Crowfall videos & open beta (free tests) info

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Crowfall videos & open beta (free tests) info

Postby JamesGoblin » Fri May 06, 2016 6:47 pm

Crowfall is MMORPG with over $7M of budget and 120 000+ registered supporters, accumulated since Kickstarter last March. It will have strong survival / RTS feel with players physically making their own kingdoms (by playing Tetris!) and sieging / destroying enemy forts - here is a video about that with lots of physics and voxels - "Death in the Rubble":

https://youtu.be/8cpcAUI07bE

Alpha access is kinda expensive, but there will be open beta i.e. free tests, scheduled for "this winter" and requiring only registration on the site. Here is some more early test footage - have in mind that cartoony looks should enable smooth battles with hundreds of players, collision detection, lots of physics and destruction:

https://youtu.be/2Qe73uQPu4o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPPl7MpwqyI

Very important thing is - player's identity is tied to the crow-spirit and NOT the body - this will include frequent changes of class, race and sex!? In other words, once you die you'll have to fly and find a new corpse, unless you got friends and/or spare one nearby.

This, same as Crowfall's progression system, resembles EVE: spirit/body parallels pilot/ship, and bodies can be crafted (or even stolen/looted on some servers) through necromancy skill - in qualities from white/green to epic or legendary, to use WoW terms. A little story about death:

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To tell a story of that comic: at first (pages 4,5) a knight chooses to serve Malekai, the Lord of Shadows, one of the 13 gods. God grants him eternal life and other specific benefits, but the knight is obliged to fight and pillage in Malekai's name - this might include building and maintaining god's statues and temples (which also cost gold and resources for taxes and maintenance).

After that (pages 1,2,3), on the 47th day of the War of the False Kings, the knight dies and the crow-spirit leaves to fly and find another body (pages 6,7). On the graveyard nearby, the crow finds the corpse of fallen champion, possesses it and walks away to fight for Malekai again.

...and they all lived happily ever after :mrgreen:


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