The Chronicles of Spellborn has a new site live that is actually good. It may not be the best of all things, but it has what I want: gameplay information at the top. The game has an odd take on hotkey bars: you get one bar at a time that rotates with each attack. What especially interests me is that they have learned from City of Heroes:
Dress to Impress — What it really means.
- Right at character creation, you can choose from a large variety of clothing and armour, i.e. there is no “newbie clothingâ€. In other words, “you can look cool right from the startâ€
- Pick a ranged and a melee weapon from a vast assortment. Your attacks are based on Skills (like “Slashâ€). Such Skills can be executed with any melee weapon, be it a long-sword, double axe or dagger. That means, you can freely pick any weapon that looks cool on your avatar. When a Skill is executed, the avatar will automatically equip the designated weapon. E.g. when you use “shoot†the avatar will switch to his range weapon. With the weapon choice, you also determine your visual fighting style (one-handed, one-handed-with-shield, two-hander).
- You can wear the weapons and armours in any situation you want, because you can upgrade and customise them. You do not need to switch to uglier equipment because it is “betterâ€. It means that even the short dagger from character creation can become your personal “epic†weapon if you upgrade it with powerful sigils.
: Zubon
Interesting. Hopefully they’ll also remember the “don’t send players to kill rats” lesson and cure for “talking to exclamation mark” syndrome.
That sounds badass! I am excited to see where this goes.