Chronicles Of Elyria Gameplay Youtube

KICKSTARTER IS TUESDAY, MAY 3!So I can't believe there's no thread for this upcoming game. It surfaced publicly a few months ago and has gotten exponentially more traction as people find out about it. Oh wow, no posts since July.

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No wonder I didn't see it in the first few pages. ThanksA lot more information has surfaced since then.

I really think this game has incredible potential so I want to drum up interest in it as much as I want to drum up interest in CF. I wanted to personally present some of the big features here in this thread because its (intentionally) difficult to find all that out on the CoE website itself. Their forum is apparently getting an overhaul soon.Also their community is really gracious, and almost completely free of trolls like Viking.jk babe. Ive had my eye on it for a bit. Seems like a very ambitious project for an indie Dev. I like all the concepts and ideas they have but that's just it I think they might be trying to do too much.

They game won't see the light of day for a decade at this rate.My first initial thought was the same. I was convinced it was vaporware, pie-in-the-sky dreams. I've read and heard a lot from the lead developer since then and while i'm still skeptical, I fully believe it can be done.

Caspian (originator and lead dev) has already been working on this for years on his own, coding a lot of these systems himself. He was a lead software engineer at Microsoft and in one of the Q&A he talks about how a lot of mmos take longer to develop because the game industry doesn't use what he refers to as 'best practice' which is more common in the software development industry. He's taken a lot of his skills learned from out of the gaming industry and brought them in to make things more streamlined and efficient.

Servers will be in the cloud, patching will be done in real time without server downs, and the Soulbound engine is made from scratch so that a lot of the game mechanics he's planning will have more synergy and flow.I don't have a great technical background with game design or software development, but I was very impressed with the confidence he gave when asked, straight up, on a live Q&A about how ambitious his goals were and if they could be accomplished. He knows his stuff, for sure. At this point its a matter of how big a team he can come up with to get the rest of this game fleshed out, and that depends on the support he gets from his community.The first kickstarter has been vaguely slated for somewhere between Q1 and Q2 this year, and he said that the results of the KS will guide the pace of development and determine what non-essential mechanics or features don't make it into launch. Some features, he claims, are so integral to the game (like the story engine, aging and dying, talents etc) that there is no chance they will be stripped from the launch version.So I remain optimistic but with a healthy skepticism. The development team seems to have great ideas. It may not really be my type of game though, we'll see when they release gameplay footage.A few things in the FAQ that I'm not a fan of:In the only game I've played with this kind of Karma mechanics, players were not really doing open-world PvP to avoid the penalties.Valid concerns.

I'll address them in order with what I know1 - 'illegal' is only illegal if you're caught. There is an entire skill tree (Deviant skills or something) dedicated to crime, including disguises and forging documents. You could wear a mask and commit a crime and no one would be able to identify you. There are no floating names unless you choose to introduce yourself.

If you find someone out in the woods, and there are no witnesses, you could murder them with impunity. It just becomes a little more tactical if you're in the middle of a large urban area like a castle or city.2 - 'Prison' does not mean you wait in a room. Being caught and put in prison means you suffer spirit loss. One RL day is one in-game season. It basically deducts spirit loss from you as though you served your time. Kind of like how in Morrowind if you get caught in prison, you don't just sit there - you come in, you go out, and you've lost some skills. In this game, instead of losing skills, your spirit loss makes it harder for you to spirit walk to your body when you get incapped, indirectly reducing your game time.3 - 'Lives' don't mean the same as getting incapped at 0 health.

You can 'die' many times before you're 'perma dead'. In my OP i gave an example of how long you can expect to live off of one $30 Spark of Life, which for the average player will probably be 6 months before you have to spend anymore money. So when you PvP and get caught, you reduce the lifespan of the character.

And new characters cost $20-40 USD. That's quite a huge deterrent to open-world PvP imo, and explains why 'PvP. is highly unlikely around civilized areas.' Some players may take the risk anyway as you wrote, trying to hide their identity and stuff like that.The game rewards risk. In its truest form, its high risk high reward.Taken from the middle of the latest developer journal; I cut out the part where he explains how death and spirit loss works and skipped to what it effectively means. I think you should read the whole dev journal though because it explains a lot:Caspian. It seems to be the opposite: If you take risks and die often, or PvP and get caught, you'll have to pay $$$ earlier than if you do safer activities.Taking risks means higher chance of dying or going to jail, which means having to pay real life money more often to get a Spark of Life ($30).I like games with consequences, with high risk / high reward, when the consequences remain in-game.You could live as a farmer, or blacksmith, and play over a year irl and never die.

Thats one way to play this game, and thats fine. If you want to go achieve something great, like explore the worlds darkest and deepest caves and tombs, defeat mythical creatures like dragons, or murder someone and take all their belongings, yes, you risk your life and a fraction of your gameplay if you fail. The rewards could be great - a newly discovered place could be named after you, permanently; the treasures guarded by a great dragon could be yours, and you might be able to take a part of it as a trophy or use the scales to make something unique in the world; caravans can be plundered and riches stolen; you could become King and direct the development of a nation (but higher fame from status = high spirit loss on death). None of this is possible to the farmer or the blacksmith that stays in the city walls, avoiding danger.Its not the kind of game where you grab a gear bag out of the bank, party with your friends and go find groups of people to pvp against that are farming mobs.

Pvp is calculated, and the stakes are high. You aren't going to see successful murderers brandishing weapons and attacking people in the middle of the streets on an hourly basis because that just doesn't make sense. The most successful murderers are the ones you'll likely never hear about or know exist. Dying 8 times in a day will be unheard of.On that note, the same dev diary i've mentioned several times, which I implore you to read, discusses how there is a cap to the amount of spirit loss you can suffer all at once from repeated deaths, as well. If you die, but your body is camped and you keep dying to someone over and over, you will only suffer spirit loss the first time.

After that it caps out for an amount of time to be determined; that way people can't grief you out of your play time. Additionally, there are different rules on spirit loss during international wars.The only time you'll lose game time is when you yourself go after something big. Risk and reward.edit; also, this game has a Darkfall-esque gank mechanic called Coup de grace. Most monsters won't finish you off, but players will. Getting incapped by mobs 8 times in a day is not the same as being ganked 8 times in a day.

Edited January 8, 2016 by vucar. If your character dies 8 times daily, from what I understood of the quote, you'll have to pay 30 bucks every 2 weeks.Or maybe one day counts as 3 days no matter if you die 1 or 100 times?Anyway, the major problem I see with this is that players would take minimal risks in-game just to delay the Spark of Life payment.In the general open world any 'coup de grace' death after your first for two and a half hours doesn't count toward the soul loss. Also keep in mind that soul loss does not occur when your character hits 0 HP.

Upon hitting 0 HP your go unconscious with a timer displaying how long until you wake up. A player or especially evil NPC then has the option to coup de grace you. All standard NPCs will not coup de grace you and PvPers will only do so if they're willing to take on the additional negatives from that action stacked on top of attacking someone.PvP will be widespread, but coup de grace will probably be rare unless someone is willing to be considered straight up evil and attacked on sight anywhere they go.As a hardcore RPG player I absolutely love the idea of Chronicles of Elyria. Let's see if they pull it off. It will certainly be the main competition to Crowfall for me as my go-to medieval/fantasy game. Edited January 12, 2016 by omega59er. In the general open world any 'coup de grace' death after your first for two and a half hours doesn't count toward the soul loss.

Also keep in mind that soul loss does not occur when your character hits 0 HP. Upon hitting 0 HP your go unconscious with a timer displaying how long until you wake up. A player or especially evil NPC then has the option to coup de grace you.

All standard NPCs will not coup de grace you and PvPers will only do so if they're willing to take on the additional negatives from that action stacked on top of attacking someone.PvP will be widespread, but coup de grace will probably be rare unless someone is willing to be considered straight up evil and attacked on sight anywhere they go.As a hardcore RPG player I absolutely love the idea of Chronicles of Elyria. Let's see if they pull it off. It will certainly be the main competition to Crowfall for me as my go-to medieval/fantasy game.Well I'll give them credit for being one of very few Devs that seem interested in making an actual 'living world' type game.Anyways like said I have my eye on it but not getting too involved until I see actual gameplay. Well I'll give them credit for being one of very few Devs that seem interested in making an actual 'living world' type game.Anyways like said I have my eye on it but not getting too involved until I see actual gameplay.Agreed, it's also my approach. They've worked hard on building their website with the referral and Influence system, promoted the game on various gaming sites, made interviews, discussed Kickstarter. But I don't know if they've put as much effort on the game itself.

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I wonder how many people work on this project, how much time the founders have spent on developing the game and since how long the game is being built.And a gameplay video showing more than the very few areas shown on screenshots would be great too. Thanks for all the info guys, I've been looking through a couple of dev posts and journals.Agreed, it's also my approach. They've worked hard on building their website with the referral and Influence system, promoted the game on various gaming sites, made interviews, discussed Kickstarter. But I don't know if they've put as much effort on the game itself. I wonder how many people work on this project, how much time the founders have spent on developing the game and since how long the game is being built.And a gameplay video showing more than the very few areas shown on screenshots would be great too.Offline playable demo should be out around the time of PAX East. Combat video should be live about this time next month.They will be launching a kickstarter campaign soon to try to keep the game's funding in-house and with the players instead of using an investor or publisher. If the kickstarter fails they will be seeking an investor, however, and development will continue.Caspian owned quite a bit of valuable land and he personally sold off everything he owned to get the company an office building and to fund everything that we're seeing right now.

I really give him credit, his life is in CoE.Background on Caspian is that he's been working on this game himself for 8 years, and in his 4 years at Microsoft developing operating systems as a senior engineer he gathered another 4 people to join him in the effort.They're also looking at hiring a 'famous story writer' (caspian's words) to make the story better than what the founders have come up with already.I recommend watching this video if you're on the fence about CoE: Edited January 13, 2016 by omega59er. Caspian owned quite a bit of valuable land and he personally sold off everything he owned to get the company an office building and to fund everything that we're seeing right now. I really give him credit, his life is in CoE.Background on Caspian is that he's been working on this game himself for 8 years, and in his 4 years at Microsoft developing operating systems as a senior engineer he gathered another 4 people to join him in the effort.I consider that putting his own money on the project is a good example of commitment, as well as keeping up working on something for 8 years. I'd like to know more about those 4 people who joined Jeromy in the adventure.Thanks for the video link, now I'm going to ask myself 'why?'

Overview Chronicles of Elyria OverviewChronicles of Elyria was an upcoming MMORPG in which player's characters will age and die, at which point players must make new characters within their player-run family. Players begin their character between ages 12 and 15, and will inhabit their character between 65 and 120 in-game years.

But they wont lose their progress upon death. Players will inherit the soul of their previous character, gaining their achievements and a significant boost to skill acquisition.

Choose a role for your character's life, whether it be Champion, Explorer, Supplier, or Producer, and garner a unique skillset that plays a role in the economy. Instead of questing, players will form contracts between one another to deliver items, destroy buildings, capture someone, and escort people. Failure to uphold a contract results in an agreed upon consequence. Obtain land through wealth or force and solidify your family's lineage in Chronicles of Elyria. Development for Chronicles of Elyria officially ended on March 25, 2020.

Chronicles of Elyria Featured Video. Videos Chronicles of Elyria Videos. Additional Info Chronicles of Elyria Additional InformationDeveloper: Soulbound StudiosPublisher: Soulbound StudiosGame Engine: Unreal Engine 4/ Soulborn Engine / SpatialOSLead Developer: Jeromy WalshArt Director: Eddie SmithReveal Date: November 16, 2015Kickstarter Campaign: May 3, 2016Closed Alpha: 2018Planned Release Date: 2020Shut Down Announcement: March 25, 2020.Development History / Background:Chronicles of Elyria is developed by independent game developer Soulbound Studios. The studio was founded in 2015 by Jeromy Walsh and Eddie Smith. Development on Chronicles of Elyria was made public knowledge on November 16, 2015 and a Kickstarter campaign was launched on May 3, 2016. The game raised over $1,300,000 on Kickstarter, exceeding the stated goal of $900,000.

Chronciles of Elyria will enter Alpha testing in 2018 and is expected to officially launch sometime in 2020. The game raised about $8 million since its initial kickstarter. Chronicles of Elyria officially shut down on March 25, 2020 before ever launching.