In the upcoming MMORPG Crowfall, you improve your character without having to fight monsters or complete quests.
Traditionally, in an MMORPG, you gain EXP by defeating monsters or completing quests. Through EXP, the hero levels up and improves their attributes and skills. However, in Crowfall, you neither fight monsters nor complete quests. It is enough to offer sacrifices to the gods.
Offerings Grant EXP
Basically, anything can count as an offering. If you gather resources or collect items, you sacrifice them to a god. Even crafted items can be offered to a deity. This way, you accrue Divine Favor, which essentially is EXP. When you level up, you can allocate points to attributes as usual and improve your character.
However, it will become increasingly difficult over time to gather experience points this way. You will need to sacrifice higher quality items to gain the favor of the gods. This is intended to encourage players to venture into the wilds of the worlds to search for suitable offerings. This is meant to promote exploration of the world and activities beyond PvP battles.
Your Bodies Can Also Be Sacrificed
You offer sacrifices at special fire bowls scattered throughout the world. You then interact with this bowl and place everything you wish to sacrifice into it – even collected organs or the so-called Vessels. Vessels are bodies crafted from body parts you have found, allowing you to inhabit them for the duration of a campaign. Depending on the Vessel, it has specific properties and belongs to a predetermined race. However, you determine the class yourself.
Leveling during a campaign is supposed to be faster with this “sacrifice system”, but no one needs to fear that players will become overpowered. The difference between a new Vessel and one with maximum powers is intended to be quite slim. The system will be tested in Crowfall soon.
A soft launch of Crowfall is scheduled for 2018, which has recently received a significant financial boost.
