Mamuth75
26/04/2006, 03:03
Chronicle 5 Overview
Source: Playforum (http://www.playforum.net/lineage2/column.comm?action=read&iid=10031004&kid=7754)
The day before Chronicle 5 was launched, NCSoft held a press conference to communicate the the content being updated for the new chronicle.
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Chronicle 5 Concepts
Chronicle 5 was planned with five main concepts in mind.
Support for Soloers
Solo hunting areas will drop Instant Items. These work much like power-ups in arcade games: they will immediately recharge the player's HP and MP as soon as they are acquired, reducing downtime.
9 new hunting areas have also been added for players at levels 20 to 60.
Clan Activity Encouraged
To develop the strength of human communication in online games, the clan system is getting a large makeover.
Clan Academy
Clans can found academies that help new users level to 40 to increase their clan's reputation.
Clan Ranks
Initially clans simply had a clan leader and its members. This will be further segmented to allow clans to organize themselves into ranks. The ranks go up to Marquis in C5. In the future they will also add Lord/Lady and King/Queen.
Clan Items
Clans can purchase clan items using Clan Reputation points.
In order to equip them, the player must have contributed a certain number of points and at a certain rank within the clan.
Clan Skills
Clan skills are implemented in a tree system. When the clan leader learns it, it gets applied to all members of the clan depending on their rank.
Class Balance
PVP Balance
The so-called RPS system will eliminate a dominating PVP class. Any strong class will be able to be countered with its enemy class.
Hero Skills
In response to concerns that Hero rewards weren't reflecting the difficulty in achieving the status, new hero skills have been added.
The Grand Olympiad has also been reworked to provide fairer competition.
Skills Revamped
New skills have been added for players around level 60 to give them greater motivation to continue in the game.
These new skills will also play a main part in balancing pvp.
Completion of the Continent
The Dwarven and Orc lands will be connected to the rest of the territories through the addition of Schuttgart. It is now possible to walk pretty much anywhere in this game.
Schuttgart will present monsters of different difficulties that get gradually harder further away from the newbie areas.
Schuttgart added
Schuttgart Castle and Schuttgart Village, as well as 9 new hunting areas added.
High Level Dungeons
Monastery of Silence and Shrine of the Heretics are added in the Rune region and will feature lvl80-ish mobs.
New Technologies Implemented
Support for Dual-core processors
The clients now support dual-core CPUs. Those that take advantage of this feature will see a 30% increase in speed.
Vertex Shader
Vertex Shader applied to graphic engine
Other New Developments
New weapons, armor and accessories. Of these, armor are clan items.
Additions to Fishing
Fishing Competition will be held as ingame events. 'Night Fishing' is a higher level fishing concept.
Raid Boss
Frintessa added. Frintessa is designed to be fought using sound as a strategy.
Interface Tweaks
Party matching system has been reworked so that leaders of parties can actively search out party members.
Also, raid parties can be formed to prevent ninja looting. Items dropped from raids can only be picked up by members within the raid party for a period of time.
Cursed Weapon
The demonic sword Zariche is a one-handed sword that equips automatically when acquired. More cursed weapons will be added in the future.
Player using the Zariche will not be able to join parties, and gets put in an abnormal chaotic state, where s/he will not drop items or lose XP upon death.
Chronicle 5 Graphics
Items
Clan Armor
The clan armor set Apella Set is specialized for PvP.
Various other armors will be added in the Clan Items category.
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/7.jpg
Apella set (Human) - Heavy, Light, Robes
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/8.jpg
Apella set (DE) - Heavy
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/9.jpg
Apella set (Elf) - Robe
Weapons
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/10.jpg
Cursed Weapon - Zariche
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/11.jpg
From left to right:
1H Sword: Mystery Sword, 2H Sword: Inferno Master, Blunt: Doom Crusher, Mage Sword: Tears of Wizard, Sword of Paagrio (type unknown)
Accessories
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/12.jpg
Left column top to bottom: Raid Master's Circlet, Raid Explorer's Circlet, Raid Challenger's Circlet
Right column top to bottom: Circlet of Schuttgart, Circlet of Ice Fairy Shir
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/13.jpg
Fashion Accessory - Chapeau
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/14.jpg
Fashion Accessory - Goggles
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/15.jpg
Fashion Accessory - Small Angel Wings
Monsters
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/16.jpg
Spike Stakato: Higher tier monster at Stakato's Nest in Rune
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/17.jpg
Anais, Ruler of Glory: Raid monster
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/18.jpg
Priest of Triol: Raid monster
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/19.jpg
Prince Frintessa, Son of Baium: Raid Boss
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/20.jpg
Breath of Halisha: Cohort of Scarlet Von Halisha
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/21.jpg
Scarlet Von Halisha: the Raid Boss that is actually fought (Frintessa is not fought directly)
Halisha is able to transform into different forms.
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/22.jpg
Scarlet Von Halisha: First Transformation
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/23.jpg
Scarlet Von Halisha: Second Transformation
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/24.jpg
Scarlet Von Halisha: Ingame screenshot of Halisha in Second Transformation
Territories
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/25.jpg
Pabel Ruins
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/26.jpg
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/35.jpg
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/38.jpg
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/39.jpg
Monastery of Silence
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/27.jpg
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/28.jpg
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/29.jpg
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/30.jpg
Rune Castle
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/31.jpg
Shrine of the Heretics
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/32.jpg
Burial of Disgrace
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/33.jpg
Beast Farm Clan hall
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/34.jpg
Town of Schuttgart
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/37.jpg
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/36.jpg
Winter's Labyrinth
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/40.jpg
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/41.jpg
Tomb of the Empire: Frintessa's lair
Source: Playforum (http://www.playforum.net/lineage2/column.comm?action=read&iid=10031004&kid=7754)
The day before Chronicle 5 was launched, NCSoft held a press conference to communicate the the content being updated for the new chronicle.
---------------------------------------------------------------<3
Chronicle 5 Concepts
Chronicle 5 was planned with five main concepts in mind.
Support for Soloers
Solo hunting areas will drop Instant Items. These work much like power-ups in arcade games: they will immediately recharge the player's HP and MP as soon as they are acquired, reducing downtime.
9 new hunting areas have also been added for players at levels 20 to 60.
Clan Activity Encouraged
To develop the strength of human communication in online games, the clan system is getting a large makeover.
Clan Academy
Clans can found academies that help new users level to 40 to increase their clan's reputation.
Clan Ranks
Initially clans simply had a clan leader and its members. This will be further segmented to allow clans to organize themselves into ranks. The ranks go up to Marquis in C5. In the future they will also add Lord/Lady and King/Queen.
Clan Items
Clans can purchase clan items using Clan Reputation points.
In order to equip them, the player must have contributed a certain number of points and at a certain rank within the clan.
Clan Skills
Clan skills are implemented in a tree system. When the clan leader learns it, it gets applied to all members of the clan depending on their rank.
Class Balance
PVP Balance
The so-called RPS system will eliminate a dominating PVP class. Any strong class will be able to be countered with its enemy class.
Hero Skills
In response to concerns that Hero rewards weren't reflecting the difficulty in achieving the status, new hero skills have been added.
The Grand Olympiad has also been reworked to provide fairer competition.
Skills Revamped
New skills have been added for players around level 60 to give them greater motivation to continue in the game.
These new skills will also play a main part in balancing pvp.
Completion of the Continent
The Dwarven and Orc lands will be connected to the rest of the territories through the addition of Schuttgart. It is now possible to walk pretty much anywhere in this game.
Schuttgart will present monsters of different difficulties that get gradually harder further away from the newbie areas.
Schuttgart added
Schuttgart Castle and Schuttgart Village, as well as 9 new hunting areas added.
High Level Dungeons
Monastery of Silence and Shrine of the Heretics are added in the Rune region and will feature lvl80-ish mobs.
New Technologies Implemented
Support for Dual-core processors
The clients now support dual-core CPUs. Those that take advantage of this feature will see a 30% increase in speed.
Vertex Shader
Vertex Shader applied to graphic engine
Other New Developments
New weapons, armor and accessories. Of these, armor are clan items.
Additions to Fishing
Fishing Competition will be held as ingame events. 'Night Fishing' is a higher level fishing concept.
Raid Boss
Frintessa added. Frintessa is designed to be fought using sound as a strategy.
Interface Tweaks
Party matching system has been reworked so that leaders of parties can actively search out party members.
Also, raid parties can be formed to prevent ninja looting. Items dropped from raids can only be picked up by members within the raid party for a period of time.
Cursed Weapon
The demonic sword Zariche is a one-handed sword that equips automatically when acquired. More cursed weapons will be added in the future.
Player using the Zariche will not be able to join parties, and gets put in an abnormal chaotic state, where s/he will not drop items or lose XP upon death.
Chronicle 5 Graphics
Items
Clan Armor
The clan armor set Apella Set is specialized for PvP.
Various other armors will be added in the Clan Items category.
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/7.jpg
Apella set (Human) - Heavy, Light, Robes
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/8.jpg
Apella set (DE) - Heavy
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/9.jpg
Apella set (Elf) - Robe
Weapons
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/10.jpg
Cursed Weapon - Zariche
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/11.jpg
From left to right:
1H Sword: Mystery Sword, 2H Sword: Inferno Master, Blunt: Doom Crusher, Mage Sword: Tears of Wizard, Sword of Paagrio (type unknown)
Accessories
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/12.jpg
Left column top to bottom: Raid Master's Circlet, Raid Explorer's Circlet, Raid Challenger's Circlet
Right column top to bottom: Circlet of Schuttgart, Circlet of Ice Fairy Shir
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/13.jpg
Fashion Accessory - Chapeau
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/14.jpg
Fashion Accessory - Goggles
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/15.jpg
Fashion Accessory - Small Angel Wings
Monsters
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/16.jpg
Spike Stakato: Higher tier monster at Stakato's Nest in Rune
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/17.jpg
Anais, Ruler of Glory: Raid monster
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/18.jpg
Priest of Triol: Raid monster
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/19.jpg
Prince Frintessa, Son of Baium: Raid Boss
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/20.jpg
Breath of Halisha: Cohort of Scarlet Von Halisha
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/21.jpg
Scarlet Von Halisha: the Raid Boss that is actually fought (Frintessa is not fought directly)
Halisha is able to transform into different forms.
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/22.jpg
Scarlet Von Halisha: First Transformation
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/23.jpg
Scarlet Von Halisha: Second Transformation
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/24.jpg
Scarlet Von Halisha: Ingame screenshot of Halisha in Second Transformation
Territories
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/25.jpg
Pabel Ruins
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/26.jpg
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/35.jpg
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/38.jpg
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/39.jpg
Monastery of Silence
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/27.jpg
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/28.jpg
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/29.jpg
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/30.jpg
Rune Castle
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/31.jpg
Shrine of the Heretics
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/32.jpg
Burial of Disgrace
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/33.jpg
Beast Farm Clan hall
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/34.jpg
Town of Schuttgart
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/37.jpg
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/36.jpg
Winter's Labyrinth
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/40.jpg
http://image.playforum.net:8080/column/10031004/7754/41.jpg
Tomb of the Empire: Frintessa's lair