Thoughts below =)







General thoughts:



I. There are numerous wind streaks and even what look like snowflakes here and there in the screenie. Does that mean that we get additional animated weather effects? If so, cool! Also, if so, why don’t the buildings in the city have snow on top of them?



II. All the borders here look like they are white, which would seem to mean one of four things:

a. This shot was taken using a method that allowing for disengagement of various parts of the UI, border colors included.

b. The screen shot is old and borders didn’t yet have colors assigned to them.

c. White is a player (human or AI) faction color.

d. White is a neutral affiliation with no alignment to any human or AI faction.



III. I love the way that the developers have played with the 3D terrain. The way that the city wraps around the cliffs is a great effect. Oh, and hurray for WALLS!





Numbered thoughts:



1. Wow, the border point between three regions.



2. This city appears to be built right along the edge of the northern border of the region it occupies. The tile where (2) is located looks to be immediately adjacent to a barony (a city hall even) and is not exploited. I would conclude that you therefore cannot exploit the tiles in a bordering region. This is precisely as stated in GDD 3 /#/endless-legend/forum/7-archives/thread/3589-el-gdd-3-the-world



3. Sorry, arachnophobes! (?) Seriously, that looks like something from a Babylon 5-inspired nightmare.



4. In both 4a and 4b there are what appear to be towers built on top of what look like ruins. 4a appears to be more developed than 4b. The Broken Lords city screenie also featured a tower-like structure built on top of a tile exactly like this. We know that watchtowers can be built on designated tiles not necessarily attached to cities (region buildings). I conclude that these are watchtowers and that the ruins-like tile feature indicates where they can be built. But, cf. the Wild Walkers screenie from the Vaulters reveal: there is a structure that looks like the tower in 4b, but it is not apparently built above one of these “ruins.”



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Broken Lords tower with ruins beneath ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||Wild Walker tower w/o "ruins" beneath



5. Neato, scary ruins thing . . . I’d guess it to be an explorable quest location.



6. Melting metal? I’m assuming a tile special resource.



7. Agache shamans?



8. Dekari archers?



9. 9a and 9b appear to be the same sort of crystal resource. I’m curious to know what the “puddle” underneath the 9a is. I’m going to surmise that this MIGHT be the yellow crystal resource also shown here:





10. The same sort of thing as featured here in the Wild Walkers screenie from the Vaulters reveal? It’s kind of too unfocused to tell. See here for reference:





11. Same as 10?



12. An exploited (strategic?) resource in the form of a mine?



13. These are just really interestingly shaped features. They also make me wonder what this set of regions looks like when it ISN’T winter.

1) Dark season, you're right But graphically it looks like winter.

2) Yeah, sure, I just wanted to say : don't have too much hope about what it could be Anyway, Amplitude has great developpers, so don't worry about awesomeness and such

3) Sometimes it's hard to be under NDA I would have so much to say :P (Yes... I'm trying to steph'tease, but I'm still a rookie at it)

VieuxChat wrote:
Winter season (1)

I wouldn't start guessing what the faction traits would be (2), as they can drastically change before release. (3)

Believe me.

1. So . . . is it the Dark Season as per the GDDs or is it just "winter" now? Or are these two distinct things?

2. Party pooper! =) The basic purpose of releasing information is to generate market interest in and enthusiasm for the game. Encouraging our wild speculation about what newly released information means objectively serves that purpose.

3. Most of the people likely to be commenting here probably already know this, but it doesn't hurt to repeat it.

A snowed in (Dark Season or just arctic biome???) Wild Walker city:

Winter season

I wouldn't start guessing what the faction traits would be, as they can drastically change before release.

Believe me.

Is it just me or do they really look like wood elves?