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New Indie Sci-Fi MMO: Perpetuum Online
schawo
Member Posts: 135
Perpetuum Online www.perpetuum-online.com/
A new Sci-Fi MMO is under development. It is very similar to EVE Online, but you will control mechs instead of ships. It's in closed beta phase at the moment.
Features:
- Single shard
- Persistent world, non instanced
- Organic world: continuously growing and developing environment
- Open PVP
- Player controlled territory
- Allied and opposing corporations
- Wars
- Harsh death penalty
- PVP looting
- Battle effected by the environment: www.youtube.com/watch
- Deep and complex crafting system
- Player driven economy
- Skill based
- Time based character development
- Complex mech fitting
- Players can modify the terrain and environment
- Player controlled
- Micro payment and subscription based
- 6 islands, 3-400 sq km each
Further similarities to EVE Online:
- Angular velocity (transversal) based turret tracking
- Mounting slot based fitting
Some strange facts revealed by the developers:
- Developed by a demoscene team
- Highly optimized code
- The client is less then 500MB
- Developed for more then 4 years
- Procedural coded: the environment is written by functions
Teaser: www.youtube.com/watch
Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch
Comments
nice i signed up for the beta hope i get in game looks killer.
very good quality for an Indie dev studio. major kudos to the features. Being a Lead Art director for Pillar 4 Ent, Xshift Online CyberPunk MMO,(yup we finally got investors yay) So I can appreciate the difficulty and fun going into such a Project. Requires dedication, hardwork, and joy of the industry to see this all the way through. Good luck on your project and lets see where this leads, reminds me a bit of mechwarrior, but I always loved mechwarrior, and this hands on approach with the mechs is pretty nice, including the rich features you have. So keep it up and hope to follow this as it develops.
With us we are debating whether to use the Hero's Engine or Unigine + Project darkstar for our MMO. We are currently using Hero's Engine for a undisclosed Social MMO project currently as consultants helping push out their demo. So far its a dream come true, gotta pinch myself sometimes.
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Perpetuum Online is to EVE what Alganon is to WoW.