Lily from animove, on 20 October 2014 - 12:28 AM, said:
I think you and I are talking about 2 different things.
My point, which to be fair I didn't really elaborate on, is that Star Citizen and Elite Dangerous (and the defunct Transverse) were all going to be about you playing as a small ship captain going out into a persistent universe, traveling around, buying low, selling high, and occasionally, maybe running into some space combat.
The game I want to play would be much more combat oriented, with no trading or such to get in the way of the fighting. I also prefer that I command a major warship rather than a 4 man trade ship. The Born Ready game is similar to World of Tanks or Mechwarrior online. You join a fight, and in under 20 minutes we've all be blown up or have blown up the enemy.
This new game by Born Ready Games doesn't have a real title yet, but their working title is a tongue in cheek "World of Spaceship" as that gives the game a sort of built in recognition on what type of game play they're going for. It's actual title will be something sufficiently Sci-Fi in nature that probably will have "Star" in the title somewhere.
There is another game called Dreadnoughts that sounds similar, and they even use a 5-class system where you have battleships (tanks), tactical support cruisers (healers), Corvettes (rogues), Destroyers (balanced), and Artillery Cruiser (sniper).
However, I think I like the concept of Born Ready better. It seems a little more like Community Warfare-light. You don't just search for a game, drop in and duke it out in a shoebox sized map. Their design has several areas linked together by your starship drive, and apparently your team gathers resources and that allows you some kind of advantage to aid in winning the game. Some sort of League of Legends gameplay but done in a space battleship game.
However, it isn't a fully persistant game. Just like League of Legends or other MOBA games you just gather resources on the map, but the game has an end that you can expect in less than 1 hour of gameplay. It isn't an MMO like EVE Online. It is a combat game with a bit more complicated map than your typical Conquest match would have in Battlefield or MWO.
Edited by Hans Von Lohman, 20 October 2014 - 08:12 PM.