have long since forgotten are important and that KoTB assumes we already know.

You have a point here because the amount of people who died to needle blights running to the quests on hardcore was joyfully high and we always had a laugh about it.

 

[droid327]

By that logic then all new quests should only feature wire frame work there by cutting down on the time spent on the art. . . . .

DDO: Tron

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[Fallout47]

I noticed a new visual, at least it is new to me, when leveling on the bear, I am now getting red stripes forming when I use maul. They linger and I have seen them stack up to 2/side. If this was mentioned in the release notes, my apologies, I am notorious for skimming such blerbs.

 

[Lotoc]

I noticed a new visual, at least it is new to me, when leveling on the bear, I am now getting red stripes forming when I use maul. They linger and I have seen them stack up to 2/side. If this was mentioned in the release notes, my apologies, I am notorious for skimming such blerbs.

oh that's an effect that has existed since the Nature's Protector enhancement tree was added, that's your Killer Instinct stacks.

 

[Dazling]

Oh cool, I normally play on low graphics to keep things smoother when 6-boxing and tried ultra high for the start of my winter fey event run. Here I thought I just misremembered how beautiful Korthos was, a lot of graphics in that area felt way better and more atmospheric. I'd love to see more updates like this; the way things are being added without explicitly detailing every bit of what changed reminds me of the good old days when updates were magical unknowns, hope it continues.

 

[Bjond]

My friends and I were all shocked to see this yesterday. It's a small change, but it was all we could talk about

I ran it yesterday and didn't notice it. If not for the description of the change, I'd still not have noticed.

It would be kinda fun to expand Korthos

Heh. I'd like to see that flipped; ie. "it's time for Korthos to expand" and invade the harbor. Why? The harbor is uh harboring kobolds, nasty evil vermin with a secret dragon cult worshipping the Korthos dragon.

 

[Aeromach]

I seriously think I would quit DDO if I had to run Korthos at level 1... at level 3 it's slightly less boring.
Except MP, of course, which is almost always a skip.
But the real advantage it has over Borderlands as a starter is Coin Lords Favor. (and a couple of other House favor)
That and Borderlands is better at level 20. Gatekeepers favor is plentiful, and no reason to rush to get it.

I'll check out the makeover for the crystal next life... maybe I'll be a little less cynical about it.

 

[Honkuimushi]

Oh, the mushrooms and moss in Collaborator were very nice, and it looks like Garrison's Missing Pack got the same lighting upgrades and mist as most of the Korthos quests got. I didn't notice any other Harbor quests getting upgraded, and I ran all of them except for Stealth Repossession.

 

[Throbulator]

To whichever Dev was watching my stream recently where I went on a bit of rant about how Korthos isn't a very good starter area and how the Cannith Crystal quest in particular made no sense whatsoever, thank you for doing a stealthy makeover of the quest. I love the new look where the crystal is now plugged into devices that would produce the heat thats keeping the village from freezing.

I still think that the Keep on the Borderlands (with some additions) would make for a far better quality starter area for the game, but this small graphical change greatly improves this quest.

Just TR:ed and did a Korthos run, and I felt like several quest have gotten new lighting and some minor fixes.
Made me smile.

 

[PersonMan]

Perhaps the PAXArena playthrough prompted some renovations.

 

[Dendrix Deathblade]

I really like the small visual refresh that was done

Well done Developers!

 

[Balvix]

To whichever Dev was watching my stream recently where I went on a bit of rant about how Korthos isn't a very good starter area and how the Cannith Crystal quest in particular made no sense whatsoever, thank you for doing a stealthy makeover of the quest. I love the new look where the crystal is now plugged into devices that would produce the heat thats keeping the village from freezing.

I still think that the Keep on the Borderlands (with some additions) would make for a far better quality starter area for the game, but this small graphical change greatly improves this quest.

Yeah I'm so glad they wasted time with this when there are plenty of bugs and problems that have been plaguing the game for multiple years. Truly, it does look better, but I get really irritated seeing things like this when they still haven't fixed so many well known bugs in the game.

 

[DBZ]

Like the balance pass that made the op even more op

 

[Drunken.dx]

Yeah I'm so glad they wasted time with this when there are plenty of bugs and problems that have been plaguing the game for multiple years. Truly, it does look better, but I get really irritated seeing things like this when they still haven't fixed so many well known bugs in the game.