The road to Alpha

Before the Storm is in active development. Here is an honest look at what you can play today and what the Alpha release will add.

Playable today

• Character movement, camera controls, targeting and bow combat with Normal Shot and Cluster Shot.
• Survival: health, hunger and thirst, campfires, meditation, wind and rain.
• Crafting: gathering wood, stone and coconuts, crafting an axe, raising a shelter and planting palms.
• The newcomer quest chain guided by Elder Lac Thuy in the Phu Giang Old Quarter.
• Wildlife with strength tiers and loot tables that differ per region.
• Eight hand-built regions reachable from the world map, described on the world page.
• A shared online world with server-simulated wildlife and weather.
• Full English and Vietnamese language support.

Coming in Alpha

Our goal for Alpha is a complete, polished game rather than a rushed one. These systems are being built in dependency order:

1. Persistent characters – accounts, progress and items saved on the server.
2. Server-authoritative PvP – every hit validated by the server, the foundation of a fair Storm Campaign.
3. Security hardening – closing every known way to cheat movement or combat.
4. Real weapons – equipment and melee combat, starting with the Sea Hawk broadswords and spear.
5. Sect martial arts – a skill system where each sect has its own arts.
6. Market – trading between players.
7. Player guilds – with Guild Leader, Co-Leader, Elder and Member ranks, guild quests and a shared fund.
8. More of the world – the four sect islands, Sword Valley and the Sword Tomb.

A fair economy

The game uses three currencies. Gold comes from monsters, quests and selling items. Diamonds are bought with real money and spent in the premium shop, which sells convenience and faster progression, not direct PvP power. Merit Points come only from the Storm Campaign and cannot be bought or exchanged.

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