NDA is lifted, so heres some screenshots of the game ;)

sparkatb

Hi welcome to my photography!

 

These are recent screenshots ive taken of EQ2. The Antonica screenshots, my EQ2 graphics settings were pretty much set at the maximum, only some things wasnt quite set at the very 100%.

These screenshots are taken from a PC with:
AMD Athlon 64 FX-53

2GB DDR SDRAM dual channel 2x 1GB PC3200. 3-3-3-8 latency

BFG GeForce 6800Ultra OC @ 425Mhz (factory)

 

 

Thundering Steppes

http://img20.exs.cx/img20/5567/EQ2_1.jpg

 

http://img20.exs.cx/img20/5391/EQ2_2.jpg

 

http://img20.exs.cx/img20/8840/EQ2_3.jpg

 

http://img20.exs.cx/img20/8594/EQ2_5.jpg

 

http://img20.exs.cx/img20/700/EQ2_7.jpg

 

http://img20.exs.cx/img20/1880/EQ2_8.jpg

 

Antonica Griffon Ride

http://img20.exs.cx/img20/305/EQ2_9.jpg

 

http://img20.exs.cx/img20/3493/EQ2_10.jpg

 

Antonica you can see Quynos in the distances in some of these

http://img20.exs.cx/img20/2696/EQ2_11.jpg

 

http://img20.exs.cx/img20/783/EQ2_12.jpg

 

http://img20.exs.cx/img20/6604/EQ2_13.jpg

 

http://img20.exs.cx/img20/1411/EQ2_14.jpg

 

http://img20.exs.cx/img20/2223/EQ2_15.jpg

 

http://img20.exs.cx/img20/1583/EQ2_16.jpg

 

http://img20.exs.cx/img20/2113/ss35.jpg

 

http://img20.exs.cx/img20/3613/ss36.jpg

 

Stormhold almost at the entrance of the zone

http://img20.exs.cx/img20/2258/ss37.jpg

Antonica a mage tower

http://img100.exs.cx/img100/9329/EQ2_000002.jpg

http://img100.exs.cx/img100/7708/EQ2_000003.jpg

http://img100.exs.cx/img100/3809/EQ2_000004.jpg

http://img100.exs.cx/img100/2118/EQ2_000005.jpg

http://img100.exs.cx/img100/4698/EQ2_000006.jpg

http://img100.exs.cx/img100/9424/EQ2_000007.jpg

http://img100.exs.cx/img100/5807/EQ2_000008.jpg

sliver

Nice shots, thanks for posting em.

Creedom

Fantasic, thanks alot.

TalionNelson

Great shots, thanks for posting.

Coldmeat

So much for learning from past mistakes.

I can only hope they've decided to lift the NDA because it was a joke anyway, and to show they have nothing to hide, rather than due to them going gold in 2 weeks.

Coldmeat

They're a bit dark, since it was night out when I took the pics. I'll get some more shots up tommorow of the Commonlands, and Nektulos during the day.

jayheld90

yeah woot!!

message from John Smedley:

As of now, the NDA for the EverQuest II Beta is officially lifted. We encourage our beta testers to share the experiences they’ve had in beta with the rest of the EverQuest II community. Many more people who enrolled in the EverQuest II beta program can expect beta keys in their inboxes in the very near future. In addition, in the past few weeks we’ve let the Legends and Lords of EverQuest players in, and we would like to thank them for their support. We now have four Beta servers up and running including one French and one German server and we’ve let in over 30,000 players since July. In the near future that number will grow far past that. Keep an eye on your inbox!

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Moorgard
EQII Community Guy

hope to see lots of info from here on out guys

Goob

Too bad anyone who has tried WoW will admit it looked, and ran better than that.  That game looks like improved DAoC graphics and probably runs just as slow and boring.  That's what I like most about WoW.  It seem pretty fast paced, if you played it you'll know what I mean.  Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, is EQ2 fast like that or the normal slow?

sparkatb

Depends on your group, how good you/they are. Its fast paced when playing with friends, ive found that.

Playing with strangers is slow paced.

Those screenshots above are .jpg file format, they seem to make the screenshot a bit blurry, i had them to jpg because the website wouldnt allow anything bigger than 1mb in size, which the original screenshots were bigger than that 1mb.

Tyrgris

Here are some more screenies from one of the Vault network guys

http://www.mithan.com/eq2/