Some major and exciting work is progressing in Project Genom, the science fiction MMORPG by Neuron Haze. In this week’s community newsletter update, plenty of details were given on improvements taking place currently.

The main focus of the developers at the moment is to continue fleshing out the world. Avalon is gorgeous and the update has a ton of screenshots that makes us happy with the progress. According to the post, the game is almost done working on the first several miles of the game world. There’s also more work done on the selective filling of the main interest points.

Project Gorgon now has fully generated rivers too, complete with basic landscape vegetation. From the screenshots, it almost looks like a triple A RPG game which is impressive. Physics will ultimately make or break areas like rivers, so we’ll have to wait and see how that holds up.

World design aside, the game also took another look at the story line. Five chapters are being reviewed and improved. In the meantime, sidequests are being polished to up the interesting factor, while new quests are being written.

The real juicy part about the update is some new high-level armor concepts that looks great. The post goes on to detail the intricacies of the armor design and what its potential capabilities are.

And finally, the game has also added in new basic male character heads for the different races. There’s also 18 animations and 6 different actions added for NPCs. The post has them all doing them in GIF image, and from what I can tell it looks decent enough.

Overall, this is a pretty good update for fans waiting for this sci-fi MMO to release. It has a lot of interesting concepts and we can’t wait to play this.

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The Russian sci-fi MMORPG Project Genom has been the center of recent controversy where the game vanished from the Steam store and the developers started talking to the press about how much money each member of the team was being paid.

According to the game’s coder, they were being paid just over $1500 per month, the rest of the team was being paid a smaller amount; developer NeuronHaze then stated that the coder had to temporarily leave the team to fix his house however, he was also given a larger amount of money by the team to help with the repairs. He disappeared completely and the developer stated that he started blackmailing the team and threatened to get the game pulled from Steam.

While NeuronHaze first announced that all other developers should avoid working wit their ex-coder, Artem Stekhnovskii, it now looks as though the coder and the developer have come to a legal agreement; the developer has also revealed that Project Genom will be returning to Steam soon.

Project Genom was released into Early Access not too long ago as a buy to play game; while the store page has been removed from Steam, any player who has bought the game can still access and play the game.

A new release date hasn’t been provided for Project Genom just yet but it will be returning very soon and the developers are still dedicated to the development of the sci-fi MMORPG.

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