Tony posted this on January 19th, 2011.
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Some LOTRO-related ideas have been running around in my head as of late. MMeOw proper is no longer live, as you might have noticed. I figured I could put my thoughts here instead. These are just small ideas that I think would improve the overall quality of LOTRO. Most of them are very small and would not really impact gameplay as it stands now. They’re largely just things I think need to be adjusted.
Over the years Turbine has adjusted a lot of seemingly small things that have gone a long way to improving my experience in-game and out. A small change recently was the addition of numbers to items during character creation so you could actually easily compare looks with one another. It didn’t change how you spend your time in raids, but it helped. Read the rest of this entry »
Tony posted this on January 18th, 2011.
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Hi everyone, Tony here. I’ve been in the midst of moving to a new state and getting everything set up in my new apartment. Obviously the Combo Blog has suffered a bit as a result. You may have noticed the Twitter account was not working properly and the contact page on this site was nonexistent.
I’m working on fixing these issues now. Hopefully everything will be working very soon. As a note, here is where you can find us online:
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Drilorin, Matthrim, and Ivaneus of Landroval posted this on January 9th, 2011.
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Well despite all of our grand aspirations to record sometime in December nothing came of it for a variety of reasons.
First and foremost, Matthrim and I also moved (from one end of Singapore to another but a move is a move!) and this caused us to have no internet access/time for stuff from January 1st until the 5th or 6th (whatever that Thursday after the 4th was).
The second was that even though he moved well before us, Drilorin continues to languish in a network less domicile. Naturally, this makes recording anything difficult.
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Drilorin, Matthrim, and Ivaneus of Landroval posted this on December 18th, 2010.
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Probably our most delayed yet still fairly current on news Episode yet. Join Ivaneus, Matthrim, and Drilorin as they discuss Isengard, Defending squishy little healers, and the Rise of Wheaton on this, their thirteenth episode of Through the Palantir. In addition they also go through several dev diaries and dissect them before going into the Defend the Healer segment. Defending the healer is the final installment of the combat mechanics series, which will be followed by a return to the Ettenmoors in bite-sized pieces.
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Drilorin, Matthrim, and Ivaneus of Landroval posted this on December 1st, 2010.
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Well things have been pretty crazy lately on this side of the Palantir. We just finished off a collaborative segment with Lotro Reporter this week and Drilorin is in the middle of moving to the USA.
We recorded Episode 13 almost 2 weeks ago but I have not had an opportunity to even start editing it yet.
As for stuff coming out: Well we have tenative plans to record a bit more for Segment 13 relating directly to the launch of the November Update and how that has gone as well in addition to a few things we did not get to in the first recording session and we'll also talk about the results of the poll if we can manage to record.
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Drilorin, Matthrim, and Ivaneus of Landroval posted this on November 21st, 2010.
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Episode 12 of Through the Palantir features our first guest interview! Who we interviewed twice because Ivaneus lost the first interview! We also cover the November update and reams of feedback to discover that 1) Nobody Cares 2) Some people like our musical tastes 3) We have a european Audiance and 4) We are directly responsible for Free-to-Play launching in Europe. To find out all this and many things about the secret life of Gagmba, dive right on in!
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Drilorin, Matthrim, and Ivaneus of Landroval posted this on November 10th, 2010.
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In this exclusive look into the making of Through the Palantir's Lotro Reporter Segments, you'll learn more than you ever wanted to know! In this 3 hour and 20 minute look we will go into the origins of all the main characters of these segments, show our creative process at its best (and worst), and settle once and for all what Drilorin adds to the segments.
While we certainly hope you enjoy this "interesting" tour of our inner machinations we also want your feedback on how these behind the scenes things will come out in the future! How many segments in each? Do you want our commentary? Do you not want bloopers? Do you want background music? All this and more is to be decided by you, our listeners, right now! So leave a comment on this post, send us an email, or get in touch by smoke signals but we want to know how you want these done! And please also remember to fill out the polls.
-Ivan
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Drilorin, Matthrim, and Ivaneus of Landroval posted this on November 6th, 2010.
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Hey Everyone, as you all are keenly aware, the blog has been quiet and there is no Episode 12 out. I'm here to tell you why, and why the why is good news!
Let's start with Episode 12 being MIA. We recorded it as scheduled, and I then got busy editing everything but the Episode and before I knew it I was out of time to get any editing on it done this week. On the other hand, I finally caught up on the segments and Finished most of the editing for the Behind the Scenes of Lotro Reporter Segments 1-10.
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thekhazadguard posted this on October 29th, 2010.
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Yes you heard it right folks, the european servers will finally go live with the Free to play model on Tuesday 2nd of November.
We had an update today from Eurogamer early today, then over on the Codies forums this afternoon. So get ready and if I don’t see you in Enedwaith, I’ll see you in the Haunted Cellar!
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