The Lord Of The Rings Online's Mordor Expansion Might Include An Avatar Revamp
The Lord of the Rings Online Executive Producer Severlin may not be popular with the Asheron's Call community right now, but the same can't be said for the Lord of the Rings Online community. He revealed in a forum post earlier today that the game may very well be getting an avatar revamp as part of the upcoming Mordor expansion.
The full statement is as follows.
What if I let it slip that we are looking at substantial avatar revamps for the Mordor expansion?
I think we can all agree that prospect can be both exciting and scary. Avatar preference is super subjective, and even some of the best received game revamps have a percentage of players who prefer the old look. We are looking at providing an option to use the old avatars so we are not forcing players to use newly updated models and animations if they don't want to.
Having two avatar paths then becomes a design challenge if we add new hairs or facial options; the old avatars wouldn't have an equivalent option.
These are the types of design and art challenges we are wrestling with as we work on the expansion.
He also notes that "Lag continues to be a priority" and urges players to be more specific about "where and how" lag occurs for them. Most recently, the Lord of the Rings Online team introduced "a rework of the client side effect system to fix lag associated with singular creatures with stacked effects."
Severlin seems to imply some hesitation in his statement. Do you want there to be an avatar revamp in The Lord of the Rings Online's upcoming Mordor expansion?
