Mortal Online reveals beta signups, new video, and well rendered buffalo
by Seraphina Brennan 
Mar 19th 2009 at 12:30PM
Filed under: Betas, Fantasy, New titles, News items, Mortal Online
What? You were expecting something more? A few paragraphs at least? Ok, ok, you twisted our arms enough. Mortal Online is the new PvP MMO that everyone's squeeing about -- one that's set up to attempt to out Darkfall, well, Darkfall.
Sporting game systems very closely related to Darkfall's, such as skill based progression and action based combat, Mortal Online is a PvP, action based, first person MMO being run on the Unreal Engine. From what we've been able to see from the in-game footage, MO will be a bit slower combat-wise when compared to Darkfall, but will feature more interactivity between the user and the environment through well placed camera angles and the ability to see your own body.
The video shows horse riding, dungeon crawling with a torch in one hand and sword in the other, mounted combat, and even a peek at siege weaponry through the use of a ballista. If it sounds like something you're interested in, jump on over to their main webpage or download the official video through their torrent.
[Thanks, Jonathan, Daniel, Amisch, and Brian!]
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david said on 12:39PM 3-19-2009
This is the best looking game since AOC. I has seamless gameplay due to the Unreal engine (the one that gears of war / unreal tournament uses)
I am excited bout this game, I will be preordering it asap when its released, this game looks amazing...
Here is the direct download link for the HD 720p trailer:
http://www.archive.org/download/MortalOnline-BetaVideoHighRez/MOBetaFootage_HD720p.wmv
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keith said on 1:15PM 3-19-2009
This is one of the few upcoming mmo's that have managed to grab my attention.
Very excited about this one....
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Wensbane said on 1:45PM 3-19-2009
That's quite impressive.
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Cephalexin said on 2:56PM 3-19-2009
Is that a water buffalo... down by the river?
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Matt said on 3:35PM 3-19-2009
No, silly, that's a van... down... by... the river...
Tee hee.
Nadril said on 3:52PM 3-19-2009
I'm very excited about this game. I'm also glad they decided to go with the Unreal engine, it really is an incredibly optimized engine that will do wonders for an MMORPG.
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Ariel said on 6:28PM 3-19-2009
wow unreal engine....... i really want to see a non instance battle with 100 or more ppl around with mounts too thats not a slide show then i ll believe that unreal engine works for mmorpgs. As for the pretty scenery well AOC was a marvel to everyone's eyes but then ppl started to play .......need to say more?
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The Claw said on 8:50PM 3-19-2009
Having worked with the Unreal Engine (on a project that was canned, for a company that went bankrupt), I don't have high hopes for it working in something as open-ended as an MMO. Especially one that aspires to huge battles.
I really found it better suited to single-player or non-massively-multiplayer games, where the designer can keep a lid on how many actors were active at a time.
But, to be fair, that was a few years ago, an earlier version of the engine.. maybe they've made some advances.
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UltimateQ said on 11:55PM 3-19-2009
I believe Vanguard uses the unreal 3 engine. Though that's a bad example :). The game, while fun, is still kind of clunky.
wufiavelli said on 10:14PM 3-19-2009
Did not seem to work extremely well with vanguard. Alot of people seemed to say it worked well with spellborn. That was 2.5 this is unreal 3 so might be a difference. Also seamless world should be interesting.
This game has alot of interesting features and is not a copy of darkfall. Where darkfall is all about city sieges and massive massive battles this game does shoot lower small scale conflict.
It does want sieging, but they are up in the air with player cities or not. I think instead they wish to have a city control system tied to non destructable player housing mixed with destructable forts.
They are also implementing a UO faction like system and an interesting religious system that corresponds with PvP.
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Nerolus said on 11:23AM 3-20-2009
"Mortal Online is the new PvP MMO that everyone's squeeing about -- one that's set up to attempt to out Darkfall, well, Darkfall."
That won't be hard...
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