In Defiance, the future is a dangerous place. Starship wreckage is raining to Earth in massive “Arkfall” events that transform the landscape. Experience one first-hand as countless other players – and a star from the Syfy series – battle to survive and profit. Watch Ark Hunters wield the weapons of tomorrow against alien-hybrid horrors in a dynamic, scaling encounter, then travel seamlessly through a unified world into the weekly TV series. This – Defiance – is the future of transmedia entertainment.
The game is an MMO TPS (third person shooter). It is launching on all major platforms, Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. Trion the developer have already proved they have what it takes to launch a AAA MMO and support it in the long term, with their flagship title RIFT maintaining realtively high subscription numbers in the west.
There is very little information released about the specifics of the game, however there are a few videos floating around of gameplay.
The universe is very rich, and both the TV show and Game will bounce off of each other.
Beta signups are up and I suggest anyone interested get signed up now as they will be ramping up testing very soon!
It also seems like SyFy really wants this series to work out, they hired the guy who made up the dothraki language in Game of Thrones to do 6 (at least I think it was 6) alien languages and after watching all the behind the scenes stuff it looks like they are putting in a lot of effort, so hopefully this won't be another show that SyFy cancels after a season or two.
And yeah, the game will be buy to play, so no subscription.
So wait, since the game is being released co-currently with the TV series, would players' actions have any bearing on the show? Like, say, if an encounter takes place and something goes horribly wrong, is it mentioned in the show in some way? (bad example of course, but the question stands)
On February 08 2013 06:50 Phailol wrote: So wait, since the game is being released co-currently with the TV series, would players' actions have any bearing on the show? Like, say, if an encounter takes place and something goes horribly wrong, is it mentioned in the show in some way? (bad example of course, but the question stands)
That's what the game producers said. Show impacts game and game impacts show Which makes choosing race and faction so much more important.
EDIT: sorry, let me add a bit more to my post to make it worthy enough to be here..... The graphic style and weaponry looks exactly like the same concept from Firefall. The style of game with random events occurring and having players rush over to see what is there and stopping the "unknown" forces is exactly like what Rift used.
Now I never played Firefall, but Rift while fun at first dropped off in playability so quickly. The 'Rifts' as they were called in the game did spice things up from the normal grind to level (kill XX amount of bees) but after 30 levels it was just the same thing over and over again.
I hope as they start to release more info on the gameplay AKA if and how they plan to have PvP in the game, it could be worth while to give it a try but they fucked up PvP in Rift so badly, we will see how it occurs here..
SECOND EDIT: I looked a bit more into it and it seems like the PvP will be arena type need to grind out points in the Arena to be able to get certain gear and progress. Fuck.
PvP seems to be based around world PvP and not "arena-type pvp", shadow war is one type of PvP and it happens in the open world (seems similar to instant adventures in Rift, only PvP focused) and it's supposedly 50 vs 50 and happens in many different places, but you have to flag yourself, you can't gank randoms. So while you run around doing PvE you will suddenly see a 50-player PvP group run past you, so it's pretty easy to want to join in. There's other PvP things as well though but they haven't released details about it yet I think. They also mentioned there will be only one shard so there will never be "dead servers". (Meaning they will probably just create a new instance of the zone when it's highly populated and let you swap freely between them.)
On February 08 2013 06:50 Phailol wrote: So wait, since the game is being released co-currently with the TV series, would players' actions have any bearing on the show? Like, say, if an encounter takes place and something goes horribly wrong, is it mentioned in the show in some way? (bad example of course, but the question stands)
That's what the game producers said. Show impacts game and game impacts show Which makes choosing race and faction so much more important.
well theres only human or the alien race, and its rly no difference other then look also there is no faction
Has anyone heard anything overly negative about this game? The more I look into it the more appealing it seems. I know there's an NDA in place but often times people still get glimpses or hear about stuff. The Ark Hunter code hunting missions they are doing is pretty cool as well and gives people opportunities to level up their EGO before the game even comes out. I've found that to be a nice little touch to add to immersion.
Anyway, my primary question if there has been anything negative heard about this game yet. I'm probably gonna pick it up for PS3 as long as between now and launch nothing really steers me away from it. Anyone else on here planning on playing on the PS3?
Looking forward to the show more now that I've had a chance to spend some good time in the PS3 BETA. The game is a blast and I went out and pre-ordered my first ever Ultimate Edition because I've enjoyed it so much. I'd encourage more people to check out the game if they have already.
I'll admit, the game is somewhat underwhelming at the moment.
I'd most closely equate it to a MMO version of Borderlands. Lots of different guns, lots of different styles, but not much in the way of character customization. The skill tree isn't all that much to go on, and the community is still establishing itself.
Arkfalls (the Defiance version of 'Rifts') are fun though. Chaotic, and potentially dozens of players will congregate for them. There's plenty of side-stuff to do too, rampages, hotshots, and driving tests are scattered about.
Honestly, I don't know how deep the game will go. I'm mostly through about 1/3rd of the San Fransisco, I don't know if that's the entire game area ATM , or just one piece. I suspect it's just one area of several, and it's fairly exhaustive.
Only getting a piece of the storyline though is problematic. I hope the TV show is good and helps fill in holes and gaps.
I'm very excited for the television show, but I am skeptical about the game. I'll be cautious towards a game if it is co-released with a television show or movie because they're generally rushed - that's why a vast majority of video games based on movies are shit, because they have to be out by a certain time to cash in on the movie hype, whether they're finished/good or not. I also haven't heard a lot about this game or show, today was the first time actually (oddly enough a commercial on Youtube watching TL interviews), but this thread also makes me believe no one knew anything about this game, which doesn't mean it's bad, but if it was awesome you would think it would have more hype behind it.
I'll probably wait for the show and decide after that. If the show is great, then I'll play the game because even if the game is merely average, the universe of the show/game being interested would pick up the slack and make it enjoyable. I wish the game had a free trial.
Its seems to be like Borderlands on a big server but without the crazy weapons. The skilltree is just % increase here, % crit there. The whole game has 4 skills in it.
Played the last beta with a friend, just to see if it was going to by worth the buy.
As a poster before me said it was a large open world Borderland MMO without all the cool skills or weapons. Not sure about the full release but in the beta it felt like the gameplay was rushed and nothing was really explained. There was one point where after ~15 mission an item pickup was explained by the AI after me and my friend had already used it 2-3 times before that. I still don't understand how any of the weapon mods work since it was never explained....ever. The vehicles were fun and we spent a good portion of the 2nd day of the beta just driving around stalking people and running stuff over, since we already got as far as we could on the main story.
It was fun for what it was, but definitely not worth the $60 release price. I might pick it up later on when its $15-20.
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