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[Dauntless] ver 1.0 live. Out on consoles now.. Switch version in the works.
Seidkona
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Did I just coin Monster Hunteralike? Damn right I did!
Will this be good? Who knows but we can hope?
So let's start off with the trailer video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6FjLGqB-uc
and here's the website: https://playdauntless.com/
You can sign up for alpha and beta access there.
Right now there's not a whole lot of info aside of the basics. Four monsters are shown on the site and there's some gameplay. I'll update the OP as we move along with more game info but I wanted to get the discussion started.
Who want's to hunt slay some monsters?
Will this be good? Who knows but we can hope?
So let's start off with the trailer video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6FjLGqB-ucand here's the website: https://playdauntless.com/
You can sign up for alpha and beta access there.
Right now there's not a whole lot of info aside of the basics. Four monsters are shown on the site and there's some gameplay. I'll update the OP as we move along with more game info but I wanted to get the discussion started.
Who want's to hunt slay some monsters?
Mostly just huntin' monsters.
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signed up for these alpha, fingers crossed
I especially like that they showed a guy with a proper axe. MH could use more axes.
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I didn't get much Dark Souls vibe. Was I wrong?
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The devs list their inspirations as Monster Hunter, Dark Souls and World of Warcraft, but it definitely looks more MH than the others.
Signed up and looking forward to seeing how it develops.
https://playdauntless.com/wp-content/uploads/AetherAttacks.mp4
https://playdauntless.com/wp-content/uploads/PixelPerfect.mp4
https://playdauntless.com/wp-content/uploads/Combos.mp4
i hope they include hitstop on weapon hits
Yeah, wallet destroyer.
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let me pay you
There are a lot of ways this could go off the rails but I feel like if it doesn't this could be one hell of a game that will suck up a lot of my time.
I mean the devs seem to have a pedigree in good games so that might be a good sign.
I do look forward to learning more about the game and hopefully getting my hands on a beta or something.
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It's a new shop comprised of Ex-Blizzard and Bioware devs and headed by a Former Senior dev on League of Legends.
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All told, there's nothing particularly confidence inspiring about them. They're a perky startup group of folks that did some other big name stuff and founded their own studio, but I don't see anything that screams, "Definitely can pull this off."
Probably hugely depends on what the team as a whole is able to perform.
Edit: Lots and lots of Riot staff came over, it looks like. That is a good sign for effective free to play design at least.
But. . The people they have have made good games in the past so it's a bit positive. Though it doesn't always translate to a great game.
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They'll be further behind in development than they wanted to be by their planned launch date in 2017, so they'll go into an early access/founder's program in 2017 with a fairly sparse and buggy beta. We'll get $30, $60, $100 (or something like) founder's access packs offered on that planned date instead of the game like we're hoping. Then it'll be a gamble whether they can race to release a full product before they run out of good will of founder's and the initial burst of funding dries up. They might make it, they might not.
Damn, I'm not going to lie, this is the most likely scenario.
If I was a betting man this is what I'd be placing my bets on.
Another aspect of this endeavor is that the games they are citing as their inspiration are somewhat niche games known for their, uh, hardcore-y-ness? Apart from WoW of course. Though their citing of WoW as an "inspiration" I think only goes so far as art-style and being an online multiplayer game with a somewhat persistent world.
Otherwise Dark Souls and Monster Hunter are known (and beloved) for their tendency to punish players who get greedy, impatient, or simply fail to prepare properly. That doesn't sound like something that can transfer to a F2P game if the Devs want broad appeal.
If the Devs recognize this and decide to make things more forgiving and/or easier then you risk losing the magic that makes games like Monster Hunter and Dark Souls so great. Which may result in a kind of bland, if otherwise inoffensive, product.
Or the Devs plan to have F2P mechanics that allow the more greedy/impatient players to succeed which might raise a concern of P2W. Whether justified or not, that stigma is pretty bad to have.
Third option is that the Devs are well aware of who their market is and have budgeted themselves in such a way as to capitalize on a somewhat niche market allowing them to thrive though possibly never being "breakout success".
Regardless, I love me some Monster Hunter (and Dark Souls!) and would love to have a MMO-esque MH game to play with my buddies on PC (and yeah I know MHO is a thing). So I'll be hoping for the best with Dauntless.
There is a large market of people who like those games to tap into, I think.
The question is how well do they do in making a game that appeals to that group because there are some very large gotchas that cause a lot of clones of both games to fail.
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Also about the f2p mechanics they said this:
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pleasepaypreacher.net
It depends on the F2P game.
While I know a lot of F2P games can be bad there are some great examples of it being done well. League of Legends is one of them and one of the leads from that is on this so I think there's at least a chance it'll not be horrible.
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Kaynyans.
If you want a company to make you feel good about it, though, Riot will get you there. That's a good place to be thinking about f2p from.
Most of the team are riot expats.
Yeah I get that there are riot people on this team, but that doesn't mean their philosophy is the dominant one. Remains to be seen really.
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I'll take 10, please and thank you.
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Both of the co-CEO founders, the founder who is head of HR (so all founders), and most of the producers I've seen are ALL from Riot.
For the record, this specific art is not related to Dauntless.
And another:
also i think this is the second vod
EDIT: the look of the game still feels a bit alien to me. too clean? everything is too clear and off colour? idk, its still an alpha
and it definitely needs hitstun
EDIT 2: looks like this is hammer moves set. i couldve sworn it had a lvl 3 charge mechanic?
That said it's still very early so perhaps well get some more interesting creatures.
It also feels very western so it lacks that quirky, not serious Japanese humor I so love about MH. Basically I'm like "its not MH" and that isn't fair, so I'll stop. It might be fun...well see.
I actually like the sort of colorful saturday morning/overwatch aesthetic they got going here. Kind of reminds me of Torchlight.
Also not a fan of the sound design so far. The blunt impacts and stomps in particular sound wrong somehow.