http://www.thehistorian.org The PodCast of David "Historian" DeWald Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:31:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The PodCast of David \"Historian\" DeWald Historian no Historian thehistorian@gmail.com http://www.thehistorian.org/2009/06/19/spellborn-community-webinar-june-17th/ http://www.thehistorian.org/2009/06/19/spellborn-community-webinar-june-17th/#comments Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:46:23 +0000 Historian http://historicmedia.net/?p=49 http://www.thehistorian.org/2009/06/19/spellborn-community-webinar-june-17th/feed/ 0 This week we had El Drijver, David Perry, Ben Beren, a few of the GMs and myself. This week in our open format we talked about the new patch. Everything from what they thought of the new starter area to some of the reworked quests. I know they have been posted all over the place, but I’ve added the patch notes to this post; just hit the “more” link. You can listen to it below, subscribe to my podcast, or download directly. Scroll 5: A Helping Scythand New recruits and veterans alike will be greeted by the newly built Hawksmouth Docks at Hawk’s Landing. The Docks and the surrounding area are now home to some of the less fortunate people of the Enclave, waiting for some brave soul to help them out. They will introduce recruits to the game and offer rewards to those who assist them. As well as this new content, a crafting quest has been added, introducing players to the crafting system by forging a brand new weapon and placing their first Sigil. To enhance questing in The Chronicles of Spellborn, a Quest Tracker has been added for your convenience. The Tracker shows the uncompleted objectives that remain in a Quest, allowing adventurers to play without having to switch between the game and the Quest Log every now and then to check up on their progress. Players can select up to five quests to be tracked simultaneously. Tales From the Vale, a storyline which has been open-ended till now, finds its grand finale. Players at around Fame Level 30 can now venture into a mysterious cave in Homestead to wrap up the events in the village of Waller’s Hill. Ancestral Mages will find the behavior of their Spirit Pets improved. Pets are now better at keeping aggro of hostile mobs and at hitting moving targets. Some Pets have had their Skill Decks altered to give them specific purposes. For example, the Calaspider now has a ranged attack which reduces Physique, enhancing its PvP viability. Players grouping up might want to reconsider ignoring Runemages for their Parties. Targets that are now ‘Burning’ will no longer transfer their Flames to melee attackers. This allows the Runemages’ Party Members to stay in the action without getting burned to a crisp themselves. Apart from numerous Player Skill fixes, members of the Brotherhood of the Glaive have had their Skill Decks fixed and rebalanced. Their Thugs were especially notorious for stacking their ‘Expose Range’ attacks. This has been toned down and their group behavior has been improved. User feedback, activities and encounters in the Demon Chamber of Cowardice have served for a couple of improvements to the Demon Chest. Loot will now be awarded when the third lock is opened, so it no longer requires a player to interact with what is inside. The looting itself now uses regular Group Looting mechanics, so the reward is now available as a group loot, rather than before, which had the item go to one person. After adding new server and client-side tools to investigate the community-dubbed ‘sync issue’, we encountered several small problems. These have all been fixed, so the real-time aiming and player movement is now significantly more accurate. These fixes are paired with a new interface setting, ‘Player Lag Smoothing’. This allows players to increase or decrease the visual smoothing of other players movement. This will not interfere with accuracy. One of the issues was more prone to occur during repeated jumping, so ‘bunny hopping’ players beware! We will continue to monitor this situation to keep the real-time combat system perform at its optimal capability. ..these and many other fixes and improvements await you in Scroll 5: A Helping Scythand. General Fixed an exploit which allowed players to create parties with more than four players Fixed an issue with the chest in the Demon Room, when grouped up with other players (the loot is now offered to the entire party, instead of just the one who opened the last key) Fixed an issue with Equipment Sigils not [...] This week we had El Drijver, David Perry, Ben Beren, a few of the GMs and myself. This week in our open format we talked about the new patch. Everything from what they thought of the new starter area to some of the reworked quests. I know they have [...] Historian 01:03:03 Acclaim, Spellborn, Webinar, Historian no http://www.thehistorian.org/2009/06/12/spellborn-community-webinar-june-10th/ http://www.thehistorian.org/2009/06/12/spellborn-community-webinar-june-10th/#comments Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:56:36 +0000 Historian http://historicmedia.net/?p=46 http://www.thehistorian.org/2009/06/12/spellborn-community-webinar-june-10th/feed/ 0 This week we had El Drijver (Lead Designer Spellborn Int. Ltd.), Ben Beren (Game Manager) and myself. We once again turned the tables on the community and asked them to tell us about their most memoable quests from any game and what they thought of the quest in the forst 15 levels of Spellborn. You can listen to it below, subscribe to my podcast, or download directly. This week we had El Drijver (Lead Designer Spellborn Int. Ltd.), Ben Beren (Game Manager) and myself. We once again turned the tables on the community and asked them to tell us about their most memoable quests from any game and what they thought of [...] http://www.thehistorian.org/2009/05/28/spellborn-community-webinar-may-27th/ http://www.thehistorian.org/2009/05/28/spellborn-community-webinar-may-27th/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 20:05:15 +0000 Historian http://historicmedia.net/?p=40 http://www.thehistorian.org/2009/05/28/spellborn-community-webinar-may-27th/feed/ 0 This week we had El Drijver (Lead Designer Spellborn Int. Ltd.), David Perry (CCO Acclaim), David Jun (Director of Games), Ben Beren (Game Manager) and myself. We turned the tables on the community and asked them to tell us what they thought the “Hook” was for spellborn, we opened it to everyone right at the start and had a great discussion. You can listen to it below, subscribe to my podcast, or download directly. This week we had El Drijver (Lead Designer Spellborn Int. Ltd.), David Perry (CCO Acclaim), David Jun (Director of Games), Ben Beren (Game Manager) and myself. We turned the tables on the community and asked them to tell us what they thought the [...] Historian Acclaim, Spellborn, Webinar no http://www.thehistorian.org/2009/05/22/1st-spellborn-eu-community-webinar-may-22nd/ http://www.thehistorian.org/2009/05/22/1st-spellborn-eu-community-webinar-may-22nd/#comments Fri, 22 May 2009 21:13:27 +0000 Historian http://historicmedia.net/?p=36 http://www.thehistorian.org/2009/05/22/1st-spellborn-eu-community-webinar-may-22nd/feed/ 0 Today we had Vincent Luuuw, a Spellborn writer who worked on the in-game Lore along with El Drijver (Lead Designer Spellborn Int. Ltd.) and myself. This was the very first Webinar for the EU Players and based on the response I expect there will be more in the future. You can listen to it below, subscribe to my podcast, or download directly. Today we had Vincent Luuuw, a Spellborn writer who worked on the in-game Lore along with El Drijver (Lead Designer Spellborn Int. Ltd.) and myself. This was the very first Webinar for the EU Players and based on the response I expect there will be [...] Historian 00:58:21 Spellbirn EU, Webinar no http://www.thehistorian.org/2009/05/15/spellborn-community-webinar-may-14th/ http://www.thehistorian.org/2009/05/15/spellborn-community-webinar-may-14th/#comments Fri, 15 May 2009 16:07:50 +0000 Historian http://historicmedia.net/?p=28 http://www.thehistorian.org/2009/05/15/spellborn-community-webinar-may-14th/feed/ 0 Today we had El Drijver (Lead Designer Spellborn Int. Ltd.), David Perry (CCO Acclaim), Howard Marks (CEO Acclaim), Aaron Rose (Director of Marketing), David Jun (Director of Games) and myself. We talked about the 1.0.4 Patch with the new Arena system and answered player questions. You can listen to it below, subscribe to the podcast, or download directly. Today we had El Drijver (Lead Designer Spellborn Int. Ltd.), David Perry (CCO Acclaim), Howard Marks (CEO Acclaim), Aaron Rose (Director of Marketing), David Jun (Director of Games) and myself. We talked about the 1.0.4 Patch with the new Arena [...] Historian 00:52:27 Acclaim,Spellborn, webinar no http://www.thehistorian.org/2009/05/06/spellborn-community-webinar-audio-for-may-6th/ http://www.thehistorian.org/2009/05/06/spellborn-community-webinar-audio-for-may-6th/#comments Thu, 07 May 2009 01:30:51 +0000 Historian http://www.thehistorian.org/?p=398 http://www.thehistorian.org/2009/05/06/spellborn-community-webinar-audio-for-may-6th/feed/ 0 Today we had Sven Ehrentraut, a Spellborn designer who worked on the Combat Systems along with El Drijver (Lead Designer Spellborn Int. Ltd.), David Perry (CCO Acclaim), Howard Marks (CEO Acclaim), Aaron Rose (Director of Marketing), David Jun (Director of Games) and myself. We talked about the upcoming Patch, with the new Arean system and answered player questions. You can listen to it below, subscribe to my podcast, or download directly. Today we had Sven Ehrentraut, a Spellborn designer who worked on the Combat Systems along with El Drijver (Lead Designer Spellborn Int. Ltd.), David Perry (CCO Acclaim), Howard Marks (CEO Acclaim), Aaron Rose (Director of Marketing), David Jun [...] Historian Spellborn, Webinar no http://www.thehistorian.org/2009/05/06/spellborn-community-webinar-audio-for-may-6th-2/ http://www.thehistorian.org/2009/05/06/spellborn-community-webinar-audio-for-may-6th-2/#comments Thu, 07 May 2009 00:30:34 +0000 Historian http://historicmedia.net/?p=10 http://www.thehistorian.org/2009/05/06/spellborn-community-webinar-audio-for-may-6th-2/feed/ 0 Today we had Sven Ehrentraut, a Spellborn designer who worked on the Combat Systems along with El Drijver (Lead Designer Spellborn Int. Ltd.), David Perry (CCO Acclaim), Howard Marks (CEO Acclaim), Aaron Rose (Director of Marketing), David Jun (Director of Games) and myself. We talked about the upcoming Patch, with the new Arean system and answered player questions. You can listen to it below, subscribe to my podcast, or download directly. Today we had Sven Ehrentraut, a Spellborn designer who worked on the Combat Systems along with El Drijver (Lead Designer Spellborn Int. Ltd.), David Perry (CCO Acclaim), Howard Marks (CEO Acclaim), Aaron Rose (Director of Marketing), David Jun [...] Historian Acclaim, Spellborn, Webinar no http://www.thehistorian.org/2009/05/04/9dragons-community-webinar-may-2nd-audio-podcast/ http://www.thehistorian.org/2009/05/04/9dragons-community-webinar-may-2nd-audio-podcast/#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 22:00:41 +0000 Historian http://www.thehistorian.org/?p=396 http://www.thehistorian.org/2009/05/04/9dragons-community-webinar-may-2nd-audio-podcast/feed/ 0 We had a 9Dragons Webinar over the weekend. Not many showed up, but it was still a good imformative 27 minutes. I hope that by posting this we get a better turn out next time. We had a 9Dragons Webinar over the weekend. Not many showed up, but it was still a good imformative 27 minutes. I hope that by posting this we get a better turn out next time. Historian 00:27:03 9Dragons, Webinar no http://www.thehistorian.org/2009/05/04/9dragons-community-webinar-may-2nd-audio-podcast-2/ http://www.thehistorian.org/2009/05/04/9dragons-community-webinar-may-2nd-audio-podcast-2/#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 21:00:40 +0000 Historian http://historicmedia.net/?p=6 http://www.thehistorian.org/2009/05/04/9dragons-community-webinar-may-2nd-audio-podcast-2/feed/ 0 We had a 9Dragons Webinar over the weekend. Not many showed up, but it was still a good imformative 27 minutes. I hope that by posting this we get a better turn out next time. You can also download it Here: 9Dragons Webinar May 2nd 2009 We had a 9Dragons Webinar over the weekend. Not many showed up, but it was still a good imformative 27 minutes. I hope that by posting this we get a better turn out next time. You can also download it Here: 9Dragons Webinar May 2nd 2009 Historian 00:27:03 Acclaim, 9Dragons, Webinar no http://www.thehistorian.org/2009/04/30/spellborn-apr-30th-webinar-audio-it-really-works-this-time/ http://www.thehistorian.org/2009/04/30/spellborn-apr-30th-webinar-audio-it-really-works-this-time/#comments Fri, 01 May 2009 04:22:54 +0000 Historian http://www.thehistorian.org/?p=375 http://www.thehistorian.org/2009/04/30/spellborn-apr-30th-webinar-audio-it-really-works-this-time/feed/ 1 Third time is the charm right? Ok so we really have the Audio up for the webinar and I will be posting it here form now on. So you can add this url to your favorite Podcasting software to have it drop on your MP3 player. http://www.thehistorian.org/?feed=podcast This week we talked about the first 5 levels of the game, issues with the downloader, a possible Guild contest and rewards and just about anything the player wanted to talk about. You can also download it Here: Spellborn webinar Apr 30th 2009 Third time is the charm right? Ok so we really have the Audio up for the webinar and I will be posting it here form now on. So you can add this url to your favorite Podcasting software to have it drop on your MP3 player. [...] Historian 01:01:04 Spellborn, Webinar, Develoepr Chat no