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Saxif · **on:** July 19, 2006, 10:39:02 pm

http://tcos.com/en/gameworld/?id=statistics

Looks good, though could be very very poor as well

Sax.

Darkly · **Reply #1 on:** July 19, 2006, 11:08:59 pm

Yeah, on initial look, it definitely seems interesting. I'm all for games which try to do things differently, and the skill advancement and combat systems are certainly different.

But yeah. There's always the danger it could be a bit poop

Saxif · **Reply #2 on:** September 28, 2006, 05:30:42 pm

Some more info, this time on aggro management and PvE combat I guess.

http://www.stratics.com/content/portals/spellborn/content/articles/npc-preview.php

Darkly · **Reply #3 on:** September 29, 2006, 08:56:46 am

Again, sounds very different. I like the varying attitudes of factions idea, but not sure if the combat doesn't sound rather artificial, with NPCs picking out and sparring with one party member.

Only the implementation will tell, of course. I was supposed to be on the beta by now, but they've put it all back, ahh well at least they're not blindly rushing it out the door.

Saxif · **Reply #4 on:** September 29, 2006, 09:20:39 am

You doing a review on it D?

Darkly · **Reply #5 on:** September 29, 2006, 10:24:59 am

No, a preview, but when it comes out I'll probably do the review as well.

Saxif · **Reply #6 on:** September 29, 2006, 11:14:39 am

pfft, linguistic technicalities :eek:

Lasiien · **Reply #7 on:** September 29, 2006, 02:11:02 pm

have a look here also - mmorpg.com, scroll down to the dev journals. Some stuff on the different kinds of archtypes and classes that makes an interesting read.

Seems to have DAOC style bodyguard tanks, and stealth sure sounds different to most games. Would be kinda fun pretending you're a mob then jumping out at people

Though as with all these things depends how it's implemented.

By the way, vanguard also coming soon and seems to promise a great deal from the blurb as well. Also Conan does look kinda fun in a gruesome way

Cernos · **Reply #8 on:** September 29, 2006, 03:37:39 pm

Quote from: Lasiien

Would be kinda fun pretending you're a mob then jumping out at people

Hanging around behind a tree for several hours before jumping out and being immediately trampled by 15 players ..... sounds like a job for Sax. But he'd probably bump into the tree and knock himself out at the players feet

Saxif · **Reply #9 on:** September 29, 2006, 03:58:29 pm

I'd ave em no matter the odds!!!

Theres always a chance

Saxif · **Reply #10 on:** October 06, 2006, 05:09:09 pm

I am starting a rumour that CoSB beta (open, last stage closed?) starts on Nov 1st, there is some kinda give away draw competition on mmorpg.com that states you'll get beta entry for 1st of Nov. Obviously I have entered, but the main gist of this msg is to let you know a rough time scale for release ... my money is on Friday Nov 17th.

Sax.

Darkly · **Reply #11 on:** October 06, 2006, 05:13:23 pm

Ahh, didn't know that. I was thinking late November, just hope they aren't having to rush it too much, as they might be under pressure to get it out before Xmas.

Darkly · **Reply #12 on:** October 24, 2006, 08:17:28 pm

Spellborn to be released in Q1 2007!
TUESDAY, 24TH OF OCTOBER 2006 :: POSTED BY FREEZE :: 34 COMMENTS

In last month's Producer's Update we already hinted at a new release schedule for The Chronicles of Spellborn. Today the European publishers Frogster Interactive and Mindscape have announced that the game will be released in Q1 2007, with an Open Beta scheduled for early Q1 2007. We decided to not push the game out before the holiday season, but instead take the extra time to polish the game to ensure that we deliver on all the content and the features that were promised.

As usual, we welcome you to comment in the forum thread linked below.

**from the official site....

Can't say I'm surprised really, so we won't be playing that anytime soon.

When's Vanguard supposed to be out? And dare we try that?

I was scared off it earlier this year when I heard all the stuff about it going back to EQ hardcore roots, but apparently it isn't like that....

Cernos · **Reply #13 on:** October 24, 2006, 10:01:04 pm

Refreshing to see a games company not rush a title out to milk the holiday market. Seems a good sign.

Darkly · **Reply #14 on:** October 25, 2006, 07:50:36 am

Yep, that's true enough.

Been playing Gothic 3 this week and even with the release patch, it's buggy and suffers from some pretty bad frame rate judder... the graphics aren't as good as Oblivion either, which ran fine on my machine on medium details.

The thing about Gothic was they put the release date back for that, too, in order to "perfect" it... (more like in order to make sure it was at least semi-playable

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