In April, as part of Lineage II’s 11th Anniversary, we launched the latest chapter in our story: Infinite Odyssey. As its name implied, players have embarked on a new and lengthy journey with no end in sight. Today we’re announcing the continuation of this journey with the upcoming content update Underground.
Until recently the adventurer Settlen led a nomadic existence wandering across Aden but his advancing age and the pleas of his family encouraged him to change his lifestyle. But, while he has reluctantly agreed to settle down, the adventurer in his heart won’t allow him to live in any ordinary place. So he travelled until he discovered the underground ruins of a city forgotten by time. Within this subterannean city he built his tavern.
This was no ordinary tavern. The Mystic Tavern, which offers many of the same amenities that a normal tavern offers, also boasts some rather unique features. Chief among them is the ability to allow players to travel back in time to witness—and participate in—key moments in the lives of several of Aden’s most noted figures.
As word of this fantastic tavern spread, adventurers from across the continent began to arrive to see for themselves these visions of Aden’s past and test themselves against these legendary challenges.
We’ll be revealing more information about Underground in the coming weeks. Soon, if you are brave and skilled enough, you too will be able to challenge these legends from the past.
Looking forward to 1 party tauti, ekimus and epic freya :D
Will these be more like crystal caverns where certain times one or the other
will be up or will it be selection based?
Will we be able to run them back to back with no instance lockout / cooldown?
Also when a group gathers at the tavern table to form up the party will we be able to do some form of controlled management where it's more like selection based party matching or once someone sits down your stuck with this person unless / until they leave?
Just addressing these issues since i had not kept up with korean L2 and the updates to this and only remember this from when it originally went live there.
I am not sure whether it's that much fun. So far precisely one screenshot from the Mystic Tavern instances was posted in Korea, and that was about a bug: http://boards.rochand.com/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=1473&start=130#p31593
Nobody seems to be doing those instances, possibly because the high HP monsters make it not worth the effort.
@ thombgun:
The instance your party is teleported in is randomly selected by the system. And the system is reset twice a week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. So you can do two instances - not of your choosing - per week. The waitress is summoned by the party leader, so if he is not satisfied with the people sitting at his table, all he has to do is not interact with the Mystic Summoning Ball:
Dear GMs, if I am not wrong, you promised that on next huge updait , we can get brooch or\and stones for it from mamon. Will it be on this update or not?
And also I wanted to ask about museum statisticks. Will it be introduced back? or may be changed a bit ( without some paragraphs) and introduced back?
will this update be only "Infinite Odyssey: Hymn of the soul" or also include the "Infinite Odyssey: Will of the Ancients" update ?
right now Korea is 2 updates ahead of us and are having a PTS of their next major update which once launched will make us 3 updates behind..
edit: also both updates (Hymn of the soul & Will of the Ancients) are rather small on themselves so a combined version would make sense imo!! ;)
NCJapan page for next update is up aswell and sheduled to go live at 16.09.2015 so whatever they will get we will get aswell ;) you can check it for more info, maybe you will get moar out of it as i did :p
NCJapan page for next update is up aswell and sheduled to go live at 16.09.2015 so whatever they will get we will get aswell ;) you can check it for more info, maybe you will get moar out of it as i did :p
thanks, they only have Hymm of the Soul data listed so it might be a really small update after all :/ hopefully the other section will be covered with the "Coming Soon" part
btw I know precisely what's coming as I read the Korean wiki's & patch notes weekly and discuss them on Rochand forum with like minded L2 players.
@Buster/Juji - NCWest servers really need the Giants Cave update to motivate more players in leveling to 101+ without having the need for a full/stacked party, Atelia Fortress is too hard for 75% of your 99+ player base, just saying ;)
will this update be only "Infinite Odyssey: Hymn of the soul" or also include the "Infinite Odyssey: Will of the Ancients" update ?
Shadow of Light Part 2 + Hymn of the Soul
thanks for the update Juji but that's still a very small update all content considered and the Giants Cave part would make a way bigger impact - would make people XP more and potentially buy more Boost items from NC Store..
I can confirm this. You can get a quick impression of what's going on in Korea by checking the screenshot section (http://lineage2.plaync.com/board/image/list) of their forum. There are only a few screenshots that have the Atelia Fortress as background, one or two from the Enchanted Valley, none at all from the Garden of Spirits, but quite few with the upgraded Giants' Caves (http://lineage2.plaync.com/board/image/view?articleId=606762&page=5). Koreans can get all sorts of Enchantment Scrolls from the Mentoring Manager, so their weapons are usually higher enchanted than ours, but they are still struggling in the Garden of Spirits, while in the Giants' Caves smooth hunting is possible.
Juji, you should really try and get that patch soon :)
thanks, they only have Hymm of the Soul data listed so it might be a really small update after all :/ hopefully the other section will be covered with the "Coming Soon" part
btw I know precisely what's coming as I read the Korean wiki's & patch notes weekly and discuss them on Rochand forum with like minded L2 players.
@Buster/Juji - NCWest servers really need the Giants Cave update to motivate more players in leveling to 101+ without having the need for a full/stacked party, Atelia Fortress is too hard for 75% of your 99+ player base, just saying ;)
Is there a particular reason you guys aren't incorporating will of the ancients? Effectively, the content players want is in the update you guys have decided not to include.
Is there a particular reason you guys aren't incorporating will of the ancients? Effectively, the content players want is in the update you guys have decided not to include.
Dear GMs, if I am not wrong, you promised that on next huge updait , we can get brooch or\and stones for it from mamon. Will it be on this update or not?
ofc there are a lot of people i know that stopped playing because its hard to compete with bots and no lifers with xp as some are already 102-104 mainly because find/creating stacked groups for atelia/gos in most clans because of activity, gear, cps etc..
a new hunting ground for the average joe player would both increase activity and revenue for ncwest
LF update with new race Giants, which permanent in hide and kill all in sight with single shot.I'm assuming you're kidding...but I always kinda wanted to see an undead race come along....skeletons or zombies or something of the such...