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[Icefire2314]

Worlds Adrift is a stunning game in development by the same devs who brought us Surgeon Simulator and I am Toast.

WA is a sandbox MMO in which you design and fly airships through the sky. Apart from your skyship, the only other thing in the sky are other ships and floating islands with resources. Long term goals of the game (so far) appear to be exploration and PVP.

Creatures in the game fly around in the sky but are actually simulated populations which, if they die out, disappear. They need to eat, rest, etc etc or else they die. They also migrate from island to island.

Despite being only on version .2.0.3 (in beta), there is already a surprising amount to do in the game and I run into other players on a frequent basis.

The devs as well are super in touch with their community (a must for me) and even have a built in feedback system (accessed with F2) that you can use to write notes to them about whats good and bad in the game on the fly (pun intended).

It's really such a great game with absurd potential, please check it out and at the very least, watch their gameplay trailer

https://store.steampowered.com/app/322780/Worlds_Adrift__Early_Access_MMO/

[Xardalas]

Pretty sure we have a thread for this already.

[Icefire2314]

Pretty sure we have a thread for this already.

That thread ( I looked ) was for people looking for people to play with and the last reply was about a month ago

[Akura]

It looks and sounds very interesting, but a lot of the recent reviews and posts are saying it's a hailstorm of griefers, at least for the early game.

[Icefire2314]

It looks and sounds very interesting, but a lot of the recent reviews and posts are saying it's a hailstorm of griefers, at least for the early game.

I personally haven't experienced it. I know (or have heard) that it's a problem, but the devs are working on addressing it (which is one of the reasons why I say they are very in touch with their community)

Here's one of their posts on it. https://steamcommunity.com/games/322780/announcements/detail/1653264049361529864

[Frumple]

Creatures in the game fly around in the sky but are actually simulated populations which, if they die out, disappear. They need to eat, rest, etc etc or else they die. They also migrate from island to island.

...huh. So what I'm reading from that is xenocide, xenocide as far as the eye can see. What happens when there's nothing left alive besides the players that intentionally wiped out every critter population?

[IWishIWereSarah]

Well, you don't need to eat creatures anyway.
The creatures are just here to annoy you (when you gather wood or when you travel with engines on).

[Icefire2314]

Creatures in the game fly around in the sky but are actually simulated populations which, if they die out, disappear. They need to eat, rest, etc etc or else they die. They also migrate from island to island.

...huh. So what I'm reading from that is xenocide, xenocide as far as the eye can see. What happens when there's nothing left alive besides the players that intentionally wiped out every critter population?

I don't entirely know, and I've considered it myself. One thing, I think protecting this from happening, is simply how MASSIVE the world is. Like really massive. It would be extremely hard to completely wipe out the entire world's animal population (and even if, it's possible that they have some failsafe that occurs if a critter population gets too low, that may reintroduce a few of them in a random area).

Fortunately none of the critters provide critical resources, at least not yet, so even if they were killed off you don't miss them much. But I imagine it would be freakishly hard to do.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

See: Ultima Online

[Icefire2314]

Ultima has airships?

[Akura]

The Ultima universe/multiverse had at least ONE airship(actually just a hot-air balloon). Also, I don't think Worlds Adrift has resource depletion the way Ultima Online did - I've seen resources respawn right in front of me(in particular a tree that almost impaled the ship I was building).


Sailing is quite slow, except when trying to do precision maneuvers(then it's too fast), and I don't have any means of navigation besides keeping an island in view at all times.

[Wiles]

Urist was probably talking about the animals. Ultima Online had simulated animal populations at first, until players murdered everything. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFNxJVTJleE

[Icefire2314]

The Ultima universe/multiverse had at least ONE airship(actually just a hot-air balloon). Also, I don't think Worlds Adrift has resource depletion the way Ultima Online did - I've seen resources respawn right in front of me(in particular a tree that almost impaled the ship I was building).


Sailing is quite slow, except when trying to do precision maneuvers(then it's too fast), and I don't have any means of navigation besides keeping an island in view at all times.

There are instruments that you can unlock with the Knowledge tree as you progress. Also, you can unlock wings and engines which help you take more control of your ship as well as increase sailing speed. I agree, the starting sails are pretty garbage D:

The game will probably have better resource simulation as the game develops, it only just left alpha into beta

Urist was probably talking about the animals. Ultima Online had simulated animal populations at first, until players murdered everything. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFNxJVTJleE

Ah, I was unaware. Thats interesting though

[IWishIWereSarah]

I agree, the starting sails are pretty garbage D:

I don't know, guys.... My first ships usually have 4-5 sails for a 1 ton ship, and it's quite fast. faster than with shitty engines, at least

[Akura]

I would have put more sails than the two I did on my first ship, but you have to furl/unfurl the sails manually, each taking a couple seconds.