Beta Decay - low-poly, open world, dark dystopian RPG

[Shog-goth]

https://www.rotoscopestudios.com

 

[Fedora Master]

Open World Survival Crafting means it's going to be derivative slop.

 

[Shog-goth]

Open World Survival Crafting means it's going to be derivative slop.

It could be possible. In any case, it seems interesting enough to keep an eye on.

 

[Tyranicon]

Could be interesting, but I'm not a fan of the faux PS1 aesthetic that's a fad with devs these days.

 

[karoliner]

Devs who use PS1 artstyle should be arrested and send to forced labour camps in Siberia.

 

[MjKorz]

Devs who use PS1 artstyle should be arrested and send to forced labour camps in Siberia.

Nothing wrong with low poly. The real problem is that I don't see any actual roleplaying as in solving problems in alternative ways based on your character building choices, just shooting.

 

[cpmartins]

Not an RPG, as per steam page description.


An RPG, as per steam page description

 

[ropetight]

Build spaceships, join factions, and fight for territory on voxel planets or in space.

Sounds like a pitch for procedural survival crafting sim.
This is going to be procedural survival crafting sim as fuck.

 

[Gargaune]

Could be interesting, but I'm not a fan of the faux PS1 aesthetic that's a fad with devs these days.

This one might uniquely warrant a pass if it's actually using voxel tech for anything genuine:

beta decay leverages the Unreal Engine and voxel technology which allows for vast cityscapes and deformable planetary terrain.

But I didn't see anything like that skimming through their promo materials, I suspect it's just on paper for now. In any case, if you're gonna do it, should go all out and have destructible objects in the urban environments too.

 

[Spike]

Devs who use PS1 artstyle should be arrested and send to forced labour camps in Siberia.

its better than pixeltrash

 

[Zarniwoop]

Open World Survival Crafting means it's going to be derivative slop.

Also means it will be in Alpha Early Access forever.

 

[ind33d]

looks sick but did they turn off antialiasing on purpose just to make it seem old? cringe

 

[Smerlus]

Not an RPG, as per steam page description.


An RPG, as per steam page description

I think one of the weapons they used was an RPG

 

[Outlander]

Music reminds me of early Hitman games.

 

[Beastro]

 

[Damned Registrations]

Devs who use PS1 artstyle should be arrested and send to forced labour camps in Siberia.

its better than pixeltrash

Amusingly, I'd argue it's the pixel stuff on PS1 that was the only thing worth emulating:

 

[Spukrian]

Not an RPG, as per steam page description.


An RPG, as per steam page description

It's... genrefluid!?

 

[Spike]

Devs who use PS1 artstyle should be arrested and send to forced labour camps in Siberia.

its better than pixeltrash

Amusingly, I'd argue it's the pixel stuff on PS1 that was the only thing worth emulating:

This is art, not modern day pixelshit.

 

[motherfucker]

Ah yes more PS1-core formulaic slop. I always wondered what comes next after pixel art goes out of fashion.

 

[Fargus]

Survival, crafting, permadeath, retro visuals with 3080 and 16gb ram specs.... Yeah fuck off.

 

[Shog-goth]

 

[mondblut]

I wanted to laugh at lol-polio crap, but it looked alright as long as everyone is decked in futuristic armor, angular gasmasks and sheet. Then some kind of nonsensical pink stripes appeared in front of a pistol, and I choked on laughter realizing they are supposed to imitate "forearms".

Please, just...don't. Put some hi-tek vambraces in there or something. Anything fleshy cannot exist in the same universe as lol-polio graphics.

 

[Herumor]

Is this a sequel to Core Decay then?

 

[JarlFrank]

Open World Survival Crafting means it's going to be derivative slop.

Yes. I played a lot of Open World Survival Crafting games because I like both open world and survival, but the crafting part ultimately means the devs are too lazy to build good locations and place unique loot themselves, so they leave it to the player to do all of that.

Harvest 500 wood and stone to build your own bunker (instead of raiding cool hand-crafted bunkers made by the devs) and find enough ore to craft your own weapons (instead of unique weapons dropping as a reward for defeating bosses).
This crafting shit means in 99% of cases that the devs didn't bother making any actual content.