Tsaimath
patreon
Interlude: Beta Forum Finale
🕑 Added 2022-11-12 17:36:19 +0000 UTCOfficial Road to Purgatory-Beta Forum
- -Howardlight, confirmed Beta-Account-
Morgana, you shall never get away with this. The Gods will smite you and all you have created will come to naught. The People of Mundus will never accept a tyrant, be it one of Ice or anything else. You shall fall and the Light will prevail.
Now that that’s out of the way, my personal thoughts about the final event of the Beta, as it has pretty much drawn to a close for me. The Crusade, as far as anyone can tell, has failed and the Korbal, the group of forty high-level players that managed to assault the Frozen Citadel has been destroyed.
Now, first of all, I’ve got to congratulate Morgana. I have no idea how much support you got from Pantheon Entertainment, but the Frozen Citadel was incredible. Your act as the Ice Queen managed to send shivers down my spine, and not just because of the temperature, but also from the entire atmosphere and design. Honestly, Kudos.
Pretty sure the various other Korbal are editing their videos, while we all are currently waiting to respawn after you crushed us.
Just to satiate my curiosity, I’d like to know how much of your performance was possible thanks to deliberate additions and how much can be normally achieved. If you can’t tell us, it’s cool but I’d love to know.
- Jeanyra, confirmed Beta-Account
Agreed, the battles were epic. I have no idea how some of the stuff was done, though I’ll have to admit those Ice Collosi were fun, having an actually dumb enemy that you can play with like the enemies in old games was cool. Normal enemies in Road to Purgatory are far too smart to play around with, unless you are massively overlevelled, so having enemies that had power and toughness but no smarts was really funny.
- Palda Hengar, confirmed Beta-Account
I wish I could have been there.
Alas, I’m just not high-level enough, makes me sadge.
- Malachite, confirmed Beta-Account
From the way I understand Morgana, I doubt that she got any help from Pantheon, but that’s just the impression I got from her. Looking forward to those videos.
- Do’rodra, confirmed Beta-Account
You say you failed, Howardlight?
Now, I’d love to know what’s going on.
Why the heck is the Elven Forest burning? Not just parts of it, from what I’ve heard, the whole thing is burning in some weird, black fire. The flames aren’t hot, they don’t feel hot at least, but they turn everything to ashes nonetheless.
- Harms, confirmed Beta-Account
Over in Aretia, we don’t have burning Forest, but we have some strange rain and hail. Poison falling from the sky, either frozen or liquid, killing everyone and everything exposed to it.
If that’s all caused by Morgana, I’m not sure I want that to be possible without dev-interference.
- Morgana, confirmed Beta-Account
Guess I have to speak for once, not just lurk and watch.
First of all, thanks for the compliment, Howardlight, it was fun to play the Ice Queen.
For the other part, I’ll just assume that I can share, given that I wasn’t told that I can’t.
Unless they fundamentally change something for the official version, what I’ve done can be done without dev-help, I certainly didn’t get any that I know of. There were a few things that could have been coincidences or maybe it was planned, but no idea.
I mean, my original starting location, back when I created my character, was in the middle of a frozen forest, with some annoying Snowbolds living nearby. They annoyed me and one of my first, great feats of magic was to kill them. Fun times.
The major piece of the puzzle responsible for the destruction currently going on, has been found in that cave. So, was that deliberately done by the devs or was it a combination of coincidence and an incredibly motivated and rather ticked-off player? I can’t tell.
The rest, the Frozen Citadel, the enemies you faced and the consequences of your failures? That was all on me, again, with no outside interference, other than maybe the way I died at the end. That might have been done deliberately by the Devs, or it might simply be some sort of automatic reaction that once you do something big enough, your character gets wiped, that’s what happened to me. Not just killed, the character is gone, not that I really care, it’s only two weeks until the full release drops anyway.
Anyway, I’ll take these couple days to relax and prepare - See you on the flipside.
- Harms, confirmed Beta-Account
Wait, you can’t just drop that on us and dip. We need some details!
- Kelphram, confirmed Beta-Account
Pretty sure she can, and just did. But I’ve heard a few things from native sources, primarily amongst the clergy and what they said, things are bad.
No idea how she did it, but they speak of the end of the world and they don’t seem to be kidding. There are a ton of quests to prepare for winter and the coming darkness, so those of us who want to earn some last-minute accolades can do, even if I doubt anyone can top what Morgana did.
The first video of the Korbal-Raid just dropped and I gotta say: Holy F*CK!
- Tobiuno, confirmed Beta-Account
I sadly couldn’t join the Korbal, but the videos look incredible.
Though I’ve got to admit, if what Morgana did will be possible in the official game, I’d think a couple of us should work together to make sure nobody breaks the world the same way. A few weeks of having a broken world can be fun but I’d rather not lose everything I achieved in-game because someone else throws a hissy-fit, not gonna lie.
Morgana, I’d like to consult you on that, given that you actually managed to break the world, because that’s the only way I can describe the current state of affairs, broken. Or maybe apocalyptic.
- Jeanyra, confirmed Beta-Account
If everything we’ve seen is possible without help from the devs, I gotta join the “Not sure I actually want that”-Camp. Sure, it’s epic to give players the ability to influence the world on a truly large scale, and I mean not just in a small region or town but across a continent or, as it looks like, the world, but on the other hand, I agree with Tobiuno, I don’t want to lose everything just because some chucklehead felt like the world needs an apocalypse.
Maybe if Morgana would be willing to share just how it was done, to give us an idea if some other players could actually pull a rabbit out of their arse and do something similar or if there’s a possibility to prepare and prevent things like that.
- Whisper, confirmed Beta-Account
I can only give a few estimates, information-gathering has been difficult, even before the assault on the citadel.
To my understanding, the key to her actions was access to a Nexus, basically a place of power where the Astral River is dominated by one element and near the surface. The Gates of Fire in Daiea are apparently something similar, though they are controlled by a local clan who keep that place locked down. So, no idea how Morgana got access to her own Nexus, but given that there are only a limited amount of those, as in, maybe twenty or thirty across the entire globe, all with their own specific elements, I wouldn’t worry too much that someone uses them on a whim.
But there has to be more, or the events wouldn’t have played out the same way, some other sort of influence, especially given that Morgana just told us she had her character booted, while it looks like the situation on Mundus gets progressively worse.
Hopefully, Morgana drops in again and sheds some more light, though I wouldn’t bet on it, she seems to be more into Darkness.
- Tarrin, confirmed Beta-Account
Can confirm the “global” part of things. We got the same black hail Harms mentioned and I’m currently in the northeastern part of Aretia, near the Sea of Ice. And things here are bad, whatever that black ice is, it’s melting the normal snow and ice, or maybe seeping into it? I’ve got no idea but where the black hail fell, the normal ice becomes that black ice and everything that touches it begins to die.
Sunlight seems to slow it down a little, but slowing is not stopping and we currently have a glorious hour of sun each day, so there’s that. Maybe it’s better in the south, but the northern reaches are pretty much done for.
- Do’rodra, confirmed Beta-Account
Well, at least it’s not just us Elves who got the sharp end of the stick.
Though, there was some talk of black fire a few weeks back, when the mess was going on in the forest of Dusk. So, the Nexus somehow allowed you to spread that fire across the entire continent? What sort of Fire is that anyway, I mean, Morgana was always Ice, Darkness and sometimes Mist, right? Why the dramatic shift?
- Jeanyra, confirmed Beta-Account
She always was Mist, yes. And there was that brief video in which she seemed to be using a weird, blue flame, so no idea how you get to black. Maybe some sort of Darkness-Magic, while the blue flames were Ice?
Though how that makes sense, I’ve got no idea and unless she wants to share, I don’t think there’s going to be an answer.
Comments
Quendolayne
Yes! :-) this was what I hoped for :-) Eat this „fricking paladin“ :-) … But wiping her char? Harsh reaction for something she achieved without cheating/exploiting. Remind me on some GMs in some of the big MMORPGs :-(
Tsaimath
amusingly, the forum-chapters are both the easiest and the hardest to write. On one hand, I just have to channel my inner nerd, but on the other hand, I have to morph my inner nerd into eight different people or something like that... Eh
Smashadow
Well done. I always love the forum chapters this one was almost perfect would have preferred it to be longer but that's be for everyone of them.
