Introduction

Hi there! My name is Max and I am currently an Alpha tester in EQN Landmark. With the lift of the NDA I’ve decided to start blogging about my alpha experience. I’ll be touching on this and that throughout the game. I may even touch upon some things that have been mentioned in the forums or refer to something that’s being worked on right now. This is just a log of what I’ve encountered in my experience of the Alpha testing.

Before we get started on my current adventures of alpha, let me tell you a little about myself. I promise I’ll keep it short. As you may have guessed I am an avid gamer. I’ve played a number of games from Doom to WoW. My first mmorpg was EQ1 so I have a love for all worlds of EQ. I currently play EQ2 and GW2. On occasion I’ll drop into FFXIV. I have played EQ1, EQ2, WoW, GW2, FFXIV, Warhammer, Rift, City of Heros/Villians, SWTOR, SWG and probably more I can’t remember!

I am also a Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Fiction writer and I will probably post some of my work from my writing blog later. In EQ2 I mainly decorate right now and I love to write stories about what I built or build things from my stories. So you will definitely see some of my work here.

 

I am also a roleplayer in both EQ2 and GW2. I’ve got a lot of friends from both worlds who are interested in seeing what Landmark is all about but don’t have keys, which is a reason why I started this blog. You’ll definitely see some designs that sparked from various roleplay sessions. I’ve also played a few tabletops from time to time.

 

I graduated Oakland University about two years ago with a BA in English. You might see some designs from some classic novels. I love reading and I love seeing those novels come to life. I just finished reading the Game of Thrones novels and am excitedly waiting for the next to emerge. Currently I’, reading Insurgent and can’t put it down.

 

Let’s see what else…I am very happily married for…nine, yes, going on nine years now. We have two adorable cats who just love to lay on the keyboard during gaming time. My spouse and I both play video games. We don’t always play together or play with one another, but we have lots of fun when we do. We even first met in EQ1! But that’s a story for another time.

Well I think that’s about it so let’s talk about Landmark Alpha for a few minutes. So far I have found Landmark to be pretty cool. There’s not much to the game right now since this is Alpha and there are tons and tons of bugs, but as I said…this is Alpha and I don’t expect the game to be perfect because let’s face it, no game is ever perfect.

Right now the game is pretty much just gathering and building on your claim. There’ve been a lot of bugs with claims and people have lost a lot of them. I got my claim not long after the Alpha servers went online. It’s a very nice mountain top view. I had built a cute little stone hut on the top, but then I lost it. Oh well, guess I have to rebuild! I’ve been lucky enough that I have not lost my claim yet. My spouse however lost his and it took him awhile to find another.

 

I haven’t done too much in the game yet. I just made my crafting tables and the Tier 2 pick and the selection tool. I’ve used all the tools except for selection, but the first thing I did after getting my claim…was dig.

 

Digging holes is the most awesome and entertaining part of Alpha right now! The first night someone dug a hole right under the spawn point in a zone. That was both hilarious and annoying. I’m glad they fixed that.

 

You can dig pretty far down. In fact I dug for an hour and there was still more I could dig. For Alpha you don’t have to dig yourself back out. Hit Esc and there’s a Reset to Ground button. Hit that and poof! You’re back on top of the ground and not being buried alive when the land heals. Harvesting trees isn’t as fun. I find it rather boring, but I need the materials to build things!

The worst thing about harvesting right now is having to hold your finger down on the mouse button to keep harvesting/digging or you can click over and over again. There’ve been a lot of complaints about this on the forums and it’s gonna be turned into a toggle option I believe. That’ll make it a lot easier and maybe then harvesting trees won’t be so boring!

I think that’s all I’ve got right now. I’ll post some screenshots and go over the different types of nodes and such later. If you wanna hit me up in game my name is Ryder. My plot is in Inlet on Courage server. Feel free to come by and give me a /wave! I’ll start up a chat channel once I can get in the game if anyone wants to chat. I’m also on facebook(Maximus Ryder) and twitter(MaxGreyflame).

Well, see you next time!