Book 13 release notes

[Delaney]

The official release notes for the live version aren't out yet, but the Roheryn release notes are: forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?t=132767

I'm just scanning through them now (while waiting for my next client ) and found some intriguing tidbits besides Forochel, fishing, and new crafty crit bits:

* They will no longer foreclose on your house - they'll lock it.
* "animated housing decorations are now supported" ?

* It will be harder for the control points in Annuminas to flip back to the Angmarim, and once you have them in control, the bridge with all the insane respawns will clear for you.
* A milestone will be added to Annuminas
*There's a new vendor in Annuminas that will sell, among other things, recipe scroll cases. Hrm!

* Captains and hunters will no longer be able to summon/port lowbies to zones beyond their abilities. Get those crafting quests done NOW!

* WOO! They fixed the shard requirements for jewellers! Sapphire shards are now used, and artisan one-shot recipes need adamant shards, not beryl!

*The abc music system has been enhanced again. I'd give details, but I'm not musically gifted.

* We'll now whistle to call our mounts, instead of beseeching the heavens to send us a steed. (Now if that has sound, it's going to be amusing when a fellowship group mounts up.)

* Added sounds to eating food, drinking beer, and using cure potions.

*Legolas and Gimli were given lessons in not breaking mez.

* "We have modified the Pale Folk encounter in the Carn Dûm Sewers. You must now clear this encounter to advance further through the dungeon. In addition, we have made it easier to tell which Pale Folk are currently summoning and reduced the total number of Pale Folk you must kill to clear the encounter. " Was that the hornblower room?

*The Dread now properly turns off after defeating Barz and Zurm.
* Fixed Barz and Zurm bug that caused the wrong wave of adds to spawn.

Interesting!

[Zabrak]

Good stuff! Will the scroll cases hold multiple recipes?

I disagree with the porting thing. It should be this:

Once you've been there yourself, you can be transported there.

Just my opinion.

[Rhavaniel]

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*Legolas and Gimli were given lessons in not breaking mez.


well it's about time!
That legolas is a noob!!!


* "We have modified the Pale Folk encounter in the Carn Dûm Sewers. You must now clear this encounter to advance further through the dungeon. In addition, we have made it easier to tell which Pale Folk are currently summoning and reduced the total number of Pale Folk you must kill to clear the encounter. " Was that the hornblower room?

sounds like they nerfed the hornblower room!

No big deal for the pillagers though! we own that place!



*The Dread now properly turns off after defeating Barz and Zurm.
* Fixed Barz and Zurm bug that caused the wrong wave of adds to spawn.


HMMMM intersting to say the least...does that mean that we have to re -learn that fight again
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[pepper]

The rep pony in Forochel is a shaggy palomino. I think I'll save up for this one. Reminds me of my mother's horse.

[Hitorichan]

The short version of what they're doing with the ABC system goes about like this...

* They're going to support triplets (which is where you play three notes where normally you'd play two).
* "Real" ABC files let you create one "song" file with multiple parts. So instead of having one file for the flute, another for the drum, another for... blah blah. You can have one file that has ALL of them in it and you choose which "seat" to play.
* Support added for VOLUME (ie, Pianissamo, piano, mezzo piano, mezzo forte, forte, fortissamo) so now a musical piece can have louder and quieter parts (as it should be!)

Plus a couple minor bug-fixes.

[hrafnr]

Apr 22, 2008 0:55:54 GMT -5 Hitorichan said:

The short version of what they're doing with the ABC system goes about like this...

* They're going to support triple.

Triplets... Tritonius... diabolus in musica yes yes... the way that authentic folk and middle-ages music was played through out much of Europe until the church deemed it... "an old way" and not corresponding to the more "pure" ecclesiastic method.

Interesting... it should allow for more authentic sounding period music. Though I doubt that will be highly accessible to most players.

[Hitorichan]

Lots of music uses triplets - not just "old music". It's been a bit of a headache to me that there are times it just sounds better. It's also used quite a bit in Irish and Celtic music. I'm hoping that this will follow the actual ABC Standard, to make the job of converting things easier.

[OnyxBlade]

Note that a few of the notes in the release notes are actually left over from the previous release notes that they forgot to remove. (such as the legolas and gimli note)

[hrafnr]

Apr 22, 2008 10:17:36 GMT -5 Hitorichan said:

Lots of music uses triplets - not just "old music". It's been a bit of a headache to me that there are times it just sounds better. It's also used quite a bit in Irish and Celtic music. I'm hoping that this will follow the actual ABC Standard, to make the job of converting things easier.

Of course, but my reference here was to LOTR being a loosely medieval setting. And triplets being widely used by the "common people" - particularly the rustic "pagani" and their folk music during our own Middle-ages. And the church of the time wanting nothing to do with that sort of thing... And the *hope* that people would implement this to actually play more period music in the game. Which is, likely, asking for far too much.

I also used the term "old music" in reference to a recorded comment by Walter von der Vogelweide, lyrical poet of the middle-ages who referred specifically to the tritonius as "old music" or "music played in the old way", alluding to pre Holy Roman Empire folk (i.e. fertility, festival) tunes.

It isn't any shock this sort of style appears all over in folk tradition. Being that the Celtic tribes inhabited most of Europe at one time frame or another - they and the other indo-European migrants brought a similar form of folk music to what would become the Holy Roman Empire. And even the Levant. There are striking similarities for instance between Norwegian, native Finnish, and Irish folk music. As well as Turkish and Bulgarian folk. Indicating a common root (i.e. Indo-European migrations many centuries earlier) as well as a natural tendency of evolution to be simultaneous. Plus of course cross-pollination through trade and warfare.

And I agree; I found trying to transcribe the few pieces I was interested in converting a bit of a pain going from standard scaling to the turbine equivelents.