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AssGremlin

Have we gotten any news about landscape difficulty in normal servers?

As per the title, I know when it was initially discussed the roll out only to progression servers was framed almost as a focused testing component before wider scale adoption to all servers, but now it kind of seems like it's just a subscriber perk and I haven't heard anything about landscape difficulty coming to all servers in some time (though I haven't been keeping up with news as much about the game).

Posted Dec 29, 2022, 3:31 PM UTC

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authoridadArk/Land/Tree•

When it was first added to the legendary servers, one of the devs said they would be working on getting it to the rest eventually. The most recent statement by Cord sounded more like it’s something they’re considering but have no current plans to do. So not anytime soon, unfortunately.

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Supadrumma4411•

considering but have no current plans to do

SSG in a nutshell.

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WeirdJediLotro•

Adding the landscape difficulty system from the legendary servers to live servers has been a hot topic for a long time. I hear a request for it nearly every week.

They have stated how it wasn't planned back at the beginning of this year and was not planned for Gundabad but many people got excited when it was mentioned that it "needs to come over" in Severlin Q&A a few months back. However, in that same stream he mentions about how there are complications and implementing factors to consider beforehand. One problem is how the difficulty system is stacked on top of delvings for challenge as [Orion mentions in his Q&A] (https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1636815899) (42min). Other worries include if there will be even less of a presence on the legendary servers and how the general public, including those who aren't VIP, will see changes to their gameplay.

However, Cordovan's latest stream had a big discussion about this between the 20 and 40 minute markers and his post implied that it wasn't something that people should expect to be coming around the corner.

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SunMon6•

Yes, we did, and none of it makes sense, to be honest.

Sev: Landscape difficulty needs to come to normal servers at some point, won't be there for Before the Shadow because things need to be extensively tested.

Cord on the forum or in last stream: Maybe maybe, nothing certain, and if it happens then probably not on every server and maybe more like a special event thing (seriously? what's the use?), but nothing certain. Also, he totally forgot that Sev said that thing from before.

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BlueBomber13Landroval•

What is this exactly? I’m not familiar

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PhysicalSea5148•

Are you at lvl cap and have you played delvings? It's something like that: individually, on your normal server, you could pick the difficulty of landscape, giving mobs some boosts. It was supposed to please those who feel like "LOTRO is too easy, I want some challenge" without fucking up the rest who enjoys it easy peasy.

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lallapalalableCrickhollow•

Ah, nice, I do love rolling through older areas with my 120 minstrel and killing bosses with just a scream, would have sucked if they just scaled everything for everyone automatically

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EfficientAd4048•

It was a nice gimmick for the first character on the Legendary servers but I, for one, never used it for leveling alts. I think “difficulty level” is much more than the slider. If so much of gear progression etc is trivialized by so many of the other systems in place then the slider is just a bandaid.

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ClammyHandedFreak•

I recommend watching the Cord of the Rings episode that most recently happened. Look up Lotrostream on Twitch. Cordovan talked about this last time.

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BaruceruLaurelin•

This whole thing is just a mess.

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sumdeadhorse•

Hope they added soon, hell hope every mmo adopts it.

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