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Crowfall interview covers the campaign system at length
Wrapping your head around Crowfall’s PvP campaigns can take some doing, especially as ArtCraft is angling at a different approach than what most MMOs take. Italian site MMO.it sat down with J. Todd...
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The Daily Grind: Are we ever going to see a WoW-killer-killer?
On this week’s Massively OP Podcast, Justin and I tried to answer a question from a listener named Kenny, who proposed that we consider the idea of games other than World of Warcraft being used as a...
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Crowfall adjusts the performance of armor to improve diversity
Armor in Crowfall is about more than just stacking the biggest armor values and praying for rain; it’s meant as a tactical choice for every given player. Your character isn’t forced to wear plate or...
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Crowfall reveals the tragic backstory of its trees of life
“In every world and age, storytellers argue the mystery of Gaea’s death. Who is the villain? What was the cause? Every bard sings a different tale, yet the end is the same: Gaea died: her blood...
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Crowfall previews vehicle crafting and the war machines of Siege Perilous
ArtCraft Design Lead Thomas Blair is back on the Crowfall blog this afternoon with a fresh update on the Siege Perilous testing, including word that the game’s latest test event saw 77 players loaded...
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Crowfall’s castle siege video is appropriately brutal
Crowfall’s latest Siege Perilous footage is brief, but it digs into the flashier parts of castle sieges, with catapults loosing their missiles, explosions knocking people off walls (and those walls...
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Crowfall’s ‘universe’ plan could mean regionalized servers
“PvP is the universal language of gaming,” says Crowfall studio ArtCraft in a new blog post last night. “Killing other players is a transcendent activity; players from every culture and every country...
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Crowfall previews the first batch of powers for the Druid
The Druid of Crowfall is not a firehose healer. What does that mean? Well, for one thing, firehouses that die around her stay dead. In another and more important sense, it means that her roles isn’t...
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Crowfall devs on stats, emotes, and chat bubbles
Have a spare few minutes in your day to exchange for a little Crowfall enlightenment? Creative Director J. Todd Coleman and Lead Designer Thomas Blair whipped up a nine-and-a-half minute video to...
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Crowfall delays features for more polish, looks at a ‘soft launch’
ArtCraft came out yesterday and admitted that it will not be able to make its projected dates on certain Crowfall features without sacrificing quality, and as such the studio announced that it will be...
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 65: Make yourself at home
Justin and Bree discuss Gigantic, NCsoft, WildStar, KingsIsle, Star Trek Online, Legion, and Crowfall, plus a mailbag question on media embargoes.This article was published by the word-wranglers at...
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The Daily Grind: Is MMO ‘open’ development really good for the genre?
Massively OP’s Andrew Ross and I were recently discussing how to approach an opinion piece on Chronicles of Elyria when he reminded me that the game’s forumgoers won’t take any criticism of the...
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Crowfall shows off the making of the visuals for Gaea’s Wail
Gaea’s Wail is a Druid spell in Crowfall in which the Druid summons a spectral bear to attack people. This is, quite obviously, the best spell ever. There’s no need for other spells. In a perfect...
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Crowfall says it’s retooling its ‘test cadence’
ArtCraft says it’s “shifting gears” and recalibrating Crowfall’s “test cadence.” “Over the next few months, we are going to adjust our test cadence and gauge the impact on our development velocity,”...
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Here’s how Crowfall’s armor effects work per archetype
Armor is a vital protective element in most MMORPGs, something that ensures that your organs remain unsullied no matter how many hobbies your characters have that should rightfully result in some...
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Check out Crowfall’s Druid in action
The Druid in Crowfall borrows a bit of a trick from the Ranger insofar as she uses more than one ability tray. In her case, however, she doesn’t swap between the two based on whether or not she’s out...
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Crowfall has completely revamped its archetype power icons
If you ever whined about the “shouting lady face” minstrel icons in Lord of the Rings Online, then you are precisely the UI junkie being catered to in Crowfall’s latest video. ArtCraft UX Design Lead...
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Getting perspective on Chronicles of Elyria’s planned PvP and PvE featureset
Anyone on the MassivelyOP team will probably tell you that I won’t shut up about Chronicles of Elyria. There’s so much to like about the game Soulbound Studios wants to build! Like many of you, I...
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Crowfall explores the joys of server latency and ability use
Does half a second sound like a long time to you? Of course it doesn’t. A second doesn’t sound like a long time to you because it isn’t. But imagine trying to hit a moving target with a thrown pebble…...
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The Game Archaeologist: Five eye-opening videos about the MMORPG genre
When it comes to tracking down history for MMOs, I’ve found that there are an array of sources at hand that have preserved (unwittingly or not) the past for us to discover today. It might be the news...
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