Wanna Be a God? Latest Skyforge Dev Diary Details Order Management
In most MMORPGs, there's a feeling of your character being a bit more powerful than the world they inhabit after a period of time. Max level, great gear, a group to roll around with and...BOOM...nothing can stop you anymore. My.com, Obsidian, and The Allods Team are just embracing that idea right out of the gate with Skyforge. Scheduled to start Closed Beta this quarter, Skyforge puts players directly in the role of trying to become an actual god. Building a following starts long before that ascension though.
As tales of your accomplishments spread, you'll pick up followers. Some of these followers, called adepts, will even be willing to perform tasks in your name. These followers should not be ignored as the dev post reveals that these followers make up a third of your actual strength. Adepts even have specialized skills (i.e. warrior, doctor, etc) and as they look after the masses, YOU gain followers from an even larger region and will even collect rare gifts used to empower your adepts even more (Hey, adepts gotta level up, too ya know!?)
As your Order grows, adepts can even train other adepts, retire to a missionary life for your following and more! With 8 provinces to spread the word of your deeds to, there's a lot of work to be done!
The system sounds intriguing and is one I certainly want to get some playtime in with soon. Will it be a complex mess, a wonderful surprise, or just basic companion management a la SWTOR? We'll have to wait and see.
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These followers are gonna be npc? or players following players(that would be harsh) ?
Also with that I hope it does not fall to p2w style.Imagine the most paying player on the highest 5th tear with a statue for him/her.
This game got so much expectations.The environment quality seems so superb hope they dont fk up the montetary model.
one quick question if any one knows can you be a evil God ?
even tough they dont have a good rep cause of allods being rly p2w. the game itself was really nicely done with great music on top.
ifskyforge would be p2w it wouldn't affect as much as allods did since allods just forced you into pvp so you can do pve
but in skyforge pve stay in pve and pvp stays in pvp forcing someone to do pvp just frustates players who does not want to do pvp.