This week we have a lot of people on to talk about the Update 16 beta.
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Update 16 Beta 1 Preliminary Release Notes
Update 16 Landscape Preview Videos
Update 16 Osgiliath Instance Previews
Update 16 Legendary Item Changes
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Poll: What Level is Your Highest Level Character?
The New Music System Has Arrived.
The Spring Racing Carnival is Here
April Fool’s Day Article Roundup
LOTRO Video Highlights: Russian Machinima
LOTRO Players Screenshot Competition – April 2015: Flowers
The Family Line 38: Eleswith of Dale
Brax’s pick of the week: The Maps of Eastern Gondor by Lina at Lina’s biscuity burrow (also Eastern Gondor Preview by Roger at Contains Moderate Peril)
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Week In LOTRO
Estel-Ali
- Roving Threats and Warbands of Central Gondor
- Levelled up my 4 alts daily to use their rest xp
- Casual Raiders made some progress on Ost Dunhoth Wound wing tier 2 as well as Disease wing tier 2
- I solo healed Bells of Dale T2 on my Captain
- I also solo healed Fornost Fire wing T2 on my Captain
- We did Tower of Orthanc and Draigoch and even got a dragon fireplace
Lilikate
- Music System Testing-TSO24 Testing, Band Testing.
- Tinki Spotting
- Maestro Video Making
- Rehearsal of TSO24, Andune 7th Anniversary of LMB. RP with Kinfolks. LMB Book Club.
- Visiting Crickhollow to view characters status-Crafting.
Karvett
- Attempted Inn of the Forsaken at L50 on T2 – made it all the way to the 2nd boss – we learned that T2 scaled instance below level cap are ridiculously hard.
- Another fun filled stream with Mrs Karv in Moria, where we learned that when you are live streaming with your wife anything is fair game and it’s ok to lie only when she gives you permission.
Maven
- Took my hobbit burglar from 8 to 21 just with farming and cooking during craft boost weekend
- Got my Extra Life swag and have been having fun playing with it all
Arathaert
- Moar L.UN.C.H.! Had our first DNF with Laurelin, and a new first place with Brandywine 1:17:57
- Moar LIs! Hunter duo is at the walls of Moria
- Moar Moors! My warg hit rank 9 (finally!)
Pineleaf
- Minstrel on Dwarrowdelf reached level 25.
- Running Book 13 in Forochel.
- Planned a completionist series but there was so little interest, that I decide on another
Andang
- I Broke Teri
Teriadwyn
- Completed Central Gondor on Live
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Regarding the landscape, the view of Minas Tirith, and Osgiliath itself, are the highlights, but I think you’re underselling Lossarnach (particularly Imloth Melui, and Harlond), and Ithilien (Bar Hurin, and just the general landscape) – although that might be because the other two things that you cited are firm fan favourites.
With Lossarnach and Ithilien in particular, much of the epic feel to the landscape comes from the new music for the region – did you have that on while running around the new region?
Awesome Show…:)
Lilikate is back, inspiring:
TURBINE think music is CISUM
Backs to the audience…
Audience to the back or is that back-to-front
Dizzy and spun around not in stereo but positional sound!
Inconsistent and weird…
No more snap, crackle and pop!
Horn low, good; horn high, bad!
Broken Bagpipes, screaming cat needs putting down – Oh that’s normal!
Cowbells are wonderful,
But the bells are tolling…
Pity… no final tubular bell!
Workarounds… hoop jumping…
Scale of disaster, Weatherstock in peril!
Mute players screaming out!
Deaf turbine silent…
Fix it or give it back now…
Should turbine have their backs placed against the wall?
Let the music play, let the players play the LOTRO music…
Loud and proud, oh …and in tune.
Tune in or tune out!
Hopefully they will turn it around…
The future could be quiet…
Ever so quiet…
…Sh… Lilikate…sh!
I so hope U16 is better than it looks so far…
PS: Where did the free hobbit mithril go?
Great show. Thanks again for the info And laughs. I was trying not to watch the first look videos. However, I had to watch and see you break Teriadwyn.
On the music: Do you think the issues are a result of lack of beta testers for the music System?
On LI, imbuing: Could this be a first step to repalcing the existing LI system? If it works at 100 then move to do the same at 50… keep it forever if you want.
Just to address the issue of Music System Beta: There were many Musical testers on the Beta. Evidence for this can be found on the Bullroarer forums. I don’t have the Bullroarer client but my good pals were sending me video snippits of the sounds. Many of these testers have been pointing out where the improvements are needed. There were also calls to further delay the new music system until these issues could be addressed. However I feel and this is just my opinion, that they pushed the music system to live when it wasn’t ready, to get to work on U16 Beta. Which is fair enough, if now they fix the problems and address quality issues.
A tight Osgiliath map won’t be good for the creeps once it goes to monster play. It is very difficult to deal with all the freep aoe, and it becomes unmanagible in tight spaces.
There are wide open places in the city as well. Also we don’t know if and how they would re-balance PvMP so I think it is a little too early to tell but that is a really good point.