Pantheon Website Gets a Facelift

Amathe

Aesthetically, it looks great to me.

https://www.pantheonmmo.com

C'mon, who will be the first to say "I can't believe they are doing this instead of working on the game?" Because those are the same people of course.

xpsync

Naw i love the new site. After watching the shakeout vid i'm contemplating on making a pledge, this is an mmorpg

Kyleran

xpsync said:

Naw i love the new site. After watching the shakeout vid i'm contemplating on making a pledge, this is an mmorpg

Then you are good to go as "Pledge Now" is prominently featured top and center on the home page and likely is the first thing anyone sees when first visiting the site.

Probably should have put it in neon pink instead of gold but it clearly let's the viewer know what's most important.

All they need now is to hire Roddy Piper (They Live) as their pitchman.

Consume, Pledge Now, Sleep.

achesoma

I love it! Looks so clean and updated. It was so dated and raggedy before like it was from 2005. Long overdue imo. Glad they finally did it.

So I noticed some changes in class description.

1. Enchanter can no longer use swords.
2. Rogue went from light chain armor to heavy leather.
3. Monk went from cloth & "martial" armor to light leather.
4. Shaman went from chain armor to heavy leather.
5. Summoner can no longer use swords.
6. Enchanter role was "crowd control, utility" now it's "support."
7. Monk role was "dps, off-tank, utility" now it's just "damage."
8. Shurikens removed from Monk weapon list.
9. Rangers got great sword and great blade weapons added.
10. Rogues got short bow, crossbow and fist weapons added.

achesoma

Ok, so apparently on the Champion pledges and higher they removed the 6 months subscription that was included. 

Mendel

The site revamp looks pretty good.  I was immediately surprised that the font size was larger than before, so my Ctrl-+ x5 needed to be adjusted to Ctrl-+ x4.  It made me think my eyes were getting better.

Also, I am now able to read through their forums, where I don't think I could before.  I doubt I'll ever attempt to post there, but it's nice the forums aren't behind a pay wall anymore.  Don't know when that happened, but it's a good thing.

Nanfoodle

Thats good news, funny they said the forums would not get an update yet but it has. More than they promised. =-)

Nanfoodle

Was kinda wishing with the webpage update that maybe the Bard would show up under classes =-)

xpsync

Kyleran said:

xpsync said:

Naw i love the new site. After watching the shakeout vid i'm contemplating on making a pledge, this is an mmorpg

Then you are good to go as "Pledge Now" is prominently featured top and center on the home page and likely is the first thing anyone sees when first visiting the site.

Probably should have put it in neon pink instead of gold but it clearly let's the viewer know what's most important.

All they need now is to hire Roddy Piper (They Live) as their pitchman.

Consume, Pledge Now, Sleep.

Funny thing was on the old site i found how to pledge immediately, this one had to hunt for it, then noticed once you scroll down it pops, they got your color down lol

The fact i actually checked is huge, will i? doubtful, will i buy it when it's cooked, Hell Yeah! I'd probably pre-order which they will most likely do. As long as there is a playable finished game, i'm 100% in on this.

TwoTubes

Summoner and enchanter could never use swords.  That has always been wizard only for arcane casters...

Wellspring

achesoma said:

Ok, so apparently on the Champion pledges and higher they removed the 6 months subscription that was included. 

Looks like the lifetime subscription is no longer included on the $10,000 tier either.

I guess all pledge tiers now just come with an initial 30 days of playtime?

lahnmir

Wellspring said:

achesoma said:

Ok, so apparently on the Champion pledges and higher they removed the 6 months subscription that was included. 

Looks like the lifetime subscription is no longer included on the $10,000 tier either.

I guess all pledge tiers now just come with an initial 30 days of playtime?

Or the game will release as B2P 

/Cheers,
Lahnmir

goldwheat

Ha after 6 years, they still couldn't even update their forums.  It took 6+ years just to change the theme, and all the old forum bugs are still there. So terrible. 
What a clown show.

Wellspring

goldwheat said:

Ha after 6 years, they still couldn't even update their forums.  It took 6+ years just to change the theme, and all the old forum bugs are still there. So terrible. 
What a clown show.

If you paid attention when the website update was originally announced, you'd already know that the new forums weren't going to be included in phase 1. The fact that they updated the theme is an unexpected bonus!

Kyleran

Wellspring said:

achesoma said:

Ok, so apparently on the Champion pledges and higher they removed the 6 months subscription that was included. 

Looks like the lifetime subscription is no longer included on the $10,000 tier either.

I guess all pledge tiers now just come with an initial 30 days of playtime?

Looks like this is the case. I guess they figured going forward they'll need someone to start paying subs from day one in case not enough interest is generated initially outside of the backer community.

goldwheat

Mmmm clawing back pledge rewards.  Well, at least their sticking with the Shroud of the Avatar theme in slapping their pledgers, especially the original ones that took the biggets risk. 

Wizardry

Well if you know me i wouldn't say it looks good if it "webpage" didn't and yes it looks great.

That still won't sell me on the game itself.As i stated in the past,what i want will NOT be in this game and likely NEVER will be.This will be just an old school clone and over time will not improve,instead you will get more of the same,new zones,new abilities and new creatures.
I could "maybe"get on board if i knew the long term goal was to IMPROVE the game with new features like for example MInecraft type features,then yeah it would get me excited.

Old school has run it's course,been there done that and for thousands of hours and over a very long time and over many games,so yeah not interested in that anymore.I need to the mmorpg genre to EVOLVE and in a positive way and not evolve into something stupid or a NON mmorpg.

I feel we will see devs try and change mmorpg's into arpg's "already happening" or into MHW type games before we see POSITIVE change.

Nanfoodle

goldwheat said:

Mmmm clawing back pledge rewards.  Well, at least their sticking with the Shroud of the Avatar theme in slapping their pledgers, especially the original ones that took the biggets risk. 

All crowdfunded games, as they get the money they need and the testers they need. They claw back on that stuff. Its a good sign that VR is doing so. It means things are going well for them.  

goldwheat

Wow, praising them for screwing over their original pledgers?  I can see why this game is doing so well, with a community like this.

Wellspring

goldwheat said:

Mmmm clawing back pledge rewards.  Well, at least their sticking with the Shroud of the Avatar theme in slapping their pledgers, especially the original ones that took the biggets risk. 

goldwheat said:

Wow, praising them for screwing over their original pledgers?  I can see why this game is doing so well, with a community like this.

They didn't remove any rewards from people who bought pledges already. It only affects any new purchases going forwards.

So quite the opposite. They're rewarding original pledgers by removing rewards and increasing prices for those who didn't pledge early.

Nanfoodle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHhpkynZs-I

Cleric changes

Nanfoodle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jLbYwV0eOE

Rogue Changes 

skeaser

Wellspring said:

goldwheat said:

Mmmm clawing back pledge rewards.  Well, at least their sticking with the Shroud of the Avatar theme in slapping their pledgers, especially the original ones that took the biggets risk. 

goldwheat said:

Wow, praising them for screwing over their original pledgers?  I can see why this game is doing so well, with a community like this.

They didn't remove any rewards from people who bought pledges already. It only affects any new purchases going forwards.

So quite the opposite. They're rewarding original pledgers by removing rewards and increasing prices for those who didn't pledge early.

And this isn't the first time. They previously removed some tiers and if you bought those you get those rewards even if you upgrade your pledge. They have stated multiple times that what you paid for at the time is what you will get.

achesoma

TwoTubes said:

Summoner and enchanter could never use swords.  That has always been wizard only for arcane casters...

No. All three had “1h-piercing” available. Now Wizard had swords and Enchanter/Summoner have daggers. Daggers were separate from 1h piercing. There are streams with Enchanters using swords. 

Video of stream with Enchanter 1h sword. 

https://youtu.be/UNbcrIWk8B4

For those that want old descriptions can be found here. 

https://pantheonriseofthefallen.gamepedia.com/Pantheon:_Rise_of_the_Fallen_Wiki

achesoma

Nanfoodle said:

goldwheat said:

Mmmm clawing back pledge rewards.  Well, at least their sticking with the Shroud of the Avatar theme in slapping their pledgers, especially the original ones that took the biggets risk. 

All crowdfunded games, as they get the money they need and the testers they need. They claw back on that stuff. Its a good sign that VR is doing so. It means things are going well for them.  

Exactly what I was thinking. They wouldn’t be downgrading pledges like that if they weren’t financially secure. The subscriptions was the most enticing part of those tiers. 

Ungood

I love the fact that I am seeing game footage as opposed to concept art..