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Cameron122 · Oct 5, 2013

Game looks neat. Reminds me of homeworld and mount and blade. The funding they're aiming for seems a bit steep though.

Link for those who are interested.

Borman · Oct 5, 2013

Im in for 20$. Looks interesting, will decide on more or less later hah.

JDSN · Oct 5, 2013

Probably the worst soundtrack in the history of gaming. Holy crap, that was bad.

Fushichou187 · Oct 5, 2013

Concept: Cool.
Concept Art: Cool.
Trailer Music: Blargh.
Voiceover Narration: a(*^&d0HO.FBAfjkbkasjf

I'll bookmark it and check in after a month has passed to see what the updates and response has been. $500,000 is quite a bit of money and the stench from Clang is still tainting a number of would-be Kickstarters.

Midou · Oct 5, 2013

Concepts are great, I imagine it will change a lot still by launch time.

In for $20.

Dr. Kitty Muffins · Oct 5, 2013

The onboard ship combat looks good to me.

Ebris · Oct 5, 2013

Oh God, the concept is like a dream for me. I don't think it'll hit its goal though, sadly. Nnngh.

Alex Connolly · Oct 5, 2013

A great amalgamation, but I hope they have a good handle on the ambition.

Lord knows overreach can sink the noblest of projects.

M*A*S*H · Oct 5, 2013

Looks promising. I'd prefer a turn based system for the ship boarding, but that would be a rather different game.

Cameron122 · Oct 5, 2013

JDSN said:
Probably the worst soundtrack in the history of gaming. Holy crap, that was bad.

I'll have to rewatch the trailer. Wasn't paying attention to the music lol.

Pylon, I agree. I couldn't pass up a SciFi Mount and Blade clone though!

HP_Wuvcraft · Oct 5, 2013

The "demo" is great.

Trigger · Oct 5, 2013

This is practically everything I've ever wanted out of a sci-fi RPG. I hope it succeeds.

Cameron122 · Oct 5, 2013

Trigger said:
This is practically everything I've ever wanted out of a sci-fi RPG. I hope it succeeds.

Hopefully the 60 day campaign gives it leverage to main the goal.

AlexMogil · Oct 5, 2013

Holy cow that looks... ambitious.

Some Nobody · Oct 5, 2013

I saw this earlier this morning and was pretty impressed. It's PC only but I still hope they reach the goal. I love space opera RPGs.

Purkake4 · Oct 5, 2013

Hmm, looks a bit like Nexus: The Jupiter Incident. At least they have a lot of time to collect the money.

Mindlog · Oct 5, 2013

Man has killed man from the beginning of time, and each new frontier has brought new ways and new places to die. Why should the future be different?

-A Survivalist Mandate

The preview video threw me back to those dulcet militant tones. All of a sudden I'm up to my nipples in interesting Kickstarters. Will probably back this at some point as well.

Haunted · Oct 5, 2013

You had me at space opera.

exmachina64 · Oct 5, 2013

Mindlog said:
All of a sudden I'm up to my nipples in interesting Kickstarters. Will probably back this at some point as well.

I know that feeling. I hope this KS makes it.

Coiote · Oct 5, 2013

Great concept, but $500.000,00 isn't enough to do justice to their ambitions. I hope this project gets the exposure it needs and gets overfunded.

I am backing for now, but does anyone know anything about the developers? Are they any good?

Hope obsidian next rpg in the vein of the eternity is a sci-fi too.

Haunted · Oct 5, 2013

The unity tech demo is pretty neat, love how the shields and hull react to incoming attacks and asteroids.

Aside from that, though, this is a hugely ambitious project and it's extremely early, with mostly concept art and big ideas to inspire, but not much to actually show (yet).

I'm afraid this feels just a little bit too big for a bunch of unknowns. Though it says on the page they're ex-EA, ex-2K Games, ex-Ubisoft, ex-Funcom people with some experience.

edit: the replies they've made on the page seem pretty professional, like this one to a post expressing similar concerns to my own:

We understand your concerns and we will address them in more depth in future updates. It is part of the reason why the campaign is set at 60 days in the first place: to give us time to respond and make adjustments as well as communicate our vision and gameplay. That being said our team has many years of development experience. We are using tried and tested middleware and investing in technology like procedural textures which dramatically increases our ability to rapidly develop great looking art with a small team. You need to have experience with larger asset pipelines to see the benefit of this and the economy of scales involved. Our mindset with the art production also transfers over to design and programming. We understand your concerns, feel free to sit on the fence for now.

Some Nobody · Oct 6, 2013

You know, usually games like this have to rely on outside press to get the attention they need. I wonder if Mandate has got plans for anything like that, because while 60 days is a lot of time, they're probably going to need more than $500k to begin with.

Sinatar · Oct 6, 2013

An untested team asking for $500k and *that's* their pitch video?

Good fucking luck.

Llyranor · Oct 6, 2013

Purkake4 said:
Hmm, looks a bit like Nexus: The Jupiter Incident. At least they have a lot of time to collect the money.

That ship has sailed

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mostwanted/nexus-2-the-gods-awaken?ref=live

Purkake4 · Oct 6, 2013

Llyranor said:
That ship has sailed

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mostwanted/nexus-2-the-gods-awaken?ref=live

Yeah, I know, I was in that thread too. They were supposed to re-launch though...

Starviper · Oct 6, 2013

Consider me interested. I hope this makes some noise, a good space opera would be fantastic.

Sentenza · Oct 6, 2013

Sinatar said:
An untested team asking for $500k and *that's* their pitch video?

Good fucking luck.

Not sure what's so outrageous about it. At least they have an actual prototype to show off.
And one that doesn't look half bad, either.

I'm not sold on the RTS part, on the other hand. If it was turn based it would be far more easy for me to be tentatively excited about it.
I'ts not just that i like turn based games more (and do), it's that nailing a good feeling with RTS controls is much harder and probably requires much more expertise.

EDIT - This reminds me... PLEASE KATAURI KICKSTART SPACE RANGERS 3. PLEASE!

mrpeabody · Oct 6, 2013

- HUGELY ambitious. Two separate simultaneous battle engines, "AAA" presentation, enormous RPG scope, co-op.

- New team's first project.

- Very high funding goal.

I love the "Tsarist Russia in space" concept. I would play this game. But I wouldn't fund it.

Laughing_Man__ · Oct 6, 2013

This looks great. Im gonna bookmark it and keep an eye on it. Willing to throw 40 bucks on it but wanna see how it works out first.

HP_Wuvcraft · Oct 6, 2013

So it sounds like they have outside investment. The $500k may be just the KS.

Sentenza · Oct 6, 2013

HP_Wuvcraft said:
So it sounds like they have outside investment. The $500k may be just the KS.

Is this stated somewhere? I must have missed it.

Cameron122 · Oct 8, 2013

Almost at 50'000. First Dev Log here.

Alex Connolly · Oct 8, 2013

TucoBenedictoPacifico said:
EDIT - This reminds me... PLEASE KATAURI KICKSTART SPACE RANGERS 3. PLEASE!

I haven't paid attention recently, but has the HD redux of SR2 released?

And is there enough crazy genius left in the world to create a third Space Rangers? The heart yearns.

Almighty · Oct 10, 2013

Just heard about this and it sounds all kinds of interesting, but after hearing about some big kickstarter failures of the past year I am pretty leery of supporting kickstarters in general now. Makes it even worse in this ones case because they are asking for 500k. Hopefully before the kickstarter ends they can convince me that my 20 bucks won't be wasted.

sflufan · Oct 11, 2013

I'm in for $40 on this one.

Purkake4 · Oct 31, 2013

There's a gameplay trailer up now.

Cameron122 · Oct 31, 2013

Purkake4 said:
There's a gameplay trailer up now.

Thanks for posting

Sentenza · Oct 31, 2013

Purkake4 said:
There's a gameplay trailer up now.

Speaking as someone who's very intrigued by this project and wishes them a big success: this trailer failed to excite me for the game, honestly.
It's not even bad, it just didn't show anything I cared particularly about.

adj_noun · Nov 1, 2013

Some links:

Prologue Creator A rough look at character creation. Create your captain and choose his/her downfall.

Ship Designer Ship creation, kiiiiinda.

Ship Info Dump A bunch of info about ships and the weapons they fire. Pew pew!

Mandate Theme download page Martial music, comrade.

As for whether or not they can pull off what they're promising/hoping for...heck if I know.

Trigger · Nov 1, 2013

I hope they make their goal. I'm liking the prologue/character creator thingy.

adj_noun · Nov 6, 2013

Latest update includes a text adventure.

edit: Gah, that music won't stop.

Lach · Nov 10, 2013

Looks interesting but they need to cover a lot of ground in the last 20 days to get funded! But it's worth a 30$ investment for me...

Purkake4 · Nov 10, 2013

Scott Manley did a nice little overview of all the demos.

IAmRandom31 · Nov 10, 2013

May be the first space sim where your ship actually has shields .. shields that actually work like shields and don't just negate damage as things explode right up against your hull.

I liked the trailer. As others have said, god awful music lol.

Trigger · Nov 10, 2013

I'm sad to this lagging behind it's goal. I really like the ideas on display here.

Cameron122 · Nov 11, 2013

Trigger said:
I'm sad to this lagging behind it's goal. I really like the ideas on display here.

I really thought it was doing well for a while

Midou · Nov 11, 2013

I've always wanted a truly epic feeling space opera game like this. So many of them are too 'turn based' to feel epic to me. There are usually small unit counts and such that prevent a truly epic feel as well.

adj_noun · Nov 11, 2013

Trigger said:
I really like the ideas on display here.

I dig what they're saying...I'm just not savvy enough to discern what's actually possible for $500K and the team they have in place and what may be come-hither smoke and mirrors. I'm not exactly pledging the rent money on this puppy, but I'm intrigued enough to put down something.

Cameron122 said:
I really thought it was doing well for a while

Campaigns traditionally have doldrums in the middle. It may pick up again as the deadline draws nearer.

Cameron122 · Nov 11, 2013

Midou said:
I've always wanted a truly epic feeling space opera game like this. So many of them are too 'turn based' to feel epic to me. There are usually small unit counts and such that prevent a truly epic feel as well.

Basically I want Crusader Kings II in space with a total war combat system with Freespace sprinklings

Most expensive game ever hahaha

adj_noun · Nov 13, 2013

The dev team is doing an AMA on reddit now.

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