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 What is Dual Universe? Dual Universe is a Sandbox MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) taking place in a vast Sci-Fi universe, focusing on emergent gameplay with player-driven in-game economy, politics, trade, warfare and territory control. All players interact in the same game universe, on the cluster server (Single Shard). The game universe is entirely editable: players can dig and modify the landscape on voxel-based planets, and they can also create structures with the harvested materials: outposts, cities, hovercrafts, spaceships or giant orbital stations. Any structure can be built from a player-made design. The game vision aims to give birth to empires formed by thousands of players and rebuild together the human civilization in a distant corner of the universe. Game Features  ● True Massively Multiplayer Experience One single game universe: Novaquark has developed during more than two years a proprietary scalable server technology (the CSSC), capable of handling high concentration of players in any area of the game, in order to gather all the players in the same universe. You can find a description of this technology here, as well as a video of the first stress tests here (there will be progressively more complex tests recorded in videos over time, as the development of the game evolves). It was essential to achieve this goal to make each player a part of a collective story: every action, every decision made by a player will impact - directly or indirectly - all others players. ● Scanning & Mining Gathering specific materials is critical in Dual Universe to build constructs. Some resources will be visible and accessible by just exploring planet surfaces. However, a lot will be hidden underground and will need scanning, with a specific gameplay. Even just finding ore deposits without mining them will be a real activity and can become a lucrative one as this kind of information will always interest big organizations.  ● Voxel Building & Crafting Every construction you will encounter in Dual Universe will be built by players: outposts, cities, hovercrafts, spaceships, or even giant orbital stations. Alongside with the CSSC, Novaquark has developed its own voxel engine, optimized for planetary-sized voxel entities and massively multiplayer interaction. Players will be able to dig, build at will on a planet, and create constructions (called Constructs) of any size and any shape in-game. Only the time and efforts put into these Constructs will define how big they can become. On top of the voxel-based structure of a Construct, his maker can use resources he/she has gathered to craft and add “Elements”. You can find a video explaining the building process here. ● Industry: Blueprints & Mass Production As some player-made Constructs will become increasingly popular, the question of mass production will emerge eventually, in order to satisfy the market demand. The Blueprint System and the Factory Units will make a builder’s life easier: when a Construct is finalized, it is possible for the maker to get a Blueprint from it. By using this Blueprint in a Factory Unit, the player will be able to replicate his masterpiece (if he has the necessary quantity of materials and Elements)! ● Player-driven Economy The economy in Dual Universe will grow under players influence: Players will be able to create market exchanges that work with buy/sell orders (not auction houses), trade for resources or finished products. It will be in the reach of everyone to start an industrial or financial empire by doing marketing, logistics, or even creating their own merchant organization.  ● Territory Control Territory Control will be about securing land on planet grounds, for strategic, economic or safety reasons. Owning a territory is done via the deployment of a Territory Unit, which will grant the player or his/her organization administration rights to the 1 km wide hexagonal tile associated to it. Rich territories will attract battles, and the need to protect, federate resources and defenses. ● Emergent Politics From politics to territorial and social policies, between brutal power struggles and diplomatic negotiations, empires will rise and fall… And everything players will live in Dual Universe will emerge from the player community itself, based on the specific gameplay mechanics Novaquark has designed. Players will be in control of the game universe, and only players will shape its future towards harmony or chaos.  ● Scalable Combat Safe Zones will protect players not interested in conflicts and will prevent Dual Universe to become a free for all PvP game. However, once a player will step out of a Safe Zone, he will be exposed to PvP combat. Combat will use a “lock & fire” mechanism, a design facilitating very large scale battles. Players will be able to specialize into specific weapons through skills and improve their combat prowess with better equipment. ● Skill-based Character Progression As there is no predefined character class nor character level, the character progression will be skill-based. The player will be able to select one skill at a time to train for his/her character. Skills will be trained in real-time, whether the player is online or not. Each primary skill trained at the first level - which will be easy and very quick to reach - will unlock a specific gameplay tied to one of the main activities available, so that any player will be able to experience a broad range of gameplay mechanics if he wants.  ● Scriptable Constructs Player-built ships or constructs can be customized through LUA scripting. All the elements inside a construct can be orchestrated to react to events and define new behaviors from AI to special piloting capabilities. The “auto configure” system will build basic scripts for the player automatically. It will be possible for a player to sell a home-made, improved version of an existing script on the in-game market. ● Further Information The game is currently not open to the public, however, news from the developers points to alpha starting in the first part of 2017; full release by early 2018. Should you want more current info on Dual Universe feel free to check out some of the following links: Official Videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3ADPUxQeJ8 - The Introduction to scale in Dual Universe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zfnAtb6MZQ - Voxel Based Ship Construction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeZtqoydXpc - Server Technology Discussion / How it will work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcC8hAqxPG0 - Tour through the Solar System https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrOGOHA5ERI - Kickstarter Introductory Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dPmVdMU434 - Pre Alpha Gameplay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efu_129hI9o - Developer "Ask Me Anything" Event https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSaKoBXgkds - Preview of the Alpha version of the Character Creator Official Links http://www.dualthegame.com/ - The official website of Dual Universe. https://board.dualthegame.com/ - The official forum of Dual Universe. https://community.dualthegame.com/ - The game's community website; Feel free to join here and create an organization - they will appear in-game on launch. https://www.facebook.com/dualuniverse/ - The game's official Facebook page. https://twitter.com/dualuniverse - The game's official Twitter page. https://soundcloud.com/dualuniverse/ - The game's official Soundtrack {Work in progress by NovaQuark} https://www.twitch.tv/dualuniverse - The game's official Twitch channel https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1949863330/dual-universe-civilization-building-sci-fi-mmorpg/description - The official kickstarter campaign. Un-official Links https://discord.gg/FRDShpt - The community ran discord; have any questions, feel free to join and ask away. https://www.twitch.tv/duexplorers - A community ran project where we all talk about the game, hang out, and sometimes do a Q/A with the developers. Also: If anyone has any questions feel free to ask them below, I will do my best to answer any that you may have. Wilks Checkov fucked around with this message at 00:10 on Oct 7, 2016 |
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Hurray, voxels!
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Sep 19, 2016 04:21
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is this the topic
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Sep 19, 2016 04:36
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how much for the triple diamond regret tier package
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Sep 19, 2016 05:10
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Considering I have not seen a single topic brought up on the forums about Dual Universe, I thought I would go ahead and assemble what is already known about the game and the community here, as well as see what your opinions are on it.
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Sep 19, 2016 05:33
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Maybe I'm getting old but games that try to be massive like this make me want to take a nap.
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Sep 19, 2016 05:33
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I was gonna say I'm gonna build a spaceship shaped like a dick but they're kinda like that anyway. Makes you think. Seriously though, as much as I long for a good SciFi MMO the whole VOXELS!!! fad makes me leery whenever a game makes a big deal of it (see also: Crowfall, but even they dialed it back a notch). And player determined politics? Pfthahahaha, oh man, that never goes well, but it IS hilarious to watch.
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Sep 19, 2016 07:37
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Inzombiac posted:Maybe I'm getting old but games that try to be massive like this make me want to take a nap. I can't even muster up enough will to play anything bigger than one of the shadowrun RPGs these days. Sometimes I start up Fallout 4 and just watch the main menu for a minute before closing it out.
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Sep 19, 2016 07:44
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why would anyone buy a script from a market if they can just be copied. it's just text ok cya
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Sep 19, 2016 09:35
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Blazing Zero posted:how much for the triple diamond regret tier package Just get the basic one so you can make giant goatse carved into mountainsides for people to admire.
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Sep 19, 2016 10:52
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hahaha what?
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Sep 19, 2016 11:19
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I hope that avatar text was worth it.
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Sep 19, 2016 12:08
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Wilks Checkov posted:as well as see what your opinions are on it. On the one hand, it looks like Kerbal/Space Engineers meets Eve. On the other hand, it also looks like No Man's Sky meets Star Citizen. If they can somehow pull it off and make a coherent fun game then it'll be mighty impressive. If not I look forward to the rollercoaster of hilarious over-invested fanboy meltdowns and development purgatory.
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Sep 19, 2016 12:34
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I am stoked for this game and backed it in the silver tier. It reminds me Empyrion Galactic Survival mixed with Eve. Lets hope they can pull it off. For what it's worth I know a couple people who are in the alpha now and they both backed it at the gold tier.
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Sep 19, 2016 13:37
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At this point when a game says "multiplayer" and "sandbox" then it's a pretty safe bet to just pretend the game doesn't exist. The best you can possibly hope for is to be pleasantly surprised 5 years in the future.
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Sep 19, 2016 18:35
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eve with voxels, two terrible things that are sure to be terrible together. I look forward to the inevitable goon meltdowns when someone tries to make a serious business spaceguild but no one gives a poo poo. we could do with another archeage also this game will be irredeemable trash
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Sep 19, 2016 19:44
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:The best you can possibly hope for is to be pleasantly surprised 5 years in the future. posting to remind myself to check back in five years. hope this thread is still open~
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Sep 19, 2016 20:03
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I wish their dev team the best, but big promises plus concept art taking priority over gameplay footage screams trouble, especially in an MMO proposal. If they dial it down to just multiplayer there's a chance at getting something good out, Minecraft servers could do some small-scale faction warfare after all.
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Sep 19, 2016 20:20
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Looks like pure poo poo
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Sep 19, 2016 20:31
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Good Dumplings posted:but big promises plus concept art taking priority over gameplay footage screams trouble Good Dumplings posted:especially in an MMO proposal.
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Sep 19, 2016 23:41
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SweetBro posted:I don't actually think you understand the order of which things in a game are developed. This is exactly what Elite did during their kickstarter though; the moment they had even two fighters flying around in a belt they were showing it in their developer blog. SweetBro posted:And this is completely wrong since any gameplay footage without a sufficiently representable amount of concurrent players (which they won't have) is completely worthless in determine whether or not they can deliver on their promises. And again, Elite was perfectly capable of at least showing basic gameplay during their pitch. If this team can't do that, how can I expect them to have working netcode?
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Sep 19, 2016 23:45
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OP it seems you missed my thread. Was waiting for some more significant information before bumping, only 3 pages back lmao Oh well, you put in more  Good Dumplings posted:This is exactly what Elite did during their kickstarter though; the moment they had even two fighters flying around in a belt they were showing it in their developer blog. I know they made a video about the netcode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeZtqoydXpc Alexander DeLarge fucked around with this message at 00:15 on Sep 20, 2016 |
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Sep 20, 2016 00:09
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Alexander DeLarge posted:OP it seems you missed my thread. Was waiting for some more significant information before bumping. Oh well, you put in more I didn't know they even had footage, this definitely should've been in the OP. Nothing's being destroyed which implies they don't have combat or the voxel deforming working, but this is way way better than storyboards of what they imagine the game will be. Everyone and their kid brother has concept art.
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Sep 20, 2016 00:18
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They had a display for this at PAX, I think you could just sign up for more information and there was a video playing and there wasn't anything interactive as I recall.
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Sep 20, 2016 00:30
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Good Dumplings posted:I didn't know they even had footage, this definitely should've been in the OP. Nothing's being destroyed which implies they don't have combat or the voxel deforming working, but this is way way better than storyboards of what they imagine the game will be. Everyone and their kid brother has concept art. They have a little bit of the voxel stuff working right now I guess. Hopefully we'll have some ships crashing in a couple months. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcC8hAqxPG0&t=327s
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Sep 20, 2016 00:42
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Finally, a sandbox mmo not started by ale-- oh wait it's a repost. Sandbox should be word filtered to Litterbox and Voxels should be filtered to Shame Cubes.
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Sep 20, 2016 00:48
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Alexander DeLarge posted:OP it seems you missed my thread. Was waiting for some more significant information before bumping, only 3 pages back lmao Sorry, I did not notice another post about Dual Universe when I was searching around for it. As for those of you wanting more "concrete" proof about the game, I am in the process of adding links to the game-play and development videos. Including one that should answer any questions you may have about those "darn netcode" issues. This should belay any questions you have about development, but then again, should you have any questions feel free to ask. - update: videos have been added to OP - Enjoy Wilks Checkov fucked around with this message at 02:15 on Sep 20, 2016 |
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Sep 20, 2016 02:08
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Wilks Checkov posted:Sorry, I did not notice another post about Dual Universe when I was searching around for it. Can i build a space toilet to use on my space ship. This is important.
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Sep 20, 2016 02:58
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iminers posted:Can i build a space toilet to use on my space ship. To be honest, I would think if you can imagine it - It can be done. . .
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Sep 20, 2016 03:07
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Wilks Checkov posted:Including one that should answer any questions you may have about those "darn netcode" issues. Nothing is known until you have 100000+ people all online at the same time.
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Sep 20, 2016 03:23
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Subscripton based and released Dec 2018? 
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Sep 20, 2016 10:57
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Subscription MMOs are dead on arrival and I'm not backing another unproven space game studio after the Star Citizen debacle.
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Sep 20, 2016 20:32
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Kephael posted:Subscription MMOs are dead on arrival and I'm not backing another unproven space game studio after the Star Citizen debacle. Debacle? I'm happy with my   on Star Citizen.
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Sep 20, 2016 20:43
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How much money will it cost me to maximize my investment vs regret return in this game?  Wait this game is sub based? In [CURRENT YEAR]? HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA The sign of a quality dev team ahead of the times.
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I guess theyre taking a leaf out of the book of one of the two space mmos that currently exist, eve online. Can you blame them for copying a sucessful companies model? Edit: infact reading that Kickstarter basically makes it sound like first person eve online mixed with some star wars galaxies + voxels. Eve bits: Lock and fire combat, training a single skill at a time, markets working on buy/sell orders, limited trial accounts with a monthly subscription for premium time, and tradable ingame items redeemable for premium time SWG bits: Uninstanced Player cities & housing, crafted by players, politics, ship artchitects, etc Also ship vs ship combat is a stretch goal? Edit: Their kickstarter is also asking for 500k euros, assuming across their 24 staff, their average pay is 50k each a year, they can afford to pay their devs for 5 months from this kickstarter, for a game they want to release in the end of 2018? Ahdinko fucked around with this message at 22:44 on Sep 20, 2016 |
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Sep 20, 2016 21:54
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froody guy posted:Subscripton based and released Dec 2018? That was pretty much the dealbreaker for me too.
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Sep 21, 2016 01:26
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Why are you guys questioning a Member of Dual Universe Explorers, who happens to be an Alpha Participant in Dual Universe, while also is the Founder & CEO of the corporation: Allied Corporate States in Dual Universe?
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Sep 21, 2016 05:20
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Wilks Checkov posted:Also: If anyone has any questions feel free to ask them below, I will do my best to answer any that you may have. How much progress have you made on devising a system of government from scratch?
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Sep 21, 2016 08:32
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Biverse would be a much more efficient name than Dual Universe. You should call it that instead.
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Sep 21, 2016 09:15
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Martman posted:Biverse would be a much more efficient name than Dual Universe. You should call it that instead. actually isn't it just one server so one universe? what's up with the duality? the lore is super important to me
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