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Highfleet has finally been released after 5 years in the making! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1434950/HighFleet/  What is it? Highfleet is an upcoming Action/Strategy/Combat/Sci-fi/Fantasy/Tactical/Logistics game from the makers of Hammerfight! It's set on a future earth where instead of using tanks/ships we've decided to start using massive multiple thousand ton flying machines in open combat at low altitudes. While it might not make much sense, it is definitely loving cool. You are a commander of a Sayadi (definitely not Russian) task force during it's invasion of another country called Gerat (definitely not a problematic country from the middle east). In order to do well, you're going to need to master combat in your flying behemoths, carefully manage your resources, explore cleverly, use diplomacy and possibly have the help of an ancient prophecy in order to bring the country of Gerat to heel. Now I'm just going to post a couple of videos, because nothing I can write will tell you how gorgeous this game is, especially for a pixel graphics game. https://i.imgur.com/2h3XhRZ.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/Ws6WYtR.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/Nzjkspn.mp4 If some of that doesn't convince you that this game looks awesome, I don't know what will. The amount of detail this game goes into is pretty insane. As shown above when visiting cities you manually land in them, you have to stock up on fuel, ammunition (ballistic and missile etc) and speak to the various important people in each city. It goes much deeper than that though, there are carriers with the ability to launch strike missions on cities or targets before you attack them to soften them up, splitting your fleet up to catch people out by surprise, radio interception to try to figure out (and avoid) what your enemies are doing, a full and complete damage system on all your ships and oh, did I mention a Lego type ship builder so you can customise every piece of your ships?  Also the possibility of full nuclear war with your enemies destroying entire cities and fleets https://i.imgur.com/tGU8I2A.mp4 There is a lot to talk about with this game, I could make a post twice as long as this one but I don't want to start putting people to sleep with it. This game impressed the resurrected Microprose so much they picked it up as a publisher so that probably says a bit about the quality of it. I'll post some preview videos that have been made below by various youtubers including Raptor and Splattercat who had a demo that included the prologue. Both were incredibly impressed and have gushed about it, Raptor was so impressed he's done multiple videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEq2dV2wTT0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT1_xoxY2_k I'm really hoping this game ends up fantastic, and this is my first OP so let me know if you guys thing something else needs adding to this! TescoBag fucked around with this message at 22:39 on Jul 27, 2021 |
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Jul 14, 2021 15:30
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Can't wait to be very bad at designing ships.
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Jul 14, 2021 16:14
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I am beyond stoked for this game
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Jul 14, 2021 16:26
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Popete posted:Can't wait to be very bad at designing ships. Loads of premade ships you can edit from what I've seen, if you're like me and you don't have the design chops to build something that isn't always hideous.
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Jul 14, 2021 16:32
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I, too am, looking forward to
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Jul 14, 2021 16:33
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TescoBag posted:build something that isn't always hideous. but why? looking forward to building abominations unto the lord.
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Jul 14, 2021 16:36
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My first impressions are that this game looks like a cross between Lunar lander and Airships: Conquer the skies, except with much better graphics. I can't really say for certain what it would be like to play, or how responsive or intuitive the gameplay is; even the gameplay videos makes it look obscure. Regardless I'm still interested in seeing how it turns out.
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Jul 14, 2021 16:41
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Oh, would you look at that, it's My poo poo. Sold.
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Jul 14, 2021 17:19
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Extremely cool, looks like a must buy for me. Microprose has a nice gamplay video for it as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n411Tz6dAKw It does seem too bad that there's no allied AI ships, but the combat looks like a very nice arcade/simulation mix.
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Jul 14, 2021 17:25
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I really like that you can build these terrifying monstrosities too: https://i.imgur.com/enF5LZC.mp4
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Jul 14, 2021 18:06
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For me one of the most important elements in a game is presentation. I know a lot of people don't agree, but I can forgive SO much in a game if it is truly beautiful and a pleasure to look at. This game is one of those games and I will be purchasing it. Not saying the gameplay will be bad, in fact in the videos I saw people seemed to be enjoying it quite a bit. But even if it is bad I don't really give a gently caress
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Jul 14, 2021 20:28
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Welp, I'm sold.
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Jul 15, 2021 00:49
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Yeah, definitely looking forward to this.
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Jul 15, 2021 03:28
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Ohh this is from the devs of Hammerfight! I was already getting similar vibes but watching the videos it even uses some of the same sound effects.
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Jul 15, 2021 05:01
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gently caress yes Hammerfight ruled, grabbing this based on that association alone
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7c Nickel posted:...from the devs of Hammerfight! I was expecting this to be another game that looks promising but ultimately not actually a good game. This one line has made me do a 180.
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I might add that it was made by the dev of hammer fight to the OP if people liked it that much then. I've never played it myself.
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Jul 15, 2021 09:31
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You should. There's never been a game quite like hammerfight, so I'm really looking forward to this.
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I played the hell out of Hammerfight even though I had basically no idea what was going on. Looking forwards to doing the same thing with this.
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very excited for this
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Really hoping Nukes are apocalyptical with consequences rather than just nerfy with some soapy dialog about unleashing the genie.
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M_Gargantua posted:Really hoping Nukes are apocalyptical with consequences rather than just nerfy with some soapy dialog about unleashing the genie. Everywhere you go there are radiation readouts, so I'm guessing certain areas will be come more dangerous if nukes start going off at least. 
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Jul 16, 2021 09:11
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I love how all of the battlefield footage looks like it's captured by incidental cameras or intelligence drones. Makes it feel like you're an armchair general watching all the action unfold, rather than it all being filmed by Lakitu on his magical floating cloud.
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punishedkissinger posted:very excited for this
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ArmchairTitan posted:I love how all of the battlefield footage looks like it's captured by incidental cameras or intelligence drones. Makes it feel like you're an armchair general watching all the action unfold, rather than it all being filmed by Lakitu on his magical floating cloud. Your username and your post... you keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means  But agreed. It looks very nice.
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ArmchairTitan posted:I love how all of the battlefield footage looks like it's captured by incidental cameras or intelligence drones. Makes it feel like you're an armchair general watching all the action unfold, rather than it all being filmed by Lakitu on his magical floating cloud. I've seen water droplets on game cameras before, but for some reason these ones look really really nice.
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A couple of neat gifs that I found! Bombers attacking a ship and then it's ammo cooks off: https://i.imgur.com/RQRFqvX.mp4 Shrapnel rounds shooting down missiles: https://i.imgur.com/L5oNG03.mp4
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Bug Squash posted:I've seen water droplets on game cameras before, but for some reason these ones look really really nice. The issue is that in most games, the raindrops just hit an imaginary plane that's sort of floating in the air, since you don't have a physical camera ingame. It's particularly weird in first-person games where it looks like individual raindrops hit your actual retina. But here you've got an actual physical window you're looking out of, with some UI elements being on the dry inside of the window, so the droplets actually make sense ingame.
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This looks good
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Hey, I found a neat thing and got it translated:
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Jul 19, 2021 00:04
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Hell yeah. Thanks for getting that done!
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I'm so excited for this. Loved Hammerfight and I've been watching this one on twitter for a couple of years.
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New previews out! Quite a few twitch streams are around and SimUK just released a 2 part video that is an hour and a half of gameplay! He is terrible at landing and it's great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZoX-ro8tls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgU43u5Ovxg EDIT: The manual has been released! https://bit.ly/3iwMthH TescoBag fucked around with this message at 14:13 on Jul 21, 2021 |
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Perestroika posted:The issue is that in most games, the raindrops just hit an imaginary plane that's sort of floating in the air, since you don't have a physical camera ingame. It's particularly weird in first-person games where it looks like individual raindrops hit your actual retina. Well, they often have helmets on. Sometimes at least. And even where they don't, for some reason despite that not being how it works at all, it still kinda works Play fucked around with this message at 18:04 on Jul 21, 2021 |
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incoherent light posted:I'm so excited for this. Loved Hammerfight and I've been watching this one on twitter for a couple of years. There was something about the movement and graphics in that game that I just hated. I still have Hammerfall v.0.21 on my PC though from back when it was just an alpha demo. It was a fun concept it's just a shame I only liked the alpha version. TescoBag posted:New previews out! Quite a few twitch streams are around and SimUK just released a 2 part video that is an hour and a half of gameplay! The screen shake is horrendous. I really hope you can turn it off.
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TescoBag posted:He is terrible at landing and it's great You weren't kidding, basically destroy his fleet doing so, he's lucky the game lets him retry landings.
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Back Hack posted:You weren't kidding, basically destroy his fleet doing so, he's lucky the game lets him retry landings. Yeah, he seemed to really struggle with it but other streamers didn't. I wonder what he's doing differently?
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Jul 22, 2021 03:45
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So colloidal silver is a big thing in this game's setting? 
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