http://crowfall.com/#/ A new game from the creator of Shadowbane and producer of SWG and Ultima Online. They plan to use Voxel technology to make the game destructible and intractable. The game is being called a Throne War Simulator whereby strategy, economy and political elements are bing added to make the game far more than any traditional Sandbox game. Sounds interesting. Th game utilizes basic class archetypes which then evolve from there to add diversity. The starting classes are at this point: Confessor, Knight, Assassin, Templar, Frostweaver, Duelist, Stalker, Forgemaster, and Legionnaire. The game also utilizes a Darkfall-esque mechanic of leaving out player levels and focusing on increasing talents, abilities, and combat traits. They can do this in both passive (ala EVE Online) or active like Darkfall. The game is also going to have advanced combat much like TERA with dashes that can be used to avoid attacks as opposed to a randomized dodge system. Melee attacks for example can be cone, rectangle, spherical etc and you can turn on or off the visual ground texture (think Wildstar) to see where you will be attacking. The game also partially does away with the "Trinity System" by removing a large portion of the effective in-combat healing one can perform and receive. To this end it would seem there are NO HEALERS! Now there are other support classes that can perform some healing with a plethora of buffs. To top it off you may be wondering about PvE dungeons if there are no healers. Well then look no further because in Crowfall there are no PvE raids! If you are wondering more about the player creation and development system then look no further. The game will sport a promotion class and discipline system to diversify your character from others. There will supposedly be a LOT of combinations. If you are wondering how this can possibly stay competitive and balanced? Well then the developers state that it isn't supposed to be! One of the key elements of strategy games is they have a win condition followed by a board reset. You start the game, you play the game, someone wins. You reset the board and start a new game.
Already signed up a bit ago. Really looking forward to this game. They also have some sort of annoucement in 3days 14hrs time
In 3 days they'll launch a kickstarter i bet. This game sounds ambitious, but imho does not have the funds to back it up.
Yeah most likely some form of crowd funding announced. It seems quite similar to Shadowbane, thats why I am keen for it.
The information dump is tonight (for me), roughly 14hrs away. They have stated that they will be putting up crowd funding details as well as a lot of details about the game, as well as showing some alpha footage. They stress that they are still in development and that there will not be an annoucement of beta at this stage. I will most likely be dropping money on this for alpha, as long as it isnt too expensive
I loved shadowbane so I am defiantly interested in this game if nothing else but because the designer of shadowbane is behind it I will be signing up for the beta tonight after work.
Backed it for $30. It is always tempting to spend more but I am done spending a sum of money on Kickstarter for product that don't exist. Even more so for MMOs that might never happen. Best case scenario; I get the game $20 off. Worst case; I am out 30 bucks (meh). I like the idea and design. Plus it is going to be awhile before this game gets made so lots of time to sink my teeth into Camelot Unchained.
I don't plan to put in too much $$$ but $30 now could save me if I chose to play it later. Shadowbane+EVE sounds like a plan.
