Silica - How to Combine RTS & FPS (Interview) 

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Bohemia keep this man at all costs

Can't wait to experience more to come! Martin doing steller work as usual!!! Bring on the air units!!!

Just realized that the tank armor acts like war thunder. This game is truly amazing 😮 this guys deserves all the clout for making it on his own better than some other AAA titles. bravo 🎉

Another great interview, I always love how excited and articulate Martin "Dram" is explaining his game.

This game will be sick when fully completed

Awesome interview! It was really fun picking your brain, Martin! It'd be even more awesome to have a more spontaneous interview with someone from community, with even wilder questions. Looking forward to something like this.

I just wanted to say I could sit here and listen to Dram for hours. the man clearly knows what he is talking about and is passionate about his work! I am so happy i found this game and my friends and I are having a blast gunning down some alien bugs and gathering crystals. I hope to see more interviews from Dram but also don't want to get in the way of the mans work. He is a true gammer making a game and I love that.

The first time I saw an exchange of gunfire in this game, my jaw hit the floor! Visible ricochets from valley to valley at night - with a huge thunderstorm. Utterly incredible!

This interview was fascinating, and educational! Thanks for sharing. Really enjoying the game. It's full of possibilities, looking forward to witnessing it's progress.

really enjoying the game so far, and looking forward to its future! thank you very much for all of these constant updates 🤘

I am loving Silica. Keep going you good thing. And G'day from Perth, Australia

Dram sound like thoses guy making BS too good to be truth promises, except you can actually dl the game and play to everything he just said. Its amazing.

Its refreshing to see a dev who is actually interested in their game lol

Thanks for the interview. Glad the game is physics based and has realistic graphics. Also, very interesting to hear what advanced techniques went into the engine. The way colliding works, really adds to the emersion.

I really like your game , and for this I want to offer a few ideas :1. I see that you are going to add flying equipment, I like this idea, but flying units are not suitable for bugs. I would add artillery , anti - aircraft bugs and a huge boss bug to them . 2. I advise you to make flying equipment expensive or study it, because flying equipment will be the most effective. 3. For people, I would add a new technique like a HUGE armored train on gravel engines on which there will be a lot of automatic turrets and it is possible to transport not only soldiers but also equipment. Just imagine such a situation : your base is being attacked and you called a train , when it arrived all the troops board it and at the last moment leave from a huge army of beetles to another base .Naturally, they can be controlled by an ordinary player . PS. I'm sorry if you didn't understand something or there are errors in the text, I just use translators because I don't know English

Highly recommend listening to this with the game's music on in the background

Very interesting thanks 👍

Držím palce chlapci

Nice

Would love to get a hot-swap key for switching between ground troops and vehicles on the fly.

I think a key disagreement is the logistics stuff. The problem is if all you have to do as a first person player is press w and the click the mouse to shoot, it's arcade at best. The detail in arma, like an anti material rifle taking the tire off an apc or a vehicle with a fuel leak needing to be patched up, this gives players something to do, a task too small for the cammander sure but not for the grunts. Similarly, the endless respawn and teleport robs all tension, just being able to do simple things like revive or heal helps build teamwork. Arma mods that get it wrong have zero sense of urgency because none of the logistics matter. It would be cool to for example have ammo supplies at the new outposts, or the ability to fly a drone out to drop ammo. I think if you checked out what made battlefield 2142 such a great game, you could definitely find some inspiration. Just another note on ammunition, aliens being erratic or using hit and run tactics designed to deplete enemy ammo seems like a lot more fun than the current way things go. And again lessons from arma, heavy scout vehicles all the way up to tanks carry a lot of ammo, its usually like after 30-60 minutes you might start to run dry on machine gun or tank rounds. I know with you being part of bohemia you want to differentiate your baby from arma, but what keeps people in fucking love with arma, what it gets right, there are lessons there for the fps side. Also, stuff like wrecks remaining and burning for a while, that is one of the most atmospheric elements in arma, silica has this beautiful map that never seem to be too dotted with pillars of black smoke. Also like with arma, could just have a hardcore mode with more detail, and a basic mode that's more geared towards streamlined play/rts.

I love the idea and a lot of the implementation but as far as combining RTS and FPS I don't think you've really done it yet. I think anyone coming from games like Starcraft or Age of Empires will be frustrated by how little control and information they have to work with playing the game in its current state. I really hope it makes it the rest of the way there

-Winged Crabs with short range flight ability to latch onto aircraft -a spawner alien that can generate Crabs on the front lines -Sergeant unit for humans -Mech suit for humans with a sword and sidearm, maybe a flame thrower on thr left arm, maybe short range flight and a ground pound ability (close quarter unit) -Flame thrower soldier -Flame Thrower Tank -alien crab spawner building that spawns crabs controlled by ai that makes cost free units that automatically seek enemies -a toggle for selected units to be ai controlled, useful for scouts and light armored buggy's Idk just some ideas I have

Really hope he, or his team, if he got one by now, will at some point remove the performance problems. That is by far the biggest long-term play killer for this game.

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love to mod this but im obsessed with unreal5s voxel tech i come from landmark/EQ3next & that voxel tek is the future

SILICA MAIN THEME (4 minutová základní verze - Unofficial Silica soudntrack) 😎ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jicZMb7BHto.html

Hudba na misi pro herní strategii a 3D person střílečku Silica - unofficial: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--WbA16JT7y0.html - On a mission (prodloužená verze - Unofficial Silica soudntrack)

i feel this game needs long term progression something like planetside 2s endless flat leveling system with skill trees & hero units i can lvl up & make loadouts for. & im sorry im human i need the feeling of growth & i want to take that growth with me frome game to game... & its interesting that u brought up WC3 because as a kid i spent like 4 years gutting and modding that game i made 1 of the first moba/RTS/RPG/ hybrids it was called (Horns & Halos) the problem was it had to much customs data it took like a howr+ just to DL.:(. but i learned a lot:)

Next time, have someone off to the side to smack Dram everytime he uses a Nesting noise.

I can't help myself but the interviewer sounds like text to voice synthesizer Edit: It kind of reminds me the new youtube AI autotranslation, not sure why to use it though instead of having english speaking interviewer if there are no choosable voice tracks

ya i agree machine learning might be over killl like terminator lvls of OP

u may want to make the AI copy the tech/build progression of the leader on the map so if your new u wont get crushed or if your a vet its not to EZ ... lol & the AI needs to attack in waves because going in single file is not a winning strategy in any shooter lol

ArmA 4

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