Ten Ton Hammer - Taking MMO Gamers to the Next Level!

He thinks he's off the record, but we know where his secret lair is.

Scott Hartsman spills the details on happenings around the SOE offices, recent EQ2-related shenanigans, and some sweet features coming with Rise of Kunark that haven't seen much press coverage for one reason or another in his latest blog post.

* Some really handy usability improvements to the in-game maps. Zooming, panning, stretching, converting to a minimap…
* The long-awaited revamp to racial abilities, making them into things more people will actually find useful
* A new UI for all of those racial and special class abilities that people gain every couple levels
* Debumping(tm), smoothing, and otherwise improving the feel of the level 20-70 experience progression after all of the feedback from the last cycles.
* The tradeskill UI getting built-in reaction buttons and becoming a lot easier to use in general.
* And more things that I’m forgetting about.

Read more at Off The Record and then chime in at our ongoing forum discussion.