From the Camelot Vault the first screenshots of the player chatacters overhaul to arrive with the next pay-expansion, in December.

I already wrote extensively about how this decision is one of the worst taken about the game. The engine has already serious performance problems and more lag isn’t what an intelligent team will plan and work toward at this stage. In particular when “New Frontier” will present huge problems because of that.

But that’s not a news, the news is that the new models also look like crap. What I really hope they would avoid have happened: they changed completely the fantasy good style of the art.

If you look at the screenshot is obvious that the polycount is increased but the new art is done realistically to copy once again EverQuest. Fact is that now every fantasy class looks like a b-movie with lots of makeup. They killed the mood.

Every interesting part of the armor (like the shoulders of the elf armor) is being dumbed down to a standard design.

I don’t need anymore reason to forget about Mythic. The “New Frontier” expansion is unplayable for me, “Catacombs” looks like crap and offers me even more lag. I will cancel soon and try to forget about how they are destroying the only good game in the market.

Good luck Mythic, I’m done with you. No more rants.

The massacre is here.
The players seem to like that.

Quoting the stupidity:

The folks at Mythic freely admit that the world of massively multiplayer games is being driven by eye candy.

Dark Age of Camelot: Catacombs is precisely the title that will lure players in looking for eye candy.

The whole, worthless thing is here.

Jeff Hickman, vice president of product support and quality for Mythic, should know that what DAoC needs is an engine not completely broken and that gives playable FPS. It’s not possible that they are forcing me to unsubscribe with “New Frontier” just because the client doesn’t run. And on the same hardware that lets me play World of Warcraft at 20FPS.

No, just add more lag. I surely need more reasons to forget your game. Fools.

In Italy Dark Age of Camelot is managed by a collapsing company: CTOnet.

It’s a year that the italian servers of the game are stuck with the 1.60 patch. The society is sinking and there’s an ongoing drama on the forums. The adminitrators of the game keep asking the users to wait and it happened for a whole year, day after day, broken promises after more broken promises.

In a word: blatant incompetence. Something particularly “italian”.

Smart players have already moved to the american servers, smarter players (like myself) did that two days after the game went live, because the situation was obvious.

Yesterday the “new” managment of CTOnet has met Mythic at Los Angeles to determine the future of the game in my country and I really hope that Mythic will think at least twice about it. The game hasn’t been supported as it should and who deals with the money should take into consideration how the whole project is kept and planned even outside the North America, in particular in Italy where DAoC has been the only service available.

Even here there’s potential and, again, the potential is just another clamorous wreckage due to the idiotic italian attitude.

Now the whole community is waiting answers from a long time and has enough of being cheated and laughed at. Mythic should care and do something even if the actual game is managed by a different company. This situation needs to stop in a way or another.

Mythic, wake up.