The Xsyon team has announced that former players will be invited back into the game to check out all of the changes the team has implemented. The 10-day free time trial will kick off on May 18th.

Here are some of the improvements to Xsyon since the official launch:

• Expanded, flexible, part based construction system allowing players to build expansive buildings and towns.
• Completely new twitch based manual combat system with held directional swings and parries.
• Enhanced creature system. Many new and stronger creatures now inhabit Xsyon, breeding, ageing, growing in power and becoming mutants.
• Improved crafting system providing crafting tool and material bonuses.
• Redistributed rare and valuable resources.
• Forestry system with trees that grow spread and can be planted by player characters.
• Revised User Interface based on player input, including tabbed chat, a map panel, weather gauges and improved customization.
• Improved rendering with HDR lighting, detailed soft shadows and enhanced visual effects.
• Player made carts for transporting large amounts of goods and buildings as storage.
• Revised lock and permission system to control shared access of private and tribal goods.
• Vastly improved client and server stability.

Find out more on the Xsyon site.

I'll be there as well. 

This game has *amazing* potential. It's a shame the guys are so limited in resources to implement their ideas.

It's amazing game if you count on the fact it's literally done and maintained by two guys.

omg not sucking me back in again they got my money once that is enough.

Has proper combat been patched in yet?

Free trial for the "didn't buy it yet" crowd please

But.....why is she so big and town so small?   I dont understand what Im seeing in the picture. 

Originally posted by alakram

Free trial for the "didn't buy it yet" crowd please

 

Bump! I'm not forking out any cash for this before I get to try it first.

Originally posted by Corehaven

But.....why is she so big and town so small?   I dont understand what Im seeing in the picture. 

It was photoshop, they only wanted to show the city and the improved character appearance.

Originally posted by alakram

Free trial for the "didn't buy it yet" crowd please

 

I love sandbox MMOs but not paying a cent without a free trial. Not having a free trial at this point in your games lifecycle is far from a vote of confidence in your own product from this consumers' perspective.

Meh, good deal for people who got suckered into buying this one I guess. The awful price of it is still keeping me from trying it. That and they haven't proved anything in the way of server stability, except that it can easily handle VERY small amounts of people lol Is an open beta weekend coming soon??

if you count on the fact it's literally done and maintained by two guys.

if this 10d trial is for new/old accounts.. i might try it out, but all the press i have read/heard on this game it doesnt sound promising to me. 

on an unrelated note.. if this pic is taken by the devs.. why the hell do they have a 157ms ping? shouldnt that be almost 0ms?? @_@... im kinda worried ill wind up with a 999ms ping or something if the devs are getting almost 200ms

finally :)

The MAIN ISSUE with this game(beyoned the fact that it's not finished) is the fact that there is no GOAL. Creating a town is easy when a clan is created. People share their crafts..everyone is happy..nothing is missing.The town is ready...and...now what? Wait for a ganker to start roaming the outskirts of the town so they can MULTI-SWING their weapons?(thats how i see Xsyon PvP)

The game's town creation mechanincs are a great idea but cannot stand alone as a game.

 so is this 10 days free trial or 10 free days of reactivation time for old subscribers ? Im kinda confused :P

It is for previous players who quit. They are implementing totem decay and unlocking containers out in the open world. Up til now you could safely drop a container and noone else could get into it, thats changing. This gives folks a chance to see the changes and if they want to keep thier tribe and/or retrieve thier stuff out in the world they can. Otherwise everything becomes lootable.