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AGE OF CAMELOT: NEW FRONTIERS ENTERS SECOND BETA STAGE Free
Downloadable Expansion to Reinvent
Unique Realm
versus Realm System
FAIRFAX, VA – April 20, 2004 – Mythic Entertainment, developer and publisher of the award-winning massively multiplayer online role-playing game Dark Age of Camelot, today announced that Dark Age of Camelot: New Frontiers has entered Beta 2 stage. New Frontiers is a free downloadable expansion that reinvents the game’s unique Realm vs. Realm (RvR) combat system. Player characters from the game’s three Realms will wage war across new battlegrounds, battle to control new keeps and fight to control expansive new frontier areas. More than 500 players will be play-testing the new RvR zones, abilities and strategies by the end of the week. This limited beta, available by invitation only, is estimated to last two weeks and it will be followed by a larger, open Beta 3. Mythic plans to make New Frontiers available to all subscribers in Summer 2004. “Player testing of New Frontiers is now underway,” said Matt Firor, Executive Producer and Vice President of Development at Mythic Entertainment. “RvR has always been a key feature of Dark Age of Camelot. We consider the feedback we receive from this beta critical to development, as New Frontiers involves significant changes and balancing the game systems our players are familiar with. Our goal is to make Camelot’s RvR system even more accessible, fun and compelling forall players.” New Frontiers features revamped geography for each Realm’s frontiers as well as updated siege warfare, completely redesigned upgradeable keeps, a Realm War status map, and much more. New travelling systems enable users to get to the action faster with boat service between the frontiers and the ability to teleport directly to a friendly keep. The expansion also overhauls the game’s Realm Ability system to further balance character classes. About Dark
Age of Camelot: New Frontiers New Frontiers, the free
downloadable Realm vs. Realm (RvR) expansion to Dark
Age of Camelot, restructures the award-winning massively multiplayer
online role-playing game’s Realm vs. Realm combat system. Players from the
game’s three different Realms will vie for supremacy by laying siege to enemy keeps,
invading enemy lands, and fighting one another in pitched battles. New Frontiers
makes it easier to quickly locate battles, adds more strategy and
tactics to battles, greater diversity in combat, and integrates more concrete
bonuses and abilities as rewards for RvR combat.
The design and testing process of New Frontiers is open to comment
from the Dark Age of Camelot community, and the final version will
reflect fans’ input. For more information about New Frontiers,
visit www.camelotherald.com/newfrontiers/ . About Mythic
Entertainment Mythic Entertainment is one of the most
successful online game developers in the industry today. Credited with 14
online games, including the award winning Dark
Age of Camelot, Mythic has played a major part in the evolution of the
online game industry. The company’s other titles are some of the most popular
online-only games of all time, including Aliens
Online, Starship Troopers: Battlespace, Godzilla
Online, Silent Death Online, Rolemaster: Magestorm,
Darkness Falls, Splatterball and Dragon’s Gate. In 2003, Mythic was
ranked 36 in Inc. 500. Mythic was also named one of Deloitte & Touche’s national “Technology Fast 500” companies and
regional “Technology Fast 50” companies for the past two years. For more
information about Mythic Entertainment, visit www.mythicentertainment.com.
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