Official Road to Purgatory-Beta Forum

-Merig, confirmed Beta-Account-

Weather, go home…

… You are drunk.

Guys, I need to ask, do you think there is a bug in the Road to Purgatory-weather engine or did the weather just get strangely drunk?

I mean, it’s late summer, early fall, a balmy twenty degrees celsius and suddenly, BAM, we get a friggin’ blizzard? Lasting just about a minute before the cold vanishes, leaving a thin coating of snow and hail to melt away in the warmth. No warning, no clouds, just suddenly, snow. And hail. And wind, and friggin cold. Not cool, seriously cold.

Seriously, just what the heck happened to me and my party?

Kelgarn, confirmed Beta-Account

You know, I’ve heard jokes about snow during summertime, but on Mundus, it might just be aftershocks. We’ve seen some incredibly powerful native spellcasters already (makes me wonder about balance, in the long-run) and their actions can cause adverse side-effects far from their actual location. So, care to explain, or maybe even show, what happened?

Vynoiss, confirmed Beta-Account

Sounds… Big?

But regarding the actual (likely rhetorical) question, no, I never noticed any bugs in the weather-engine, in fact, I never really noticed any bugs, the game runs incredibly stable for a project of that complexity. Might have to do with the capsules, I can’t even fathom how much work went into those. It certainly doesn’t feel like a beta, using an entirely new operating-system running on cutting edge hardware.

Merig, confirmed Beta-Account

Well, I can upload the video, Kelgarn. But at the end of the day, nothing really happened. My (native) buddies and I were in the forest, near Neamov, our current base, hunting wolves when suddenly, we were surrounded by cold wind, with snow and hail raining down on us. After a minute or five of that, the weather calmed back down, quickly getting warm again, the snow starting to thaw. We started to run and we had to move for over a kilometer before we got out of the snow-mud.

Honestly, none of us could make heads or tails of it, which is why I thought to ask here.

Kelgarn, confirmed Beta-Account

Ok, that sounds strange. But at the same time, yeah, sounds like some spellcaster was doing something big. Remember that one vid, near some town called Kolyug, up in northern Aretia? Some fire-dude was doing his things, until he got curb-stomped and in doing his things, he turned friggin’ Siberia into a hot mess. Literally.

Something similar happened in another vid, that one was from Deiea, with a native creating a massive rain and thunder-storm to extinguish a bush-fire. Kinda makes mundane firefighters look puny in comparison.

Harms, confirmed Beta-Account

Wait, Neamov you say?

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t that right to the west of the Turan Mountains? Because my spider-senses are tingling right now.

Let’s try summoning someone who might be able to help.: @Morgana, care to appear before us foolish mortals to enlighten us?

My guess is, you have something to do with us but if not, you are, as far as I know, the leading player when it comes to everything Ice- and Snow-Magic.

Sorn, confirmed Beta-Account

That sounds interesting. Why do you think that she’s involved? And how long before Howardlight gets here, to rant about the light? I swear, that guy has some sort of alert if anyone mentions her.

Morgana, confirmed Beta-Account

Possibly, though I’m not certain why he would. Not like I frequent the forum all that much, especially not to post. Only if I have something to say.

In this case, I’ll have to go with the good, old “I can neither confirm nor deny any involvement or knowledge of that particular incident.”

On another note, did you know that there are some things in the beta that we literally cannot share? As in, times during which the recording-function only shows static (well, white mist), while Pantheon Entertainment confirmed that it was not a bug.

Anyway, on that note, I gotta run. Literally, at least ingame.

Harms, confirmed Beta-Account

Well, that was something.

So, if I read what she loudly said between the lines, she was involved and is currently running away from something that she cannot (or doesn’t want to) share?

Alternatively, it might be a red herring.

Howardlight, confirmed Beta-Account

So, the abomination has struck again?

Alas, part of the filth she uttered is the truth, I can confirm that we are unable to share certain parts of our journey.

But Neamov, that means we have a clue where she is?

Set out, Crusaders, set out. Deus Vult!

Kelgarn, confirmed Beta-Account

Well, what Morgana said sounded very much like what someone under an NDA might say, giving out no real information while implying a whole lot more. Makes me wonder.

But if she was “involved” maybe even the spellcaster responsible, I’m seriously impressed. If the side-effects of her magic are that big and wide-ranging, I don’t want to know just how big the actual main-effect is. Or, to be honest, I really want to know, but only from a safe distance. You know, an ocean away, or something like that.

Merig, confirmed Beta-Account

Makes me rather scared, if we are being honest. If the one who managed to create such an effect says that, “she’s gotta run”, I really, REALLY, don’t want to be close to whatever they are running FROM. Let’s just say, I think I’ll take my buddies and head back to the city, hopefully nothing bad happens.

Goliry, confirmed Beta-Account

Looking at everything, Morgana started somewhere somewhere far up north and has now travelled to the western side of the Turan-Mountains, right? Cause, if there is something coming after her, I think she’s moving into my direction.

Yeah, I don’t like that. Morgana, can you tell us poor sods on your path just what is coming?

Or, Howardlight, can you give a bit of a hint why you can confirm the part about sharing information? That way, we’d have at last a bit of a warning.

Howardlight, confirmed Beta-Account

Can share a little bit, not much. I don’t want to tick the developers off, but if it’s something that is hunting Morgana, giving out information might be prudent.

When I experienced the block, I tried to make a recording of the ceremony in which I shed my wings, turning into a true Einherjar. Was a pretty epic moment, I wanted the recording but no dice, all I got was lens-flare through white-mist.

No idea what she encountered but I think Pantheon wants to keep the main story-line and maybe the main-native players hidden.

Goliry, confirmed Beta-Account

You know, somehow that doesn’t make me feel better.

Harms, confirmed Beta-Account

Note to self: Travelling south-west is a bad idea. North?

North seems to be a good direction, maybe North-East?

Jeanyra, confirmed Beta-Account

On a more serious note, Morgana, can you tell us any details? Or anything general, you know, anything at all, about what happened and what sort of spell you used?

The only thing we recently got from you was that vague video with the orcs, the centaurs and an insanely wide-area death-mist thingy.

Care to share anything about the magic you used this time? It seems you prefer mist for wide-area applications, an interesting choice there but I’m not sure what you’re using for single-target or small-scale attacks.

Morgana, confirmed Beta-Account

No, sorry, I won’t go into details regarding my magic.

Certainly not without some serious (ingame) compensation. There’s a lot of magic out there, but this one is mine. I’ve worked quite hard for it, partially researching myself, partially stealing other peoples’ research. If you want to compare, we might meet at some point on our Road to Purgatory, which is the only place where I’d make such a transaction.

What I will tell you, however, is that the system governing magic on Mundus is incredibly complex and fascinating, I don’t think any of us have done more than scratch the surface. Some might have been taught spells that cause some effect but understanding the mechanism behind that effect? That is a whole different ball-game.

As an example, I know about a spell called Sanctuary, used by some divine spellcasters, that somehow keeps enemies from attacking them. Personally, I can’t even begin to guess how the heck the effect works and I’d bet none of us could.

Just the magic system, without any story or other content might be enough to keep me interested in Road to Purgatory for years to come.

Anyway, that’s everything I’ll tell you on this topic.

Jeanyra, confirmed Beta-Account

Which is honestly more than I expected, thank you for that.

And yeah, I know what you mean. I was taught a couple of spells from the Mages’ Guild but if I had to explain exactly how any of the divination-spells works, I’d be hard pressed. Sure, the fiery effect of a Fireball is relatively easy, it simply compresses a mass of Fire-Astral Power before letting it flood out on command, igniting anything in the area, but more complex spells? No idea.

Let alone the magic used by Divine Casters, which seems to be a whole different ball game from the things we can do.

Merig, confirmed Beta-Account

Can we please get back to whatever insanity it is that is near Neamov? I want to know what to avoid.