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Funcom Announces Co-op Survival Sandbox Aloft, Set in a World of Floating Islands, Enters Early Acce

SystemSystem Member UncommonPosts: 12,599
edited November 13 in News & Features Discussion

imageFuncom Announces Co-op Survival Sandbox Aloft, Set in a World of Floating Islands, Enters Early Access in January | MMORPG.com

Entering Early Access in January, Aloft is an upcoming co-op sandbox survival game. Published by Funcom, it's set in a world of floating islands, where one of them can be your personal skyship.

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  • ZandogZandog Member UncommonPosts: 122
    Astrolabe Interactive put a lot of passion into this game. I hope it does really well for them. Great Discord communication, supportive community. They've had a free demo on Steam for quite some time now if anyone is curious how this will play.
    kitaradBabuinix
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  • SovrathSovrath Member LegendaryPosts: 32,779
    Wasn’t this same idea done by another developer? You could make your airship and use a grappling hook to move about  B)
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  • gelraengelraen Member UncommonPosts: 326

    Sovrath said:

    Wasn’t this same idea done by another developer? You could make your airship and use a grappling hook to move about  B)



    Are you thinking of Allods? It had the airships at least, though not sure about the grapples.
  • KyleranKyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 43,975
    gelraen said:

    Sovrath said:

    Wasn’t this same idea done by another developer? You could make your airship and use a grappling hook to move about  B)



    Are you thinking of Allods? It had the airships at least, though not sure about the grapples.
    No, he is thinking about Worlds Adrift, released by Bossa Studios back in 2017.  It was a FFA PVP sandbox MMO that tanked as these games often do.

    In it the islands were fixed I think but players built their own airships to sail between the islands which had a grappling hook mechanism.

    Bossa is back I see working on a PVE coop multiplayer sandbox game called Lost Skies which should put it in direct competition with Aloft.

    https://lostskiesgame.com/news/we-are-flying-once-more
    kitaradBabuinixScotSovrath

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  • SovrathSovrath Member LegendaryPosts: 32,779
    Kyleran said:
    gelraen said:

    Sovrath said:

    Wasn’t this same idea done by another developer? You could make your airship and use a grappling hook to move about  B)



    Are you thinking of Allods? It had the airships at least, though not sure about the grapples.
    No, he is thinking about Worlds Adrift, released by Bossa Studios back in 2017.  It was a FFA PVP sandbox MMO that tanked as these games often do.

    In it the islands were fixed I think but players built their own airships to sail between the islands which had a grappling hook mechanism.

    Bossa is back I see working on a PVE coop multiplayer sandbox game called Lost Skies which should put it in direct competition with Aloft.

    https://lostskiesgame.com/news/we-are-flying-once-more
    Yes that was the one! It started ffa pvp but towards the end they implemented pve servers or a flag or some such thing so that players didn’t have to pvp. 

    Their track record isn’t great so buyer beware for this title.
    Kyleran
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  • gelraengelraen Member UncommonPosts: 326

    Sovrath said:


    Kyleran said:


    gelraen said:



    Sovrath said:


    Wasn’t this same idea done by another developer? You could make your airship and use a grappling hook to move about  B)






    Are you thinking of Allods? It had the airships at least, though not sure about the grapples.


    No, he is thinking about Worlds Adrift, released by Bossa Studios back in 2017.  It was a FFA PVP sandbox MMO that tanked as these games often do.

    In it the islands were fixed I think but players built their own airships to sail between the islands which had a grappling hook mechanism.

    Bossa is back I see working on a PVE coop multiplayer sandbox game called Lost Skies which should put it in direct competition with Aloft.

    https://lostskiesgame.com/news/we-are-flying-once-more


    Yes that was the one! It started ffa pvp but towards the end they implemented pve servers or a flag or some such thing so that players didn’t have to pvp. 

    Their track record isn’t great so buyer beware for this title.



    Ah interesting. I missed that one. Allods also did something much like this back in 2011.
    SovrathScot
  • KyleranKyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 43,975
    Sovrath said:
    Kyleran said:
    gelraen said:

    Sovrath said:

    Wasn’t this same idea done by another developer? You could make your airship and use a grappling hook to move about  B)



    Are you thinking of Allods? It had the airships at least, though not sure about the grapples.
    No, he is thinking about Worlds Adrift, released by Bossa Studios back in 2017.  It was a FFA PVP sandbox MMO that tanked as these games often do.

    In it the islands were fixed I think but players built their own airships to sail between the islands which had a grappling hook mechanism.

    Bossa is back I see working on a PVE coop multiplayer sandbox game called Lost Skies which should put it in direct competition with Aloft.

    https://lostskiesgame.com/news/we-are-flying-once-more
    Yes that was the one! It started ffa pvp but towards the end they implemented pve servers or a flag or some such thing so that players didn’t have to pvp. 

    Their track record isn’t great so buyer beware for this title.
    I recall a MOP writer who enjoys PVP / a bit of ganking gave it a try before the PVE flip.

    After 9 hours one day of being mercilessly ganked repetitively he concluded that even for him it was a bit much and recommended devs make some changes.

    As mentioned, they did try to create a PVE friendly mode but it was too little,too late, and probably not the only issue the game suffered from.

    Sovrath

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  • kitaradkitarad Member LegendaryPosts: 8,164
    9 hours? Why stick around for so much time getting mercilessly ganked. I mean if it happens 3 times I will quit and uninstall.
    waveslayer

  • SovrathSovrath Member LegendaryPosts: 32,779
    kitarad said:
    9 hours? Why stick around for so much time getting mercilessly ganked. I mean if it happens 3 times I will quit and uninstall.
    Because in a PvP game you’re going to eventually die. If the game has a healthy population it won’t happen that often. If not then it will happen a lot. 

    If after a while you find you are having difficulty progressing then there’s a choice to make.
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  • DattelisDattelis Member EpicPosts: 1,674
    I wish Funcom would do something else with the Secret World IP already.
  • KyleranKyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 43,975
    edited November 14
    kitarad said:
    9 hours? Why stick around for so much time getting mercilessly ganked. I mean if it happens 3 times I will quit and uninstall.
    He was trying to get in enough play time to do a short revisit / review and remember, he actually enjoys gankbox gameplay.

    Here's a short excerpt

    "Maybe if I were playing in a group it would have been easier, but what I experienced in World’s Adrift was worse than my most painful past PvP experiences. I could bank in those games. I could run into the hills and grind out sub-optimal experience and make slow and steady progress with which to eventually retaliate. I could make friends and forge alliances. But here, in nine hours of play, using all my MMO and social gaming experience, I felt completely powerless. Any new player could walk up to me with a gun and send me back several hours. And that would continue unless I was able to stay logged in, complete a ship, and fly it to safety in the same gaming session."

    https://massivelyop.com/2018/05/21/first-impressions-of-worlds-adrift-innovation-zelda-open-world-pvp-and-that-sinking-feeling/


    kitarad

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    "I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant

    Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm

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    Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™

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