Incline MENACE - sci-fi turn-based tactical RPG from Battle Brothers devs

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

From discord:

Yeah, suppression trumps morale. So if a unit is fleeing and pinned down at the same time, they will not move. The morale system works very roughly like in total war (or Battle brothers ) where troops first become wavering and then flee. If they flee and their unit strength is too low to recover, they will disband entirely.

Of course, there will be a lot of items to loot (weapons, armors, accessories, vehicles etc).

There's no renown system, but a trust system where you increase your trust with the various local factions

 

[Sloul]

I think they wanted to do something akin to Jagged Alliance.

 

[PlayerEmers]

I only noticed now that the publisher for the game is Hooded Horse. This publisher kinda came out of nowhere but so far they worked with quite a few strategy and sim games that I enjoyed (against the storm and norland are my favorites so far). Kinda cool they are now working with BB devs on Menance.

 

[Serus]

Woke alert! Black woman soldier! Woke alert! In a 1994 game!

Some people are just retards.

I mean, yeah. Its progressive retardation.

People only put up with it back then because
A) You know she likes cock.
B) Physically strong women are cool.
C) No cringe. Just dumb fun.

All these things have changed, thus people reject it.
A) Shes a lesbian
B) Shes a strong womyn meant to lead men.
C) Fun is not important, its all boomer + millenial cringe.

Yes. The answer lies in the contex but some people are uncapable (or unwilling in this case?) to understand it. What existed and worked in, say, 1980s or 1990s, exists and works very differently and for different reasons in 2010s and 2020s.

 

[Reinhardt]

Whereas Battle Brothers filled your army with randomly generated serf lads, Menace lets you hire a cast of ready-made, "fixed" soldiers with their own backstories and personalities.

Ever-present in these battles are the barks and bantz of your (fully voiced) recruits.

Um.

Why.

wait wot
no more doggo company or bros named after rpg games to find out mostest rpg game of them all?

 

[Serus]

Whereas Battle Brothers filled your army with randomly generated serf lads, Menace lets you hire a cast of ready-made, "fixed" soldiers with their own backstories and personalities.

Ever-present in these battles are the barks and bantz of your (fully voiced) recruits.

Um.

Why.

Something like this:

 

[Takamori]

When I get my hands in the EA I will cast a judgement, if they are going for a Jagged Alliance+Total War feel this might be really cool.

 

[Hydro]

Ever-present in these battles are the barks and bantz of your (fully voiced) recruits.

Recruit 1: I hate these aliens.
Recruit 2: I was born as a male, but I never felt as one so I decided to go against the public opinion and transitioned, now I am a happiest person especially with these new pils.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Ever-present in these battles are the barks and bantz of your (fully voiced) recruits.

Recruit 1: I hate these aliens.
Recruit 2: I was born as a male, but I never felt as one so I decided to go against the public opinion and transitioned, now I am a happiest person especially with these new pils.

This is how volunteers for quick mineclearing are found.

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Tyranicon]

Actually very informative since Menace is currently exactly at the 100th spot on Steam's most wishlisted.

 

[ropetight]

Actually very informative since Menace is currently exactly at the 100th spot on Steam's most wishlisted.

He added a zero, Menace has 10x more wishlists than followers or something is wrong with SteamDB.
https://steamdb.info/app/2432860/charts/#followers

 

[Modron]

He added a zero, Menace has 10x more wishlists than followers or something is wrong with SteamDB.

Do you follow every game you wishlist?

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Actually very informative since Menace is currently exactly at the 100th spot on Steam's most wishlisted.

He added a zero, Menace has 10x more wishlists than followers or something is wrong with SteamDB.
https://steamdb.info/app/2432860/charts/#followers

Does a wishlist automatically count as follow?

 

[Modron]

Does a wishlist automatically count as follow?

No go to any store page, click the your store menu and select followed games and software to see all the things you follow.

 

[Tyranicon]

For devs, followers are usually a more valuable metric since they are more or less your "core" following. It's usually a 1:10 follower-wishlist ratio, at least in my experience.

 

[ropetight]

He added a zero, Menace has 10x more wishlists than followers or something is wrong with SteamDB.

Do you follow every game you wishlist?

It is just strange that there is no public wishlist number on Steam - just order of the most wishlisted games.
On the SteamDB game page they show only followers trend.
Even top global wishlist has no number of wishlisted column.

Is there a reason they are not showing it?

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Does a wishlist automatically count as follow?

No go to any store page, click the your store menu and select followed games and software to see all the things you follow.

Yeah, that worked.

Spoiler

My follows are mostly games I have on GOG to better stay up to date with patches and other news on those.

 

[Harthwain]

Is there a reason they are not showing it?

Probably they never thought it needs to be public. After all, what does it matter for a customer how many people follow any particular game?

 

[mediocrepoet]

For devs, followers are usually a more valuable metric since they are more or less your "core" following. It's usually a 1:10 follower-wishlist ratio, at least in my experience.

That's odd. I wishlist all sorts of stuff, but I almost never follow anything. I actually didn't even realize it made any difference.

What does following do anyway?

 

[Habichtswalder]

Wasn't even aware that there is a Follow-feature on steam.

 

[Modron]

Wasn't even aware that there is a Follow-feature on steam.

You can set your news feed to any combo herein of followed, wishlisted, games in library, recommended, and featured news bits. Basically I wishlist anything I am remotely interested in and follow the things I know I am going to like.

Hell you can even follow publishers, developers and even steam users IIRC.

 

[Habichtswalder]

Wasn't even aware that there is a Follow-feature on steam.

You can set your news feed to any combo herein of followed, wishlisted, games in library, recommended, and featured news bits. Basically I wishlist anything I am remotely interested in and follow the things I know I am going to like.

Hell you can even follow publishers, developers and even steam users IIRC.

There is a news feed on Steam? Wasn't aware of that too.

 

[ropetight]

Is there a reason they are not showing it?

Probably they never thought it needs to be public. After all, what does it matter for a customer how many people follow any particular game?

It is a loose prediction of the sales - or so the marketing teams would have us believe.
At first, I suspected devs probably tried to game the wishlists, but maybe it has to do privacy, business secrets, and laws like GDPR.

 

[Harthwain]

It is a loose prediction of the sales - or so the marketing teams would have us believe.

I could be mistaken, but I thought developers have access to how many players wishlisted their games? I mean, the developers of the Songs of Conquests promised some bonus if the number of wishlists exceeds a certain number.