Episode 21: Only you can prevent the drop-bear apocalypse

09/29/15 • 76 min

This week we talk about Dante’s Divine Comedy, drop-bears, the middle finger, and snorting lines of Aurin dander! Oh, and we also talk about Wildstar, ArcheAge, and Marvel Heroes, but that was the boring stuff. Welcome to Casual Core Radio, where we talk about MMOs and where we stay up late to watch games launch (or more usually, crash over and over)!

MMO News

Runescape’s Evil Twin: Darkscape (completely F2P) – From a Press Release

http://www.biogamergirl.com/2015/09/darkscape-launches-for-pc-with-fresh.html

CCR will finally be a little positive about ArcheAge.

http://news.mmosite.com/content/2015-09-16/archeage_gets_much_needed_server_merges_and_land_reset.shtml

TSW stealing Wildstar’s ideas now

Marvel Heroes’ Limbo event is up until Oct. 2nd

https://forums.marvelheroes.com/discussion/236652/marvel-heroes-2015-1-72-patch-notes#latest
Screenshot from Drew

Bad News for Korean MMOs ASTA, Devilian, Kritika, possibly TERA!! NO word on NA, EU, or other regions.

Contracts in Chronicles of Elyria

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/1308/feature/10148/Contracts-and-PlayerCreated-Professions.html/page/1

Speaking of WildStar – F2P by the time this is is out.

http://www.wildstar-online.com/en/news/2015-09-23-wildstar-free-to-play-midnight-launch-party/

MMO Community

Random Trivia: This week I learned that Tim Russ, aka Tuvok from Star Trek: Voyager and a voice actor in the Secret World, was also one of the troopers in SpaceBalls, “picking” the desert.

New Drinking Game: Whenever we mention Wildstar Radio

ThaydU.enjin.com

If I Were A Dev

What level of control would you give addon content creators?

JOE: Expose interface for complete modification. Do not allow the casting of any combat abilities, except by click-per-event macros (with GCD limitation). Allow for converting to mouseover targeting

DREW: Hard-core PvP game, so obviously they would be able to edit the game client. It will be a code-to-win game...

Seriously, though, macros and keybinding should be highly customizable to begin with, but addons should have full control over the interface and targeting information.

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This week’s end music is Our Perception of Beauty by Jeff Kurtenacker from Wildstar

MMO News

Runescape’s Evil Twin: Darkscape (completely F2P) – From a Press Release

http://www.biogamergirl.com/2015/09/darkscape-launches-for-pc-with-fresh.html

CCR will finally be a little positive about ArcheAge.

http://news.mmosite.com/content/2015-09-16/archeage_gets_much_needed_server_merges_and_land_reset.shtml

TSW stealing Wildstar’s ideas now

Marvel Heroes’ Limbo event is up until Oct. 2nd

https://forums.marvelheroes.com/discussion/236652/marvel-heroes-2015-1-72-patch-notes#latest
Screenshot from Drew

Bad News for Korean MMOs ASTA, Devilian, Kritika, possibly TERA!! NO word on NA, EU, or other regions.

Contracts in Chronicles of Elyria

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/1308/feature/10148/Contracts-and-PlayerCreated-Professions.html/page/1

Speaking of WildStar – F2P by the time this is is out.

http://www.wildstar-online.com/en/news/2015-09-23-wildstar-free-to-play-midnight-launch-party/

MMO Community

Random Trivia: This week I learned that Tim Russ, aka Tuvok from Star Trek: Voyager and a voice actor in the Secret World, was also one of the troopers in SpaceBalls, “picking” the desert.

New Drinking Game: Whenever we mention Wildstar Radio

ThaydU.enjin.com

If I Were A Dev

What level of control would you give addon content creators?

JOE: Expose interface for complete modification. Do not allow the casting of any combat abilities, except by click-per-event macros (with GCD limitation). Allow for converting to mouseover targeting

DREW: Hard-core PvP game, so obviously they would be able to edit the game client. It will be a code-to-win game...

Seriously, though, macros and keybinding should be highly customizable to begin with, but addons should have full control over the interface and targeting information.

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This week’s end music is Our Perception of Beauty by Jeff Kurtenacker from Wildstar

Previous Episode

Episode 20b: The dumb is spreading

This week we talk about Crowfall’s Preorder Collector’s Edition, Wildstar’s plethora of events, Marvel Heroes’ unique branding strategy, and more! Welcome to Casual Core Radio, where we talk about MMOs and where if this were LOTRO, we would be getting the Undying title for not dying before reaching 20...

MMO News

Marvel Heroes and the magic of numbers:
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/252690/How_Marvel_Heroes_packaged_its_Phoenixstyle_rebirth.php

ArcheAge 2.0 – Launched, with a bit of drama
http://news.mmosite.com/content/2015-09-13/archeage_heroes_awaken_update_2.0_has_been_launched.shtml
http://www.mmobomb.com/news/glyph-authentication-issues-trigger-archeage-server-rollback/

Crowfall – Pre-Orders SOON
http://news.mmosite.com/content/2015-09-11/croefall_collectors_edition_will_start_pre_order_within_a_week.shtml
https://youtu.be/VsWcAjQ2pow

Arawulf Crowfall alpha
https://youtu.be/8nNKuO1S7Z4

Blade and Soul Beta Dates –
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/pc-mmo-blade-and-soul-closed-beta-dates-revealed/1100-6430415/

Wildstar – ALL the events!
http://www.wildstar-online.com/en/news/2015-09-10-in-game-events-preview/ (zPrix, Shades eve, Winterfest, double XP weekend, and more! )

http://wildstarradio.com/2013/03/29/episode-6-super-secret-guest-arrives/

WildBall
https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/131253-wildball-the-wildstar-soccer-mini-game/

MMO Community

Joe – shoutouts to The Stillriver Tea House, The Villa, and Fringe Rangers Vigil

CipherMandy

Special Topic: Best and Worst

What is your favorite MMO you’ve ever played (i.e. the “best” in your eyes)?

JOE: WildStar, this time around.

DREW:

https://twitter.com/The_Katbot/status/643154474182119425 as a joke

Guild Wars 2

What is the worst MMO you’ve ever played?

DREW:

Archeage

JOE:

Scarlet Blade.

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This week’s end music is The Midtown Manhattan Theme from Marvel Heroes

Next Episode

Episode 22: This time, it’s the Drop BUNNIES!

This week we talk about more Wildstar F2P awesomeness, SWTOR’s KOTFE awesomeness, and other acronyms and their awesomeness. Welcome to CCR, where we talk about MMOs and where we watch Queuetimes while experiencing queue times...

MMO News

Wildstar Free-to-Play Extravaganza!!!!

http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/10/02/carbine-issues-update-on-wildstar-server-issues-following-free-to-play-launch

New Servers opened, will be merged back in (Again, we are prescient)

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/enormous-demand-for-wildstars-f2p-version-forces-s/1100-6431114/

Rumors of a Console Version? If so, again with the prescience. Oh, and take a drink.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/ps4xbox-one-version-of-pc-mmo-wildstar-seems-to-ma/1100-6431113/

SWTOR News: Big Changes to Little Mechanics

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/367/view/news/read/36576/Star-Wars-The-Old-Republic-Significant-Changes-Coming-to-Several-Systems-in-KotFE.html

http://dulfy.net/2015/09/30/swtor-knights-of-fallen-empire-livestream-coverage/

Nexu mouse droid videohttps://youtu.be/YdcJIbgCAWk

A Look at TESO’s Siege System

http://news.mmosite.com/content/2015-10-05/why_elder_scrolls_onlines_sieging_is_awesome.shtml

ARK Expands to two new Biomes

http://news.mmosite.com/content/2015-09-28/ark_survival_evolved_expands_with_new_snow_and_swamp_biomes.shtml

MMO Community

The irony of watching Queue Times while spending time in queue... not lost. (DREW’S NOTE: Not irony, coincidence...it would be irony if you didn’t have queue times while you watched Queuetimes)