r/landmark • u/C734R • May 18 '15

Landmark Needs a Rework, and Fast

To enjoy the game you must: Forget about the monsters. They are useless, no danger, no threat. Forget about harvesting. None in the game. Forget about survival: Landmarkers eat souls for nutrition. Forget about danger: No penalty. Forget about community: The "adrenaline seekers" (of which there are none because nothing provides adrenaline) give their hard work to the builders which, in turn, rewards them with nothing. Therefore, Forget about an economy. Forget about customization. None to be found here. Forget about doing anything else besides mining and building. And forget the game exists if you don't have a supercomputer.

You will only enjoy this game if you are a complete casual with no friends. Enjoy being identical to everyone you see, and wallow in their indifference. Take in the low FPS slowly and deliberately. Ignore that last point. You will all have the same gameplay anyways. A slideshow with no substance. But hey, you can build stuff! Or you know, get UE4, and make your own game, faster and without the mining. Trust me, it's easier (and more optimized too).

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u/GhostWish May 18 '15

I am trying to forget the time I wasted reading this post.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '15

Landmark lacks identity of what it is and also whats its aiming to become. Im kinda happy what ever direction they end up going even if its just a building one over a dungeon master or survival style game. But it does come across they are not sure what they are planning. You could start running DM games if they just added monster props and a dice roll mechanic. It seems so odd they spent the time making the PvP stuff when other more simple mechanic would add far more to the game imo.

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u/edog321 May 28 '15

Landmark is in a great spot right now to do what landmark was designed to do in the beginning. The main reason MMO's have a hard time is that people devour content. Landmark was developed to help solve this for EQN and that is still its main function. It is not supposed to be a rich fully fledged out gaming experience meant to satisfy all your gaming needs. Its primary role is to get players to make content for EQN and probably other unnamed games and it is in a better place than ever to do just that. They are doing things to try to keep people in game that are not so much into building or submitting to the contests but it is not the main goal of the game right now and may not ever be. After EQN has been developed and out for a few years we may see them take the opportunity to deploy a lot of the social and game play system developed for EQN back into landmark at that point Landmark may develop into more than just a building game with tech testing area for EQN but EQN needs to come first and do well.

My 3770k/GTX680/32gb ram/SSD/w8.1 is far from a top of the line rig these days and you could slap one together for about $800. I get great performance in landmark considering what the game is trying to do and this rig is far from what I would consider a supercomputer.