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[Rezbit]

I do believe WAT sums this up nicely.

 

[Hazaro]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgDmhIQJBkQ

Hey it's starting to look more like a game now

 

[Caesar III]

Some new information on their page and a link to a fanforum full of mindblowing aware guys.

For starters, I'd like to discuss what they call the red herring attack. With the red herring attack, you attack your opponent, wait for your opponent to respond, and then undo the attack. The objective of this strategy is to either distract your opponent from something or to force your opponent to spend time and chronoenergy responding to an attack that will be undone. I've used this strategy myself and have seen others use it in our playtesting.



Building on the red herring attack is the dead men tell you lies strategy. This is where a player uses units that have been destroyed in the past to attack you some time in the nearer past or future, before the timewaves catch up and remove the attacking units from existence.

http://achrongame.com/index.html

Microbomb
Discovered: Achron demo 6
Timeline
Pause time and make a lot of commands. Instead of changing little things all over the timeline, dropping one heat moment of action one can throw the opponent off or make the opponent use disproportionally low amount of attention to key moments. In the near-future commands being free enable franctic clickers to drop very large-scale microbombs.

Starflight orbiting
Discovered: 00Davo asked Achron on Twitter, in the context of unlimited resources
Timeline Timecasting Shadow
If chronoporting is sufficiently available, your unit can use Wave dodging to survive indefinitely, weaving back and forth through the timewaves. Keeping such a starflight unit around consumes constant resources and never naturally reaches the immutable timeline.

Jumping shadows
Discovered: Confirmed in Achron website news "Timemanipulation strategies in Acrhon"
Shadow Timeline
Just before a timewave passes, order a move deep into the enemy territory. Just after, order a stop. This makes the opponent future-sight a red herring attack.

Echolesss sneaking
Discovered: Confirmed in Achron website news "Timemanipulation strategies in Acrhon"
Timeline
Just before a timewave passes, stop. Just after, continue what you were doing. This prevents the enemy from future-sighting you, giving them less time to react to it propably forcing the use of chrono-energy. A dual to jumping shadows.

Resurrection line
Shadow Permanency Timecasting
Use starflight orbiting to hold on to units that you like, then use the edge of the timeframe to "chronoclone" them back to life. The permanent history shows the destruction of the unit and elsewhere the unit stepping out of (heaven)a chronoport, it died but it is alive. With an elaborate chronoport infrastructure you can have many units waiting for their turn to be resurrected.

http://chronofrag.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=36

MIND TOTALLY BLOWN

 

[Hazaro]

Yeah the possibilities for the game are incredible.

Hopefully it'll keep looking nicer and maybe get some casters to explain what the hell is going on in a real (long?) battle.

 

[HK-47]

My mind is still imploding from the last time.

 

[Sibylus]

Tournaments of this game could make for seriously good TV.

 

[ElectricThunder]

Follow their vid links to their youtube channel and they have a version 2 of sorts of one of their earlier short demos up...still nifty!

 

[Cat in the Hat]

Tournaments of this game could make for seriously good TV.

Oh my

I would watch the hell out of them.

 

[ElectricThunder]

NCSU speech/chat they did awhile back now has video up on their homepage...70min long.

 

[Hazaro]

And here is the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dwmgiZ1ajI

 

[Caesar III]

watching now, thx

 

[Relix]

Sounds cool... complex as shit though.

 

[ElectricThunder]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/vid...how/890-Episode-43-Hazardous-Softwares-Achron

Large'ish scale battle!

 

[leroidys]

Wow, I totally forgot about this game. Thanks for the bump

 

[Reno7728]

Now this game sounds totally awesome, nut i would love to see an evolution into a hearts of iron/total war style games. Maybe you can actually go back in time and kill Hitler, and see what happens

 

[ElectricThunder]

Some new videos on site, including a demo explaining the gist of the Hierarchy system.

 

[Davidion]

Even briefly skimming through basic attacks makes this sound like the most retardedly complex game to come around in ages.

Color me fucking intrigued.

 

[Wehrwolf]

Once is bad enough, but EVERY time this gets bumped I misread it as Archon.

 

[ElectricThunder]

How much do I love thee NeoGAF? At least enough to likely further doom my chance at 33% off $29.95.

http://achrongame.com/

Last 2 news postings pretty much bring the WHITE HOT FIRE.

-Pre-orders open soon (jan 1stish) in a Mount and Blade/Elemental'ish fashion with a regular plan----big release for 1/11/11. First 500 get said deal. Twitter is apparently the way and the light as to when they will precisely open the gates and considering they currently have 600odd followers it'll be a matter of luck and timing.

-Art and other worthy contributions can earn you a spot in the credits, contract cash, a job, or even entry into their profit sharing apparatus depending on how awesome ye may shake out as things roll along. All kinda details on such as it currently stands put into their updated FAQ and calendar pages. Modding galore. Linux version in the works. No DRM period. Going to try for Steam/Impulse/etc.

So...flip the hell out. I would imagine it to my IndieDev benefit to get into the ground floor with this as best as I can.

2010 is going to be a crazy damned year---let's have a time of it ladies and gentlemen.

 

[anachronous_one]

At some point in this time continuum I have already approved, do approve, or will approve of this game concept and title.

 

[Tim-E]

This sounds outstanding.

 

[fallout]

Excellent. Can't wait to try this. Definitely going to pre-order.

 

[ElectricThunder]

Latest Tweet seems to indicate pre-orders opening up sometime tomorrow afternoon, as in past noon EST.

 

[ElectricThunder]

Pre-order up and holy crap I lucked out and managed in time after the registration!

Freaking $20 is a great deal versus $30.

To the GAF folk:

GO! GO! GO! and try to make it to the promised land that is a nice discount!

 

[Joseph Merrick]

done and done

It shouldn't be called an RTS :lol

hehe. no problem, just remove the R part

 

[Joseph Merrick]

this is a bit fucked up isn't it

 

[Caesar III]

Bought. 20$ is an awesome deal. Woohoo!

edit: wait a sec! I can test the alpha now? Wow. WOOOW

 

[Joseph Merrick]

yeah, nice little demo campaign and some stuff

 

[Peronthious]

Oh nice, preorder is still $20. The game already made my brain explode so..done!

 

[Caesar III]

Mission 2 and my head is blown could not save my mech because the timeframes switched all the time

 

[platypotamus]

I guess I missed this thread the first 3 times around as I'm burnt out on RTS, but no way am I going to let this one pass by without trying it.

 

[Peronthious]

This game is nuts :lol The actual RTS mechanics are a bit screwy, but it's alpha so I suppose that can be forgiven. The time traveling, though...man, it's insane. I can see this being awesome in multiplayer.

 

[ElectricThunder]

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/05/23/preinforcements-achron-is-coming/

Various Alpha releases later, a new video and some key details of others at last emerge:

-* It’s in beta and will be released in Q3. People can preorder the beta and start playing now.

* Our beta tournament starts next week. Players can apply to compete via a questionnaire on our website. 100 players will be chosen to compete. Applications must be submitted by 5:00pm EDT on Friday May 27.

* Single-player story-mode campaigns will not be included until the full release. It consists of 35 levels. The story has been in development since 2003 and it is a very engaging, sci-fi story that immerses the player into time travel. We haven’t been revealing much of the back story because it contains spoilers in a game about time travel!

http://www.youtube.com/user/Shadowfury333 This person has been doing commentary/tutorial videos as the release have progressed.

Price has now risen to the level of $29.95 USD