MMORPG.com Latest News https://www.mmorpg.com/ The latest content from MMORPG.com's industry leading editorial team. en-us Tue, 19 Mar 2024 02:23:17 -0000 New Dev Blog Explores Profession Structure

In The Black Death, you'll actually and literally be able to "play doctor" when you first boot up the game. Every player arrives at the starting zone and begins the journey as a Plague Doctor. A questline through the city allows them to collect gold and become familiar with game mechanics. However, once "out in the world", players can specialize in any number of other professions including as a smith, hunter and others.

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Relics Update Adds Legendary Items, New Zones & Much More

The Black Death has been updated with the Relic content expansion that brings a number of new zones and new features into the game. The patch name comes from the new Relic system, essentially legendary 1-per-server items that can be found by players or even stolen from the "lucky" finder.

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Industry Update Released, Includes Estate Housing

The Black Death has been updated with the "Industry" patch. The update includes new Estate housing with the ability for players to hire peons to perform tasks such as farming, barkeep, tailor, etc. In addition, a new navigation system has been released to better allow players to work their way through the game world.

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A Year Of The Black Death

The Black Death is a year old! The team has provided an epic look back at the game and the development journey that has seen new features added throughout the past 365 days.

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The Long Night Update Comes with Housing & Updated Features

The Black Death has been updated with The Long Night patch that touches on nearly every aspect of the game. On the nuts & bolts side, performance has been addressed with better optimization and graphics along with a move to the most current version of the Unreal Engine. In addition, housing has been added to the game along with a day/night cycle, weather effects, a new progression system for Professions, combat has been reworked, new music has been added and dedicated servers are now live.

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New Update Comes with Patch News & a Mea Culpa

The Black Death developer's site has been updated with an interesting new blog post that makes a surprising acknowledgment before launching into pretty exciting news for the game.

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Providence Update Allows Animal Husbandry & Grave Looting

The Black Death has been updated with a new patch called Providence that brings a pair of new features into the game in the form of animal husbandry and digging.

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Large Update Brings UI Improvements, Darkness Effects & More

The Black Death has been updated with a large patch that brings a number of updates to the game including darkness effects to give game locations a more ominous feel, a reworked UI, Monk remedies to cure illnesses, class titles, the ability to change servers and numerous bug fixes and optimizations.

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Massive Update to Bring Overhauled & Improved Systems

The Black Death team will be deploying the latest, and quite large, update to the game that includes a number of overhauled game systems, improved features, new additions and much more. The patch is expected to hit live service on October 4th.

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Community Input Integral to Latest Update

The Black Death has been updated with a new patch that addresses a number of bugs thanks to community hunting that allowed the extermination of over three hundred of the pesky critters.

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Beggar Profession, Bounty System & More in Big New Update

The Black Death has been updated with a massive new patch that brings a new profession, an overhauled location, improved combat, a new UI, improved weather effects, the Bounty System and a community-named tavern into the game.

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Retail Trailer

Now available in Early Access. Welcome to the gritty medieval world of The Black Death. The plague has ravaged Western Europe, leaving a trail of destruction in its path, those who endure struggle against sickness, scarce resources and other desperate survivors. Choose a realistic medieval profession each with their own way to survive. Enter a huge multiplayer open world set in 14th century western Europe. Explore castles, ports, bandit camps and much more in as you craft, loot and pillag

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New Locations And Crafting Overhaul Incoming

The Black Death site has been updated with a new developer blog that details some of the big changes coming to the game when the next patch is released. The team was hoping to push the patch out this week, but some bugs have caused a slight delay.

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Latest Update Brings New Locations, Merchants & More

The Black Death has been updated with a big new patch that brings a number of features and improvements into the game. Players can check out a new travelling merchant, new classes of bandits to take the fight to, more wolves to hunt, and three new locations (Bywick, Ashview and Laketown). In addition, VOIP support has been added.

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New Community Site Arrives

With The Black Death safely in Steam Early Access, the time had arrived to bring an official and informational web site online. The new site is packed with information about recent patches, the forward-looking development road map, a "suggest a feature" submission form, expanded information about the game and much more.

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Early Access Playthrough #1

The Black Death is a B2P survival MMO from Small Impact Games, Syrin Studios, and published by Green Man Loaded. Experience a bustling medieval land under the threat of a devastating plague. Create your own story from a range of different play styles - become a blacksmith, defend the weak as a knight, or earn your living as a trader. The Black Death is a massively multiplayer survival game that allows you to choose your own path in dark, medieval land. Complete with a diverse population of v

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Early Access Begins - Will You Live Through It?

Green Man Gaming has announced that The Black Death is officially open for Early Access business on Steam. Players will be able to take part in the survival game fighting to live through history's most deadly pandemic.

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Surviving Early Access

Like the bubonic plague itself, survival sandbox The Black Death appeared out of nowhere. Armed with nothing more than a surgical mask, we sent Gareth Harmer to EGX Rezzed with strict instructions to find out more.

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The Black Death Community Q&A

The Black Death - Coming to Early Access on 19th April! David from Green Man Gaming sat down with James Rowbotham and Cameron Small from Small Impact Games to look at some of the community questions from the Steam Community Hub.

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Early Access Announced For April 19th

It has been revealed that The Black Death will be entering its early access phase of development beginning April 19th, 2016, via Steam. At this time there is no word on the sales of Founder's packs but the team is actively looking for feedback to prepare the game for full release in next 8 to 12 months.

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Militia & Combat Mechanics Revealed in New Trailer

Green Man Loaded has unleashed the latest game play trailer from The Black Death, this time showing off the Militia complete with combat mechanics and a look at plague infested villages in the game. In addition, GML revealed that it has partnered with Curse's Gamepedia for its official wiki.

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Merchant Profession & Game Economy Previewed in New Trailer

Green Man Loaded has sent out a brand new trailer from The Black Death. The video profiles one of the player professions, the Merchant, as well as a bit of a look at the way that the in-game economy will function. Check it out and let us know what you think.

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Steam Early Access Pushed to April

Green Man Gaming reached out to let us know that the Steam Early Access program for The Black Death has been pushed from March 2016 to April 19, 2016 to give the developers more time with game systems and professions.

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New Trailer Shows Off the Peasant Class

The Black Death is shaping up to be a pretty amazing survival title that is based in historical record during the medieval period when the plague was active. In this new game play trailer, the Peasant profession is shown along with several game play features. Leave us your thoughts in the comments!

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Peasant Game Play Trailer

The Black Death - Coming soon to Early Access. The Black Death is a dark, multiplayer survival game set in the medieval era. In this first gameplay trailer, we introduce one of the professions you will be able to play in the game at launch, and how they can survive in this world ravaged with plague.

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A Medieval Sandbox to Roleplay In

The Black Death is an in-development survival MMO by Syrin Studios that literally came out of nowhere to storm the radar of fascinating upcoming titles. We had the opportunity to speak with the small indie development team from Syrin Studios to find out more about them and one of the more unique titles currently in the making.

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