Mythos Guru has gotten together with Flagship Studios to give away 10 hot new accounts. All you have to do is register an account on our forums and send a PM to me, Sol Invictus, entitled “CONTEST ENTRY” with your e-mail address within it to be eligible to win an account! In order to participate, you have to have 20 posts on Mythos or Hellgate Guru’s forums here. That’s right, it’s that easy!
And remember, your 20 posts CAN’T be spam! I’ll check on you.
Are you tired of having to pester Flagship Studios for small tidbits of news about the game?
Are you bored of not having any recent exclusives?
Are you eager to hear about some new and exciting information about Mythos?
If you answered yes to any of the above questions, you’ve come to the right place!
That’s right! We here at Mythos Guru have gone out of our way to do the job for you. You won’t have to wait in line to get one measly question answered. You won’t have to leave your kids alone in the car, baking under the hot sun, as you dash to your news press to find the latest goss on the game only to find a police officer waiting for you with a warrant and a pair of silver handcuffs when you return. You won’t have to sit there doodling words and pictures on your wall hoping they will be the new exclusives for Mythos.
All you simply have to do is feast your eyes upon our wonderous interview with the amazing Max (Note: Max may or may not actually be amazing, but the interview is indeed wonderful!). Not only do you get exclusive new information at Mythos Guru about the game’s upcoming new modes of transportation, brand new ways to live and die, new ways to dress and express, as well as the secret race that was going to be put in until Max was abducted!!!
You will see the answers to these questions and more by read not one, two, or even five, but twenty four whole questions that will make you wish that you could hibernate until open beta!
Our newly established network of websites, in extension of Hellgate Guru and Mythos Guru, is looking for a few skilled staff to fill the following roles: News Poster, Content Developer, and Forum Overseer. The positions that prospective staff members would like to fill entail the following titles and responsibilities:
News Poster
Must be ready and able to post up-to-date news on the respective game, with updates based on Google Alerts, official websites or gaming news websites.
Content Developer
Depending on the game, the content developer will be required to produce guides, walkthroughs, character profiles, or strategies. Depending on the expertise of the individual, content such as skill calculators or other interactive media are much desired content.
Forum Overseer
The responsibility of a forum overseer is twofold: moderate the forums, and to encourage and maintain activity within the forum by creating new posts, responding to existing posts, and drawing traffic from the internet at large in order to grow the community and its forums. Forum overseers are encouraged to maintain a positive, and friendly attitude towards users.
Sites
Champions Guru
News Poster (1)
Content Developer (1)
Signature Artist (1)
Forum Overseer (2)
Demigod Guru
News Poster (1)
Master Strategist / Content Developer (1)
Forum Overseer (2)
Starcraft Guru
News Poster (2)
Writer (1)
Master Strategist / Content Developer (1)
Forum Overseer (3)
World of Conan
News Poster (2)
Article Writer / Content Developer (2)
Please feel free to send me a PM or an e-mail if you’re interested in taking up any of the positions.
As ThyrsaM has reported on our forums, the new Overworld is now live on the Test Center of the game.
To add to that, Massively is also reporting on the new layout and what the experience is like. They also have a whole set of screenshots to go with the launch.
For the past week, the folks at Flagship promised the Overworld Real Soon Now. A deathwatch was kept on the forums. It was going to be the next day, or the day after, or in a few hours. Players gathered on Mythos‘ IRC channel where devs tossed out tantalizing hints of what was to come. Then around 9pm EST dev Taylor Balbi advised everyone to re-patch and log in to the Test Center to see the Overworld. He gave some advice as people hurried to be the first into the new world.
Test Center will be a separate server.
Test Center and Beta Server will be online at the same time and require the same client.
To tell which version you currently have, the login screen screen will make it obvious (two different ones).
Test Center will start lagging after like 800 people, Mythos Beta won’t.
Taylor Balbi is Awesome.
We think the other Flagship devs are pretty awesome as well. Though there were more than a few glitches with patching, we were able to eventually get in and take a quick run around some of the Overworld, its dungeons, the villages outside Stonehill, and the city of Stonehill itself. All we have left to wait for now is the open beta, expected in the next several weeks.
Enjoy
P.S. Also congratulations to ThyrsaM who is now a moderator on our website!
Ripper McGee has developed a news widget for Mythos that’s available on SpringWidgets. The news widget an embeddable, customizable news feed that’s compatible with a variety of different websites.
The Mythos News Widget contains RSS feeds to the official Mythos website as well as fansites, including our own, that you can easily subscribe to here. Feel free to follow our feed link, or if simply by enter your e-mail address on the entry form on the top-right box of our website to receive Mythos updates in the mail on the fly.
Mythos Conclave had their first round table discussion in IRC today, which was mainly to do with the overworld. While it was mostly fans talking, it’s an interesting read and Mythos Community Manager, Taylor Balbi, was present to add some of his input which can be seen below.
<@TaylorFSS`home> We’re looking at how many we can cram into an overworld, we really won’t know the true number until it reaches you guys. We’re thinking 100+ will be sharing an Overworld. Also, transferring from one overworld instance to the other will require you to be in a safe area.
<%G-15> From what I saw, cities are now part of the Overworlds
<@TaylorFSS`home> Correct G-15
<%G-15> Which means switching will probably be allowed everywhere.
<@TaylorFSS`home> Switching is not allowed everywhere
<@TaylorFSS`home> Forests are helpful hehe
<@TaylorFSS`home> Stack splitting is definitely something we need
<@TaylorFSS`home> ya, a smooth respawn rate would be nice to have
I want roving Giant bosses on the overworld that are random.
<@TaylorFSS`home> in due time Firedog, currently the overworld isn’t big enough to have giants roaming around
WanderingGoblin and their sister site IncGamers got an exclusive interview with Taylor Balbi at this years Game Developers Convention.
We know Taylor Balbi as the Mythos Community Manager. The interview mentions the team at Flagship Seattle, what Mythos itself is like, what other games it is similar to. Taylor also talks of the different classes and the races and shows them off ingame. He also talks of future classes to be added, but does not specify when or what they are.
There is also talk of open beta in March! Yay!
He also talks about the payment system, which will include Real Money Transactions. The things that will be sold will make the game more fun, but will not be a necessity. Also things like special maps will be used for entire parties, not just people who bought them. The paid items will also be able to be traded ingame.
There is talk of the crafting system, which will have a tier based system of skills specifically for crafting.
Stropp’s world blog site has posted up their second preview of Mythos, this time levels 6 through to 12.
I was going to title this post Mythos 6 - 10, but I got a bit carried away and leveled up to twelve. It’s not hard, Mythos is one of the games where I can easily get to the end of a quest and tell myself I have time for one more.
Now that Mythos is due for a new patch and is moving along towards a game that many people seem to enjoy, I thought that we should make a few polls here at Mythos Guru.
So to start things off, here are two simple ones that will take you a couple of seconds to vote on, so go ahead and do it!
We’ve finished preparing the transcript for the Mythos DevChat that we held earlier today on our IRC channel. If you missed it earlier or arrived late, or simply want to go over the questions and answers, you can check it out here!
Mythos Guru was founded early in 2007 as the first fansite and forum ever dedicated to Flagship Studios' online game, Mythos. It caters to an international base of players and guilds. Following in the footsteps of its predecessor Hellgate Guru, Mythos Guru shares a proud tradition of sponsoring and organizing community backed projects and events, and a powerful skill calculator. More
