 | Friday, 21 November, 2008 - AO Vault News |  |
 | |  | | | Ze Game Director Strikes: Friday With Means!
Print News | Category: Game
Mister Game Director, Colin "Means" Cragg, brings us some serious Anarchy in the latest community Q&A! Lots of Booster Pack talk, combined with lots of other stuffs. Here's a taste to whet ye olde whistle:
Q What can avid PVPers expect from 18.0?
PVP toolset updates and powerfull Xan Artifacts will spice up pvp in 18.0.
These are some of the basics we are working to implement in 18.0 (Available for purchase from Ofab Vendors, NOT dependant on purchase of the booster.)
Martial Artist - Single Target Fears
Engineer - AOE Knockback Mines
Fixer - Fear Immunity - NCU Cleanser
Agent - FP other's nanos
Trader - Single Target Shotgun Knockback
Crat - AOE Fears
Enforcer - Knockback Stun and Single Target Fears
Doctor - Fear Removal from Friendly Targets
Nanotech - AOE Knockback
Keeper - Fear Immunity Aura
-- Jube @ 12:21 PST
 | |  | |  | | Tuesday, 18 November, 2008 | |
| | | | | New AO Vault Poll!
Print News | Category: Vault
You know you want some of that hot pollage lovin' and we're dying to know what you have to say! So it's a win-win situation really. Are you a Funcom 4-Ever kinda MMO player? Go vote now and let us know! If you don't vote we'll be sending someone 'round to your house. Someone who will do horrible, horrible things such as... eat all your pie!
-- Jube @ 14:16 PST
The Means Machine, Booster Plus Q&A
Print News | Category: Community
Colin "Means" Cragg, Anarchy Online Game Director, left a note in the official AO forum inviting people to submit their questions for some Friday Q&A action! Go ahead and leave your questions here. He also had the following to say:
The Booster:
Combined Combined Combined Combined is NOT part of the booster and never was. Please stop picketing my house...my dog doesn't like it. "Items in the DB rip are not necessarily part of the etc etc."
Items/Loot 100% in this booster will be deck slot item upgrades, Spirits and Symbiant upgrades. Many placeholders are already in place..and again should not be taken as the final versions until it is live. There will also be some "artifacts" of mysterious use...but no details on that yet. I also wouldn't want to spoil the surprise too much. Fear and Knockback pvp additions will be included in the VP vendors at the same time as the Booster...but will not be booster dependant for use. Profession specific pvp toolset additions are not going to be available only to those who purchase the booster.
Thanks to all who have taken the time to help us test the code aspect of the booster. Mighty Macrosun was able to nail down and fix several serious issues this week that we hope to ship to test dimensions early next week. Next week should also include the first playfield for testing "Neretva Canyon"...and hopefully more.
-- Jube @ 13:49 PST
| | | | | | Monday, 10 November, 2008 | |
| | | | | Vault Network's Icon and Graphic Board Celebrates it's 6th Birthday!
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This week we are celebrating the Vault Network’s Icon and Graphics Board’s 6th birthday!
To celebrate this great event we have an awesome contest with a first place prize of 1 MONTH VIP and a permanent title!!
Get on your thinking caps and see if you can hunt down the icons that match the clues we’ve given!
Here is a sneak peak at one of our very hard clues ;):
“What is made here is not there.”
The contest info and rules can be found here.
- Icon board staff and Moderators are not eligible to win but may participate just for the fun.
- The contest will remain open for two weeks or until we have and 1st and 2nd place winner which ever happens first.
Please see the contest thread for the full details of the rules.
Icon and Graphics board, a community
While perusing our board, if you like what you see, feel free to stick around! The Icon and Graphics board is a fantastic community of artists and people sharing ideas, telling bad jokes and requesting artwork - not just for the Vault but their own guild’s or personal sites too!!
Have a request, general questions or just want some help figuring things out? Feel free to ask, we have a number of talented and knowledgeable people that will be willing to give you a hand.
We're looking for more artists!
If you happen to have a knack or talent for art of these sorts, and need some where to shine and show off, the Icon and Graphics board could be your match made in heaven.
We are currently looking for a few good artists to fill our staff and aid in our quest of beautifying the internet and making icons.
If you are interested in applying and helping out, you can find more information here
Please include a sample of your work. It needn’t be anything elaborate, it’s all about the basic know how with a touch of creativity for good measure.
You can contact me one of two ways, either via PM on the boards or send me an email.
So get moving, and get involved!
-- beibhinn @ 5:02 PST
| | | | | | Thursday, 25 September, 2008 | |
| | | | | Patch 17.10
Print News | Category: Patch
Looks like I missed the patch notes from 17.10 that was released to the live servers on the 22nd. Here is a snippet: Raid InterfaceThe 17.10 update brings with it a new raid management and instancing system that will allow players to come together like never before and get a much better overview of their raid forces. The new raid interface (control+shift+r) will allow players to manage the teams and individuals within the new raid groups. Players will be able to use the following features: - Switch and assign players between teams within the raid.
- Each profession within the raid can be identified by profession icons next to their names.
- Manage a maximum of six teams together as one raid. For raid instances the limit on the number of teams will vary playfield to playfield up to a maximum of six.
- Use a specific raid channel for communication.
- Move the players health and nano bars to appear anywhere you wish on the screen.
- See how much health a player has lost both by their bar and through a numerical display over the bar showing how much health they have lost.
- Assign different loot rules including a leader mode where the raid leader can assign loot rights to anyone in the raid. Anyone not in the raid will never be able to open the corpse.
Nice nice, pet pathing is a especially annoying, so glad its fixed, cant stand wayward pets! Click the link below to read it all. Read More...
-- Tark @ 17:41 PST
| | | | | | Wednesday, 17 September, 2008 | |
| Wednesday, 27 August, 2008 | |
| Thursday, 14 August, 2008 | |
| | | | | The Rise of the Argonauts Vault Launches!
Print News | Category: Vault
We have launched the newest of our Vault sites - this time the very exciting title coming from the fantastic Liquid Entertainment and Codemasters crew - Rise of the Argonauts Vault is your one-stop shop for all your Rise of the Argonauts needs. We have launched with content that will have the fans of the game and mythology stumbling over themselves! A prime example is our Myths and Lore Wiki.
The most excellent segment of the site is the movies database in which we are in the process of uploading every single movie the codies and liquid crew throw at the community... and these guys rock! If you aren't hyped about the game now, you will be by the time you have finished watching the movies!
Be sure to stop by, in the upcoming months we'll be stuffing so much info into this site that both the struggling gamer and the pro gamers will find all they need to know! It hasn't set sail yet but feel free to get on board at RotA Vault!
-- Ocura @ 9:08 PST
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| | | | | The Story So Far
Print News | Category: Community - Game
Anarchy Online takes place on the planet Rubi-Ka, some 27 500 years into the future. The history of mankind has changed a lot since present day. In 2019, a terrifying nuclear holocaust wiped out most of Earth’s heavily populated cities and humans were in the blink of an eye returned to a primitive society of hunters and gatherers. But the story didn’t really start there.
From the Official Site
The Anarchy Online backstory is rich and incredibly deep. Going back as far as twelve years, born from the minds of a few friends, it was first a concept built around the idea of a sci-fi game. A book was written and published, giving players a unique chance to delve into the story that touches on several ideas that mankind have pondered for hundreds of years. Who are we? Where did we come from?
Read More...
-- sytto @ 8:51 PST
17.10 Preview
Print News | Category: Community - Game
Awesome:
The 17.10 update brings with it a new raid management and instancing system that will allow players to come together like never before and get a much better overview of their raid forces.
From the Official Site
Raid Interface
The new raid interface will allow players to manage the teams and individuals within the new raid groups. Players will be able to use the following features:
- Assign leaders for recruitment to the raid.
- Switch and assign players between teams within the raid.
- Each profession within the raid can be identified by profession icons next to their names.
- Manage a maximum of six teams together as one raid. For raid instances the limit on the number of teams will vary playfield to playfield up to a maximum of six.
- Use a specific raid channel for communication.
- Move the players health and nano bars to appear anywhere you wish on the screen.
- See how much health a player has lost both by their bar and through a numerical display over the bar showing how much health they have lost.
- Assign different loot rules including a leader mode where the raid leader can assign loot rights to anyone in the raid.
Read More...
-- sytto @ 8:47 PST
| | | | | | Friday, 27 June, 2008 | |
| | | | | Seven Years of Anarchy Online Video Interview
Print News | Category: Community - Event - Game
On the official AO site, three game directors, a story creator, and a lead designer on the Anarchy Online team sit down and discuss their experiences over the last seven years of developing Anarchy Online.
The video weighs in at a whopping twelve minutes long and is quite large, so we strongly suggest that you download it in advance of wanting to watch it! Our friends at Curse Gaming have also put up an online Flash Player version of the video.
-- Kaltemar @ 15:41 PST
Anarchy Online Global Supremacy Sweepstakes
Print News | Category: Community - Game - Event
The official site is currently announcing a sweepstakes with an absolutely unmissable prize!
The sweepstakes has a first prize of a custom Anarchy Online Gaming PC System from GameRigs, including GameRigs Aluminum ATX Case with custom artwork, Intel Core™ 2 processor, NVIDIA GeForce® graphics card, Crucial Ballistix™ memory, NEC Accusync 24" LCD Display, Razer Lycosa™ gaming keyboard, Razer DeathAdder™ gaming mouse, GameRigs "Anarchy Online" BattleMat™, Lifetime account of Anarchy Online with all expansions, Jobe Deluxe Apartment, Leet Pet.
Open (unfortunately!) only to residents of the US and Canada, this is a can't miss opportunity! You don't even need to do anything but fill in your details!
-- Kaltemar @ 15:32 PST
Anarchy Online Vault Interviews Craig 'Silirrion' Morrison
Print News | Category: Community - Event - Vault
For the Seven Year Anniversary of Anarchy Online, we here at Anarchy Online Vault caught up with Silirrion and asked him a few questions about how he feels about the milestone Anarchy Online has achieved, and how they got there.
You can read the entire interview at Anarchy Online Vault!
We'd also like to take this opportunity to congratulate Funcom on this occasion - very few MMOs have made it this far and they should be proud to be one of them! Good on ya!
-- Kaltemar @ 15:21 PST
| | | | | | Thursday, 26 June, 2008 | |
| | | | | Anarchy Online Developer Journal #8 Up
Print News | Category: Community - Game
Kind of sad that this is their last journal update, but the good news is they will be moving to yet another Funcom MMO project. After Funcom's enormous success of Age of Conan I'm anticipating The Secret World will just as exciting!
From the Official Site
This is (sadly) the last entry of Nina "Aythem" Sund's Anarchy Online Developer Journal at TenTonHammer.
-- sytto @ 9:34 PST
The Story So Far
Print News | Category: Community - Game
The Anarchy Online backstory is rich and incredibly deep. Going back as far as ten years, it was first a concept built around the idea of a sci-fi game. A book was written and published, giving players a unique chance to delve into the story that touches on several ideas that mankind have pondered for hundreds of years. Who are we? Where did we come from?
From the Official Site
Anarchy Online takes place on the planet Rubi-Ka, some 27 500 years into the future. The history of mankind has changed a lot since present day. In 2019, a terrifying nuclear holocaust wiped out most of Earth’s heavily populated cities and humans were in the blink of an eye returned to a primitive society of hunters and gatherers. But the story didn’t really start there.
Read More...
-- sytto @ 9:32 PST
Letter from the Game Director - June 2008
Print News | Category: Community - Game
Here is the newest letter from Game Director Craig 'Silirrion' Morrison.
From the Official Site
Here we are, seven years on from the week when bold pioneers took their first steps on Rubi-Ka and I couldn’t think of a better occasion to talk a little about the past, present and future. This letter might be a little longer than our usual messages but given the anniversary you’ll have to forgive me the chance for a little retrospective of the game as well as a little peak to what’s ahead for the future!
Read More...
-- sytto @ 9:24 PST
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