This week we discussed Update 39.1.2, last weekend’s down time, and our week in gaming.
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Game News
Bullroarer Update 39.1.2 Beta #1 Release Notes
Message from SSG on last weekend’s down time
Orion on the Friday Stream
- Level scaling – optional system to set level downward when helping a friend to level
- New launcher is progressing but it is still waiting for some other items
- Currently testing server pinning to isolate some of the more impactful areas
- Provided a hint on the new hobby
- The ability to track multiple resources keeps running into snags
- Carryall renaming is planned for Update 40
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Reminiscing about …
Courtesy of listener, Ravi: Can you think of some moments where LOTRO gets noticeably self-referential? Where you can clearly tell that it’s a long-running story? Perhaps moments where it gets quite meta, and breaks the fourth wall?
New Player Question
I wanna create a new character aimed at group play from the start. It will probably be a loremaster, a burglar, or a captain because I feel like I would most like to be supported in a group. Is this viable? Do people do this? And if yes, how would somebody go around that?
Week In Gaming
Crister
- Depths Plunged!
- Minecrafting Starship EVO type o’ things.
- Helldivers2 and ESO
Cyndars
- Dawn of Man: I reached the Iron Age
- Stardew Valley: Played with my son and Sans
- Minecraft: We started a new server and started adventuring. I built a castle.
Sanswinda
- I was caught in a foul trap several times and enjoyed running across the Moors toward Glân Vraig.
- Leveled up a guardian just enough to get credit for felling giants in the Misty Mountains with some friends.
- Went farming in Stardew Valley and enjoyed some of the new update features.
Pineleaf
- My warden finally completed the last of the Hunter Camp quests in Umbar.
- For Friday Night Fights, we learned why you never enter an arena with only four.
- My Lore-master walked the Forsaken Road.
News Beyond LOTRO
Hello Em visit today. I went to Seattle because I couldn’t resist the pull. I got to try Vietnamese coffee (both stylistic and literal) and had banh mi with my friends. The coffee was delicious but definitely had a body of its own. I would highly recommend the shop if any listeners are ever in the area, and they had some really innovative ideas for building community including a lending library for locals and an oral history collaborative for recording the stories of Vietnamese and Vietnamese-Americans for the 50th anniversary of the end of the conflict.
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We have another email from Ravi:
Hello again, dear LOTRO players!
Thank you for reading and answering my letter the other week. It was very interesting!
BTW I am at episode 274 now, I will probably have to slow down soon, or I will start running into spoilers, given that my main has only just started Mordor Besieged.
This time I have two questions, one your more typical new player question, and one kind of.. thematic XD
1) I have been wondering lately about trying to play some group instances, but I think all of my existing characters are geared towards solo play (a red burglar main who never touched a trick in his life, several blue hunters to grind LP, several rp characters for fun and chill); the most promising is a mid-level loremaster I have, but I don’t think I would be able to do anything right in a fellowship without starting fresh and learning this class as it pertains to group play.
Hence! here’s the question: I wanna create a new character aimed at group play from the start. it will probably be a loremaster, a burglar, or a captain because I feel like I would most like to be support in a group. Is this viable? Do people do this? And if yes, how would somebody go around that?
2) This is a more literary question if you will. while listening to a Star Trek podcast I heard the hosts talk about how if a franchise has been going long enough, it will inevitably begin to get self-referential. In Star Trek it comes in the form of bringing back characters from past series, recycling episode plots (with a twist, if they are good), going into prequels, getting a little meta with the jokes, etc.
LOTRO, of course, is a very different thing, because of the genre and because of the source material and its depth. Yet over the course of 17 years, they must have surely touched that territory of longevity where things start to loop around a bit. My question is, can you think of some moments where LOTRO gets noticeably self-referential? Where you can clearly tell that it’s a long-running story? Perhaps moments where it gets quite meta, and breaks the fourth wall?
Feel free to answer any or none of these, it’s just my curiosity speaking! Thank you for the fun podcast,
ravi
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Concerning the first question from Ravi: “Can you think of some moments where LOTRO gets noticeably self-referential? Where you can clearly tell that it’s a long-running story? Perhaps moments where it gets quite meta, and breaks the fourth wall?“
For me, it the obvious answer is the Anniversary festival. This really breaks the fourth wall and goes meta, because the NPCs are not celebrating the anniversary of any event in Middle Earth, but are apparently celebrating the anniversary of the game that they are in! I love to imagine how they would respond if I could ask them what they are celebrating.