Hunted - iEra's Upcoming Survival Event!
 

Staff hosted Event, which combines your favorite things, survival, and killing to survive!

The game will be divided into 3 classes, Archer, Warrior and Nurse (I prefer calling it nurse, you know, it's funny...). They will of-course have their ups and downs :

• Warrior: Will obtain a higher damage melee, but might be a bit slower than the others.
• Archer: Will obtain 30+ Arrows (will speak about those in the next parag.), but might have 5 less hp at the beginning.
• Nurse: Will obtain more food to be healed later on, but doesn't have extra arrows nor a high damage melee.

All of three classes above will obtain a basic Hunting melee, a Hunting Bow, 16 arrows and 4 types of food...
What are arrows? We know you like some spices with your challenges, so the bow will not be using unlimited ammo, it will use arrows found on the map, or in chests.

What makes this game real
This event, being a permadeath game (no revive), will let you obtain the items of the opponent killed... Once released in the wild, you will be able to kill your enemies (or teammates), killing them makes them all their stuff earned in the game (arrows, food, bow and melee).
So okay, maybe it gets a bit boring hiding in the same spot, but, there will be a control panel for staff to spawn baddies over the map! (zombies too!)

Unlike other events, you will be able to use your inventory in here, as of you will only see the Hunted related weapons (don't worry, your guns aren't gone, it's just temporary!).

What does this include?
Some of your favorite stuff actually,

• Food can be obtained from passive baddies on the map.
• Traps hidden in the forest, if found and grabbed, it can be obtained to use against your enemy!
• Day/Night Cycle, and weather effects.
• Interactions between players and the environment depending on each players' class.
• Hidden chests and treasures.
• Burning forests (We're sorry nature!)
• Poison effect finally revealed (taking damage overtime)

Putting this here to view your thoughts, and check what can be added too!
If all goes as planned, estimate time of release would be in a couple of weeks.
Simple question, Team Event or Solo?

Thanks!

tl:dr? Hunted is a combination of DayZ and the Hunger Games.

Edit: This is not medieval really, let's say zombies invaded the city, and you guys ran away from them, trying to live in the forest' conditions before they come and get you. So you create your bow out of tree, find some stuff and create arrows, good thing you had some food with you, and the event starts from here.

This poisen affect thing could be really cool and overall like the idea but make sure you check for bugs about the inventory being cleared as i see that being a problem in the future.

It doesn't clear the inventory, it just skips from reading the items not belonging to this event, once you leave the event they will no longer be skipped.

Oh i see like its there but you just cant see them or use them.

Exactly.

Cool idea; my only thing is why use melees and a medieval theme? I think it'd be cooler if it the classes were focused on more of a mafia style.

Ah thanks for clearing that up

At first glance the title looked like "Haunted" and I thought it was going to be a ghost-themed event. But with that aside, I like this idea. Now if only it were to be era-ified... Guns instead of arrows, Era-themed melees (broken bottle, night stick, etc.), and medic packs instead of food.

Looks nice cant wait :3

This just happened to be posted while I was typing up mine. Ultimate coincidence.

Who said it isn't? People still use bows these days (well, kinda). It does have the aspect of a medieval event, but most the stuff have their more futuristic side...
Take it as the 19th-20th century.

Already stated with the bow,
Melee would be a hunting knife, not a sword. And medic packs? Hmm, I'd rather keep it food.
Take it as a story line, zombies invaded the city, and you guys ran away trying to survive in the forest during a zombie apocalypse.

Added a small story line, lol.

Really love this idea :). The only flaw i see is that it isn't really Era themed, but neither is "Candyland" so Idc.

This sounds truly badass, is it just a concept now or has it started scripting development?

I really love how it uses it's own weapons and stuff, so it isn't pay2win like the rest of Era.

IMO there should be rewards based on how many people are left when you die, for example if 300 players are playing and you are the 100th remaining, you might get a couple hundred gralats, if you're 10th remaining you might get an ec or something, and last remaining gets several ec.

It sounds like it could be considered an "epic event" due to how potentially large scale it can be and in depth.

better yet, make a score system with rewards according to how well you did:
You get more points based on what # remaining you are
You get points for killing other players(to discourage stagnant passive play where people just hide forever till like 10 are left)
maybe points for side objectives as well.

Also, make it a huge map so that it supports hundreds of players, I hate how hard it is to get into an event. Additionally, I prefer a score based reward system so that people who do well but do not win still get rewarded in some way, but those who win or do extremely well get the best rewards.

I personally don't mind the theme, but please keep it equalized where everyone has the same weapons(well besides picking a class)

also, make it ffa. IMO it works much better this way then a team based event.

It sounds like a mine craft hunger games server. I think it should be made a team event seeing that it takes place on a large scale. Maybe a co-op team?

I feel like a team based game does not synergize with a no-respawn event. If you die for your team, you will just sit around not knowing if your team will win, and most events I see this way you only get rewarded if you're alive when you win.

For example, I played ctf the other day on PC Era. You only got ec rewards if you're alive when your team wins, so I would just sit back and let my team do the work to ensure that I got rewards.

Even if they make it so that you get rewards if you're dead and your team wins, it would feel akward dieing early on and just waiting around for a good 15 minutes or more wondering if your team is going to win.

As a free for all I feel like it would be a nice challenge to build up on your own somewhere, and try to last the longest. It would have to be a huge map so that it isn't a giant LMS. It should also reward you based on how long you last and how much you kill, to ensure that your get rewarded for doing well even if you're not the final winner.

Cool but yet again, why is it medieval themed? Era's a gangster type game. I'm totally lost as to why bows would be used instead of some guns exclusive to the event. Hell, they could even be rusty. Who has time to build a bow during the situation you mentioned?

Sounds awesome!

If you've ever watched Hunger Games, you would know how the people who run the games can edit the area, making actions/enemies. I like how you've implemented that, I suggest that the staff, similar to on the Hunger Games, can (along with spawning baddies) start said fires, add a feast, etc. :D Great work by the way John, and everybody else working on this project, i'm sure it will be a big hit, like CTF was! :love:

The weapons are kinda lame. Stick to the gunz.

Really sounds cool it should either be a solo event or a 2 person team event you pick your teammate. No random teammate you might get stuck with a 5 hour player or something.

Random off topic message: slasher i need to study for the exams can you go lead them pls thnx. Nice avatar :p

Solo event, please.
Sounds really cool, but sounds like it'll take a really, really long time to finish.

Should we expect this next year or two?

Maybe add an event intro/storyline before entering?Like a pixelated person running to your house and saying"They're coming!They're coming!" then we ask who? They say,"The ZOMBIES!" then run away. You go into your closet and grab guns,melees,etc. for the fight and it freezes when you reload your gun.Then you start the game.



I know it says guns in there it sounds way better than bows.



I mean c'mon it's Era not Classic.

Make it in 2 weeks or around August


A lot of people are going to camp so it won't be fair

3 years from now sorry

Ok it probably has nothing to with this, but for a long time, I'd been spamming feedback (along with some of my STAB friends) about making an event similar to hunger games, or with at least a similar concept. But yes probably a coincidence, but I'm glad to see this event comin =)

Sounds nice, but in regards to previous posts, maybe a handgun instead of a bow? It would be more era themed and as realistic because anyone can carry around a handgun, but not an assault rifle

Make it in aucust

If the weapon graphics are still not made, make a player competition. More graphics competitions would be nice.

please don't make a competition i hate yogys gfx..

anyways good idea but a **** ton work

You just hate me and you know it ;)

Lol fsh just looking for trouble.

Yeah I like this idea better than a bow. Depending how fast bow will be.

Okay, seems that you guys want guns, so I have this idea:
Chests might have a 10% chance to spawn a 8 Damage Gun (Basic Bow is 17dmg). Why 8 Damage? Because you have to use your current/unlimited ammo and not arrows.
Or you can get the gun if you kill a zombie/baddy currently using this gun.

Better now?

For the people that think this will be done in 2 years *cought*, we started this project 4 days ago with just me, layerd and Jimmy (if you don't know this guy, he made the levels), later on Lavaclaw added some great ideas (some have not mentioned in here, temperature of body, hunger system etc)... Yet so far, 4 days from down, we already got this finished:
- 7x7 Forest Gmap done and filled with lots of trees (2.5 times CTF)
- The Bow and the Arrow2use system
- Chests
- Reserved Inventory
and more...
And those are the hard stuff, all the upcoming stuff are just copy & paste.

Open for more ideas guys.

About the teams, I was thinking of having it as solo, but despite the fact the round might take more than an hour, I planned something:
If there are under 20 players left and the ET stops the event, they will all be rewarded an event coin piece, if there is 1 or 2 players left, they will get a whole EC.

You can always team with each other just like in lms, but trust nobody. (If you play DayZ, you should know that by now)

This is very interesting to look forward to. Great job John! This is probably going to be one of my favourite events.

The Hunger Games!!!

Would this be at the Events Team Members discretion?
Seems like in most cases, people would all opt for the EC piece rather than 1-2 winners at the end, so they'd perhaps stop fighting and request for EC pieces, which i'm sure would ruin the point of the event.

Maybe you need to decide something a little better in regards to that.
Afterall, if you have these controls in place, such as spawning enemies, decreasing map space, there should be no reason for 20 people to be left over if you force them into small areas / reduce the camping spots.

Perhaps you should add Events Team Members a 'point' system, so instead of just being able to spam random things, they have a number of points they can use that go down.

I think I can set a timer judging of the average time of survival there is.

Can u make it before everyone goes to camp! LOL

Like Saturday

Can you make that if you kill someone you get his hp? That would inspire people to actually play instead of hiding in the corner waiting till they are top 20

Once killed the enemy, he will drop all the items he had, so you're lucky if he had food on him.
(hm, doesn't seem logical taking hp from a dead guy (0hp guy))

I can't wait for this, it will be like playing a hunger games server on mine craft. I've always wanted dayz but I hear armatwo is hard to mod? I Havnt really looked into it, but they are making a WarZ dedicated to the game Dayz itself. An actually game not a mod.

A good idea and it seems good !

7x7 seems a tad bit small; considering that this could be an event that supports hundreds off players, I think a larger map would allow for better hiding, hunting, and it overall being less of a glorified LMS event due to how much early fighting there would be.

If u kill like 10 people you should get like a reward like a health regen
or a speed boost or a radar or u get more points so people wont just pusy out and hide

I don't know about this, 7x7 is already big enough, CTF has less levels yet it still fits the players and they keep respawning.
So let's consider we open door for 200 people, 200 / 49 = ~4-5 players per level, just wait 2minutes and you will see the playercount has been dropped to 70-80, which leads us to 1 or two players per level. I already get lost when warping to their, yet I know how the map is made...

There is also a Feast, the Feast will be spawned somewhere in the map forcing the players to go and get it (usually, it'll be an OP bow/gun), they're willing to kill teammates for that.

You won't, staff will be tracking your every movement, and placing zombies or fire next to you.
(Warning, deforestation by fire is a major damaging event, therefore keep on running from flames)

along with another 90% of the era subforum

4-5 players per level still seems mildly excessive, it'll pretty much be a giant LMS if it's that crowded.

I'd say shrink the map is more people die, but make it large at the start.

Make it next Saturday

Maybe add the ability to find a gun on the map? But only things like survival rifles, .22 LR pistols and rifles, and other civillain weaponry are easy to find. Some of the better guns are historic (I.E swords, and Probition era weapons (Thompson, Lee Enfield, Makarov, etc.)), but are harder to find. No military weapons for balance.

I love Yogy. :love:

Same with *mostly* everyone!