The stats themselves do not give bonuses to skills (such as +damage) but rather open up new skills and skill tiers, acting as a gating mechanic. Vision, Health, Stamina, Encumbrance, Panic Rating Derived stats - based on primary and secondary stats, and can change.Secondary stats - do not change after character creation, and are not increased through use.Primary stats - can be raised or lowered during character creation, and can increase (or even decrease) through use.Soft caps will ensure that your stats will always improve, though more slowly the higher they get. There will be three classes of stats, and no hard caps. Want to improve your strength? Then go and do things that require strength. The game won't utilise a typical experience system, but rather stats will be improved by player actions that are tied into those stats. It is a complex system that will allow players to create gimped characters, but the developers are giving out all of the information players will need to ensure they can create the characters they want. The stats system for the game forms the basis for all character abilities and progression.
Here's a brief run-down on the major reveals of the week, along with my thoughts on each. The systems are subject to changes depending on the discussions in the backer forums and the results of internal and alpha testing.
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This week was intended as a series of presentations to the game's backers of the detailed game systems that will be used. They are also crazy enough that there is plenty of risk involved, but CSE made that plain right from the start of the Kickstarter. The systems they are putting in place are so innovative and off the wall they they really could change the MMO game space and move things forward. Well, what we saw this week has gotten me both infinitely more excited and also a little worried too. I loved that they were building an MMO engine from scratch in order to deliver battles containing hundreds of players with no graphics lag and high framerates. I loved the idea of trading settlements instead of auction houses. I loved the idea of the Veilstorms that might crop up where huge battles and release of magic, changing the world as they raged. It also helped that I was a big fan of the lore of Dark Age of Camelot, and the new lore they revealed during the Kickstarter campaign felt even better. Player-based economies, sandbox game play, mechanics to drive communities, horizontal progression, and the like.
They seemed to be doing a lot of things right, and a lot of the things I've written about before.
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