I went up to the booth where I met Susan Kath, she gave me a lineage hat and said she knew who I was, I’m Dlirk, by the way. My mom told her I had been playing lineage since it started, about 5 years ago, she then asked me if I would like to meet Jake Song. I said that I would and a few moments later I shook hands with Jake.

I asked him about items like wands of wishing being removed, they were very fun items I told him. He replied that they are still in the game, monsters just don’t drop them. He also said that Lineage II takes place around 150 years before Lineage I and there is very little connecting Lineage I and II, remember this line folks.

He said the dragons were given elements for no real reason and that it does not really follow the lineage history. He said that the dragons wanted a more civilized world than the giants provided but there is no reason for them having elements, it is more of a game discretion. My mom then told him that he is to blame for me spending so many hours playing. He agreed that it was his fault.

We were then led into a small room with a big computer in the corner. A guy in there showed me everything I wanted to see in lineage. I got to see demons fight the new beleth. The new Beleth womped demon like a girl with a skinned knee. He showed me the newly redone hidden valley and singing island with new monsters, a new low level quest involving a low level drake on singing island. I also got to see all the new monsters and the animation is really cool.

I saw the new mage and knight and the knight had really cool animations with a dagger, sword, and two-handed sword. He kind of got mad when I said a knight would have to be really strong to use a katana in one hand. The dagger thrust with the knight looked really cool. The snowman is great, he pecks at you with his nose.

The guy then tried to kill Valakas with the +100 Doomblade he had, but after it didn’t die in 5 hits he gave up and clicked the dragon which showed what items he was carrying, wow I want that hack.

I also saw a few more servers but they don’t seem to be released yet, I saw another non-pk server, another test server and 2 more pk servers, and then there was the e3 server. I asked if they would add a new hunting area strictly for level 48-50+ and he said he didn’t know. What keeps strong players playing, that is what he asked me.

I then got to see lineage II and it had this cool zoom out feature where you can see the whole map for miles, really easy to find monsters, then he made the sprite he had, have an elven torso and elven legs. He also made it lay down on the ground and do a battle taunt, yet he was unable to cast a spell or slash, because he didn’t have those animations. I asked him if Lineage II ties into the story of Lineage I, he said it did a lot, and I got confused cause remember what Jake said? He said it’s establishing the ruling class in Lineage II… And then we were out of time and I left. Some side notes include. He also said that IK was brought on board because of his work with Lvault.com. Beleth killed a snow golem in 2 hits. When asked about the Destroy, better known as Disintegrate spell, he said he doubted it would ever be added, then he blasted a chicken with it. He also didn’t seem to know about unicorn horns when I asked him about them. I don’t really see why they don’t add doom blades normally to the server because it was only 16/16 and did not have the instant kill feature, sure it had +5 to stats but peh.

Dlirk