Line of Defense!

Im_Lost

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Lol I saw this a while ago. It's being made by the great internet troll of 1999 himself (Derek "PhD" Smart).

Judging by his previous attempts at games development. Its GOING to be awful.
 
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Toumal

Toumal
It is pretty drab. The sound effects are obviously looping and quite terrible, the graphics look very dated, and oh god I still have Universal Combat Gold somewhere around here. It looks and feels very similar.

BUT!

I do admire the ambition there. While the individual parts are not very well done, he does cover a ton of functionality and scope. This is a very small team with a tiny budget, and from what I can tell they made a number of bad development choices which are probably hard to undo now. What he'd need is a technical lead developer that isn't himself, who steers things in the right direction to clear up the messes. A lead designer with less convoluted vision is probably also not a bad thing to have.

At the end of the day you can't just dismiss what Derek Smart says because his games are not great. His opinions may or may not be relevant, but you gotta separate opinion from fact. I know that's very difficult, what with people on both sides of the fence making stuff up as they go along: DS indulging in wild speculations about alleged mafia connections, and SC supporters twisting even hard facts such as "how long has SC been in development".

It's a mess.
 

Toumal

Toumal
JeffRyan said:
I actually enjoyed Universal Combat. Wierd, I know.
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I wanted to - but ultimately, there was so much functionality that was promised but a) never explained or perhaps even b) never implemented, I lost interest quickly. Like being able to shoot missiles from the surface into space. Never figured out how that works. Or the entire thing about ground vehicles. I got into a tank once but could only move forward, and could not fire at all.

On top of all that, the game's manual basically insults the player, insinuating that if you can't figure things out on your own, you should be playing something "less intelligent".
 

Im_Lost

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Well, he liked to think it was very in-depth and complicated, but it really wasn't. It just had an awkward interface and broken mechanics.

But I think anyone who finds this game is going to find Planetside 2 and never look back.
 
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Im_Lost

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I don't think there was a kickstarter. There is "early access" on steam, but only 1 guy plays it according to the stats :p
 
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