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Is Crowfall in a continuous, playable state?
MightyUnclean
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Is Crowfall at the point yet where there's some form of game that can be played continuously? I think I backed it way back. Might as well check up on it if there's something to play.
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Keep in mind that the core game was originally pitched to be a 'seasonal' game, meaning there would be 'worlds' for up to various amounts of months and then they would 'die' off or reset as it were. So, hopefully people that backed the game liked that idea, unless they've changed their mind on that....like they have so many other things up to this point.
There aren't that many people playing right now because most are waiting for that patch, but if you are unfamiliar with the mechanics, it might be a good time to learn. There will be at least 2 more wipes before the game launches, one for the patch in February, and another for launch. I wouldn't be surprised if there's another when beta starts later next year.
They also introduced the Crow and Vessel system a few years back. Players are immortal crows at the account level and they can craft bodies to inhabit, similar to the capsuleer/ship dynamic in EvE. So when you create a character, you can take the default common vessel provided by the game, or you can select a crafted vessel from your vault. Crafted vessels can have different quality levels and you can customize them to have the specific stats you want.
In addition to these, they have skill training, which affects all characters on your account. Skills train over time and they plan to add catchup mechanics for players who join late. Talents can be selected as you level up (leveling is extremely fast in CF and is more to provide new players with a progression to learn the game before diving into PvP). A common vessel can be leveled within 2 hours if you don't already have stuff you can sacrifice for XP. If you do have enough stuff to sacrifice, you can level even a legendary vessel in minutes, so vet players won't be overly burdened by this system.
There are also a variety of disciplines that you can select for your character. Major disciplines (2 max) come in 2 types, combat and crafting, and provide a variety of extra abilities and passives. Exploration disciplines (2 max) are for harvesting, and minor disciplines (3 max, though human is supposed to get a 4th in the next patch) mostly provide passive buffs for combat, crafting or harvesting.
According to a recent Q&A, they still plan to add the Advantages and Disadvantages system. If you played Shadowbane, you'll have an idea of what this is about. It is unclear at this time when that system will go live. It could potentially be post launch.
That seems like a lot of build options to me, but of course they still need to do a pass on disciplines to make sure they are all desirable, and talents will need a pass too. That's all stuff that they'll do during beta.
At a guild level, there are choices to make as well when building a city. Different buildings will give different buffs. We don't know the full list of options yet, but some that they mentioned are no-fly zone, no-burrow zone and a crafting buff. The no-fly zone will protect against Fae, while the no-burrow zone will protect against Guineceans. There will be buildings that spawn guards as well. Guilds won't be able to place every building type in their city, so they'll have to choose.
A lot is going to change in the next patch, so we'll have to wait and see how it all plays out.
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As a guild we are meeting to prep for 5.110 Test server to check build viability and changes. Full wipe will mean a balanced playing field, 1x passive training will mean equal playing field for a month or more... no crafted weapons for 2-3 weeks+ that beat any MoB drops. It's gonna be fun PvP people, don't miss out on Free beta accounts.
Ughhh that looks like shit
I cannot fathom the attraction to this sort of gameplay,is it because many people are very bad at pvp so when there are a pile of players on screen they can sort of hide in the shadows?
That is soooooooooooooo much spam in one small area,it gives me a headache.I would exit the game and delete it instantly if that was the type of gameplay i witnessed.
I had a MUCH different vision of what Crowfall might be but this is way worse.
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Single stationary tactical objective inside a structure with 3 large entrances... the fort battle. I have more fun on the approach and getting through the walls when things are spread out and your making the preliminary probes and there is lots of small skirmishing. Crowfall is adding caravans which will be an open field constantly moving tactical objective which will mean a rolling fight crossing a zone. There are choices in which tactical objective you want to conquer. But really Wizardry, aren't you barking here with no intention of ever putting skin in any PvP game, your a self admitted PvE player. You can declare yourself the ruler of God's Reach and pwn mobs.