#Funcom Forums

[tswdb]

Happy Secret World Legends Anniversary, sweetlings! The beautiful buzzing bees of the community have many player-run events planned throughout the duration of the Secret World Legends Anniversary Event. Spread your wings and see!

An in-depth calendar of events is available on both the official Secret World Legends Funcom Forums and TSWDB!

[lurking-revenant]

The devs have shared this thread at the Funcom forums, giving an insight into the design process behind the look and feel of the new Dark Agartha areas. Contains potential spoilers so click at your own risk.

A link to a recording of the stream has also been included, so you can catch up if you missed that.

[thessalian]

Thess vs Secret World: Legends

I’m just going to say it - I miss The Secret World.

No, Secret World: Legends is not the same. And even if it was, I can’t play it. I can’t play it because Funcom cares more about “dynamic gameplay” than it does about disabled players.

Look, I haven’t even been able to play SW:L. Not that I didn’t try. I was in the closed beta, and counted myself so lucky to be in it. I love the story, I really do. I loved my characters, and sometimes I’m almost tempted to try it again, just because of how much I fucking miss that game.

And then I remember the two-week migraine I had from barely getting past the fucking tutorial.

Reticle targeting isn’t for everyone. It sure as hell isn’t for me. I can’t do it. The incessant camera movement is a recipe for migraine disaster. Add to that constantly having to shift focus around the screen for those bloody gimmick charge bars on various of the abilities and ... yeah, no, I can’t. It hurts too much. I played for a half-hour and I swear, for the next two weeks I wanted to die, the migraine was so bad.

Flagging it up in the beta forums didn’t do any good. All I got was “Well, too bad - this is how we’re doing it”. Worst part was that I wasn’t alone. It was like Funcom was joining the ranks of those dudebro assholes who bitch about easy modes with cries of ‘git gud’, when ‘gud’ isn’t the issue. 

The combat wasn’t for me, anyway. Part of the charm of that game was that levels weren’t even a thing. Nothing was level-locked, so if a friend wanted to power-level me through a bunch of quests in Shadowy Forest while I was still on the Kingsmouth storyline, we could do that. Now it doesn’t work that way. Of course, I wasn’t much on the change in opening cutscene either - I get why they did it, and I admit that having the types of mission tutorialised was probably helpful for new players, but I loved the slow build of the original and felt that the changes made it a little too frenetic for the overall tone the game seemed to have been going for. And then there’s the dungeon key thing I keep hearing about, which seems to feed way too far into the current thing about loot boxes for my liking. But I could have put up with all of it for the sake of the story, if it weren’t for the damn reticle targeting and being basically unable to play as a result.

So there it is. I miss The Secret World. I miss the game I fell in love with. I’m sure it’s got a shiny new crowd of fans and a bunch of old-school fans who are happy with the changes. I could technically go back to it any time I wanted, given it’s free and I bought the lifetime sub back in the day anyway. I could also stick red-hot knitting needles into my eyes; pain-wise, it would amount to about the same thing.

This post brought to you by the fact that a friend of mine went to GDC and got to speak to the Funcom reps, and by the fact that I really fucking miss The Secret World. No, I’m not really hyped about the new bit of story. It might be nice to play, but mostly it looked to me like copy-pasted art assets with a few tweaks to models and the kind of sabotage quest that I loved being able to skip in the old game because a) I’m bad at them and b) the character movement wasn’t exactly well-designed for jumping puzzles anyway.

[councilofvenice]

Prepare yourselves for a new hub of communication.

[malaloba]

Tips for SWL Newbees

Play with the settings! There’s lots of useful ones like autoloot, different reticules and the lock icon in the upper right corner lets you move everything around

Watch the cutscenes. Not only is the story great but sometimes there’s hints on how to proceed

If you’re of the appropriate level and have a bit of self healing, you’re set for normal dungeons

Missions you’ve never completed will have blue and white icons on the map. NPCs often get new missions as you level so check your map

9 times out of 10 /reloadui will fix your problem

Useful chat channels (type ‘/join chat [channel name]’ to join): #Sanctuary - general help and discussion, #tumblrmeetup - hang out with fellow Tumblbees, #event - discussion and coordination during events

Gear and Builds

If you get a better drop, save your old leveled gear. You won’t get any bonus for using it for empowerment and you’ll want it later for fusion

The dots on gear indicate how powerful it is. This is inherent to the gear piece and can’t be leveled. Ideally you want to focus on leveling 3 dot pieces (or 2 dots until you can get 3 dots). 2 and 3 dot pieces you won’t use might sell on the auction house for Marks of Favor

You’re meant to sell some Agarthan Caches to vendors for Anima Shards. 1 dot gear pieces and gadgets are also good to sell for shards

When you can make glyphs, give yourself at least one hit major.

Don’t put hit on your weapons. It only benefits attacks done with that weapon

Useful Links 

TSWDB: basically your source for mission solutions, dungeon guides, legend locations and more! They’re still updating info at the moment but they’re still a great resource

TSWRP: Your hub for everything roleplaying 

Crygaia: fandom wiki, has lots of great info on old pre-launch ARGs, run by @rkylo 

councilofvenice and fuckyeahtsw: the hubs for all TSW/SWL info on Tumblr. CoV is run by @gayantivan and fuckyeahtsw is run by @x-i-e Official Funcom Run Sources

Secret World Legends site

Steam Community Forums

Twitter

Reddit

Official Discord Server

[gmbencompetence]

For the past two months, all the The Secret World forums have done is complain that Funcom isn’t addressing them and that they are being ignored.

Today, they got told they are being allowed early access to the game’s launch and that they’re all, across the board, being invited into Beta.

And now you can hear a pin drop.

No thank you’s or excitements or “Hey this is exactly the kind of attention we’ve been wanting”. Everyone just stopped posting.

... man, the video game industry is something.

[gamequit-001-blog]

Conan Exiles Struggles With Unmoderated Griefing, Racism

Conan Exiles Struggles With Unmoderated Griefing, Racism

Conan Exiles officially launched last month, and was playable in early access for more than a year before that. Unfortunately, the game still contains no means of reporting other players for griefing, abuse, or racism.

It’s a common question asked on Conan Exiles’ forums, Steam discussion page, and subreddit: “how do you report a player for harassment?”A couple weeks ago, a Funcom customer…

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[entergamingxp]

Bohemia Interactive says it isn’t being acquired by Tencent, despite recent reports • Eurogamer.net

“We remain an independent studio.”

DayZ and Arma 3 developer Bohemia Interactive has moved to quash recent reports claiming that Chinese conglomerate Tencent had purchased a majority share of the studio.

News of the acquisition first surfaced in a story by tech industry website The Information, which reported that Tencent had acquired a 70-80% stake in Bohemia Interactive for around $260m USD, citing “a person familiar with the matter” as its source.

However, in a new statement released to press, a Bohemia Interactive spokesperson has refuted the website’s claims. “The information in that article is incorrect,” they said, “Tencent has not purchased a stake in Bohemia Interactive and it remains an independent studio.”

Bohemia Interactive’s CEO Marek Španěl expanded on that statement further in a message posted to the studio’s forum earlier today.

“I just wanted to let you know that the information circulated by various major media sources about Bohemia Interactive acquired by Tencent is not true,” Španěl wrote, “We were talking to numerous potential partners in the past about possible strategic cooperation and we may do so in the future as well but as of now, we remain an independent studio.”

“PS: I am just an old man working on games for more than 30 years of my life. But the valuation circulated in the media sounds tempting,” Španěl cheekily added, “Maybe I should think about my retirement plans after all now? Any better offers?”.

While Tencent may not have a current stake in Bohemia Interactive, the company continues to expand its presence within the games industry. Alongside full ownership of League of Legends developer Riot Games and Funcom, the company owns stakes in the likes of Epic Games, Ubisoft, Activision Blizzard, Frontier Developments, and Paradox Interactive.

More recently, it made a capital investment in Bayonetta and Vanquish developer Platinum Games and acquired the publishing rights to System Shock 3.

from EnterGamingXP https://entergamingxp.com/2020/06/bohemia-interactive-says-it-isnt-being-acquired-by-tencent-despite-recent-reports-%e2%80%a2-eurogamer-net/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bohemia-interactive-says-it-isnt-being-acquired-by-tencent-despite-recent-reports-%25e2%2580%25a2-eurogamer-net

[symbianosgames]

Conan Exiles hat seit kurzem einen Region-Lock für offizielle Server.

Ohne Vorwarnung hat Entwickler Funcom vor wenigen Tagen, kurz nach dem Release des neuen Mega-Updates, einen Region Lock für offizielle Conan Exiles Server eingeführt. Die plötzliche Spaltung der Community sorgt bei einigen betroffenen Spielern für Frust, da sie plötzlich aus ihrem Lieblingsserver ausgesperrt wurden.

Im Steam-Forum gab der Community-Manager Jens Erik an, man habe sich aus mehreren Gründen zur festen Einteilung der Server in »Ost« und »West« gezwungen gesehen: Die Sprachbarriere und die unterschiedlichen Spielstile hätten viele Spieler vor Probleme gestellt.

So geht's zum eigenen Server: Conan Exiles Server mieten und einrichten

Außerdem führten die großen Zeitunterschiede zwischen den Regionen laut Erik dazu, dass Offline Raiding ein unumgängliches Problem wurde: Spieler-Camps wurden geplündert, während ihre Bewohner gerade nicht eingeloggt waren.

Besonders von Spielern aus Russland, Asien und Südamerika wurde die Änderung kritisiert, für sie stehen seitdem keine offiziellen Server mehr bereit, sie müssen also auf private Server ausweichen.

Der Community-Manager versprach, dass Funcom neue Server für die betroffenen Regionen »hoffentlich schon in der kommenden Woche« bereitstellen werde.

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[tswdb]

Samhain 2024 Community RP Event - Haunted Ealdwic Ghost Tour

An exciting roleplaying event is upon us in Secret World Legends! Please note that TSWDB is not the host of this event. We simply want to spread the word, sweetlings! Join Roleplayer "Drina" (@medrina) of Happy Tentacle Radio for the "Haunted Ealdwic Ghost Tour" as she takes her guests on a tour of Ealdwic with spooky stories and local folklore all along the way through haunting roleplay and accompanying audio and music starting at the Horned God beer garden (140, 220 y 27.6 1000) in Ealdwic, London, at 09:00 PM EDT (01:00 UTC) on 26 October 2024 ! The Haunted Ealdwic Ghost Tour has been a staple of Secret World Legends' roleplaying community events ever since the ghost tour's inception by Roleplayer "Craft" in 2012! Since 2020, "Drina" has held the reins and continues to take Secret Worlders on the Haunted Ealdwic Ghost Tour as his successor.

The tour will begin with the first spooky story at the Horned God beer garden shortly after start time and will then walk around Ealdwic to each ghost story's destination. Meet Up on Drina to ensure you are in the correct instance of London! If you wish to join the tour after it has left the starting point, please whisper "Drina" to find out where the tour currently is in the playfield.

The tour will eventually loop back around to the Horned God for an afterparty of roleplay and music!

This event is a roleplaying event. Messages in /say and /emote vicinity channels will be In-Character unless otherwise specified as Out-Of-Character. Out-Of-Character messages are typically denoted with double parentheses or double brackets. The host will be regularly engaging with attendees, and stories will be told In-Character both in vicinity chat and on the air at Happy Tentacle Music with accompanying ambience! Roleplaying is not necessary to enjoy the stories so long as you are respectful to others.

Audio for this event will be found at Happy Tentacle Radio:

An announcement on the Funcom Forums for this event can be found here:

We will be attending and taking screenshots aplenty, sweetlings!

[lurking-revenant]

“We’ve heard your cries! We’ve heard your pleas! These are the official Funcom Forums. We’re hoping to create a single source of information by which we can communicate with ALL of our friends and fans no matter their particular game of interest. We will be rolling out support for each of our games over time to allow for some growing pains. We appreciate your patience!”

Just a quick heads-up that the new forums are live. You can register here: [x]

[tswdb]

Valentine's Day 2025 Event Extension

On 13 February 2025, the Valentine's Day 2025 and Rosenbrawl Open Week event have been extended by an additional day! It began on 05 February 2025 at 12:00:00 PM EST (17:00:00 UTC) and will now end on 21 February 2025 at 09:00:00 AM EST (14:00:00 UTC)! You have more time to cherish and find that SOULMATE!

The extension was initially announced on the Valentine's Day 2025 - Rosenbrawl Open Week thread on the Secret World Legends Funcom Forum!

[malaloba]

New official SWL discussion places

So the old Secret World forums are TSW only. The new official (as in created and run by Funcom) SWL discussion places are r/SecretWorldLegends Steam Community Discussion Discord The the official Twitter, Twitch channel and Facebook are all still the same

[savetopnow]

2018-03-07 19 GAME now

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