UE4 Powered Fantasy MMORPG Chronicles of Elyria Seeks Funding on Kickstarter

Those of you who have been longing for a new kind of MMORPG could exist interested in Chronicles of Elyria, an exceedingly ambitious project by Soulbound Studios.

Funded by industry veterans Jeromy Walsh (former Pb Tools Developer at Pandemic for Mercenaries and Star Wars Battlefront) and Eddie Smith (Lead Concept Artist at Bungie for Halo ii and Halo three; about recently he worked on Ryse: Son of Rome), the indie company based in Bellevue, Washington is at present asking for the community's assist to fund their dream game via Kickstarter.

There are many innovative features amid the highlights of Chronicles of Elyria. The game, powered by Unreal Engine iv, is targeting a PC release starting time with console planned subsequently; the activeness gainsay is being designed with the gamepad in mind, and you can take a look at it in the video beneath.

Clarification

The most dynamic and immersive MMO to date, Chronicles of Elyria is the first MMORPG where your character ages and dies, encouraging you to think beyond your character to their role in a larger story.

Fearless in its design, it embraces a grapheme's ability to touch on other characters. A closed economy, finite resources, non-repeatable quests, and a fully destructible environment means the earth is experienced differently for every graphic symbol. Each time y'all log in there is something for you to participate in. Local, regional, and national conflicts are continuously unfolding, giving nascency to repeated opportunities for you to change the course of history.

Enter the world every bit a member of a role player-run family, then piece of work your mode upward from a humble charlatan to a landed vassal, develop your dynasty, and work your way to King. Not interested in running a kingdom? The fully skill-based system and lack of classes ways you're rewarded with the power to create the exact grapheme you lot desire to.

Will you follow a path of virtue... or something darker?

FEATURES

• Aging, Dying, & Souls | An epic 10-year story line invites you to experience your character over multiple lifetimes. With each life you volition develop your grapheme and make your marking in the Chronicles. When your character eventually dies, their soul will exist reincarnated stronger than earlier and their spirit and destiny will alive on in another character of your making.

Characters age in-game over the course of 10-14 existent-world months. During that time your character will grow quondam and eventually dice, leaving their mark on history. But while alive you must choose your actions carefully, as each in-game decease reduces your overall lifespan (by approximately 2 days) and brings your character that much closer to permadeath. However, if y'all're an influential player (the king maybe), each in-game death is more impactful, leading to permadeath in simply iv or five times.
• Player Skill Matters | It'south no longer near getting to level cap and pursuing the best gear. In CoE a player's skill - their timing, speed, and strategy - makes a deviation. The combat system requires yous to dodge, parry, and manage your stamina - not just spam buttons. Crafting as well requires player skill, with mini-games designed to make crafting more than just clicking a button.

• Offline Player Characters | To maintain realism, your grapheme remains in-game from the moment of creation until permadeath because you wouldn't want to be interacting with a merchant only to have them sign out and disappear from the world. Nosotros've solved this with AI scripts to support your graphic symbol while offline. This allows y'all to train skills, run your shop, and defend yourself while you're AFK.
• Non-Repeatable Quests | Tired of killing xx bunnies destroying a farmer'south crops, but to see 50 other characters complete the same quest? We're doing away with NPC quest hubs by enabling other players to give out tasks. That same OPC merchant may run out of reagents, leading them to ask you to bring 10 elixirs back from a far off urban center, utilizing the contract organization to ensure delivery.
• No World or Mini-Map | Map makers and cartographers have a identify in CoE, helping players navigate their world. But spotter out, because treasure maps tin be faked and locations may be renamed, leading NPCs to refer to a town by the near used name.
• Game-Enforced Player Contracts | Implicit and explicit contracts enable you to develop unique, never-before-seen meta content. Signing in-game contracts between players creates a binding agreement and then y'all can safely operate your business. Sign trade contracts to create a shipping business. Utilize other players to procure hard-to-discover resources. Sell your services as an expert assassin and be confident you'll receive payment. The possibilities are endless and only limited by your creativity!

•MMORPG Meets Survival Game | With express inventory, hunger and thirst, drowning and fatigue, and unsafe landscapes containing both sweltering oestrus and frigid cold, a graphic symbol must exist truly heroic to become a hero. The riches are real and adventurers can become the wealthiest and well-nigh powerful in the world - if they can survive the harsh environments.
• Character Customization | Your character is created equally a function of a family unit, and thus is jump by the laws of genetics for that family unit. Joining a group of squat, redheaded bakers? You lot likely won't kickoff out equally a lithe, blond haired adventurer.
However, in CoE characters change dramatically even after character creation. Your graphic symbol ages from 15 to ~100, and will look their age. Scars develop and fade over time. Pilus grows while in the wilderness and may be re-styled while in town.

Your character's body adjusts to your play fashion, then you know when approaching a twig of a player who claims to exist a blacksmith, that you probably shouldn't trust his word. This as well means yous tin can grow out of your armor, so watch what you lot eat!

• Freedom of Movement | Chronicles of Elyria's combat mechanics do not rely on automobile-attacks or hot-bar buttons. Instead, CoE uses Left & Right mouse buttons to chain combat techniques together into combos.

These combos are configurable in the UI, assuasive players to develop their own personal combat manner using different techniques for each weapon they use.

• Fully Skill-based Graphic symbol Development | With dozens of skills across multiple categories including fighting, gathering, crafting, survival, bardic, and deviant, you can develop the character you've ever wanted to. With a skill arrangement that rewards failure instead of success, and mechanics requiring histrion skill in addition to character skill, you must accept on ever-increasing challenges if you want to exist the best.
• Family unit, State, & Housing System | Exist a part of a role player ran family unit, inheriting titles, riches, and grapheme traits from your parents and ancestors.
Use your lands to abound crops and subcontract, or lease land to others to build player-ran towns. Set laws, acquire resource, and grow your domain from hamlet to kingdom. The fully destructible and buildable earth means y'all can truly create your own village from the ground upwardly. It likewise means y'all'll protect your loot, leading to histrion-created dungeons.