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Satellite Reign (Kickstarter) - Spiritual sequel to Syndicate Wars by orig. creator
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bishopcruz
Member
How did I miss this?
Yes! It's all falling into place!
Yes! It's all falling into place!
Ah beaten, I was about to come say we're up on greenlight now
There'll be an update video of us talking about the game hopefully in a couple of hours, it's just being rendered out now to upload.
There'll be an update video of us talking about the game hopefully in a couple of hours, it's just being rendered out now to upload.
Btw, want some music to get into the Syndicate mood??
This thread heavily delivers on 80s style Cyberpunk music
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=551396
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This thread heavily delivers on 80s style Cyberpunk music
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=551396
Add your own contributions if you have any.
From what I've understood you'll have to use one character of each class, that's a bit of a bummer.
I'd prefer a classless system that would let you specialize your agents in any way you like.
RPS interviewed Mike Diskett: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/201...and-syndicates-simulation-legacy/#more-158898
Great to hear. I was thinking that your agents couldn't die permanently.
Great to hear. I was thinking that your agents couldn't die permanently.
You to will still be able to customise your agents with augmentations and items. You can make your hacker more offensive with drone abilities or make your support guy more defensive with deployable cover. They will just be more adept in certain fields and will have unique abilities exclusive to their class.
I would also have preferred to be able to choose and customize my agents, choosing gender, class, and appearence, but I suppose it can be an issue to design and balance a game that can work even if the player decides to go with four of the same class.
I really like that you stress that you want the agents to have unique abilities and roles in combat though.
I really like that you stress that you want the agents to have unique abilities and roles in combat though.
Yeah, and I appreciate that. I'm just not very fond of not being able to make a squad with 4 soldiers with miniguns(I may have misunderstood something).
We just did an interview that will hopefully address your concerns I'll post a link when it's up.
But we're not ignorant to your opinions, we've just made the decision to address some design issues inherent in allowing you to control a squad of 4 soldiers.
Each of the 4 will be able to individually become a brutal offensive force but we're tailored their abilities to encourage, or really, discourage the habit of equipping you guys with the the same augs and weapons and moving them around the level as essentially one unit. In those situations your main risk of death was separating one of the units from the group. At that point the game pretty much punished you for trying to split your agents up.
Our goal with the class design is to discourage commanding the team as a single unit, not to discourage chaos and and mayhem we love about the original games.
But we're not ignorant to your opinions, we've just made the decision to address some design issues inherent in allowing you to control a squad of 4 soldiers.
Each of the 4 will be able to individually become a brutal offensive force but we're tailored their abilities to encourage, or really, discourage the habit of equipping you guys with the the same augs and weapons and moving them around the level as essentially one unit. In those situations your main risk of death was separating one of the units from the group. At that point the game pretty much punished you for trying to split your agents up.
Our goal with the class design is to discourage commanding the team as a single unit, not to discourage chaos and and mayhem we love about the original games.
bonesmccoy
Banned
How about a $15 pledge level?
I dont see how could they do Syndicate game without destructible environments.
At the moment we only have plans for realtime gameplay as per the syndicate games.
We are hoping to get some level of destruction in the game, entire buildings though might have to be relegated to a stretch goal though. I don't want to promise something we can't deliver within our budget.
I personally want to have the ability to blow the agents up\self destruct but that's not something we've discussed as a team, I'll be fighting for it when we do get around to it though
This sounds very EVE online like. I wonder if that's where the idea came from? Either way, it's good that our agents retain their experience and skills when they die.
Naw, the roleplayinggame Paranoia had clones a whole lot earlier. And they were much more fun
God, an RPG based on Paranoia would be insane.
hgarrett54
Banned
Wow those gifs look amazing.
I didn't actually come up with the idea myself but when it was first mentioned it reminded me of Frank Miller's Hard Boiled graphic novel.
British Monsoon
Member
AWESOME! Boxed copies will be available;
http://www.gog.com/promo/bullfrog_classics_bundle
Syndicate and other bullfrog classics are on sale again over on gog^ for the day.
Syndicate and other bullfrog classics are on sale again over on gog^ for the day.
Can i ask you why this? If i want to make a 4 men commando with minigun the game have to give me this possibility and dont give me only few way to complete the mission
cleveridea
Member
Yeah why not have an option to unlock any class combination, either at beginning of game, or once the game is beaten or something.
You mean instead the game allows you one super easy way that completely negates the whole design??
Besides the fact that you likely can not complete the game without a hacker.
Essentially this is our issue, while it's not impossible to balance the game with this option it makes it much more difficult to do, see as though we're a relatively small team we've decided to focus on delivering a polished more focused experience than run the risk of spreading ourselves too thin at the detriment of the entire game. However...
This actually sounds like a decent compromise, while I can't guarantee that it will be implemented it's definitely something we'll explore. We want to deliver a strong single player experience as you play through the game, once you've beaten it however a sandbox experience that allows you to do what you're asking sounds like a lot of fun.
Good.
Also, an advise about campaigning: you need the biggest presence and the most stuff for the last few days. It's nice to get some coverage in week 2 and 3 of a campaign but the last 5 days, you really wanna be able to go all out. The best stuff for the last 2 days.
You may show off your best stuff in week 2 and people are excited for it but decide to wait a bit longer, the kickstarter is still ongoing and won't close until 2 weeks later. Plenty of time to decide. And then the hype may fade a bit and they see that it's basically on track and when 1 day is left: naaw, already funded other stuff, eventhough the stuff they showed two weeks ago was really neat. But the fire to see this made has died down a bit.
I know, I know, you propably are aware but I just wanted to remind you again, eventhough we are all begging for more stuff to see right now
Also, an advise about campaigning: you need the biggest presence and the most stuff for the last few days. It's nice to get some coverage in week 2 and 3 of a campaign but the last 5 days, you really wanna be able to go all out. The best stuff for the last 2 days.
You may show off your best stuff in week 2 and people are excited for it but decide to wait a bit longer, the kickstarter is still ongoing and won't close until 2 weeks later. Plenty of time to decide. And then the hype may fade a bit and they see that it's basically on track and when 1 day is left: naaw, already funded other stuff, eventhough the stuff they showed two weeks ago was really neat. But the fire to see this made has died down a bit.
I know, I know, you propably are aware but I just wanted to remind you again, eventhough we are all begging for more stuff to see right now
AWESOME! Boxed copies will be available;
Now we are talking!
Game it's deriving from is over 20 years old, doesn't have recent titles (neither spiritual nor direct) to draw comparison to in order to draw in the younger crowd, doesn't have a "face" to sell it, and is based in a genre that is pretty niche even by "niche pc exclusive genres" standards today.
Honestly it's doing fantastic given the above.
Yeah we're pretty happy with where it is at the moment, we can't breathe easy until we're actually at 100% though.
But you're right, there really has been nothing like Syndicate since, nothing even close to it.
KyanMehwulfe
Member
First the new Deus Ex catches my attention, next I hear about Shadowrun Returns, then I'm surprised by XCom Enemy Unknown, and now something akin to Syndicate Wars?
Gaming Gods sure know how to bring me back to church.
Gaming Gods sure know how to bring me back to church.
Freshmaker
I am Korean.
Shouldn't have tired to steal an old IP to tack on to a generic new game.
Naw, more like "it's another shooter". The genre is just flooded and pubs are simply still pumping them out. It's ridiculous.