Tag Archives: dev diary
Dev Diary: LUA Scripting Goes LIVE!
Posted on02. Sep, 2010 by Merric.
Narrel writes today about how LUA scripting came about for LOTRO in the most recently released Dev Diary. He was hired as a game systems engineer for LOTRO in late 2007 and eventually “…became the ‘go-to guy’ for UI on my team.”
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Dev Diary: Crafting in Free-to-Play (Volume 3.2)
Posted on31. Aug, 2010 by Merric.
With Volume 3.2 Weaponsmiths and Woodworkers are having some revisions which “…introduces an arsenal of new crafted weapons…” that target not only their stats but their damage types as well. However, it’s important to note that no existing crafted weapons will be changed.
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Episode 52: Balls of Flaming Doom
Posted on29. Aug, 2010 by Goldenstar.
This week we spend time to go over all the dev diaries released lately. We spend some time trying to plan out what soldiers we should pick for our RK/Hunter duo.
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Dev Diary: Captain Revision
Posted on26. Aug, 2010 by Merric.
Wow, there sure is a flood of information coming in about Free-to-Play isn’t there? Today, with the release of Ken “Graalx2” Burd’s developer diary on Captains, is no exception. Although a lot of this can be heard about in our Beta Roundtable, let’s go ahead and recap what we can expect to see for Captains on September 10th.
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Dev Diary: Vault Changes
Posted on25. Aug, 2010 by Merric.
A Dev Diary written by Ransroth was released today concerning the upcoming changes to the vault system with the upcoming release of Free-to-Play on September 10th. There have been quite a few changes to the system about which people may find themselves conflicted; I know I was
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Dev Diary: The Wardrobe System
Posted on24. Aug, 2010 by Merric.
The latest Developer Diary by Elliot “Avon” Gilman concerning the Wardrobe System that will be released with the upcoming Free-to-Play release on September 10th. For those who are unaware of what the Wardrobe system might be, it is a “…system designed to store the appearances of these [cosmetic] items and includes some unique features not seen with shared storage or the vault.”
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Episode 51: F2P Is Coming!
Posted on22. Aug, 2010 by Goldenstar.
The majority of the show is about the Free to Play Launch announcement, the dev diaries and the F2P information we’ve found.
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Dev Diary: Volume 3, Book 2
Posted on20. Aug, 2010 by Merric.
Today heralded the release of a Dev Diary by Jeff “MadeofLions” Libby focused on the story, tech and features of Volume 3, Book 2 which is set to release with the upcoming Free-to-Play launch on September 10th.
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Dev Diary: Instances 2.0 (Part 5)
Posted on18. Aug, 2010 by Merric.
Today, sees the last installment from Joe “jwbarry” Barry discussing the revamps we’ll see concverning dungeons in the upcoming F2P release. In this installment he discusses the Great Barrow Cluster aka, Othrongroth
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Episode 50: Happy Anniversary!
Posted on15. Aug, 2010 by Goldenstar.
This was our special anniversary episode where we are celebrating our first year of blogging! This podcast was live broadcast during an in-game event so there are bits of derailment and distractions from the fun activities happening in game.
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Dev Diary: Instances 2.0 (Part 4)
Posted on11. Aug, 2010 by Merric.
Today’s post from Joe “jwbarry” Barry is all about Helegrod and the changes that we will be seeing with the upcoming changes in Free-to-Play. This is a fairly long and detailed post, mostly because it was a fairly detailed process.
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Dev Diary: Instances 2.0 Part 3
Posted on04. Aug, 2010 by Merric.
Today saw the release of Part 3 of 5 in Joe “jwbarry” Barry’s Developer Diaries concerning the re-vamping of instances. Today’s was specifically focusing on the Eregion and Annúminas instances clusters.
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Episode 48: The One with the Thing That’s Epic
Posted on01. Aug, 2010 by Goldenstar.
Merric is working on his burglar and figuring out if his new leveling plan is the one that works. Goldenstar crushes his dream of the burglar eventually coming his main.
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Dev Diary: Instances 2.0 (Part 2)
Posted on28. Jul, 2010 by Merric.
Released today was Part 2 of 5 in the Instances 2.0 series created by Joe “jwbarry” Barry. In case you don’t remember, this discusses the scaling instance system that’s coming with F2P. This post however covers the rewards that come from completing and scaling instances.
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Dev Diary: Instances 2.0 (Part 1)
Posted on21. Jul, 2010 by Merric.
Released today was the Developer Diary by jwbarry concerning instance “re-vamps” that we’ll be seeing with the upcoming Free-to-Play (F2P) changes later this year. So what can we take away from this part of the discussion?






