What's your favorite thing about Underdark so far?

strumslinger

Let's keep this simple and to the point! Tell me which feature you like the most so far. And if it's too soon to vote, feel free to vote at a later date!

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dodgo

too soon

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kiraskytower

R.A. Salvatore Quests

For me, so far it's been the quest series ... I just wish there was more of it. I have also enjoyed the new skirmish and the tradebar store rework and gear preview features are very nice additions to the game. Ask me again in a few days and we will see how well this all replays.

theycallmetomu

Tarmalune Trade Bar Rework

if I ran a poll for least favorite thing, I'd say the motes issue. YES I'VE BEEN RAMBLING ABOUT THIS EVERYWHERE BUT IT NEEDS TO BE SAID!

Such terrible design... Oh well.

But yeah: I like the new tradebar shop. That's pretty cool. But, like, still annoyed that the module is basically just nothing but HEs.

I guess part of that is that I really wish that the license had been given to someone else and we'd gotten NWN3, but I can't really blame Cryptic for that.

kreatyve

Tarmalune Trade Bar Rework

It was really, really hard for me to decide what I liked best. I love the Demogorgon fight. I loved the R. A. Salvatore quests. I love the gear preview system. I really love the Trade Bar rework, so that's what I picked.

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kolatmaster

R.A. Salvatore Quests

The T-Bar store is the best thing for the quality of life for the players going forward, and I cannot commend the Dev staff enough for it...

That being said, R.A. Salvatore Quests and the easter eggs/earned titles are amazingly awesome. Thank you so much!

I mean they put a Zombie Horse named "Old Reliable" in the quest line! It harkens back to the humor of the BEST quest ever... The Liches Phylactery in Neverdeath Graveyard!

Please keep up those type of things guys.

Also, whoever animated/designed Drizzt's combat maneuvers that I've seen in my Stronghold HEs... WOW. So well done, and I can remember R.A. Salvatore describing all those moves in his fight scenes!

@strumslinger : Please pass that last compliment on!

sorce

Tarmalune Trade Bar Rework

Already the poll is showing a trend. The content of this mod is lacking in a big way. The R.A. Salvatore quests are about the only saving grace (and it is a very limited quest line with reused maps).

Wonderful that we got a mod that patched almost on time, and hasn't had any major game breaking bugs pop up (yet). Gear preview is amazing, Tradebar rework is awesome. I'm looking forward to Master-work professions (once that dang guild hall finishes upgrading - 7.5 days to go).

But where is the content? And if this is it, when are we getting something other than more HEs or a mind-numbingly boring Skirmish? Mod 8 and still no dungeons. *sadface*

subnocte

Tarmalune Trade Bar Rework

In terms of content, the mod is a massive disappointment. It feels like a few foundry quests have been glued on together, half of them just using the default maps. The new skirmishes and HEs are run in circles around doing the same thing for ages. Bad. It's barely a small update, let alone an expansion.

The trade bar stuff is great and will make grinding much less painful, especially the RNG side of it.

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killergilnyc1

Tarmalune Trade Bar Rework

the tradebar rework for sure! I can now buy coal wards and refine some of my enchants/runes for a much cheaper amount of trade bars. However, I don't spend anywhere near enough cash on this (or any game) to make enough tradebars to use this all the time. I really only spend 10$ a month on VIP which gives me enough to open 1 chest a day and accumulate trade bars that way.

On content, I wish there was more content. I did the level 60 and 70 quest lines in literally one hour and am not bored again.

I do not find the massive amounts of new rings anywhere near useful to wear and I see them as nothing but a new way to bring in rough AD from salvaging them non stop.

Thanks for raising rough Ad refine cap from 25k to 36k (if my numbers are right).

I kind of expect it to kind of be like IWD, DR, TWoD, where you could do dailies and then you can farm the mobs/monsters if you wanted to within the new location (forgot the location).

I kind of wish it was like a new "stronghold" type map, meaning that large in size, with tons of HE within it as well as other locations to farm regular demon mobs.

I rate the mod a 6/10 just because to me it is lacking content.

thefabricant

Tarmalune Trade Bar Rework

I wish I could say the dungeons but...oh well, time to vote tradebar changes.

shinlogoslokiyo

R.A. Salvatore Quests

Pwent is the best. 10/10. trade bar comes a close second.

stylepile

Tarmalune Trade Bar Rework

Winged Pig-Demons. I want one as a companion. Please gimme.

lldt

Tarmalune Trade Bar Rework

I'm shocked that the quest line got any votes at all.

arabatur

Biased poll, as you are assuming all of your choices are likeable.

subnocte

Tarmalune Trade Bar Rework

arabatur said:

Biased poll, as you are assuming all of your choices are likeable.

I can't see them putting forward a poll, 'which part of mod 8 do you think is the worst?'. It'd be funny though.

tassedethe13

Demogorgon Fight

I voted demogorgon fight, because it has some new cool mechanics.

I loled when i saw "Demonic encounters" in the poll ! Listen to the community and please stop making heroic encounters

therealprotex

R.A. Salvatore Quests

What I liked most - by far - was the smooth start of mod 8 compared to mod 6 or 7. The patch time was guessed nearly 100% correctly and there was no need to shut the servers down again after a few minutes due to bugs or crashes. The patch itself installed pretty quickly, even shorty after the game was online again (so I guess some things were done about the scaling of the patch servers) and I heard of no problems so far about being unable to log in or similar things. The mod appears to be actually tested which is something that any "customer" of software can and should expect, but was poorly addressed for former mods.

From the choices above I liked the Salvatore quest most. On the one hand it was great to have the pre-level-60 feeling back when we ran through a non-repetitive storyline, on the other had it was fun to join the characters from the first book of the sundering saga and to see that some of its content (e.g. the throne that rejects unworthy people by throwing them away) found the way into the game.

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rapo973

Tarmalune Trade Bar Rework

This mod is not very exciting imo, but the changes in the economy/stores are appreciated.
The first results of this poll seem to say the same...

lirithiel

R.A. Salvatore Quests

Short yes but I thoroughly enjoyed running around with the Pwent! I haven't done that much else so cannot comment, but I'm already sick of heroic encounters.

lirithiel

R.A. Salvatore Quests

lldt said:

I'm shocked that the quest line got any votes at all.

You obviously did not read any of R.A. Salvatore's books since the Neverwinter Saga because if you did, you have have a new appreciation for the questline.

torontodave

R.A. Salvatore Quests

I voted Questline because it was well executed.

All the 10 chapters are reasonably bug free. The Karrundax(? fire dragon dungeon) had cool lighting effects/motion blur effects - this was a great example of how easy it is to recycle content, while enhancing it. (An easy skychange!)

There were a bunch of new assets. The textures loaded-in properly. The NPC's were well-pathed. Ummm... what else

I appreciated how the voiceovers from the questgivers would continue even during a zone change.

All in all, some real quality control went into the 10 chapters to make everything bugfree and immersive. Kudos to the team, and the Foundry author who put it together with R.A. I can appreciate your hard work. ;D

The 0-60 questline is fine. You don't have to keep making mods backwards-compatible for players who aren't at endgame yet. Basically, you don't have to build content for pre-70 anymore. WOD/Strongholds/Underdark all have em, waste of labour.

indalord

Tarmalune Trade Bar Rework

I wont judge only this mod8. A mod is a part of the game. Recently, some changes have been done in the good direction and the Tarmalude Bars is my favorite. Well, too much HE is a mistake and obviously, Devs have to decrease a bit the number of HE we have to run in this new mod. But as the stats of new weapons/gears are not so far from what we already have. Well WE DONT NEED TO RUN SUCH NEW HE
But, some changes could be made to help ppl that want these specific new weapons/gears.

Also, with new rings (dropping quite easily in my case -iam 3.1K gs and in a powerful guild) I will soon play with different styles . My HR will be a bit a TR. Moreover, these rings are a nice amount of AD each day.
So plz, decrease the number of HE we have to run for new boons and ill say it is OK. A mod is a mod, not a new game. And we can already play a lot of things in neverwinter.
The only thing I would like (except a Telven on my DC) it is ..... A NEW DUNGEON before Xmas. A bloody long and fun DUNGEON. DId I said 'CN ? Well if Devs haven't a new one, CN will be OK....for a while
CU in game

lirithiel

R.A. Salvatore Quests

torontodave said:

The Karrundax(? fire dragon dungeon) had cool lighting effects/motion blur effects - this was a great example of how easy it is to recycle content, while enhancing it. (An easy skychange!)

Agreed. Having read so much about the Shadowfell in R.A. Salvatore's novels I was so excited to see it in-game when the neighbourhood notification popped up on my screen. The FX made me not care so much that the content was recycled.

lynce1975

Unfortunately there is no new class in this module, so i'm not going to even try it. No class ingame holds my interest no matter how many times i try to play, they just bore me (either that or the combat system, not 100% sure). I enjoyed the story i played (the little i played anyways) but combat is about 90% of the game, no fun in combat/classes no fun ingame. It's a pity because i loved nevewinter nights.

silverkelt

Tarmalune Trade Bar Rework

@strumslinger

Why did you put a post on the artifact weapons giving double rp? are they supposed to? because right now they dont.. not at all, its the same as always.

I would be much happier if they did of course.

aimeesellers

Tarmalune Trade Bar Rework

Ok... I voted for the TB Store rework... but let's break these down. Yes... I know the dev's love it when I do this.

1) New Skirmishes (Prophecy of Madness and Throne of the Dwarven Gods) - I have run through these a few times now, and they are interesting. I like the variation of tactics needed. However, I am very disappointed that these are single room skirmishes. The last skirmishes we got were Kessels, and Shores... which beat these hands down.

2) Demogorgon Fight - Havent tried this yet, will be doing it today and I can comment then.

3) Demonic Heroic Encounters - Are you kidding? I join the rest of the community on this. Heroic Encounters are NOT content. They are filler. Its like if you were playing pen and paper D&D and you spent the entire night just roaming around fighting what rolls off of the "Wandering Monster" tables. Enough with these!

4) R.A. Salvatore Quests - Very well done. Content-wise however... this is sadly the best part.

5) Gear Preview - Nice... will save me hours on Google trying to find a picture of what the gear looks like before I buy it. Now if there was only more gear appearance options. Perhaps if we had the old dungeons back with the old gear lo... stop.. stop... Bad Aimee.

6) Tarmalune Trade Bar Rework - Yes... this is my favorite part so far, but even this has issues. I have been saving my bars for a spiffy new mount. And what you put in the store is the Gas Spore? Umm... a gas spore is fungus. Not a creature to be ridden. Unless there is a propeller attached to this thing (which there isnt)... all it is... is a hippity hop that floats.

Also... people need to keep in mind that trade bars are not a currency that can be compared to AD, Zen, or Gold. Trade bars are "rewards" for buying something you were going to buy anyway. You get enough of them... you can use them to get something "FOR FREE". Think of them as cereal box tops. Let's say you need 40 cereal box tops to get a tshirt. Cereal costs $5 a box... so, it would take spending $200 on cereal to get the tshirt. If you buy the cereal just to get the boxtops you need to get the shirt... YOU ARE A FOOL. You buy the cereal because you LIKE the cereal... the tshirt is a bonus. Same applies to trade bars and the items you can get using them. You buy keys to open boxes... which give you a chance to get an awesome prize... (or possibly a (*&@^#$(*&^ Emblem of the Cults... which someone needs to be smacked for). The trade bars are a reward for opening the box... which you would have done anyway.

7) Masterwork Professions - Why is this even listed? No one can do them yet.

8) Strongholds Additions - You mean the patch of snow next to the mimic? Seriously?

9) Artifact Weapons with "Always Double Refinement" - I just got my weapons to Legendary... I am a bit miffed I have to grind out countless HE's (see above) for new ones. But... the fact that I get more for melting down my current ones to rank my new ones will be less painful once I do that... I think.

10) Mantol-Derith - You mean the "Underdark Truck Stop? Because that is all it is. If there were an actual adventure area tied to it... then it would be worth it.

Overall impression... Seriously lacking content.... however, some of what was done holds promise. It does seem that things are starting to turn around though... I am still hopeful of "what is to come". More Underdark content would be great.