Life is Feudal (now on Steam Greenlight!)

[Tanken]

Game graphically is also really cool

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That armor is sweet! Did you make it, or spawn it in on a private server? I haven't seen that armor yet, but it looks like Padded armor. Awesome stuff either way.

[Tanken]

Things i have not yet tested:
- Placing furnaces/furniture underground.
- Making the tunnel double height to allow better visibility and more cosy 'open' areas.

Dirt mines fast, stone is managable, marble... currently going around marble where possible, it takes aaaaaaaages

You can't place furniture and stuff under ground, yet.

Eventually tunnels will collapse without supports (I keep hearing this, but I haven't actually read it anywhere..)

Also, if you play on a public server, you should offer to trade the marble for something. It's hard to find, or at least it has been for us.

[AntiBlitz]

You can't place furniture and stuff under ground, yet.

Eventually tunnels will collapse without supports (I keep hearing this, but I haven't actually read it anywhere..)

Also, if you play on a public server, you should offer to trade the marble for something. It's hard to find, or at least it has been for us.

yep, tunnels will need supports, as they are saying that over a period of time you will have caves everywhere, so they plan to make them collapse as to not have the world look like swiss cheese.  This essentially fills them in with dirt, so players will only maintain tunnels that are integral to their base. 

[Butan]

I'm still total 100% noob, i only recently tried making fire.

Human no make fire, fire make man.

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Dont shy away from screenshotting your current mining works.

[BadooN]

That armor is sweet! Did you make it, or spawn it in on a private server? I haven't seen that armor yet, but it looks like Padded armor. Awesome stuff either way.

It's the novice plate armor (Iron plate) and I crafted it.  As long as you have leather you can make pretty much any armor it seems

[Artyem]

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So here we are, raiding some GoT wannabe village when all of a sudden 12 guys start moving down the hillside towards us.  "Jamie Lannister" himself is in full royal plate with a board shield and four others are in novice chainmail with pitchforks.  We only had the three of us, Reykjavik and HungryNBroke in regular scale and myself with regular chainmail, we weren't going to back down though.  We held our ground and they came towards us in a tight formation, when their mass of naked players broke formation and sprinted around the flanks to hit us in the back.

"Jamie Lannister" took quite the beating, I landed six well aimed hits on him, and forced him to fall back so that he wouldn't get knocked unconscious.  The swarm of peasants started to attack Hungry and myself, while the guys with pitch forks encircled Reykjavik.  I managed to break out of the peasant swarm to help Hungry out by hitting their shielders in the back, it was at this point that Reykjavik was knocked unconcious.  The men surrounding him retreated to protect their dear leader, leaving him and his gear untouched.  Hungry swung his great axe around and knocked several peasants to the ground, which gave us the opportunity to retreat back into the woods.

We were chased by a couple of peasants, one equipped with a stone hammer and the other a sword.  I KO'd the stone hammer guy with a well placed shield bash, and then cut down the guy with the sword.  Hungry and I managed to escape the battlefield, and eventually Reykjavik woke up and also escaped.

Overall, it was a terrible laggy experience, but it was fucking amazing either way.  We got away with minor injuries and didn't lose any gear, four or five of their guys were knocked unconscious but they also escaped with no casualties or lost gear.

This game is pretty fucking cool.

[Butan]

Nice story.
You can steal KO'ed guys shit? Or finish them?

[Artyem]

I think being unconscious gives you invulnerability, but you can steal their shit.  In that situation, we didn't take anything from them because we were still outnumbered during our escape.  Not that we would have gotten much from them, the majority of the KO'd guys were naked, and we have no need for novice chainmail at this point.

Also, it turns out that the other villages on the server made extra characters to help them, as they only have 6 - 9 people in their group.  The first time we attacked them we jumped over their walls (they're built next to a hill of the same height) and murdered 3/5 inhabitants while the other two teleported / logged out.  Unfortunately we're trying to keep a viking / sea raider theme, so the plate we stole is useless to us.

[Kaido]

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So here we are, raiding some GoT wannabe village when all of a sudden 12 guys start moving down the hillside towards us.  "Jamie Lannister" himself is in full royal plate with a board shield and four others are in novice chainmail with pitchforks.  We only had the three of us, Reykjavik and HungryNBroke in regular scale and myself with regular chainmail, we weren't going to back down though.  We held our ground and they came towards us in a tight formation, when their mass of naked players broke formation and sprinted around the flanks to hit us in the back.

"Jamie Lannister" took quite the beating, I landed six well aimed hits on him, and forced him to fall back so that he wouldn't get knocked unconscious.  The swarm of peasants started to attack Hungry and myself, while the guys with pitch forks encircled Reykjavik.  I managed to break out of the peasant swarm to help Hungry out by hitting their shielders in the back, it was at this point that Reykjavik was knocked unconcious.  The men surrounding him retreated to protect their dear leader, leaving him and his gear untouched.  Hungry swung his great axe around and knocked several peasants to the ground, which gave us the opportunity to retreat back into the woods.

We were chased by a couple of peasants, one equipped with a stone hammer and the other a sword.  I KO'd the stone hammer guy with a well placed shield bash, and then cut down the guy with the sword.  Hungry and I managed to escape the battlefield, and eventually Reykjavik woke up and also escaped.

Overall, it was a terrible laggy experience, but it was fucking amazing either way.  We got away with minor injuries and didn't lose any gear, four or five of their guys were knocked unconscious but they also escaped with no casualties or lost gear.

This game is pretty fucking cool.

That was the most intense thing i read this year.

[Polobow]

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So here we are, raiding some GoT wannabe village when all of a sudden 12 guys start moving down the hillside towards us.  "Jamie Lannister" himself is in full royal plate with a board shield and four others are in novice chainmail with pitchforks.  We only had the three of us, Reykjavik and HungryNBroke in regular scale and myself with regular chainmail, we weren't going to back down though.  We held our ground and they came towards us in a tight formation, when their mass of naked players broke formation and sprinted around the flanks to hit us in the back.

"Jamie Lannister" took quite the beating, I landed six well aimed hits on him, and forced him to fall back so that he wouldn't get knocked unconscious.  The swarm of peasants started to attack Hungry and myself, while the guys with pitch forks encircled Reykjavik.  I managed to break out of the peasant swarm to help Hungry out by hitting their shielders in the back, it was at this point that Reykjavik was knocked unconcious.  The men surrounding him retreated to protect their dear leader, leaving him and his gear untouched.  Hungry swung his great axe around and knocked several peasants to the ground, which gave us the opportunity to retreat back into the woods.

We were chased by a couple of peasants, one equipped with a stone hammer and the other a sword.  I KO'd the stone hammer guy with a well placed shield bash, and then cut down the guy with the sword.  Hungry and I managed to escape the battlefield, and eventually Reykjavik woke up and also escaped.

Overall, it was a terrible laggy experience, but it was fucking amazing either way.  We got away with minor injuries and didn't lose any gear, four or five of their guys were knocked unconscious but they also escaped with no casualties or lost gear.

This game is pretty fucking cool.

Great story! Whoever has an adventure, post them! Even if you don't have the game it's still very cool to read.

[Jarlek]

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The combat is a little weird right now, but yes, it definitely reminds me of Mount & Blade.  That being said, you shouldn't purchase any video game when expecting Warband mechanics unless it actually is a Mount and Blade game.  There are four directional swings, feinting doesn't work like it does in Warband, and blocking is a little bit closer to Chivalry.  There's only one blocking animation, but you need to aim your weapon in the same direction that they're swinging in order to successfully block them.

The game is basically 65% building and 35% combat in its current form.  The skill progression system forces players to do certain things before they can unlock the ability to do other things.  For example, if you wish to use two-handed axes, you must progress down the tree in a specific order:

(side example:  if you want to get to skill B, then you need at least 30 points in skill A to even unlock skill B.  To progress past 30 in skill B you need at least 60 points in skill A.)

Two-Handed Swords to 60, Plate Armor Usage to 60, and then you can start using two-handed axes.  I personally don't like this system, because while it does enforce a form of balance, it doesn't logically make much sense.  Spears and other weapons with primitive designs should be the first weapons you're capable of using, but instead the first weapons you can use are swords.  Swords have been basically unobtainable because leather is required to craft them, which is extremely difficult to make / obtain.  This means that for a good while, the only weapons being used were pitch forks and tools (which suck cock in combat.)

Really, progression is the only issue in the game so far.  Leather and ropes are required to progress past the stone age, yet the leather / rope crafting skill tree is by far the most tedious, boring, thing in the game. 

Farming (easy enough) - Animal Lore (takes so long to level up) - Procuration (leather, ropes, bone glue, etc) - Cooking - Tailoring

In order to level up animal lore, you must first catch hares and chickens with snares, and then put them into coops.  To get animal lore XP, you must harvest and clean the coops every 24 hours or so.  You don't really get much XP for cleaning the coops and you can only harvest coops that have chickens in them.

tl;dr shit takes forever

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Also, in order to wear chainmail (at all) you need to have warhorse riding to at least 30.  Warhorse riding can only be increased during character creation, since it hasn't been implemented yet.  So, remember kids, set your warhorse riding to 60 during character creation if you want to use chainmail!

I see your bitching about farming crafting three, and raise it with alchemy/herbalism.

Gathering herbs and shit to make flux (an ingredient needed for ALL high tier shit) is so bullshit slow and micromanaging it can fill an insane asylum in less than a day. God, I hate herbalism.

Worst part is, since you can't make potions/poisons yet, you only need it for flux, but flux being so important still means you have to spend so much time on that piece of shit craft.

[Artyem]

What server? I never had time or effort to get above stone shit on my own whilst mining so might be fun to join a server with a group that actually has technology

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I see your bitching about farming crafting three, and raise it with alchemy/herbalism.

Gathering herbs and shit to make flux (an ingredient needed for ALL high tier shit) is so bullshit slow and micromanaging it can fill an insane asylum in less than a day. God, I hate herbalism.

Worst part is, since you can't make potions/poisons yet, you only need it for flux, but flux being so important still means you have to spend so much time on that piece of shit craft.

Yeah, farming got a lot easier once we figured out the proper method to raise animal lore to 60.  Still takes awhile, and it takes many hours to produce leather and rope, but at least it can be done.

Our herbalists complain a lot about flux, we actually went to a neighboring village to do slave labor for an hour and a half in exchange for 24 flux.

[Jarlek]

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Yeah, farming got a lot easier once we figured out the proper method to raise animal lore to 60.  Still takes awhile, and it takes many hours to produce leather and rope, but at least it can be done.

Our herbalists complain a lot about flux, we actually went to a neighboring village to do slave labor for an hour and a half in exchange for 24 flux.

One hour slave labour for 24 flux? That's a good deal, man.

Let me tell you guys how herbalism works:
You gather herbs from the ground in a two stage process. First you "look" for herbs, which makes a random number of plants appear on your surrounding tiles. From 3-8 herbs usually. Then you harvest each of these plants for one herb, with a random chance of getting nothing. You also have no control over what herb you get from any individual plant.

How many different herbs are there? 66. 66 motherfucking different types of herbs. Each with 3 random effects. Which is random for every single character. Which of the herbs got the flux effect? Fuck you, go play herbalism roulette. Out of these 66 herbs, 11 of them will have the flux effect, meaning that even if you know all the properties for all your herbs, you will still only get 1 useful herb for every 6 herbs you collect. Totally not wasting everyones time.

So, to get flux you need 2 herbs with the flux effect and mix them with a mortar and pestle. Did we mention that you also need 60 herbalism skill to even find the flux property? What do you mean "hidden under the lvl 60 tab in the skillbook isn't telling us"? Fucking scrub.

Time to gather a lot of herbs and just randomly add 2 together and hope you get lucky. Oh, and they also always get removed when you find/make an effect, so if you mixed a flux item with something that had one of the other 2 effects of it, you lost that flux herb. GG, hope you remember its bullshit name (seriously, write the name of all the flux herbs you find for your char).

Ofc, there are ways to minimize flux herb losses. If you know the other 2 effects of a flux herb AND you have another herb with the same 2 qualities, you can use it to "screen" unknown plants so that mixing it with your flux plant you wont waste it. Ofc, if that unknown plant has 1 of the same effects as the flux plant AND the flux effect, that can also fuck you over as it will be lost to the screening process.

Seriously. Fuck herbalism. Fuck it up the arse.

[Clockworkkiller]

how big will the map be for mmo version?

[Vovka]

21x21 km now its 3x3