Will 1v1 see any further support on this server?

stewbeedoo wrote: ↑

Fri 1 May 2020 3:22 AM

Another difference is that on Live there was more "foot traffic" through choke-points to battles. This made for good places to camp solo. The foot traffic was caused by various things:
[list=][/list]One was mob placement, which often funneled targets in a large area to a smaller area that was easier to camp.

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Mobs' locations, density, level range, aggro state/range , behavior (spells or BaF), movement speed can be used to direct, shape, or hinder the pathing of players. The presence of neutral/hostile mobs permits movement but discourages the use of AoE in their vicinity. A solitary purple mob becomes a tool to trick enemies into hitting (i.e Glacier Giant in OF)

The sauvage-pennine border in OF had 2 large traversable valleys but one had a large camp of aggro oaks sprawled across its length- this reduced the 'path' of one valley to a narrow walk rather than offering a 2nd empty expanse

For OF hadrian's the central thicket of trees being populated by green/blue aggro mobs essentially made
the area into a loop instead of a direct path from MPK to MMG

OF pennine's camp placement was an example of how things could go wrong with mob distribution though. Around every corner, over every ridge, there was an aggro waiting to knock you out of speed. Every route you worked out on the map was either blocked by invisible barriers or huge camps of aggro, and those camps very often extended into adjacent camps and blocked areas too thoroughly (valley with giant named lizard surrounded by various casting lizards, orms, and trees)

The locations of mobs (particularly aggressive ones) also impact how immersive the zone itself is. Being unable to beeline from one side of the zone straight to the other creates a sense of size, and having to route around mob(s) led to other side effects like getting lost (Myrkwood at night for the ones that experienced it on Live) or the notoriety of the rock crab bridge riddled with gravestones from naive horse jumpers trying to get to Nisse's Lair, and even the dirt path in Hibernia surrounded by patches of blackthorns/lutananshees being an iconic levelspot. Being unable to walk in straight lines obscures the fact that the zones are boxed-in-squares. This effect is more pronounced in post-34 zones and even moreso in post-50 zones

Other effects were brought about by Chthonic Knight Ukobat sometimes patrolling the 4way at mid side DF and kill everyone that got within his range. If you were crossing deamhaness->drinkers or viceversa you had to be wary. Even more rarely Ukobat would make his way to the entrance and require someone kill him lest he wipe everyone inside. The spontaneous raids of sub-50's banding together to try and kill him were hilarious

In Salisbury, Cynewolf the Ghostwalker would roam around the west of Stonehenge and explode unfortunate victims with bolts. It was rare for anyone to bother to kill him so his existence was more a mobile no man's land for xpers

Often terrain that would otherwise be a quick shortcut between significant points in the map is filled in with dangerous mobs for the zone's level range (Njessi in Myrkwood's lake, grass serpants on Gna Faste's shoreline, Tendrils between the mygga tower and frequent task mobs, spindly rock crab in the water between Nisse's and the shore north of rock crab bridge)

The mobs' locations & attributes are as important for zergs as for solos and can change a grassy void where players are rarely entering cliprange of one another into a series of circuits where the redundant pathing boosts encounter rate