what to play while waiting on pantheon rise of the fallen

A Lantern in the Night

Tony "Minus" Guidi, Ben "Kilsin" Walters

For those that have been following Pantheon since it'southward early on inception, the look behind the curtain of development is something many have never experienced. It generates unsurmountable marvel, and with that comes many questions. Scouring videos, articles, blogs, and social media is at times a full time job for those heavily invested in Pantheon's development. However, some community members, like today's featured rockstar Bazgrim, are trying to make that easier for those looking to dig in.

Development is and will e'er be fluid. Ideas will change and evolve from the time they are put on paper until the moment gamers experience them. Missing a few updates, could mean you take an out of date thought on what may be happening in Pantheon's development. Bazgrim has been a lantern in the nighttime for those in the customs looking for quick updates, strong factual information, and has now expanded his bachelor tools to allow easy access to any and all topics surrounding Pantheon. Bring together usa equally we learn more well-nigh Bazgrim, his YouTube Channel, and his newest projection, the Library of Pantheon.

Welcome Bazgrim, why don't we start off with a bit about yourself?

I once pulled someone out of a called-for car, ran the largest Perry the Platypus Facebook fan page, hung out with "bodily cannibal" Shia LeBeouf, and I'm really not interested in Pantheon: Rising of the Fallen. Three out of those four things are true. I'll permit you make up one's mind.

How long have you been gaming?

Almost my whole life! My grandmother actually introduced me to EverQuest before long after it launched when I was v or 6. Information technology immediately absorbed my young mind and several other family members jumped onboard also and then we could all play together. Gaming runs in the family – I had no hope of being anything other than a huge gaming nerd!

What games does Bazgrim play when he is relaxing waiting for Pantheon?

Well, I'm not the type to just wait around and hope for the best. I follow Pantheon'southward development step by footstep every day, which leaves little time for other games. But I did recently go an Oculus VR headset as a gift, then when I do notice myself with some downtime, I've really been enjoying hopping into virtual reality for a chip, particularly Beat Saber and Repeat Loonshit.

How did you kickoff hear nearly Pantheon?

I saw an article online saying that Brad McQuaid's new game would be having its first live Twitch stream. This of class was in early 2016. I had stopped following EverQuest Next and I recognized Brad'south name from EverQuest i, so I tuned into the stream. I liked what I saw and the rest, as they say, is history!

What class and race will you primary when Pantheon goes live?

This is actually something I've been going back and along on lately. I know I want to main a Dwarf. In nearly MMOs, I main a Dwarf Cleric. Just in Pantheon, out of the scattering of classes available to dwarves, I'g intrigued by the Cleric, the Paladin, and the Enchanter. That'southward quite the spread, then I'll be keeping an eye on all of these throughout the testing phases to run into which i ends up sticking with me the most.

What'due south your most memorable Pantheon moment thus far?

On a Monday in September 2017, I rolled out of bed and checked my email to observe that I had won a costless ticket to TwitchCon 2017 from a random giveaway I had entered on the Pantheon forums. Information technology was Pantheon's kickoff convention appearance and I decided to vlog my journey and then that everyone else in the customs that wanted to exist there but couldn't would still become a taste of what it was similar. Not only was I lucky to be at the convention at all, but when I got in that location, I had the insanely fortunate opportunity to sit down down with Brad and play Pantheon at the booth for hours. Several other customs members got to play that weekend, only I just happened to be the offset one there. The fact that we could go anywhere and do anything for as long as nosotros wanted, all while a group of developers excitedly looked over our shoulder and talked about the game is so surreal. I'll definitely never forget that. I also got to witness firsthand the announcement of Pre-Blastoff 1 and Roenick's legendary on-stream death! Those vlogs from that weekend were the start of my YouTube channel, which I yet use to assistance keep people in the loop near Pantheon.

Your Youtube channel has been a huge source of community engagement across all Pantheon topics. Over the years of building the channel, what have you learned and how would you characterize your goals with your videos?

One of the main reasons I brand videos is because I honey learning and I'g constantly learning from the customs… like how people perceive things from different angles, how to get my facts straight, how to listen to sympathise what people really want to know, and how to communicate to those people conspicuously and concisely so that we can get on the same page and work together. My dream is to be a office of a thriving game customs that is well-informed and helps each other out. I promise that my videos volition in some mode contribute to that.

Looking into the future, what practice you run into your channel development looking like one time Pantheon goes live?

Certainly a lot more than of my own gameplay! 😉 Aside from that though, it'southward difficult to predict exactly since my main goal is just to provide value to the community, so what that ends up looking like will largely depend on what the needs of the customs are at that time and what I can exercise to assistance. For now, that mostly means making it easier to follow the game's development. But in Alpha and Beta, maybe that will mean doing overviews of each of the game's systems and classes, making information technology easier for new players to settle into the customs, and proving that you can truly enjoy Pantheon even if you only accept ii-3 hours to play at a fourth dimension. Throughout all this, to launch and beyond, my ultimate passion is showing how playing a challenging and cooperative MMORPG tin let you lot to strop skills that tin improve your real life, like teamwork, trouble solving, and perseverance.

In regards to your YouTube channel, exercise y'all have a favorite video you've put out? What is it about that video that makes it stand out for yous?

The video that I'm most proud of is my Saga of Pantheon'south Evolution video. I think it's actually important that we as a customs have a common understanding of what led Pantheon to where it is today. While we can never know the future for sure, the past is something that is knowable. And if nosotros can't agree on that, we can't have a productive conversation about where to go from hither. I put weeks of research into this video to ensure that it was entirely factual and it was during that research that I realized how much info there is out there that is vital to having an accurate understanding of how Pantheon got to where it is, but is actually hard to find. It was this realization that spurred me to start assembling the Library of Pantheon to put everything in one place.

What are y'all about looking forrard to with Pantheon's release?

I'thousand most looking forrard to using the retrospective of Pantheon'southward development process every bit a perfect example for how anyone tin can accomplish a monumental job that many would consider impossible if you truly believe it's worth doing and always press onward no matter how long information technology takes and even when things go wrong.

You accept recently launched the Library of Pantheon, a project you and a squad of fans put a lot of claret sweat and tears into, tell us a little about this amazing resource.

Before long after I started post-obit Pantheon, I realized how the publicly-available info about it is spread out across many different platforms, and how nigh people don't take the time to keep up with it all. I was and still am fortunate to accept more than time than about to read and watch literally everything about Pantheon out there, so I began my journey of trying to arrive easier for people to learn what I had learned, first with written stream summaries on the official forums and later moving to YouTube. But as time went on, I realized that wasn't enough, and how disquisitional it is for literally everyone to have free and easy access to all of the original developer quotes out in that location. This would give anyone the opportunity to have more fact-based conversations wherever they may be, brand more informative content to spread the discussion, or only satisfy their own personal curiosity. But that's a gigantic job that I couldn't do lonely. Recently, I found the right grouping of people to assist brand it happen. That'due south when the Library of Pantheon was built-in.

The Library of Pantheon is an independent website that houses a massive, organized, and searchable collection of links to all publicly-available information about Pantheon, straight from the developers – everything from each gameplay stream, video newsletter, interview, and roundtable on YouTube since 2014, each section of every newsletter, including archived newsletters dating dorsum to 2015, an Alpha tracker, Patch Notes log, and much more. Everything has been meticulously sorted and labeled to brand it every bit like shooting fish in a barrel as possible for anyone to detect an respond to their questions about Pantheon.

Who was involved in helping the Library of Pantheon project come to life?

The Library curators are a dream team of volunteers who also happen to be some of the nigh knowledgeable and dedicated people in the Pantheon community. Thewritersean has been my correct-mitt human in all creative projects since nosotros were in high school, including my YouTube channel, and then he was a natural choice to help go the Library project off the ground. He's been involved in every aspect of it from the start: from planning to researching, to building the website and graphic pattern. Evoras has been my friend in the Pantheon customs for quite a while. I've always admired his knack for taking big challenges and elegantly breaking them down into manageable tasks. His ridiculously detailed system skills and insight about Pantheon and its community have made his advice invaluable throughout the whole process. GoofyWarriorGuy has written many great articles and summaries about Pantheon on the official forums for the by several years, something that I appreciate a lot because that was my kickoff foray into creating Pantheon content too. His power to highlight of import facts and share them in a way people tin can understand is a perfect fit for our squad. Shortly after we started laying the groundwork for the Library, I noticed that Moxie VS Games had been quietly making some awesome updates to the Pantheon Gamepedia wiki. That talent and commitment to keeping the community informed are rare and exactly what our team needs. I immediately invited her to bring together our team and she'due south been rocking it ever since. BitCrunzh and Kyrais are the newest members of our curator squad. They both bring the deep technical noesis, which is much-needed as it allows usa to work toward advancing the capabilities of the website to make it even more powerful and piece of cake to use. BitCrunzh has also already pioneered the creation of an interactive Discord bot called the Librarian of Pantheon, which can reply your questions about Pantheon and retrieve content from the Library on-demand without always leaving Discord. Nosotros hope this volition allow for even more productive conversation about Pantheon and nosotros're excited to first testing information technology in the Library of Pantheon Discord server soon!

Prior to the Library, yous could be seen scouring social media related to Pantheon beyond a variety of platforms trying to answer questions for those seeking data. What are some of the most common questions you find yourself answering in the community that the library can provide clarity around?

Unsurprisingly, i of the most common questions is "When is Alpha?" And so we created an Alpha Tracker section of the Library, which takes the latest info from each newsletter about the Alpha to-do listing and puts it in a centralized, organized identify where anyone tin can easily cheque back to see the progress.

Lastly, what would you like to say to your fellow community members?

To my fellow optimists, I would similar to say: patience isn't just waiting. It'southward what you practice while you wait.

And to my pessimist friends, I would similar to say:

"Flight by machines heavier than air is impractical and insignificant, if non utterly impossible," – Simon Newcomb, physicist and US Naval Director, 1902

"While television may theoretically be viable, I consider information technology an impossibility, a development of which we need waste material niggling time dreaming." – Lee De Forest, father of radio, 1926

"It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology," – John von Neumann, physicist and estimator scientist, 1946

Merely remember… It always seems impossible until it's washed.

Give thanks y'all Bazgrim for sharing a bit about yourself, and discussing your diverse media projects surrounding the development of Pantheon. You have been an amazing part of pulling the community together, and helping create new fans of Pantheon.

We are thankful for the amazing stories our customs has shared thus far with us. Practice you have a story virtually how MMORPGs have made a difference in your life? Has information technology driven your creative urges? Has it fabricated you a better leader? Has it helped you overcome difficulties in your life? Nosotros'd dear to hear your tale, and show why community truly matters. Driblet usa a line in the forums.

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