Ruins & Cenotes – Tropical Area POI & Panorama information – Profane MMORPG

At the moment’s subject shall be over ruins, world exploration, and what you’ll be able to count on to stumble upon whereas trying to find adventures in Semisus.

Ruins

The ideas you see signify one of many methods by which you will unravel the mysteries of Profane’s world whereas additionally discovering new Elemental Expertise that add to your assortment/arsenal.

When getting into our universe, know this: ruins are there as a result of there’s a story being instructed and historical past behind the locations you will see. They’re scattered all through the world, and, little by little, we wish gamers to place collectively all of the items of this story (or ought to we are saying puzzle? 🤔). Regardless, that is undoubtedly going to take a while. Some inhabitants of Semisus imagine these ruins was once the home of gods, however there’s additionally phrase that goes round that they’re remnants of the previous magical kingdoms of Torel. Nobody is sort of positive anymore since they have been round for therefore lengthy now. The inscriptions on their partitions can have so many various interpretations, too. Nonetheless, they will all agree that these sorts of ruins have an eerie and magical ambiance. I assume gamers will simply should go and see for themselves, huh 🤷‍♂️?

Now to what you’ll be able to count on, gameplay-wise: ruins will be simply a part of the state of affairs, however typically they are often Factors of Curiosity that maintain thrilling mysteries and rewards, like hidden Elemental Expertise, Artifacts, and even beings that used that place for his or her objective. We are saying “typically” as a result of encounters like this may not be round on a regular basis and can change/transfer as soon as found. We wish every participant to have a unique (or a minimum of barely totally different) expertise when discovering mysteries like Elemental Expertise on the planet. It isn’t enjoyable when somebody discovers one thing like this and simply shares the step-by-step on how you can get entry to the identical talent. We try to keep away from this as a lot as we are able to.

Being Factors of Curiosity, they will turn into settlements for various NPC Factions. This may affect what occurs to them, additionally altering the problem you can find there. If it is a pleasant faction, and you might be additionally the pleasant sort, maybe they may allow you to in on their secrets and techniques and share what they’ve discovered of the place? If it is a hostile one, you might need to struggle your strategy to journey additional into its chambers. Or perhaps there’s only a large monster residing there, and who is aware of what else you may discover? Some may even solely be accessed by particular, hard-to-find keystones.

We wish to preserve these prospects flowing so you’ll be able to have a number of totally different tales to inform from all the assorted ruins you go to.

Ruins will signify the head of fantasy within the recreation. We wish them to be intriguing and mysterious and would additionally prefer to see some labyrinth-like gameplay with transferring partitions or altering constructions, which we already examined in pre-alpha and labored nice. In fact, a number of the issues mentioned are nonetheless topic to vary, however simply to provide you an concept of what we count on for ruins within the recreation.

Are you excited as we’re?

Cenotes

These are ideas of “cenotes,” or a pure pit/sinkhole ensuing from the collapse of limestone bedrock that exposes groundwater (we googled that so that you would not should). One among our Idea Artists, Shal, is the writer of the gorgeous artwork you see right here.

Cenotes are a comparatively frequent formation in islands and coastal areas and have served as wonderful inspiration for our work. Shal additionally used underwater caves as a reference to think about the rock design, vegetation, and even to seek out the right spot for that water to painting this sense of a magical, paradisiac place.

When selecting how you can depict these components within the idea, he isn’t solely imagining what the place may appear like. He’s additionally establishing a sort of dialogue with our engineering crew, virtually as if asking: can we create geography like this with the instruments now we have? If not, how can we get near this? And that goes for all that you just see: rocks, water, vegetation, and even the scene’s lighting. It is a essential step through the pre-production of a recreation.

His largest problem was discovering a strategy to match all these components within the image: how the vegetation works its method across the rocks, how the stones react to the water and the way they synergize with the terrain, what sort of lighting works finest for this geographical formation, and so forth. Nonetheless, he definitely nailed it when tying all of this collectively to make the scene plausible.

One other curiosity about that is that this work, specifically, was an enormous step in growth for him as an expert, as he used a collage method to attain these outcomes. The strategy additionally helps velocity up the method by making it simpler to rapidly strive many various concepts on one of the best ways to method the image.

So, how do you want cenotes? Are you excited to discover them in Semisus?