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The Forever Winter - Full Length Cinematic Trailer (www.youtube.com)
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[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For anyone not familiar with this game, or anyone who's only familiarity is through the trailers (which really focus on tone and visuals), I really want to recommend the videos by YouTuber Riloe, who has been playing early builds with the devs and chatting to them extensively about the game. They're really well produced videos, and they really help to explain the tone of the game, the interesting mechanical ideas behind it, and what exactly this company is trying to achieve. Obviously, take with a grain of salt, the guy is clearly a fan and these videos aren't really trying to be critical, so this should all be read as basically press releases;

This antishooter game is beautiful and horrifying

The living war ecosystem where you don't matter

The beautifully dark warscape of the antishooter

[–] warbond@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Seconded, I first heard about this game from his channel.

[–] Wrufieotnak 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The trailers till now already established a great atmosphere, let's just hope they can also make a great game fitting to the visuals.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm really excited for this game. Not just for the visuals, but for everything they're doing with the mechanical design. The idea of playing as scavengers trapped between two warring factions is incredibly cool, and based on early previews it sounds like there are a lot of very clever design elements, especially in the AI, all built to back up that core idea. For example enemies intelligently prioritize targets; a tank won't focus on infantry if there's an enemy tank present, and even when it does target the infantry it'll use its machine guns, not the main cannon. Enemies will focus on you if you make yourself the biggest threat, but if you're smart and follow the flow of battle you can keep their focus elsewhere.

That's really smart stuff, and by all accounts it works very well. I also really like what the studio is doing more broadly. They're really trying to push back on a lot of the toxic practices in the gaming industry. I'll be getting the game day one, mostly just to reward them for trying to do something different.

[–] Wrufieotnak 3 points 2 months ago

I really like the idea of not being the powerhouse on the battlefield, but the difficult thing will be to make it fun and also give you a progression, where you are not just the tank at the end again. The player needs to be the smart little weasel between the hyenas and not just the lion.