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Hello!
Hope everyone is safe and healthy. Our Steam page is up! With a demo! This is the intro-dungeon of the game, acting as your brief exposition before getting to the city and playing with some of the systems.
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwQV52CE72w&t=45s[/embed]
We’ll also be sending [all] backer tiers the build alpha/beta backers currently have, which will continue to be updated with the remaining game for testing, so be sure to download that one when we send them out if you eventually want to be testing all of it, it would be great to put as many of you through the grinder as possible when we’re ready. We will make an announcement when we send those out.
Alpha/beta backers, your current build will turn into this demo tomorrow, and then we’ll be expanding that into more of the game in short order for you to check out and then proceed with new stuff.
E3
We were just on PC Gamer’s e3 show which is wild, and are working with some wonderful folks at Modern Wolf to bring the game to every human laborer on earth and the offworld colonies. They’ve been incredibly kind and a joy to collaborate with.
Here’s nice interview we had with PC Gamer!
There are a few channels opening to talk about the game, and if you have any suggestions, feedback or ideas that you’d like to talk to us directly about, as always, just fire it up on the newest forum topic we’ve setup for you on the site (let us know if you want some help with your sign-in), there’s a demo topic up now! Or email us. Or come visit, we’re vaccinated and chilling in chicago. Or sometimes we yell at the clouds on twitter.
Current Feedback Notes:
- Aiming turns
The aim menu got a bit more love. We talked about it in brief here. It wasn’t too fun to navigate in that toggle mode we came up with, and instead designed something more passive. Holding shift, you can rotate your character sprite and visualize their perception cone, and whatever tiles or targets land in the cone will be able to have an aim modifier applied to it (or dodge or block, but those are different actions). If you want to start attaching an aim mod to your next attack, just tap the skip-turn button as much as you want until it maxes out. You can do this in preparation of attacks, or get a quick advantage in combat until a gap is closed. If you attack a target outside that established vision cone, or if you rotate again, any aim buff is lost. Functionality is quite similar to something intuitive like aiming in Deus Ex, but with turns.
- Roll info
While flipping through actions a menu now displays dice roll percentage ranges for whichever action you’re doing, time in turns it will take, and which Study it comes from. It needs to update and adapt depending on where you are hovering around the screen for light/darkness/height modifiers and everything in-between that can influence a roll.
- Driving
Driving will have a turn-based mode during any combat scenarios, which the demo avoids in any case. Physics are a little wacky atm and will get updated, but cars are mainly for getting around the open world quickly, and combat will still have this option. This will allow you to just click a destination point within your sight radius and start moving the car in a single direction, allowing you to move quickly or ram into enemies, while leaving right-click open for attack rolls. Companions in the vehicle will start attacking as they can with melee or range, which they currently do.
Talking Heads
We just finished a walkthrough video of some of the demo, and will post that soon. We’ll be saving you the trouble of an hour long video of us blabbering, so we’ll be editing it down in some off time over the next week or so. It’s mainly focused on system design and gameplay you can mess around with in the demo, so if you find the whys and hows interesting it should be informative, or something to fall asleep to.
We also started organizing the ruleset-guide on all the rolls, items, stats and wounds. We’re doing it in a way that will also allow it to be accessed from within the game, too. This will be convenient if you’d like to reference something and nice for us if things change, it’s pulling from the same rules that the game uses for rolls and checks so updated are automatic. This will be the digital equivalent of the one we print for some of those rewards, just minus some pretty art.
Thank you all, the game couldn’t have gotten here without your support.
Stay safe, cheers!
Hannah & Joe
Looking forward to the walk thru video with Joe and Hannah showing us how to play.
Some questions:
How do we split stacks in the inventory?
Can we change our equipment while in combat?
What are current keybinds? Are controls re-bind-able?
Hey Allen!
– Split stacks coming sooner than later with shopping coming in the next couple builds
– You can change equipment in combat, yeah, and it takes a turn. Right now it still adds to your *next* action, but what will happen is a turn will be taken immediately on right-click equipping something, which would then be additive
– Currently deactivated in the Options menu, but yeah, setup for all the sub-actions
Some more thoughts from playing Demo updated to June 19 2021:
The no load screens must be emphasized! One giant map to explore. Verticality?
The simulationist aspects like Ultima 7 must be shown off more.
The Fallout elements? Syndicate, Shadowrun, Deus Ex, … what other games?
The cRPG rule set is custom and uniquely implemented.
No Dungeons and Dragons emulation here. Tell us more about this rule set.There are many people who have seen zero Kickstarter promotional material. Time to show that off again. What’s changed? What’s been updated?
If you kill the guard military guy before his speech should Barry mention something?
Can players kill off important NPCs? Do they respawn like players?Aimed shot:
hold shift, hit z, aim improves when you wait one tick/action/round
make this more clear! it’s great fun1 2 3 4 on the right side? What’s that for? Is it implemented in demo?
Love the improvements to the demo.
Is there a terminal to hack?
Is there an example of a social skill to recruit?Players are asking about more skills to demo.
What have players missed in the demo?
I love the lockers and wall item dispensers. More hidden treasure items are fun. Hidden walls to destroy for hidden loot caches!
Thank you for making this game! What an incredible journey it’s been. E3 announcement was a huge boost to awareness.
Keep on keeping on.
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