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Nathaniel Chapman has kicked up a new IGN diary for Storm of Zehir, talking about the overland map:
...and BioWare has announced an upcoming IRC chat. From Rob McGinnis:We knew we wanted exploration to be a focus of the game, so in our first prototype of what would eventually become our Overland Map system, we had something that was a little bit more like that Indiana Jones experience. You could walk around the Overland Map and discover hidden locations. Random encounters would actually spawn on the map and chase you down. Different types of terrain slowed you down, too. It really felt like you were travelling these massive distances, exploring the space between all of the interesting locations you'd normally visit in an RPG.
More information.This Thursday night (6:00 PM PST) we will be doing an IRC Dev Chat to answer your questions about the upcoming expansion, Storm of Zehir.
For information about how to connect to the IRC server, you can follow this link.
You can download an IRC client from here: http://www.mirc.com/get.html
I will be doing a dev chat to talk about the patches at a later date. Special focus will be Class and PrC improvements.