LOTRO Just Changed MMOs Forever

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LOTRO just introduced a new feature to its MMO that is changing the way that players are experiencing Middle Earth. Specifically, it's called the Adventure Mode system - one where players are able to scale the difficulty of the open world to their liking, earning currency and rewards. And the best part is, if you want to explore Middle Earth in a group - you can. Create your own Fellowship and wander through Lord of the Rings Online with your friends, braving the challenges that lie ahead.
Before the Shadow will send players into two new regions, Swanfleet and Cardolan, as Boromir makes his way north to Rivendell ahead of the meeting of what will eventually become the Fellowship of the Ring while the Nazgûl search for “Baggins” in the peaceful land of the Shire. Players will discover the threat rising from Mordor and Saruman's Uruks as they explore the far history of Middle-earth! Before the Shadow features questing from levels 1 to 32 in addition to four new Books for new characters. Higher level characters will see a new six-person Instance, in addition to a new Skirmish, and a Delving difficulty system that will offer new rewards and challenges!
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@gamershow5944 Год назад

EverQuest 1 has made you group for years. its an old concept. Boosting or being powered leveled in mmos now day is better imo because old content isnt polished. Better battlegrounds, more Timewalking all levels, more amazing looking raids at all levels, heroics all levels, adding better graphics and spells is also better idea imo. I did the slow grinding mmos and I dont ever think about that as my best mmo memories. They should make wow scale from lvl1 to 70 in any zone and add more loot, more quest, interesting quest that are easy plus fun and faster leveling bonuses for having max level characters. Redo all zones like dragonflight daily's and keep vanilla wow on classic. Redo older zones except on classic servers. This will allow you to quest for gear on multiple expansions all the way to 70 - accentually playing at any level with end game features. Hire more developers.

@marterion80 Год назад

I remember Age of Conan had a similar mode. I remember long time ago i turned on something, and all normal NPCs suddenly was all elites. That system was called epic mode. I always told my friends that MMORPGs needs such system. Make the entire world a dungeon difficulty.

@r13hd22 Год назад

Some unnecessary lies told in this video. LotRO did not do anything special or genre changing. All they did was add a way to make current content harder. Their early game was not changed. It remains the exact same thing it was when it was first made with a few timed events and a couple adventure packs that added a few more quests added in since then. So, all that stuff that was there 15 years ago, having to kill x amount of y for a mission can instead take you longer and if like to cut yourself, you can make it so each and every single thing you come across can kill you in one or two hits and be a major task to kill...which you will quit after noticing just how many mobs are in many places you need to go to, if you play alone that is. It basically makes the open world group content for you. Also. This change did not bring players back/in in droves. The games population is still very low though should not be because the level 1-105 game is amazing but does start to go down-hill fast once you enter Mordor and beyond. SSG taking over from Turbine takes the game in a really bad direction focusing heavily on end game grind with each expansion.

@artsveiman7776 Год назад

So basically they are doing something similar to what Guild Wars 2 has already been doing for 10 years, and apparently other games as well, from what I read in the comments. This isnt changing MMOs forever, this is putting another coat of paint on an outdated MMO I loved LOTRO but it has become stale and outdated, and just putting a new coat of paint is not going to bring me back, specially not when I have to pay sub, if I want a proper experience of the game.

@artsveiman7776 Год назад

What would change MMOs forever if LOTRO applied it, is to create LOTRO 2 AND have a way to transfer your character and his items or at least the skins of those items into LOTRO2 that way they could create a new LOTRO every 7-10 years, update it with new gaming advances, graphics, etc, and players would not loose their thousands of hours of progress. THAT would be the gamechanger in the MMO world.

@everlonggaming1966 Год назад

This is the first time I have seen a developer do something that benefits both casual and more hardcore players. Well Done LoTRo well done!

@DarkScreamGames Год назад

I guess you don't play a lot of MMORPGs? The difficulty system for quests and a separate currency is not new, City of Heroes was doing this in 2004. D&D Online does it too. So if it's the first time you've seen it, you've not been looking too hard!

@socklips7655 Год назад

@@DarkScreamGames CoH has been legit dead and gone for years, DDO is incredibly obscure, more than lotro. If these are the only examples you can pull out of your arse, the original point stands.

@UltraSuperDuperFreak Год назад

Diablo 3 ..Torment lvls .. changes entire game's difficulty all over ... so no .. not first time we see this.

@UltraSuperDuperFreak Год назад

@@socklips7655 it doesn matter if those games are dead ... the point was it has been done before !

@everlonggaming1966 Год назад

@@UltraSuperDuperFreak not the same but ok enjoy.

@jacobbradshaw7801 Год назад

LotR Online leveling series!!! PLEASE I NEED THIS!

@morrowoblivion13 Год назад

Heck yeah and make sure they bring a captain with them if they can't find a healer or a tank to level with. 😁

@theenigma7685 Год назад

I love exploring in lotro im currently a lvl25 hunter, i like fishing in the game and just admiring the scenery in hobbiton,michel delving, rivindel.

@morrowoblivion13 Год назад

Did you get a house yet?

@yesteryearr Год назад

ESO NEEDS this feature so much. The Overworld is so boringly easy

@DonnieDGaming Год назад

More challenge and group play that isn't pointless. Yes, please!!

@Loreignss 11 месяцев назад

I tried LOTRO 3 weeks ago, my only other time playing it was around a decade ago and I really didn't love it back then. I don't know what changed but I've been on everyday I'm not at work for like 10 hours a day. I saw this difficulty thing and assumed it was some end game mechanic, going to jack everything up to A MILLION tonight and get smoked by a pig. Community has been really great, still don't have any friends or know what I'm actually doing but just hit 70 hunter/40 rune keeper

@Alucard9692010 Год назад

Man the early game for this video was so long and painful until you got to the point and finally talking about the story.

@ruckarucka6787 Год назад

2 months from now: Someone solos the highest difficulty.

@Shnimberz Год назад

Doesn't Guild Wars 2 already have a similar system with the Karma system?

@ShadowReaver573 Год назад

Project Ascension Classless WoW server has done a similar concept for awhile

@darschpugs4690 10 месяцев назад

In other MMOPGs this is called world scaling, City of heroes had a mentor and sidekick system that scaled low level players up to max level to play with high level friends in end game content as well as lowering max level players to low levels to play with lowbies in their low level content. DDO even has a system almost identical to this called reaper mode and its been out for several years. Lotro aint doing anything new or revolutionary, They are just presenting it in a slightly different way.

@82automan Год назад

It puts a smile on my face that LOTRO is still going strong after all this time

@dannynelson8930 Год назад

It keeps me coming back. Just no other world like it! Especially if you’re a LoTR fan.

@CrizzyEyes Год назад

It's very comfy and the player housing is unmatched. It suffers very heavily from a lack of players in the early game though but this might have fixed that problem.

@RavenTheBlackheart Год назад

every time i go back i just end up trying to take over the pipe weed market =/

@artsveiman7776 Год назад

Personally it feels like just another coat of paint that does nothing to address the real problem that, this game is just too old. They need to create an LOTRO2 and allow for players to be able to transfer their existing characters into the new one. I love this game but the sub fee does not justify it. either make it entirely free to play or make an LOTRO2

@ethanchen4504 Год назад

What early game they've had 3+ codes that gave you lvl skips to 60 80 and 100 or something. I like it though. Those notorious fetch quests were so terrible. Gandalf wants to talk to Radaghast? Go travel across two entire regions 4000m+ just for one line from each and again!

@jazzyjeph4143 Год назад

I'm in for a LotR Online leveling series. That'd be neat!

@Eas_the_Planeswalker Год назад

The most fun for me in MMOs has always been the world. Glad to finaly see a dev recognise the importance 🙂

@daveisnothere Год назад

I am the same, This was one of my favorite MMO's. I played EQ2, this, and ESO, the world in LOTRO was by far the best of all of them. I may need to see if I can get into my old account still. Or worst case, start fresh since it has been so long since I played.

@jjswigger8591 9 месяцев назад

is there more ppl playing besides steam1?!

@Hurbster2112 Год назад

As much as I love ESO, it needs something like this so badly.

@gabenwatching2746 Год назад

Truest true that has ever been trued

@Sportskiduhuh Год назад

I gave up on that shit game, everything you do feels meaningless.

@Kapuska1916 Год назад

Preach brother

@keldor8302 Год назад

Yeah, the progression system after hitting lvl50 on your first character. Makes the One Tamriel scaling a joke on subsequent characters. It would be interesting to implement an option like this which ALSO turns off all of those bonuses. Doing Dolmens, Dragons, and Public Dungeons without someone uber geared and maxed out on champion point progression facerolling it for you. Would make the game feel so much better. I'd still have trouble staying in that game though. The combat bothers me. It feels "floaty" and a bit janky to me. And the bar-swapping stuff is annoying. And I don't want to grind and go through a special mini-game progression to unlock the ring that buffs you to use a single bar. Locking that as an option to play the game behind barriers was a mistake.

@jak1165 Год назад

This seems like a better version of One Tamriel

@leinonibishop9480 Год назад

Whatever else lotro does, it will always have a warm place in my heart simply for the music system. If other mmos implemented the musical instruments like lotro I would be in heaven. The fact that you can create a band in game and jam out with other players is so awesome and I love wandering around the towns listening to random musicians performing. It’s so immersive. Sitting under a tree playing your harp or lute and just relaxing is also amazing. One of the best features available in any game ever.

@Recca92 Год назад

The bard can do this in xiv

@kainhighwind2 Год назад

Yeah, Final Fantasy 14 has this. Everything from pipes, violins, to drums, to even an electric guitar

@eboethrasher Год назад

@@kainhighwind2 can you: program in songs, program them so that your group of people each plays a separate instrument and plays the same whole song together in time as a performance?

@leinonibishop9480 Год назад

@@kainhighwind2 can you basically turn your keyboard into a piano and play multiple octaves?

@leinonibishop9480 Год назад

@@eboethrasher not only the programmable features. You can have several people playing their parts live while logged in together, on their keyboards, sounding like different instruments. Giving a whole band live performance in game.

@kingmonday2918 Год назад

Long story short: Added 'Adventure Mode' that lets you scale enemy and area difficulty for better rewards and exp. also gaining new in-game currency to buy cool new flashy items.

@thomasdasilva2399 Год назад

It is crazy that this has existed for ever in solo games. Like restart it in higher difficulty and maybe get additional unlocked content. Prop to the LOTRO team for bringing "multiplayer" from MMORPG back in the leveling, a part with always fond memories.

@ragingfilthycasual Год назад

This is completely badass and intuitive! I love it! Omg imagine if Blizzard restarted Classic WoW again next year with several difficulty tiers for the world and for adventuring instead of just "heroic" dungeons.

@warrenraaff Год назад

I've wanted that for so long as I slowly try to get the loremaster achievement

@NonsensicalSpudz Год назад

the hope in blizzard is astounding consider the past 5 years

@cococock2418 Год назад

You clearly know nothing about classic if you think that's how it goes.

@TapTwoCounterspell Год назад

@@cococock2418 ... classic is laughably easy

@Jura740 Год назад

@@TapTwoCounterspellon 24th aug hc classic comes out. you not even get lv14 bc you are just a FF14 Andy! 😂

@Arduous087 Год назад

It honestly boggles my mind how long LOTRO has hung on for. It’s a testament to their community and the devs. I really enjoyed the game on and off for years. The storytelling is head and shoulders above any other MMO.

@jamesdavidson7495 Год назад

I just jumped back in and I think there are more people playing now than 5 years ago. The current devs are soooooo player focused, it is refreshing.

@skycaptain95 8 месяцев назад

DDO is better

@PsyrenXY Год назад

I love the idea of player-controlled difficulty in the open world. It's like WoW Hardcore without the prospect of losing weeks of progress to a lag spike. Brilliant!

@yamashi82 Год назад

Glad to see Lotro content. It has been my comfort MMO for 11 years and counting.

@harrr53 Год назад

I love LOTRO and I am mystified as to why such a good game with such a huge IP is mostly ignored. I read Ready Player Two recently, there's a whole part of the book where they are in a virtual Middle Earth and the main character mentions a host of companies that made LOTR games. I kept expecting him to mention Turbine....but no mention.

@runestormfly8428 Год назад

I hope you do that group LOTRO leveling series. Sounds like it would be a fun time.

@danandmeghan4691 Год назад

Please do the leveling series! LOTR is awesome!

@westen5604 Год назад

I need to play Lotro again 😮

@noturproblemford Год назад

I wouldn't bother the devs one on a massive Purge for political reasons on Brandywine not that long ago. Could only imagine how bad iy was on other severs if people wouldn't stop getting removed from yhe forms for asking why

@YaBoySquints Год назад

More games need to add this feature.

@Caerulean Год назад

This system is actually pretty recent! It came to the regular servers at the very end of May this year with the Gondor Renewed update. It was originally introduced to the legendary (VIP-only) servers in 2021. Also, Before the Shadow is separate from this and is not a necessary purchase to access the difficulty system. 🙂

@Nerobyrne Год назад

I'm pleasantly surprised that the monetization isn't as predatory as it could be, despite you being able to buy pretty much everything aside from weapons and armor past like 20.

@CrizzyEyes Год назад

The monetization is not bad at all in this game. Of course it is also 16 years old, but even the player housing and furniture is very reasonable

@harvain731 Год назад

Yeah, they had their info a little wrong about the Landscape Difficulty. Good selling point for the Before the Shadow Mini-Expansion but it's not required 😆

@wiliestrogue2924 Год назад

They allow multi-boxing which totally defeats the purpose of this system.

@harvain731 Год назад

@@wiliestrogue2924 Why? Multi-boxing isn't actually efficient in any form for Combat now. They also removed the Aggressive Stance from Pets & Heralds Updates ago, so it's not like a Multi-Boxing 6 Lore Masters can do anything.

@Miloascape Год назад

As an active LOTRO end gamer, the grouping up of people to do Heroic +2, in theory is great but in reality, is wanting. Initially, right out the gate it would be useful, BUT at higher levels, you are more than able to solo the landscape mobs at heroic +2 - just do green-level quests. The other problem is just the LOTRO culture atm. Many people with endgame characters could care less about Heroic +2, because there is no benefit to doing it for endgame content. This means only hardcore fans or new players will be even attempting this, and it will be really tough forming up a group. It's been out for weeks, and I know of 1 group across all the servers that are trying to set this up. Here's the crux of the problem, because LOTRO has SOOOOO Much content, people are too impatient to sit around waiting on others to group up with to do landscape content.

@Mastemine498 Год назад

I wish I could have made it to the endgame, I tried to get into LOTRO but the UI seems super clunky and cluttered, and the questing experience for me was the worst questing I have experienced in an MMO, I had trouble locating how to do many quests. I was questing in a group of friends and we got mulitple lag spikes in a town we were in and there wasn't even many people in the area. We all live in different regions of the world too so I know it just wasn't my internet connection or something. One of our friends got stuck in an instanced campaign quest as well and couldn't get out except to log / relog. A lot of issues we kept running into like this in the early game really turned us away from the game unfortunately and it just didn't feel like there was a lot of content to do. I really think they just need to use a new graphic engine though and the game would be incredible. Right now the game feels extremely dated, even WoW has had graphical updates to their character models and most enemies. But this game looks and still feels like an early 2000 game, wish they had a bigger dev team, and if this type of game was on say Unreal Engine it could be very well the best MMO.

@Miloascape Год назад

@@Mastemine498 They've done some quality of life improvements over the year. For example, now you can set a quest as focus, and it will have an arrow on your minnimap showing you exactly where to go. This has made questing much quicker and more enjoyable. Don't know when last you played, but a lot of things you mentioned have actually been fixed over the years. But there are still bugs here and there that creep up. I have to confess that I actually like the look of LOTRO, simply because it feels more "realistic" to me which makes it feel immersive. They do not use flashy colors like wow etc. But it is the nature of the game. They are also starting to roll out new updated graphics content. They just overhauled the entire Last Homely House in Rivendell and it now looks stunning, newer zones are also seeing improved graphics. So they're doing the best given the limited resources they have.

@taylemgames2652 Год назад

@@Mastemine498 Modern MMOs have made you spoiled. Road signs to every quest location killed the spirit of questing.

@MegaShadow91 Год назад

Yeah sure. Roadsigns are the problem.

@davidepannone6021 Год назад

Thank you for being honest. While watching the video I was like "this changes little to nothing, as veterans probably don't even need this system".

@anthonyharding4380 Год назад

This has inspired me to finally try LOTRO, even though I'm most likely going to play solo :)

@griggins Год назад

I've never had a good experience on LotRO. I've tried the game numerous times over multiple PC's, and it always ran like shit. This does make me wanna give it another go, though.

@mattp2557 Год назад

It's best when you have someone to play with, I've found some areas/ quest lines can be a little boring but it has some that are great

@Miloascape Год назад

lag is a real thing in raids, but it has gotten much much better for landscaping. There is now no more rubber banding when you run through the landscape.

@griggins Год назад

@@Miloascape That's good, I remember rubber banding being a huge issue. Thanks

@bruh-myega Год назад

The scaling system is EXACTLY. Letter by DAMN LETTER. what I wanted from every other MMO, especially WoW. I'm just imagining ESO, with its completely open world and freedom in doing whatever the hell you want, adapting this system. It would make the game infinitely more enjoyable and turn it into a game where i would not mind grinding 20 alts. I applaud the LOTRO devs for this. Such a "simple" feature, yet something absolutely revolutionary in the world of MMO RPGs

@lukefrederiks5906 Год назад

It seems that when you're not beholden to some insane Activision/EA overlord, you're more likely to try new things that might/might not work just because they sound interesting/fun It's nice

@AFpaleoCon Год назад

I quit as soon as I get to endgame. I literally don’t care about endgame. I care about the leveling experience and story.

@NixxiomOnYouTube Год назад

I'm in the same camp. Endgame is fun, but the joy of an MMO (for me at least) is the world and adventuring through it. I've always preferred leveling in MMOs to endgame. I know that makes us odd compared to the average MMO player though. Kek

@emarskineel Год назад

@@NixxiomOnRU-vidwe're a minority in this genre

@hououinkyouma1488 Год назад

@@emarskineel I think the demand for this kind of gameplay is growing. WoW hardcore, Ashes of Creation, Pantheon Rise of the Fallen and some other less known mmos are all seeking to deliver a gameplay more focused on the journey, leveling and exploration. I also think that WoW Vanilla+ will 100% be a thing, although I am not sure if I trust Blizzard to do a good job with it

@markshepherd4791 Год назад

Personally I find the combat unplayable in lotro, shame as I love the world and lore

@cavetroll666 Год назад

Lotro is doing amazing things these days and they have a new expansion coming out soon to bring us to the port city of Umbar :)

@benjaminlocks Год назад

Aside from their recent butchering of my human characters with the model update fiasco, I'm still very impressed with LotRO and their ability to cater to its player base and their needs. I really appreciate what SSG does for its fans and the ways it constantly tries to innovate the game and keep it sustainable. I like seeing games like EverQuest who launch two TLP servers a year - one standard, and one with new experimental rulesets to see what fans enjoy. I like seeing these developers actually WANT to try new things.

@nightknight7748 Год назад

What? Increase Exp gain AND free cosmetic and emotes? This is going to hurt the level boosts man do you want these companies to die? They would go bankrupt

@nickunnerved Год назад

SSG's other title Dungeons and Dragons Online has a similar thing called reaper mode which was released in 2017 ... each quest you do has the option to choose difficulty settings Casual, normal, hard, and elite and then you can choose Reaper mode which has 10 additional levels of difficulty above elite. Reaper mode also adds mobs called reapers to the quests that are not in the casual through elite settings.

@dr.philphilsphil5795 9 месяцев назад

I played both thousands of hours but I’ll always go back to lotro, you can solo all the way to cap but not with ddo. And pvp in ddo died 10+ years ago, pvp is still alive in lotro

@morrowoblivion13 Год назад

Lotro captain main on the arkenstone server here. This system can make helping lower level people be more fun(potential captain ego trip lol im joking). I do from time to time help lower level people out because i was a low lv and it does increase community engagement.. Heck i am even mentoring captains if they want to do group content.

@HuxleyBun Год назад

Now they just gotta make the animations and combat more fluid and it would be a top tier game.

@Illthallion Год назад

Yes, exactly. The pita is the engine that needs to be updated. I feel that if that could be accomplished this MMO would be reawakened.

@booksnbooze7796 Год назад

100% I'd play if the graphics / gameplay was modernized.

@Paul-ng3xn Год назад

Not very likely to happen, the dev team is not as big as the Blizzard WoW team. But I guess you never know, it could happen. I'm already glad they still update and make new content/expansions.

@LightS_bRight 11 месяцев назад

Be careful what your asking, maybe you'll never be satisfied and eventually gets to a point where it loses what made the game great.

@taylemgames2652 Год назад

More LOTRO from you, Nix. Be the Mouth of LOTRO for us. :)

@ASwabbie Год назад

A system like this could make so many games worth playing again.. Oh how I both hate and miss WoW.

@ArdynSol Год назад

This sounds great. Once I finish with BG3 maybe I’ll check this out

@soulward6334 Год назад

City of heroes had the ability to set the the mission to the number of people , up to 8, the level of mob, and whether bosses are present. It came out in 2004. Can currently play on homecoming private servers. Game had a sidekick feature to play with anyone at any level. And a ui completely customizable. ...in 2004. Way ahead of its time.

@Nostromo2144 Год назад

^ This. Still playing the crap out of it every now & then. Have over 50 toons. There is nothing like CoX & Homecoming has made it even better (and free!).

@DarkScreamGames Год назад

yep.. not a new feature or idea at all, definitely a good one, but let's not pretend LOTRO has innovated anything here, DDO does something similar too

@jjswigger8591 9 месяцев назад

the servers have more then 200- ppl?

@88dfletcher Год назад

Nothing to bring in the realism like being wrecked by a fuckin piglet. We need more.

@JabbarTV1 Год назад

This game can't get better because of its core mechanics and gameplay, this patch is just the game trying to survive longer

@nerdslapper9361 Год назад

Absolutely agree.

@ivansalamon7028 Год назад

But there's nothing wrong with it's core mechanics and gameplay? You do realize there are those among us that actually love the complexity and pacing of everything, right? I love tab targeting mmos, and LotrO is one of the very best imo, alongside wow and a couple others.

@JabbarTV1 Год назад

@@ivansalamon7028 ok, enjoy

@theCombatWombat-1 Год назад

This sounds a lot like Reaper mode implemented in 2017 in DDO (another SSG title). Big difference here is that it applies to the open world, not just dungeons in LOTRO. It was implemented in DDO to promote group play as well. Reaper difficulty is 1 through 10. Most people solo content on R1 these days (due to XP boosts), but there are some of the endgame people that solo content on R10 as well.

@Jibcutter Год назад

Watched this and came here to say this. Brother and I went back to DDO recently, me on a 2 year hiatus, him on 15 year hiatus. Having a blast 2 manning Reaper 2-4 difficultly as lowbies. Cool to see SSG did this on their open world in LOTRO. Imagine if they did reincarnation in LotRO like in DDO on top of this?

@OrionPaxX Год назад

As an a MMO, this game is dead.. We estimate the daily player count of The Lord of the Rings Online to be 29,916, with a total player base of 3,149,022.

@PastaAivo Год назад

MMO that actually encourages grouping up? Now that sure is something in the modern times. Also great seeing LotRo still going, always surprised to find it alive and kicking.

@Demane69 Год назад

The difficulty level only affects you. Someone next to you could be on a different setting, slaying everything around while you get 2 shot. Why would he group with you?

@fel385 Год назад

Bro this is just content farm. Scaling up the numbers in the world? Wow, absolutely groundbreaking. A feature I'd like to see for sure, though it's not new or novel. Lots of warcraft private servers already offer leveling challenges that include simple unga bunga numbers tuning alongside other, more interested changes. And the notion that it's so deep and community building to just have stuff tuned so hard that you NEED a group is so bland it might as well be british cuisine. Every MMO under the sun has content meant for groups in the form of dungeons and harder quests.

@blivion Год назад

Thank you for showing so much love for this game.

@nothingcanstopwhatscoming6664 9 месяцев назад

LOTRO is not all about endgame, it's about content, and oh boy does it have content. One of the most feature rich and well developed games I've ever played. It's nearly impossible to complete the entire game you will be discovering new things for years and the world is massive. But the best part of the game is starting a new character, exploring the world and leveling, building skills, improving gear, getting to know your class and progressing through the world which is heavily based around the story line.

@zelurstak Год назад

Another older mmo does very similar thing and has done it since the beginning. Dungeons & Dragons Online, although instanced, offers difficulty options for every quest with more difficult options giving better rewards and unique currency, and the most difficult options requiring a party.

@realashtonblaze Год назад

Was about to comment this on here about DDO having this from the beginning…it’s a great idea but LOTRO isn’t the first to implement this type of system

@brnperes Год назад

Both are currently developed by the same folks.

@eboethrasher Год назад

@@realashtonblaze yes, but the point that both of you have made is that it is instanced, and this is landscape content, which is probably harder to do it for. Given that they have both been developed by the same company for as long as I can remember, at least 14 years, I'm sure they had something to do with it over there as well.

@oopomopoo Год назад

@@eboethrasherddo from my memory is almost exclusively instances gameplay outside of hubs. This was also back at release, forgot who created it is been so long lol. Either way doesn't detract from what lotro did.

@Timithos 8 месяцев назад

Yes, but the key phrase is "although instanced".

@bon7029 Год назад

This is why I love FFXIV. The game feels lively all the way from level 1 to end game.

@TizzieTZP Год назад

Been doing this with 4 buddies of mine we all had to go max difficulty as soon as we left the tutorial, and we meet up at Thorin's hall. It's also a hardcore challenge so death = delete and group self-found. Made the game really fun overall especially with it being our first time playing.

@morrowoblivion13 Год назад

Captain from the arkenstone server here. I hope you have a great time 😁

@johnwayne4911 11 месяцев назад

is the hardcore challenge in the actual game or is that just rules you guys just made for yourself

@TizzieTZP 11 месяцев назад

@@johnwayne4911 our own rules u get some titles so it can kinda be tracked but only up to 20 after that it’s honor code

@IBradFrazer Год назад

A feature that 90% of the player base won't ever touch. Nice. How about they add European servers (something the player base has been asking for 12 years)? I've played on and off since 2011, but I always quit due to lag. Yes, LOTRO already has European servers, but only in name, as they are still located in the US. And as Nixxiom said, a lot of people are checking the game out, which makes the servers even more unstable than they already are. I won't return to the game until we get European servers and an updated UI (if you try to play above 1080p, the UI doesn't scale at all, and things become blurry).

@yunishot Год назад

When you have a guy who's been watching your videos for 10 years, you know you're doing something right. Hesitated a lot to play lotto, now it's downloading. Ty Nixxiom 😉

@MsK4YY Год назад

so you're telling me that I should download and play LoTRo? got it. :D

@psychotical21 Год назад

May have to give it a try, does LotRO have a healer class/classes?

@mornarmo5833 Год назад

Yes. Minstrels, Rune-Keepers, Lore-Masters, Beornings, Captains all have healing specs!

@SyriusSyn Год назад

Yeah it does, Runekeeper and Minstrel are both pretty a standard healer with buffs and the like. Beorning have Raid Wide AoE heals and some buff/debuffing. All which are viable but Runekeeper is lacking a bit in the support aspect and is considered a more Pure healer while Beorn/Minstrel are considered more healer/supp I think Beorn ATM has some of the biggest raw HPS for Raid environment's but that may have changed, with Minstrel being the Standard I'd say.

@psychotical21 Год назад

@SynicalSyn nice, thanks for the summary, as miserable as it sounds to some I only enjoy playing healing classes in mmos

@psychotical21 Год назад

@@mornarmo5833 thanks

@vali.s5109 Год назад

be the minstrel that tries to hook up with everything that's sentient or not

@Nimoot Год назад

Don't get how this is Changing MMO's Forever? ... Bullet Sponges in FPS games are boring ... and adding in AoE's and nonsense stuns (WoW) all over the place to call it 'harder content' isn't all that fantastic... I love LOTRO ... just I have a thing about spiders.... if they could add an Arachnophobia mode? Fantastic ... but otherwise... I just hang out in The Shire and look at the scenery .... and never really play the game. Also umm .... DDO has had this kind of 'Scaled up Difficulty' for Years... It's not 'new'.

@lesball1754 Год назад

This has been in the game for a bit now. It was just on their TLP. It is an AMAZINGLY fun system and really caters to the hardcore gamers!

@wiliestrogue2924 Год назад

They allow multi-boxing which totally defeats the purpose of this system.

@TheOnyxian 10 месяцев назад

Actually something I discussed with my old WoW guild a number of years a go was something like this. Think I coined it 'HC Levelling' or something. They dismissed it. Seems Lotro implemented it and it's loved by the entire MMO community and yea, I'm installing it right now to have a look at it.

@dassonntagskind Год назад

This feature re-vitalized the game for me. Landscape was way too easy for way too long and for a few years I was thinking more and more about stopping all-together. I'd prefer for landscape to be generally harder without any system (like they did when Mordor came out) but I'm happy with this too.

@devilsadvocate1597 Год назад

Your so funny! You talk of Vetran players.... I had a maxed out character of EVERY type, each we making everything any needed.... Then a company takeover... I lost everything and to pay again... thats why LotRo is always gonna be a pile of money grabbing shit... and "That's the point"

@Oliver_the_place Год назад

Awh, I love LOTRo...played it up until roham expansion. It's such a beautifully crafted world and you can tell the developers put love it. The party combo system, the warden class.. they had some really intuitive ideas. Makes me want to return!!

@aerdraiochta Год назад

You should!! ^^

@Travybear1989 Год назад

The game is better now than it was then IMO. I've played LOTRO off-and-on since 2010 and it's never left my hard drive(s) since it came out. I like to play many games but when I get bored of everything else I always go back to LOTRO, not even classic WoW holds my attention as much as LOTRO. I think it has to be the well-crafted world, friendly and helpful community, player housing, and the epic story that make the game what it is. Sure, the graphics have aged but the game still looks pretty good.

@Sw0nk0 Год назад

I would really like to get in to wow again. But i get the most enjoyment from leveling. And to be honest, its horrible in wow right now. I have to much options on were to go. I want a system like in the newer expansions where you knew where to go next to continue the story. Im done halfway through any expansion so im forced to join endgame. Tbh even thougt i didnt like BFA to much, i enjoyed the leveling there. AND I NEED VOICE to the NPCs, because even if i enjoy the lore, i cant focus on reading quest texts for to long. I know that we have that AI vocie mod for vanilla, but i need it for retail!

@LumbyMcGumby Год назад

I played this game at launch and would just play the instruments in game for hours making up songs with my friend. We dumped at least a week worth of time into just hitting notes on the instruments in the game. Such a cool feature.

@kainhighwind2 Год назад

Final Fantasy 14 has the same feature

@eboethrasher Год назад

@@kainhighwind2 we get it, weeb, now go elsewhere

@r13hd22 Год назад

Some unnecessary lies told in this video. LotRO did not do anything special or genre changing. All they did was add a way to make current content harder. Their early game was not changed. It remains the exact same thing it was when it was first made with a few timed events and a couple adventure packs that added a few more quests. So, all that stuff that was there 15 years ago, having to kill x amount of y for a mission can instead take you longer and if like to cut yourself, you can make it so each and every single thing you come across can kill you in one or two hits and be a major task to kill...which you will quit after noticing just how many mobs are in many places you need to go to, if you play alone that is. It basically makes the open world group content for you. Also. This change did not bring players back/in in droves. The games population is still very low though should not be because the level 1-105 game is amazing but does start to go down-hill fast once you enter Mordor and beyond. SSG taking over from Turbine takes the game in a really bad direction focusing heavily on end game grind with each expansion.

@bladerunner2006 Год назад

Great video! This has been on my mind forever. I get that devs don't want to waste too much precious time on old content. All the veterans want new stuff to do. But something like this is such a relatively easy fix, that gives us alt-players much needed challenge. Sounds awesome.

@FreedomFighter08 Год назад

I would still prefer a brand new LOTR mmorpg, the franchise itself has huge potential in the gaming industry and especially as an mmo. LOTRO failed to amass the big player base due to boring combat, generic questing and mob killing and evil faction locked behind pvp only and a boring free to play model. The small player base stayed behind because of lore and exploration of places never seen in cinema or other games before. The LOTR franchise deserves something new that can amass the big audience.

@dencsyy Год назад

This system sounds amazing! Honestly... I think every MMo could benefit from this. It's not a MUST TO DO CHORE, it's just a choice to elevate your experience. BUT it should be included in the tutorial as well imo. Like showing you that yeah, that's an option from the start even if you are new player. No gate keeping.

@avocadotoast7367 Год назад

I love lotro so much, the only bad thing is, I'm Brazilian, and as a Brazilian the lotro points are so so so expensive to me, the Dolar is like 5x more valuable than the Real, to buy a horse in game I literally can pay my light bill, also the game is in english what in a certain way benefit me because I learned english alone playing the game lol, would be amazing if the game had a Portuguese translate, Lotro would be so popular in Brazil, a lot of people here does play the game but I'm shure the game would be extremely popular here, so if I where SSG I would reduce Lotro points value and offer the game in more lengages, That would help them to spread more the game and help SSG expand and lotro could still around for more 20 years

@TheZorch Год назад

Final Fantasy XIV doesn't experience this kind of problem in the Early Game. It was reworked some time ago to make progressing through the story faster. Filler quests in the MSQ (main story quests) were removed, except for those that introduced characters important to the story later on. MSQ dungeons can be run solo with A.I. party members, and instanced events in quests have a difficulty selector.

@BatJeff Год назад

This is so true. I've been a WoW player for nearly 15 years, and started FFXIV 3 weeks ago on a trial account. Just picked up the complete collection and got a sub going because it is incredible. I'm loving just leveling at my own pace through the entire story.

@philblatchford5682 Год назад

I love Tolkien’s stories but the mmorpg lotro is so amazingly bad not to mention designed to force players to empty their pockets. It’s as if two separate companies developed the game. One with immersive graphical and audio experiences and the other with the worst character and costume graphics that I’ve ever seen and so many just unbelievable incredible ineptitude that it defies… nuff said hate it

@Drisk-1 4 месяца назад

Playing high difficulty as a new player in Lotro right now... surprised at how much fun i'm having! 😊👍

@SavithTV Год назад

A scaling questing experience is something I never knew I wanted in an MMO. I enjoyed it in games like Diablo 3 which is the only thing I can compare it to, so I hope it comes to other games, too!

@Carriesue1982 8 месяцев назад

This is literally what I’ve been wanting in retail WoW forever. I don’t do end game anymore and just level alts. But retail is so easy to level in it’s not fun at all. If I could up the difficulty I’d actually play retail

@ArnArngamingtv Год назад

Thank you @Nixxiom for reviewing LOTRO, I've been played this before t'was like 2018 and stopped. So, now...i will give it a shot again.

@Intelligenkeit Год назад

This needs to be balanced, so Groups do not have a big advantage compared to solo players, since we all know most people are solo players, thats why solo queue arena is overloaded and normal arena is not, and a system like this one is not a genius new idea, do you think they do not know that and they are shocked by this? Of course they could do it, they just wont do it, might be too much work and they see leveling as a ''practice mode'' to learn your class, thats all.

@justadad6677 Год назад

I hate this kind of game mechanics. MMOs are all terrible at making a game play that is player driven, which is why they all fail after a few months of new release. After the new, it's back to the same old grind and boring game world.

@Grawwler Год назад

If I could do +2 hard mode mmo lvling I would be so happy. Very nice lotro! Retail wow lvling even would be fun if the difficulty was 2-5 times higher

@Blueprint4Murder Год назад

Wows new game experience is great. The reason a lot of people stop at that point because it is highly promoted, but mmos in general suck. The game should have just been difficult to start with.

@krzysztof4802 Год назад

... and its still sh#t and cashgrab :D hundreds of $ for outdated, repetetive, boring and clunky gameloop? seriously?

@DizzWhazzUp Год назад

Someone probably commented it as well, BUT!!! This is ONLY for landscape! Dungeons/raids are still the same easy mobs as usual!

@LisaSummers1988 Год назад

sounds like a grandure idea but, there are already games out there that dont make any content obsolete without having to toggle anything. its called guildwars 2 and all the content stays relevant due to natural level scaling. never done before? what a weird thing to claim.