16 minutes of HyTale gameplay

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨simple@piefed.social⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhaqjb_S2X8

This is the first time we have gotten actual uncut gameplay of Hytale, and it looks great.

Some things I noticed

Each weapon type has a special skill that gets charged when dealing damage
Trees break instantly when breaking its trunk
You can hold a torch in your hand to light the area around you while moving
You can climb up blocks and roll when landing from a high place to avoid fall damage
There’s a detailed map you can open at any time
The last few minutes tease mod development tools. You can edit assets, models, worldgen, create prefabs, spawn NPCs, etc.

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GrayBackgroundMusic@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
Not trying to be negative, but it kinda just looked like Minecraft with a high res texture pack. Is there any thing substantially different?

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azertyfun@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
So happy to see the game is not dead.

Combat and movement look fun and satisfying, graphics look amazing. So many moody areas, from gritty snowscape to colorful caves. Mojang could learn a thing or five from this trailer.

I do hope there will be more breadth of gameplay especially on the creative side so those promising exploration mechanics do not feel stale after a few hours of running around and blasting skeletons. That’s one thing mojang does get right, if anything they have too much breadth and not enough depth.

Not sure about the ease of movement when scaling multiple blocks. Figuring it how to get from point A to point B with the limited movement options is a core part of most Minecraft gameplay loops, especially when caving and/or fighting. Seems they made up for it with good fighting mechanics, but they will have to make up for it in the other gameplay loops as well.

Either way I wish them the best and hope they light a fucking fire underneath mojang’s ass.

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CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Just play Vintage story at this point. The development of this has been such a dumpster fire in terms of how the project has been handled from a top level from the very beginning that I don‘t have any hopes it will release in a decent state under its new old owner.

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- simple@piefed.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  This is not true, development has stalled the past few years because Riot demanded they port it to a new engine, which was why it got indefinitely delayed and eventually cancelled
  
  Things were moving well before that. The original developers took back control of the project and are back on track
  
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  - Banrik@fedia.io ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I just think this is going to be a bit of a mess no matter what way it goes. People have such a different idea of what this game is now based on the riot drive.
    
    & I can't help but think that's kinda the point of buying it, because you only need to sell it in one burst of hype to make a quick buck, look at cube world for example.
    
    Also the game has been sold off once, if someone like M$ came knocking, even just to kill it, you think if he makes a huge profit off the purchase, he'll say no?
    
    I think a lot of people have been waiting for this & the hype around it is just going to lead to disappointment.
    
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Linktank@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Wasn’t that game cancelled?

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- carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  the game was bought by Simon (the guy who owns Hypixel and sold the game in the first place) and it looks like it’s back in development!
  
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- RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Nah, its a game mode for Vintage Story now.
  
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  - obinice@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Look up the news from the past day or 2, it’s actually much more interesting than that!
    
    The original founder (well, one of them) got the studio devs back together and bought the game back off the people he sold it to who had canned it, and now they’re back developing it.
    
    Side note Vintage Story is rad :-D
    
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Goodeye8@piefed.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I do like the combat and atmosphere but that’s about all the videos showed and I can’t be impressed by that. Only combat and atmosphere is not a reason to play a game. There needs to be a purpose and I didn’t see that.

For example in Vintage story survival is the purpose to play the game. You need to go out and find food or you’re going to starve. You need to build farms because the vicinity of your base will eventually run out of easy to access food sources and you’ll starve. You need to build storage pots because your food can spoil and go to waste. You need to build a cellar because you need to store food for the winter. In Vintage story you go exploring because you have a reason to explore. There is always something to do and getting to the point where you actually have nothing to improve is like hundreds of hours away.

That is what was kinda missing from Minecraft. Once you’re past surviving the reasons to explore drastically drop off. And based on this video it seems like Hytale will run into the same issue as Minecraft. You end up with a nice looking world and interesting combat but with very little reason to go explore or fight.

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nomorebillboards@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Happy about this. Been checking it every few months since it was announced, and the cancellation felt really shitty. It seems like it will be playable by the end of the year!

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