Ready to grab you sword and slash some people online? Yea well a lot of games offer that but what separates Mortal from others is real time combat where you fight and do all the moves. Thats right fellow gamers! No more waiting for your avatar to shoot or attack. No more hitting trough walls or trees. This game is for the hardcore sandbox players.
Star Vault (the producers) put a lot on their shoulders when starting to create this game. Using the Unreal 3 engine for example really reduces the amount of players they want to play the game. Suffice to say they don't want to attract as much players as possible, they want to create something new. Most people who saw videos and screen shots compare it to Oblivion.
Sure it's like Oblivion only bigger, better, more complex and about 9.999 more players can play at once.
The team that is making the game also listed a nice amount of features that will be present such as:

1. no levels or classes

Thats right folks! You have your skill bars that go up or down depending on how much you use that skill during the game. So in a way a new player can join in with experienced players no problem. Except the problem with not knowing the game, not having your skills developed or having good gear. At least you won't get killed with one hit. Also your character can learn any skill at any time. However there is a limited amount of points you will be able to use at a time meaning you can't max out all your skills but can turn from using to magic to using a sword just by using the sword more or make a blend of the two. You can also learn new moves in each combat style(using axes,swords,maces) so will there be a little taste of Jedi Academy combat?
We can only hope.








2. Full loot

If a player dies you can take all of his stuff. Same goes if you die. Epic item carriers beware!

3. Better AI

Since the game will be much more skill based the AI will have to be greatly improved then just charge at an enemy and attack. These guys group up, surround you, flee if they have to, regroup etc. They also won't attack you for no reason unless they are just really really really evil. Hopefully there will be a lot of evil to kill or join in the game.

4. Traders

There is no global market. How cool is that? The caravans journey from town to town selling and buying goods that NPCs or players make. The player can also make his own caravan by hiring NPCs or other players to escort him from one place to another.

5. Government

This isn't official but there have been rumors of government playing a big role in the game. Guilds starting wars, NPC lands attacking one another and such. Let's hope that this gets developed then we would have a really interesting game on our hands.

6. Epic monsters

Yup there will be epic monsters but be sure to get to them first and survive because once they die thats it. They won't respawn and you won't get an epic sword from a dragon. But you could take his teeth, skin, fire glands and such that can be used for various magic, item crafting and such.


7. Mounted combat

Nothing much to say here except FINALLY! Mounted combat here we come!

8. Crafting

Crafting in this game is a crucial part of your survival in the world of Mortal. Not only will you be able to craft weapons and simmilar stuff you can do in most other MMO's, but you can craft ships. Ship building is the part I am really looking forward too. Huge frigates getting boarded shooting at each other. A pirates life is for me!
Also a big part of crafting is that you can hire NPCs to work for you so you can basicly make your own industry. Of course having so much players around it should be very well protected.


Well these are some features from Mortal online that will start a possibly new age of MMO's. Now I know some of you heard of Darkfall that has been compared to MO a lot. The developers ensure you that other then the sand box game style there is really nothing similar. It's like comparing all MMOs that use the leveling system.
So be not afraid that this game will be bad! I am confident that they will be able to make a game that will glue hard core players to the screen! Then again thats what I thought about Darkfall. Let's wait and see what the future holds...


If you are interested go to the official Mortal online site and apply for the beta. If you are lucky you'll get in and experience it all first hand and then I will probably envy you a lot.
The beta testing will be out in about 2 weeks and will start with 2000 players. Each 2 weeks new 2000 players will be introduced until they reach the cap of 10.000. After that the game should go gold and more servers should be up and running if it gets popular enough.
It's P2P and you should have a pretty nice machine at your disposal to play this at full details.

To those that apply for the beta I wish you all the best. I shall see you on the battlefield gentlemen!