The Other Side of the Looking Glass - Friday, June 9, 2006

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Archival Missions

Our current top priority is the introduction of Archival Missions. In short: All players will be able to play through the critical missions from past chapters for all three Organizations. These missions won’t affect your reputation with your current Organization.

Each Organization’s Archivist Vendor will have special tickets for sale for these missions. Players can purchase one and use it to launch the mission. When you complete these missions, you’ll earn a token that can be turned in later with other mission tokens for reward items.

The archival missions are now undergoing testing for release in Update 45. Then even new players will get to experience the full storyline of The Matrix Online.

White Hallways

No, not white rooms—white hallways. You know, the hallways that lead to backdoors in the system. Yes, they exist in The Matrix Online. And, after some time and testing, we plan on bringing them to you.

The plan is to make white hallways accessible by taking special missions. There will be three possible “backdoors”—one for each Organization. These doors will lead to special Org-only areas where Crews and Factions can meet in private.

The team’s been doing a lot of work on them over the past few months and we’ll begin testing soon.

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White Hallways

No, not white rooms—white hallways. You know, the hallways that lead to backdoors in the
system. Yes, they exist in The Matrix
Online. And, after some time and testing, we plan on bringing them to
you.

The plan is to make white hallways accessible by taking
special missions. There will be three possible “backdoors”—one for each Organization.
These doors will lead to special Org-only areas where Crews and Factions can
meet in private.

The team’s been doing a lot of work on them over the past
few months and we’ll begin testing soon.

Fecking Awesome! You win, dev team. You win.

I'm assuming it is org specific area rather than faction because with the mission system it seems relatively simple to do. Accept a critical mission from your controller and then the mission leads you to a specific room in the white hallways which the rest of your org is also lead to. No other orgs can enter it because they don't have mission access. Either way I love it, really looking forward to just another piece of depth added to the matrix.

And I also think that QA will be big in testing out the Org abilities.

Brilliant overall.

This is absolutely awsome it really is, but will you make special areas for Cypherites and E Pluribus Neo as well? or is that in the future?

I literally jumped for joy at the White Hallways. Thank you!!

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Talauntiar wrote:
I literally jumped for joy at the White Hallways. Thank you!!

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jump, jump, jump, jump





Cant wait to see what they look like (org spots)

::pinches self::

Ow

:inches self harder::

OW!

::Wakes up from the matrix::

Obituary: Aule was found to have self-substantiated out of his seat. Services will be held Monday.

 

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White Hallways

No, not white rooms—white hallways. You know, the hallways that lead to backdoors in the
system. Yes, they exist in The Matrix
Online. And, after some time and testing, we plan on bringing them to
you.

The plan is to make white hallways accessible by taking
special missions. There will be three possible “backdoors”—one for each Organization.
These doors will lead to special Org-only areas where Crews and Factions can
meet in private.

The team’s been doing a lot of work on them over the past
few months and we’ll begin testing soon.

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MY FAVORITE LOOKING GLASS YET!

bah, I'm and idiot...I got excited and misread  :robottongue:

Still, org-constructs...I'm drooling over the idea  :robotvery-happy:

Not to mention excited as heck about the Archival Missions.

Awesome OSOLG!!  :robotvery-happy:

First off I want to say, thank you for this looking glass.  I loved reading about the future of the game, and I hope you continue to put them into your atricles.  Even if you have no ETA, it will still keep people interested and hopeful.

I know I can be a jerk at times, but I too, like everyone else and devs included, want to see this game one day become what it should have been from day one.  And maybe be able to compete on the same level of World of Warcraft.  I do realize there will be these tiny steps along the way.

keep up the good work, devs and keep the information, no matter  how small flowing.

I just have to add to this thread. I read over the white hallways part of the O.S.O.T.L.G twice just to be sure I wasn't seeing things.  It sounds to me like the coolest thing since sliced bread.
One of the BEST add ons for mXo to date!

Message Edited by Dupz on 06.10.2006 01:04 PM

OMG YAY!!! You Guys Win At Teh Intranet And Life!!!

Org abilities, white hallways, org-only areas, mission archive...

This has to be the best Looking Glass ever.

dude....white hallways....i love you....lol. Can't wait to see all of this in action.

Great to see that new content is being developed.

Walrus, can you clarify whether the areas that the white hallways lead to will be faction-specific or organization-specific?

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Hanzoh wrote:

This is great news, although I must admit I am not that thrilled by either developments. I would rather have a new area to explore and new types of missions (not just the critical, assasinate, etc) instead of old ones that we could access with our alt characters if we wanted to, lol.

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   The critical mission archive will allow us to play critical missions from previous chapters, which is something we currently cannot do no matter how many alts we have.

It's gonna be nice being in the white hallways.

All this stuff sounds great, but...

When is the next Live Event going to be?

Are they all going to be several months in between now?  There was certainly a huge gap of time between the Death of the Destroyer and A Peice of Blue Sky.

I am very happy to see these new features.

This is honestly really sweet.



Will the special missions to get into the white corridors actually
serve any storyline purpose, or is it simply a way to get into the
corridors?



I always thought the white corridors could be a good base for a small
'Oracle' contact missions set. This game needs more Oracle!



Still really great. Mission archive well anticipated too. Looking
forward to finally completing some of my storyline documents ready for
release (they'll be well worth the wait, trust me!)

I am very excited for these updates.  Are these private areas just going to be board rooms that we have all over the matrix or are they going to be special places.  Would like to see some pictures of these meeting areas.  Great Work Devs.

Deffdog

Most excellent!!

Always knew you were working on cool stuff. Thanks for a glimpse of things to come.

Message Edited by r3spon5e on 06.10.2006 11:16 PM

I edit everything

Message Edited by r3spon5e on 06.10.2006 11:16 PM

100Million.....

*whistles*  thatll set me back a bit.

Meh....  I like the idea of having it tied to your rep as anything that encourages someone to be more org loyal is a good thing, but that cost is just WAY too high.  The least they can do is make it something with 2 sets of requirements:  For example, maybe something like: Option 1:  100 rep, xp level 50, 20 million info or Option 2:  100 rep, any xp level, 100 million info. 

The rest of the infomation that Rarebit posted is moderately disappointing, I suppose, but I certainly hope they reconsider at least this point before they decide to take this live.

the rep + info will keep away the noobs

100 million? Holy **bleep**. Please tone that down. That would mean I'd have to grind for about a month straight.

Wow thats a big jump there Walrus!!!



Keep up the good work!

More info on the areas from Rarebit:

Seymour| wrote:
What will be the org only area for merovingians? Will get any preview screenshots before it's released?

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The Merovingian areas (there are about five or six different floorplans
per org) are called "Merovingian Palace" in the mission design tool.
They're pretty much large sprawling mission areas (fairly standard room
and hall shapes) done up in a posh chateau-esque style. I'll be
surprised if Walrus is able to resist leaking out a screenshot or two
at some point.

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TPaine wrote:

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TPaine wrote:
Question for later:

Does this mean the Hallways will be got too through the Archivist teleportation thing?  Cause that would be kind of lame...Archived image unavailable: 16x16_smiley-sad.html

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No.
The key will lead to a door. Going through the door will transport you
to the white hallways. Entering a certain one of the doors inside the
hallways will transport you to the mission area.

Once in the
mission area, if you turn around and go back out the door into the
hallway, you'll find yourself back in the white hallways, and from
there you can take the exit door back to the city, if you want.

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Romav wrote:

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Seymour| wrote:
What kind of area will the machines and zion be getting?

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<3

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Zion's
are called "Zion Outpost," I think. They're probably the most
Matrix-standard-looking areas, except that they have a bit of a feeling
of having been given a partial makeover by sweater-wearing
cave-dwellers. There's a largish meeting room with long log (or
something like that) benches in one of them, for instance.

The
Machine ones are called... Hm... I forget what the name shown in the
mission design tool is. Hideout? That doesn't sound quite right...
Prison? Maybe that was it. They have cell block areas, and
administration office areas. They're very cold and grey and depressing.
Agent Gray broadcast a picture of himself once that was taken inside
one of the interrogation rooms, although he slyly blurred and dimmed
the background a little.

100million is a little steep IMO - I know there are alot of lvl 50s out
there with alot of $i on their hands, but many won't be able to afford
even half of that.



I'm sure there are even many smaller factions that can't easily afford a key for the entire faction to use...



The rep thing is quite good, however.

100 mill isnt that much folks, i have about 1,400,000,000 and its all legit =P, but if you need some maybe we can make a deal?

I dunno about you guys, but I'm a little disappointed in the white hallways now. Limiting it to a mission team means we can't even have a meeting of a full crew, let alone a faction meeting. I guess it could be handy for a faction leader to meet with the faction's captains - but even that isn't practical for some of the larger factions.

I'm still pretty jazzed about archive missions though!:smileyhappy:

Wahey!

New content, not just some new missions but new, honest to betsy, content!

If we start with org specific areas in the white corridors then how long will it be before we get other things added in there?

The beauty of this game is that with these constructs you can have pretty much whatever you want in there and it still works out as canon because the mega city is still there grinding away.

Yes I am very exited! Thank you Walrus, a big bucket of fish is heading your way!

I'm very happy with the news as well.

The idea that we can make the old critical mission again was a great idea.

Now, I can see the critical missions that happened right after Morpheus's death, and review all of the others to

The white hallways? I love it, I'm just trying not to die of exitment.

You'd think I'd be more excited.

Yay, white hallways. With a 100 mil info key.

Yay, Org specific abilities. With the only requirement to finish intro missions. Meaning they're not really specific if you do them all.

Yay....

Must be the pessimist inside of me. Strange. I'm sure I'll be more excited tonight.

Can't please everyone!

And these aren't just plain white rooms. Rarebit gave a description of each Org's area in the Ask a Dev thread in General.

Message Edited by Signs on 06.12.2006 04:31 PM

"Yay, Org specific abilities. With the only requirement to finish intro missions. Meaning they're not really specific if you do them all."

Actually, it's not the temptation missions, it's the graduation ones that will give you the abilities. (I think  lol)  You know, the missions where your org's head would say some nice things about you and then give your male RSI a dress? 

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Mindsweep wrote:

White Hallways:smileywink: This will sure make a place in the Matrix special, great idea.

100.000.000....sure is lot info$ for a white room.

Is there a limit for how many ppl. there can be in the room?
Mission teams can have 6 ppl. why dont raise the mission
team to 10 ppl.?

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pssssttt, ((invite, bring, boot, invite, bring, boot, invite bring))

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CLAUDIUS wrote:

The Future for MXO is starting to look brighter..too
bad many didn't stay long enough to see this up and coming awesome
patch take place..  Great, great news. i'm glad I stayed...

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DUH?!?!?! White HALLWAYS



WHITE = BRIGHT





lol

These updates look to be very promising. I hope to see more like these in the up coming months. Thanks you for listing to us.