Haven & Hearth 2.0

[Vibe]

I think this warrants a new thread now that there is a video out.

So what is Haven & Hearth?

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Haven & Hearth is a MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game) set in a fictional world loosely inspired by Slavic and Germanic myth and legend. The game sets itself apart from other games in the genre in its aim to provide players with an interactive, affectable and mutable game world, which can be permanently and fundamentally changed and affected through actions undertaken by the players. Our fundamental goal with Haven & Hearth is to create a game in which player choices have permanent and/or lasting effects and, thus, providing said players with a meaningful and fun gaming experience.

Players start the game surrounded by a vast and somewhat unforgiving wilderness, with only the most basic tools of survival at their disposal. The use of fire is a thematic focal point of the game's mythos, and an early and important task will be the simple lighting of one. As the first hearth fires disperse the darkness of the surrounding wilderness, more pressing questions will present themselves to the players: Who are they? Where are they? And, most importantly, where are they going? From this point on, players will have to blaze trails of their own into the unknown, the wilderness and the future, and explore and affect the world of Haven & Hearth using only their own best judgment and a chipped stone axe. Trust us, the stone axe is the shit.

As players progress, they will be able to acquire new skills and abilities, allowing them to perform a variety of tasks—such as the claiming of land, the construction of buildings and the cultivation of crops—each step forward making the basic task of survival somewhat easier. Having progressed far enough, players will, in time, be able to organize themselves into societies, from simple tribes and villages, progressing through republics, nation states and, ultimately, empires.

In short, it's a fully sandbox MMORPG with survival aspects, land claiming, free building, open world pvp and permadeath. It's completely free (no buy price, no sub price, no cashshop) EDIT: it's not free anymore.
Haven&Hearth 2.0 is a remake of the old Haven&Hearth, with recoding, graphics upgrade and new stuff, overall a better game (hopefully).

Links:
old thread (H&H2.0 info in later pages)
Homepage

Release date?
Game released on Aug 28th 2015.

[Tibe]

Ive never had much interest in these H&H-ish survivalporns. Sofar they looked a bit too hardcore and cheap. But dayum those animations looked pretty good and overall stuff looks lot more formed and smooth than before.

[Vibe]

Ive never had much interest in these H&H-ish survivalporns. Sofar they looked a bit too hardcore and cheap. But dayum those animations looked pretty good and overall stuff looks lot more formed and smooth than before.

The old (isometric 2D) version barely has any animations. As for survival, there is survival at start, but later in the game it's all about efficient villages/bases, work/profession distribution, resource control and PvP/drama, kind of like Banished I guess, except you have real players not NPCs (no NPCs in the game at all). Even at start food isn't hard to find, it's more about knowing that you shouldn't manfight a bear... or in Haven&Hearth's case, ants

The animations in the new version (3d isometric?) are incredible though, I wasn't expecting this level of quality, considering there's only 2 devs (1 of them being the gfx guy).

[Thovex]

2.5D

Lets make a village together.

[Vovka]

Naked russians tribe 2.0 !!!

[Gatsby]

Can u play some kind of role in this game? i mean the builders, the warriors etc..or everyone can do everything?

[Vibe]

Can u play some kind of role in this game? i mean the builders, the warriors etc..or everyone can do everything?

Everyone can do everything, but it's smart to assing yourself a role/specialize if you have multiple players.

[YnScN]

I'm in, since we have many experience on Defend The Village, i think we can handle building one.

[Vibe]

We had a cRPG based village in Haven&Hearth before, it turned out quite well actually, but people lost interest in the game eventually.

I'm up for making one again.

[Thovex]

Accumulated playing time:
4 weeks, 1 days, 22 hours, 05 minutes, 26 seconds

I don't know how I got 800 hours in this game before. 

[SixThumbs]

It looks slightly more appealing now that they changed the art-style but looking through the "beginner's tips" it seems like some mechanics are buggy or exploitable, understandable considering it's an alpha transitioning into a beta.

[SeQuel]

Pretty excited, looks good.

[Kalam]

We had a cRPG based village in Haven&Hearth before, it turned out quite well actually, but people lost interest in the game eventually.

I'm up for making one again.

You have my sword.

[Tibe]

We had a cRPG based village in Haven&Hearth before, it turned out quite well actually, but people lost interest in the game eventually.

I'm up for making one again.

I vote for Vibe as our new totalitarian governments dictator.

Oh wait.....

[Araxiel]

I tried this game and couldn't leave character creation screen or something.