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Book 9 Screens
Tony posted this on November 19th, 2009. It has 1 Comment »
Categorized as News, Siege of Mirkwood.
Tagged as Book 9, Lothlórien, Mirkwood, Screenshots, Siege of Mirkwood, Volume 2.
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Bonjour Mirkwood!
Isy posted this on November 12th, 2009. It has 1 Comment »
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Tagged as Digital Expansion, Dol Guldur, Mirkwood, Reputation, Siege of Mirkwood.
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Albeit a few days late with this news, I have across another article arising from the European press screening and hands-on time for Siege of Mirkwood that was held in London recently. This time the article is in French, although some google translation helps! The write-up has some lovely videos and and screenshots, and the write-up is brilliant. Go take a look! The summary of key points is after the jump!
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Siege of Mirkwood’s Ashenslades
Tony posted this on November 5th, 2009. It has 2 Comments »
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Tagged as Ashenslades, Mirkwood, Screenshots, Siege of Mirkwood.
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Some new shots of the Ashenslades, an area within Mirkwood, were released today.
I always think it’s interesting/funny to see shots of player characters from angles I normally never see them from.
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Book Your Vacation at the Scuttledells Today!
Tony posted this on October 29th, 2009. It has No Comments »
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Tagged as Mirkwood, Screenshots, Scuttledells, Seige of Mirkwood.
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Here’s some lovely shots of Mirkwood’s Scuttledells. A dell is a valley and “scuttle” is a term for a deep bucket for coal … so I can only presume the area is meant to be a deep valley.
Scuttledells seems to fit that definition well. Some creepy wights and spiders, at that.
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Mirkwood Regions Developer Diary Live
Tony posted this on October 27th, 2009. It has No Comments »
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Tagged as Developer Diary, Mirkwood, Region, Siege of Mirkwood, Vastin.
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Turbine just posted Vastin’s Developer Diary today. It’s all about the Mirkwood region and what’s gone into it.
I really enjoyed this diary as it gets into what I’ve wanted to know most. You know, little things like quest types, descriptions of atmosphere, details on friendly and not-so-friendly beings we’ll run into. A lot of that is covered here. Here’s a few tidbits:
We also got to play with some new lore–friendly monsters, like Mirkwood spiders, Olog-hai, and Fell Beasts, as well as some nasties the Fellowship never came across. New monsters always make us happy, and some of us were particularly giddy that we got a shot at the Olog-hai in particular. Those guys are scary.
I love seeing what Turbine does with mobs. Some of their “skins” have been nice for repeated enemies, but anything totally new really gets me interested.
We’ve also been trying out a number of new quest formats (patrols, point defense, and a few others) that we have previously used rarely or not at all.
Vastin gets into more details about this, but variety is the spice of life. Definitely looking forward to new quest types.
In retrospect, we might have reduced the scope of the Mirkwood region in order to focus our resources more and go for a somewhat shorter experience with more color and depth, knowing that the Skirmish system was going to help fill in for quite a bit of hack-and-slash game play.
This is pretty frank and honest, but Vastin seems to be happy with the final result.
Be sure to read the whole thing. I have to say, I can’t wait to see what they’ve done with Mirkwood. Despite being involved on a LOTRO blog, I’ve admittedly wanted to be in the dark a bit about this expansion. Details like this whet my appetite without really ruining anything. Can’t wait to go after some of these new bad guys!










