The planet of Aethereus is an ancient and mysterious world filled with majestic forests, misty swamps, deep caves and ancient ruins. Devastated by three large astronomical events, the Three Great Skyfalls, it is a world just coming out of chaos and ruin. The recent unearthing of The Gauldron Tablets has revealed the existence of The Seven Ancient Skyfall Relics. The promise of unlimited power for those who possess the objects has led to a frenzied search across all of Aethereus.
As a member of the Nexus City-State, one of the last bastions of freedom and hope on Aethereus, you will be entrusted with the critical undertaking of procuring the The Ancient Skyfall Relics. Standing in your way are the Serpentica Shamans of Ghalia and the hordes of Khagal Tribes they control as well as the oppressive Venatan Empire forces led by the notorious General Zhorgal.
Your epic journey of adventure and discovery begins now.
Join forces in online multiplayer cooperative expeditions as the Inventor or Officer while you embark on a variety of story driven hand-crafted expedition levels and explore the wilderness through a variety of procedurally generated exploration quests. Design and build new gear and weapons while you develop your character across a diverse and expansive skill tree allowing for a multitude of character strategies.
Key Features:
High action RPG with up to four player co-op or single player and a variety of PvP and PvE game types
Physics-based combat system focused on player control including realistic Shock Force calculations to scatter your enemies. Whether it is from massive explosions or monstrous melee strikes, they are going to fly!
A wide variety of Officer Skills that allow you to create your own unique strategies from a heroic tank to a stealthy ninja, a few examples of which are: Specialty Melee Attacks, Defensive Emplacements, Carnal Strength, Punji Sticks, Inspiring Chants, Defensive Hymns and Javelins
The Inventor Skills include powerful explosives and crafty contraptions such as: Bombards, Sticky Bombs, Sachels, Turrets, Chinese Lanterns and Rockets, all of which can be powered by a variety of aethergems (in-game gems) altering their effects
Create and customize your own character using a dynamic character creator system, then distribute points in a bilaterally balanced attribute system to start down your path to greatness
Customize your City using the Statue-Maker, Banner Creator, City Painter and other customization features that allow you to personalize your own city environment as well as your player apartment
Master Craftsman: With a massive crafting and materials system you can forge not hundreds, not Thousands, but literally Millions of different combinations of gear and weapons
Arena Combat: Invite your friends or enemies to a wide variety of PVP and PVE game types in your own city arena. Unlock new arena maps as well as special features such as: traps, enemy spawners, stationary weapons and cages that you can add to your arena maps or combat training area
Game Info:
Genre: Action, RPG
Developer: Three Gates Studio
website: http://www.aethereusgame.com/index.html
Release Date: 27 Sep 2013 (steam version , nonsteam one is already out
Price: 29.99$
Highlight Video:
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Last edited by prudislav on Fri, 27th Sep 2013 19:10; edited 3 times in total
Yea this game is crude, very crude. The combat is hindered by the terrible animations and poor responsiveness.
Also what is the point of customizing the city? Am I the mayor the city? Why am I putting up random statues in this city with my own resources? Also how on earth can I change what the city's buildings are made of?
The skill tree is boring as hell. I think the "A wide variety of Officer Skills that allow you to create your own unique strategies from a heroic tank to a stealthy ninja" is a lie. There are no stealth skills in the tree, and there are no stealth mode.
The voice acting and dialogues are so bad I couldn't bother to pay attention to it anymore.
One thing I do like however, is the crafting. Very cool idea. But that is all that I find positive about this game.
Last edited by dannofdawn on Thu, 26th Sep 2013 16:21; edited 1 time in total
The 3DM release does not work for me, crashes on main menu or sometimes i get just black screen.
Perhaps try to edit Settings.ini in the game folder and see if anything needs changing?
I didn't find a way to configure the game from the launcher (Which is altered by 3DM it seems.) so I edited the file directly but all I had to do was change fullscreen to off and set resolution to the desired 1440x900 I use for windowed mode.
The 3DM release does not work for me, crashes on main menu or sometimes i get just black screen.
Perhaps try to edit Settings.ini in the game folder and see if anything needs changing?
I didn't find a way to configure the game from the launcher (Which is altered by 3DM it seems.) so I edited the file directly but all I had to do was change fullscreen to off and set resolution to the desired 1440x900 I use for windowed mode.
Tried changing some things, but still wont work... Getting error box with OK button and it says:
Fatal error in gc
DuplicateHandle failed
EDIT: oh wait, it has something to do with Avast antivirus + Unity engine, need to check out solution
Perhaps it's that somewhat common problem with the AV solution blocking the crack from properly injecting it's code to the game?
(Triggered as a generic Trojan attempt usually, nearly always false positive but make sure to download from a good source to avoid possible real viruses and such stuff, pretty common info really but there's still a lot of people whom get issues with that, like these recent Bitcoin miners.)
Perhaps it's that somewhat common problem with the AV solution blocking the crack from properly injecting it's code to the game?
(Triggered as a generic Trojan attempt usually, nearly always false positive but make sure to download from a good source to avoid possible real viruses and such stuff, pretty common info really but there's still a lot of people whom get issues with that, like these recent Bitcoin miners.)
Played the first mission and the combat is weird,animations too,gfx wise it's not totally bad,but outdated.
Missions are handled like in some mmo game or so it seemed...it looked like the city was a mission hub where you and your friends get quests and embark onwards.
Felt and looked cheap...and apparently is too from what I read.
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