In Skyforge, players can become gods and deal with alien invasions.
Not “Cowboys vs. Aliens”, but “Gods versus Aliens” – this is what the upcoming MMO Skyforge will be about, which is set to enter beta at the end of the year. Much has already been revealed about the action MMO, and now we also know how the creators at Team Allods envision large events: as alien invasions.
The players of Skyforge are Immortals in the world of Aelion, whose main god has disappeared, making them a coveted target for alien invasions. They want to increase their influence on this world. Other worlds also have nasty gods, so to speak.
In MMO terms, the invasions mean: alien invasions are server-wide events that occur periodically, progress in multiple stages, and promise greater rewards for participating players. The final parts of this event then take on a raid format, leading to the opponents’ ship, and after a conclusion, the “best” players can even enter a kind of “hard mode”.
How exactly the invasions will function in gameplay, whether it will result in server-wide mass battles like in Guild Wars 2 or instanced group action like in World of Warcraft – or perhaps a mix where the initial stages are more buffet-style “free for all” and then become more exclusive later on, is not entirely decipherable from the dev blog post. It definitely sounds like an interesting concept.
