Life is Feudal (now on Steam Greenlight!)

[CrazyCracka420]

Check this out:

http://lifeisfeudal.com/Life-is-Feudal-like

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LiF is ...
... like Wurm Online

in terms of free terraforming of surface and a tunnel building underground.

BUT!

    LiF's tunnel building system is 100% 3 dimensional. Making a tunnel passing above or under another tunnel won't make a shaft like it does in Wurm, but will leave both tunnel intact and perfectly solid without any shafts.
    LiF's Free building system allows placement of pre-modelled buildings with a free rotation angle that results in less "cubic" way of settlements looks like.
    And do not forget about other numerous game features ;)


 ... like Mount&Blade Series

in terms of melee, ranged and mounted no target physics combat.

BUT!

    LiF is an MMORPG, while Mount & Blade series have only limited numbers multiplayer.
    LiF has innovative Formations system that brings new aspects into massive battles.
    LiF has advanced combat aspects like full-body swings (hitting someone while standing on both your legs solid is much painful while hitting someone in the middle of the run or a jump), hit combos, activated abilities of differrent weapon skills etc.
    And do not forget about other numerous game features ;)


 ... like Ultima Online

in terms of skillcap and statcap systems, inventory and some other aspects.

BUT!

    LiF has separate crafting and combat skillcaps, that do not force you to choose between combat and crafting or create additional characters.
    LiF is newer and has full 3D world for bigger immersion into game.
    And do not forget about other numerous game features ;)


 ... like Darkfall Online and/or Shadowbane

in terms of free PvP, massive siege events and global politics.

BUT!

    LiF game design conception is aimed to protect newbies and peaceful players from non stop ganking by PvP hungry players. That is planned to be achieved mostly by bigger impact of alignment system on player decisions. Player with negative alignement will loose significantly more skill points on death and should think thrice before ganking some newbie just for "Lulz"
    Innovative Battle system will provide a clean, (*hopefully*) lagless instanced battleground, that won't be disturbed by 3rd parties and precise statistics will be calculated and stored in LiF history recordings. So participants will have a solid fact base to boast about their victories on forums ;)
    LiF will contain tweaks on classical siege system according to our own experince of numerous sieges in DF and SB


 ... like EVE Online

in terms of general sandboxiness and massiveness.

BUT!

    LiF will give you bigger immersion to be able to directly control your character's body, rather just to give commands to your ship and observe continous animations.
    LiF medieval setting should appeal more to you, if you are still reading that page ;)
    And do not forget about other game features ;)

[Banok]

Well here is the crowdfunding:

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/life-is-feudal

seriously wtf with that bear

[Nessaj]

€364 Raised of €200,000 Goal



€150 for instant Alpha, €90 for Closed Beta II

Not really digging those prices, nor the total amount.


They also still didn't flesh out what exactly they mean with the combat system:

A No-target Combat System. LIFE IS FEUDAL features an advanced no target combat system, where combat can be experienced in either 1st or 3rd person view. There is no lock-on, and players must carry out individual actions such as swing, stab and block, for example. Physics come into play as well, as does the quickness of the attacker and defender. A swift use of a sword at a high velocity causes extensive damage, and when players die, loss of skill occurs by an alignment factor at random.
Physics-Based Melee & Ranged Combat
Realistic Player Damage System

[Xant]

Confidence in this project went down by 93.43% after seeing their Indiegogo page. Very amateur work all around.

I wonder if they could have failed harder if they had tried. Every aspect of it is a joke. And they're never going to get 200,000.

[Casimir]

Good concept, terrible execution.

[Leesin]

Lol @ those prices, the beta stage 2 price alone is a joke, seems like they dont want many testers, only the testers who already believe this is the next best thing since sliced bread. Even though it does look like I would enjoy the game, I can happily wait til game release and pay a realistic sum then. If it makes it that far because many people pay the fund to get beta access etc, not many are going to pay the prices they want.

[Christo]

Ideas are good, but it has such a high chance to become a disasterous train wreck rolling into a pitfall, I don't know.

Also early access is early access, but hot damn. Dat price.

[Banok]

in honesty I gotta agree guys. I been following this game for ages, and i'm gutted because I was very impressed with the game itself, and the developers.

but yeah I have no idea why they are expecting to get 200k. communication of stuff like gamemodel is very poor. people are probably getting alot of wrong ideas about the gamemodel from those rewards.

other medieval sandbox mmo kickstarters: gloria victis 20k of 60k, greedmonger 90k of 30k. caerus 46k of 25k. I don't think any of those games are as interesting but they give an impression of realistic expectations.

[Tibe]

A No-target Combat System. LIFE IS FEUDAL features an advanced no target combat system, where combat can be experienced in either 1st or 3rd person view. There is no lock-on, and players must carry out individual actions such as swing, stab and block, for example. Physics come into play as well, as does the quickness of the attacker and defender. A swift use of a sword at a high velocity causes extensive damage, and when players die, loss of skill occurs by an alignment factor at random.
Physics-Based Melee & Ranged Combat
Realistic Player Damage System

Loss of skill when dying? Wat? Thats just silly.

[Bjord]

They probably thought their game was so unique and special that they didn't see any issue with demanding €200,000 from people.

And the video was so lackluster, I can't say I'm expecting much anymore.

[Banok]

Loss of skill when dying? Wat? Thats just silly.

well I disagree with that at least. if you play darkfall everyone runs around naked, because then you have nothing to lose, death means nothing unless you are carrying something valuable. then if you play haven which is permadeath obviously death is a big deal, people will wear their absolute best items into battle. skill loss for me is the perfect compromise, to making death meaningful but not too harsh.

[Tibe]

Loss of skill is bad imo. Id be more pleased if dying took a certain % of your gold for example. Or XP. Which is better as far as im concerned. You dont loose levels and skills you already obtained, but you do loose XP from your main lvl(as I presume the game will have a main lvl), making it harder for you to progress any further, if you die a lot. Kinda like Path of Exile does it. You die, you loose your hard earned XP and it makes you QQ. But you dont loose skills and an entire hardearned level to make you call bullshits and leave entirely.

And people do that in Darkfall? Im not a Darkfallplayer so im not familiar with it. I quess people will forever be people. Abuse everything everywhere whenever it is possible. This is why we cant have nice things.

Also found this:

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Our campaign has a target goal of 200,000.00 Euros, as this amount of funding allows us to complete the development of LIFE IS FEUDAL, and develop all of the features described above. But that is only the beginning! Should we accomplish additional funding we have defined a number of stretch-goals enabling us to expand our MMORPG even further! LIFE IS FEUDAL is an ever expanding universe, and in an effort to constantly and continuously offer our players the ultimate gaming experience, the game must be allowed to expand, evolve, and grow over time. We have defined a number of key-features and estimated their costs as stretch-goals, and we are confident these additions will add new dimensions to our MMORPG.

Our first stretch-goal of 275,000.00 Euros adds a complex ecosystem to the game. The objective is to expand on the games realism where latitude affects weather patterns, and where rain will affect farming culture growth rates and harvest amount. The amount and toughness of wild animals is directly related to the number of players and buildings in certain areas. The stretch-goal also adds complex animal taming and breeding.

Our second stretch-goal of 330,000.00 Euros offers players the feature to freely place furniture and decorative items inside of caves, houses, and buildings with great precision!

Our third stretch-goal of 440,000.00 Euros offers players the ability to place certain type of walls, windows, doors, stairs and other housing modules on the game grid, resulting in your own unique house plan that you can complete and decorate.

Our next stretch-goal of 570,000.00 Euros is a major enhancement to the game and includes a full-scale naval transportation and combat system! By reaching this goal LIFE IS FEUDAL will include Cogs and Hulks (with possible in-game invention of Caravel and Carrack ship types) roaming around rivers, lakes, and seas for movement of trade goods, troops, piracy or simply for leisure exploration.

Our final stretch-goal of 700,000.00 Euros offers players everything they will ever need to turn their depleted mine tunnels into a full-scale dungeons maze with doors, traps, and monster spawns, and treasure spots.

Final streach-goal 700k. 

[Bjord]

They're fucking crazy.

[Polobow]

Perhaps they think they can pull it off like star citizen, with those house-tiers.

[Olwen]

200 000:

90k for the game
70k for the vodka
40k to feed boris