Earthrise is a game that has definitely appeared on the radar of many MMOG players. The apocalyptic, futuristic theme pits players against one another with no factions standing in the way. Remember how hardcore Ultima Online was? Well Earthrise hopes to bring back the player killers, criminals, and powerful guilds that came from that type of game play. This past year at GDC, Ten Ton Hammer spoke to the team and got the chance to find out about the game's hardcore approach to a sandbox environment. The team at Masthead Studios met with them at Leipzig this summer to explain a little more about what is going on with Earthrise and why players should be paying attention.
Earthrise: First Impact is a revived apocalyptic scifi MMORPG project that SilentFuture picked up after the closure of Earthrise in 2012. The developer has been working hard at the game, with an alpha version of the MMORPG well on its way – much to fans delight.
Earthrise is an upcoming post-apocalyptic sandbox MMORPG that almost didn’t make it, luckily German developer SilentFuture UG revived the highly-anticipated project. Now, the time some fans have been waiting for – Closed Beta sign ups have begun.
The closed alpha stage ONE of Earthrise has officially started. SilentFuture revamped many of the systems used in Earthrise and focused on fundamental factors such as network and server performance. A new network layer was implemented and the Flash based GUI was replaced with a HTML5 one, that enables the players to customize their HUD and implement own functionality.
