Can anyone who knows about this explain a bit what it will look like?
Is it like an area with lots of bosses that respawn every few minutes, and player will try to battle with other players? What's going to happen on PvE server?
I don't know exactly, but people are comparing it to rifts system, so let me explain that to you.
So, basically in rift every once ina while a giant [filtered] whole in the sky appears, and it spawns monsters. Once you kill the monsters it spawned it spawns some different ones, and it's sort of like waves. After awhile theres a boss, kill the boss and the rift closes and you get goodies.
Another 20 or whatever minutes later, another of these might appear in another random place.
At least I think that's what they are comparing it to.
Can anyone who knows about this explain a bit what it will look like?
Is it like an area with lots of bosses that respawn every few minutes, and player will try to battle with other players? What's going to happen on PvE server?
How can I explain this.
You know where basilisks are?
Just have concrete walls surrounding him with stairs etc, that looks like an actual "Dungeon"
That's open world dungeon for ya
I remember a time when all dungeons weren't instanced.
And I could honestly not be happier that this changed over time. Open world dungeons often promoted such antisocial behavior among groups. We all like to look fondly back at things now, but there were an awful lot of headaches that came with that kind of an environment.
Ah the young MMO gamers... :) Open dungeons go back much further than that. As ImperialPanda said, it is merely a dungeon that is not instanced, and was the norm back in the early days of MMOs.
A good example would be Dark Age of Camelot (DAoC) --The original game was designed as a completely seamless and open world. There were no "dungeons" as we understand them today, but many large cave systems that acted like dungeons, as you would experience them in the real world.
These areas weren't marked or named on any map but were cave systems scattered all over the world. Because they weren't instanced, players would form groups to tackle certain sections to grind EXP on respawning mobs and would actively work to not steal mobs from each other's camping spot. It worked out very well, as community interaction was at a high point and necessary to advance in the game.
You could consider the first instanced dungeon in DAoC to be the PvP dungeon, Darkness Falls, since you had to zone into it. But once inside it followed the same rules as the non-instanced dungeons: Everyone had access to the same dungeon. The only difference is it wasn't just your faction in the dungeon, but all 3 could be present depending on who last had control.