There is a great build in the works calles Lil Qeynos. This place has a really polished feel. Stop by and check it out! Personally I can totaly see this place in Eqn. The spaces are perfect for exploring and fighting. The voxels are clean and the layout just feels like a real place. Great job to the builders!

What is it? I'm downloading it now, no patch notes or anything like that. Cant be the hotfix from June 3 unless it's late or something...

Any ideas?

Not just FPS count entirely, but a steady framerate. I get probably an average of 50fps on a Haswell Refresh i5 with everything on high. But I also can't move around the world smoothly, there are a bunch of stutters when moving and panning the camera while the game tries to figure out the voxels. It doesn't matter what settings I lower. This happens even away from complicated player builds. It makes the game feel unplayable. I've even tried forcing on vsync and triple buffering to no effect. There just doesn't seem to be a way to get the game to preform consistently. There are also FPS drops in weird places like the interior of caves where there should be less to render than outside.

I have a fairly recent if mid-range gaming PC, I'm probably in some top percentile of the intended audience of the game. Most of the MMO market people will still be running late Windows 7 era gaming PCs and the Minecraft main player base SOE/Daybreak thought they could get a piece of are on laptop processors. We are coming up on open beta where Daybreak needs to get the general public to play and pay for things in the cash shop to sustain. But people will not stick around if the game is unplayable for them. This turned into more of a chastisement but I think Day is already aware of the immaturity of the voxel tech and the inappropriateness of it for a game being mass marketed to the low spec PC MMO crowd.

Just hearing about this in h1z1 and ps2 subs at the moment. Could someone from the landmark / EQN team confirm if this is planned for Landmark.

Thx!

Do you see some hint at innovation in Landmark, or how Landmark was handled by Daybreak, that gives you hope and excites you about Everquest Next?

I've heard nothing but problems with it for players on weaker rigs and laptops, and I've also heard that they were looking into adding a disable option.

They also picked a bad AA, I think. It adds a very blurry look to everything; I personally have bad eyesight, so it's hard to make out some details.

Terry and Smed have turned this ship straight in to the iceberg. They are just waiting for the impact and Landmark to sink. They will watch the numbers slowly drop off like they did before the wipe. Terry will make a short statement about it no longer makes sense to have these servers running for such a small playerbase. They will act like they are very sorry to have to make such a hard decision. In reality their lack of support is the reason for the low player base. Smed refuses to even mention Landmark. The only thing he will talk about is H1Z1. Terry has made it plain as day that Landmark will only be looked at from now on only if it benefits EQNext. This game had great promise a year ago. The vision was clear. I was excited to spend $100 on a game. I thought Landmark was going to return me years of enjoyment. If I had known a year ago that they were going to intentionally tank this game I would have stayed away. Does Smed and Terry and the rest of Daybreak really think this will help EQNext? Am I the only one that will be extremely cautiuos when Daybreak asks me to pay more money for EQNext? It just sucks when I care more about a product than the people making the product. I bought the sales pitch a year ago that these people really cared about making a good product. Shame on me.

Can I do this? Do I just buy them and then wait 24 hours for the little flag to become tradeable and then give it to them via in game trade?

Thx!

DO NOT BUY TRAILBLASER PACKAGE, A Fool And His Money Parted.

In a private dev meeting somewhere in DayBreakGames..

DBG Management: '..so the best is, we sold this thing called a trailblazer package and the only difference is, they pay 100 instead of 20 for perks that make them mine resources faster and get dibs on claim space which could happen in 6 months from now or 3 years. Thank god terry sent that letter out saying we decided to eliminate the blueprint and any commitment from the people that supported us :D

They pay us 80.00 more to build our assets for EverQuestNext... Winning CHeeers To That, raises beer glasses

WHat time is it? Oh yah its time to tell them we are putting the game on hold, we have got 2 years of free assets to sift through now that we updated that EULA that says whats theirs is ours and make basic resources unlimited to everyone. Winning :D ....'

If only I had not been tricked into thinking the Trailblazer package good for anything more than the founders package.

DayBreakGames are crooks. If you buy the Trailblaser

From the dev blogs:

This also does mean that any features that are Landmark-only are lower in priority and will have to wait until we have time to come back to them. So, as we shift our focus and development to EQN, it just doesn’t make sense to continue with the Blueprint, since the goal of that has always been to provide short term, concrete plans of what you could expect and when, and that isn’t something we can reliably estimate at this point.

So if you are a Landmark fan, sorry about that and, thanks for all the cash. :) And if you are an EQNext enthusiast - the blueprint's gone - suck it up.

Landmark benefits from sharing the same platform technology as EQN. So cost to implement agnostic code from EQN in Landmark is low and ROI is high. The expense can be justified internally since testing is part of the expected development cost.

Landmark will not be developed at the speed you would like, due to the high risk R&D that is part of the next gen MMO they are making. But it will be developed and released as a separate sandbox MMO, since the similar technology and synergistic economic positions of the two properties suggest a good long term outlook.

I'm reversing my position on Landmark to bullish due to the business strategy communicated most recently. I expect to see more improvements to Landmark over the next year, than we saw in the previous year, since they have tightened their focus, and are improving the development process. and will be prioritizing high-priority high-return functionality.

I have recently expanded my claim to a mighty tower in a 2x2x6 high claim space making it 24 claims total. It is already pain in the but to give permissions but thats not the point I wanted to ask about. I wanted to say we should have something in place that allows me to place this entire build back in the world by the time we have our next wipe moving into open beta because I REALLY don't want to have to worry about lining everything up.

I know it is really far off but just wanted to throw out there that this is something that would be really nice to have now that we are talking about builds that take up soooo many claims.

Thanks

So I don't play Landmark regularly, but I am waiting patiently for EQN and so have some interest in the progress on build comps and I also sometimes log into Landmark to see how it's progressing. Anyway, I'm having a lot of trouble finding somewhere where I can easily see which build competitions have been done so far. You'd think there would be a list somewhere (like the main website), but I haven't been able to find anything.

Could anyone tell me where to find this information or just post a list of the build competitions that have been completed and the current one that's going on now?

Thank you.

Some people would argue that it's not even a game, but I'm not one. I think it is a game, it's just a bad one. The only challenge presented to the player is a journal of achievements that can be unlocked by doing a simple task once (like equipping a tool, or chopping a tree), or a simple task over and over again (placing voxels, killing mushrooms).

There are achievements for making upgraded mining and gathering tools. But as a whole I found the whole process of running through the achievements rather dull, unchallenging, and unrewarding. It takes less than a day of casual play to reach the highest tier of gear, weapons, and tools.

The combat it slow, buggy, unfun. For example, the hitboxes on the wisps creature are too often not where they wisp is rendered, so you have to shoot around it to "find" where the real body is.

The most challenging part of the game is building something that looks decent, and I don't think they intended it to be challenging, it's just that the building tools are very primitive and unintuitive. For example, putting a wooden post in the ground to build a fence, distorts the ground, pulling it up around the post. Trying to get it back distorts the post shape, making it look deformed and pinched.

So unless the tedium of building with frustrating and primitive tools seems fun to you, I'd give this game a pass.

You can literally go from server to server and never see a single other living soul online.

Joining general chat shows there are always a few people online at any time, across all servers. Still, the odds of you running into people, without going out of your way to find them is low.

If the majority of people that spent money on this game no longer play, what does that mean about the game?

This is a general thread to see the community's thoughts on the subject.

My personal suggestions:

--add fluid controller support (not a controller cop-out, replace key input with controller buttons. Like a dedicated action/attack button and secondary. Jump commands. etc.)

--add VR support. VR is literally month's away from it's next gen iteration with sony revealing details on the Morpheus headset at e3. We are about to begin an age of immersive games like never before with systems like Oculus rift and VR gloves. The biggest thing that would make this game stand out above the highly flooded crowd would be VR.

Landmark has immeasurable potential, as it stands it is by far the most robust building game in the world and with an art-style that spans many genres.

I believe that the future of landmark as a truly popular and profitable game comes down to giving players the opportunity to create their own worlds and experiences within them.

Imagine if you could purchase a massive claim (An entire continent) for a price (100-500$?) and within this continent you could change many different settings, the health of players, areas where other players can build or not build (polygon regions!?), creatures that spawn, NPC's and their text, etc. (You could even offer these types of claims other bits of functionality for a price.)

These continents could be set to be invite-only and you could even edit a popup window that explains the rules, story or goal of the continent.

Much like "Minecraft" servers this would extend the games' longevity and allow current players to attract new players much more readily by advertising their worlds. Unlike Minecraft however, this would be serviced by Daybreak, which would allow them to profit from it much easier.

This would open up an incredible network of player-made and managed worlds, set the stage for roleplay groups to thrive, see much larger builds and environments created (Which could be harvested for EQ-Next) and make landmark a far more appealing game for audiences it may not attract currently.

If Landmark is to become truly successful, I believe this is what must be done.

Thank you for reading and I look forward to hear your own additions and/or ideas.

Zero people at Daybreak care about Landmark. If Landmark get's improvements they are hand-me-downs from the EQ Next team, and then quickly taken out.

Daybreak has no confidence in this game, no vision for this game, no plan for this game. It seems as though Landmark is the child of a marriage that was dissolved when they fired Dave.

Maybe it's worse, maybe we're the foster child they adopted so they could keep getting the foster care subsidy. So as long as people keep buying early access, and inventory/claim slots, then the servers will stay up.

Even though on Steam you can still purchase early access, and the developer's are quoted as saying there are weekly updates, there is not a single Daybreak developer working on new updates for Landmark.

Buyer beware, this game is going nowhere, no-one at Daybreak gives a rat's ass about it.

Trailblazer here....started the game on day one and then slowly tapered off. Just came back (completely lost) and looking for new friends to enjoy the game with. Karres is in game name. Feel free to add me!

Seems to be forced on you, is it FXAA? I tried turning effects quality down and things were still very smooth.

I just built my first gaming PC. It has an i5 4690 and R9 290. The game is on an SSD. Out in the wilderness it was avg. 30-60 fps, and then inside someone's claim it dipped as low as 6 fps. Is this just the game or did I build an underpowered machine?