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Fractured Stress Test Underway, But Character Creation Available Now to All - MMORPG.com
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Fractured Stress Test Underway, But Character Creation Available Now to All - MMORPG.com
Character creation for sandbox MMORPG, Fractured, is now open.
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It’s not. We’ve always felt that sandbox MMOs tend to discourage players who don’t appreciate hostile interactions. Because of this, we have designed a unique universe that will allow you to choose whether to start in a brutal open-PvP environment (Tartaros), a solely cooperative one (Arboreus) or a mix of the two (Syndesia), according to your race of choice. Travels between planets and interactions with other races will be possible, but subject to limitations.
This part caught my interest. I love sandbox games like ArcheAge, but I think they're ruined by PvP. So I'll be keeping my eye on this one.
It'll be very interesting to see which server turns out to be the most popular.
Ty for posting this. I had written the game off as pvp survival.
What exactly are you playing against on the pve server? How deadly is the environment?
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Its.....very okay? I mean I realize it's got a long way to go still but it's just not very engaging. You load into the world, try to find an open plot...maybe gather materials to craft some stuff and then.....nothing. You just aimlessly wander and hope you don't die in the process to mobs that are randomly placed throughout the world and not in any sort of level-zone configuration.
There will be three planets a good planet of beast men a neutral planet of humans and the evil demon planet aka free for all. 1 planet for Representing each alignment. Pve players will want to stay on the beast man planet which is the positive alignment planet. Good players can never harm other good players on the good planet for example but will be rewarded for confronting and defeating evil players on the neutral world if they so choose to take that increased risk to going to the neutral aligned world.
Neutral world sounds like its gonna be a political heavy meta a typical sandbox with justice system setup. Pvp with consequences and attempt to curb griefing.
Evil world is gonna be the gank box setup we see in games like darkfall and mortal. No consequences for pking other evils and neutrals anything goes.
To solve the issue of cross planetary escapades, the opposite alignments beastmen and demons will not be able to stay for longer then a half hour or so on each others planets and will be super debuffed in pvp it sounds like. So if your gonna roll a demon and try and go to the good planet to gank carebeaes you'll find a) your debuffed to shit b) all the players and the environment itself is out to purge you. Your literally an invasive species to the planet.
The human world being a bridge between the two will have a mix of beast men and demons as it's more of a middle ground. But beastmen being there will be open to more risk and demons will have to deal with more rules.
If they debuff races then that would look/feel dumb,again i point to immersion,your this no wait now your this no that no this.Trying to make pvp work is always what this comes down to,pvp DOES NOT work and NEVER will within a rpg environment.Stubborn developers "lot's of them" simply don't get it.
I do like the idea of planets though,been asking for that for a long time but sounds like this game will simply not deliver.
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Mostly unused, easily abused,discontinued feature - wasted development effort.
Once again you defend anything a MMO developer decides to do. The idea that players can add to their game as content creators is a great one. Of course there are issues, its a rarely tried out system that adds a lot of variables to the mix. But it can add a lot to a MMO, theme parks included, the mission generator in CoH while just doing missions worked well in a theme park.
More often than not, when it is devs(corp) vs players, it is devs(corp) that make more sense.
The idea of user generated content is indeed great, the reality though is very ugly. Just like only few of us are gifted to be good painters, there are only few to be good designers, vast majority of user generated content will be trash.
An idea, that being a gamer qualify you as a designer/developer (or games made by gamers for gamers silliness alike) is common self-delusion, especially on these boards.
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Also, like I said, it is wasted development time.
Yeah I liked when the NWN dev's said robes couldn't be done with the current engine and a player released a mod that added them within a month of release.
The gaul of non-pvp players to suggest that pvp in rpgs don't work and should not exist. They only have problems because people like yourself decide to play them, and then complain about them, and try to have the devs change the game to be something you like, when the game wasn't made for you in the first place. Go back to anyone of the vast group of pve only themeparks you came from.
Loved EQ Classic and hates that carebears had it changed.
You are just talking, without thinking it through at all and just ignoring everything anyone else says.....back to loling posts...
To be fair, I don't think Wiz plays any of the games he talks shit on. If it isn't FFXI or unreal tournament, it's trash to him. Isometric view = trash. Good story = linear gameplay = trash. No AAA graphics = trash.
Just try to ignore him as he rarely brings anything meaningful to the conversation. Neither do I, but I'm at least aware of that.