Nightfall World Event Up

darkswan

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Details here.

You can play this until tomorrow, even if you never purchased episode 1 or 2.

For the rest of us, a chance for us to have a nose about and unlock a skill or two (which will become available again - for PvP - when the game comes out proper).

You can hire a hero, who you can give items to (I think), a bit like in D2-LOD.
Not sure if the items are persistent though if you decide to leave him behind. I haven't worked that out yet.

DS
 

Coalman

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Why oh Why didn't i take your advice DS - logged into GW last night after the WoW raid at about midnight just to see what new expansion PVE was like & took nearly 1 & half hours to download & decompress - was only getting 2 or 3 kbps download speeds at times :(
 

darkswan

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Heh ;)

The other night I accidentally double clicked on my icon which brings the game up with the -image option (downloads and decompresses) and that took 7 hours! Which was more than I actually played last week.

Didn't do more than pootle around for a couple of hours in Nightfall. What I saw was fairly open like in Prophecies, which is to my taste. I hated the town areas in Factions if I'm honest.

DS
 

Coalman

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Well got my copy of Nightfall today so am now getting the slow new area loading screens as it downloads & decompresses the new content, also the Halloween content which was a bit unfortunate :( First impressions very good like the new storage upgrade & the new hero/henchman controls. Will probably be on a bit more as I feel a break from WoW needed & having cancelled my DDO sub, although my son has taken it over & my chars are still there if I feel like using them :) One question, has anyone found out if you can take any of your existing chars into the new area as you could with the first expansion, am assuming it would only be the original chars as I doubt there will be trainers for the first expansion classes in the new area
 

Althorn

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Yes you can, but the quest to get into elona from the previous two is frigging hard, least you get a hero join you for each, I'm planing on doing both.

The original world hero is a necro, the canthan one is a assassin.

They get to use any skill you have unlocked on the account.

Bonus! they don't appear to check for custom weapon when you equip them, so my assassin is using the bonusitem daggers :)
 

Coalman

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After posting I got to that part in the manual & found that is a way to get from both other areas to the new expansion (they do such a good job with the manuals for this game that you can read them as a small novel :)) So will be looking to find out how to get there with my original main :)
 

darkswan

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As you probably guessed I'm not actually playing this at the moment.

I got rather disillusioned with some of the childish p121k$ I came across after deguilding from CUK, and well wasn't exactly thrilled by Ch2 overall.

I may well Ch3 at some point, but for the moment I am catching up on my technical reading rather than playing games.

Have fun y'alls.
 

Althorn

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if you create a shortcut for the gw.exe and add a " -image" to the shortcut then it will proceed to download and unpack all of the content, so when you actually play, you will have minimal pauses between areas.
 
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