In Anvil Empires, Size Matters
Earlier this year, Siege Camp, developers of the persistent World War 2 themed massively online multiplayer war game Foxhole, has announced their next game, Anvil Empires, a persistent medieval themed massively online multiplayer war game.
Anvil Empires is currently in development and in its pre-alpha, giving early play testers a chance to see the game’s initial features.
Just like their debut game, Siege Camp is hard at work making Anvil Empires where players can play in a persistent world, build settlements, and even concern themselves with the logistics of it all. But unlike Foxhole, it is all set in a massive medieval landscape with the crude and motorized warfare replaced by swords and horses. In-game economy will be player driven as well with a number of professions to choose from to help supply the massive conquests that thousands of players can join.
The first trailer dropped on March 28, giving us glimpses of what the game can become. But since then, the development team released a number of development blog (devblog) and it has showcased a lot of the features ranging from their massive world tech, intricate housing, medieval machineries, and more player housing.
Their last devblog showed us additional systems such as animal husbandry, local player exchange, and donkeys! They also proudly showed us the most exciting development yet, a prototype of their large world; where they claimed to be 8x bigger than their pre-alpha test map. This massive map is divided into two regions and has approximately 120,000 trees ready to be chopped down by players. And that’s not all, the development team said that it is only a small chunk of the overall world.
Siege Camp has not announced any release date yet for Anvil Empires but according to a diagram of their earliest devblogs they are still working out a lot of unimplemented features on the game and a few of them are still on experimental phase. It will be a long wait for fans out there to see the game ready for alpha testing. For now, Foxhole is filling the void and temporarily giving fans their daily fix of conquest.
