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Foundations of Hope: Spiritual Warfare revisited

by Leathel Grody · 07/30/2009 (7:50 am) · 2 comments

Two patches ago, I updated the whole Spiritual Warfare design. There are three realms in FoHO(Humans, Saurians, and Dragons). The Spiritual Warfare realms will be the Humans PvE zones, the Saurians will have a more scientific PvE zones, and haven't decided on dragons. Based on the new style, I have been thinking of implementing most of the "physical" world with RvR capabilities. It wasn't my original design to do so, but after implementing a whole other realm where players can PvE all the way up to level 100, it is possible. The game is about a war going on between the Humans, Saurians, and Dragons so it would be more realistic.

Currently there are five Spiritual Warfare realms with mobs going from level 2 to 100. If I ever had too many players playing it would be easy to add more zones. The SW zones are based on the physical world zones but have a very dark feel to them. There is no sun, lots of storm and constant lightning, and terrain is covered in lava like rock. After spending two weeks into this other world, it was quite refreshing to work on zones with light. There might be a war going on, but it seems so less dark after being in the SW zones.

It wasn't in my initial plans to use the purchased MoM models in the game, but they ended up to work well in giving the SW zones a variety of mobs. I try and stay as realistic in the physical world since it is based on a future Earth, but the SW zones let me get into the fantasy element. I was able to get fourty-two different mobs in the 5 zones that will not be seen anywhere else.

A small glimpse of the zones: