Crowfall is PvP MMO with strong RTS / survival feel, kickstarted in March 2015. It's budget is already over $7M with 120 000+ registered supporters; alpha access is kinda expensive but there will be open beta (free tests) "this winter", requiring only registration on the site.
It is based on claiming territory + voxel building &
destruction + players will be physically making their own kingdoms (by...
playing Tetris!?!). For quick intro, say -
it's IGN Wiki,
Pantheon (gods/factions) and
Archetypes (classes).
This game is bit strange - you are not a human, but a crow - spirit crow that can possess bodies. After death, one doesn't just respawn, but has to fly around in crow form and seek new corpse to inhabit; This often means
change of class, race and sex!?
Here is the story of the comic above, explaining some important game mechanics: 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 benefits, but the knight is obliged to fight and pillage in Malekai's name - this might include building and maintaining god's statues and tempes (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
The universe: here is an
Imgur album with hundreds of Crowfall images and screenshots (all credits to Handies of Crowfall forums), for example this is how it's beasts change through four seasons (winter marks the end of the world, and death of all in it):
Graphics are cartoony to enable smooth battles with multiple hundreds of players, collision detection, physics and destruction. Anyway here's some player made footage of early tests, starting with a siege with lots of voxels and physics:
- "
Death in the Rubble";
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Noob girl playing with fire (and couple Centaurs);
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Ranger PvP with some comments.
