Of course you know that mechscape will have humans, but did you know that it will have other playable creatures. Such as the Pliigi. The pliigi is the only confirmed one at this moment, but there are topic’s arising of another “Mortiga” race.

Pliigi Concept Art

Proof of Pliigi

You can see that the Pliigi look like an organic race, made up of monster like flesh, with of course monster skin (green like a goblin), But they look like a strong built race, if you look at the form of the legs and arms on both types of pliigi.

Mortiga Concept Art

You might have noticed that the “Mortiga” have no head, thus this tells you it’s control mechanism or brain is somewhere else, most likely the “Core Orb” or the red orb in the center of it. You can also see the “Obsidian Like rock” (black rock above the feet area.) So that confirms that obsidian will be in this game.

Who knows maybe there’s even more species or “races” in mechscape that we don’t know about, but we will just have to wait and see.

Edit: On the original source a discussion has started about the validity of the image. Since the hitpoints and prayer of the image have been altered. Also no other images like this have been popped up so there is high doubt that this image is actually real.

Mod Stevew was spotted on the MechScape servers a few days ago by a player on the Zybez Mechscape forums. Take a look at the topic here: Mod Stevew Logged In On Mechscape!

This could mean that MechScape is near to the release and also proof that it’s actually going to be called MechScape and not Stellar Dawn. Ofcourse it’s still possible that MechScape is just there as the name of the test server to protect the actual name of the game. Then the question still remains what Stellar Dawn is going to be, we can only wait until more information is known.

Full credit goes to basilm21 on Zybez, so make sure to check out his topic: Mod Stevew Logged In On Mechscape!

Jagex released a press release today, officially announcing MechScape to the press. Even though the press release doesn’t really carry any release date for MechScape. It does contain one very interesting line.

The game — under the code name MechScape — has already generated significant buzz among gaming enthusiasts

They are referring to MechScape as a codename and not as the actual game name. Which is something that is possible since Jagex also owns a trademark for Stellar Dawn. I think the name is a lot better than MechScape to be honest, MechScape sounds too much like RuneScape in space. Jagex doesn’t want that, so they might have decided to change the name. Since the trademark application Stellar Dawn has always been discarded as a FunOrb game. But not every FunOrb game has been trademarked or had their domain registered. If it will be Stellar Dawn or just MechScape is something we will see in the future.

Read the full article for the complete press release.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Mar 25 (MARKET WIRE) –
2009 Game Developer’s Conference — Jagex, Ltd., the largest independent
game developer in United Kingdom, has achieved rapid acceleration in its
business as 2009 progresses, emerging from the two most profitable
quarters in company history and growth among its existing game
properties, RuneScape and FunOrb. On the heels of this momentum, Jagex
will be launching its second, highly anticipated massively multiplayer
online game (MMOG) later this year. The game — under the code name
MechScape — has already generated significant buzz among gaming
enthusiasts, and will appeal to both existing RuneScape players and an
entirely new audience of online gamers.
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The MechScape system requirements will be higher than the requirements from RuneScape. This has been confirmed by Mod MMG in a recent question asked by Ren from MechScape World.

Ren:
“Any idea bout the minimum specs for Mechscape… Similar to Runescape?”

Mod MMG:
“We haven’t locked down the final spec yet but we are using more polygons”
“I expect mechscape will be a higher spec than Runescape”

This should not come as a suprise since RuneScape 2 was released on the 17 March 2004 and was made for the internet speeds and computer at that time. 5 years later it seems reasonable that players can cope with the higher system requirements.
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