Imperial City Vs Darkness Falls - why Matt Firor will get it right

Visemere · August 2015

As Matt Firor is in charge of this outfit, those of you who played Dark Age Of Camelot are probably seeing the resemblance between these two right now.

PvP content mixed with PvE
Gated entrance tied to Cyrodiil and keeps and pvp (at the moment)
Special Currency Tel Var Stones (seals it was for DAOC)
items only purchasable with these stones / weps / armor / enchants

while concerns have been raised about access to IC, this was never a problem with Dark age of Camelot, Albion was always the dominant realm, but Midgard and Hibernian had fair access to Darkness Falls aswell... 3 factions... same as here, Ebonheart is the dominant faction at the moment.

My fondest memories of DAOC were Darkness Falls, i really hope IC becomes that Epicness that was Darkness Falls, but i hope more that there is solo content aswell, consoles suffer badly with no text chat for grouping and most people dont use microphones on PS4, so please balance group vs solo vs PvP.

Really looking forward to this content and Im sure it will be good.

If you didnt play DAOC, you missed out

Teiji · August 2015

Weapons are not purchasable with Tel Var Stones.
Weapons not purchasable with Tel Var Stones thread

I wish it wasn't this way, but it is. Expect Tel Var Stone weapons in a future update to Imperial City; same with Craglorn which was released lower Craglorn first then upper Craglorn.

sadownik · August 2015

Visemere wrote: »

As Matt Firor is in charge of this outfit, those of you who played Dark Age Of Camelot are probably seeing the resemblance between these two right now.
PvP content mixed with PvE

Gated entrance tied to Cyrodiil and keeps and pvp (at the moment)

Special Currency Tel Var Stones (seals it was for DAOC)

items only purchasable with these stones / weps / armor / enchants

while concerns have been raised about access to IC, this was never a problem with Dark age of Camelot, Albion was always the dominant realm, but Midgard and Hibernian had fair access to Darkness Falls aswell... 3 factions... same as here, Ebonheart is the dominant faction at the moment.

My fondest memories of DAOC were Darkness Falls, i really hope IC becomes that Epicness that was Darkness Falls, but i hope more that there is solo content aswell, consoles suffer badly with no text chat for grouping and most people dont use microphones on PS4, so please balance group vs solo vs PvP.

Really looking forward to this content and Im sure it will be good.

If you didnt play DAOC, you missed out

Just curious are you on pts?

Techlisp · August 2015

Visemere wrote: »

consoles suffer badly with no text chat for grouping and most people dont use microphones on PS4, so please balance group vs solo vs PvP.

I am in a number of guilds on PS4 and everyone is very chatty.

So if you want to chat chat, group group, join a guild.

My fellow console players who are not in guilds this is not a singleplayer game, even though you can play it like one. Join a guild and play it like an MMO, it is way more fun.

IIIMPIII · August 2015

Visemere wrote: »

As Matt Firor is in charge of this outfit, those of you who played Dark Age Of Camelot are probably seeing the resemblance between these two right now.
PvP content mixed with PvE

Gated entrance tied to Cyrodiil and keeps and pvp (at the moment)

Special Currency Tel Var Stones (seals it was for DAOC)

items only purchasable with these stones / weps / armor / enchants

while concerns have been raised about access to IC, this was never a problem with Dark age of Camelot, Albion was always the dominant realm, but Midgard and Hibernian had fair access to Darkness Falls aswell... 3 factions... same as here, Ebonheart is the dominant faction at the moment.

My fondest memories of DAOC were Darkness Falls, i really hope IC becomes that Epicness that was Darkness Falls, but i hope more that there is solo content aswell, consoles suffer badly with no text chat for grouping and most people dont use microphones on PS4, so please balance group vs solo vs PvP.

Really looking forward to this content and Im sure it will be good.

If you didnt play DAOC, you missed out

Ebonhart is dominant where?

lol not on my server on console

Qyrk · August 2015

for god's sake, read the pts forums. They are playing around with access to IC and latest update allows faction to have their own basic keeps.

This testing period includes new rules for accessing Imperial City. To get into Imperial City from Cyrodiil, your Alliance must own your native six keeps defined per alliance as follows:
Aldmeri Dominion: Alessia, Bloodmayne, Brindle, Roebeck, Faregyl, Blackboot
Ebonheart Pact: Chalman, Blue Road, Drakelowe, Arrius, Kingscrest, Farragut
Daggerfall Covenant: Dragonclaw, Aleswell, Ash, Glademist, Rayles, Warden

This is a testing environment and DOES NOT reflect the FINAL product. This access may change in future PTS patches and ZOS is trying to see what works and what doesn't.

Enodoc · August 2015

DAoC gets so much praise for its Darkness Falls access system. Considering how much people enjoyed that, I'm looking forward to IC having something similar, and hope that there are at least a few campaigns where access is not open to everyone.

Frawr · August 2015

I see a major flaw in the IC design. It will be largely pve.

There are 4 campaigns and 3 factions. Each faction will dominate 1 campaign and majority of that faction will be in pve IC.

Standard buff servers all over again.

Itll be this way until there are fewer instances of cyrodil than there are alliances.

Granz · August 2015

Visemere wrote: »

As Matt Firor is in charge of this outfit, those of you who played Dark Age Of Camelot are probably seeing the resemblance between these two right now.
PvP content mixed with PvE

Gated entrance tied to Cyrodiil and keeps and pvp (at the moment)

Special Currency Tel Var Stones (seals it was for DAOC)

items only purchasable with these stones / weps / armor / enchants

while concerns have been raised about access to IC, this was never a problem with Dark age of Camelot, Albion was always the dominant realm, but Midgard and Hibernian had fair access to Darkness Falls aswell... 3 factions... same as here, Ebonheart is the dominant faction at the moment.

My fondest memories of DAOC were Darkness Falls, i really hope IC becomes that Epicness that was Darkness Falls, but i hope more that there is solo content aswell, consoles suffer badly with no text chat for grouping and most people dont use microphones on PS4, so please balance group vs solo vs PvP.

Really looking forward to this content and Im sure it will be good.

If you didnt play DAOC, you missed out

Yes you're right. Honestly I am only playing this game because Matt was in the lead on this project. You are 100% correct this is going to be great. I played DAoC for years and we had a hell of a good time with Darkness falls. Opening it up for our realm and racing to get there for huge fights was awesome. DAoC still goes down as my favorite game of all time. Even over WoW which I played a ton but they had PvP right in DAoC. This is basically DAoC 2.0. And you are 100% correct if you missed out on DAoC you really missed a great game.

Visemere · August 2015

Qyrk wrote: »

for god's sake, read the pts forums. They are playing around with access to IC and latest update allows faction to have their own basic keeps.

This testing period includes new rules for accessing Imperial City. To get into Imperial City from Cyrodiil, your Alliance must own your native six keeps defined per alliance as follows:
Aldmeri Dominion: Alessia, Bloodmayne, Brindle, Roebeck, Faregyl, Blackboot
Ebonheart Pact: Chalman, Blue Road, Drakelowe, Arrius, Kingscrest, Farragut
Daggerfall Covenant: Dragonclaw, Aleswell, Ash, Glademist, Rayles, Warden

This is a testing environment and DOES NOT reflect the FINAL product. This access may change in future PTS patches and ZOS is trying to see what works and what doesn't.

did you read my post? at all?

i like the access theyre offering via pvp keeps! not saying its going to be this way, naturally things change, just allaying fears that it wont work, because it will, Matt is very experienced at this exact scenario.

Visemere · August 2015

sadownik wrote: »

Visemere wrote: »

As Matt Firor is in charge of this outfit, those of you who played Dark Age Of Camelot are probably seeing the resemblance between these two right now.
PvP content mixed with PvE

Gated entrance tied to Cyrodiil and keeps and pvp (at the moment)

Special Currency Tel Var Stones (seals it was for DAOC)

items only purchasable with these stones / weps / armor / enchants

while concerns have been raised about access to IC, this was never a problem with Dark age of Camelot, Albion was always the dominant realm, but Midgard and Hibernian had fair access to Darkness Falls aswell... 3 factions... same as here, Ebonheart is the dominant faction at the moment.

My fondest memories of DAOC were Darkness Falls, i really hope IC becomes that Epicness that was Darkness Falls, but i hope more that there is solo content aswell, consoles suffer badly with no text chat for grouping and most people dont use microphones on PS4, so please balance group vs solo vs PvP.

Really looking forward to this content and Im sure it will be good.

If you didnt play DAOC, you missed out

Just curious are you on pts?

i have been on my brothers PC acct yes. but its too chaotic atm to judge anything.

drzycki_ESO · August 2015

Visemere wrote: »

As Matt Firor is in charge of this outfit, those of you who played Dark Age Of Camelot are probably seeing the resemblance between these two right now.
PvP content mixed with PvE

Gated entrance tied to Cyrodiil and keeps and pvp (at the moment)

Special Currency Tel Var Stones (seals it was for DAOC)

items only purchasable with these stones / weps / armor / enchants

while concerns have been raised about access to IC, this was never a problem with Dark age of Camelot, Albion was always the dominant realm, but Midgard and Hibernian had fair access to Darkness Falls aswell... 3 factions... same as here, Ebonheart is the dominant faction at the moment.

My fondest memories of DAOC were Darkness Falls, i really hope IC becomes that Epicness that was Darkness Falls, but i hope more that there is solo content aswell, consoles suffer badly with no text chat for grouping and most people dont use microphones on PS4, so please balance group vs solo vs PvP.

Really looking forward to this content and Im sure it will be good.

If you didnt play DAOC, you missed out

I totally agree with you. Darkness Falls was awesome and this looks like it was modeled after it. I am super excited!

Visemere · August 2015

drzycki_ESO wrote: »

Visemere wrote: »

As Matt Firor is in charge of this outfit, those of you who played Dark Age Of Camelot are probably seeing the resemblance between these two right now.
PvP content mixed with PvE

Gated entrance tied to Cyrodiil and keeps and pvp (at the moment)

Special Currency Tel Var Stones (seals it was for DAOC)

items only purchasable with these stones / weps / armor / enchants

while concerns have been raised about access to IC, this was never a problem with Dark age of Camelot, Albion was always the dominant realm, but Midgard and Hibernian had fair access to Darkness Falls aswell... 3 factions... same as here, Ebonheart is the dominant faction at the moment.

My fondest memories of DAOC were Darkness Falls, i really hope IC becomes that Epicness that was Darkness Falls, but i hope more that there is solo content aswell, consoles suffer badly with no text chat for grouping and most people dont use microphones on PS4, so please balance group vs solo vs PvP.

Really looking forward to this content and Im sure it will be good.

If you didnt play DAOC, you missed out

I totally agree with you. Darkness Falls was awesome and this looks like it was modeled after it. I am super excited!

yep it does look good, i trust his experience on these things