This Classic MMO Just got a Big Update
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ม.ค. 2024
- Monsters and Memories gifted is a pretty big update to end the year. The classic MMO that looks and plays a lot like Everquest made some major changes to their shading and lighting which have really made a strong impression.
But beyond that, they also teased a new biome, one that looks like it will be extremely fun to jump into.
You can read the full update here: monstersandmemories.com/updat...
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When Monsters & Memories won your most anticipated MMORPG poll, it was well deserved. I couldn't be more excited for this game! To the devs - the wind and the community is behind your sails!
I want to play this so bad, I just want to hang out camp some monsters and chill with a group. I wonder if/when we’ll actually see this awesome project release.
They ran a 36 hour playtest last year and they've said they want to do more. Hopefully we get some more playtests in the future though I believe those can be somewhat costly when there's no recurring revenue.
They're doing great work over there, while keeping a certain look/style. It's coming together nicely. A lot of casual followers don't even understand that each and every brick is being hand-painted, not just some texture they downloaded and slapped into the game. And it allows them to just go back and repaint over things if they want to change it up. For example, that concept art for the forest area and those house at the bottom. The artist decided that instead of just little houses, they could be acorns or pinecones that fell to the ground and were repurposed into housing. Giving artists the freedom to also do things like that, adds so much to the creation of the game. They aren't just taking orders and churning out someone else's vision, they have some wiggle room to include some of their own vision and personally I think the game is shaping up better for it.
Thanks for the video Red! Glad you liked the update. The environment guys have been kicking butt lately. :)
Your spider is already giving me nightmares, Zukan. I dig it.
i love the aesthetic!
New updates look excellent!
I’m hyped for this one keep us updated please!
Definitely will.
Yay for a new biome! I'm also excited for my Beastmaster to have a crocodile pet. I hope as we get stronger summon spells Beastmaster's pets will grow bigger like with beastlords in EQ1.
*runs screaming from the spiders*
Looking forward to this one. Thanks for bringing it to my attention!
Im so excited for this. Cannot wait for the next server test.
I will say this tho, a lot of the char models I have seen have way to narrow of waists an small legs.
Ohh, i cannot wait to fall off that tree city walkway!
Such a promising company. Their whole team is great. I’d love to work for these guys.
Maybe reach out! They just added a new team member.
Ill be playing this for sure. Giving me all the right EQ vibes.
Excellent report, thank you! I've played a couple public test sessions and really enjoy what they are doing - I was an old EQ crackhead from 1999 so I've been looking for a surrogate, and hoping this one someday fills the void :)
Thank you so much! Glad you liked the video. This definitely feels very much like early EQ at the moment.
Wow things look.... awesome
Cant wait for this game , every day I refresh their webpage and the game patcher...
I will dare to say - I like this more than what is happening to Pantheon
Honestly Pantheon has been showing some interesting things to end and start the year including some awesome new FX and renderings of the ogre and plate armor. Both have me excited for this year, hopefully Pantheon can increase their momentum. MnM is still very new but damn I want to play it again soon. I want to see the shading and lighting in action but...that new zone. That has me very excited even if it's a long way off.
I second this... much more like EQ than Pantheon.
Sure looks better now too
Yeah, M&M has been making insane progress. Im convinced Pantheon is going to be reiterating some failed code for the next 10 years before development REALLY starts. We've had 1 half finished zone there for almost a decade now. We lost every race but 1 because of the graphics update. The animations still look awful. M&M look great and fit with their style. Im pretty hopeless on Pantheon.
Looking forward to this game.. just hope the character models start to look a bit more polished and less blocky
This game has the excitement i used to have for pantheon. Still looking forward to pantheon, but i hope they can tweak the graphics to be less cartoony like they said in the last q and a.
MnM i think will more directly scratch the itch somewhere between p99 and eq live.
All we need is a Neriak and a Nektulos Forest in this game! Monsters & Memories needs Dark Elf Necromancers! Long live EQ!
I missed your intro video on this-gonna go watch it now!
Those trees do look high enough to die from, I am in.
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Man Monsters & Memories is really starting to look good - its like a 1/2 step up graphically from EQ but just enough to bring it up to current standards. Shawn Lord KNOWS EverQuest, he literally worked on it during some of my favorite expansions. This is going to be my next MMO and I've only played a total of 2 in my entire life (EQ and WoW - still playing EQ)
I'm very excited to see how it looks in-game the next time they show it. Hopefully it'll all be dialed on, and yeah Shawn Lord is a really good dude from what I can tell. Really appreciate some of the interviews he's done with past EQ devs, devs who worked on EQ Next, Vanguard...etc.
You said Kelethin, I say Endor, particularly looking from the backside of the characters with those headwraps/cloaks. Add in a few stormtrooopers....
Yeah, this game is shaping up extremely well.
Man, I love the progress of this game, I just wish they'd adjust the proportions of the Dwarf a little. I get what they're going for, but it's too much. Maybe something halfway between EverQuest Dwarves and what they have now.
Haha I kind of loved the dwarf but I can see how it would turn some people off.
Don't get me wrong, I like the idea. I think the proportions are just too distracting that they're take away from the potential uniqueness of individual characters. Or maybe it's just the large shawl that is throwing me off. When I see group play of dwarves I just see a bunch of shawled shoulders running around. We'll have to see how different armor models are implemented. I'm just nitpicking to an otherwise awesome looking game! @@Redbeardflynn
@@varyktvUgh. PTSD-induced flashbacks to that Blessed Prayer Shawl of the Coldain quest. 🥴
That forest looks it might be more similar to Kith at night. 👻 💀
I played this a couple months ago in a beta test and I wasn't even the slightest bit impressed. I am anxious to see how the game looks/plays when it is a bit more polished though. I guess I expected them to be a bit farther along, but to be fair to them, it was just a stress test. I hope in a couple months I try it again and my mind is changed.
cool video and i love what they are doing , but this is most likely 4 to 5 years from complete :( maybe longer
This is what Pantheon should have been but noooo they wanted to worry about climbing walls and other silly shit
I'm getting a steam deck and was wondering how well this game works on it?
Hard to say. They're still in proof of concept phase so its a long way off and uncertain if there would ever be any move to steam.
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MnM is going to be what Pantheon couldn't, very excited for MnM and the dev livestreams are fun as well.
A little clickbaity. They are just doing a biome jam where their artists are putting together a few different biomes just to see what they can accomplish. For example, Padas is working on a lavastorm-type biome.
The Shader/Lighting is the big update, the biome which they state in the update they're exploring this year specifically because they got through the shader/lighting is exciting (at least to me)
@@Redbeardflynn They aren't really focusing on level design. Just trying to see how fast they can pump out a biome, undoubtedly to see how fast they can potentially build the world out once they pass the proof of concept phase.
@@DarkForest61 - well, the next region we're working on is the Elven lands to the north, and I'm not sure we've clearly defined the boundaries of the proof of concept. 😉
How can Monster and Memories and Pantheon feel like they are in the same place, development wise. Any money I planned on given Pantheon will go to M&M.
Light years ahead of Pantheon already.
The lighting update really brought the world to life, I'm excited to see this game progress.
...beware the drop spiders....
I wonder how hard it will be to break the packet encryption... because I definitely want to play this game and definitely will not play an MMO ever again without a map.
Could always go the way of EQ Atlas back in the day, make some hand made (or digital) maps like a good ol' fashioned cartographer.
Just as a side note, the last time I played monsters and memories. I did locate an NPC that taught cartography.
1) This is why I learned to love zone walls, the Sense Heading skill (which, yes, I trained to 200 back when you had to do it the hard way), and to a lesser degree the /loc line command.
2) The labyrinth that is Neriak, coupled with the huge zones of Kunark (mostly devoid of cities to buy/sell in) taught me to carry backpacks of food/water and spell components. Took me a LONG time to break that habit, even after the Plane of Knowledge and its teleporters made it easy to get wherever you needed to go and Gate back again. Never play a class without (at least) a Gate spell. 🥲
This small team has done more in 2 years than pantheon in 10 with zero pledges. Can't wait to play another stress test.
Why does everyone have the same layout thumbnail? Pic of shocked face, text, title. I'm sure it's scientifically proven to get more clicks, but god is it lame
Literally that: simple thumbnail that evokes some sort of curiosity amid hundreds of other options just enough to get people to click. Thumbnails are an annoying part of the process but necessary.
Yes it is a great eq clone behind a nice facelift. Art work oh my exciting not like those other pixel slices out there. Still no story or lore around the clone for us to dive into like other titles or title. I will say the raid ideology of EQ is not for me any longer. I am not interested in gear games and having the gear be the end game. Tinkering with raid ideology wont sway me because life is simply different. This means as a player and a dev I might play but i wont go deep into it. I want something new and different which is why i am making my own title. The gear chase, why kill the last boss for the ultimate sword he is dead already....... Hope people get tons of joy from this clone, I look to the horizon art book in hand.
it plays like total shit though :( i needs so much work
How so?
@@Redbeardflynn very clunky movement and combat. The UI needs....yeah. The large city felt a bit too large and the back area was unfinished. It felt like the trainers / skill vendors were placed randomly. Buffs not telling you "exactly" what each one do hurts, I get that it's like old EQ but c'mon. I want it to all work out and im holding my breath
Er no. Not looking "good". Have fun with your nostalgia.
I will thanks!
Yeah, I cant wait for this one. These guys actually know what they are doing and it looks like they are making a real game, not at an infinite standstill with 1 zone like some...... other..... games I was hopeful for at one point in my life.
The progress being made by a few people, working part time, with no pay, has been extraordinary. Ive stopped watching their videos because it kills you wanting it to happen NOW and instead focus on other stuff, but I had to check out this update. The change in how everything looks with just lighting is so good.