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Breaking Ground goes live for EQ2 News

News by Robert Purchese

5 September, 2008

The Breaking Ground update for EverQuest II has been unleashed on the masses.

This, most importantly, opens up underwater city Veksar and half of level-80 dungeon Omen's Call. The entire area will be included in the forthcoming Shadow Odyssey expansion pack, due 18th November.

Breaking Ground also introduces a world event for players to help build a Guild Hall by answering the pleas for help from a couple of NPC characters lingering down by the docks: Antonica and Commonlands docks, to be precise.

There's closure to the live whodunit murder mystery event, too, which in itself acts as a prelude to The Shadow Odyssey.

Both EverQuest and EverQuest II are going "as strong as ever", according to SOE speaking at its Vegas Fan Faire in August, with Shadow Odyssey said to have "Greatest Hits" feeling about it.

Head over to our eye Sony Online Entertainment's annual Fan Faire article for an eye-witness account of people dressed as wizards.

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viper_h
05/09/08 @ 11:54
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Wow an update that includes HALF a dungeon! Gooo sony!
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Considering how much of a punishment EQ and EQ2 are to play, I think SOE should be thanked for only inflicting half a dungeon on its player base.
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How can you compare the EQ2 gameplay to the EQ gameplay? EQ2 is very solo friendly and hardly a punishment to play. It's not the hardcore game EQ was. I switch between LOTRO and EQ2 at times and both are fun for different reasons (EQ2 is a bit more demanding but has an incredibly vast world with tons of lore and a supply of quests that seems impossible to exhaust).

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The problem with Sony is they will never be forgiven for past mistakes. EQ2 IMO is awesome and it's a shame people will never get to see that because of predujice for the past
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@BaggyAnt.
I completely agree with you.
The EQ2 of today is a vast improvement on the EQ2 of 2004. The last two expansions , EOF and RoK , have moved the game forward greatly.
Looking forward to TSO!
Onwards and Upwards
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Cheers!

I played EQ for years, picked up EQ2 at launch and had high hopes. Unfortunately it didn't impress me enough to play beyond my first 30 days. I'm glad to hear it's solo-friendly now, but when I played it wasn't.

But is everything still brown and did they fix the character models to stop everybody looking in-bred?
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iokthemonkey wins the prize for the most embarrassingly rubbish attempt at trolling on the entire internet today. Do try harder.

Edited 1 times. Most recently by Aspic at 13:17 on 05/09/2008

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Will do! Thanks for the feedback!
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I just had to post these three letters, they were missing!

WoW!


I'm surprised. Not referring to anything else.

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