Game News Urban Strife coming to Early Access on December 10th

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Tags: MicroProse; Urban Strife; White Pond Games

https://www.gamespress.com/MicroProse-Announces-the-Highly-Anticipated-Early-Access-Release-of-Ur

November 14th, 2024 — MicroProse, the legendary publisher of simulation and strategy games, is thrilled to announce that Urban Strife, a unique blend of turn-based strategy, post-apocalyptic survival, and RPG, will be launching on Steam in Early Access on December 10th, 2024.

Developed by White Pond Games, Urban Strife combines classic turn-based strategy mechanics with modern survival elements and a thrilling storyline that promises to captivate fans of tactical combat and gritty post-apocalyptic narratives.

Urban Strife invites the player to rebuild and defend a dilapidated shelter in the southern United States, navigating a dangerous world where alliances with factions, strategic combat, and careful resource management are essential for survival. Rescued from a car crash by the kind folk of Urban Shelter, the hero brings them news of a huge zombie horde headed their way from Atlanta. To survive, one must organize the militia, secure essential resources, and rebuild the base at any cost. Along the way, you’ll get to fight ruthless warlords, recruit new friends, and bring back humanity from the brink of disaster.

The game’s Early Access release will include:

• Immersive Survival and RPG Mechanics: Scavenge, craft, and negotiate with local factions to sustain your shelter’s hunger, health, and morale, whilst managing your team’s wounds, training, and equipment.
• Classic Turn-Based Combat with a Twist: A classic Action Points system combined with a unique dynamic zombie horde movement for streamlined, challenging battles.
• Faction-Based Storyline: Navigate alliances and conflicts with three major factions: the Army rebels, a zombie-worshiping cult, and a violent biker gang.
• Real Ballistics and Combat Physics: Each weapon class—handguns, shotguns, rifles, and more— comes with simulated ballistics and offers distinct advantages and drawbacks, making the choice of hardware a strategic decision.

Players can look forward to a variety of new features, community-driven updates, and continuous content improvements in Urban Strife’s Early Access period, building on player feedback to refine and expand the game’s mechanics and storylines.​

 

[ArchAngel]

That is all cool but does it work on Win7 ? :D

 

[Iluvcheezcake]

Hooraaaay

 

[Mordru]

Can I play as the lesbian in the tank top?

 

[Fenix]

At least some decent game appeared.
I would do intro trailer different. VA immediately get to a point about "zombies" but I think it will help build greated atmosphere it it would be somethig something about previous life and not to call things directly as they are labeled today - this immediately put whole deal into Procrustean bed of same -ish things that could feel same -ish, yeah.

Something like "I remmeber we play by the river" and video shows brutal fight with z@m#$% or even better traces of that fight etc etc.
Just to build a suspense.

 

[Vormulak]

>Urban Strife
>it isn't about black crime

 

[Shin]

While I realize this isn't a trailer for the final version, I still think it's a fairly bad trailer. This has been on my wishlist for ages due to all its distinct features (realistic ballistics, simultaneous enemy turns, body part targeting, faction system etc) yet all I got from this trailer are some unconvincing characters and story. This didn't excite me.

 

[Decado]

Do I have to play as a female protagonist? If so, pass. Not touching these anymore, purely on principle.

 

[R@tmaster]

Map looks cramped - 1/4 covered by woods. Dead State had a bigger map, also Dead State looked better. I mean, from technical side - models, lighting, texture resolution - Urban Strife is much better, but Dead State's town looked more authentic, at least according to movies. Here city looks like dump. Maybe it's just the trailer.
Portraits also look out of place.

Characters look more fit for a mercenary game. Especially comparing to Dead State.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Do I have to play as a female protagonist? If so, pass. Not touching these anymore, purely on principle.

Demo had full character creation.

Narrator from trailer is one of recruitable NPCs, if I remember correctly.

 

[Grampy_Bone]

A zombie game without 'dead' in the title is basically false advertising.

Also I find it odd that someone saw Dead State and thought, "Yeah, I want to make a game like that." But here we are.

 

[Jrpgfan]

20 years in development and still going into EA.

Not even Cleve was so shameless.

 

[Bastardchops]

US-AAY

 

[blamzooie]

Didn't Microprose die in the late 90s? Is this a skin stealer disguise?

 

[Lagole Gon]

Somehow MicroProse returned...

 

[Fenix]

>Urban Strife
>it isn't about black crime

Have you noticed that z@343Y horde moves from Athlanta by chance?

 

[Serus]

Didn't Microprose die in the late 90s? Is this a skin stealer disguise?

Yes, it de facto is.

That is all cool but does it work on Win7 ? :D

More important question: Can it be better than Realms of Arkania HD?

 

[Vormulak]

>Urban Strife
>it isn't about black crime

Have you noticed that z@343Y horde moves from Athlanta by chance?

Hotlanta is the jogger homeland

 

[Jaesun]

Utterly sick of the whole "Zombie" apocalypse thing. Please be creative and come up with something better and unique.

 

[OSK]

Also I find it odd that someone saw Dead State and thought, "Yeah, I want to make a game like that." But here we are.

I enjoyed Dead State.

 

[Latro]

Utterly sick of the whole "Zombie" apocalypse thing. Please be creative and come up with something better and unique.

A more hardcore alternative to dead state sounds good to me

 

[luj1]

all I got from this trailer are some unconvincing characters and story

The story and characters are trash. The combat however is great. The real question is about the character system.

 

[jackofshadows]

The story and characters are trash.

Every time I read something like this, I cringe (not defending this game for the record, only played demo and it didn't impress me in that regard).

What do you actually expect at this point from a game like this?

And at the same time you shit on Disco which is - lets not dive into genre defining argument - that's silly, but it has been done by a very talented team of writers.

Maybe you just give me examples of RPGs where the writing is the opposite of shit in your opinion?

 

[Jinn]

Utterly sick of the whole "Zombie" apocalypse thing. Please be creative and come up with something better and unique

Totally agree. It's been my beef with the game since the day I first heard about it years ago. I think it rubs me the wrong way particularly in a videogame context, primarily because I can only think of a few more enemies more boring to fight than the shambling undead. But I guess it speaks to the other potential strengths it has that I'm still interested in it despite my allergy to the played-out zombie apocalypse setting. If you haven't looked closer because of the premise, I urge you to do so.

Too bad about early access, but I'm not surprised. I don't buy games in early access anymore unless it's from a developer that has a decent-to-stellar track record of releases. So I guess I'll be waiting this one out even longer.

 

[MrBuzzKill]

Very difficult to get excited for this after having playing JA3, Phoenix point, XCOM2 and even XCOM (2012) and pretty much any tactics game of the past decade
Literally what's the pull?
This game was even on my wishlist but I don't even remember why I put it there