TheZeppoMarx
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Bem, para quem viu o filme e ficou com algumas dúvidas, aqui ficam alguns esclarecimentos, em forma de QoTW: Trailer Tidbits
Hi everyone!
We apologize for the short delay in QOTW (these things happen sometimes) and thank you all for your patience. This week we're going to take a look at some of the comments about our new trailer and take a look behind the scenes.
Our GDC 2009 trailer was a great success in boosting the excitement of our fans (join our fans here), as well as an opportunity for us to show you all a glimpse of Earthrise outside the static screenshots to let you all know it plays as good as it looks, too! But along with the excitement came a foray of new questions about the game world that was presented throughout the trailer, and we'll do our best to answer them here.
What does the trailer show? The locations presented in the game trailers start with the ominous Old Town, an artifact city reminiscent of an old and lost age that is now a nesting ground for the worst of mutantkind. The mutants of Old Town have entered a state of symbiosis that unite them against a common enemy - the humans. It is one of the last locations that we currently expect a player to visit as he discovers the island of Enterra along with the storyline. While we believe this area is expected to be quite challenging, you'll be pleased to know the mutants on the trailer can actually be considered some of the more tame ones. As you watched the video, you then moved onward to the expansive woodland that connects the wild regions swarming with mutants and the human territories. This area is called The Borderlands. Finally, we ended up at the Boneyard, a lifeless scorched desert that has become a graveyard of massive herd of mutants serving as a silent warming to those who venture inside.
The final scene of the awakening human (presumably, a player character like you will be when the game launches!) also raised a couple questions from our viewers. Some of you wondered, "When new clones wake up after dying, will there be any loss of skills or reduced stats?" No, clones do not lose any physical capabilities or skills as they get reborn. Cloned individuals are fully capable to remember their knowledge and memories via the direct imprint of their past experience; that way they can seek vengeance upon those who have temporarily disposed of them. And some of you asked how do "clones" come out of the cloning center if they are being cloned on a highly-positioned platform... well, what we didn't show was the complex procedure of moving the cloning capsule through various servo-motor driven platforms, but would you really stay another twenty seconds to see that?
We all hope you have enjoyed the trailer as much as we have enjoyed crafting every frame of it, and we can both look forward to expanding our beta efforts in the near future. (You did register for beta, didn't you?)
Please feel free to discuss below. Have a great week!
~ m.