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Wasteland 2 Kickstarter project by inXile entertainment [Ended, $3 Million Funded]
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You have very good sight
trab pu kcip
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I don't think it looks like a fantasy dungeon at all
It kinda does look like it could be from Baldur's Gate or Diablo 3, some underground cellar or whatever. But it also looks like it could be from Fallout. I don't think there's anything particularly "fantasy" about it, but it also looks like ti could be from just about any setting.
trab pu kcip
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I was seeing some outdoor stuff going on, but maybe I just need to put on my glasses haha. It's really more a guessing game than anything else right now.
Lack of identity is worse than wrong identity. This is an outrage!
trab pu kcip
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haha I love how we're evaluating games from far away now.
It's like peeking through a telescope watching the neighbor play it and then complaining that the textures don't look sharp enough.
with all that said it really looks like they could have put more effort into their texture work
MightyHedgehog
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Hard to say, but I'm guessing that screenshot is of the tunnels underneath the Agricultural Center where a huge and disused radio satellite dish sits in the middle of a large scientific research compound that was converted in the post-apocalypse into a walled-in farm. That is one of the first locations you can reach from the starting point at the Ranger Center of the original Wasteland. Avellone was supposed to have created one of the introductory scenarios set in the old WL1 starting locations, specifically the Agricultural Center, AFAIR. If it's what I think it is, it should serve the same purpose the location did in the first game, and that is to give your party a first experience with lots of combat against mutated rodents living off of the farm's produce, sorta like a noob area with rats to fight and level up from nothing. Of course, it could also be the first and closest location to the starting point, the old campgrounds at Highpool.
The guy isn't even using the keyboard in that photo, it's probably a full mouse-driven game. Another casual gamer disappointment.
Keyboard support day 1 DLC confirmed.
trab pu kcip
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visit the dreamfall chapters thread to restore your faith in GAF :3
Dreamfall? As in TLJ? Holy shit, there's a new TLJ game? How do I only find out about this now? This should be, like, on the goddamn news.
trab pu kcip
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Oh god, Kickstarter is both the best and worst thing to happen to me. I must go scratch some money to pledge!
At least there are updates:
https://twitter.com/rangerkeenan/status/300150239824850944
shot myself in the foot there. On final check, the sound was off by about a second with a bad render
https://twitter.com/rangerkeenan/status/300172296566501376
Acidote
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The whole update on kickstarter. There is also an audio file (OST track) I cant link here.
Update #23
Without Furfer Ado...
We are very proud to provide the first gameplay video of Wasteland 2, which will allow our backers to see how far we've come and how everything is coming together. The usual way of doing things in this industry would see us create a demo specifically for displaying to the press or at game shows, but we're very glad to have been allowed the freedom to create a demo video from an actually playable area, which ensures there's no wasted code. This is a straight video capture of Development Director Chris Keenan playing the game. The only element that is not running in code is the sound effects, as it was faster to do in post, but as you will hear, there is nothing being done audio wise that isn't easily replicated in engine. In fact, we plan to have many more sound effects in the final game than what is heard here.
Wasteland 2 - Early Gameplay Footage
This represents not just the strong synergy of the inXile team but the effects of your continued input via the forums. The game has continued to improve thanks to this communication, and Wasteland 2 will be better for it. The benefits have ranged from changes to the combat mechanics to finalizing the name of our attribute system.
It also represents the success of working with Unity and the asset creation experiment we did to increase the variety and density of the world look. We were pleasantly surprised at the talent that submitted art content, and we look forward to continuing to work with them.
I’d also like to thank the military personnel who joined our Yammer group to help us develop the slang and communicate more real world experiences for us to draw on. We love to learn little things like how much they hate it when movies say “Over and out!”… There is no “out” after “over” dammit!
This first level you will see is one of the first areas you will encounter in the game. The agricultural center was also a part of Wasteland 1. It was an area that Chris Avellone had some affinity for and he did the design for the level. Also thanks goes out to Nathan Long, who provided this area’s clever writing. We had a chance to show Chris the level last week, and when we commented that it was coming together he said “not coming together … it has COME together.”
Our objective was to show off some of the HUD and how both the combat and skill systems work. There are many elements not represented here but to name a few:
Minimal particle effects
Minimal sound
Mini-map not working
Inventory, logbook and other character screens not shown
Not all skills (in and out of combat) being represented
No world map movement
It needs more messaging in the UI
And not a comprehensive list of all the combat variables
Sorry if we're over communicating, but it's just a reminder: we're just past the halfway mark, so don't expect to see everything that you can expect from the final game just quite yet.
You will get to listen to the latest track from Mark Morgan (at the bottom of this update) that sets the haunting and often desolate tone of the Wasteland. And you will hear our first pass at the radio broadcasting which plays a vital role in communication, reactivity and mood setting. There will be a host of cults who are broadcasting their propaganda while other calls will be the locals who seek the help of our rangers. We have many interesting ideas on how to use the radio in novel ways.
Our vision for this game remains intact and you will see a number of examples that illustrate this. The customization can be seen in the examples of bringing in your own portraits and by the ability to set the user interface in a style that works for you.
You wanted a party and turn based RPG with tactical combat, and we are delivering that. The demo helps to show off action points, use of cover, enemy view cones, distance/height/enemy size/enemy speed affecting the chance to hit, ammo configurations, attributes changing the characters strengths and role, simultaneous party firing and more. And we are not done adding elements to make sure you are fully engaged in an interesting combat system. There is still plenty of time for you to comment on the combat system and to help us hone it in. Our goal is to build a very deep combat system, with the potential to dive in and fine-tune your damage-output and tactics, while not absolutely requiring that level of micro-management from all players.
If you played Wasteland 1, you will enjoy the many callbacks to the original, but at the same time there is no need of that knowledge. While certainly not a comedy you will get a healthy dose of the humor that gave Wasteland its charm.
Once again we thank you all for backing our vision…
trab pu kcip
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really dig the hexagon-system, glad they put it in! everything else seems really great
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trab pu kcip
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I'm even more exicted now, everything seems perfect, from the overall style, the combat,
the way the dialogues are executed (I really like that they kept it textbased, just adds
more atmosphere somehow)
trab pu kcip
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hm I kinda liked it, feels more like having an actual interaction with somebody imo.
I rather have the BG-style interactions, because it make dialogue more engaging and fun to read. But this seems to work for the game and it does provide some nostalgia to old Sierra games... And I am a well known nostalgia-whore. So all is good.
So PUMPED!!! God it looks awesome. Should probably be it's own thread really.
EDIT: NM I see it has a thread.
trab pu kcip
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So PUMPED!!! God it looks awesome. Should probably be it's own thread really.
the gif says it all, mike and jay are always right :3
I think there's a button to toggle stances/running he presses multiple times on the video. He doesn't explain it so I'm not sure.
It's on the bottom left part of the GUI.
Man, that looks really, really good. I think the thing that made me go "whoa" the most was that keyword system. Being able to try to get a response on keywords could lead to some very cool discovery moments depending on how robust the system is.
It's really cool that they found some neat ideas to leverage within their smaller budget. "No voicework? Ok, let's make our conversation the most robust in the business."
It's really cool that they found some neat ideas to leverage within their smaller budget. "No voicework? Ok, let's make our conversation the most robust in the business."
trab pu kcip
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yeah sometimes not having a bigass -budget can really improve the creative process. gosh I love kickstarter for making these things possible
viewtifulsub
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Truely a sign of the return of CRPGs.
Love the manipulable camera, the textbox (huge potential for writing to come though), cover system that opens up more strategies, and the dark apocalyptic art direction.
EDIT: Didn't notice there was a dedicated thread to it. Glad i shelled out for the physical box.
I fully agree! When I saw the video, I was really impressed with how good the game looked and functioned. The atmosphere of the game was perfect. With so many games (and even films) forgetting how to show things in creative ways (which is how you create atmosphere), it was really refreshing to see how well even the alpha of Wasteland 2 did it!