Oriental Town

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X wrote on 2015-06-21 03:03

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[10:15:40 PM] Kapra: shortly after G12, either at the end of C3's reign or at the start of C4
[10:15:46 PM] Kapra: they were making a new oriental themed town
[10:15:52 PM] Kapra: that later got scrapped
[10:16:06 PM] Kapra: and some of its assets are used in doki doki island today[/CODE]

It was originally slated to be near Ciar dungeon, on its own map, presumably populated with NPCs.

DevCAT is not one to remove anything, even half completed features, and the Oriental Town is still in the client today:

[Image: http://puu.sh/iwI3Q/7c42af56db.png]

Because a video is worth a thousand images, here's a more extensive demo:
[video=youtube;bCPFAuHzqPo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCPFAuHzqPo[/video]

If you're interested in exploring it yourself, grab a copy of Aura (use the frontend if you don't want to mess with it yourself) and either use the warp command or use the portal they made to open the town.
Twin wrote on 2015-06-21 03:32

[S]This is where the player becomes a Samurai![/S]

I don't know. Cool tho
Kapra wrote on 2015-06-21 03:59

Wish they reused this area when the ninja update came out, and have you like, do a short one floor run of Ciar dungeon, and at the end of Ciar dungeon reach this town.
X wrote on 2015-06-21 04:05

Since when has devCAT done anything as thought out as that??
Zeo wrote on 2015-06-21 04:20

Quote from Kapra;1279392:
Wish they reused this area when the ninja update came out, and have you like, do a short one floor run of Ciar dungeon, and at the end of Ciar dungeon reach this town.

I wish DevCat would have thought of that, we haven't gotten any new places to freely explore around since Beach of Scathach.

I think most of are waiting for them to open up Tory Ravine (even if it's only a small part), Tir Na Nog being expanded, and more free to explore around in Nemeton without requiring Saga 2 in order to be able to go.
Darkboy132 wrote on 2015-06-21 04:26

Quote from Zeo;1279396:
I wish DevCat would have thought of that, we haven't gotten any new places to freely explore around since Beach of Scathach.

I think most of are waiting for them to open up Tory Ravine (even if it's only a small part), Tir Na Nog being expanded, and more free to explore around in Nemeton without requiring Saga 2 in order to be able to go.

That ninja storyline is damn short and is mostly just being mentored left and right. Fighter and Puppeteer covered a lot more ground.

Doesn't Tory Ravine cover about one half of all of Belvast? I would like Tir Na Nog being expanded at least, it is used in G16 after all by Shakespeare.

Nemeton seems blah and largely unexplained (it's not mentioned whether or not its related to Pincara, where the Cessair got banished to).
Kaeporo wrote on 2015-06-21 04:31

Could you warp here with an imp or while mounted on a pet?
X wrote on 2015-06-21 04:34

Quote from Kaeporo;1279400:
Could you warp here with an imp or while mounted on a pet?

NA has no way to access this area, unless you managed to sweet talk a GM into taking you there or uncovered an exploit like the ones that let players reach Neko/GM Island awhile back.

But IF you got there, yes, you should be able to warp back with an imp. However, imps are non exploitable, so you have to get there some other way.
Kapra wrote on 2015-06-21 04:44

Quote from Zeo;1279396:
I think most of are waiting for them to open up Tory Ravine (even if it's only a small part), Tir Na Nog being expanded, and more free to explore around in Nemeton without requiring Saga 2 in order to be able to go.

If by Tir Na Nog you mean "another world" (which was explained to not be Tir Na Nog at the end of G3), then no, I would not want Tir Na Nog expanded and I haven't been hearing people clamoring for it to be. If anything, I'd rather have an offscreen explanation of what happened there, unless you intend to complicate the plot with time travel.

As for Tory Ravine, i don't want it to be released without a lot of storyline prep. Tory Ravine in particular is very important, being named after Tory Island, the home of the now dead god Balor. It is supposedly heavily involved in Belvast Island's storyline. Belvast Island was originally inhabited by fomors and human pirates, until Admiral Owen's hot air balloon raid. Shortly before the start of G15, a non-human corpse washed ashore, after some hooded figure told that it would to a child and nobody believed him, and then Admiral Owen ordered immediate evacuation of Tory Ravine with no explanation to its citizens.

I'd rather wait another 3 years for them to release Tory Ravine than rush it with a halfass explanation like they did with the Soul of Tuan, just so we have a new place. If we want a new place, there are other routes they could take.

C2 content and items still reference an oriental continent-nation to the east of Iria (unclear whether this Oriental Town had anything to do with that, as this was conceptualized around C3~4). I'd like to hear more about that. And doubtful it's referring to Nekojima since Nekojima was made by JP in G9(?) and the dialogue was made by KR in G4~8.
Zeo wrote on 2015-06-21 05:00

Quote from Kapra;1279402:
If by Tir Na Nog you mean "another world" (which was explained to not be Tir Na Nog at the end of G3), then no, I would not want Tir Na Nog expanded and I haven't been hearing people clamoring for it to be. If anything, I'd rather have an offscreen explanation of what happened there, unless you intend to complicate the plot with time travel.

Some users on Nexon forums would like to see the Tir and Bangor one in " another world" be connected to the Dunbarton version and that you can travel between three areas as you please. Some of them even want to see Baol as a dungeon you can run without needing G3. As for me... I really want to see "another world" get expanded in more areas and maybe with bit of stuffs you can actually do in order to not make it too dead.

As for Tory Ravine, i don't want it to be released without a lot of storyline prep. Tory Ravine in particular is very important, being named after Tory Island, the home of the now dead god Balor. It is supposedly heavily involved in Belvast Island's storyline. Belvast Island was originally inhabited by fomors and human pirates, until Admiral Owen's hot air balloon raid. Shortly before the start of G15, a non-human corpse washed ashore, after some hooded figure told that it would to a child and nobody believed him, and then Admiral Owen ordered immediate evacuation of Tory Ravine with no explanation to its citizens.

I'd rather wait another 3 years for them to release Tory Ravine than rush it with a halfass explanation like they did with the Soul of Tuan, just so we have a new place. If we want a new place, there are other routes they could take.

That's understandable, but like Someone pointed it out... Tory Ravine is huge, so I won't be surprised if they released a part of Tory Ravine for once in a while.

C2 content and items still reference an oriental continent-nation to the east of Iria (unclear whether this Oriental Town had anything to do with that, as this was conceptualized around C3~4). I'd like to hear more about that. And doubtful it's referring to Nekojima since Nekojima was made by JP in G9(?) and the dialogue was made by KR in G4~8.

Yeah... Now that ninja is out in KR... I think we can expect a fourth (or third, if you don't count Belvast as a continent) continent that is related with oriental stuffs, hopefully soon.
SozenCratosFocker wrote on 2015-06-21 13:53

I'd love to see TNN expanded. I'd also like to see Another World expanded with some field monsters added. I get that that place is supposed to be abandoned, but it should still feel as openworld as the other maps in the same game. Right now, another world's version of the map north of Bagor feels as pointless as that empty walkway between the first and second towns in Vindictus.

Unfortunately, Devcat seems to love leaving stuff less than half finished...
Tetosan wrote on 2015-06-21 15:16

Quote from Darkboy132;1279397:

Nemeton seems blah and largely unexplained (it's not mentioned whether or not its related to Pincara, where the Cessair got banished to).

IDK as far as i understood Saga S2 one is the name of a town/Building and the other the name of a Land or Dimension.
Citrusjuice wrote on 2015-06-21 16:19

Quote from Xcelled194;1279401:
an exploit like the ones that let players reach Neko/GM Island awhile back.

sounds like a lovely story, please do tell more.