/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.10426145]

I liked that Everquest thread we had.
Shall we have another?

[Anonymous No.10426161]

I've been playing Quarm this past week and I'm glad for the person who mentioned it because I don't know how I would've heard of it otherwise.
There's little differences everywhere. Most of them I agree with. Like pets always summoning at max level.

[Anonymous No.10426720]

I started messing with retail on the free server. It's ... okay? You can easily wander off into the OG areas, but they're deader than dead. Only PoK and the starting area have anybody there.

[Anonymous No.10427556]

>>10426720
Oh dude, of course. Don't bother with the real versions anymore.
I struggle to imagine one game that was ruined harder by its company.

[Anonymous No.10427668]

>>10427556
I hired a cleric merc, and she was more than good enough, but the cost to keep her for another 45 minutes was doubling, and I didn't want it to hit a plat per 3/4hr. I got an invite to an 80+ member guild my second day in. I guess because I talked and was grateful for buffs.

I declined because I had no idea if I'd even stick around. To me EQ is something that I'd rather enjoy my time through, not rush to hit endgame and go raid. I've got no experience with it, so I'd be a burden.

Maybe I just missed the boat.

[Anonymous No.10427835]

>>10427668
Play project quarm, man. You'll see what it was all about. lol

[Anonymous No.10427976]

>>10427835
I'd like to, but I keep having issues with signing up for private servers.

[Anonymous No.10428020]

>>10427976
Such as?

[Anonymous No.10428136]

>>10428020
Not getting the confirmation email.

[Anonymous No.10428305]

>>10428136
Gmail worked just fine for me on quarm

[Anonymous No.10428731]

I don't understand third person babies are so upset about the shitty camera on quarm.. I virtually never use third person. even on p99 it blows. You have to use the shift+T title window hack for a camera that means anything.

Grow up and live your elf-life in first person like you were meant to

[Anonymous No.10428817]

>>10427835
Waiting for hours to find a group only for the group to break up 5 minutes later because it's so late.

[Anonymous No.10428828]

Look at this neat dark elf toy. There are a bunch of others out there too!

[Anonymous No.10428842]

Yeah, Evernormals were ok, I guess. I was more of an Asheron's Call intellectuchad.

[Anonymous No.10428869]

>>10428828
post 3

[Anonymous No.10428910]

>>10428731
... What are you talking about.
You're not restricted to 1st person on quarm

[Anonymous No.10430838]

>>10428910
You are correct you can go third on quarm but their client has some awful (lack of) code that makes that camera twitchy and nausea inducing. Hence why people complain that their game experience is ruined

[Anonymous No.10431272]

>>10428869
Look at this one with its authentic acceories and earth elemental.

[Anonymous No.10431394]

>>10430838
My only issue has been that rightclick dragging the view where I want doesn't go as fast as I seem to remember.

[Anonymous No.10431691]

>>10431272
>earth elemental
lol

lmao

[Anonymous No.10431897]

I have no attachments to Quarm. It just seems like a server that everyone is suddenly flocking to for reasons. I've yet to hear anything about what they actually do that warrants this popularity. All I hear is "play Quarm play Quarm play Quarm".

[Anonymous No.10431916]

>>10431394
That is choppy as hell but I got used to keyboard turning and adjusting the camera through the numpad hotkeys to get better angles. In a way the variety of angles make it better than the P99 third person.

Also ctrl+a/d to strafe.

>>10428731
>You have to use the shift+T title window hack for a camera that means anything.
What is this?

>>10428842
Never played it. Does it have any pservers that aren't total ghost towns and are functional?

>>10431897
It's fresh. That's about it. Client is maybe a bit more stable than P99.

[Anonymous No.10431939]

>>10431916
>Client is maybe a bit more stable than P99.
I wouldn't call P99's client the standard of stability regardless. But I figured it was all just people migrating over from the previous popular server.

I've been playing Project Lazarus, myself. I like the expanded class/race proliferations, but I just wish I had friends to do dungeons with that weren't multiboxers.

[Anonymous No.10431972]

>>10431897
>I've yet to hear anything about what they actually do that warrants this popularity
- Raid experience isn't nerfed to shit.
- Pets always summon at max level.
- Pets don't aggro when they're just wandering around.
- You can, until Jan 1st, loot legacy items such as Mask of Deception and Manastone. There are others I'm forgetting.
- Higher player count changes a lot. More than the p99 servers. Don't know how it got that way, but there it is.
- Personal thing: On the p99 servers, camping out would cause the client to crash like 40% of the time. Very annoying when I was trying to drop items between alts, and stuff like that. Haven't seen it happen ever on Quarm.
- Respawn timer of like, 7 minutes across most every zone. I specifically remember Blackburrow's respawn timer was always 22 minutes. So, that's insanely huge. No way of describing what this bulletpoint alone changes, until you play it.

[Anonymous No.10431984]

>>10431972
I appreciate your enthusiasm, but that's all stuff I have no particular interest in. I just want to have kino times with pals, not worry about optimal pull amounts, aggro management, drop rates, or whatever else the average EQ player cares about.

[Anonymous No.10432013]

>>10431984
>I just want to have kino times with pals
I'm telling you a mere smattering of reasons that I can think of offhand, why everyone will.
I have been having a GREAT time.

[Anonymous No.10432024]

>>10432013
I'm glad you have. The server seems good. But I prefer lazarus as far as mechanical differences go. I can't speak for the general climate of the Quarm community, but I'm not expecting it to be much different than I've come to expect from EQ.

Which is to say, I plan to avoid playing with them, as my philosophy on what is fun is vastly different.

[Anonymous No.10432034]

>>10432024
Hey you. Let's fight.

[Anonymous No.10432087]

>>10431691
Isn't it?
What is it?

[Anonymous No.10432236]

>>10431984
>aggro management
that's essentially the primary challenge in Everquest and always has been.
And with pets in particular it was always a huge fucking pain in the ass. The Magician's Earthen Boots item was there specifically to give mages a way to cause their pet to instantly suicide no matter where it was if it wandered off.

[Anonymous No.10432398]

>>10432236
>The Magician's Earthen Boots item was there specifically to give mages a way to cause their pet to instantly suicide no matter where it was if it wandered off.
Eh? That's a mage specific item but...
'/pet get lost' Has always existed, and it does what you just said.

[Anonymous No.10432532]

>>10431972
>You can, until Jan 1st, loot legacy items such as Mask of Deception and Manastone.
I genuinely hate this shit. Either don't include them in the game or just leave them up on your server forever. The "LIMITED TIME ITEMS" shit appeals to the worst kinds of players.

[Anonymous No.10432567]

>>10432532
I mean, they just become finite is all.
It's how the original game worked, only it wasn't wittingly back then.

[Anonymous No.10432589]

ogres are the best

[Anonymous No.10432609]

>>10432567
It wasn't how the original game worked because players didn't know they had a limited amount of time to get these items. Hell, many had no clue what they missed out on getting until it was too late.

[Anonymous No.10432618]

>>10432609
I'm almost positive the reason they originally got taken out of the game was because of how ubiquitous some of them are.
And while manastones are good to have, they don't break the ENTIRE game in your favor or anything. I got mine, and discovered that it merely turns 60 HP into 20 MP. 50% of my health restores maybe 10% of my mana. That's a good option. But I'm not a demigod because of it.

[Anonymous No.10432639]

>>10432236
I understand your entire desire to pick out a single blurb from my argument and use that blurb as the entire basis for your counterargument, but truth be told, I don't give a fuck about how important aggro management is for you to have fun.
I just threw the words out there as an example of things most people think Everquest is about that I couldn't give two shits over.

[Anonymous No.10432642]

>>10432618
They're really common on emulated servers decades later but back in the day, not really. Consider the following: most players didn't even hit level cap back in the day.

[Anonymous No.10432662]

>>10432398
The point of the item was to get some mana back as you autistically recast your pet for a max lvl one

Yeah back in 1999 the novelty of playing a game online with thousands of real people is one of those things you either experienced first hand or didnt. Me and a group of friends started with EQ in high school and bounced around from DAOC to Anarchy Online. By the time WoW came around we were pretty much burned out on the whole thing. But I'll be damned if that original midi EQ music doesn't trigger some feels

[Anonymous No.10432680]

>>10432662
>The point of the item was to get some mana back as you autistically recast your pet for a max lvl one
Oh.
No no no no.
You're thinking of Reclaim Energy, a spell you already have at level 4.
And those were the focus items. Reclaim energy was their clicky. But having the focus item equipped made it so the corresponding elemental was summoned with 25% more max health.

I dunno where you thought the boots came in.

[Anonymous No.10433130]

>>10432398
>'/pet get lost' Has always existed, and it does what you just said.
Only if your pet was in range to hear commands. At release this was not a reliable way to kill the pet. Hence, Earthen Boots.
>>10432639
Sounds like you're just in the wrong thread on the wrong board. Maybe you should start a blog to announce all the things you don't care about.

[Anonymous No.10433526]

>>10428817
Sounds like all of my eRP sessions on Furcadia.

[Anonymous No.10434197]

>>10432662
These are great:
https://soundcloud.com/eq-music-reimagined

[Anonymous No.10434670]

Is Quarm low level scene alive still? Will I be able to find parties if I roll there now?

Will I hate myself if I play Wizard? I'm kinda feeling like Wizarding right now.

[Anonymous No.10434695]

>>10434670
https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1700557922834142.webm
DO NOT play wizard if your hope is to be a valuable party member later in the game. Everything worthwhile is too resistant to nukes later on.

[Anonymous No.10434702]

>>10434695
Well fug. I think I like the idea of playing EQ more than actually playing EQ.

[Anonymous No.10434718]

>>10434702
Go Mage, man. They're the DPS typhoon.
It's what seems like one would enjoy about being a Wizard, but actually real.

Wizards can port later. *That's it.*

[Anonymous No.10434739]

reclaim energy was added so that 20 expansions into the game with maxed out AAs you could spend 2,500 mana summoning a monster and then immediately reclaim it for 25,000 mana but it didn't matter because you never ran out of mana by that point anyways

[Anonymous No.10434853]

>>10434718
Mage pets seem lame to me somehow. Maybe Necromancer.

[Anonymous No.10434867]

>>10434670
PoP is the era of MeleeQuest. Wizard is essentially F-tier group class, D-tier raid class, and even their ports are meh by that point. Just go monk like 99% of the server's dps if you want to contribute, or lowkey go ranger because they're broken in that era if played well.

[Anonymous No.10434937]

>>10434867
>or lowkey go ranger
>because they're broken in that era if played well.
Teach me your secrets.

[Anonymous No.10434940]

>>10434937
>max out aas
ur welcome

[Anonymous No.10435016]

>>10434853
Fire pets have damage shield which make them ideal for soloing
Water pets have the highest dps which make them ideal for grouping
Earth pets have situational use due to the fact they auto-root, so they can be excellent cc in wide open areas.
Air pets I almost never see anyone use, but when I do see them I realize their insta-invis when you call them back lets them pull mobs perfectly, and they auto-cast stun in battle which can really take the edge off a tank.

Necro pets are weaker than all of these. The necromancer plays a different game entirely, they're like an HP venture capitalist. They can spend HP to passively get Mana, spend HP to heal others, and also steal HP from mobs.

[Anonymous No.10435023]

>>10434940
I guess that won't be relevant for a while in Quarm?

>>10435016
Interesting. I'll have to think about this a bit more.

[Anonymous No.10436108]

>>10435016
My knowledge dates from 2000-2002 but back then:
>Air pets I almost never see anyone use
Easily most underrated pet. It's not solo DPS king like Fire or group DPS max like Water, but when the stun proc works it's a really all-around powerful pet.

>Solo
Better at holding aggro than fire pet.
Highest AC of all pets.
Stun proc further reduces incoming damage.
Fire vs Air is a situational question based on what you're trying to solo and what your objectives are.

>Group
Damage dealing is almost as good as water pet (no backstab and stun proc gets resisted a bit more than the ice proc). But stun proc can relieve some pressure on the healer.

Invis was really useful at release but once the pet aggro rules changed it's essentially cosmetic.

[Anonymous No.10436931]

>>10436108
pet stun is functionally useless, just go water pet with weapons equipped so it can backstab for any angle, any other pet would be stupidly situational

[Anonymous No.10437224]

>>10436931
It's not always useless. Also generates aggro even if resisted

[Anonymous No.10437275]

>>10437224
It is useless. It's too random for a single pet to counter mobs casting CH. There's no statistically significant damage reduction from it and even if there was it'd be less than the damage reduced by just killing the mob faster with a higher dps pet. The aggro it generates doesn't matter because you don't pull threat off a tanking water pet either.

In EQ group play, dps is king. Mage pets are a massive source of sustained dps in the early game, actively reducing that dps is just bad gameplay.

Water pet should always be your goto whether dpsing or pet tanking. Earth pet in early game is only really used for chain summoning to cheese some mob that you otherwise wouldn't be able to kill. Fire pet you might as well not even scribe. Air you should just pretend don't exist outside of some niche edge cases involving multiple mages trying to kill specific mobs.

[Anonymous No.10437302]

>>10437275
>Fire pet you might as well not even scribe
YOURE OUT OF YOUR MIND.
When you're soloing there is absolutely nothing better. The guaranteed damage from their shield is everything. The use you just described for the earth elly, is actually the fire elly's.

[Anonymous No.10438531]

I may play Quarm.

[Anonymous No.10438623]

>>10438531
I would play Quarm but don't want to make another install.
here's my endorsement for Green
PROS:
Lots of people but not so many that you can't exp.
The game is very much like Classic and only the nerdiest autists can tell the difference (me)
Everything is camped all the time so the economy is flooded and everything is cheap. Conversely, newbie cashcrops always sell at a good rate because most people don't want to bother.
Cons:
Everything is camped all the time so you probably won't be able to naturally get loot unless you want to farm and wait in lines and shit.
The community is a bunch of sad doomer weirdos.

Everquest was the last good mmo. I liked it all up to and including Planes of Power, which I felt was a good ending to the game.

[Anonymous No.10439024]

>>10437275
>There's no statistically significant damage reduction from it
Wrong at least for the original game (no idea how emulators stack up). I measured it at the time.
>It's too random for a single pet to counter mobs casting CH.
"It has to solve this exact problem or else it's useless"
So much dumbass hyperbole when it comes to Everquest
> it'd be less than the damage reduced by just killing the mob faster with a higher dps pet.
Maybe, maybe not, there are a number of factors to consider depending on the circumstances. If you have to gate because a mob gets a lucky roll and your fragile fire pet bites the dust faster than you can chain a new one, that tends to cost a lot of time and resources, easily wiping out the incremental DPS gains you'd accumulated. I definitely killed shit with air pets after failing an initial attempt with a fire pet, due to air just being a better tank. Being able to bring more of my own mana to bear in the fight overcame the loss of the big damage shield.
Fire and Water are the go-to options but if you never used Air it just means you never played hard enough.
>The aggro it generates doesn't matter because you don't pull threat off a tanking water pet either.
You most certainly can pull aggro from a water pet. In fact sometimes it's desirable to do this if you can balance it right. Pet gets a backstab opportunity while you tank a hit or two. Let phantom armor earn its keep.

[Anonymous No.10439051]

>>10437302
kek I didn't even notice he said that.
Yes Fire is the best soloing pet. The main reason not to use fire is if you're soloing enemies that are strong enough to get lucky kills on the fire pet often enough to be annoying. And in those cases, water and air usually perform similarly.

There are some theoretical uses for earth pet but frankly after early levels I never used it for anything but pet cannibalizing.

[Anonymous No.10439304]

>>10434197
I like these a lot thanks. I like EverQuest music a lot.

This guy has been making eq music in the style of msdos point and click adventure games sound chip
https://youtu.be/eWx3tQxJMb0?si=jtA5hNDrsRgvDz4f

[Anonymous No.10439313]

>>10434702
Just play as a wizard if you like the idea of it who cares. The game is supposed to be about you playing the role of YOUR hero. I always like having wizards in my group because they're so stigmatized and because I think they add some mystique to the game.
End game is the worst part of the game anyway- you're on quarm to enjoy leveling up and progressing in low to mid up until late game when you log back in six months later for new content

[Anonymous No.10439330]

>>10434197
>that freeport music

[Anonymous No.10439760]

>>10437302
delusional, fire pet is piss dps and the self damage shield is barely better than the one you can cast on your pet
>>10439024
averages 2 stuns per minute
swing timers continue to tick down while stunned
stun is 3s, depending on the mob their swing timer is 4-8 seconds when slowed
depending when the stun lands following a mob's swing it might literally do absolutely nothing
over the course of a fight the stun likely won't prevent even a single attack round

[Anonymous No.10439806]

>>10439760
Pet damage shield is far better than the casted shield. Plus it doesn't wear off and require maintenance refreshes wasting mana.

[Anonymous No.10440205]

>Pi Zero 2 arrived today
>Also managed to accidentally break my foot today in a freak accident.
Vidya time, if I don't commit suicide over being crippled and laid up.

[Anonymous No.10440273]

kek massive dupe just hit the live EQ servers today, been in the game for the better part of a year apparently until the wrong guy found out about it and abused it on a nuclear scale

been in so long they're not doing a rollback either so the economies of every server are now a complete dumpster fire, anyone who didn't exploit it is now in eternal poverty

[Anonymous No.10441517]

>>10438623
>I would play Quarm but don't want to make another install.
It's as easy as downloading the takp client zip, extracting it to a new folder and then dropping the quarm eq.dll into the folder. It works way better than the jank shit that is P99 install.

[Anonymous No.10443756]

I remember installing this back in the day on my moms shit heap amd K6 packard bell (my nerd friends insisted its amazing). Between the 32 mb ram and voodoo rush (lol) it just ran like utter dog shit. All I can remember is I would lure people into inns where my buddys would kill them and we would loot their items. The last time this dude brought his high lvl kung fu master over and stomped our shit in. Never played it again once the trial month ended but some good times were had desu.
>I still have this guide in my bathroom and it is primo reading material

[Anonymous No.10443936]

>>10443756
I actually got paid to do some write ups for a Primo guide for EQ. They got me into the betas for the expansions and then paid me something like a hundred bucks an article. I was in high school at the time so it was pretty cool having my name in some books and getting to play expansions before other people was pretty awesome too.

[Anonymous No.10444225]

>>10432589
Everquest Ogres have really cool lore behind them that I feel like most players ignore.

[Anonymous No.10445074]

>>10444225

In lore, barbarians are a product of divine incest

[Anonymous No.10447226]

>>10445074
Kiss your sister, anon. KISS YOUR SISTER.

[Anonymous No.10447229]

>>10443756
I first installed on a shitbox as well. Zoning took absolutely forever. And if I camped on a boat, I would lose the toon forever because they would never stop zoning, and then dc. Some spell effects would cause my entire computer to lock up and I'd have to restart. Yes, even when I turned spell effects off, and downgraded visually as much as I could, all of this still happened. Harm touch was one of them. I learned that if I turned away from the mob to use harm touch, it wouldn't happen.

I pretty much bought my first ever computer, to escape having to use my mom's.

[Anonymous No.10447265]

>>10426145
Is it soloable? Is it too different from a regular mmo for me to have fun with it?

[Anonymous No.10447268]

>>10447265
It is. In fact, there are people who play it with an automated ruleset so they cannot group, cannot trade, cannot be buffed or healed, and if they die once, they're back to level 1.

[Anonymous No.10447692]

>>10447265
>Is it soloable?
What the fuck is wrong with modern day gamers.

[Anonymous No.10447737]

>>10447692
fuck your gay community that's what

[Anonymous No.10449765]

>>10447737

[Anonymous No.10450064]

>started out as a sony game
>devs left
>somehow took the game with them(???)
>finish development without sony
>successful launch
>sony buys them back
weird lore

[Anonymous No.10450294]

>>10431272
>robe of the elements and stein of moggok
that was literally me

[Anonymous No.10450389]

>>10447737
Go play a singleplayer game.

[Anonymous No.10450590]

how come everquest is so a e s t h e t i c

[Anonymous No.10450625]

>>10450389
you can't stop me
>party invite
>denied

[Anonymous No.10451237]

>>10447737
>community
if you rely on the "community" you already lost

form a static party with 2 competent bros, pick the right classes, and you'll be max level in a few days

[Anonymous No.10451949]

[Anonymous No.10451979]

>>10451237
>you'll be max level in a few days
>max level
>in a few days
Nigga I don't care what optimal circumstances you're thinking of, NO HE WON'T

[Anonymous No.10453541]

Cazic Thule = Cthulhu

[Anonymous No.10454650]

>>10447265
>Is it soloable?
Yes with right classes.
>Is it too different from a regular mmo for me to have fun with it?
Probably. Not sure what you mean by "regular MMO" though. EQ is the grandfather of most 3D MMOs but the genre has evolved substantially in the last 20 years.

[Anonymous No.10455215]

>>10444225
Been playing the RTS, Lords of Everquest, and it took seeing this picture somewhere to clue me onto the fact that Erudites aren't your regular niggers but big head niggas.

[Anonymous No.10455509]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLis0VZ9coE

[Anonymous No.10457290]

Talk about Paludal Caverns!

[Anonymous No.10458573]

this shit is wild

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystere_incident

>dark elf girl of "barely 14 seasons"

kek

[Anonymous No.10458740]

>>10455509
Those poor fish.

[Anonymous No.10458742]

>>10458573
To be fair Everquest players used "seasons" to describe their in-game level. If your character was level 60 paladin, they'd be a "paladin of 60 seasons." So it doesn't necessarily mean years old.

[Anonymous No.10458786]

>>10458742
>Everquest players
Meant to say "Everquest roleplayers." It was a roleplaying thing to say "seasons" instead of "levels."
Also, the part where it points out that Everquest had a quest where you kill a pregnant halfling is also worth mentioning. The game had fucked up shit in it. It's a medieval fantasy roleplaying game. It ain't always going to be sunshine and lollipops. You can look at George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire or watch 1983's Fire and Ice or the Deathstalker movies or Krull and see that dark themes are a fixture of the fantasy genre, including things like rape.
It's also a case where someone got banned in-game for doing something outside of the game on forums not even run by them.
Had they just ignored it, most players probably would have said "that's fucked up" and moved on but because they had to be ban happy they wound up drumming a lot of support for Mystere. Hell, I'm still able to make an argument for the guy.

[Anonymous No.10458796]

>>10455215
Erudites are the descendants of Yakub.

[Anonymous No.10460141]

>>10438623

[Anonymous No.10460582]

Ruins of Kunark had the best art out of all of the Everquest art pieces.

[Anonymous No.10460952]

They're all greatm Kunark has best T&A but my favorite was Scars of Velious. Just love how massive the giant looks.

[Anonymous No.10463119]

I said talk about Paludal Caverns goddammit

[Anonymous No.10463293]

>>10463119
I have nothing to say about that zone other than it was a Luclin zone with shitty moon lore that detracted from low level exposure to Norrath. Not sure you could have picked a zone I care less about.

[Anonymous No.10464108]

>>10458786
>It was a roleplaying thing to say "seasons" instead of "levels."
don't have any comment on the Mystere story but I always cringed at this. Just seemed to be trying too hard

[Anonymous No.10464723]

>>10458573
Reminds me of Mr. Bungle and the voodoo doll in LambdaMOO
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Rape_in_Cyberspace

[Anonymous No.10464732]

>>10451979
maybe he wont and maybe you wont, but 3-6 competent players who know what they're doing can easily max out in days, this isn't 1999 anymore, the game has been solved

[Anonymous No.10464742]

>>10464732
Bullshit.
Name the zones and the level ranges.

[Anonymous No.10465425]

The wood elf female leather chest graphic is still the GOAT.
The way the boobs get lighter in tone towards their center of gravity is just magnifique. The same way kinda that they do for the barbarian girl in >>10460582

It just sorta works.

[Anonymous No.10465429]

The wood elf female leather chest graphic is still the GOAT.
The way the boobs get lighter in tone towards their center of gravity is just magnifique. The same way kinda that they do for the barbarian girl in >>10460582

It just sorta works.

[Anonymous No.10467215]

>>10464108
Eh. I never minded it either way. Levels are an out of character meta concept anyhow, but if people wanted to say their level in terms of "seasons" then I understood what they were going for.

[Anonymous No.10468069]

YAY I DIDDIT
https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1701467050058306.webm

I made this toon on November 11th.
Back when Quarm was first mentioned in that last thread.

[Anonymous No.10468149]

>>10468069
>toon

[Anonymous No.10468153]

>>10468149
That's just what we call them.
Don't ask me why. I never have.

[Anonymous No.10468181]

>>10468153
>>10468149
It's from tuning the radio in a car to a station. "hey what's that "tune"". Toon is the dilapidation of nomenclature, it comes from cartoon, which is diri rd from car tune, which was a program you would listen to on the radio while you drove like a radio drama. The word tube is still the proper way to say song today. Toon, Is just from ebonics and slang degrading the lexicon.

[Anonymous No.10468186]

>>10468153
>>10468149
It's from tuning the radio in a car to a station. "hey what's that "tune". Toon is the dilapidation of nomenclature, it comes from cartoon, which is derived from car tune, which was a program you would listen to on the radio while you drove, like a radio drama. The word 'tune' is still the proper way to say song today. Toon, Is just from ebonics and slang degrading the lexicon.

[Anonymous No.10468202]

>>10468153
Back in the day I never encountered anyone who used the term 'toon' who wasn't also an annoying faggot. I doubt any of those people are still playing EQ though.

[Anonymous No.10468210]

>>10468202
>Back in the day I never encountered anyone who used the term 'toon' who wasn't also an annoying faggot
Well, I encountered folk who weren't annoying faggots who said it, so I don't know what to tell you.
Sorry.
>>10468186
Settle down young man

[Anonymous No.10468238]

>>10463119
Huh Uhh!

Yeah I lived there for awhile with my barb warrior.

[Anonymous No.10468246]

>>10464742
Not him but if it's classic and you want to level as fast as possible then you just hit lguk and stay there until 50. One solid group in the lower levels can dominate everything from hamlord through executioner as fast as the mobs respawn. Whatever you do before that doesn't really matter because those early levels can be blown through in a matter of hours multiple zones. If the hole exists then go there for your last 5 levels or so instead.

There's a massive difference between a pug and a coordinate group of sweaty tryhards.

[Anonymous No.10468932]

>>10463293
>>10468238
Alright you two.
Knife fight to the death please.
One of your viewpoints is DIRTY.

[Anonymous No.10468957]

Only ever saw the game from watching my friend play it, but it seemed cool.

Then he and my other friend got into a big fight in middle school. Other friend deleted his Everquest file. One of the meanest things I saw someone do at the time. They stopped being friends, and we all drifted apart.

[Anonymous No.10470548]

>>10465429
Best face also

[Anonymous No.10470723]

>>10470548
Mild Disagree

[Anonymous No.10471116]

>>10468957
I've seen a friendship sour over someone fucking with their Harvest Moon file.
Between a friend of mine, and some kid I already knew was really obnoxious and was surprised to see my friend even talking to.
"Okay now I see what you're talking about. It took everything I had to keep myself from punching him in the face"

[Anonymous No.10471298]

>>10460582
Why we can't have a game that just looks like this?

[Anonymous No.10471582]

is there any official info on how the original EQ zones were built? nothing turns up on google. the characters at least were confirmed made in 3ds

given the clearly brush-based nature of the classic EQ zones and the time they were made I'm guessing they were built in Hammer (Worldcraft at the time) which would be kind of interesting

[Anonymous No.10471762]

>>10471582
I have no direct knowledge of EQ's development or Worldcraft, but I have used a lot of Trenchbroom and the early zones were clearly made in something similar. Would make way more sense to assume they had some in-house tool built off Worldcraft or created from scratch rather than the zones were directly modeled in 3D Studio. Even in current year game devs don't really directly model "zones" in their 3d modeling programs, it's possible but they're just poorly suited for it.

[Anonymous No.10471916]

>>10471762
Looking into it a little, EQ zone geometry data is stored with the .wld extension, maybe short for "world". The structure of the s3d files is also really similar to Quake wads.

[Anonymous No.10472025]

Test

[Anonymous No.10472027]

So threads over two weeks old just autosage here? Geez.

[Anonymous No.10472230]

>>10472027
I guess, /vr/ has had fanatically overzealous mods since 2020 I wouldn't put it past them to be doing it manually.

[Anonymous No.10472303]

>>10472230
>fanatically overzealous mods
That is somehow putting it mildly.

[Anonymous No.10472361]

>>10471916
definitely quake vibes to the geometry, the way different segments don't line up exactly is 100% brush modeling