Wayward Realms

edgedemon · 5 Jun 2024 at 16:00

Im quite stoked for this as I loved Daggerfall. The original Lead Devs have reunited and this has been worked on in the background as a passion project.
We are talking not even Alpha yet, they launched on Kickstarter a few days ago looking for money to get the game to early access stage for Steam and then they will go looking for a publisher.
It looks promising, UE5, Im just hoping they make a better crack at the proc gen then Starfield did.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/oncelostgames/the-wayward-realms/description

von Humboldt · 6 Jun 2024 at 03:42

Yeah, fingers crossed - I backed the lowest tier that gives you the game. So far I have a good track record of picking crowd funded games that do make it to full release, so hopefully this continues that trend!

edgedemon · 10 Jun 2024 at 19:13

von Humboldt said:
Yeah, fingers crossed - I backed the lowest tier that gives you the game. So far I have a good track record of picking crowd funded games that do make it to full release, so hopefully this continues that trend!

I went in as Duke. It is very close now, less than 10K from the 500K total with 18 days to go, so I think we both backed a winner...

Nedb37 · 10 Jun 2024 at 22:23

Backed this as well, Adventurer level. Looks like it could be fun, excited to see it progress.

TonTom · 11 Jun 2024 at 10:18

Someone tell me this will have co op

von Humboldt · 11 Jun 2024 at 19:06

Fully funded!

edgedemon · 14 Jun 2024 at 13:22

TonTom said:
Someone tell me this will have co op

Yes, limited co-op so you and a few mates is the way I understand it.
I backed as a Duke, Im trying to work out whether risking impending death from my wife is worth updating my pledge to Loremaster so that I get to design a magic artifact along with lore and backstory for it. For me personally that would be really cool.

edit - co-op will not be in the EA version but will make it into the final release

Nedb37 · 17 Jun 2024 at 06:53

Just stumbled on this Youtube intro and interview. Despite having already backed the game on Kickstarter it sold it to me.

Hopefully it all pans out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP3OivpEQPA

von Humboldt · 17 Jun 2024 at 16:21

Bleep blorp. I mean, hello fellow human.

leezer3 · 18 Jun 2024 at 19:03

This may be just me, but that Kickstarter reads like a massive letdown is coming.

The initial claimed demo of 160km is already pushing it, let alone the 'full' 521,000km.
If it gets anywhere near that, I'll eat my hat.

Procedural generation works to a point, but its nowhere near the level they seem to think it'll get to. A year to produce the demo is asking for trouble....

Vapourware promises of the highest order- Starfield took 10 years to get to a similar state, and that's with handcrafted quests.

von Humboldt · Thursday at 09:39

PirarG32 said:
I know now why you cry, but it's something I can never do.

melmac · 2024-06-25T12:40:25+0100

Tempted by this. It does sound almost too good to be true.

TonTom · 2024-06-26T07:03:12+0100

edgedemon said:
Yes, limited co-op so you and a few mates is the way I understand it.
I backed as a Duke, Im trying to work out whether risking impending death from my wife is worth updating my pledge to Loremaster so that I get to design a magic artifact along with lore and backstory for it. For me personally that would be really cool.

edit - co-op will not be in the EA version but will make it into the final release

I missed this. Appreciate the info.

Glad it was funded. Now we wait.