A handcrafted map of epic proportions debuts, built on the lessons learnt in Alpha
Solid Clouds, an independent Icelandic game development studio, are excited to announce that after nine Alphas spanning five years, the epic science fiction MMORTS Starborne has entered Open Beta.
Sign up to the Open Beta at https://landing.starborne.com
Having gained multiple insights from those Alphas along with input from a loyal and passionate player community, Solid Clouds is proud to present the most feature rich version of Starborne to date. Top of the list of new additions is the game map. In an age of procedural generation, the studio has spent four months hand-building a game map coming in at a staggering 825,356 hexes.
The new map also includes additions such as dedicated safer starting zones and higher resource yielding areas that will incentivise expansion and make gameplay more dynamic. There will also be three unique ways to win a game of Starborne; Military conquest deep in the galaxy, industrial superiority by building up a mega-structure, or domain by controlling the most amount of space. Solid Clouds has also focused on making the game more robust and new player friendly.
Speaking about the new victory conditions, Stefán Gunnarsson, founder and CEO said, “Having three separate, yet equally challenging, victory conditions is just not something we have seen in the Grand Strategy genre before. We expect a lot of back-room agreements and skullduggery between alliances competing for the different victory conditions. This is going to supercharge what was already a deeply player-driven game. ”
The key features and additions being introduced for the Starborne Open Beta:
- Map Pins for visual empire planning
- Handcrafted map from the ground up
- Take your first steps onto the frontier with the debut of an In-game tutorial
- Reduced alliance size for increased cohesion
- Badges to commemorate progress and achievements
- Interact with new mysterious alien artefacts, vortexes and broken planets on the frontier
- Hundreds of hours of ambient soundscapes,
- Traversing to the more unique regions of the map is now further emphasized by special camera effects
- UI Overhaul
- Win through three distinct victory conditions: military prowess, industrial efficiency or domain control.
- Game rounds are now 10 weeks. Alliances leading the charge, in each victory condition, at the end of the round will claim the ultimate prize
About Starborne
Starborne is a massively multiplayer real-time sci-fi strategy game where you build your empire alongside thousands of other players and wage war for control of the galaxy. Each individual game is played over a 10 week period across a unique seamless map. Players must strategize and forge alliances to put themselves in the strongest possible position for the intensely competitive endgame that will decide the fate of the galaxy.
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