Torment Torment: Tides of Numenera Pre-Release Thread [ALPHA RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Ninjerk]

News at 11

 

[Morality Games]

I'm pretty sure they said that the first trailer was a mock up.

 

[LESS T_T]

So what the fuck happened? Was that "first glimpse" a heavily doctored lie? Are they even remotely close to finishing this game? What is going on?

That was explained then.

Those are more a function of having had to record a few scenes in editor rather than in build. The regular framerate is what the build runs like, but a few scenes had to be recorded running in Editor and that's just always choppier.

And about other complains including the lack of cloth animations:

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...-successor-thread.79051/page-392#post-3926241

 

[DosBuster]

First trailer was a vertical slice, it's so anyone in the team can ask, "What's the final game gonna look like?", and they can show them. Mainly because games in development are ugly bastards that only come together to form something fun near the end.

 

[Infinitron]

The question now turns into whether it'll come out before or after W2 Director's Cut.

Is that a serious question?

After. Way after.

He means the Alpha

 

[Sensuki]

We found out in the Pillars of Eternity documentary that the game was running extremely bad at one stage, and I'm guessing inXile inherited that code, so they'll have to fight to make it playable.

 

[ArchAngel]

We found out in the Pillars of Eternity documentary that the game was running extremely bad at one stage, and I'm guessing inXile inherited that code, so they'll have to fight to make it playable.

But inxile took it to Unity 5 so hopefully that will help

 

[DosBuster]

The more complex a game gets in the unity engine the higher the chance of memory usage going to hell, it's the downfall of using a Garbage Collection lanugage like C#

 

[Bester]

But inxile took it to Unity 5 so hopefully that will help

They have inherited a heavily unoptimized engine with a shitload of useless recalculations for mobs every frame. Obsiditards wrote their code specifically like that with no optimization in mind, it's not related to Unity's version. Thankfully there is an easy way to make those updates happen much more rarely, especially considering that the combat will be TB it should be even easier.

 

[ArchAngel]

But inxile took it to Unity 5 so hopefully that will help

They have inherited a heavily unoptimized engine with a shitload of useless recalculations for mobs every frame. Obsiditards wrote their code specifically like that with no optimization in mind, it's not related to Unity's version. Thankfully there is an easy way to make those updates happen much more rarely, especially considering that the combat will be TB it should be even easier.

So your IE mod can improve performance with PoE?

 

[Athelas]

So what the fuck happened? Was that "first glimpse" a heavily doctored lie? Are they even remotely close to finishing this game? What is going on?

The first (and better-looking) trailer was released a day before Wasteland 2 was released. You do the math.

 

[Grotesque]

 

[Infinitron]

Itz coming

 

[Immortal]

Itz coming

It sure is...

Spoiler

 

[Infinitron]

Is that supposed to look bad or something? Oh, you kids.

 

[Immortal]

Is that supposed to look bad or something? Oh, you kids.

Wait you think that looks good?

 

[Crooked Bee]

It does look a bit choppy, but other than that, it looks perfectly serviceable to me.

 

[ArchAngel]

I'm still curious as to how this is gonna work. In Numanera, the game master(in this case, computer) doesn't roll to hit you. He just goes "Roll. If you don't get above (Target number) you're taking X damage." In that way, you can then take the time to try and use various enablers to lower the target number. If this is in the game, wouldn't that bog the shit down? Because a big chunk of the game is using various skills and enablers to avoid being hit.

They said that on your turn you can set up what defense you want to be boosted with effort and by how much. You can only choose one of 3 defenses to boost. Then when it is enemy turn if they attack that defense you get the bonus from effort on all attacks on that defense.

 

[Grotesque]

Wait you think that looks good?

yes.
it looks good.
NEXT!

 

[StaticSpine]

Itz coming

 

[Jaedar]

It does look a bit choppy, but other than that, it looks perfectly serviceable to me.

I would be hoping for more than "perfectly serviceable".

 

[Harg Harfardarssen]

I would be hoping for more than "perfectly serviceable".

Eh for graphics, I'll take serviceable if the writing/gameplay are good or better.

 

[Roguey]

Oh no animations in a game that won't even be out this year don't look good

 

[Crooked Bee]

I would be hoping for more than "perfectly serviceable".

Graphicswhore.

 

[Infinitron]

A month after I posted it, the Edginess Begins: https://forums.inxile-entertainment.com/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=13178#p155378