Chapter 353: Chapter 353

Official Road to Purgatory-Beta Forum

Allow me to introduce myself before explaining what I would like to accomplish, hopefully with everyone’s help. I’ve been playing since the second wave, starting as an High-elven Guild-Mage and am currently at level 57. My primary interest in-game is to gather information and curate knowledge, essentially being a librarian, if you will. Not for the advantage it can give me or for power I can gain but simply to have the information and share it. Now, what do I want to accomplish and why? Let’s get into the why first.

Part of the reason Pantheon set up the Beta the way they did was, at least in my opinion, to spread awareness and information about the game, making everyone of us into an ongoing advertisement. In the beginning that seemed to work, many people played with their streams public, the highlight-reels pushed interesting events into the limelight and recently, they outright had advertisements made directly by players. But if you look now, the highlight-reels mostly stopped, the ranking-board is a list of “unknown” entries, made private by the players and while there are videos directly uploaded, it’s obvious that the videos are carefully selected and edited to only shown and share what the players want them to. I can understand their desire to keep their capabilities hidden, hoarding information for their own use.

Now, for the question what I would like to accomplish and why I made this thread and similar ones in the future. I want to create what I’d like to call Profiles of Power, to gather information on all those high-level players, the powerful and famous. You know, those people who don’t want their capabilities to be known, so I’ll need everyone's help, to scour various videos and recordings, trying to figure out what the skills and effects mean, what we are seeing. It won’t be truly accurate but I think that if we combine our knowledge and information, we can figure out what they do, how they do it and what their powers are. With those profiles out there, they might be more willing to create videos and share information. Wishful thinking, I know, but hey, even if they don’t share, we might be able to create something good.

Part of me wants to use my own profile as the first one, simply to show what I mean and serve as a good example but there is just one problem: It would be pure hubris to include myself as a power-player, I have neither the time nor the inclination to reach those heights. Luckily, Tobiuno, Guild-Leader of the Blades of the Realm, has decided to share and supply the first profile to this effort. Let’s get to it.

Current Title: Knight-Protector of Highever Castle

Current Class: Knight

Sword Mastery [Arming Sword] - 68

Mounted Combat [Horse, Melee] - 42

Armour Mastery [Chainmail, Medium] - 59

Command [Squadron] - 34

Command [Warband] - 23

Crossbow Mastery - 29

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Leadership Abilities:

That’s what he shared about his profile and I think it’s quite interesting. It makes the strengths and fighting-style obvious, a classic sword&board fighter, commanding troops and leading them in battle, either from mount-back or on foot. Not quite what we think of the knight in shining armour, that would mean wearing plate-armour, but I think Plate-armour would make effective cavalry-work difficult.

Anyway, I’ll open a few more posts about interesting characters and we can get to work, sleuthing out their abilities and adding them to the profiles.

As you see, I offered my profile to make the first step, agreeing with Kelgarn, the beta shouldn’t be focused on gaining as much of an advantage as we can grasp, instead we all should try to present Mundus and Road to Purgatory as the awesome world it is, so that it can reach its full potential. At the end of the day, Road to Purgatory is an experiment, a completely new type of game and the established industry-interests won’t quietly go into the night, even now there are voices calling for investigations into Road to Purgatory’s safety, rehashing old arguments about video-games causing violence and all that jazz.

If sharing what my Avatar can do raises awareness, I’m happy to do so, even to explain what the various skills do, hopefully motivating others to share as well. To add a little extra, my character-concepts is build around a simple idea: Use Stamina and relatively simple attacks for offence, use magic for defense and support of my allies. I had to pick and choose from a few active abilities when I gained my class and that was the idea behind my choices.

I think there is much to see in Mundus that others haven’t shared, for a variety of reasons. With that in mind, I’ll share two videos of dungeons I have been allowed to use to rapidly gained levels, they are under the control of my liege, the Duke of Highever. Look forward to those videos.

I love the idea and am quite hyped to read the profile. Cheers to Tobiuno for sharing, after all, sharing is caring.

Not sure if others will follow suit but I sure hope so.

We’ll have to see if that gains traction but I’d be up to collect the tidbits the various power-players have let slip, either inadvertently or out-right. It might give us an idea what the things we are seeing actually are, instead of hoping that we can pull through with luck, skill and guts.

Personally, I’m quite interested in the command-skills and how those work. I mean, buffing up a squadron, so up to five people, for five seconds is one thing, doing the same with a friggin’ army, however many that are, is a whole different ball-game. I’d assume that the abilities scale depending on the different command-skills, adding a bit of balance but I sure hope that there is another limiting-factor. Otherwise, those skills sound scary as all hell. Or even more scary than they sound anyway.

Happy to lend my magical expertise, such as it is, to the task. Let the combined power of the Internet pierce the veil of silence. Or something like that. .

On one hand, I would love to know what the various high-profile player are up to, what they actually can do and I’d love it even more if this project would make them share more.

On the other hand, if I were one of them, not just a level seventy orc-grunt, I would be massively pissed if people were to try to make my information public, especially if there are people gunning for me. And, let’s be honest, in some way or another someone is gunning for each and every one of them.

It can be openly, such as the challengers trying to climb the arena, hoping to kick Clavran around, it can be in an almost religious fervor, right Howardlight, or in whatever sneaky shenanigans Whisper is caught up in.

Anyway, I’ll watch with bated breath, hoping to be pleasantly surprised.