Earthrise

[Tapja]

Sounds good, but of course, almost everything sounds good in early development :)

Key Features:

A unique post-apocalyptic setting where the cloned remnants of mankind battle to survive and rebuild. Yet while humanity may have evolved, human nature remains as treacherous as ever…

Highly customizable characters with over 100 different skills, abilities, and tactics.No artificial "class" restrictions get in the way of making the character you want.

Fast-paced action combat featuring dynamic targeting, customizable power armor, huge mechanized exoskeletons, and hundreds of high-tech weapons.

Sophisticated Player versus Player (PvP) mechanics that let you fight for the established order, join the revolutionary underground, or carve your own bloody path as an independent criminal.

Territorial conquest and defense that matters. In your domain, you create your own rules – or let anarchy reign.

Character progression that keeps you advancing in your career even when you’re not logged in.

An advanced market-based economy with in-game supply and demand based on player activities.

Deep crafting mechanics that let you design and manufacture unique items from customizable blueprints and raw resources.

Wedsite: http://www.play-earthrise.com/index.php

[Volw]

On them screenies it doesn't look post apocalyptic at all.

Release date is somewhere in 2009 .. so probably 2010. Will see.

[TheIcon]

sounds great, lets hope they dont make it as boring as Tabula Resa.

And dosent fuck up the -
Highly customizable characters with over 100 different skills, abilities, and tactics. No artificial "class" restrictions get in the way of making the character you want. - Part.

[Gunhead]

Beta's started: http://www.play-earthrise.com/beta/betasignup.html

[Pegasus]

Looks promising from the infomation given, which isnt much atm. I has questions.

[Omniel]

i signed myself up for beta;
anyone else did so too?

[Sibben]

"...it is being developed by an independent Bulgarian-based team, Masthead Studios, which is aiming to launch the title next year."

Good luck and good night. :p

[Ludicrouse]

"...it is being developed by an independent Bulgarian-based team, Masthead Studios, which is aiming to launch the title next year."

Good luck and good night. :p


It will still be out before Darkfall :shinner:

[Volw]

"...it is being developed by an independent Bulgarian-based team, Masthead Studios, which is aiming to launch the title next year."

Good luck and good night. :p


Neocron was done by a few people and it was awesome.

[Sibben]

In 2002, before WoW came along and made the expectations on MMO launches all crazy. There are a lot of small studios trying to make MMOs these days because everyone's looking for the holy grail. That's cool, but when games from well funded studios with experience (Conan, WAR, PotBS etc.) struggle I'm just a bit wary of all the promises. :)

Going to be interesting to see how Jumpgate works too. EVE Lite or EVE Improved?

[Tapja]

In 2002, before WoW came along and made the expectations on MMO launches all crazy. There are a lot of small studios trying to make MMOs these days because everyone's looking for the holy grail. That's cool, but when games from well funded studios with experience (Conan, WAR, PotBS etc.) struggle I'm just a bit wary of all the promises. :)

Still, theres always the chance of a bolt out of the blue :)

[Sibben]

Yeah, It would be really cool if the big WoW-killer came from an underdog studio.

[Gunhead]

Going to be interesting to see how Jumpgate works too. EVE Lite or EVE Improved?

Not really comparable mate, what JGE's got in common with EVE is that it's an mmo and it's in space - that's about it. JGE: fps-style combat, EVE: icon-clicky.

[Volw]

Yeah, It would be really cool if the big WoW-killer came from an underdog studio.

Why's everyone so over-hyped about the next wow-killer? To me, the fruther away the game is from wow - the better.

It's like trying to beat McDonalds.

[Sibben]

Burger King have grilled burgers. They taste better.

Not really comparable mate, what JGE's got in common with EVE is that it's an mmo and it's in space - that's about it. JGE: fps-style combat, EVE: icon-clicky.

It'll still compete for much the same player base, at least partially. The reason EVE has clicky-clicky is probably more a technical limitation (at least at the time). I'd guess it's going to be compared heavily to EVE, and whether or not that comparison comes out favorably depends very much on how they manage to get their "twitch" gameplay to work. Heck, people even compare PotBS to EVE, sometimes regarding it as EVE Lite.

[Khammar]

KFC imba

[Volw]

Burger King have grilled burgers. They taste better.



Fail. They taste like grilled. It's part of the chemical recepie.

[MiMaRz]

KFC imba

signed

[Sibben]

How can a chicken be imba when it only has one hitpoint. :confused:

[MiMaRz]

anyways, this game dont look like much, not gona bother with beta

[Ludicrouse]

KFC imba

Agreed. Popcorn Chicken is awesome. Shame the box is so small.

[Marmars]

Agreed. Popcorn Chicken is awesome. Shame the box is so small.

Box?

Bucket ftw.

[Ludicrouse]

Box?

Bucket ftw.

Only comes in Boxes here. The rest of the chicken comes in a Bucket however.

[Daymare]

Only comes in Boxes here. The rest of the chicken comes in a Bucket however.

head and feet that is

[PariaH]

chicken was close , looks like a turkey to me though.

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are they trying to stop people buying into this game with that video :shinner: , whoever animated those chars needs shooting :<

[Jega]

Looks like shit to me...

[Khammar]

Wow . . .

I mean I really don't care about animation usually, but that's awful.

Plus, why do I want to play a game where you fire automatic weapons at each other for a really long time and nobody dies?

Eeesh . . . I was way more interested in the game before I saw this vid.

[Nyana]

Holy shitstorm Batman. That ass looked mighty fine....

Wait.. wat?

[Ludicrouse]

From what whisperings and discussions i have smurfed on the internet, Earthrise is the Fail-MMO to end all Fail-MMO's. If it releases in the current state of Beta then it is going to plummet worse than APB, Tabula Rasa and Auto Assault all wrapped up into one big ball of fail.

From the reckonings of most Beta Reports i have read, the general consensus is that this thing needs a bare minimum of a year added to development and a worst a complete rebuild.

[Hovis]

In fairness to plummet worse than APB they'd have to burn about forty million bucks on launch day just to cover the additional losses incurred in APB's development :D

You can't judge a book by its cover, but this book looks like somebody used it during a toilet paper emergency.