World Of Darkness: внутренний тест демо-версии подошел к концу

Внутреннее тестирование демо-версии World Of Darkness подошло к концу, о чем можно прочитать в Twitter''е главного продюсера проекта Chris McDonough, где он опубликовал массу сообщений о команде тестеров и о том, чем они занимались последние две недели, а также об их роли в разработке новой MMORPG от CCP. В перечне тестированных элементов числятся модели, анимация всевозможных движений и бафов, сетевая часть, управление и таргетинг, а также многое другое.

Полный список участников и их роли в тестировании  

• Vestiphobia (Character Art) Put together new female fashion ref for female reference model Dressed base model in prep

• Vestiphobia (Character Art) Added rough shaders to highlight selected character Worked on new high poly male model

• Agoraphobia (District Art/Level Design) New Material Editor for Shaders on Objects Identified architectural styles for kits

• Agoraphobia (District Art/Level Design) Prototype block out tool for making buildings that automate crafting to art kit metrics

• Agoraphobia (District Art/LD) Began a simulated neighborhood that contains all elements of locations and gameplay

• Agoraphobia (District Art/LD) Updated history of district to match story timelines Review old assets and gathered for districts

• Agoraphobia (District Art/Level Design) Defined all elements of districts (gameplay types, locations likes stores, Elysiums etc>)

• Gibbet (Economy) Working on ability to acquire new discipline aspects improvements in game for testing improv appear on char sheet

• Gibbet (Economy) Developing NPC workflows and documents Working on District fiction

• Hyperpole (Punch and Stagger) Seeing characters knocked off ladders and "knockbacked" off of rooftops

• Hyperpole (Punch and Stagger) Network Improvements Fixed mantling on objects to only happen on 50% approach

• Hyperpole (Punch and Stagger) Attacks now made interrubtible "Tyrant''s Gaze" Discipline Willpower Attack

• Hyperpole (Punch and Stagger) Combat improv oriented towards int CCP test in June Attack Chains, ending power attacks with knockback

• Team MDK (Camera and Selection) Target cycling options,New Keymapping options Seeing some basic celerity powers

• Team MDK (Camera and Selection) testing control modes for enemy select Improv targeting "stickiness" huh? Porn Music Playing? WTF

• Team MDK (Camera and Selection) Testing out new camera systems, added camera delays to fast motion to prevent jitter

• Acme (Animation) Testing different combat anim styles Seeing knock back and stagger anims, jumping across roofs, climbing up walls

• Acme (Animation) New Character Model and Rig in Game Animation samples for discipline powers

• Plaid (Pandora) Showing Aura''s and active buffs in combat

• Plaid (Pandora) Pandora work on "Volumes in Game" Allow for area effects (AOE) disciplines spheres, cones, cylinders

• Big Iron (Network) Single sign on to use EVE acc to log in to WoD, now on our int WoD web "One Step Towards World Domination"

• Big Iron (Multicity/Network) Early Work on Multicity char transfer

• Big Iron (Multicity/Network) Early aperture work to determine visibility of Avatars (Obfuscate)

• Big Iron (Multicity/Network) swarm node work-Entity Services To move things like AI to sep. server to reduce load on primary servers

• Khann content browser work in Jessica (our internal design tool) to help edit worlds and organize thousands of assets

• Khann (Enlighten, Content Browser and Blockout Tool) Enlighten lighting middleware additional improvements

• Khann(Enlighten,Content Browser, Blockout Tool) Early work on new blockout tool for level design to create quickly modifiable worlds

• Team Crash and Burn (Server and Builds) Logmonitor internal wiki documentation, Graphs of test results, Network Data for Bottlenecks

• Team Crash N Burn (Server and Builds)Test Analysis for Network Services, Network Logging Services (all very exciting for the nerds)