Sandbox Comparison

[Dakeus]

Mortal Online: www.mortalonline.com
Darkfall: www.darkfallonline.com


General Informations

Both of those games are MMORPGs (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) with a fantasy ambient. Darkfall is Live. Mortal Online is currently in Alpha test phase. Because of that, many features about Mortal Online are not known yet.


Features of DF that MO might not have (we don't know them all yet)

Massive world size and server population
Migration of mobs
Naval combat (although MO will add it later)
A larger world
Bindstones
More spells
Hover tanks with mounted flame throwers
Third-person view gameplay
Traps
Skills decay over time
Single Character per Server
Pocket mounts


Features of MO (maybe) that DF doesn't have

The ability to prone
Local item banks
Hitboxes
Animal taming (i'll also note they seem to have implemented them in a way that they don't auto-attack, maybe they serve some other useful purpose)
Red/Blue flagging system as opposed to a faction based one
NPC guilds (similar to DF's prestige classes, which have been removed atm, they might be in later)
First-person view gameplay
Creation of gods/cults
Pickpocketing
Droppable items
Static skills
Multiple Character per Server
Stabled mounts
House buildings


Shared features

No levels
No premade classes
Skill-based games
FFA pvp
Full loot
Siege/conquest pvp
No floating names
Additional damage when running towards opponent
Aimed ranged attacks
Directional melee attacks
Instant travel

[Dakeus]

No fuckin view in an hour? What has happened to forumfall?!

[DarkLily]

No politics, religion, swearing or porn = no interest?

[Boring -.-]

No politics, religion, swearing or porn = no interest?

Yeah thats pretty much it...

[Shooer]

You are wrong in so many ways in your comparison I'm just going to leave now.

[Silverhandorder]

I will give MO a try. But to me DF got the perfect formula. There are some changes that we can make here and there. I guess we will see based on MO which set of features works better. From what I seen from DF I am satisfied.

[Dakeus]

You are wrong in so many ways in your comparison I'm just going to leave now.

I am never wrong.

[Dakeus]

Migration of mobs
Traps
Skills decay over time
Additional damage when running towards opponent
Aimed ranged attacks


These things are untrue I guess.

[heroshade]

Comparing a game that is failing vs a game that isn't out but will still fail = no interest. Hope that cleared things up.

[Seddoron]

MO might have bewbs like AOC, there were bewbs in concept art too.

[Dakeus]

I'd suggest signing up at their forums now since closed beta testing begins in 10 days. ;)

[Dakeus]

This hasn't been deleted yet. :ohno:

[mebraingot]

you cant compare a released game to a game who has absolutely no ingame footage. right now all mortal is, is a bunch of words. the devs dont even know anything about how they are going to set up their servers to run on unreal engine without instancing or huge ammounts of servers, aka AOC. the game will be nothing like darkfall, okay?

mortal online is still at least a year away. the only thing they have is a CG trailer, and a bunch of shopped photos.

they even have auto aim spells WTF?!!? carebear game.

mortal = darkfall lite.

[Deleted]

This hasn't been deleted yet. :ohno:

Now it has... cause I'm here

[Dakeus]

Now it has... cause I'm here

Pretty funny... :rolleyes:

you cant compare a released game to a game who has absolutely no ingame footage. right now all mortal is, is a bunch of words. the devs dont even know anything about how they are going to set up their servers to run on unreal engine without instancing or huge ammounts of servers, aka AOC. the game will be nothing like darkfall, okay?

mortal online is still at least a year away. the only thing they have is a CG trailer, and a bunch of shopped photos.

they even have auto aim spells WTF?!!? carebear game.

mortal = darkfall lite.

True, we can't know anything for sure. Closed beta will probably be here in a week, we'll see then. ;)

[mebraingot]

yeah, see the 10 people that work for the company feed you shit.

[Deleted]

Must say Mortal had a pretty cool teaser. I doubt it was ingame footage though.

[alfaroverall]

Comparing a game that is failing vs a game that isn't out but will still fail = no interest. Hope that cleared things up.
How exactly is Darkfall failing? (Other than failing to deliver some of its promises, which doesn't really fit the "failing" mold IMO.)

[chewbaccasdad]

I don't know which sandbox I like better:

This

http://www.colewiebe.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/sandbox.jpg

or this

http://monsterguide.net/images/how-to-build-a-sandbox.jpg

[Dakeus]

I don't know which sandbox I like better:

This

http://www.colewiebe.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/sandbox.jpg

or this

http://monsterguide.net/images/how-to-build-a-sandbox.jpg

First one for sure.

[chewbaccasdad]

First one for sure.

Yeah, that's what I thought too.

[Dakeus]

Must say Mortal had a pretty cool teaser. I doubt it was ingame footage though.

They're using UE3 engine so there's a chance it's ingame footage. ;)

[Wickfield]

Why do I always end up following projects that either

a) don't deliver
b) deliver, but don't give me what I want
c) deliver, give me what I wanted, but still manage to suck balls

or d) deliver, give me what I wanted, actually end up being fun, but then suck after a couple of patches or shitty developer tweaks



fuck the gaming industry...

[shock223]

Mortal Online: www.mortalonline.com
Darkfall: www.darkfallonline.com


General Informations

Both of those games are MMORPGs (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) with a fantasy ambient. Darkfall is Live. Mortal Online is currently in Alpha test phase.



i wonder how long it will take until Mortal starts to cut out features...

[Dakeus]

i wonder how long it will take until Mortal starts to cut out features...

In 9 days we'll see...

[Dakeus]

I thought we weren't allowed to discuss MO?

[Aardvarkian]

No one cares, stop bumping you thread.