Current Events > so the game i backed few months ago has now entered early access

(+) Yeah! (+)

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/atomrpg/atom-rpg

isometric RPG fallout style set in the soviet.

even the trailer is similar to fallout!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eNs9trwZr4

so far the reception seems positive, and the developers give constant update and i have seen visible improvement since the campaign started.

so far i am glad that 0 of my backed games are flopping.
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Ill never look down on an isometric RPG game because they're almost always awesome, but this is a bit too much copy/paste of fallout's opening...
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feature list:

Looks less like a demo.
- Now we've got a female protagonist, with some unique dialogue options.
- A scripted intro with multiple choices!
- Better graphics with more options.
- MUCH more animations.
- Guns are better. You can also shoot both barrels of a sawed-off shotgun at once, and do it properly! I always wanted that function, because it's cool. You got two barrels, so why use one at a time?!
- More combat induced states.
- A totally original cinematic, not at all reminiscent of Fallout 1!
- A much better UI.
- No more placeholders - everything in the art / sound departments is completely original.
- An update to the survival mechanics.
- More ways to die.
- Around 200 items, which means around 200 cool icons! My favorite is the duct tape!
- Sometimes - battle taunts! And check this out - they're original for each type of encounter. Like, if a woman hits a woman in the stomach, the game will pick a taunt from a completely separate list of phrases than, for example, in case a man punches a woman in the face! Some Dwarf Fortress-like attention to detail over here, amirite?!
- Words of wisdom appear on the death screen!
- An update to the battle system, with an even better update to the battle system soon to follow!
- Crafting - exciting for some, skipable for others!
- Sexy-time music plays during hot coffee moments.
- There's a character named Beetroota. She is named after a beetroot.
- Much more music in general (15+ tracks).
- When playing as a male, with some effort, you can become a homosexual in the Bandit Camp (req. CHA 11).
- More quests (20+, and some of them take A WHILE) Also - some hints to the future of our replay-ability - some of the quests in the Early Access version you can get only if you completely skip some others and vice versa.
- You can friendzone a problematic male NPC.
- More characters - some of them so special, you have like a 10% chance to find them at all, one of them has a trained pig but you can't ride it.
- Much more locations. Some still empty, but good for exploration and larping. The one with the big ship is my favorite! It's gonna be like this cool floating fortress for merchants and mercenaries and totally original too!
- A better translation of the new dialogues.
- A lot of corrections done to the old dialogues.
- 7000 LINES OF DIALOGUE!
- 100K WORDS AND THEN SOME!
- A much more developed world. It's really shaping up to be a unique place, guys. I'm 50% of the writing team, but it managed to surprise even me. It's really there, you know? This weird, funny, crazy place, part brutal, part naive, completely filled with mystery, madness, eldritch horror, some bad lines of dialogue which survived the correction purge, but most of all that good old soviet nostalgia. It'd be an honor if you check us out.
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Cookie Bag posted...

Ill never look down on an isometric RPG game because they're almost always awesome, but this is a bit too much copy/paste of fallout's opening...

that's the aim tbh. they just LOVE fallout and it's permeating in a good way.
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This does look interesting, animations look a bit rough but i expect them to get better down the line right? graphics remind me to wasteland 2 too.
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Cookie Bag posted...

This does look interesting, animations look a bit rough but i expect them to get better down the line right? graphics remind me to wasteland 2 too.

yeah

anw at first, i was really doubtful. i mean, a russian development fallout clone? what could go wrong? right? it;s not like we have tons of russian fallout clone shovelware riddled with bugs and badly translated dialogue. (that was sarcasm).

yeah, the first time it launched, it raised a different kinds of red flags. a developer with no prior experience, weak-ish pitch and showing, etc. fortunately, the more i follow the project, the more promising it become. the developers seems to be a big fan of fallout, and actually have a cohesive, yet realistic vision and the ability to execute it well.

this update, and i quote, is the one that convinced me that these guys have what it takes to make a good game:

Honestly, we knew what we were getting ourselves into. But it felt right never the less. Sort of like baby turtles know to run for the sea. Can't say we're over-competent or even over-confident. But we see two major problems with other Slavouts: clunky, barely functioning, buggy engine, and overall half-bakedness story-wise (poor dialogues with no more than two choices most of the time seem like a particular trend nowadays). Our main programmer Dmitriy and the massive support Unity 3D's community can give us (if only we ask for it) are our solution for the first problem. The second problem is solved by me and our writers. I know how the English version looks nowadays (although I TRIED A LOT) but when we improve our translation, it's going to surpass most of our competition in the Fallout race. Quantitatively - for sure. And, hopefully, quality-wise as well. We have text for everything. Everyone has a unique dialogue, most conversations can go one of up to five ways depending on your skills, most quests have multiple solutions, and, at least in the Russian version we don't have this style of overall prose I like to call "B-Movie impersonation". Our prose does not try to look like Fallout's or Torment's. We have this highly stylized colloquial language partially based on Russian authors from the XX century we enjoy, partially inspired by art-brute. Text is the main thing, anyway. Good text. At least - the best we've got. Sure, text was important for many slavic Fallouts. But in ours, it's our everything. Role-playing in each dialogue, changing the world in every quest, getting unique stories depending on the skills and attributes you picked. Making every action matter, or at least become a rumor or a legend somewhere in the world. Little things. Stuff like that.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/atomrpg/atom-rpg/posts/1870098
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Do they have any tentative release date for this? i'm really interested now, if anything to see how it turns out.
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Looks cool.
But kickstarter has been a shit show for a while
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Cookie Bag posted...

Do they have any tentative release date for this? i'm really interested now, if anything to see how it turns out.

early 2018 iirc
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