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 What is Reign of Kings? Reign of Kings is a medieval multiplayer survival sandbox game in early access on Steam in the vein of Rust (which I've never played). What is there to do? Well, it's a sandbox! The gameplay's more emergent than anything. The goal, if you can call it that, is to become king by claiming the Throne, which sits in a gigantic statue at the top of the island the game takes place on. As king you get a sweet crown, can name the land to your liking, and set taxes, collecting a percentage of the resources everyone else harvests. It makes for a quite literal king of the hill dynamic. Other than that...socialize, antagonize, build. It's a survival sandbox game.  I made my guy and now I'm being severely murdered by everyone. You probably went to an official server. Those tend to be riddled with hackers and, well, pubbie scum. Try to find a community server with some nice people. I don't like Early Access. The developer did release StarForge a while back, and people weren't too happy with the final version of that, so I can understand the desire to hold off on RoK. But they acknowledged they bit off more than they can chew with that Starforge and RoK is a blast. I don't feel like I wasted MY twenty bucks, so make of that what you will. Sound good? Go buy it and be a medieval man.
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GETTING STARTED When you spawn, you'll notice that you just have a club, a couple torches, and some bandages to your name. Fix that. Press I to open your inventory, and on the right side of the screen there'll be a bunch of recipes. Note that the stone pickaxe and stone hatchet need flax, wood and stone. Go find some of that stuff and get a shitload of it.  Stone looks like this. Hit it with your club to get stone - imagine that! You get wood in much the same way, but with trees. However, you're not going to get a lot of it with just your club. Using a pickaxe or axe to wahack stone and trees respectively gives far more resources per hit. You might also find small stones lying around on steep, rocky inclines, so look out for those.  This is flax. It tends to spawn inland on the plains, but it's basically loving everywhere. You may or may not have made your tools by now, and you're getting hungry. Probably thirsty, too. So go find things to eat and drink!  Berries are nice as they restore both hunger and thirst, but not a spectacular amount - they're just berries, after all. If you can't find any berries, you'll want to find a clean body of water to gather from. There's a swamp that's nice for this as well as a couple of ponds in the mountains.  For something a bit more filling, make yourself some wooden javelins and go hog wild on the wildlife, then beat their corpses to harvest from them. In addition to meat (which you can cook at a bonfire), you'll probably get some leather and bone as well. Good for armor, weapons, and crests. So what are crests? Well, let's fast forward a bit and assume that you've scraped and clawed and gathered enough resources to build yourself a hovel out of cute little blocks. Put a crest on a block and it'll begin to 'conquer' the area around it, which takes about five minutes. Once you conquer an area, only you or members of your guild can place or remove construction material blocks. Each player can only have one crest in the world at a time. Oh, and one important thing to note: the game's somewhat PvP-oriented. Construction materials, furniture, structures, crafting stations, crests - they all have health. Expect people to try and bust into your house, and don't be afraid to do the same! There's a number of other neat things to do like tie people to a rope and drag them around, put them in the stocks, and hang them at the gallows. I haven't covered everything about the game, but hopefully I've piqued at least one goon's curiosity. Come join us in the medieval wild west! Scaly Haylie fucked around with this message at 08:05 on Apr 1, 2015 |
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Crossposted from the Steam thread, the tale of my first night:Lizard Wizard posted:So I picked up Reign of Kings on a whim. I've never played Rust (supposedly it's a lot like that?), but I can say the game kind of owns. My first couple of hours went as follows: On a side note, if you've picked up the game and are looking for some goons to play with, there's a few of us on Zero Flax Given. There's a goon-run server in PGS, but I do not recommend it. The admin's a bit of a jerk.
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Edgar posted:I usually play on the official servers with a large group around 9 guys. The moment you have full steel crew, you hunt players and lock them up in your dungeon. If they don't have a stone in their rear end to kill themselves they are stuck there even when logging off. It gets fun forcing them to dance and you can even whip them. It's more arcade fun than life is feudal and has more focus on combat and siege as well. I am excited for new content and hopefully a larger map, more players per server, stable code, and anti hacking measures. Also bring back fire bombs! Also the top insult being thrown around is being called autistic. That's one way to play. 
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Apr 1, 2015 22:07
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Hobo Siege posted:Oh, this poo poo again. Agreed. What I've been dicking around with so far has breadth, but...not a lot of depth, to be honest. The game needs more content, and I really hope the devs realize this.
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Apr 2, 2015 07:06
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Steam Train did like an hour-long episode on Reign of Kings, so if you don't mind Steam Train/Game Grumps, you might wanna give it a look!
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Apr 4, 2015 21:18
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Senrab posted:On my first server I hung a guy on his own gallows for firing a trebuchet at my base. Wait, those were the king's gallows and it was Enzer's base, I thought.
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Apr 8, 2015 04:16
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Drinkfist posted:Hello Friends. I will give this game a what ho. I made a shack that totally rocks. Here is a pic. That works. 
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Apr 8, 2015 18:47
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Drakenel posted:Gauntlet! How about a maze with a bunch of dudes wielding javelins (and nothing else) with food, water and bandages littered around?
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