Urban Strife - turn-based zombie survival RPG - now available on Early Access

[USG_Mucifikatorul]

One nitpick:
When looting bodies unit doing the looting goes to crouched stance and stays on it.
Is this necessary?

No, probably something that we'll have to go in the animation optimization round.

 

[Readher]

I bought, and also posted on plebbit for visibility.

EDIT: First problem I can notice is that no resolution is giving me actual fullscreen when using the "Windowed Fullscreen" option. I'm using DLDSR at x1.78 (2560x1440 natvie, 3413x1920 with DLDSR).

 

[USG_Mucifikatorul]

That's quite an exotic resolution, but noted.

 

[Readher]

That's quite an exotic resolution, but noted.

The resolution might be exotic, but it's just what DLDSR comes up with. It has 1.78x and 2.25x multipliers. I'd focus more on DLDSR itself (and DSR by extension) than the resolution in your technical analysis.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/710230/view/530958278018992017

Patch Notes - December 10th, 2024

• An issue where the hero's customization was randomly reset during the save/load process was fixed
• An issue that prevented players from redefining controls in Game Options has been fixed

The patch is backward compatible and should not break your saved games.

 

[Tyranicon]

Looks like the anti-AI twitter crowd found you. It's always depressing to see these people sperge out on the steam forums of some indie game using AI for placeholder stuff, while the same clowns won't say shit when their favorite giant corp uses it (like Adobe integrating it into their software).

Hope launch is treating you well.

 

[USG_Mucifikatorul]

Well, we'd gladly take the contact of any artist who is capable to hand draw us 200-250 portraits in a couple of months, on an indie budget.

Somehow the chatter stopped at this point but we keep hoping one of these nice folks has one of these artists in his back pocket somewhere.

 

[USG_Mucifikatorul]

About the patch, we had to roll it back.

Turns out they keyboard issues (input.ini) are due to this bug in UE:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1128920/discussions/0/4358997997660344481/
Not an easy fix, we're still investigating. We would not want people to manually edit their INI files. Out temp fix somehow made ESC key unresponsive so the fix was not working.

The other bug that messes up the hero appearance was fixed but it was packaged with this one and both got rolled back. We might need to do two separate patches now if this input.ini issues takes more time.

 

[cpmartins]

Well, we'd gladly take the contact of any artist who is capable to hand draw us 200-250 portraits in a couple of months, on an indie budget.

Somehow the chatter stopped at this point but we keep hoping one of these nice folks has one of these artists in his back pocket somewhere.

AI is a tool. Use it well, it gets great results. Ignore the morons trying to tell you otherwise. Having said that, I do believe hand drawn portraits do have an edge especially if you're aiming for a particular style or art-direction, just like JA 1, 2 and to a less degree, 3 did.
As a fan of both Dead State and Jagged Alliance, I'm looking forward to the full game coming out since I'm way past being burned out on EA.

 

[Zombra]

Now i dont mind comedy in games, but one of the first teammates you get is a dumb police deputy called Billy Bo who ticks all the tropes of southern inbred stupidity (including ears that just scream otoplasty). I can just see him going ALL YA ALL etc

Haven't seen the game yet but this sounds very Jagged Alliance to me. Bring on those character shticks!

And congrats on the EA release!!

 

[USG_Mucifikatorul]

Good news!

After going down the deepest rabbit hole on the Unread forums, our coder found out the root of the issue with the keybinds was a massive lazy bug of Epic proportions that their devs just CBA to fix. It's so idiotic it's not even worth mentioning. He found a workaround though.

Bottom line, both the hero appearance fix and the keybinds fix are now back online and should work.

 

[Gargaune]

a massive lazy bug of Epic proportions

 

[udm]

Bought to support developers, but doubt I'll have time to play. All the best!

And good on ya for not using body type

 

[Jrpgfan]

52 reviews after 2 days.

I'm almost feeling bad for pirating it(although I haven't played it yet I confess).

 

[Tyranicon]

52 reviews after 2 days.

I'm almost feeling bad for pirating it(although I haven't played it yet I confess).

Selling video games in 2024 is hard, bro. Selling EA games is even harder.

That said, we don't have any idea what financial goal Urban Strife is targeting unless they tell us.

 

[Mortmal]

Urban Strife, Sword Haven, New Arcline, Archaelund, Banquet for Fools—every RPG I’ve wishlisted this year is still in early access. I’m not starting or buying any of them until they’re fully complete. From a customer’s perspective, there’s no point. Even when these games reach version 1.0, they’re unlikely to be bug-free. If I start now, I’ll get 10 hours of content, burn out on them, and never touch them again.

Instead, waiting a bit longer often means getting a more polished experience and a hefty discount. That’s why these early-access games aren’t selling as well. Developers should just release finished games; this early-access trend is shooting themselves in the foot.

 

[USG_Mucifikatorul]

Actually the reviews vs copies sold is pretty bad compared to the average. Meaning we should have way more reviews. We have no clue how you get people to stop playing to give you a review. If they hate your game, they do it after 30 minutes. If they like it, they play it to exhaustion and CBA about your review numbers. Oh well, at least they're playing, I guess.

 

[Jrpgfan]

52 reviews after 2 days.

I'm almost feeling bad for pirating it(although I haven't played it yet I confess).

Selling video games in 2024 is hard, bro. Selling EA games is even harder.

That said, we don't have any idea what financial goal Urban Strife is targeting unless they tell us.

Colony Ship sold 10 times more in the first few days with a fraction of the budget(probably) and it still couldn't manage to sell enough to keep them in business. This is not looking good honestly.

To be fair, I was expecting this game to do better, but maybe I overrated the hype around it.

 

[Iluvcheezcake]

Reloading game in combat changes the gender/outfit of rando goons you fight. Jarring. Pls fix

 

[Alienman]

Why did JA3 sell so well? Tap into that, if possible. But I have no idea why certain games get big, and some good ones go to die in a corner. However, not saying Urban Strife will suffer this fate. I hope it does great, and we get the true vision at some point.

 

[jackofshadows]

Simple. The people who play this kind of games went instinct.

 

[Jrpgfan]

Why did JA3 sell so well? Tap into that, if possible. But I have no idea why certain games get big, and some good ones go to die in a corner. However, not saying Urban Strife will suffer this fate. I hope it does great, and we get the true vision at some point.

Better presentantion and bigger publisher(THQ Nordic) should be the logical conclusion. Although that's not always the case.

 

[USG_Mucifikatorul]

Reloading game in combat changes the gender/outfit of rando goons you fight. Jarring. Pls fix

Wth that was fixed already. Look above. Have you updated the game? Is the bug still there???

 

[Iluvcheezcake]

Havent played since EA release day due to work. Will check

 

[udm]

Actually the reviews vs copies sold is pretty bad compared to the average. Meaning we should have way more reviews.

Meaning you're not selling a lot too? Or that you're actually selling a fair amount?