DevTracker

[Grummz]

Alright! We took a break from texturing the humans to start working on the shape-shifting Tsi-Hu. These aliens have 2 forms: a humanoid form for ranged combat, armed with rifles and grappling hooks, and a beast form for hand to hand combat.

Joe will be streaming the beast modeling process on Sunday here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSieVxJhO1EbiRVn3XfYerA

[UPDATE: Stream is Sunday 6pm to 8pm PST!]

Meanwhile, Alejandro has put about 5 hours into this VERY rough sculpt of the Tsi-Hu humanoid. Check out this rough WIP!

After the Tsi-Hu are modeled, we only need the guns and the Kaiju made and we are set for all the character art assets for the playable mockup!

Thanks for reading!

 

[Grummz]

What about my bike exclusive for that early round of funding?

The bike is no faster than the Omniframe's skim mode, and in fact is slower to transition in and out of. From a power perspective it's not any better than skimming.

We will see but if you follow the cosmetic only monetization, people would be happy.
If you do what firefall did and sell bikes and other game effecting things, not so much.

Everyone could craft a bike in Firefall Beta. I was not there on release. During Beta other bike types were purely cosmetic skins. So again, where is the power being sold?

I know warframe is instanced. Anthem plans to be open world according to the wiki.

Anthem is 4 player instanced open world. Period. http://www.firstpost.com/tech/gamin...-with-jetpacks-and-an-open-world-3725161.html

I do hope this game succeeds and hope there is no fatigue due to AAA rivals. My early experiences with Firefall were pretty magical. I got bored, came back later, the game was ruined and dead.

We're not trying to change the world or take on AAA games in terms of sales. We want a fun wargame with enough of a userbase to keep it updated and going. It would be silly to expect us to compete with games costing $100 M to make and another 100M to market.

 

[Grummz]

Well Em-8ER is not about doing missions or quests. Its a persistent wargame with personal mechs vs an invading army with their Kaiju beasts.

Also, Anthem and Destiny 2 are instanced small squad games. Even Warframe open word is limited to just your squad. Em-8ER allows potentially hundreds of players in a massive warzone (final numbers TBD).

Finally, what scummy micro-transactions? We don't sell power. We sell cosmetics. So...what are you referring to?

Do you guys think the games like Destiny/2 and Anthem will cause fatigue and boredom with this genre before Em8er actually releases?

I can't help but think these AAA games will turn people off to the Genre. The fact that Em8er intends to have all the same kind of scummy microtransactions on a buy to play will make it even less likely that there would be any interest from the gaming community as a whole.

What do you guys think?

P.S. I didn't include warframe as it's f2p and for that reason will likely always have a loyal player base.

 

[Ronyn]

So I have a few questions about accounts:

-Will this account be your account for the game, or is the forums a separate thing? Is your forums account linked to your email subscription somehow?

-What is/will be your main/game account? Why isn't there an account/login at the main site yet?

-On the main site it says something about priority points being rewarded for being subscribed, can you see how many points you have somewhere? Is that linked to an account?


I really am a bit confused about on what account my "priority points" are being collected and which account my old Firefall account is linked to. Maybe it would be good if all accounts would be one, so that this forum account is also your main/game account, and that you can also see your "Priority Points" in here somewhere.

More info on exactly what the points are for and how accounts will be connected will be coming in time.
For now, just enjoy the awesome community and cool looking site.

 

[Grummz]

The characters will get a revisit once we see them in Omniframes and in game. As for Brink, yes we took our inspiration from how they stylized their chars.