Vapourware Realms Beyond: Ashes of the Fallen - Chaos Chronicles reborn and dead again

[Bohr]

It's time for JarlFrank to step in and save the project.

 

[fantadomat]

I take it that it will come out around the second/third quarter of the year.

 

[Transfiguring Roar]

So it’s already half of January. WHEN?

It's looking like it will be released early Feb at the latest. That's from Discord.

 

[luj1]

Doesn't matter when. Still better than 99% of what's out there, fundamentally.

 

[Transfiguring Roar]

They've just announced on Discord that an update will be released later today. There's a good chance I'll be asleep when they release it, so I thought I'd let you guys know in case someone wants to share the update news.

My bet is they will be announcing that the combat beta is being pushed back to June. j/king

 

[Infinitron]

Here it is! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ceresgames/realms-beyond-ashes-of-the-fallen/posts/2744020

Finished Map, Coin Design & Combat Beta Status

Finished Map

As you may remember, a map painted by the talented Francesca Baerald was our first stretch goal. Today, we can proudly present the magnificent outcome. Francesca delivered a masterpiece of a map with a huge number of details and a high density of information for the player. Cities, villages, dungeons, rivers, roads… all the major landmarks you will encounter on your journey through Argea are part of this highly detailed hand-painted map.

As a reminder, the map will be printed and included into the physical game box editions. It will also appear in-game on the map screen, where it will help you plan your journey through the Realms Beyond.

We try to avoid spoilers at this point, therefore we won’t show the full high resolution map yet. But as little demonstration of the level of detail you can expect, here is a small zoomed in part of the map (marked in red color).

The Central Realms of Argea


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Coin Design
Along with the map, Francesca also designed the concept art of the coin that will be included in the boxed edition of Realms Beyond. The drawing is exceptionally beautiful, and we let you have a glimpse at what the coin will look like. On the obverse, you can see Conall, the King of Cormac, and the reverse bears his coat of arms and the motto of his kingdom.

The colored version is just an illustration. The actual coin will be minted from metal and therefore be of a single color. It will have a diameter of approximately 40 millimeters (about 1.57 inch).

Backer Contributions
Once the combat demo is complete and published, we will finally work on the backer contributions. For that purpose, we have already added an inventory to our forums, where backers can enter their reward data based on backer tier. Before we can unlock it, we first have to check for potential issues with privacy and copyright (this is especially relevant for backers contributing NPC portraits, since we will work with your photos).

In addition, backers of tiers from 500 EUR upwards will be contacted personally by email, as their reward content requires more in-depth cooperation for its implementation into the game.


Combat Beta Status
We’re still working hard on completing the combat beta, but aren’t quite happy with its current state yet. Apart from a couple of bugs and missing elements (such as monster portraits and SFX), we are also working on the content and encounter design. As the combat beta will be the first public release of our game, we want to deliver a good first impression (especially since some people will likely show off the gameplay on stream or on YouTube). Therefore we can’t hastily release a half-baked and bug-ridden version of it, as this would taint the image of our game in the public eye. We ask you to be patient for a few more weeks, so we can release a polished version we can be proud of and you can enjoy without hiccups.

To make the waiting a little more bearable, here are a handful of screenshots from the first level of the combat demo (we don’t want to spoil the later levels yet!):


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[V_K]

Here it is! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ceresgames/realms-beyond-ashes-of-the-fallen/posts/2744020

The Central Realms of Argea

Yeah, at that level of content density and that size of the map, it's not getting finished within the next 5 years, if at all.

 

[AbounI]

Yeah, at that level of content density and that size of the map, it's not getting finished within the next 5 years, if at all.

You're wrong. Let me quote one of the main writer :

The rest will be filled out with expansions etc.
You could compare it to how Elder Scrolls has the entirely of Tamriel mapped out, but each game only visits one province

 

[FeelTheRads]

Looks great. Can't wait for 2030.

 

[Crispy]

It does look great.

I'm sorry, JarlFrank, for any part I may have played in delaying this game. I mean that sincerely.

 

[underground nymph]

The art style of this game is something that makes it very adorable.

 

[vonAchdorf]

...attacks...but misses.
...attacks...but misses.
...attacks...but misses.

The TDE school of combat design.

 

[ItsChon]

Do the screens showing the combat look a little weird to anyone else? Perhaps it's the way the tiles are highlighted, or the individual tiles themselves? I'm also not a big fan of the portraits at all, they seem very low res and clash with the better looking background. And perhaps it's just me, but I got a weird sense of low resolution all around from each of those screenshots. Something seems kind of off and blurry; it vaguely reminds me of AoD.

Regardless, game is looking promising, and I look forward to more info.

 

[underground nymph]

Few weeks more eh? So we gonna have bg3, colony ship and realms beyond gameplays at exactly the same time

 

[AbounI]

Do the screens showing the combat look a little weird to anyone else? Perhaps it's the way the tiles are highlighted, or the individual tiles themselves? I'm also not a big fan of the portraits at all, they seem very low res and clash with the better looking background. And perhaps it's just me, but I got a weird sense of low resolution all around from each of those screenshots. Something seems kind of off and blurry; it vaguely reminds me of AoD.

Regardless, game is looking promising, and I look forward to more info.

Concerning the portraits, they promised us lots and lots, so they had to keep in mind their low budget, but yeah, they could be far better.

 

[luj1]

Do the screens showing the combat look a little weird to anyone else? Perhaps it's the way the tiles are highlighted, or the individual tiles themselves?

Yup, there is something weird going on, I can barely discern the characters (for example in the last screenshot, the one with the stairs). Everything blends together sorta.

 

[luj1]

Low gamma? Idk. Went back to the other screenshots here (https://www.realms-beyond.com/media/) and they dont seem to have the same problem.

 

[SausageInYourFace]

Concerning the portraits, they promised us lots and lots, so they had to keep in mind their low budget, but yeah, they could be far better.

I was actually about to comment how good the portraits look. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[AbounI]

Concerning the portraits, they promised us lots and lots, so they had to keep in mind their low budget, but yeah, they could be far better.

I was actually about to comment how good the portraits look. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Please do it Sausage. I'm more in flavor of ITS portraits style BTW.

 

[Valky]

I do not like this angle, it looks higher than ToEE's.

 

[Strange Fellow]

Don't you see? The incline is steeper than ever.

 

[Mortmal]

Angle is wrong Indeed, but at least there's some evidence , as tenuous it is, they are working on the game .

 

[luj1]

I was actually about to comment how good the portraits look.

The portraits are great, I thought they look baroque.

 

[Abu Antar]

I wonder how fast animations are. From the looks of it, we will have fairly large encounters. In one screenshot, there are 17 combatants.

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

I wonder how fast animations are. From the looks of it, we will have fairly large encounters. In one screenshot, there are 17 combatants.

There are simultaneous turns in the game