Testing 249: Melee Weapons, Shields and Local Universes - continued

[Kelmat]

Hibernating. But if this update doesn’t drop soon not sure if my side of AD will make it.

[BabyCookie]

So with Baldur’s Gate III Getting Big Update Patch 5 on July 13 is is is is Boundless gonna get some attention with our update James-chan

[boundmore]

local universe update is very important!!

in line with social distancing; it’s safer than global MMO universe

but it’s not ready, so till then hang out on your private worlds peeps!! stay safe!!

[epoling]

Baldur’s Gate III is still at least a year out. There are a lot of classes, features and story that need to be dealt with. Also, even when it is out of “Early Access” there will be DLCs, updates, etc. that will keep a full staff busy for years… If you saw the notices many of the devs that left posted it seems they are now officially part of Larian, not Turbulenz or Wonderstruck. There has been no indication that they will ever be coming back to Boundless. More than likely they will end up working on whatever is next for Larian given that they have done a good job of continuously putting out good quality RPGs.

[MadManMoon]

Yeah, I genuinely think that a hitty thing (and a stop-a-hitty-thing) are not as important as the integration of private worlds, running them, and that full, sandboxy, type of thing … that said … I’m not sure whether I’ve got this right in my head …

Is the change to skill levelling only applicable on private worlds? Or will we finally be able to do a bit more with our characters?

Which reminds me of an idea I had for suggestions …

[Rydralain]

@MadManMoon

Is the change to skill levelling only applicable on private worlds?

The only answer I’ve seen to this is that the test servers did also include the skill changes, so I assume that yes MMO will get it, but there is definitely ambiguity in the phrasing of the notes.

Maybe @james could clarify this?
If you do pop in to answer questions, I’m also curious how level/xp/skill point conversion will happen - for example, do level and skill point get recalculated to the new system, or do we get to keep our current skill point count?

[MadManMoon]

I mean … I get it, it might be a bit of a sea change for some … but I think overall it’d be nicer to not have 15 characters just so that there’s one can open that can of beans for lunch.

[Nightstar]

The skill change was needed for several reasons. It’s the whole game, you won’t have a different skill system in a private universe from the MMO universe.

@james

The reason why adding Shields and Swords isn’t so simple is because all other Gear has Mastery skills, so if we add new Gear and if they follow the same style then they will also require Mastery skills. But adding more skills will put pressure on the skill trees that players already have. So we need to rethink the system a little.

I thought a dev had responded to this specific question directly but didn’t spot it in the few minutes I was willing to spend looking.

[Dazeris]

Wasn’t the whole point of having “pressure” on the skill trees that it made us interact with others in an MMO environment? I dont want to be tank, healer, AND dps. I wanted to play with others. Put pressure on my skill tree if I want to use melee weapon and shields, but design it in a way that I am happy I made the choice to do so. Reward me for specialization.

[Solgato]

I’m guessing that enough people just change a few points back and forth for this to look like it needs a better solution?

[Fiffer13]

You could meet in the middle for single player mode. for instance, have either one or a number of pre downloaded worlds during update/install and that be the starter planet, the rest of the planets could then be procedural generated while they were going through the early game on the “starter world”.

[Bacon865]

@Fiffer13

uld meet in the middle for single player mode. for instance, have either one or a number of pre downloaded

Great idea

[Zephidyon]

I still login every few weeks to make sure things are fuelled, but like Kelmat (and everybody else), I’m just waiting for this next update to drop.

[Fiffer13]

Thanks, Funny enough I woke up at 5 in the morning here and couldn’t get back to sleep until I shared the idea that came to me in that moment lol. I didn’t even know I had a subconscious thought train running concerning the single player mode haha.

[Rydralain]

I agree:

@Rydralain

Another compromise that occurs to me would be to have a single small world premade and downloaded and then generate the other two+ worlds in the background while they play on the first world. Since it will take a normal player more than an hour to get to the point that they will be world hopping, I don’t think this delay would be a big deal.

For what it’s worth, we know James was still reading the thread when I suggested that, so maybe that compromise is what they are working on? If they choose to use the starter world as a smaller custom-made tutorial world, that could justify the wait we’re seeing, but who knows.

[MadManMoon]

Sweet, cheers, @Nightstar!

@Nightstar

The skill change was needed for several reasons. It’s the whole game, you won’t have a different skill system in a private universe from the MMO universe.

[BabyCookie]

While we continue the wait patiently can we get some Color Changing Exos mixed in with the Exos Please @james chan , Maybe, think about it, will see, got a with your name on it (Q.Q)

[BabyCookie]

I just got a idea for this update @james chan

Loading Screen Change
Maybe get a little Bit of Cookie Kingdom and Reapers Tower of Power on the Loading screen for this update
@georgegroeg chan would you To Boop

[PrincessMaude]

And maybe some of the Fancy Farms on Alder