I am proud to introduce a guild column will be starting up with the arrival of open beta. Every fortnight we will feature a guild, just because they’re an awesome guild. We will also try to get an interview with the players done as well, when we feature it up here.
For guilds this is a good chance to:
-) Advertise.
-) Show the community who your guild is.
-) Make an image for your guild.
-) Be famous! 😉
-) Phat loots and hot…okay not really, but you do get bragging rights. :X
You’ll be able to show the readers of The Novograd Times your guild, and things about your guild. Would you like to be in our first Guild of the Fortnight? If so please comment with the name of your guild! :]. We’ll hunt you down. :]. That’s all we want. Your guild name.
You do not have to be a guild officer or leader to nominate! 😀
Remember the machinima contest that Allods Online NA had? Well the winner was announced, and it was a damn good video. The winner was archonmerc. Check out the video:
We happened to get an interview. 😀
The winning video was the recruitment advertisement for Bloodpact. Can you tell us a little bit about Bloodpact?
Once I start, I could go on forever! I’ll just say that we are a mature bunch, we really don’t care for drama. Although we are a hardcore guild, my philosophy is that you don’t have to be a jerk to be a badass. (Can I say that?)
As for our history, we started in Corum Online (gPotato land!) over five years ago, and since then played 2moons before we came here. The core members and leaders are like a family, and instead of making cliques in such a huge group, we include everyone! We are lucky to have many members from the EU, Australia and Asia too, keeping it active 24/7!
As for me, Bloodpact is on my mind all day long, that might not be healthy, but it’s surely good for the guild.
Now how about a little bit about yourself?
My name is Thomas, I am a 23 year old journalist and photographer from Norway. I play on the North American servers (and have brought friends!) because of the language barrier and clique nation/region-centric guilds in the EU.
I just got out of the Royal Norwegian Air Force a little over a month ago where I completed my one year draft. I had actually signed up for news about Allods months in advance, and was bummed the closed beta testing started before I could complete my service. It hasn’t hurt me though, and I’m glad I could manage to ‘scramble’ Bloodpact on such short notice with a lot of help from my sidekicks Arteigon and Aewa.
What was the inspiration of the video?
Actually, Allods is inspiration enough! It was everything I hoped it to be and more. I always like to make videos for guilds, but now my interest was piqued with the fantastic foundation for getting majestic shots in Allods Online.
It was actually never my intention to enter the contest, just because it was a guild advertisement. A guildmate, Kemwer, pushed me into it though! Haha.
How long did it take you to make this video?
Not long enough… When I say that, I mean I love the process of making it as much as seeing the finished product. But I’m sure I lost a few potential levels on my characters to say the least due to being wrapped up in video making. Better time spent now than in open beta, am I right? Overall, I think I spent upwards of 10 hours and 200GB of hard drive space on recording it, and 40-50 hours on the editing.
It’s OK though, the sun never comes up in Northern Norway during the winter anyway, so I’m not missing anything!
I’m constantly adding new Allods videos to my YouTube profile, and have already made 3 of them since the contest entry, so I guess I’m an avid advertiser for the game and Bloodpact.
Did the video come out the way you invisioned it?
Truth be told, yes. Funny enough! Although I made the mistake of not uploading it in high definition, in this case for me it just adds some more character. And the movie itself, I am quite content with just because I found the right music, and patched the shots together just how I planned when recording them.
Who did the voice over?
Actually, I’m wondering that myself. I found the line on a CC sample sharing site, and when I asked for who to credit I just got back a generic answer. It does however fit quite well!
Did any others help you with the video?
Yes! First off, Kemwer, the Brazilian stallion, got the shots from the end of CBT#3 dance of the old square, and made our new logo as well. So much credit goes to him here. Also, the entire Bloodpact guild of course! At that time we only had around fifty members, but there were no problems getting suggestions and critiques, or people to come to the “set”. And of course, Astrum Nival who’s amazing art direction makes such beautiful scenery possible – and gPotato for giving this magnificent game to us through the intertubes.
Anything you’d like to say to The Novograd Times readers?
Support Allods, and respect your fellow players =)
It’s a monster high quality game made with love and care and detail. Might be sounding like a fanboy here, and maybe I am, but I just urge people to stay with it and keep it up! The community over all is pretty nice, and I don’t want that to change ever. You guys rock!
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Once again congratulations to archonmerc. Enjoy your Razer Megalodon Headset!
A lot of the community hates the changes made in chests. Dejan also known as Daex tested a bunch of chests with runes and handed his results over to me, with a beautiful spreadsheet. I have tested several chests with runes myself and feel they were random.
Daex also tested this with Exotic Chests. Here are the results that Daex came up with:
There was nothing in the patch notes about this, and this change had put a cramped style in how a lot of us earn gold by collecting chests and putting runes in to get money. Several people, including myself put runes in chests to effect the kind of gear that we were looking for. Like if you need a new weapon, you can rune it to be a weapon or even a leather piece.
There is a good chance this could be a bug.
What are your thoughts on this? Can you spot a pattern? We sure can’t!
I had a chance to play with the bells and whistles of the item shop. Fireworks were a lot of fun and had amazing graphics when exploding. There were even snowman heads for sell! You couldn’t forget about the cute outfits or the several chests. A lot of fun being able to play with the item shop. I probably blew through over a hundred bucks worth of item shop stuff trying to test it out. Maybe more.
Kanian Folk Outfit
Fancy Elven Outfit
Elven Dinner Outfit
Kanian Nobles Outfit (Without the hat)
Elven Hunting Outfit
Red New Years Costume
Rose Petals!
I like these cute outfits. Some of them would make awesome role play clothing sets.
Katelyn Olmstead is the community manager for Allods Online. We all know her and love her as inarakatt!
Kate is truly an awesome person, and she has granted us an opportunity to interview her. I am coming up with a list of questions to give her, and we also have a treat. We want to know, what do you want to know about Katelyn Olmstead?
Think of some clever, witty or just awesome questions. What do you want to know about Katelyn Olmstead? Reply here or shoot me an email. :]. What do you think we should ask?
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