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KickStarter Mechajammer (formerly Copper Dreams) - cyberpunk RPG from Whalenought Studios

Wunderbar

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Started as a gritty cyberpunk rpg, ended up being cartoony military crawler.
They altered the deal, pray they won't alter it any further.
 
CyberWhale

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Wunderbar said:
Started as a gritty cyberpunk rpg, ended up being cartoony military crawler.
They altered the deal, pray they won't alter it any further.
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It's the evil publishers that force developers to make unnecessary changes and thus ruin the games, right?

P.S. Don't know if anyone else has noticed it, but a lot of these indie guys seem to be really active on the Codex while they are rookie nobodies. Then it suddenly changes as their games near the completion stage. If they hit the jackpot, you're not going to see or hear from them ever again.
 
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grimace said:
Alpha 1.098.2
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I noticed footsteps in the dark, but it does not change the fact that sight range is pathetic.
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We've also integrated the Followship™. This design was meant to convey the feeling of safety exploring as a group. Copper Dreams, the actual campaign, is a dungeon crawler where you'll be creeping around a war-torn city filled with lots of other things that are creeping around trying to kill you. The Line-of-sight visual has always been the backbone of the visual identity in creating that tension.

To add to that, characters exploring on their own have a personal sized vision radius. However, when selected together and worming around as a group, the radius is combined and larger, focused on whoever is lead.
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Not knowing what's lurking around a corner requires the player to be cautious and prepared for an assault.

The strategic combat feels like Jagged Alliance 2 where cover and positioning matter, healing feels a bit like Metal Gear Solid 3 and Deus Ex, combat actions are real time with pause to adjust to the enemies reactions like Knights of the Old Republic, environments like Escape from New York, and on and on.

The game-play is far more intuitive than reading an impressions article.
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I am not talking about seeing what is around the corner, but things in plain sight should be seen longer than half a screen. Even IE games had a bigger sight radius. At it is, it is just artificial and fake.
 
grimace

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ArchAngel said:
I am not talking about seeing what is around the corner, but things in plain sight should be seen longer than half a screen. Even IE games had a bigger sight radius. At it is, it is just artificial and fake.
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The game engine, combat, exploration systems are designed: they are artificial.

A clear line of sight without illumination will not be "seen" but may be "heard". Those are the footsteps seen by the player outside the sight radius of all party members.

During the day, the line of sight includes much more of the map.
 
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grimace said:
ArchAngel said:
I am not talking about seeing what is around the corner, but things in plain sight should be seen longer than half a screen. Even IE games had a bigger sight radius. At it is, it is just artificial and fake.
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The game engine, combat, exploration systems are designed: they are artificial.

A clear line of sight without illumination will not be "seen" but may be "heard". Those are the footsteps seen by the player outside the sight radius of all party members.

During the day, the line of sight includes much more of the map.
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How much more during the day? I don't have a problem with night time vision being low if day time is better. Also if enemies use light sources we should be able to see them during night even if they are further away than our vision.
This seems to be a stealth game as well, it needs to have some of these features.
 
grimace

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ArchAngel said:
How much more during the day?
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I will let you know in a few hours.

  • joseph :
    Posted 23 minutes ago
    1.0991 has some performance and bug improvements from the last build, as well as some daylight, now with more color! Will be uploading in the morning.
 
zeitgeist

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Keep in mind that this game's engine is also the engine you're supposedly getting the already funded Serpent in the Staglands expansion in...

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What do you think, will the announced expansion just quietly disappear from their website at some point, or will they do a new Kickstarter for it, hoping that everyone forgot about the scam?
 
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Master

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The first style was the best, but this comics-like one isnt too bad either. It looks better than Disco Elysium at least.
 
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