Dev here, I just reactivated the demo for a few weeks. Please try suppressing enemies which GIVES you AP. See "how to play." Also each gun is different. Hover for a description. Thank you for your patience w the bugs and WIP UI/UX! Splat, thank you! Been watching you longer than I've been making this (my first game) so it's a HUGE honor. Glad you put that nasty hack behind you. Wishing you nothing but love from across the Pacific ❤
Really loving the Classic X-com vibe. Not sure what your plan is, but would be cool to see soldiers go up in rank, with bases and vehicles to manage along with equipment for soldiers and new stuff to research. Base defense was awesome in classic xcom, loved designing a base and then later defending it from attack. Either way good luck, game looks neat so far.
Yeah, what Captiiva said. Base building, then later fighting in the base you designed was awesome in the old X-Com. This game now has my attention, I hope you keep it harsh and gritty, as it looks to be from the demo. Power fantasy is all well and good, but I like fighting my way up as the nothing special underdog in a bad situation.
@@Captiiva Every single one of the things you mentioned are being developed :) And locations retain structural damage b/w battles. Also today I revealed air strikes and vehicles on my Twitter fyi. New trailer soon. Thank you so much Splat nation
This is your first game? Ok Auteur, lol. I hope you have a whole dev team with you one day, unless you prefer the solo route. This is brilliant Fallout, fallout tactics, x com, caravaneers, dune (if any of the games were well made)... actually i really wish dune 2 had been like this, tho it was rev for its day. Dune one, with the sietches, politics, and overmap play, could be an interesting source of inspiration for the meta game over squad combat. Sorry for the rant, this one has me nostalgic, can't believe its your first title! Cant wait to see it completed, or what you do after
Yeah, want aliens gone? Use those c4 and destroy whole building Im not sure if someone actually have a computer for those at the moment, but such level of destruction feels amazing for real time in 1997
there's a remarkable number of "this is the future" game systems that ended up as white-elephants in the industry. the spell/melee/bow system from dark messiah, terrain deformation from red faction/bad company, the large scale objective based PvP in battlefield 2142/planetside, game NPC "Ai" that's competent like half-life/fear, combined fps/top-down-strategy gameplay like in hostile-waters/battlezone, pet-control macros on par with city of villains mastermind class (the BEST pet control system ever seen in gaming, control 1-8 pets fully at will using a set of 3 stances, 3 movement behaviors and pet sub-selections).
@@IRMentat Point well made - graphics seems to have been the only real upward curve and I think it's come at the cost of the natural innovation that was part of the earlier industry. Sadly think the Middle Earth Shadow of series mechanic will end up being added to the pile to.
@@SprikSprak and I truly hate that the shadow of war mechanics are going to die purely because of a businesses greedy copyright actively preventing anyone from innovating upon it.
I love that your videos are scheduled to come up like 10 minutes after I arrive home from work, so I have enough time to change, make something to eat and happily explore yet another indie thing :)
@@shrillcrayfish6168 oh you are in his walls too? Crazy that we haven't run into one another. Splat always waits for him before he releases the video. Then we watch him watch the video and we feel fulfilled.
It looks like some elements out of really old-school X-Com is in there. The inventory, the base-building, the struggle across a strategic map and how you must loot your opponents for gear.
Wow! This game looks amazing. Love that they added new systems to a genre that seems mostly stagnant in recent years. They camera angle is also pretty cool, and the concept in general looks really promising, can't wait for the full game!
@@igorthelight I mean it wasn't just RU-vid, it was everything. Discord, Twitch, apparently bank account too. He was dealing with that whole thing for about a week
Give it a us v ussr feel, era "cold war". M16 in 5.56 holds more rounds, flatter trajectory at distance, and the manufacturing standards, and tight tolerances of the weapons, made them more accurate, while also more unreliable in field conditions, and requiring more maintenance. The 7.62x38, which the Kalashnikov launches, smacks like a mule, allowed full auto on standard models, do to a difference in thinking on accuracy vs rnds dwn rng, and would operate fairly reliably even when plucked from wet mud, or sand. The looser design of the weapons platform allows for a sort of "self cleaning" where the propellant shakes, and shocks, away interrupting particles. Something about this is so fallout 1@2! I would love the main game being developed, but, even more, I'd love a rpg like those, same world, same engine, as a side project. Fallout, or this old flash called "caravaneers" or something, which was like fallout one, if you were just trying to keep a camel alive to hump water to the next trade hub. Little flash game was brilliant, and i think its a sleeper of influence, much like cthulu, in the games of this age
Other than the zoom and looks, what does this actually do differently to all the xcom-likes? With all those headshots splat got at abysmal chances of even hitting, I wonder how that's calculated.
Dev here. Two unique things: (1) Deeper suppression mechanics. For example, you can gain bonus AP for suppressing. (2) Dynamic reinforcements/escapes. Squads near a battle in the strategy layer will enter combat from their respective directions. Likewise, escaping a battle isn't the end as squads can be chased down back in the strat layer. So positioning/planning isn't limited to one battle but stretches across many engagements. You have to think ahead. As for targeting, everything on the map has its own hit box and bullets travel in a physical space. So you'll get plenty of stray/lucky shuts. You can also shoot anywhere, not just at enemies. Balancing it all will be key. Thanks for your interest!
Curiously, we’ve recently discovered that rechargeable battery designs from around 125 years ago are more energy efficient than lithium ion… with the added benefit and not exploding into flames when exposed to water. Such as atmospheric vapor found everywhere on the planet except the most extreme deserts. The basics of the study showed that while they don’t recharge as fast, the amount of loss each subsequent full charge has compared to the initial charge is negligible when you put it up against a lithium ion battery. So instead of wearing out after three or four year, it can be recharged over and over for decades. Added benefit, doesn’t produce carbon monoxide when left on a charger at full power, which I didn’t know lithium batteries did until I saw the study. I guess my point is the plot is already retrofuturism due to a study released less than a month ago. The world is an amazing place. …but hey, plot is just a vessel for the gameplay in this case, right? They don’t need an incredible story if they just make it fun enough. Or challenging. ‘Sides if I hadn’t read that it’d seem perfectly plausible.
Definitely early on in production but looks like a game I'd definitely play. One of my favorite turned based tactics games is "Gears Tactics". One of the mechanics I enjoy in that game is that you get 1 overwatch for each remaining AP, so you can hit different enemies who cross your path on the enemies turn.
The intro already has me excited for the future. That last few percent of phone charge lasted from feb 6 2032 to dec 10 2036. edit: And then never dropped for another three years^^
I love a lot of what they're working with here. The directed overwatch system is a nice. When you picked up the enemy rifle, I was thinking "this game needs a system to toss the weapon to friendly forces", and then low and behold, there's a throwing system. Love the aesthetic too. And I like that this is the first game I've ever seen splatter play where he's trying to end the video, but he's just so caught up with playing the game he gets caught up with the next play through. Dig it, through and through
Try the demo! Let me know your thoughts. I started making this game in my head 25 years ago. All the my fav things from JA2, Xcom, Civ, Silent Storm, etc. Scope creep is my enemy. Well, will give it my best shot.
Terrain looks like cookie surface some sort of. I like that color, pleasant for eyes :D . Gonna watch over this, game play looks promising, unlike thousands other clones. IMO this ones worth a try. And I'm very picky with this genre/play style. Cheers Splat!
Dev here, thanks for the comment. And I hear you on the terrain. End goal is for a more organic look (uneven edges, bumps, more dune patterns, etc). o7
I don't understand how there are so many f-ing awesome indie games out there and how you manage to get them played and reviewed so quickly! Incredible! Thank you for your service to indie fans everywhere!
Dev here. Each enemy scans all nearby tiles. Each tile is rated by cover, line of sight, teamwork opportunities, etc. Then they add extra weights like their aggression, panic, equipment, personality, etc. Then they make a decision. A big goal was for enemies to run away! That's because each battle is part of a larger inter-connected world. Player and AI squads persist in the strategy layer. When a battle breaks out, nearby squads can dynamically enter/leave combat. So if the enemy feels outgunned during a fight, those troops will try to run away and regroup w others nearby or return to base. You can prevent that by positioning your squads intelligently ahead of time to block escape routes. Or have your squads enter combat as reinforcements from specific directions (N, S, E, W) to give you an edge in the fight. Imagine you're fighting an enemy squad and your boys roll in from the other side. Easy flanks! In short, engagements can stretch across many locations. My goal is to closely link strategy and tactics. I hope planning ahead will be fun for the player.
@@takibigames Thanks for this answer/comment. Very interesting take. And also shows a lot of what goes into programming enemy ai, and why a good ai is so hard to program. The regroup/reinforcement concept sounds very interesting, good luck on that.
5:02 if you don't go wide on them then they go wide on you and you get flanked, its tactics 101 and they have the high ground and are the defenders giving them that advantage, you have the numerical advantage allowing you to keep them supressed while also flanking them.
Honestly, XCOM but against the very real evil of corporate capitalists instead of the existential terror of alien invaders feels very appropriate for the 2020s.
Mars marxist miners seizing the means of production and striking back against their corporate overlords?? Dude that sounds rad as hell... The Red Planet indeed
Dev here. Strat layer plays quite differently in each campaign. The workers campaign is about building your little guerilla nation on Mars. Smuggling missions, make-shift tech and weapons, survival, and ultimately carving out your place in the solar system. In the capital campaign you have more resources but also bigger fish to fry and less time to do it. Hope to share more soon.
It would be extra cool if the names were based on the country of origin. Miron Karpin is not an Estonian name. Would be better to go with something like Uku Mägi, Anu Õun ect. :D (You know... all of the cool weid names) :P
Hey dev here! I tried to do that actually. I sourced the most popular Estonian male and female names from Wikipedia, Olympics, etc. But I guess I got bad data. If you don't mind, could you send me like 5 or 10 first names (male and female each) and last names you consider representative of Estonia? I will switch for those. Thank you!!
@@takibigames Now when I think about it, you might actually have good data on names of Estonian population. This being said, it might not be representative of typical ethnic Estonian names. The issue appears to be that the most popular names in Estonia are actually slavic names. (Despite only 23% of our population being russian) This is so since russian names tend to be way more homogeneus than Estonian names. Of course, most people in Estonia have Estonian names, but there are just way more of Estonian names ito choose between. Similar situation may apply to different Eastern-European contries as well. Also... Please note that I am making some mayor conclusions based on sample size of 1.
@@takibigames I hope you can make umlauts work since many of the best Estonian names have umlauts. 😎 Some cool Estonian first names for men: Uku, Aivar, Jüri, Toomas, Tõnu, Meelis, Kalev, Ants, Ülo, Tiit, Teet, Margus, Märt Some cool Estonian first names for women: Eke, Anu, Liis, Karin, Kärt, Piret, Reet, Mailis, Margit, Lea, Elina, Annika And some awesome last names: Mägi, Õunapuu, Ader, Tamm, Karu, Saar, Luik, Kask, Pärn. Mänd, Kütt, Mitt, Liiv, Ilves, Saar Also... Can you please give the game a character named Klaus Erik Ööbik? I am in the process of changing my last name and it would be really cool to be in a game with my new name.🤩
I really like the vibe of this game. I think perhaps the map could have more on it, but then again it is Mars. But I could see this being really fun with RPG mechanics for your soldiers and some kind of narrative story.
I would like to see the dev let us equip charaters with deployable 3 block covers made out of metal or something like that and depending on the variant it will give medium or full cover but to balance this the same character cannot shoot on the same turn and the cover is distroyable.
I was going to say I was surprised they kept shooting at you after you'd tossed away your weapon, but then I remembered these were corporate marines and realized that's probably one of the most realistic parts of the game
