Illyriad is a type of MMOs that crops up now and again from seemingly out of nowhere to mark a serious milestone for the in any other case unassuming browser kingdom sim: It marked its fifth anniversary in 2015, launched an API that lets its gamers make their very own content material in 2016, and this yr it has a large-scale Faction Outposts replace that applies a brand new factional allegiance system and makes large numbers of additives – all earlier than it marks 15 years of operation within the new yr.
Calling this replace sizable isn’t any meager boast: The patch has added 155 new areas throughout the map, over 15,000 new phrases of lore, 88 new sub-regions, and maybe most immediately essential, a method for gamers to ultimately ally with factions by interactions on the titular faction outposts.
Gamers can uncover one among these new outposts after which both make use of diplomacy, have interaction in warfare, or in a later replace set up sovereignty over them, all with a view to earn faction rating that can be utilized in a faction AI replace deliberate within the close to future in addition to introduce some PvP to the sport. So whereas establishing a foothold in these outposts doesn’t look like instantly essential, it’s step one in a a lot bigger system coming to the MMO quickly.
