Valiance Online Open Beta Coming August

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Valiance Online Open Beta Coming August

The Valiance Online team have announced that their open beta will launch coinciding with Play NYC.

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Scot

Anyone looked into this one, I note is powers are gameplay based not theme based, i.e. Ranged and Ranged Support not Flame Powers. It also seems to lack much in the way of lore, but then that's standard for a modern MMO.

Nanbino

Asthetical'y looks city of heroes like. Still trying to cash in on familiarity rather than risky creativity. RIP

Amathe

Game play footage would be good. Was there some and it didn't open for me?

Truvidienn

Amathe said:

Game play footage would be good. Was there some and it didn't open for me?

This was the most recent video I came across. Website hasn't been updated since like 2018.. But they said they've been focusing on social media updates and backers first.

Amathe

Thanks. I remember this footage now. Not bad.

k61977

Feel like they are rushing it out at this point, want to be first to market. The game is no where near ready from what I have seen. The video that was posted online is horrible. Just a hazy mess. I really would like devs to take their time and make a great game.

Mendel

Scot said:

Anyone looked into this one, I note is powers are gameplay based not theme based, i.e. Ranged and Ranged Support not Flame Powers. It also seems to lack much in the way of lore, but then that's standard for a modern MMO.

That's not encouraging, @Scot.  At least the abilities could have some tie to the game lore/theme.  "Ranged" and "Range Support" sounds like they are simply phoning this one in.  Maybe the act of writing scares them.  If so, that sets a pretty low bar for content development.

Mendel

Truvidienn said:

Amathe said:

Game play footage would be good. Was there some and it didn't open for me?

This was the most recent video I came across. Website hasn't been updated since like 2018.. But they said they've been focusing on social media updates and backers first.

That video shows a world that looks totally lifeless.  There were no other objects beyond the character, no cars, no mailboxes to throw at things, no street lights, nothing.  It looked like a walk through a half completed world.  I really hope this game has progressed since 2018, otherwise it may be dead on arrival.

GladDog

Surprise surprise. I have not seen hide nor hair of this project in well over a year. Honestly, I figured it died. I'm trying to stay up with all of the Superhero projects coming up. I'll try the open beta, I played it some like 2 years ago in early alpha, and it wasn't bad - back then graphics were a tiny bit better than CoH. Lets see what they have to show for the last two years.

GladDog

Scot said:

Anyone looked into this one, I note is powers are gameplay based not theme based, i.e. Ranged and Ranged Support not Flame Powers. It also seems to lack much in the way of lore, but then that's standard for a modern MMO.

The way it works is you pick a basic class and then insert a super enhancement that 'themes' your character. If you put in a fire enhancement, you are now a fire blaster, put in a cold for an ice blaster, etc The nice thing about it is you can make a ranged damage class and if you are wealthy enough, change your super enhancement to make a whole 'nother build.

Jaguaratron1

Nanbino said:

Asthetical'y looks city of heroes like. Still trying to cash in on familiarity rather than risky creativity. RIP

Most MMOs fail because instead of taking good parts of games that work they try to reinvent the wheel with "risky creativity" /rolleyes

LeiHngWei

Nanbino said:

Asthetical'y looks city of heroes like. Still trying to cash in on familiarity rather than risky creativity. RIP

Which is the point of all the CoH "spiritual successors". All of which the CoH players abandoned when the CoH private servers were revealed. Says a lot about the CoH crowd, doesn't it.

maskedweasel

They don't update that often, and they haven't made all that much headway despite attempting to fund for several years now. 

Valiance is about on par with how far many of the other super hero games have come. In some aspects the others have done better at least with consistency. Maybe, with the exception of Heroes and Villains, which is in a pretty poor state from everything I've ever seen. 

All that being said, this is a really stupid move for them to release a limited open beta in august. From august 7 - 16th Marvels Avengers is doing their Beta.. and let's be honest, who in their right mind would put their open beta against what is definitely the biggest Hero Game release of the year? 

It's almost like they don't want people to play their game at all.

Wizardry

hmm

Had to check and see who Silverhelm studios is first.Yep listed as one of the developers.
Well when i tried to go to their forums i got a cyber warning ,a threat of stealing my information and not a secure connection.Not a typical Microsoft warning either.

Wizardry

The tier buy ins are really sketchy as well.There is definitely some incentive to being a Diamond player and at only $500 WTF !!!.

That doesn't mean your costs will end there either,there is most likely going to be a cash shop that will manage to outdo your Diamond status and get you to pay more.

The game looks like a low budget half assed game,like really half assed so to assume someone would pay you $500 is just insane.

it just seems so VERY easy to sell one simple gimmick now a days,consumers are becoming far less intelligent than prior years,hard to believe i know since people were buying plots on the moon and pet rocks.