Is this game similar to Shores of Hazeron?

[ecoo03]

Hey there, stumbled upon this game recently and it seems very interesting. Will this game be similar to the game Shores of Hazeron, where you can build cities and such and must build up to reach the point where you can travel through space? Is there anything that separates this game from Shores of Hazeron, besides graphics?

[Cybrex]

It seems to follow the same concept, but it is still too early to really tell until we start seeing in-game footage (which is coming soon).

 

SoH is a great game by the way. 

[norab7]

Ok... what is Shores of Hazeron and how do I know now about it?.. thought I was up there with knowing space games, but now I feel silly is Shores of Hazeron follows similar game ideas as DU...

[KlatuSatori]

https://board.dualthegame.com/index.php?/topic/42-hello-anyone/?hl=hazeron

 

True, there is a part of the gameplay that look similar, but also many differences between the two projects.

- Shores of Hazeron has a simcity-like aspect that Dual Universe hasn't: When you build a city in Dual Universe, it will be the help of your friends, and your friends alone will inhabit it. There won't be any NPCs citizens spawning automatically (though you will be able to craft mechanical helpers for automatized and/or industrial tasks). Seeing each player becoming a mayor, governor or emperor is not in the Dual Universe game vision. There will certainly be emperors, but there will be very few: only players who manage to gather around them a huge amount of friends will be considered as "emperors". This won't be a status you will be able to have from the start, or even in the first months of play.

- As Dual Universe is voxel-based, it will enable the player to build a spaceship (or a base) from scratch in a more intuitive manner while offering a lot more possibilities to shape the construction. This will be the "Minecrafty" part and it won't count as a small part of the gameplay

- There will be a territory system that will impact a lot on where you can build/install your base. A bit like Sov System from EvE Online but on a planetary scale (where EvE is on a solar system scale).

- There is a lot more gameplay features we can't communicate on right now, because it's too early.

 

But the truth is: Minecraft and EvE Online have been the two main inspirational models. 

We try to get the best of the two in Dual Universe.

[Slaxx]

i know hazeron because i played it for a while and now i got to dual universe, so i have some experience regarding empires.