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Project Haven - dystopian tactical RPG where you lead mercenary company striving for survival
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I just wanted to say that "Sneaky like a pedophile in a chatroom" should be removed from the game if you are serious about your game. Sometimes, you need to go back and have an objective look at your own work.
While we're at it, tone down the edginess a bit.
Gameplay itself has potential and I am likely to buy the game.
While we're at it, tone down the edginess a bit.
Gameplay itself has potential and I am likely to buy the game.
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re.var
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You've come to the right place, sir.
Thanks, figured as much
We only recorded the unique barks for now, we're going to have generic barks ("Reloading", "Moving", ...) that will play most of the times, and you only get the unique barks once in a while. So the edginess will be heavily toned down.
Regarding the "Sneaky..." bark it's said in a joke scenario, it's not a serious phrase. Obviously it's still offensive to some. Which is why we're going to add a slider to control the profanity and offensive content of the barks.
You're not wrong! The game is heavily inspired in JA2, which itself is essentially one big B-movie.
Twitter is immature, so you shouldn't be surprised... just saying. I'm afraid I seem to have missed the demo too, thanks to a couple of other games, and severe lack of time.
Iluvcheezcake
Prophet
Looks good!
fantadomat
Arcane
More like THE asylum.
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Tried the demo for a bit, got to play the intro mission as well as a skirmish map. The tacticool granularity is the absolute bee's knees. Things are present which have been inexplicably missing from the genre since the days of Silent Storm. I'm almost not upset about the squad size of 4 (but only almost), because aside from that I don't think there's a single thing missing on the tactical level, apart from out-there stuff like destructible terrain. When you consider that this is coming from an indie team that's pretty amazing.
As for the the story and writing... I've chosen not to remember anything besides the tacticool. In any case, this is probably a day 1 purchase. Hoping the campaign manages to tie the missions together well enough so that it works as a complete product rather than just a skirmish simulator.
I feel bad, because things happened and I won't be able to play any more before the demo expires, but anyway, thanks again Zombra, I owe you one.
As for the the story and writing... I've chosen not to remember anything besides the tacticool. In any case, this is probably a day 1 purchase. Hoping the campaign manages to tie the missions together well enough so that it works as a complete product rather than just a skirmish simulator.
I feel bad, because things happened and I won't be able to play any more before the demo expires, but anyway, thanks again Zombra, I owe you one.
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Yeah this game is really good. I couldn't complete the second mission because I couldn't find the last target, but hot azn waifu Indigo kept getting shot from something underneath of the terrain, so my guess is that the extortionist fell through terrain.
Bugs, glitches, and the occasional UI complaint aside, the tactical combat of this game may very well be a worthwhile successor to Jagged Alliance (sans the destructible terrain). Here is my bullet point list of positive things:
+ Bullet trajectory is fully simulated, so there's none of that weird nuXCOM garbage of shots flying through walls
+ I enjoyed the party banter, which is cheesy in a good way.
+ Despite being a cyberpunk game, there are a lot of cute waifus. I didn't notice any PC bullshit either.
+ It utilises true positional line-of-sight, so where you're facing matters.
+ Uses STATS rather than classes
+ There's a cover system that ACTUALLY WORKS PROPERLY (unlike Phoenix Point's weird "you must crouch" cover system). You can crouch, go prone, peek, etc when behind cover.
+ The kill cam's not that bad actually. It works pretty well with the game's view
+ The maps are yuge (at least going by the second mission). In this day and age where tactical games come with maps smaller than my dick, it's a fresh breath of air to have maps that are 3-4 blocks large.
There isn't much that I didn't like from the demo apart from glitches and stuff, but I do have some things I hope get implemented:
* Strafing like in JA2 and Silent Storm would seriously be a welcome addition (or something like in Battletech where you can determine your facing simultaneously during a move)
* I kept getting my guns knocked out by enemy fire. It's cool at first, but I think I must have gotten them shot off from my characters' hands 5-6 times on the second mission.
Also, ignore the Twatter idiots who slammed your game so far. Yeah I guess you could classify Altan's lines as "misogynistic", but IMO it's just cheeky fun. Most of the vocal crazies on Twatter probably won't even buy your game anyway. If this is what you call "mature storytelling", I would say it's a-ok in my book.
TLDR: So far better than when Phoenix Point was in Early Access.
Bugs, glitches, and the occasional UI complaint aside, the tactical combat of this game may very well be a worthwhile successor to Jagged Alliance (sans the destructible terrain). Here is my bullet point list of positive things:
+ Bullet trajectory is fully simulated, so there's none of that weird nuXCOM garbage of shots flying through walls
+ I enjoyed the party banter, which is cheesy in a good way.
+ Despite being a cyberpunk game, there are a lot of cute waifus. I didn't notice any PC bullshit either.
+ It utilises true positional line-of-sight, so where you're facing matters.
+ Uses STATS rather than classes
+ There's a cover system that ACTUALLY WORKS PROPERLY (unlike Phoenix Point's weird "you must crouch" cover system). You can crouch, go prone, peek, etc when behind cover.
+ The kill cam's not that bad actually. It works pretty well with the game's view
+ The maps are yuge (at least going by the second mission). In this day and age where tactical games come with maps smaller than my dick, it's a fresh breath of air to have maps that are 3-4 blocks large.
There isn't much that I didn't like from the demo apart from glitches and stuff, but I do have some things I hope get implemented:
* Strafing like in JA2 and Silent Storm would seriously be a welcome addition (or something like in Battletech where you can determine your facing simultaneously during a move)
* I kept getting my guns knocked out by enemy fire. It's cool at first, but I think I must have gotten them shot off from my characters' hands 5-6 times on the second mission.
Also, ignore the Twatter idiots who slammed your game so far. Yeah I guess you could classify Altan's lines as "misogynistic", but IMO it's just cheeky fun. Most of the vocal crazies on Twatter probably won't even buy your game anyway. If this is what you call "mature storytelling", I would say it's a-ok in my book.
TLDR: So far better than when Phoenix Point was in Early Access.
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Darth Canoli
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About the "sneaky as a pedophile in a chatroom", i'm not offended but i find it extremely lame, your game would lose nothing if you got rid of it.
Aren't the characters mercs ?
It doesn't feel like something a real mercenary* would say, it's really nerdy.
*Not talking about your regular 2020 squaddie that only shot at targets and spend half his time playing on his xbox.
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Nobody wants miserable romance options.
re.var
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Hey everyone, thanks for all the feedback!
It was in the demo already! Holding SHIFT would allow you to strafe, no way we would go without it, for sure!
Goes in hand with the previous point, UI doesn't yet give you the necessary information about all the game systems. It's something that's on the backlog for when we finish implementing everything. No point in re-doing the UI now and then having to do it again in the future when we inevitably add more stuff to it.
It's a linear story, you won't have options in it.
It's a mercenary group, they all work together, and have been doing so for a while now. The specific character that says that line is the "funny" guy, he's always cracking lame ass jokes and borderline offensive lines like that. Throughout the storyline you learn more about his past and why he's always joking. We tried to make all the characters with plausible backgrounds for how the act they way they do now, including all the relationships between them. Similar to JA2 in that regard.
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Great stuff! Really glad to hear it's already in and gives me even more confidence in the game, that you have your priorities straightened.
Don't worry, pretty sure Kruno was just shitposting/trolling. Most people here value mechanics and a good story over romanceable party members unlike some hyper autistic forums that fetishize this crap.
BTW you mentioned linearity. How does the game deal with dead party members?
re.var
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Yah, on the Demo nothing really happened and they could just join the following mission. For release they will be disabled for the next mission, so you need to go one mission without them.No such thing. Mercs taken out of action rejoin the team between missions. There has already been talk about changing the "DEAD" status to a different text flag
We'll have an hardcore/ironman mode where they will actually be permanently disabled, so you only have a finite amount of characters to finish the campaign with.
cyborgboy95
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https://store.steampowered.com/newshub/app/443190/view/2752215379216408162
July Update
Greetings Steel Dragons!
We have some exciting news to share with you, but first, we would like to thank our followers for your consistent support in this journey. And If you want to join our growing community, be on top of the game’s development progress and give us your invaluable feedback, please follow us on Twitter, where we post images/videos every week, or join us on Discord where you can talk to us any time, and also get to see some sneak peeks and work in progress that we usually don’t share on any other platform.
AI
Now back to the news. In case you missed it, in the last development update we shared some of the improvements we have been doing to the UI and gameplay. Since then, we also have been working heavily on AI. We have a lot of tweakable parameters to make the AI challenging and human-like, so we ended up using machine learning to do its parameterization. Here's a sneak peek!
Your Feedback
And as a lot of you already know, Project Haven was at Steam Game Festival where we finally were able to share our demo with you! And you have been awesome with your support and feedback. Some of the most requested features that we’ve already implemented were:
- An updated the interrupt cone visibility
- More tooltips and information in the UI.
Another top features that were requested that we are still working on are:
- New key binding system
- Filter for mature language
Gamescom
We are excited to announce that Project Haven was selected by Indie Arena Booth to be part of gamescom 2020. Due to the unfortunate situation our world is in, this year's event will be happening online. As such, from 27th to 30th August, we will have our own multiplayer virtual booth that can be visited by anyone for free through any browser.
For all of you that missed the Steam Games Festival demo we have great news: you will also be able to play our alpha demo (now with a few extras and tooltips!) throughout those days. Please come visit us in our booth! We hope to see you there and we can’t wait to talk to you guys!
Check the trailer to see a sneak preview of the many titles will be there!
And you can also check their official website to see the full list of indie games present.
Thanks for reading, until next time!
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re.var
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Last city on earth eh?
How big is this city, and is the rest of the world just an endless wasteland? I hope to get some answers to this
I got you
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