The funny thing is that we are asking for an "ANSWER" and we are being totally ignored.
We have been given an answer by @badbotlimit : "Absolutely nothing until after Mod 8 Rage of Demons" development schedules were already finalized up to that point months ago. Personally, I think we've heard fairly similar between 3 and 4 or 4 and 5 so I'm expecting the same -- a handful of last minute assets, partial encounter groups, and probably a few more modified existing assets. Same old, same old.
We have been given an answer by @badbotlimit : "Absolutely nothing until after Mod 8 Rage of Demons" development schedules were already finalized up to that point months ago. Personally, I think we've heard fairly similar between 3 and 4 or 4 and 5 so I'm expecting the same -- a handful of last minute assets, partial encounter groups, and probably a few more modified existing assets. Same old, same old.
Mod 8 really? Let me do the math on this... I am a wizard you know. August 11 - April 07 + Christmas Office Party - 4 Developers Let Go * Root of All Evil (PWE) / Profit and Loss... so sometime next Spring 2016? Is that what everyone else is getting?
Ok see you next year people, someone be sure to turn those lights off and save electricity.
Hmmm, there are obvious test foundries on the "Review" tab of the test server by authors sporting "dev" in their names. Hopefully that means they are working on getting the foundry back up and operational.
Edit: Review tab, not new... d'oh
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I'm more concerned with the extended down-time... not any significant upgrade to the foundry... what's the hold up?
They could be inter-connected, meaning that the reason it's taking so long is because they are working on it. Optimism leads one to believe that they may intend to "surprise us" with a big Foundry update. Pessimism leads one to believe there may not be many left to see the surprise, if/when it actually occurs. I'm not surprised with the lack of communication, that seems to be the status quo when it deals with the Foundry.
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Mod 8 really? Let me do the math on this... I am a wizard you know. August 11 - April 07 + Christmas Office Party - 4 Developers Let Go * Root of All Evil (PWE) / Profit and Loss... so sometime next Spring 2016? Is that what everyone else is getting?
Mod 7=Strongholds, out now
Mod 8= Rage of Demons, out Fall 2015 -- so Sept 1st-Nov 30th sometime?
So, that *should* mean Winter 2015 -- Dec 1st-Feb 28th?
So, maybe, just maybe, if SCL doesn't decimate the author ranks, if they do something really spectacular for the foundry, it might survive?
"Mod 7=Strongholds, out now Mod 8= Rage of Demons, out Fall 2015 -- so Sept 1st-Nov 30th sometime? So, that *should* mean Winter 2015 -- Dec 1st-Feb 28th?" Oh? mod-8 is called rage of demons? i thought it was called Underdark as said here http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/neverwinter/news/detail/9226073-neverwinter:-underdark-coming-in-2015 didn't look in to it before posting, there the same but mod-8 is really called Underdark. Rage of demons is what the expansion of the lore is called.(lore of D&D in all). so foundry WILL be back up after mod-8?
Nope, you're right - Rage of Demons is what it's called on SCL and WotC.
Underdark is Neverwinter mod 8.
And no one but Cryptic knows when or if foundry will be back up -- they've just told us that no development/fixes/work/updates would be done on foundry until after Mod 8.
(Kind of like they said after mod 3....and after mod 4....and after mod 5)
I've asked multiple times for an answer, but nothing yet. I'll keep on asking...
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I've asked multiple times for an answer, but nothing yet. I'll keep on asking...
thanks strumslinger, but I think we get the message by now. the lack of any kind of answer for over a month after modules and modules ignoring the foundry is a pretty clear reply in itself.
Strumslinger.. it's pretty clear that there will be no upgrade at all for the foundry. I'm just curious how much longer will we have to wait until it's turned back on?
I am done waiting... I just found out Guild Wars 2 went free to play. It took too long to download, after playing 30 minutes I deleted it. But meh, I am glad I didn't spend $60 like some fool to find out.
I managed to get my certification for skydiving this last month so I suppose without this Foundry outage, I wouldn't have accomplished that eh?
Some one find a real long stick and poke me with it when or IF the Foundry returns. I have a massive amount of work on there and I hope it hasn't all been deleted. I would like to finish my first mission some day.
Shareholders wouldn't care it's all about numbers and money for them.
Sword Coast Legends is coming out soon, since they will open it for pre-orders as a sort of beta before they release at the new pushed back date. So I'll let you all know how it turns out. One thing I feel I should mention is they haven't shown anything yet about the actual campaign creation, they only mentioned DM'ing random maps with players.
The game does have a campaign creator where you can build your own adventures, not just play the random ones, but they haven't really talked about it, or shown that part yet. Perhaps that is why it got pushed back so they could fine tune it, before they start talking about it.
Either way if the Foundry doesn't come back, I find the original game after lvl 60 the dev's created to be a horrible grindy mess that is not fun at all. Strongholds slightly redeemed this, since I can roam on a map with my guildmates together. That being said, if I don't get my Foundry back, I and my money will be walking away to other places. I spent a fair amount on this game by choice hoping to keep the Foundry going, and instead this is what I got for my investment. I suppose with PWI at the helm I should have known better, I miss the actual Cryptic, they were amazing.
I really do love these Foundry tools, I can start with a blank flat map and end up with this amazing creation that is all mine. It's a shame that the dev's just can't see the potential here. This is the one unique feature this mmo has that other's do not. Otherwise it's just another grindathon mmo set in D&D Lands...
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Shareholders wouldn't care it's all about numbers and money for them.
Sword Coast Legends is coming out soon, since they will open it for pre-orders as a sort of beta before they release at the new pushed back date. So I'll let you all know how it turns out. One thing I feel I should mention is they haven't shown anything yet about the actual campaign creation, they only mentioned DM'ing random maps with players.
The game does have a campaign creator where you can build your own adventures, not just play the random ones, but they haven't really talked about it, or shown that part yet. Perhaps that is why it got pushed back so they could fine tune it, before they start talking about it.
Either way if the Foundry doesn't come back, I find the original game after lvl 60 the dev's created to be a horrible grindy mess that is not fun at all. Strongholds slightly redeemed this, since I can roam on a map with my guildmates together. That being said, if I don't get my Foundry back, I and my money will be walking away to other places. I spent a fair amount on this game by choice hoping to keep the Foundry going, and instead this is what I got for my investment. I suppose with PWI at the helm I should have known better, I miss the actual Cryptic, they were amazing.
I really do love these Foundry tools, I can start with a blank flat map and end up with this amazing creation that is all mine. It's a shame that the dev's just can't see the potential here. This is the one unique feature this mmo has that other's do not. Otherwise it's just another grindathon mmo set in D&D Lands...
Well said, myrkolith.
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agree 100%. I'm been watching SCL and it looks interesting. Sadly what I most enjoy is making new maps and zones and SCL doesn't have much of that either.
I came back 4 days ago. I'm lvl 69 now, and I'm pretty much grinding the same content as when I left last year... or whenever it was....
4 new zones... 1 of them was original (I think). The sky zone..... I don't remember that map previously used. Other than that It's painfully obvious they don't have much for 'new' content. They do however have tons of ways too soak zen purchases out of their customer base! Oh boy!
*yawn* almost 70 and realizing that I'll be back to grinding the same stuff I was last year... with the exception of the Stronghold stuff. I'm not a big fan of their Stronghold module. I totally would have preferred too see something along the lines of "FOUNDRY DEVELOPMENT"!
They did a nice job with the new models, however the bird critter looks like a copy from Dark Ages of Camelot. The giants look nice, and the air elementals are nifty. Haven't seen anything else in the way of new content yet.
Let's be honest, the Foundry is DEAD for the foreseeable future. As usual we are left guessing, with no facts. Incredible disservice to the Foundry authors. Mod team told to say nothing, or given no answers. This is really unfortunate what PW and Cryptic suits are doing to this game.
Hope I'm able to finish the quest I was creating, last time I was creating I was no longer able to even load it up in the foundry, and its been over a year in the making. Talk about alot of time down the drain, was almost to the point of deleting it...
I'm going down to Cryptic tomorrow to see them face to face. I WILL get an answer from them. >:)
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the play with the devs is like, 11 hours after patch.. patch is at 7am, play with devs prolly at 5:30-6pm ..
so east coast, patch at 10am, devs at 8:30-9pm. (so, andy should be seeing them around .. 4? est)
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Sylkrode, yep maybe is something to do with the "appear/disappear" option instead of a teleporter?
Hey, Wendy! the foundry that I was working on, has a "Bride" and a "Groom", I was wondering if the word "groom" was correct, now I see it is.
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We have been given an answer by @badbotlimit : "Absolutely nothing until after Mod 8 Rage of Demons" development schedules were already finalized up to that point months ago. Personally, I think we've heard fairly similar between 3 and 4 or 4 and 5 so I'm expecting the same -- a handful of last minute assets, partial encounter groups, and probably a few more modified existing assets. Same old, same old.
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Ok see you next year people, someone be sure to turn those lights off and save electricity.
Edit: Review tab, not new... d'oh
Featured Foundry Quest: Whispers of an Ancient Evil [v3] - NW-DQ4WKW6ZG
Foundry Quest: Harper Chronicles: Blacklake - NW-DCPA4W2Q5
Mod 7=Strongholds, out now
Mod 8= Rage of Demons, out Fall 2015 -- so Sept 1st-Nov 30th sometime?
So, that *should* mean Winter 2015 -- Dec 1st-Feb 28th?
So, maybe, just maybe, if SCL doesn't decimate the author ranks, if they do something really spectacular for the foundry, it might survive?
Encounter Matrix | Advanced Foundry Topics
Mod 8= Rage of Demons, out Fall 2015 -- so Sept 1st-Nov 30th sometime?
So, that *should* mean Winter 2015 -- Dec 1st-Feb 28th?"
Oh? mod-8 is called rage of demons? i thought it was called Underdark as said here http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/neverwinter/news/detail/9226073-neverwinter:-underdark-coming-in-2015
didn't look in to it before posting, there the same but mod-8 is really called Underdark. Rage of demons is what the expansion of the lore is called.(lore of D&D in all). so foundry WILL be back up after mod-8?
Nope, you're right - Rage of Demons is what it's called on SCL and WotC.
Underdark is Neverwinter mod 8.
And no one but Cryptic knows when or if foundry will be back up -- they've just told us that no development/fixes/work/updates would be done on foundry until after Mod 8.
(Kind of like they said after mod 3....and after mod 4....and after mod 5)
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We'll keep on listening.
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Foundry Grand Master.
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NW-DT3221YUY - The Wildcross Bride
Foundry Grand Master.
I managed to get my certification for skydiving this last month so I suppose without this Foundry outage, I wouldn't have accomplished that eh?
Some one find a real long stick and poke me with it when or IF the Foundry returns. I have a massive amount of work on there and I hope it hasn't all been deleted. I would like to finish my first mission some day.
Sword Coast Legends is coming out soon, since they will open it for pre-orders as a sort of beta before they release at the new pushed back date. So I'll let you all know how it turns out. One thing I feel I should mention is they haven't shown anything yet about the actual campaign creation, they only mentioned DM'ing random maps with players.
The game does have a campaign creator where you can build your own adventures, not just play the random ones, but they haven't really talked about it, or shown that part yet. Perhaps that is why it got pushed back so they could fine tune it, before they start talking about it.
Either way if the Foundry doesn't come back, I find the original game after lvl 60 the dev's created to be a horrible grindy mess that is not fun at all. Strongholds slightly redeemed this, since I can roam on a map with my guildmates together. That being said, if I don't get my Foundry back, I and my money will be walking away to other places. I spent a fair amount on this game by choice hoping to keep the Foundry going, and instead this is what I got for my investment. I suppose with PWI at the helm I should have known better, I miss the actual Cryptic, they were amazing.
I really do love these Foundry tools, I can start with a blank flat map and end up with this amazing creation that is all mine. It's a shame that the dev's just can't see the potential here. This is the one unique feature this mmo has that other's do not. Otherwise it's just another grindathon mmo set in D&D Lands...
Search @Longshire for 12 Foundry Quests, all are story driven adventures
Story -- Medium/Heavy, Combat -- Light/Medium, Lore -- Medium/Heavy
A House Divided [NW-DPF5SD98R] (Take sides in the nefarious drow houses to stop a malevolent plot.) /Not the best lore accuracy./
* Currently working on and off with a new campaign. *
I'm pretty sure they can implement that in the near future.
NWS-DOVA9JIJV - The Lost Seneschal
NW-DT3221YUY - The Wildcross Bride
Foundry Grand Master.
4 new zones... 1 of them was original (I think). The sky zone..... I don't remember that map previously used. Other than that It's painfully obvious they don't have much for 'new' content. They do however have tons of ways too soak zen purchases out of their customer base! Oh boy!
*yawn* almost 70 and realizing that I'll be back to grinding the same stuff I was last year... with the exception of the Stronghold stuff. I'm not a big fan of their Stronghold module. I totally would have preferred too see something along the lines of "FOUNDRY DEVELOPMENT"!
They did a nice job with the new models, however the bird critter looks like a copy from Dark Ages of Camelot. The giants look nice, and the air elementals are nifty. Haven't seen anything else in the way of new content yet.
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BTW, for other time zones, this is after or before the patch/server restart?
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so east coast, patch at 10am, devs at 8:30-9pm. (so, andy should be seeing them around .. 4? est)
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Thanks for all the fish.