Hello everyone, I am blu4dragon Project Director for Community of Mankind, My face of mankind name is Yoshitsune Shizaki but most people will either call me blu or Yoshi.
We held our first dev preview on the 20th November and it was an amazing success, we showed off parts of the game that are still a work in progress and also some of the stuff we’re developing behind the scenes, all in all it was a good night.
Please see below a recap of the night.
General Project Update
So we’ve been going for about 3-4 months now, we originally started with Empire Rising and then around October we merged with another group of developers and started to make Community of Mankind which has really expanded quite a lot.
Right now we have 12 people on our team and we are only looking to expand on bringing on World Designers, 3D Modelers and Musicians to bring the game to life.
Interested in when you are able to play?
Release dates:
- P1 = December 1st-10th - Development Team + Selected Backers and Guests
- P2 = December/January TBA - All Backers + Community Members
- Closed Beta = March 2025 - Registered Closed Beta invites go out
- Open Beta = April 2025 - Everybody
- Release = June 2025 - Release
Expansion Info: (Sneak Peak)
- Empire Rising = 2025/2026 - American Enterprises/Asian Coalition is added back to the game. New improvements to the game engine, new maps, sounds and much much more!
- Ulysses 57 = 2026/2027 - Re-Designed AI + Alien AI/Faction - Head into the GIS Research Facility to find the horrors that lurk within - Rogue Dungeon inspired.
- Sol Paradiso 2563 = 2027/2028 - Introducing Earth in some hot destinations, Central London, Rio De Janeiro, Perth and Moscow
Website/Forum Preview -
New Project Media - Evolution of our branding from our Media Team
Sound Development - Previews of upcoming work in progress Music from @Jason Kelliher
https://radio.empirerising.co.uk/stream - New music is being uploaded on Saturday and will only feature music from Empire Rising.
Backer Updates
We recently upgraded our Cloudflare for additional security on both the forums/website and have purchased a dedicated “test-bed” server.
Main Dedicated Server
- Intel Core i7-7700
- 1x SSD M.2 NVMe 1 TB
- 2x SSD M.2 NVMe 512 GB
- 4x RAM 16384 MB DDR4
- NIC 1 Gbit Intel I219-LM
Technical Preview - Welcome back to the Global Dominion, He returns within the shadows of 2561. This was reserved for the live preview but tune in on December 20th for the Christmas Special and we will show you a lot more!
World Design and Previews - The return of long lost worlds, ready to be conquered again
Introducing and returning: Constantinople from 2002-2005 Face of Mankind:
Ability to introduce custom maps:
Testmap 1:
Test map 2:
Yes, those are droppable items, not just backpacks 
Questions and Answers -
HardHatHarry: Can we have voice lines recorded and usable for the player bases favorite phrases such as “built”, “get gud”, and “rekt”?
blu4dragon: Yes
Darrian De Mistral: One question, I think the community is pretty agreed that faction clothes and color coded armor was the best, can that be reimplemented?
blu4dragon: Yes, we will look to reimplement this as you can see in the screenshots above currently we have Guardians of Mankind armor.
Bob Dobbs: Do you have access to an editor to make entirely new maps? If so, can I have a crack at it?
blu4dragon: We’ll sort some info out on this at a later date or soon
Wrapping up
I know there is a lot more questions and I will cover them later on tonight but please enjoy fact that Face of Mankind is returning very soon.