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 Two Worlds: Antaloor Post (Issue 21/May 2008) |
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May 02, 2008 - 8:45 PM - by propheet
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Issue 21 of Antaloor Post, the official Temptation newsletter is here.
In this issue, you'll find:
*Enlightenment - Thanks to Technology
Devs took time and created some pretty advanced lighting schemes for Temptation. It seems that original shadow maps and dynamic lighting along with HDR were not next-gen enough; they're now revealing the new and -let's face it- stunning new addition to evergrowing world of Antaloor. Dynamic Ambience Occlusion, or DaO for short, is the method of light mapping which allows creating the following:
-Rays of 'heavenly light', as sometimes seen when a lonely ray of sunlight penetrates the cover of the clouds,
-Particle reflections, which make dust and air 'particles' glow within a ray,
-Deeper or shallower shadows because of the Occlusion effect - when some objects scatter the light, they obscure visibility of objects behind them (lightsource-wise), to enhance the feeling of darker or lighter shadows and higher or lower objects' visibility. This is seen perfectly here:
*Just Arrived - Perforator
Following community's feedback, devs decided to include new beasts and fauna into the mob-list. Their newest 'baby', the Perforator (beta name, which may be changed as had been done once already - dedicated AP readers know what I am talking about!), looks simply dreadful - crocodile head, demon-like body, and dragon-like claws simply have to instill fear in adventurer's heart!
See the cutie for yourself:
*Fire Magic - the overview
Two Worlds universe has several types of magic available - one of them, possibly the most damaging and spectacular, is Fire Magic School. In this issue, three spells were described in detail - Firewave, Chaos Rage and Meteor.
Firewave - is described as modified version of Fire spray in the issue, which is not the case. Firewave produces advancing carpet of flame, starting a bit in front of the player (omitting any enemy in the 'intimate' distance), and proceeding 3-4 steps ahead. It's range is MUCH smaller than fire spray, though, and it's damage exceeds to all enemies engulfed by the wave. The wave deals very small Over Time Damage, and cannot be cast so as to create neverending carpet (time between casts makes it very clunky, not really feasible against single oponents). As AP points out, it's designed to deal more damage but to also consume more mana. As a fire-spell, this spell also staggers enemies as they advance through the flames, and has another advantage over firewall - enemies won't be able to evade it's fiery grip.
Chaos rage - is a simple spell, described as a spell to force cursed creatures to fight at your side. AP even goes to say, that
"These summoning spells are especially handy if you‘ve got plenty of Mana in reserve, meaning you can awake several creatures at one time."
which isn't the case. Chaos rage is non-summoning spell, as targeted creatures cannot be unsummoned, and the spell itself is in no way affected by summoning booster. In fact, Chaos rage doesn't produce new allies, it only aggroes targeted being so that it attacks another being nearby, sometimes even you yourself.
Meteor - is "queen of Fire Magic" card, designed to inflict massive damage, with splash radius, at selected opponent. What has not been mentioned in AP,is that meteor - as many other spells - increases its AoE effect with newly added cards, and that time between casts (specifically, between meteor strikes themselves) is atrociously slow - it takes approximately 1-2 secs before the meteor actually falls on a target. This is why meteor should be used either against tight packs of weaker foes, as a first strike before they are aggroed at the player, or against a huge creature, again, as an initial strike. This is due to the fact, that unlike Blizzard or Lightning Storm, Meteor doesn't follow the target, and stays pinned to the area targeted during spell casting. This in turn means that if targeted oponent has moved after the spell was cast, but before the meteor went down, at best the meteor will only inflict side-damage - mere fraction of what center of effect damage would be.
*Did you know, that...
Finally, issue closes with an in-game tip on how to earn 30 000 ingame gold by following the Giriza questline. As AEon points out, killing any head of the guild (and the means of earning this huge pile of money are this exactly - an assassination!) reduces chances of advancement in the opposing guild to zero, by zeroing reputation with the enemy guild. While it may make one slightly richer, it may actually hurt game progress to do so.
Proceed to read/download the full issue here:
http://www.insidetwoworlds.com/local...=25&linkid=190
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Most wanted Games April 2008 |
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May 01, 2008 - 10:49 AM - by UnKnOwN
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 The German Game Magazine "PC-Action" has released a list of the most wanted Games 2008. 51 readers gives there input to buid this list.
Each registered "PC-Action" member can vote every month for his favorite.
You can navigate the previous months survey data by clicking right above and down. Please announce at the system or register yourselve FREE here as a member.
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April 2008
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1 Two Worlds: The Temptation
2 Grand Theft Auto 4
3 Assassin's Creed
4 X-Blades
5 Call of Duty 4
6 Spore
7 Gothic 4
8 Mafia 2
9 Postal 3: Catharsis
10 Das Schwarze Auge 4
11 Turok
12 Aion
13 Resident Evil 5
14 Warhammer Online
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Source:
http://www.pcaction.de/?menu=0202
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Related Links:
Most wanted Games Dezember 2007 - April 2008:
http://www.insidetwoworlds.com/showthread.php?t=29316
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Two Worlds: Tainted Blood: Tonight ! |
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Apr 30, 2008 - 3:36 PM - by UnKnOwN
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 After presenting the new Add-on "Tainted Blood" last week, here we go today!
The "Two Worlds" package with more than 30 new quests for MP section is ready for download at http://taintedblood.2-worlds.com from midnight on. Of course for free!
For all of those who have forgotten, what "Tainted Blood" is about:
Players can now go on the hunt for a crazy Necromancer, unsolve the mystery of a massacre in a woodcutters' camp, deal with a rebel knight (permanently)
and lots more.
The new add-on doesn't only give you a new series of Quests -
it also opens up the doors to an all-new Business and Training Center! The
town of Tharnburg offers you a large traders' district - and various arenas
in which you can try out your newly-learned combat techniques right away.
Source:
press release
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NEW Two Worlds: The Temptation interview with Miroslaw Dymek |
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Apr 30, 2008 - 6:29 AM - by UnKnOwN
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 CRPG.ru had the chance to conduct an interview with Reality Pump CEO Miroslaw Dymek about their upcoming Two Worlds: The Temptation standalone sequel, including how it will tie into the original game, their plans for water-based transportation, skill and quest system improvements, and more....
CRPG.RU: According to those tidbits of information on the Temptation, it continues the storyline of the original. Are we playing the same protagonist or a new one? And if it's the same one, do we give him a fresh start or are ought to load the save-games from the Two World (2W)?
Miroslaw Dymek: We want to advance the story bit by bit, "The Temptation" does continue with the 2W story - and the protagonist is the same. However, at the start of the game something very dramatic will happen - and that will explain, logically, why the hero has to start from the beginning. Players can't take over the character - the story of "The Temptation" will provide a beginning which will match both potential endings in 2W.
CRPG.RU: Can you reveal some details of the plot? Where do we start and what task lies ahead of the main hero?
Miroslaw Dymek: At the start of his adventure, the player will be taken to the desert city of Hatmandor on a search for the powerful Mage Andar Hog. The new center of Drak'ar is famous, thanks to a mysterious magical raw material called "Glow" - it's this that has propelled the city to prominence. When he gets to Hatmandor, the player will be caught up in a complicated game of cat-and-mouse in the workers' quarter in Hatmandor. This is where the laborers live - the ones who get the Glow out of the desert. The player can then gradually start to gain a reputation with the various guilds and groups, getting hold of some important info about the whereabouts of Andar Hog as he goes.
With this knowledge, the hero then goes to find and destroy Gandohar's power source - and save his sister Kira at the same time.
Source:
http://www.gamebanshee.com/news/stat...kyUtYRcTyh.php
Interview:
http://www.crpg.ru/sections.php?op=v...cle&artid=2290
Thanks to "ferkel" for this hint
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Two Worlds: Antaloor Post (Issue 20/April 2008) |
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Apr 26, 2008 - 3:52 PM - by UnKnOwN
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 Pretty Sharp Optics in „The Temptaton”
During the further development of the graphical possibilities in „The Temptation“, the programmers certainly didn‘t neglect the Depth of Focus effect - and now they‘ve proudly presented the result of their efforts... an automatic Depth of Focus function within the game!
The optics specialists in the team took apart camera lenses by the dozen to analyze them - and they succeeded in opisolating several special features. So, after consultation with the designers, they integrated individual pieces of this optical jigsaw puzzle into the engine of „The Temptation“. Two of these special features from the world of photography were the settings for Shutter Speed and Focal Length - and now if you set these levels, you can actually vary the Depth of Focus in the game! The game developers also have this function available to influence visual range within the game. Yet another highlight is Autofocus....
Related Links:
[Antaloor Post: Issue 20/April 2008]
[Antaloor Post Thread]
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Two Worlds - Tainted Blood - Free Download |
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Apr 24, 2008 - 2:01 PM - by UnKnOwN
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 +++ Multiplayer-Add-on with 30 new Quests available at May 1th +++
Karlsruhe, May 24th 2008 - Gamers who bought the Game-of-the-Year edition of "Two Worlds" (available in the European shops for 29.99 Euro since the beginning of April) were thrilled with the brand new PC multiplayer add-on for the RPG - and now they can download the new adventures in Antaloor from the first of May - for free at www.2-worlds.com.
Players can now go on the hunt for a crazy Necromancer, unsolve the mystery of a massacre in a woodcutters' camp, deal with a rebel knight (permanently) and lots more. The new add-on doesn't only give you a new series of Quests - it also opens up the doors to an all-new Business and Training Center! The town of Tharnburg offers you a large traders' district - and various arenas in which you can try out your newly-learned combat techniques right away.
By the way - "Tainted Blood" isn't the only add-on that will help sweeten your wait for "The Temptation" follow-up... another add-on's coming soon!
Source:
http://www.gamershell.com/companies/...nt/422158.html
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Two Worlds: Antaloor Post (Issue 18/April 2008) |
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Apr 14, 2008 - 9:07 AM - by UnKnOwN
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 This New Engine is just so Cooool
I believe I mentioned a new engine a couple of times in recent issues of the AP - and told you all how powerful it was, that it added true graphic power to the RPG? For this issue, I really sat on the developers‘ shoulders to find out more for you... and sure enough - I succeeded in stealing a few minutes of Miroslaw Dymek’s time. Here’s what he had to say….
„We started creating a whole new engine when we finished „Two Worlds“ - and it‘s battan engine that allows us to really stretch the technological envelope of Next-Gen Hardware, especially with regard to the realistic rendering of scenes. „The Temptation“ offers much more in the way of worlds and has a heck of a lot more detail in the visible areas too.
Related Links:
[Antaloor Post: Issue 18/April 2008]
[Antaloor Post Thread]
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Antaloor Post column goes online |
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Apr 10, 2008 - 1:54 PM - by UnKnOwN
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 We received so many requests from you about this, we just had to do something... and the new Antaloor Post column goes online today! The archive contains every AP issue ever published online - and in future you'll also find the newest issues here too. But - if you just can't wait until it appears on the site,just register for your own personal copy here - you'll receive the brand-new AP 3 full days in advance! Just order the newsletter in the press section.
Source:
http://www.2-worlds.com/?l=en&l_c=1&act=
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» The Temptation |
The Temptation is the sequel to Two Worlds.
Genre: RPG
Status: Alpha
Multiplayer: up to 8
Release Dates
PC DVD: Autumn 2008
Xbox 360:: Autumn 2008
PS3:: unknown
Platforms:
PC DVD, Xbox 360, PS3
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