Finally Xest can live out his dreams - now all he needs is another cowboy to spend some time with out in the wilderness!
Target Platform: Online PC / Console
Genre: MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game)
Mode: 1st Person/3rd Person Real-Time 3D World.
Developer: Cosmic Origins, more TBA
Publisher: TBA
Status: Pre-Production
Release Date: TBA
Service Area: North America, Europe, Asia
Official Website: http://www.frontier1859.com
Introducing a virtual frontier wilderness online role playing game where people from all over the world journey into the past from the comfort of their own living rooms. Frontier 1859 takes place in the American Great Basin country, Western Nevada, during the historic era of silver-mining, conflict, and Western settlement.
Players will begin their journey alone or working with others, with or without children to care for. The environment will be harsh, authentic, and focused on challenging the lives of your roleplaying characters.
* Heritage Based Character Generator, including the indigenous Native American Tribes of the Great Basin, and Emigrants from around the world.
* A Dynamic "Character Accountability System" utilizing Conscience Inventory Tracking, Reputation, Disposition, and Repercussion.
* Family Heir System (Marriage, Adoption, and Offspring).
* Attenuated Skill-Curve system.
* Authentically modeled environment based upon Great Basin Country during the silver-rush of 1859.
* GM & Player-run construction projects (co-op and solo) such as town buildings, mines, roads, railroads, bridges, and flumes. Also create jobs and mission objectives as needs arise.
* Active/Passive Guild System (People playing at different times can be a contributing member of a Tribe, Gang, Union, and/or Secret Society).
* Player enforced law enforcement with Justice accountability system.
* Player-character & NPC supplemented Goods & Services (No bottomless vendors).
* Player-character & NPC Transportation.
* Player authored Journalism.
* Realistic Weapons & Ballistics.
* Permanent Character Death.
* Land Claims, Squatting & Jumping.
* Timber Harvesting.
* Tunnel Mining and Panning.
* PvE, PvP.
* Changing seasons & temperature affects Player-Characters, NPC's, and Wildlife.
* Ranged Chat System, Pony Express and Wire.
* Realistic Ecosystem, including seasonal plants, insect and wildlife habitat.
* GM Dispensation System to give new opportunities for people to manage and propagate add-on land and territorial boundaries.