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[Interview] Camelot Unchained: Stealth Mechanic Revealed
BillMurphy
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Camelot Unchained is winding down its KickStarter campaign and the dev team has revealed a lot of great features that will be included. In an exclusive reveal, Mark Jacobs sheds some light on the stealth system that players can expect in Camelot Unchained. Treat yourself to a great read before leaving your thoughts in the comments.
MMORPG: It’s been a long time coming that people found out how you’re going to handle Stealth in CU. What’ve you learned from time spent on DAoC and WAR, to help influence your decisions with Camelot Unchained?
Mark Jacobs: First, I wanted to build a stealth mechanic that is geared to the RvR focus of Camelot Unchained, one that gives stealthers the ability to play a major role in the game. Second, I wanted to design a system that rewarded solo play stealthers while discouraging roaming groups of them since in a game like CU, where we want players of all levels in RvR, their impact could be substantial. Third, I dislike the movement slowdown of some stealther implementations because that gets old fast. Finally, I wanted to see if I could design something that will be both fun for the stealthers and not incredibly frustrating for their victims. I also looked at the implementation of the mechanic in every MMORPG I’ve played and a few others that I didn’t.
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Comments
Stealth class looks awesome! I'll be glad to finally have a mechanic that makes sense. Why else would I randomly be able to turn invisible?
Keep it up!
Sounds interesting, there are a few things about this game that have me on the fence.. I've seen GW2 put out a AAA Title that didn't require a sub, so they will have to do something pretty epic to make me pay a monthly again.
But DAoC was pretty epic, so if there is a lore, and a time period of game that could do it, it would be a mix of Pre-TOA, mix of some Catacombs, DAoC. I have faith that he can make the game, I just am not so sure his strength in staying with that vision is there.
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I'm very impressed with the amount of detail being considered for seperate features, some of the things that are disappointing in some MMOs is that everythings designed for everybody so they can get the maximum amount of use out of each feature, but doesn't deliver the quality that makes a game surreal.
I wish them luck in their endevour.
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That way, if they get angry, they'll be a mile away... and barefoot.
I still like to think of stealthers as the class for cowards. :P
That said Valestalker sounds good, love to support and would really love being able to constantly thwart weak-minded stealthers from accomplishing anything other than dying.
Not sure how this will turn out, but at least it sounds interesting and different.
If it were for me, I'd remove classes based primarily on stealth from the face of the universe, permanently. They've caused me more grief over the years than any amount of time spent looking for healers or tanks in a chat channel. The pure concept of combining a burst class with on-demand invisibility is a balance nightmare imo, but still one almost every MMO out there takes on.
I hope they won't repeat those mistakes. But I still vividly remember the promises of GW2 in this regard and how it eventually turned out to be 2 - button spamming classes who did insane damage, could continuously re-stealth in combat and would perpetually make entire zergs of people trying to take an objective pointless, for several months.
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It sounds pretty good
Nice read! Played a stealther in daoc as well and had my eyebrowsed raised when i first heared about this but after giving it a few mins and read some comments etc i will def play one in CU as well
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agree.
We have already seen many beautiful ideas that have never been realized in the world of MMO
this sounding sales pitch...
Well hopefully it will become a class for the "patient" ( I remember waiting a long time hanging off a wall stealthed waiting to time a PA on an ugly Archer spamming arrows onto the battlefield). I always believed a stealth class (especially in PvP/RvR) should be a carefull thinker and planner on how they will attack. Sounds like they are doing a great job of at least trying to develop a way for a stealth class to still have fun in PvE and be able perform in player poking as well. Will be interesting!