August 16 Progress Update

Great news!

Next Patch sounds awesome and nice to hear that you gained lots of money, atleast a project that is worth it.



However did i missed a update on the plan to move into open beta ? Wasn't it supposed to be august ?

I'm glad you are aware of the crashes/graphical glitches and are working on it, but I feel as though you are understating the impact it has on the game at the moment. I've been running maps with a group of 3-6 people for the last two weeks. Get ready for some statistics with no supporting data.

When running a map with 3-4 people there is around a 50% chance of 1 person getting artifacts and crashing within 15 minutes. Because the easier 60-64 maps take us around 10-20 minutes, we don't eat up portals because of the game client instability often. However, when running a map with 6 people there is a 100% chance that the game will crash for at least 2 people in the group within 10 minutes and everyone else left will have strong graphical artifacts by 20 minutes. It's so bad and predictable that we are no longer running 65+ maps in groups larger than 4 because it would be a waste of portals and, consequently, a map.

I should note that everyone restarts their game client right before starting a map, and that so far we are unable to notice a pattern in who crashes or gets graphical artifacts. We have also lowered graphical settings but I am not convinced this helps. Long story short, it is by no means an "occasional" problem. It is frequent.

Oh so, evasion builds will actually work? And faster projectiles will actually mean something? YEAY!!!

I dare say Good Guy Greg and Grinding Gear Games sharing the same abbreviation is a very fitting coincidence.


Question if I may about the Passive Skill Tree and Active Skills, do you plan on somehow adding more complexity to it the system?
((Right now I feel it is far from complex, in the sense that good builds -the ones that will get used- is down below ten))

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Gyver wrote:

Could we have some stats on the latest 2 week HC event?

How many people of each class reached level 10,20,30...etc

Distribution of players as spell casters, melee, bow/wand for level 10,20,30...etc

What other analysis did you do and could you share your deductions?

Thanks

Your analysis/deductions on cut-throat would be great too.

The first one about classes should be possible to find manually here:
http://templeofexiles.com/ladder-race
I think it is possible the temple can do one better and give you data of all characters of each race with such accomplishments through search-criteria at some point.

The second one is pretty much impossible for outsiders to do at the moment, but I think there might get to be such a possibility down the line when the trading-system has been completely implemented.

For now, I would assume that rangers use bows with poison arrow as soon as they get hands on it. Marauders use ground slam or cleave primarily (some freaks use bows! :)) and are locked to certain weapon choices from that. Witches will mostly be ice novaing it up, maybe with a few raining fire on heathens, summoning or in special cases use lightning nova (Some freaks use wands/daggers/claws or bows :))

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Videos are a really good way of getting new players interested in the game and also allow us to show things to existing players in a very visual way. I've been really enjoying doing the Build of the Week series, as it helps draw attention to the amazing build variety that our community comes up with in the game.

Could you create a playlist for your Build of the Week series? It's much easier to link someone to a playlist than sending multiple links of individual videos. (As a side benefit, you can include the link in your video comments to generate additional interest in the game.)

Keep up the awesome work!

Bring on the patches!

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meowmers wrote:

I'm glad you are aware of the crashes/graphical glitches and are working on it, but I feel as though you are understating the impact it has on the game at the moment.

No kidding. I'm on an older but very nice 32-bit machine and while the game runs very smoothly between crashes, the map errors in Act II make the game almost unplayable. I crash on about half my instance transitions.

I'm impressed by your dedication. I'm not sure I would have the fortitude to stick to a project for six years without pay.

you guys deserve awards for everything you do!
loving the game, cant wait for pvp and act 3 :D