Fae race

[Alicerose]

How would you unlock the fae race?

[Crissa]

It's not available at the moment.

[Hood]

I'm guessing around 6 months from now based on what I can piece together that the Devs have said in the past

[Alicerose]

I'm guessing around 6 months from now based on what I can piece together that the Devs have said in the past

yeah that's what I'm talking about because the devs said something about being them an unlockable race

[BobOfTibia]

This is actually what I've been looking for, any kind of information on this race would be fantastic, as I plan on switching my main to Fae, but from what I've read, Dwarfs seem to be the next race in line.

[Niph]

This is actually what I've been looking for, any kind of information on this race would be fantastic, as I plan on switching my main to Fae, but from what I've read, Dwarfs seem to be the next race in line.

I can't find the quote, but devs have stated that you cannot change your main race. Unlocking a new race means you can create new alts (and switch to them as main) of that race.

As far as I know, unlocking should be a quest, not too difficult to complete, and those of us that backed during kickstarter will not even need that.

[BobOfTibia]

Indeed, I realized, I meant, I will be switching from my main, to a new character who is Fae.

[ShieldBreaker]

... Dwarfs seem to be the next race in line.
Each race has had key elements added to the game that will be needed for them. I still guess Orcs will be next myself, they have their homeland in place ingame which even received an updating already, unlike the other lands which haven't been added ingame yet. We did get some dwarf lore and dwarf NPC did get a dwarf model some updates back, but the lack of a homeland I think will hold them back for a while. Fairies got their main skills introduced a way back, and at that time I thought they would be the next to be release, and maybe they will be, but again we have only got one teaser shot of the fae lands and none of us have been there. For all we know maybe they will be introduced all at once, but that might just be to chaotic.

Anyway, here are some other posts that might have a tidbit of information.
https://forum.projectgorgon.com/showthread.php?599-The-Races-(Human-Elf-Dwarf-Rakshasa-Fairy-and-Orc)
https://forum.projectgorgon.com/showthread.php?477-About-the-Races
https://forum.projectgorgon.com/showthread.php?457-Curious-Question-When-are-the-Orcs-Faes-and-Dwarves-Going-to-be-Added

[Citan]

Shieldbreaker's links are a good starting point for this topic. I can give some updates on the race development: basically, fairies are blocked by other things that need to be done first.

Fae - We now have the needed fairy animations (just the bare-bones necessities of flying, landing, etc.), but I still need to figure out some of the systems involved in fighting-while-flying. Because it's insanely abusable atm. Fae also have a custom death system, and to integrate that into the game I need to finish changing the REGULAR player death system -- that is, changing how "Enter the Light" works, among other things. But I know that players use "Enter the Light"'s infinite-travel-back-to-Serbule feature as a fast-travel system, and I don't want to diminish that until we have other travel tools in the game. So I've been pushing on getting travel systems in. The biggest remaining one is horses -- at this point I think horses probably have to happen before fairies. And horses have their own set of bottlenecks -- the new GUI has to come online before horses, for instance. So I don't know when fairies will be ready. Their newbie area also needs lots more development, but that's fairly straightforward. (And interesting -- they have an unusual home place.)

Orc - here we ran into problems with our plans of using Gazluk as the newbie area. Basically, I want to let new orcs run around inside Gazluk Keep -- but it can't be the REAL Gazluk Keep, because (for instance) there's valuable level 70 loot just lying around in there. I'd planned to make an alternate version of the place, with different spawns and stuff for the new orcs. But the tech to do that optimally ended up being tricky, because other technical features need to be completed first. Orcs are still likely to be the first new race to come online, though.

Dwarf - not very far developed yet and will almost certainly be the last of the three to come online.

[Crissa]

Will we get to play horses? ^-^

[Silvonis]

Will we get to play horses? ^-^

Horses are mounts, so there are no plans for them to be playable.

[Tchey]

I would mount humans, as a horse, for a fair balance of karma.

[Spamwagon]

I have kind of been holding out getting into the game "whole hog", if you will, until the Fae are an option. I just don't want to risk burnout having to retread everything again.

Wondering if there are any updates to this situation. I was under the mistaken impression that new races and the steam integration would coincide.