Release notes here. The entire soundtrack for the game has been completed, although only the first half of it has been mastered so far. That half is now in place in the game, comprising 6 new tracks. Overall the new soundtrack pieces are about an hour in length, adding to something like 15 minutes of music that was originally for Stars Beyond Reach, and 4.5 hours of music that was from the original AI War and has just been very lightly retouched. These new pieces are some of Pablo's best work, I have to say. He notes that there's a lot of inspiration in there from his two young kids -- both in the calmer pieces, and the more hectic ones. If someone wants to poke him and get him talking about the technical and compositional aspects of the new pieces, I know he'll be happy to. :) Beyond that, the other big new thing is that Badger is taking the Human Marauders to a new level, with them setting up little camps if you don't swat them away appropriately, and then upgrading their camps if you keep ignoring them. Something that was just a minor pest in the first game can now be a full-on menace if you let it sit and fester. There are a couple of bugfixes in there from me, and a mild performance improvement in music playback and loading. The startup speed of the game is still way too slow, and it needs a loading screen or something, but one thing at a time -- there are bigger fish to fry in the short term. Things are moving along! Repeating myself from last release, and probably for the next few releases: behind the scenes Keith is still working away on the first wave of the pivot. None of that is in this release, but it's coming along. :) As a reminder, we're running a deep discount on the original AI War and its expansions. If you don't already have that game, now's a super good time to pick it up. If you haven't got the sequel yet (via kickstarter/backerkit), then now is also a super good time to wishlist the sequel. If you wishlist it, you'll be notified when it goes to Early Access and when it goes to 1.0. Enjoy! Chris
[ 2018-04-29 17:33:28 CET ] [ Original post ]
- AI War 2 Linux [1.72 G]
- AI War 2: The Spire Rises
- AI War 2: Zenith Onslaught
- AI War 2: The Neinzul Abyss
You must steal as much technology as you can, and take enough territory to fortify your bases and launch your attacks. But every conquest you make turns the attention of the AI ever more in your direction... so choose your targets with care.
It's "a sequel to [Arcen's] enormo-space RTS AI War, which we called'one of this year's finest strategy games' back in 2009" (Tom Sykes, PC Gamer)
What's New?
We still have a lot of work to do on the game, and we're undergoing some major work with our beta testers before heading to Early Access, but a lot is already awesome:- The game is crazy moddable.
- It's multithreaded to take full use of modern computers.
- The new 3D graphics are working out great.
- The UI has already been dramatically improved by the introduction of a tabbed sidebar in the main view, and streamlining of several other mechanics that felt very difficult in the past. More to come, there.
- We’ve got art for over 130 distinct units (not counting different mark levels), and there's more to come.
- We’ve got over 1500 lines of spoken dialogue from more than 25 actors, focusing primarily on the human side at the moment; we have a few hundred lines of AI-side taunts and chatter, some of which is recorded but just not processed yet.
- There are hundreds of high quality sound effects for a varied battlefield soundscape (with distance attenuation if you’re far away, and positional 3D audio if you’re down in the thick of it), all routed through a tuned mixer setup for optimal listening to all the various parts.
- We have a set of music from Classic that is over four and a half hours long, and the new music from Pablo is partly in, but mostly set to be mastered and integrated within the next week or two.
- There’s also a ton of map types, many of them new, and with a lot of sub-options to make them even more varied.
- And a whole lot more.
Wishlist the game to be notified when it becomes available!
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