Wasteland 2

[Lantyssa]

My only question is how rough will this be at this point - I never played it, and the closest analogue I can think of is Fallout.

It was CGA or EGA graphics at the time, so graphics-wise it's far older.  Really I'd say it's more of a Bard's Tale with an overhead view as far as mechanics go.

[Surlyboi]

I just want my Pseudo Chitin armor and my Red Ryder air rifle.

[Tebonas]

Lets hope for the best, the original PC version didn't have the rifle, though.

[Surlyboi]

I know there was no red ryder. It was a red herring in the game passage book. I sometimes wished the red herring passages weren't. There was some interesting shit there.

[Sky]

This does not interest me. 

[Lantyssa]

What if they released miniatures to go with it?

[Falconeer]

Rumor is they "updated" the Steam version to look slightly less 80s... 

[Sky]

What if they released miniatures to go with it?

How your painting coming along, missy? Get your little butt down to the minis thread and post some up!

[Zetor]

Rumor is they "updated" the Steam version to look slightly less 80s... 

I got the updated version (it's on steam and gog, you get to choose one from the backer page), and it's pretty much the same game, only with a scale-up + AA filter and some 'VGA-ized' portraits. There's also some background music now (though it's not context-sensitive, so I just turned it off), and the paragraphs are integrated into the game as well (they are also narrated by some dude if you don't like reading). Mouse seems a bit nicer to use now than what I remember from the PC version way-back-then, and there is a 'help' button in a few places (like chargen).

All of the 'enhancements' are optional btw, you can turn them off from the oldschool text-mode 'launcher'. 

[Lantyssa]

How your painting coming along, missy? Get your little butt down to the minis thread and post some up!

Sitting in a box still, like half my junk.  Moving out a house-full of stuff, moving a house-full into half the space, and work not letting me have any time off makes it a bitch to get anything accomplished.  What free time I have is spent letting my brain ooze out my ears.

[Sky]

Fair enough! Just looking forward to seeing you get into it, hopefully 

/derail

[Trippy]

Early Beta invites went out this evening.

[Falconeer]

And they come in Steam form 

[Falconeer]

Yes.



Absolutely yes.

[Tebonas]

Damn, they really DO die young. One alive Part 1 Ranger, graveyard being stacked with dead ones.

Don't want to spoil myself too much, but what I see is promising.

[Falconeer]

Same here, don't want to spoil myself at all, but it is hard because what I've seen so far is fantastic! Better than I expected honestly.

[Stormwaltz]

Wasteland was the first RPG I ever played, on the C64 25 years ago.

I'm going to wait for the full measure as well. Events like this don't happen often.

EDIT: Math is hard.

[Quinton]

I started poking at it, liked the general feel of things, and decided that I'll probably wait until release to enjoy the whole experience once it's done, debugged and polished.

[Teleku]

Does everybody who backed it at any level get access to the beta?  If not, I'm not seeing any emails or steam invites yet...

[Trippy]

According to the update anybody who pledged on KS at $55 or higher has access now.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/wasteland-2/posts/691853

[Lantyssa]

Yeah.  Like I only pledged at the base level, so I don't have access yet, which is fine.  I want the finished product, not to be a guinea pig.

[Falconeer]

I agree. All I got with the access to this stage of beta is some peace of mind (that the thing seems to be really good) and some more excitement, but I am not gonna spoil myself anything past the first five minutes of the game. Which, as I said, are more than promising in my opinion.

[Ginaz]

I'm really interested in playing this since I enjoyed Shadowrun immensely and this to be a very similar type game (I never played the original, sorry).  However, theres no way in hell I'm paying $60 for it.  I know the original game is included plus a few other goodies but its still way too much.  If it was priced around what Shadowrun is then I would snap it up in a heartbeat.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/240760/

[Falconeer]

As for some other games that went from Kickstarter to Steam early access you are paying that much only to not screw the backers who paid 55$ to have early access. Eventually, closer to release, the price will go down t what was originally intended, which is about 20$ if I rememeber correctly.

I also felt the connection with Shadorun, which I liked a lot, but trust me when I say this is a hundred times better in so many ways.

[Teleku]

According to the update anybody who pledged on KS at $55 or higher has access now.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/wasteland-2/posts/691853

Just checked, and I pledged $50 back in the day.   


Not that it matters, I wasn't planning on playing it so as not to spoil myself anyways.

[Falconeer]

New Teaser trailer. Also, it looks like the game hit #3 n Steam sale in the first two days. That is strange, especially at that price.

[Teleku]

Maybe their stats counted all copies currently activated, including all the ones awarded to kickstarter backers, regardless of if they were actually purchased or not.

[Surlyboi]

According to the update anybody who pledged on KS at $55 or higher has access now.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/wasteland-2/posts/691853

Just checked, and I pledged $50 back in the day.   


Not that it matters, I wasn't planning on playing it so as not to spoil myself anyways.

I pledged...a decent amount. I'm waiting til it's done before I hop in.

[Threash]

I got a free copy of this from my planescape 2 KS pledge, but i am not sure i want to wait for that to come around.

[Falconeer]

Release date is set for late August, so one more point for Kickstarter projects that delivered in full (although later than promised. But it was worth the wait).

In the meantime, a live action intro movie, which will probably be in the game, has been released.

[Lucas]

I've seen the new character creation screens, and it surely have come a long way. Day 1 purchase for me.

Between this in August and Original Sin on June 21st....What a CRPG summer 

[Falconeer]

After many iterations, and lots of criticism, I have to say that I really like the UI now.

[lamaros]

Wow why did they waste their money on that video? It's awful!

[Lounge]

Wow why did they waste their money on that video? It's awful!

It reminds me of mid 90s games live action video work.  I like it.

[Falconeer]

I like it too. Also, looks to me like it costed about 20$, so I wouldn't worry too much. Not to mention the fact that the game is done and it seems quite great. They probably could afford the pocket money necessary for that video.