Hallo, fellow Crows!
We have a nice little hodgepodge of announcements, so I figured I’d bundle them together into one tidy update.
Crowfall Live! Parcel Party
Preparations are underway for our Crowfall Live! Parcel Party event tomorrow. As announced yesterday, we’re transitioning to a modular system that will allow players to design unique strongholds. Those strongholds will be built on parcels, and the livestreams will focus on how parcels are created.
It’s all happening on the official Crowfall Twitch channel and the schedule is:
- 11 am Central: Jon O’Neal, lead environment artist, will demonstrate the creation of parcels
- 2 pm Central: UX Design Lead Billy Garretsen will show how he creates icons for use with the building tools
There’s also a Crowfall playtest coinciding with the first segment. Feel free to flip between the two or catch the Crowfall Live! encore video later.
Speaking of encore videos, here’s an encore of Jon’s segment from June’s Crowfall Live! event to get you pumped up and ready for his show tomorrow.
MMO Huts interview with J. Todd Coleman
While Creative Director J. Todd Coleman is in Germany this week to attend Gamescom, MMO Huts took the opportunity to talk with him about the state of the game and how it aligns with his long-term vision for what Crowfall will be and what players should expect.
"Learning the Discipline tree, and looking for clues as to how your enemy might have arranged his or her build, will be part of that ephemeral equation known as ‘player skill’. The good players will master it, and use that insight to their advantage."
Editorial: Hard Road to Soft Launch
Tim Eisen (aka Crowfall community member ‘Tierless’) casts an editorial on the soft launch plans that were revealed in a recent Founders’ Update.
ACE creating the combat and combat test area got us invested (and streaming) quickly but these items are what will make Crowfall the game we all paid for so long ago. They are complex, harder to see develop and in many ways less sexy to the common backer, but for the hardcore followers like myself they are the things I’ve been waiting for!
Check out Tim’s editorial on MMORPG.com.
Grand Ol’ Guild Faire
The [un]Official Crowfall Community Discord founders are organizing an all-day guild faire that kicks off on 12:01 am on Saturday, August 27. A number of guilds have already signed on to participate. If your guild would like to take part, or if you’re guildless and looking for some Crows to flock with, see this forum thread for more information.
Plenty to talk about, and we hope you'll join the conversations on the forums (or in one of the Twitch chats during a livestream, on Facebook or Twitter)!
Thanks for your continued support,
Pann
Director of Community, ACE