The Xsyon team has announced that Xsyon: Prelude is now free to play for new and returning players. The move coincides with the launch of the Kickstarter campaign to fund the next part of the game, Xsyon: Apocalypse and to bring Prelude to a "gold" state.

All new and returning players are welcome to join the world of Xsyon on the Main Server for Free! Limitations on Free Play accounts are posted here. We're looking forward to new phase of Xsyon. See you in game!            

Find out more at the link above!

humm cant create tribes..

I dont think you can start building anything unless you claim the land as a tribe.. so basically you have to join an established tribe and ask if its ok for you to build on their land even tho you add nothing to their tribe size..

so you can walk around and harvest stuff :)

still it at lerast gives someone an idea of what the game will be like..

I encourage anyone that is a sandbox fan to try this game out. In my opinion, this game is a great example of some of the best and worst of sandbox MMO design. There's plenty to love, some to be frustrated by, and a good bit to hate but there is certainly a good bit there to play around with.

At the price of FREE there's no excuse not to give this a try just to see what it's all about.

Originally posted by Eyesgood
I have premied this game and played on two separate occassions.  It is a great sandbox village builder at the moment, but not much more than that.  The last time I played, about two months ago, the game still lacked core game features, especially in the area of trade and commerce.  There is no ingame currency standard.  Also, there are no trader or merchant NPCs.  There is no mail system.  This means all trade is done player to player, with both having to meet face to face to trade on whatever terms agreed upon.  Some like that, but I think a mailbox system, player owned NPC merchants and a standard currency is a must for this game to move forward.  So as i see it, it's a fantastic village building game - no doubt about it.  But that's really about all it is at this point.  The restrictions listed on the free to play link are just ridiculous.  Being a village building game, free to play players will not be able to build anything - so why invite them?  They will just exist in the world and must join some existing village.  In my humble opinion, the kickstarter (set with an outragous goal that will never be reached) coupled with lame attempts to build the playerbase (weekly scrub of test server BUT FREE, free to play on live server BUT NOT TO BUILD)  is just another example of game developers who are out of touch with reality.  Don't bother telling people they can play for free and then kick them in the stomach.  And don't get greedy with the Kickstarter.  Better to aim low and exceed expectation than to aim too high and completely fail.

 

 

I understand what you're saying but this game is suppose to be the very start of re-building civilization.  If it were "The Postman Online" like the movie then yes. (actually The Postman world would make a good MMO ..i guess..lol)

In my opinion there should be no NPC vendors or mail system. That should be created by the playerbase. Maybe one player could be the Postman or a tribe dedicated to carrying communications through the harsh setting. Then maybe individual and tribes of merchants that set up the market economy. Likely it would be a barter economy until eventually a common currency would develop..maybe those useless bottle caps lol.

This is all hard..I know..until a decent population forms.

Not a good sign, I began patching the client which is 2 gb ... it got about 75% done and I closed the window on accident and when I re-launched the client it started the download over again from the beginning :(

I take that back, after closer inspection it seems the download bar started over but the size of the download now shows a smaller size. Its an odd way of handling a resume but I'll take it.

Originally posted by SalivalMundane
This F2P is more like a demo, seems they took the same path as MO and made the F2P w complete waste of time unless you plan on subbing, i mean skill cap of 30? thats horrible, you cant get anything done with a skill cap of 30 in this game. So for any wanting to test it out, i suggest you move on.

The wonderful thing about the free trial is that it was in response to feedback provided. If you think  that 30 is too low, submit feedback :)  It's the best way to accomplish something... I'd also post it on the xsyon forums as I'm sure there's more likely hood that it'll be read by someone important there.

Originally posted by Lahuzer
Skills locked at 30. What is max?

Sorry Lahuzer - I've been trying to reply to this for a while - 100 is the max.

Originally posted by jinxxed0
No leveling up for free players? I don't know how the game works, but that seems kind of goofy. I assume leveling up doesn't do much? Or maybe this is a glorified free trial.

The only purpose levels serve is to get free skill points to assign to skills. So this means you don't get those. No big deal. Leveling serves no other purpose... it used to increase your HP. No more :)

Originally posted by natonn

Originally posted by Lahuzer
Skills locked at 30. What is max?

 

 

Sorry Lahuzer - I've been trying to reply to this for a while - 100 is the max.

that's a lot of the game that's pay-to-play still, then...whew. 70%.

• Released and sold two years ago

• Kickstarter two years later

• Becomes "free" to play

So much potential, so much fail.

Originally posted by natonn

Originally posted by jinxxed0
No leveling up for free players? I don't know how the game works, but that seems kind of goofy. I assume leveling up doesn't do much? Or maybe this is a glorified free trial.

 

 

The only purpose levels serve is to get free skill points to assign to skills. So this means you don't get those. No big deal. Leveling serves no other purpose... it used to increase your HP. No more :)

Actually you get the xp but you just won't be able to use it unless you sub but you don't waste your time.

Eyesgood is a wurm player so I assume he is just trying to put this down so people don't try it and stick with wurm.