ELEX Pre-Release Thread

Ore to Elex - A short history of the engine in Piranha Bytes' games

 

Great read, thanks.

So true

 

A fully modded Oblivion maybe

 

Had a short interview with the Pankratzes today. Björn accused us of being provocateurs and I made him laugh while he was drinking.

 

Were you provoking him? What were you wearing?

 

'so what do we call our engine?'

'ze engin'

 

'ze engine macht frei

 

germans are simple people

'das engine' is perfectly suitable for a name

 

Engine is feminine, moron. It's so obvious.

 

Is Bubbles womyns ?

 

but it needs to be compatible with das dasein design

 

Very naive. I like it.

 

Jaaaaaaaaa ze engine will set you free!

 

Jetpack+melee combo looks interesting. Still want to see more populated areas and interaction with NPC's.

 

Think it looks pretty good. More like Risen 1 than Risen 3.

 

ELEX is a mess.

But it's still more exciting than all Bethesderp RPGs put together.

 

This mix of scifi and fantasy looks like a total clusterfuck to me, its just so random

 

i was so ready for him to ragdoll into space

disappointed

 

Chainsaw-swords and high-tech energy weapons you mean?

 

Hımmmm.
Chainsaw swords, jet pack, plasma weaponary and huge robots.

 

We'll see if they go back to a real open world map this time...

 

I had kind of hoped that they'd differentiate the weaponry for different enemytypes at least to some extent, that something like chainsords wouldn't have been the weapon of choice against giant robots.

Oh well.

 

Looks like a typical PB game, just without any fucking pirates. The setting is interesting. I am feeling a bit of a Gothic/Risen 1 vibe. Jetpack jumping looks derpy. Graphics are dated (to be expected from a small developer).

I like it.

 

Wow, the combat looks like utter shit. Ranged weaponry seems only useful for aggroing the enemy, and then switching to melee weapons when they approach. That was ok in Gothic/Risen games with bows and such, but futuristic laser guns being that bad is really immersion-spoiling. Melee-wise, it seems like the only good attack is the "swoop up on jet pack and come crashing down with a slash" one. How far have we come from the elegant timing based combat of G1/G2 to this rocket powered popamole. Pretty much lost all hope once I saw this trailer. This is not the Piranha Bytes that made the Gothics.