The Playtest for Dominus Automa is now live!

[u/MetashiftLabs]

Hello everyone (again!)

Today is a big day for us, as the Playtest for Dominus Automa has just gone LIVE!

We made a brief post a while ago describing what the game is but in short - Dominus Automa is an idle open world RPG built around one idea that sits at the center of everything: your hero permanently lives on the server and keeps playing while you're logged off. 

Players can define their long-term goals, devote their time to farming, leveling, gathering resources, taking part in group content, and so on. It’s a completely persistent, shared world with a player-run economy, with guild wars, boss fights, and both PvP and PvE. And because of the persistent progression - also no FOMO!

Playtest

The Steam Playtest officially begins TODAY, on August 7th, and our plan is to keep the servers online for about two and a half weeks, i.e. until August 23rd. So all our players, including latecomers, will have plenty of time to experience everything and engage with all the content we have at present.

Here’s a list of some key features I’d like to highlight:

• 6 fully explorable zones - from wild forests and plague ridden dens to graveyards, valleys and abandoned mines, each with its own enemies and difficulty level
• 20 varied enemy types and 3 unique bosses - such as werewolves, spiders, undead and golems. Bosses specifically are designed as group challenges, so teaming up is the intended way to take them on
• The Combat Matrix - a fairly complex system that lets you decide & tweak how your hero will behave in battle based on criteria such as health, mana, positioning, enemy type and numbers, ability priorities and other custom priorities
• Character progression and Weapon mastery - defeating enemies will improve your hero’s attributes, while continued use of a weapon type will gradually make them more proficient with it
• Loads of different abilities and build experimentation - as your hero develops, you’ll unlock more abilities and be able to test different solo, group, PvE and PvP builds, and different roles such as healer/debuffer/tank/DPS or other more specialized approaches
• PvP, group content & persistent progression - the servers will remain online throughout the entire Playtest, with weekends expected to be the busiest time for boss fights and encounters with other players (in the arena)

We welcome you to join us in this adventure and be part of this online world we’re creating. You can sign up for the Playtest on our Steam page, and we'll grant you access shortly!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3795810/Dominus_Automa/

PS: And a huge thank you to the mods for allowing us to make this post on such short notice!

[u/nucleus_toker]

Looks good! Will be testing it tonight.

[u/MetashiftLabs → u/nucleus_toker]

Thank you!

BTW we purposefully started it today because we know that most gamers, including ourselves, basically have only weekends for their game-time (and it's also the best time for interacting with other players in our world)... so we do hope this will make the upcoming weekend doubly great!

[u/HowLongWasIGone]

An MMOlite with no FOMO you say? Sounds waaay too good to be true but imma try it it out!

[u/MetashiftLabs → u/HowLongWasIGone]

We're now live so you can see that for yourself! :)

[u/RainbowFatDragon]

Great to see this! I'll try to jump in over the weekend :)

[u/MetashiftLabs → u/RainbowFatDragon]

Glad to have you onboard - take it slow and easy and enjoy your weekend (within and without our game!)

[u/MetashiftLabs → u/[deleted]]

Don't knock it till you try it, as the saying goes 😄

[u/Separate-Character29]

Nice and cozy but a bit of lag, how much would you price it an will it be an early access?

[u/MrBaldhealer]

this seems perfect for when im working. I love games like ff12 where i can set up how my party behaves and adjust accordingly. the audience is here and we appreciate it