Higby Streaming Patch Preview

[Hamma]

Higby is streaming a patch preview live:

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[Hamma]

I believe that he said Amerish is coming Thursday did I hear that right?

[EisenKreutzer]

Yeah, he pretty much confirmed it just now.

[SKYeXile]

Can anybody sumup the major points in dot form? PLEASE

[BorisBlade]

yeah, could definitely use a major point post, the stream keeps losing audio or stopping entirely and when you have to rewatch a stupid 30 sec ad everytime you try to reload the page to fix it, you finally just close the thing out after the billionth commercial.

[Brusi]

Summation:

1. No Beards.

[Envenom]

Amerish is coming WEDNESDAY

[J Baley]

Originally Posted by Brusi

Summation:

1. No Beards.

My fault

[typhaon]

* Amerish looks good.

* I thought the attacking/defending bonus points sounded good and alleviated some of my concerns about people not really caring about the 'other' base benefits enough to matter.

* It sounds like they are sticking with 3 warpgates per continenet - non-capturable. I think this sounds bad. I think a lot of people are already getting tired of 'fighting near the Crown' or being 'stuck in the NW corner of Esamir.'

[Whiteagle]

Originally Posted by typhaon

* It sounds like they are sticking with 3 warpgates per continenet - non-capturable. I think this sounds bad. I think a lot of people are already getting tired of 'fighting near the Crown' or being 'stuck in the NW corner of Esamir.'

Well they've only got three Continents...

You're not going to have any meaningful intercontinental warfare until you have at least four:

[ringring]

Originally Posted by typhaon

* It sounds like they are sticking with 3 warpgates per continenet - non-capturable. I think this sounds bad. I think a lot of people are already getting tired of 'fighting near the Crown' or being 'stuck in the NW corner of Esamir.'

Essentially they have no choice ... other than delaying things until the other continents are ready, which is in itself no choice either.

I think it will take more than four continents, maybe five but probably six.

[Mechzz]

Originally Posted by ringring

Essentially they have no choice ... other than delaying things until the other continents are ready, which is in itself no choice either.

I think it will take more than four continents, maybe five but probably six.

Big question is, will players roll off through boredom caused by the over-constrained fights faster than they can introduce new continents to spice things up a bit. That is the big gamble of an early launch (to say nothing of performance issues and bugs!)

[Dagron]

All 3 footholds will remain in every continent for release, they realized it wouldn't work with only 3 continents.

[Whiteagle]

Originally Posted by Dagron

All 3 footholds will remain in every continent for release, they realized it wouldn't work with only 3 continents.

I knew tweeting them my Diagram would help!

[Dagron]

I've seen this thing in more threads than the letter A.