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Zoneless Classic Everquest Qeynos To Freeport Run
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ธ.ค. 2022
- By utilizing the community-created Lantern toolset, I have re-created the classic Everquest continent of Antonica in the Unity engine. Unlike classic Everquest this version has no zones! However there are no NPCs or monsters and and there is a lot of missing or broken content and features. This is purely a hobby endeavor and this project is not available for download as doing such would violate Everquest's EULA.
If you want to learn more about Lantern, check out its website:
www.lanterneq....
Not gonna lie I cried a little thank you , as a teen I did Freeport to Qeynos and I'll never forget the enjoyment of it and the real time it took , thank you
Realize now it took me like four or more hours because of loading zones in 56k lol
Look up "Project 1999" - by far the most accurate recreation of EQ pre-Luclin. Free to play
This was awesome. I've done this run a few times on P99, but the nostalgia as a kid, in 1999 or 2000, meeting a fellow dwarf around level 9 in ButcherBlock. We both traveled together to Freeport. It was amazing, and fun. Not the longest journey but I will remember that journey with him for the rest of my life.
What a lovely memory, I too was about 11 years old when EQ released and will also forever remember my first trip from Faydwer to Antonica - I was a wood elf warrior, I especially remember it because I had awful internet and I am a great distance from USA. The first time I hit the zone line to go into OOT on the boat I took so long to zone that by the time I zoned in the boat had left and my character had fallen off and died to drowning. I was completely distraught as I had no idea how I was going to get my gear back while getting back to the boat etc. Especially that if I tried to zone into OOT again with the same internet I'd just die again, think I had a full bronze armour set at the time. I cant recall exactly how I resolved it, whether I got my gear back with a friendly necromancer's help and a new internet service or if I rolled a new wood elf warrior as I wasn't sure how to recover my character with no gear. Was probably a sign from Tunare to re-roll druid cause warriors are hard as fuck as a first character, let alone a wood elf warrior xD. Unfortunately I struggled for years after that as a Wood elf Warrior but the struggle is what made EQ so worth to me.
That kinda traveling back then felt bigger than any I've done ever since in any game
Old school EQ with beautiful graphics would be the dream
"TRAIN TO ZO-... Oh no."
I was infamous on my server for this! Biggest trains in EQ history baby lol
@@fjsotopr HAHA! This got me man 🤣
I would 100% play this version of the world! I hope we can someday.
Reminds me of EQOA
Oh my, this was surprisingly emotional. I played EQ from launch to around 2003 when my closely knit guild dissolved as members drifted apart into other mmos. Here's to you Eternal Crusaders of Norrath from Fennin Ro. I was also game guide Ailron for a few years in case anyone remembers me.
Its humorous to me to finally see grass in EQ as I remember being very excited at the announcement of an mmorpg called "Horizons" because the screenshots showed ... grass! What a silly thing to get excited over.😁
I played on Fenin Ro in the old days, Had a Shaman called Dharnak, was one of the first to lvl50, great memories 🙂👍.
This was amazing. I did this run back in 1999 after paying someone to safely guide me from Qeynos to Freeport and I remember this being frightening yet exciting. Was great watching this.
I too was awe-struck as a kid seeing the bridge to EK and all the faces on the road up to High Pass. Truly magical gaming experiences!
This is awesome , i have over 10k hours in EQ and you made this old man very nostalgic :)
10k hours? That's it? noob
@@guysmiley4830 i'm clocking at 8200h and i'm sure i've accomplished things in the game you can only dream about. it's all about quality, not quantity.
@Chucktropolis, EQemu dev + OpenGL C++ programmer here. Amazing job.@ 14:00 you explain how in the MySQL database each set of mobs depends on the zone its in with it's xyz coordinates. For this zoneless experiment, you can have triggers to determine which zone the player is in. Then use that set of mobs to generate those specific monsters. Of course the coordinates would have to be completely re-worked.
Also I would use something called tessellation shaders to load assets depending where the player is in, and use LOD (level of detail) accordingly. Very interesting and great job! 👍👍
I think a good starting place would be to create a translation from a sampling of points on the original zones to the final locations on the combined map. Then you could import the data and translate it to its new location. Obviously it would require manual cleaning, especially in zones where their shape is significantly different but it would be a good starting point.
This is amazing. I love project 1999 as someone who had never played everquest till this year. It reminds me a lot of what if Zelda n64 had a MMO
I would love nothing more than to see Everquest reworked like this, but with the same mechanics. I always thought the Karanas were wasted. Each of those little villages could have been a quest hub slowly moving you east toward Highpass. Instead, the NPCs hardly say anything.
So much unfinished in eq would love to see it fully realized but ….there’s no such thing as finished just deadlines - Peter Jackson
Much of the game was not polished due to a few things. From the interviews, the devs pretty much said they did not know what they did not know. Many of the ideas etc were just done on the fly. Also Brad shot down a lot of things he thought would make the game too easy. There is a channel that has all the interviews
Ick, that would be so like WoW and EQ2. Quests that arent pushing you to any path would be nice.
Oh how this made me miss EQ. This is beautiful.
Project Quarm has like 1300 people just saying
I appreciate all of the details noting the technical difficulties of theoretically rebuilding the original in its true form. If someone were to recreate an MMO in classic EQ vain, they gave us a great formula to build off of...
Early 2001, I spent 6 hours running from Halas to meet my buddy in Kelethin when I first started playing.
Hands down, my most memorable experience 24 years later and still playing!
This is beautiful.
People hated the new Freeport because aesthetically, it looked nothing like original EQ. It felt like a new game in that zone.
Personally, I would not mind a revamp of cities, as long as the architecture was similar, the textures were similar, and the layout was very similar.
AAAAAmazing! that first view from qeynos gate allllll the way through hills😍😍
Wow Norrath looks beautiful! Those draw distances and distant mountains really make Norrath look like the setting of a modern game!
Amazing project, would of loved to of seen the Commons's tunnel, a lot of time was spent there socializing and doing halfling shenanigans. Oasis of Marr... the down time was so great between caimen that on the back side of the pillars we'd fish while we medded =) Sound in original EQ was part of the experience, when you zoned into Rivervale or Ak'Anon, you knew it. Thank you your project is amazing.
This is amazing. To your question around 51:51, redesigning the cities with more impressive architecture would be fantastic. I think the original attempts at redesign were hated so much because they looked worse than the originals.
Someone get this guy a SOW. I remember running from Halas all the way to the boats at the Oasis of Marr, and taking the boats to Kunark. Took me hours.
this is both beautiful and amazing
Feels like I'm looking at the kernel of what EQ - Remake is going to be like.
It's been a dream of mine to live long enough to see that idea come to fruition. What 2020 Final Fantasy 7 remake is to 1997 Final Fantasy 7, so to do I dream of seeing Everquest Remake.
Thanks for this upload, boss.
I ran from Qeynos to Freeport. It took me some hours and I made incredible stops on the way including navigating the waterlines in the Karanas, to HHK Pickclaws. I met friends. I hugged the zone in Kithicor fearing the undead. I routed around a Giant in West Commonlands! ....All to arrive in Freeport to obtain my prize: Large Banded Mail for 1PP/AC. Which was significantly cheaper than the Qeynos price.
This is amazing. I would love to play a remaster of the original EQ made like this, but with other graphical improvements as well (keeping the original feel) similarly to how Blizzard recently did the Diablo 2 Remaster.
Amazing work!
This is what made EQOA so amazing, no borders. It was completely seamless, except for the second continent.
This is really cool. You did a great job. The Kithicor situation is one that I thought about back in the day. There is just such a massive climb going west to east and nothing going the other direction. As a kid I always imagined there was a very tall lift that kind of got clipped out as being pointless for us to waste time traversing. I probably came to this conclusion because I wished there was one in East Karana rather than making us take that long ramp.
This hits hard in the nostalgia
Makes me want to pop on a VR headset and dive in there. Lovely work.
I'm in awe of the effort this represents; it's amazing. To answer one of your questions, though; a graphically upscaled but otherwise identical EQ wouldn't have a lot of draw for me. Video games as an art are a product of their times, and while I've tried to go back and play on Daybreak's servers, and others like P99, I find I don't have the tolerance for the actual gameplay that I did 25 years ago. One of the big draws of EQ Next, to me, was their desire to update the game systems to a more modern design. The world of Norrath, and the larger game design of a world that had adventurers, but where my character is not The Chosen One, or some notable figure from the very outset, appeals to me much more than where MMO game design went, down the path of long-running player character story lines. Can we stop washing up on the shore after a boat accident, only to find that we've been chosen by a goddess to save the world from epic evil? The world and NPCs claim that I am the last surviving member of the Hong Moon school of martial arts, yet there are literally thousands of other people in the world who are ALSO the last surviving member of the same school. "Story" in MMOs is a huge problem, and one Norrath didn't have. It has poisoned so many of the later games, and continues to do so into the future, based on upcoming titles.
this is blowing my mind. Not just because of the removal of the loading screen but seeing the real geo overhead, as a map. I can point at any pixel and have a memory of that spot. The new map is cool, but if I ever go back to EQ, it would be to see those vistas I know in my mind.
The zone line that didn't happen in Qeynos was so jarring haha I have so many years ingrained in me of zoning this was ... Very cool
Glorious. Thank you for that very enjoyable field trip.
To me, a game with the mechanics of EverQuest with the graphics of Guild Wars or ESO would be ideal, like your comment on Qeynos having more roads and such. I feel like one thing EQ2 did wrong was it tried to model the old stuff in a newer game but it they did it by completely redesigning everything. It was foreign and felt like it wasn't EverQuest. It's the gameplay of everquest that I like - The classes, the kiting, the trains.. it was amazing. My favorite aspect of EverQuest was the mystery to it. How to get out of my starter city, leveling up to go to new areas, etc. I was actually terrified of Befallen, West Commonlands, South Ro because of the threat they posed. You HAD to level up, or run as fast as you can.
Love this - I really want someone to create Everquest 3 though. I want a new game. Similar mechanics as 1 & 2. But THIS is exactly what I see for creating the world. Great ideas, love it all!
Impressive that you put this together - some amazing views. thanks for sharing it!
This is really cool :) I stitched together all of Faydwer last year but never thought of actually filling out the surrounding landmass. Going by the zone lines it was hard to place them lining up with the map so it ended up looking at lot different than I expect from above.
Love it. I used to make this run all the time back in the day because I loved making Barbarians and my friend insisted on making humans that started in Freeport, or worse, high elves. As a sub 10 character that can't afford a port, it gets hairy.
Really enjoyed seeing your renditions here, your zoneless world looks fantastic. I’d be thrilled to see your updated take on architecture, towns, and cities.
Part of the greatness of that run was that 1 mistake could result in death. You were lucky if you could get a SoW before the run and desperately needed a binding once you got there unless you could cast it yourself.
Many thanks for the great sharing I love it. In 22 years ago, my Wood-Elf Ranger often ran on the shard path. Very thanks again for your sharing that give me so much great memories. BTW, this video touch me deeply. Thank you!
You've done exactly what I was considering doing a few months back. Great work!
I've played EQ since 2000. Love that people are trying to do this and really hope there's something playable someday
First of all, this is so freaking cool dude! Please put out more updates!!!
Your mid-video question was whether anyone wanted an EQ as just an upgraded graphical version with some new stuff. I want what you have done + better graphics and an option for separate texture packs (including player models). So those old-school p99 boys can enjoy what they want. Your idea to incorporate old-school lore into the OG game is fantastic. That would allow you to feel like you're playing OG EQ but give you new things to visit and learn (we have p99 already). This feels like OG EQ to me (at least how I remember it as a kid) and seeing your design choices/ideas are very exciting. Your map design feels massive yet familiar and as long as that carries over with other design implementations. You will have a big audience.
Brad McQuaid would have loved seeing this ❤❤❤❤
You did the best job you could to merge the continent together. I honestly would have loved to just see the original stitched together zones even if it was stitched from Q to F.
OG Everquest player here, and previous tinkerer with Lantern - this is _amazing_. I feel like you've struck a really great balance between authenticity with the original and consistency with the map. Can't wait to see where this goes. I'd be very interested in getting onboard and helping out!
This is beautiful. Oh my, the amount of times I made this trek before PoK was a thing. I still remember the first time I did this as a lowbie to meet up with a friend in Freeport. Had no idea what I was doing, and it felt like an epic adventure. Highpass and Kithicor were terrifying at the time. Still are lol.
Absolutely amazing! You’ve done an incredible job re-polishing an already great classic. Would love to see more shorter runs zone specific even just to showcase other parts of the map would myself love to see a run from Qeynos to Hollis through Everfrost peaks, and maybe even permafrost. Keep up the awesome work.
MAN, THE 6 YEARS OF MEMORIES. OUTSIDE OF DAOC....I HAVE PLAYED THEM ALL...NOTHING IS CLOSE TO EQ1 THE FIRST 5-6 YEARS
This is really well done. If you ever get more serious about this, I'd love to contribute! But I definitely understand if you want to keep this a solo hobby project.
Either way, thank you for the nostalgia!
Such a monumental effort... used to day dream about how everything would actually connect like this too
@49:06 YES! 1000% If, everything were exactly the same as EQ1, and it were all just rendered in UE5. Man, that game would be amazing!!
I really like the render distance. Being able to see so far is wonderful. Some of the changes you're proposing though, even some of the "insignificant" ones are pretty disgusting to me and I'd love to discuss them further. I don't want to see the magic of EQ lost because modern game designers think they are so much smarter than anyone in 1999.
This is Awesome! This is fantastic. If you add those extra zones don't forget the lakes in the north and I always felt there should be an orc dungeon near Oasis. Thank you for doing this!
A lvl 25-35 orc dungeon would have been pretty cool.
I knew he wouldn't be there, but I was still keeping my eyes peeled for Boomba the Big!
Really cool stuff ⚔️
would love to see a fully fleshed out version of this with mobs and characters. Even if only one character class to start out. If melee since no spells and very few abilities Monk might be a good starter class
incredible work
this is really great, you are running with my over 20yrs ago memory, with my first bard char lv 5
This is great. I would love to see a version of EQ redone like this. Instead of shrinking the Karanas, how about scaling up everything else?
Everquest, with a more living world with player owned buildings filling the outskirts of cities and npcs that travel from town to town, would be amazing.
I actually considered that at first. Biggest reason I shrank those down and not scale everything else up was level of effort required. It would have taken at least 3x work terrain sculpting and prop placement to fill out the continent to match the Karanas' scale. Pretty sure I would have gotten frustrated and/or bored and abandoned the attempt.
I always found it bizarre just how elongated the west side of Antonica (specifically the Karanas) was comparatively to the east side. If there's ever a fan remake, I do hope they reduce the scale of it just because its always been the less trafficked portion of the continent.
This is so sick
Awesome I hope they get around to updating EQ visually while keeping the basic structure of the game - one can hope and im sure videos like this will help make it happen if its going to - thanks
Beautiful and amazing!
The tunnel from Everfrost to Black Burrow must be a couple days worth lol
I made that run with a lvl 1 character from Qeynos to Freeport. What a dangerous and scary run it was because If I died, it would have been terrible. The reason I made the run is because I friend made a character in Freeport and I wanted to play together with him.
This looks amazing... I agree with others, I would play this. lol would need some SoW pots for the run!
Serious nostalgia. SOW PLZ!!11!
I always just imagined the tunnel at the back of Blackburrow was really long and eventually came out to Everfrost, kind've like a travel transition more than a directly linked zone.
Also re: Cease & Desist - the big difference is also that you are not selling/providing the assets and are using your own code. Look at it this way: If you but a chess set, and your friend buys a chess set, it is not illegal to use those pieces that you obtained legally and own yourself in physical space to make up your own game with your own rules. While you do not "own" the files per se just from buying or downloading the game you do have backup rights due to copyright law and can store/copy/etc. those files as long as you don't redistribute them/for personal use.
Given that game clients are freely available these days anyone can download it, code something that is 100% their code and ownership, and simply point it to those files.. Which were not prepackaged with your code in any way. Again, think of it like two people buying a chess set each and then downloading (or even purchasing) a set of custom rules from someone else. There's no theft going on. That's also why lantern doesn't host the "asset bundles", as that would be distributing the actual copyrighted material.
This is frigging awesome!!!
Impressive and cool to see, but if you go further and add mobs you really need to add a 100% memblur with few second delay on re-aggroing or some equivalent that simply stops mobs from crossing the zone line, to emulate the leashing effect zone lines had. Every place where a zone line would have been needs to act like that, or you fundamentally change a major aspect of the game play.
Anyone running across a zone line should have zero worry that a mob from the previous zone is following them, not to mention that without this you would now have essentially any mob model and behavior possible to end up in any zone which would have all sorts of implications - imagine dragging a much higher level mob a few zones away into Freeport and the guards can't easily kill it like mobs that are only in the newbie zone in front of them.
Although seeing Naggy pulled to Neriak or Freeport or the EC tunnel would have been pretty funny.
this is odd yet awesome.
my friends and i always talk about how nice it would be if someone would take Classic EQ and just do a graphical upgrade.
This is the BEST GAME.
Newer EQ and other MMO players see the need to run across a continent, wait for ships, pay for ports etc. as a quality of life issue. What they don't realize is this is a large part of what made EQ real and it was all destroyed after PoP and WoW were released
I've thought many times of recreating both Innothule Swamp as a Dark Souls style adventure for a Troll freshie out in the swamps getting his ass beat over and over. Also thought about recreating Gloomingdeep as tactical strategy game.. Maybe I need to get in contact with some of these folks.
I really like Blackburrow being moved to the North Karana area. In a live game I think the problem bigger than that of the run time would be the spike in monster levels from NK to Blackburrow. The gnolls patrolling outside BB were pretty low, while in NK you have lions, mist wolves, griffons, and hill giants.
It’d make more sense to bump up the difficulty of BB maybe 5-10 levels. Though it’d really isolate lower level Barbarians from Qeynos, I think thematically it’d help drill home the idea that the Barbarians really are in a harsh land isolated from everyone else
The Karana zones are supposed to be huge and relatively flat. They are plains. Adding more/bigger trees while simultaneously shrinking the zones ruins what they are intended to be. A graphics update could be cool, but this particular decision isn't a good one. Kithicor is also supposed to be extremely dark, the new version just makes it like any other generic semi-forest/semi-mountain area.
I know I'm a bit late to this party.. but having made this run a few times on the TLP servers, and also discovering it in VR.. this hit home... Grew up in Kunark personally (joined shortly after its release and made the foolish mistake of being a lizard for my first and ONLY character for decades..) But damn...
This whole thing would be amazing.. I honestly wish Daybreak would just take the whole game, merge as much as they can directly into the client, and then release a single player capable version.. I mean, the Mercs already basically make that a thing, just make it possible to have more than one and make them considerably weaker to accommodate a more accurate experience (seriously, mercs are effing OP).. But could anyone else imagine playing the timeline on your own time, without the bogging down of servers and the bugs they bring?
fu&^, just port it all into another engine like here and give it it's own story that progresses across the continents or something even...
wow that looks amazing!
Man... Love the 1.5 upgrades! Especially the EqNext variations. Very subtle and not overwhelming. Great taste! One suggestion. Don't make every building/town a 1.5 upgrade. Keep some fully OC and others 1.5. Or tone down your 1.5s a bit more and add to all buildings.
Great job with this!
I have Unity 4.x. If you would like another person to help out with assets drop a reply. As for the karana's I would think of NEWS as a circle. And each zone as a quarter cone meeting up somewhere in the center. The run speed is fine. The new freeport and commanland in live - why we hate it. No Color. Its all tan and it looks like S**T. You did a beautiful job. It looks updated and looks classic.
This is only a hobby thing I'm doing with the Lantern toolset, so I'm not actually soliciting help. I wouldn't turn any down if it fell in my lap though. You are more than welcome to drop onto the LanternEQ discord and volunteer to help out. Chances are anything new you add will find its way into what I am working on.
This is really cool.
This is awesome
I remember doing this run many times doing stien of moggok quests to sell for 200pp each. Good times.
I like both classic layout with improved graphics, and also trying to add to the original and fill in the blanks to make it feel fuller. Pull from the lore and figure out how to make the world more full.
I think you improved the original just with the new tree models everywhere more than the development team ever did with the various zone revamps they did. Most of the zone revamps are good (hate Freeport), but they only affect small areas which makes them incongruous with the rest of the game world.
The proposed Qeynos described near the end sounds a lot like Sanctus Seru, or perhaps Halls of Honor.
I liked how you could see over the hills in Commonlands and spy on Desert of Ro. However, I thought the same view of Nektulos was odd. Specifically the trees are too big for what the apparent distance should be, creating the impression I was looking into the next area of a theme park rather than into a different area of a much larger landscape. There was also an issue that the trees seen from the distance in Nektulos and from close by in Commonlands seem a little too aligned to a grid pattern.
I would pay a premium to play a remastered version of everquest.
2000 players x 30 dollars a month = 60,000 dollars a month.
•A zoneless version of Queynos, fully populated and ready to play inside of.
•Testrun, proof of concept, and pending approval of daybreak
•Get approval by daybreak
•Zoneless everquest project becomes a kickstarter.
Is this the same Wiz from Winter's Roar/Shards of Dalaya? That guy was a genius!
I love qverquest. I even leveled a high elf cleric up to level 12, on P99.
But classic everquest needs a new engine. It needs new models with more polygons. New textures.
Increased render distance.
Amazing. I hope someday we can play.
Dont know why they dont do this now. We have the technology and know how. Shame, I love this
Amazing! The hard part is networking. Idk if I should try to dive into it or wait for GPT3++
Well done!
I remember doing the run from Hallas to Freeport in the everquest beta with my shaman then dieing and beeing sent back since i wasnt bound to Freeport
and you have the the GOOD OLD FP!!! :)
I think this is the first time i've ever seen the "map" of EQ splayed out in all its broken glory th-cam.com/video/87C15li3VAY/w-d-xo.html. The break point between ferrott and Innuthlue swamp is insane, as well at the crazy gap where runnyeye, misty, and rivervale try to connect to kithkor. The arena as well makes utterly no sense. You mentioned the run speed of the character just before the pass to HHP. I did some rought math. 4 steps a sec, each human steps is about 2.5 feet, then adding up the time in the video....115.38 miles.....and given that a human moves at 5-8 MPH.....no chance a human could make that run in the amount of time the model did....it's magic!
One on hand i love seeing this sort of stuff, on the other it depresses me because i know a full on proper remake that really keeps the spirit of the original is almost certainly never going to happen :(
Chex Quest Remastered guy