Dragon Hound is a new MMO from Korea where you ride horses and attack dragons with cannons. This curiously resembles a mix between World of Tanks and Monster Hunter.
What is Dragon Hound? At the Korean game fair G-Star 2018, a curious new project called Dragon Hound was presented. The PC game using the Unreal Engine 4 comes from the developers devCat, who are also responsible for the Mabinogi games.
Dragon Hound is a game where you set out on a horse from rolling fortresses to hunt monsters in a team with other players.
Gun Horses Against Dragons
Horses with Howitzers: First gameplay videos from G-Star show a pretty bizarre picture. Your heroes are riding on horses. However, the steeds are heavily armored and equipped with weapons from the World War I era.
In the video, the player has strapped a heavy tank gun to his horse. Other players carry huge chainsaws.
“World of Warhorse”: Originally, Dragon Hound was supposed to take place in a medieval era, and players would have fought against monsters as mounted archers. However, according to the developers, the meager bows would have appeared ridiculous against the gigantic beasts.
Therefore, the technology level was moved to the early 20th century, and heavy artillery was placed on the horses.
This makes the gameplay somewhat reminiscent of a fast-paced World of Tanks or the post-apocalyptic vehicle spectacle Crossout.
You cannot dismount your steed, making you a kind of heavily armed centaur, as one developer noted. By the way, you can upgrade your horse as well as your weapons.
Monsters to Hunt: The battles are fast-paced and thrilling. As seen in one video, players gallop around nasty dragon creatures that are brutally shot up with relentless fire.
Later in development, players will even be able to target specific body parts and even internal organs of particularly large monsters as professionals.
Boss creatures are said to be truly gigantic and even larger than in Monster Hunter. As in Monster Hunter, you should be able to gather valuable resources from dead creatures.
New Monsters Every Week: Your base is a city built on a massive tank chassis. It rolls through the game world and is in a new area every week. Therefore, new monsters that need to be hunted are supposed to appear regularly.
In total, there will be about 30 different monster species.
No PvP, but Mega Raid: For game modes, there will initially only be PvE. PvP modes are currently not planned. However, there will be an extremely challenging raid for endgame players. The battle against the large monsters is said to last about 15 minutes.
