Crowfall videos (alpha) Thread

Quick intro - it is incoming PvP MMO kickstarted last March, with (as I type this, December 2016) over $10M of budget and 150 000+ accounts. It has RTS (!) and survival elements, procedural terrain generation, voxels...good short intro is it's IGN Wiki or you can check this very detailed thread I made on rpg.net.

The team is trying to make Unity 5 work in large scale PvP (servers with thousands, hundreds of players in small area). Here is couple recent alpha test videos, starting with TheLazyPeon's preview:

Edited by: JamesGoblin

Nice videos! When I learned that they were using Unity as engine for Crowfall I was a bit discouraged, but then I realized that they had some experienced engineers working for the studio so I was less worried... however no other MMORPG achieved to do large-scale battles with Unity so we will see. So far in the tests it's "ok" with 15-20 players, but I can only imagine how laggy it would get with 200 players. o.o

Still pretty excited about the whole concept of temporary worlds that get destroyed after X weeks. Pretty refreshing compared to traditional mmorpg.

Speaking of Unity, numbers are rising - most recent test had 80ish (77 was the exact number I guess?) players in small area, with...well, semi-bearable FPS. For comparison, same performance was happening with only 10-15 players in January.

Siege tests started just recently - you can see some voxel destruction here:

Also, there will be Crowfall AMA on /r/games, Thursday, May 5, 10 am central. J. Todd Coleman (the CEO) and Gordon Walton (Technical Director) will be answering questions if anybody is interested. Just be warned: last time (also /r/games AMA) I asked 4 questions, and got zero answers. Maybe I was just asking all the "wrong" stuff, including some tricky Unity ones!?

12-hours live stream happening tomorrow with Raph Koster, Todd Coleman, Gordon Walton and all the folks at working on Crowfall. In the announcement they mention givaways, beat-the-devs playtest, live demo with the artists, design reveals, etc. =D

Their twitch channel : Twitch.tv

Edited by: franciscourant

I'll be looking out for this one.

I updated the OP with new videos and info - besides that, open beta is pushed to summer 2017 and the team went for another wave of crowdfunding. They use MicroVentures / Indiegogo, and people already invested over $ 200 000.