Crowfall aka Play2Crush aka Shadowbane II aka Nostalgia Online

[Threash]

You do start with an axe to chop trees with, you chop trees and make a hammer to chop rocks with and then with rocks and wood you make a pick to chop ore with. You can make basic armor and weapons out of wood and rocks.

[Cadaverine]

From the main menu, you should be able to go to Worlds > Kingdoms > My Kingdoms and launch your personal kingdom.  As long as you make it private, you can mine trees, rocks and ore in private.  You can then craft some gear, and store it in your spirit bank, I believe they call it.  You can then pull the items from the spirit bank when you're in a regular campaign world.

[schild]

Why do so much work to make (or play) "not Minecraft?"

[Rendakor]

"Minecraft but with RvR" is I believe one of the selling points.

[Rendakor]

From the main menu, you should be able to go to Worlds > Kingdoms > My Kingdoms and launch your personal kingdom.  As long as you make it private, you can mine trees, rocks and ore in private.  You can then craft some gear, and store it in your spirit bank, I believe they call it.  You can then pull the items from the spirit bank when you're in a regular campaign world.

Is it safe to claim KS stuff, or do I risk losing it if I get ganked and/or to server wipes?

[Rendakor]

So, for the few of you who care, this still exists.  

They've sent out a notice we can create our guild on the website now, if you pledged high enough.  The in game ('short name') can't have spaces, so I'll reserve BatCountry.

Also asks for a motto.  Just going to put in "We can't stop here" until somebody comes up with something better.

If any of you other than myself still care about this, post your account name and I'll invite you in.

My account name is Rendakor.

[Threash]

From the main menu, you should be able to go to Worlds > Kingdoms > My Kingdoms and launch your personal kingdom.  As long as you make it private, you can mine trees, rocks and ore in private.  You can then craft some gear, and store it in your spirit bank, I believe they call it.  You can then pull the items from the spirit bank when you're in a regular campaign world.

Is it safe to claim KS stuff, or do I risk losing it if I get ganked and/or to server wipes?

When they wipe they give your ks stuff back, not sure if you can lose it in pvp but this is not permanent yet you'll get everything when the game launches for real.

[Threash]

Why do so much work to make (or play) "not Minecraft?"

Crafting is the only way to make any item in the game, this was one of the big selling points.

[Hoax]

What does crafting have to do with SB? Didn't we just build npc crafters who did something I never cared about because I only cared about server drama and pvp fights and whose shield was on which castle where?

[Rendakor]

What does crafting have to do with SB? Didn't we just build npc crafters who did something I never cared about because I only cared about server drama and pvp fights and whose shield was on which castle where?

Crafting was big in SWG, CF's other parent.

[Paelos]

I would play this if it ever got done. The problem would of course be that I have no time to play anything anymore.

[Threash]

At least with off line leveling not being able to play much doesn't make you fall behind.

[satael]

Founder's Update: Target Dates & Victory Conditions

tldr; over a year late and the best they can offer is a "soft launch" sometime "early in 2018" 

[Threash]

2015-2018 seems like a perfectly reasonable development time. Which obviously means their original estimates were vastly optimistic, but to be fair a good chunk of the delay is for improvements due to extra funding. The race/class split from archtypes is a game defining change that massively improves their chances of success and well worth a delay.

[HaemishM]

So what is the game's state now? Like not only is it playable, is it mostly feature complete and is it fun?

[Threash]

I haven't played for a while, 5.3 is about to drop with the race/class split and new skill trees so I've been holding out for that. Did find this video from their test server which just screams "Shadowbane with new graphics and action combat" to me. Probably because its the same fucking people.

[HaemishM]

Hurgh. I don't think I have the patience for a game like that anymore.

[Soulflame]

Tell me about it.  I don't have time some days to pick up a mobile device to play a game.

Much less sit down at a PC for 4+ hours at a stretch.

[Draegan]

Is the combat system still shitty?

[Threash]

It's the same combat system, if you didn't like it before i doubt you would like it now. The video i posted up there does a good job of showing the combat.

[Raph]

It does depend when Draegan last tried it. Combat has been reworked quite a lot since say, a year ago.

[HaemishM]

The problem I had with that video was that it looked like NO ONE DIED. Like there were fucktabulons worth of effects, skills, power ups, spells, and attacks and nobody seemed to die. They just kept banging on and on and on like everyone was suddenly a castle door in a Warhammer Online siege. I'm all for not getting one-shotted but that looked like really long, drawn-out monkey fapping without any sort of climax.

[Draegan]

I didn't like the philosophy of the system. The performance wasn't an issue for me.

Abilities on keys 1-6.
Almost each ability had a chain.
Each chain sometimes had a 2nd option that could be used by pressing E instead of the number.

So you had RMB and LMB for standard attacks. Then you could end up using 1,1,1,1 or 1,1,e,1.

It really didn't flow at the time like Black Desert, TERA or Blade and Soul. I hope that had changed because the game's systems were pretty rad.

[Falconeer]

What's up with the best three combat systems ever made all being Korean? No one in the West can even come close. Damn?

[Draegan]

Most game devs in NA are neckbeards.

[Merusk]

Yes, that.

Neckbeards in love with game design and game theory vs. fun.