Notorious Games founder and Xsyon lead developer Jordi Grau Davis has responded to community questions with a lengthy forum post on the game's official boards. The unveiling of this forthcoming post-apocalyptic MMORPG caught many of us by surprise last month, given the extensive sandbox feature set and the rapidly approaching release date.
Davis writes that development and testing are preceding as planned, and that pre-order players will be let into the game in groups of 20-50 as the programming team finishes up various outstanding issues including Speed Tree implementation, terrain optimization, combat tweaks based on forum feedback, and a number of other items.
Davis also touches on the planned user load for Xsyon. "What are the numbers we are looking for? I'm guessing about 500 before April 15th [release day], building slowly to around 5000 active players by the end of summer," he writes.
[Thanks Chris!]
Reader Comments (10)
Posted: Mar 15th 2010 9:18AM (Unverified) said
Cant help but it still looks dubious to me. Is there game play footage released yet? I really wonder why people pre-order stuff based on mouth propaganda. Looks more like a MO parody than a real game ;)
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Posted: Mar 15th 2010 3:48PM Dandmcd said
I can't wait to see an eruption of crying when the morons who forked cash over to own a game they have never seen any gameplay video or screenshots for, get a badly broken, incomplete game with no content. At least MO let us test how fail it was, this game not so much.
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Posted: Mar 15th 2010 9:38AM Scopique said
Looking for 5000 players? That's a little...odd. I respect them for realizing that with such a lack of visibility they're not going to get even Vanguard numbers (ZING! Just kidding...I love VG), but 5000 is bordering on the outright anemic. Can they RUN on 5000 users?
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Posted: Mar 15th 2010 7:07PM (Unverified) said
No there aren't any videos yet, and there won't be according to the devs, only videos will be player made.
There are screenshots, but none recent and none with the UI. A request post was made on their forums for one with the UI and the lead dev said he wouldn't do it.
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There are screenshots, but none recent and none with the UI. A request post was made on their forums for one with the UI and the lead dev said he wouldn't do it.
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