Developer Snippets – 1st March 2014

It’s been a while since I’ve posted one of these, largely due to the recent layoffs that resulted in the departure of many of Turbine’s most communicative developers. Still, there’s a fair amount of stuff said this week that I thought it prudent to mention them.

Sapience’s Stream

Link here.

• Part of the inventory changes will allow players to merge their bags into one(ala Hugebag plugin)
• The Trollshaws and Misty Mountains revamps are still on track for U13, but will be lesser in scale than the North Downs.

 

Non-Jinjaah

MadeofLions: Ent session play will be optional, similar to Wildermore and West Rohan.

 

Jinjaah

Posts start here.

He’s posted very frequently in the above thread, too many to link to individually. Instead I will list the prominent details below, note that these are aimed for U13 unless stated otherwise:

• The new Creep damage types(Orc-Craft, Fell-Wrought) will now properly pass through Physical Mitigation. It will do so at a reduced rate compared to other types however, similar to Beleriand
• Murder Holes in TA will now do damage based on % of Max Morale instead of a fixed amount
• Core Creep Virtues(the stats shown with squares that every Creep starts with) will be adjusted after not being updated since the game launched
• Various long-overdue bug fixes for Creepside
• The F2P/Premium Ettenmoors Pass will likely be time-based, but may not make it to U13
• They are looking into the autoflip issue, which are intended to take place every 6 or 8 hours. They recognise that most players seem to want them completely removed however.