Darkspore Developer Livestream TODAY @ 3PM PST

[MaxisMars]

http://www.livestream.com/darksporegame

Come join MaxisMikella, MaxisDrVu, MaxisSparks, and me on livestream as we play the beta and chat about Darkspore! If anyone actually watches, we may take some questions from the audience.

Yes, you read that subject right... this is happening in 15 minutes. Why the short notice? This is a trial run for us, and our stream is capped at 50 viewers. We want to do more of these, so think of this as the beta test for our livestream.

See you there!

[irrational31415]

Awesome -irrational.

[MaxisMars]

Thanks to the handful of folks who showed up for the stream! Hope you all enjoyed it!

If you missed it, the recording is in the VOD section of our livestream page.
http://livestre.am/CgCD

We had fun, so we'd definitely like to do more!

[spore_fanx]

Thanks for rerecord I did miss it!

[Cindus]

Yeah it went very well for a pilot stream. Thanks Dev.

Nias

[Felluck]

Yeah it went very well for a pilot stream. Thanks Dev.

Nias

Great to see you got in, Nias! Man, this team is awesome. Nias was there watching and seemed really excited about the game and really wanted a chance to play it, but wasn't in the beta, so MaxisSparks just went all and just gave him a key. Kudos to you, dude.

Anyway you guys did a great stream! I've seen many fall trying to set up something like this, and you guys did a fantastic job. The video quality could have been better, but frankly I'm in it to hear the behind the scenes stuff and get a chance to actually talk with the great people behind this game. The talent behind this game is great and it's often one of the big selling points I use to try to convince people this game will be great. Oh, you're excited for Diablo 3 and don't want to play a spin-off of some other series? This game is actually made by some of the same people as that game! That's enough to make people take notice, not to even mention the Magic: The Gathering and Mass Effect 2 connections.

And although I don't think any of you have actually worked on League of Legends of any other DOTA style games, and this game isn't exactly like that, just the fact that so many lead team members are into that game shows they are on the same wavelength with what makes fun PvP as many current PC gamers. At first I was disappointed when I heard the only PvP at launch would be Arena play. It sounded like it was just the laziest thing, throw some players in a round area and let them fight, but once I actually saw some videos of the maps used and made the DOTA connection it made a lot more sense. It's almost like that sort of game, which is great!

[TheKGC02]

Man! You told me this was happening in game and I looked around but couldnt find it until I jsut now saw this post! :p Hopefully Ill catch the next one.

[Bijakz]

sorry I missed it, maybe I will catch the next one. Thanks for putting up the recording though.

[Cindus]

Great to see you got in, Nias! Man, this team is awesome. Nias was there watching and seemed really excited about the game and really wanted a chance to play it, but wasn't in the beta, so MaxisSparks just went all and just gave him a key. Kudos to you, dude.

Yeah I owe it to those guys. But it shows they have confidence in their game!

The short time I had with it was more than positive. Right off the start in the tutorial It felt good, Characters flowed smoothly. Being a LoL player (and WoW / Diablo and the list goes on). I felt pretty comfrotable right at the start (although I think i'd prefer to have abilities as q/w/e/r ect and character switching as 1/2/3/4. but that's just personal preferences.

And honestly.. For a first beta it's good. Not just regular good.. but real good. I LOVED the big boss fight in 1-4 (managed to fight 2 seperate boss's in different zones each time) go go Director system.

But this is about the stream. (I could go on for awhile about the game).

The Maxis devs were great. I owe MaxisSparks big time. But all the devs on the stream were helpfull and fun. The fact that I even got a key after making a little fun of their "Standing in fire" death by poison makes me grin.

Thanks again Dev's for bringing us into your world for awhile.

Nias

[Trade101]

If your playing campaign with your friends and some loot drops and your friend picks it up, do you also get what the drop loot is or do you have to fight for it

[ghostofillusion]

If your playing campaign with your friends and some loot drops and your friend picks it up, do you also get what the drop loot is or do you have to fight for it

I think the game randomly rolls a dice for each player, and whoever rolls the highest gets the item.

[Cindus]

you don't fight for it.. the items are rolled. so if your playing you have a 50/50 chance that either one of you can get it. I actually not 100% on this. I can't imagine a window poping up for EACH item (need/Greed) style. but if you like one hero and your friend likes another.. if something drops for yours.. it's a 50/50 chance that you get it.. And I don't think you can trade.

[kurliew]

does the person who picked it up have a higher chance, like 60/40 or 70/30 or is it just 50/50

[MaxisMikella]

Everyone has an equal chance of winning the loot.

[Freggi-Lissy]

The livestream is fantastic, I liked. It makes really a lot of fun, when you play together as team.

[Ultimate_Havok]

Yeah look's like with voice chat this game is a laugh

[Davyjonesx]

this is fantastic!
I wish it had moe quality tho =p

[kurliew]

anyone know when the next livestream is?

[MaxisMars]

We're definitely planning on hosting another one this weekend. As soon as I know the details, I'll post about it.

[Unstable_Isotope]

Will you exhibit another one?