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Have you checked out our MMO News Section lately? If not you are missing quite a few interesting stories. Here are some highlights from this past week:
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Ah, the daily grind. We deal with it every day in work or school, and it wears us down. Do we really want to deal with it in our games, too? Of course not, and that's why Lineage II has announced an update which will make leveling faster and easier. You can visit the preview site for the update here .
One of our greatest assets is our fantastic group of players, who are a very dedicated, hardcore bunch that spend a lot of time and effort building up their characters and battling each other in big player vs. player (PvP) fights like castle sieges. However, the process of building and leveling characters can be a very long and frankly tedious process in Lineage II, which may serve as a barrier for letting a much larger group of potential customers to fully enjoy our game. While in the past the developers in Korea have continually built the game with this hardcore mentality firmly set, with the release of Gracia, they've completely changed the rules and made Lineage II even better and a lot more fun.
The big change is that leveling a Lineage II character is now extremely easier-and we say "extremely" in a fairly conservative manner. A normal new character that goes through the beginning quests can gain a few levels in just a few minutes, and players should find leveling now quite easily, all the way up to level 60 and beyond. Players that could spend several months of hardcore grinding to get up to a competitively high level will now be able to accomplish the same feat perhaps a month, if not less. They'll also be able to get to their occupation changes a lot faster, so developing a selection of specialized characters is a much more realistic option. Building characters is now a lot fun and easy to do, rather than a long-term activity many players would rather do without. This drastic change in leveling is due to several factors.
Friday 27th June/... NCsoft Europe presents an exclusive insight into the thoughts of some of the most highly profiled clan members within Lineage II. Hardcore PvP is one of the big draws to Lineage II, and the bulk of the intense PvP action takes place with the game’s castle sieges and the recently introduced fortress battle system. We asked several prominent clan leaders about their PvP experiences in Lineage II and what they’d like to see in the future.
What’s the most fun you’ve ever had in a Castle siege?
FeRsT ~ Kain ~: That would have to be when we took Rune on Kain from Teamjesus clan and Darkside/Ur/Bregan alliances. They had been zerging the server, outnumbering us to PvP, and we proved to them that with we could compete with equal numbers (about ten clans combined for the siege). We took them down from their status of server kings to show them that all they can do is zerg, and that was by far the best thing, especially seeing it was Fraps’d by Repsol, who is by far the best movie maker in Lineage II playing currently.
Welcome to Allakhazam's new System Performance Guide! We will be updating this guide on a weekly basis to include hardware deals, recommended hardware and software purchases, and ways to tweak your system for optimal gameplay experiences.
Whether you are building a new system, upgrading an existing system, or curious on how you may be able to tweak it a little bit better to lower lag in the latest games, this is the guide for you. This guide is also not MMOG exclusive, although we will focus on performance settings that are often found in online games. Consider our suggestions as valid to any PC games you may be playing. We will note when MMOGs are paid special attention to a specific component or category.
As with many PC based games, MMOs will often require special attention to both hardware and software settings to ensure a comfortable gameplay experience. While each game has its own internal settings, this weekly performance guide brings to the community both hardware and software recommendations that will provide MMO game players with updated information on potential computer configurations.
Click here to view the guide! If you wish to make suggestions for guide updates, as well as provide new weekly deal findings, please see this thread in our forums.
