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- Mar 17, 2019
Haven and Hearth recently popped up on Steam so that may prompt a thread at last.
The game is an MMORPG hardcore survival sandbox (developed way before the craze), with first inception in isometric 2D, later rewritten in 3D engine. Set in quasi-Bronze Age with germanic/scandinavian folklore, it's ugly graphics and fetish for math formulas for calculating nearly everything, it's a cozy game to burn thousand of hours in. The game itself is a RPG which nearly all actions are affected by attributes based off square root formula, meaning everything has diminishing returns as game goes on. Stats affect combat moves or quality system, that determines of all item attributes - from the values the food give, to the damage weapon does. This builds up to a character specialization where you preferably become a baker, a hunter, a miner, a fighter etc.
Of course, this is paired with "permadeath" system, in which if your character dies - it dies. No respawns - you can inherit merely 15% of stats of your ancestor. Players can kill as well as some bigger animals (boars, lynxes, bears etc). You can claim your piece of land to 'own it' but of course you can also commit crimes, which leaves traces and can be tracked, so killing a noob for their rabbit shoes may or may not be a good idea to leave a piece of evidence that will allow everyone else to track you for a real time month.
Per developers' warning:
That being said - the game is insanely addicting if it hits your autistic vidya tastes; no other game gives an adrenaline rush when you see a random player in the Wilderness which either can say 'hello' to you, scutter away, or ')))))' while he completely assrapes your precious berry picker. If some Kiwis want to assemble Sneed's Feed and Seed village for this, I'm up for it as well as some handholding. Bear in mind this requires wiki and custom client to bear with, as the game had been proudly made with no fucking QA so everything is made from developers-perspective - tutorial sucks, nothing is explained clearly in the game itself.
The game is an MMORPG hardcore survival sandbox (developed way before the craze), with first inception in isometric 2D, later rewritten in 3D engine. Set in quasi-Bronze Age with germanic/scandinavian folklore, it's ugly graphics and fetish for math formulas for calculating nearly everything, it's a cozy game to burn thousand of hours in. The game itself is a RPG which nearly all actions are affected by attributes based off square root formula, meaning everything has diminishing returns as game goes on. Stats affect combat moves or quality system, that determines of all item attributes - from the values the food give, to the damage weapon does. This builds up to a character specialization where you preferably become a baker, a hunter, a miner, a fighter etc.
Of course, this is paired with "permadeath" system, in which if your character dies - it dies. No respawns - you can inherit merely 15% of stats of your ancestor. Players can kill as well as some bigger animals (boars, lynxes, bears etc). You can claim your piece of land to 'own it' but of course you can also commit crimes, which leaves traces and can be tracked, so killing a noob for their rabbit shoes may or may not be a good idea to leave a piece of evidence that will allow everyone else to track you for a real time month.
Per developers' warning:
Since the game came out on Steam (was available prior on dev's website), the noob population of curious westerners (that had ignored foretold warning) met already battle-hardened community of Poles, Russians, Chinese and Koreans who had been raised on this game (which know full and well to NOT fucking invest all your hours into one character in case it dies) - the result of which was severe beating of trannies and extortion of microtransaction items (which are mostly cosmetic hats or QoL tokens), prompting a river of tears crying for PvE which is fundamentally incompatible with this type of a game.
That being said - the game is insanely addicting if it hits your autistic vidya tastes; no other game gives an adrenaline rush when you see a random player in the Wilderness which either can say 'hello' to you, scutter away, or ')))))' while he completely assrapes your precious berry picker. If some Kiwis want to assemble Sneed's Feed and Seed village for this, I'm up for it as well as some handholding. Bear in mind this requires wiki and custom client to bear with, as the game had been proudly made with no fucking QA so everything is made from developers-perspective - tutorial sucks, nothing is explained clearly in the game itself.
