Details about
CCP's World of Darkness are popping out of
White Wolf's The Grand Masquerade in New Orleans this weekend, and they're
definitely worth draining for every last sweet drop of... information.
While the game is still in pre-production -- and as such, nothing is set
in stone -- the devs weren't hesitant to dish out a lot of the ideas
and features that they hope will make this the best vampire MMO to date.
It's CCP's desire to emulate LARPing (live-action roleplaying) as much as possible with
World of Darkness,
with plenty of metaplots running inside the game and without. Players
will begin as a mortal human who can make the choice to become a kindred
(vampire) or stay mortal for the duration of their characters' lives.
There's a very real danger that characters might experience "final
death" --
permadeath -- if they take too many risks. If you get in over your head, you can retreat to your character's Haven for safety.
The entire game will take place at night and on one server, and CCP is
definitely aiming it toward the hardcore set. Nudity, gore, and insanity
effects are all par for the course.
If players push outside of the acceptable boundaries too often, they'll
lose "humanity" points and could become flagged for constant attack by
other players and NPCs. Play your cards right and you may become the
prince of the city. The game will change over time with dynamic events,
and CCP promises that there will be real consequences for player
decisions.
Look for our
World of Darkness interview with CCP coming later this week.
As a vampire-themed MMORPG,
World of Darkness developed by
EVE Online's producer
CCP Games will fill a deficiency in such themed games in the market. Recently, the developer has disclosed some details about the game.
The action MMORPG
World of Darkness is currently in
development, but will present more real battles. The game will offer two
factions: Humans and Vampires. Along with the progress of the game
storyline, players must choose either faction as they wish.
Since
CCP Games aims to make
World of Darkness into a 18+ MMO, players will experience excessive sex, blood and violence in the game.
According to the developer, the game has integrated an interesting
system. If players do much immoral things, they will lose humanity
points. When they have too few humanity points, they will be attacked by
NPCs or other players. On the contrary, if they do some righteous
things, their humanity points will increase and they may become the
defenders of the city. Additionally, the game will add a large number of
dynamic events and the whole gaming world will change in accordance
with the dynamic events.
At last, the developer expressed that the game would bring players
unprecedented experiences and more game info would be revealed with the
further development of
World of Darkness.
More details:
World of Darkness News ,
White Wolf forums #1 ,
White Wolf forums #2from shu:i like the idea of one server and perm death if u die too many times.just wondering if the server can take in so many or not and will it be heavily instance
i am interested in this mmo from 1-2 years back already.if we are playing this mmo we should pick vampire faction heh.i think most players will be doing that.they will prob give human faction a lot of advantage though if the ratio of players is heavily tip to the dark side so maybe human is fun too heh ^^