I ran across this game today and I was very intrigued, to say the least. Its currently in Alpha and draws its inspiration from Halo, Warcraft 3, Borderlands, Terraria, and Minecraft. It borrows elements from the RTS, FPS, RPG, Voxel Builder, Tower Defense, and Physics Sandbox genres. Take a look and let me know what you think I for one am very interested in watching the development of this project. It has limitless potential. Here is gameplay video showing off some of the current features. Starforge has Procedural Infinite Voxel Terrain and Space - Dig an endless tunnel, fly out to the far reaches of space, and come back again. There are no set boundaries in StarForge, and the planet will procedurally generate each time you start a new game. Hide out in endless forests or harvest them. Mine to your heart's content and discover the different biomes. Build anything you want, anywhere... even in space if you want... or dig down to the depths of the world. You need resources to build and you get that by mining, chopping trees, etc.. to get resources to build with. Then you survive against monsters, worthy of the title... not just slow moving zombies like in minecraft lol. Starforge also promotes creating structurally sound buildings, when building it shows stress points and if you don't build it structurally stable it will collapse. Everything is also realistically physics driven. It has different game modes and both Single player and multiplayer as well as skills and levels. Also includes vehicles, flight, turrets, furniture, and many decorations so you can decorate your house, make your fort tough, or build an airstrip and fly a plane to your cloud base. "Resources and Economy - There will be many different resources in StarForge. However, the player can only hold so much at a time. When the player can no longer hold what he mined, it will be placed on a palette. These pallets can then be put on transport trucks and shipped to your own warehouses to later be used for crafting. This will keep multiplayer games interesting as players will be forced to build road networks, warehouses, and transport trucks. Plus, they will have to protect it all from players acting as pirates or rival clans. You can also become a trader and try to find merchants to buy your goods at a high price."
Looks like if halo and Minecraft had a baby. Infinite world looks very impressive. I wonder if it's possible to dig in the ground, I didn't see anyone dig in the vids. Saw another vid where they were terraforming land. Would be nice to have some sort of 'tool' to dig.
ikr! and its only in alpha too. I mean... if they continue on with what they have planned they may just blow minecraft out of the water. Well at least for those with a computer that can handle it lol, they are saying they are working on optimizing its performance though. Yeah, well those are two games they are drawing inspiration from. Also there are different games modes that are especially fun for multiplayer, like fort defence. The digging is done in a sort of Voxel sniper tool for minecraft way, good for quickly terraforming though who knows how it will all develop. Its very early in its development. I have not heavily researched this project yet, but from what i understand they will be adding in ores to mine deep in ground to build certain things for your base. And the deeper you go the more dangerous and powerful the monsters you can encounter.
In Order To Play - Windows operation system. Mac support is coming in early 2013. Linux planned for late 2013. - 3GB Ram minimum. - A graphics card. Integrated graphics may also work on low settings. - 500MB free hard drive space. - An internet connection is required for logging in to the game. - We currently do not yet know the exact minimum and reccomended full system requirements. They will be published when the game is further along.
Dont buy it. 90% of the material shown in the video is not implemented in the game. All you can do as of now is: Jump Walk run Shoot 1 gun Kill 1 enemy (Hard as shit) Build a wall Drive a crappy car
I watched a lot of other people on YouTube doing way more than that. Is that statement from you trying it yourself and possibly not knowing what you were doing?
A friend of mine got it and he said almost the same thing as leo did. I'm going to wait until they put the things they advertise in.
I think it looks like a good idea and it could be a lot of fun. They seem to have tried to combine a lot of different elements into the game mechanics. By the way, if you read what he said, this is an alpha build. No, it won't have 100 guns and all the random stuff you want. They release those videos to get the game into public eyes and generate some interest in the project, just like Minecraft was done. It's like the DayZ standalone forums...someone posts about something they like or are looking forward to and 30 people have to jump in with how it "looks awful" or there is something missing that they wanted. Chill out. They have some good ideas for it. It's only alpha.
I bought the founders pack from steam when i saw this. This is personal experience and tried for hours until i found that IS all you can do. Those Youtubers played BEFORE the last few updates because half of it was taken out a while ago.
Would just like to point out that this game is currently for the next 47 hours on steam summer sale for 50% off of all editions, that includes the founders pack. I've decided to pick it up for $10 sounds good to me. Normal: $9.99 Digital Deluxe: $14.99 Founders club: $37.49
