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Metaverse

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v0.7.0.0 - New tutorial, plus tons of features

[h1]Welcome to Metaverse version 0.7.0.0![/h1]
We're so excited to release this to you. This is our biggest update ever. In addition to the new tutorial and start of story mode, we've added tons of new features and polish. Thanks for all your support and feedback along the way!

[h1]A note for users with existing game saves:[/h1]
The updated Metaverse planet looks quite a bit different from the one you've got now. But we worked hard to make sure not to break your current planet or B.I.T.s. If you want to, you can remain on your current planet as is and keep building your base. The main difference for you will be that you will need to deploy your new Quantum Core when you load the game. But if you really want the full experience, we recommend starting fresh by clicking the New Simulation button in the main menu. This will erase your current game save and let you start fresh with the new tutorial and planet. If you have B.I.T. schematics in the Simulation Deck, you should publish them to Workshop before you erase your game save, so that you can download them again after you click New Simulation.

Also, be sure to check out the new free Construction Kit, which has support for VR. You can find out more about it here:

[h1]And without further ado, here's what's new:[/h1]

  • Brand new tutorial and start of story mode.
  • New GFR-AR7 Assault Rifle.
  • New gear select menu.
  • Updated all B.I.T. materials.
  • Added new Structural B.I.T. models.
  • The LAIR has been removed from the game, in favor of a new Quantum Core.
  • Added compass and lat/lon to the HUD.
  • Added ability to melee.
  • Added Take All button to backpack.
  • Added oxygen and stamina.
  • Health, stamina, oxygen, and energy automatically fill up when in range of a Bio Generator or the Quantum Core.
  • Max player energy is now 3x what it was before.
  • Added Situation station basics. More to come soon.
  • Added Bio Generator to Technical B.I.T. category. Build these to re-generate barren terrain and to replenish your vitals.
  • Weapons now use ammunition instead of energy.
  • Added Lethal and Non-Lethal ammunition to Essential B.I.T. category.
  • New music for tutorial.
  • Added ability to double-click to install gear.
  • Added ability to hold Shift to queue up 10 item at a time in the Fabricator.
  • New block place and take holograms.
  • Much improved UI for the Simulation station.
  • Added ability to paint B.I.T.s in the Simulation station.
  • New sounds for pick and place in the Simulation station.
  • Added ability to move up and down in the Simulation station.
  • Massive improvement in B.I.T. place/edit performance when dealing with lots of B.I.T.s.
  • New ship in intro video.
  • Quantum Beacons now teleport you to the last used Quantum Beacon.
  • Multiplayer UI is now in the main menu.
  • Added UI sounds.
  • Updated description text for all periodic table elements.
  • Less lag when loading saved B.I.T. schematics.
  • Fixed periodic table row labeled 51-71 instead of 57-71. Also fixed a couple of periodic table elements being wrong.
  • Fixed Omni UI slow to load.
  • Fixed the loud bleep noise at the start of the game.
  • Fixed being able to fabricate B.I.T.s without selecting a pattern.
  • Fixed clicking the Fabricate button really fast could sometimes get you more B.I.T.s than you had resources for.
  • Fixed B.I.T. placement being jittery sometimes.
  • Disable auto-adjacent B.I.T. placement when switching B.I.T. types. Same when using Undo.
  • Fixed terrain flickering black under certain lighting conditions.
  • Fixed terrain looking white in the distance at night.
  • Fixed B.I.T. Boxes not containing the full amounts of some items when you drop them when you die.
  • Fixed a bug where gear could become broken if removed from a gear slot.


About the Game


Dig, discover, design, deploy, and defend. Explore your very own planet, and eventually help conquer or help build up the planets of others.

What is Metaverse?

Metaverse is a voxel based action/adventure (Sci-Fi!) game about digging, discovering, designing, deploying, and defending. But we see it as more than a game. Metaverse is an ever-evolving platform, shaped by the actions of its players. Right now that involves players giving feedback about the direction of development. Before long, players will have a much more direct role in how Metaverse shapes up by traveling to the planets of other players and by trading and selling their fabrications. Fabrications are custom objects that can be created in-game by players, using the materials harvested from their planet. See below for more details.

What can I do in Metaverse right now?

Story
Metaverse has what we believe to be an awesome storyline. Of course, we would say that! So we’ll let you be the judge. Tell us what you think so we can make improvements, create story branches, or even change its entire direction. We’re excited to build this thing with you! We’ve built out the first chapter of the story in the form of a tutorial. If you rush through and don’t stop to smell the roses or explore, there’s about 25-30 minutes of playable story in the game right now.

Sandbox Mode
After the tutorial, you’re dropped straight into sandbox mode. In this mode, you can explore your planet. This is also where you can dig and create (though a major component of creating is also found in Metaverse’s Fabricator). Because of the technical challenges involved with setting up procedural terrains otherwise, most voxel based games offer only either completely cubed geometry or completely rounded geometry. Metaverse, being a simulation from the future, has cracked the code, and is able to beautifully combine the two in a way that makes logical sense! The procedurally generated planet that currently ships with Metaverse is 300 Km in diameter, which is indeed very big. For now, let’s just call it, “New Texas.” If you were to run in a straight line without stopping, we estimate it would take you about 28 hours to completely circle the planet. Metaverse does not have biomes right now, but that is a planned feature, and we’ve already done a lot of the development work needed to support that. You tell us what’s most important to you, and that’s where we’ll focus development!

Fabricator
In the Fabricator, you can process the raw resources you’ve collected from your planet into refined materials. Using these refined materials in the Simulation mode of the Fabricator, you can create just about anything you want. And as long as you’ve got enough refined resources for the elements you’ve used, you can fabricate it into an actual object that can be taken outside to your planet and deployed. Elements in the fabricator are based on real periodic table elements, and have accurate densities. So if you make the walls of your base out of titanium, they're going to be significantly stronger than if you had made them with clay.

What are the limitations right now?

Metaverse is Early Access, so there will be bugs. We’re working hard to sort these out, and with your help, will stomp out the ones that are most important to you as quickly as possible. And if you find something lacking, we want to hear about it!

Is Metaverse under active development?

Yes, very much so! Metaverse is now a full time project, not an on-the-nights-and-weekends project!

I have an idea for Metaverse!

Great! We want to hear it! Please head over to the Metaverse discussion forums and let your voice be heard. Metaverse is a game meant to be directed by its community. That’s why we’re releasing as Early Access, after all!

I found a bug!

Great! Please do us a favor and send an email to [email protected]. That will get your bug into our help desk software and allow you to track its status as we work to fix it.


Metaverse exists to be the exemplification of the democratization of knowledge and thereby the dissemination of power, primarily through the novel exploitation of computation through collaboration within simulation.

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User Reviews

Mostly Negative
62 user reviews
35%
Positive
1 hrs at review
Not Recommended

I'm writing this review because I don't want people to waste their $24.99 like I did. I can't recommend this game in its current form. It has the *potential* to be something interesting, but you can get the full current gameplay experience by watching the 8:32 video in the description. THERE'S NOTHING ELSE TO DO YET. TL;DR it's currently a tech demo for the "convert smooth terrain to blocks" idea. Which is, admittedly, a pretty neat idea. But that's not a game. Keep an eye on Cubic for when actual game-like features appear... Other thoughts: * the walk speed is SLOOOOOOOOOW. We're talking "20 seconds to walk across your 'lair'" slow. Holding down Shift to run makes the speed tolerable, but then you get a continuous loop of heavy breathing after about 10 seconds. * the fabricator GUI *desperately* needs better camera controls. This becomes obvious in the tutorial, when you have to stick a button on the back of the door you've just created. Good luck panning, rotating & zooming unt...

139 helpful 7 funny
2 hrs at review
Not Recommended

Like any other EA game, Metaverse/Cubic is pretty much fraught with bugs, many of them plain gamebreaking, and filled with potential. However, unlike other EA games, the developers have confirmed they've put development on hiatus to pursue another project named 'XLR' that is supposed to allow them to integrate VR functionality. So, despite the posibiliies of the game, I have to give this negative review because it's just not a good risk to purchase/support Metaverse when the Developers aren't even working on it but are instead putting their time, money (from selling Metaverse, mind you), and resources into what is basically very expensive controller support that not all their players can or will utilize.

20 helpful
4 hrs at review
Recommended

Ok, where to begin?....ah yes It's Minecraft, oh wait no it isn't, or is it? WHO CARES? This game is in alpha and the devs are highly active from what I see. Bought this on Mac because they said it "Should" run ok on normal, they were right. Basically The Universe ended due to some anomaly, Humans have mastered time control some how and have created the "Metaverse" A Time Displacement in which there are Infinite Universes apparently....which is AWESOME Building = Pain in the ass right now mining = works fine Drones = Flying Assholes Player = works great doors = absent because they're adding Mechanical B.I.T.S. Looks = 800x600 - 1920x1080 (DO NOT try that last on on a macbook) Looks beautiful Tedium = no more than minecraft or any other building game Multiplayer = issues because it's all in alpha which is ok There's a lot of room for polish here, and they actually WORK ON THE GAME unlike some OTHER building spacey games (YES I'm LOOKING AT YOU STARFORGE) Bottom Line ---> BUY...

15 helpful
29 min at review
Not Recommended

Abandonware. Could've been something but this game is never leaving early access and it's impossible to recommend in it's current state. It's also crashed on me quite a bit

11 helpful 1 funny
72 hrs at review
Recommended

This voxel sandbox is a very good game and is worth the $14.99 and with the four pack you can't go wrong. This game has already become better then most sandbox games in my opinion. I look forward to the many feature updates to come but as is, the game is worth the money. People tend to forget that this is a early access game and they expect it to be a finished product ( which it is not). Early Access games are more for the hardcore gamer and developers that like to see the game evolve and the most important part of that is playing the game as is and letting the developers of the game know what you would like to see or about a bug/glitch that is unfound and needs to be addressed to make the game better. If you want a game that is finished then just stick to minecraft untill this is finished but expect to pay more for the finished game, I love early access games and this one is at the top of my list due to the many features that i already see in game that are being developed. For being s...

11 helpful
19 hrs at review
Not Recommended

Just got this game and can't play because they have decided to take the HUD out . Spent a while playing tutorial thinking it would give me HUD but no........ Get this sorted please or you have an unplayable game . I DO NOT RECOMEND this game at this time Edit: Thanks Vox , I will wait for HUD then I will comment again HUD is back but it doesn't do anything or show anything , needs a better tutorial , Game is complete waste of a good idea at the moment come on DEVS give a decent tutorial and a better hud that shows something NOT WORTH THE MONEY Edited on 12/5/15 Thought I would try this game again after update and still I can only say DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY . This game is no where near being worth the price basically a building game with lots of blocks made out of diffrent materials and very boring map to build on Edited on 26/08/15 Just played with new update . Terrain is looking better in fact everything looks better but that doesn't make up for the fact that there is not...

11 helpful 4 funny
7 hrs at review
Not Recommended

This game is abadoned! , last update was in 2016, Its now 2019! and not a single update! WHY?

10 helpful 1 funny
1 hrs at review
Not Recommended

I had high hopes but its been over a year since there was any progress on this game... I'm pretty sure its dead. Update: Yeah its dead don't buy it

10 helpful
3 hrs at review
Recommended

I like this game, it's fun how it is right now with the building aspects but I can't wait for what the final result of this game will be. The description for it is very interesting. Anyway, here are my pros and cons to it. Pros ------------- - The tutorial was helpful, from what I've seen it covers what's currently in the game. - I liked the fabrication area and though it took me a bit to figure it out controls for navigating around when creating objects I liked the bar at the bottom which had the "pan, zoom, rotate" down there until I learned the controls. - I enjoyed the idea of going out to collect things such as dirt, stone, etc.. then de-composing it into different ingredients and such. ------ Cons ---------------- - The sprint speed was a good normal speed, but the walk speed was so slow. Besides this it would be perfect. - I found a weird glitch with 'climbing' things... for example the giant mountain you find somewhere around the end of the tut that you should go and c...

10 helpful
3 hrs at review
Not Recommended

Warning do not buy this product. It along with the companies other product (XLR) has been abandoned. The website on both products have been dropped,emptied and abandoned.

9 helpful

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System Requirements

Minimum

Minimum:
  • OS *: Windows Vista (SP2), Windows 7, Windows 8
  • Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo, AMD Athlon X2, or equal at 2.0 GHz
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: DirectX 9.0c-compatible, SM 3.0-compatible, 256MB VRAM
  • DirectX: Version 9.0c
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c-compatible, 16-bit

Recommended

Recommended:
  • OS *: Windows 7 or Windows 8
  • Processor: QuadCore 2.0 GHz +
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: DirectX 9.0c-compatible, SM 3.0-compatible, 512MB VRAM+; NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS or better
  • DirectX: Version 9.0c
  • Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • Storage: 8 GB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c-compatible, 16-bit

FAQ

How much does Metaverse cost?

Metaverse costs $19.99.

What are the system requirements for Metaverse?

Minimum: Minimum: OS *: Windows Vista (SP2), Windows 7, Windows 8 Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo, AMD Athlon X2, or equal at 2.0 GHz Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: DirectX 9.0c-compatible, SM 3.0-compatible, 256MB VRAM DirectX: Version 9.0c Storage: 1 GB available space Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c-compatible, 16-bit Recommended: Recommended: OS *: Windows 7 or Windows 8 Processor: QuadCore 2.0 GHz + Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: DirectX 9.0c-compatible, SM 3.0-compatible, 512MB VRAM+; NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS or better DirectX: Version 9.0c Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 8 GB available space Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c-compatible, 16-bit

What platforms is Metaverse available on?

Metaverse is available on Windows PC, macOS.

Is Metaverse worth buying?

Metaverse has 35% positive reviews from 62 players.

When was Metaverse released?

Metaverse was released on Apr 5, 2016.

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