Massively NT Screens
Massively has uploaded 10 new RIFT 3.0: Nightmare Tide screens to their site that you can check out here.
The following two below of are particular note:
RIFT 3.0 Lady Glasya. Src: Massively
Lady Glasya in what is likely Gyel Fortress. Interestingly, the leaderboards and achievement categories on the PTS open to non-alpha/Beta-testers states that Gyel Fortress is a dungeon, not a raid. It seems quite odd that the leader of the Bloodfire Army – Lady Glasya – would be present in a dungeon and not a raid.
Perhaps she escapes at the last minute like the Architect Queen Inyr’Kta does in the Queen’s Gambit chronicle and is part of a raid at a later point in the timeline.
RIFT 3.0 Tarken Glacier Bone Flower. Src: Massively
A giant bone-flower as far as I can tell. Given the floating chunk of ice in the top-left, this is probably some part of Mount Sharax. Note the tiny player at the bottom on the Ice Strider mount for size comparison.
Other images include: Izbithu, Minions UI, what looks to be the top half of an Atragarian Well and a few other areas in Goboro Reef. Check them all out here.
MMORPG.com Nightmare Tide PAX Preview Article
MMORPG.com has an article up adding more information about Nightmare Tide; mainly additional lore bits. You can find the article here.
Briefly:
- It’s not just Goboro Reef that is under attack by the Plane of Fire. The Bloodfire Army is present in all 3 zones.
- “This is also the first expansion for RIFT to be fully voiced.”
- The Tree of Life (Gyel Fortress area) is a tougher area (probably Elite mobs). Players who enjoy exploring will be rewarded with hidden rooms and treasures.
- Mount Sharax/Cosmic Mountain provides lore beyond the Planes. “Tarken is a glacier at the edge of the cosmos”.
- Minions are account-wide.
Check out the full article here. (Thanks for Lefteris for linking this article!)
RiftGrate 
Fully-voiced…?! I thought they were already doing a lot of voice-acting in Storm Legion, compared to old-school RIFT. We’re getting even more voice-acting? Yay!
Okay, not all of the voices they’ve used have been “professional” but I’m glad they were there anyway.
I’m hoping fully voiced includes uniquely voiced. I don’t want to hear the exact same thing from a robot, hologram and human porticulum master. When a robot says “Come back next time” in the same voice as I hear from merchants in Mathosia – that saddens me.
Here’s to hoping that the mermaid porticulum masters (assuming there are any) don’t sound like that merchant. Would destroy immersion.
what if we, the fans, voiced the characters ;D
Should throw them an audio sample 😛 I wonder how many NPCs Captain Cursor is voicing.
I do hope they add voices for Hailol, even though it won’t be “relevant” anymore. It’ll still be the greatest city in an MMO ever.
I like that idea. Fans voicing at least some of the characters. I’d love to voice a character. I think I have a fairly good voice for it too.
A competition? Would be a great event.
Btw in case you missed it, RIFT: Nightmare Tide won Best in Show at PAX from MMORPG.com: http://www.mmorpg.com/showFeature.cfm/loadFeature/8886
Grats to Trion! It definitely looks interesting in the videos and screens we’ve seen thus far!
Why Lady Glasya looks pretty much like Estrode from Hammerknell?
Is it me, or Lady Glasya looks pretty much like Estrode from Hammerknell?
Yep, Lady Glasya uses the same skeleton/rig. Same with Gelidra in Frozen Tempest.
Goddamn doubleposting.
You would expect we will get some new rigs for xpac, especially for important characters. Kinda dissapointing.