The game has been floating around on twitter for a couple months now and looks damn incredible. Great to see that more folk will get hands-on with it in a couple days.
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The Falconeer, a Gorgeous "Airborne Ocean-World Fantasy RPG", Coming to PC and Xbox at the Series X Launch
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The game has been floating around on twitter for a couple months now and looks damn incredible. Great to see that more folk will get hands-on with it in a couple days.
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Going to be hard for me to decide on Xbox or PC for this one. That trailer looks fantastic on my ultrawide monitor but the comfy couch is always calling.
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That'd be amazing. I was a bit late to that film but it's pretty wild just how much media pulled from it.
HI everyone , the developer here. stumbled upon the threats here on ResetEra
Here's a (albeit slightly out of date)uncut gameplay video,
This video was mostly about the audio and music, for which Benedict Nichols has signed on for. So it's mostly a straight run and showing off some of the music.
I see a lot of panzer dragoon and lair vibes. But I think gameplay wise, Crimson skies might be a better comparison. But in an open world setting a la freelancer.
After all the xbox announce hubbub dies down I'll probably have time to do some commentaries on the various gameplay mechanics.
For those going to X019 see you in london!.
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Here's a (albeit slightly out of date)uncut gameplay video,
This video was mostly about the audio and music, for which Benedict Nichols has signed on for. So it's mostly a straight run and showing off some of the music.
I see a lot of panzer dragoon and lair vibes. But I think gameplay wise, Crimson skies might be a better comparison. But in an open world setting a la freelancer.
After all the xbox announce hubbub dies down I'll probably have time to do some commentaries on the various gameplay mechanics.
For those going to X019 see you in london!.
Tomas Sala
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The chase-cam definitely made me think of Crimson Skies; great to see someone out there picking up that torch.
Looks good, fantastic music. Will definitely keep an eye on this!
Game looks cool but that X019 trailer music choice is just awful! There is nothing wrong with the song itself, but I think it's just so incredibly cliche at this point that it just doesn't work in this context. I see this same style of song absolutely everywhere in movies, TV series and game trailers. You can play a "somber song, slow motion scenes or slow transitions" bingo and win every time.
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I'm a little surprised they didn't save the announcement for X019, but I suppose it's good to give some of the games a bit more breathing room.
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I think at this point,nearly everything you do trailer wise is going to be a cliche. So I kinda feel what you'r saying;) I think If I went for a metal or techno track, then it would be just as cliche, but with a different emotion altogether. And in the end I didn't want a standard "action" trailer as well, or even worst default fantasy choir music;)
Sherry Dyanne who composed and sang this song specifically for the trailer added something truly special in my opinion to what could have been a quite generic action trailer. So I'm super stoked and grateful that someone that talented would use her voice for my game.
I think Its a matter of taste in the end. (I just had to stick up for the song and the trailer, hope you don't mind ;)
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On the note of putting together media for the game: do you know if press will be capturing footage of the demo or if you'll be putting out b-roll for folk not at the show?
that's up to the publisher, and I'm not a 100 percent sure. But I think press will be allowed to capture footage at the show.
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Hopefully that's the case, I'd love to see some footage of the current demo.
If you haven't read the graphic novels based on the movie, you should. They cut deep and really flesh out the story.
Post X019 update
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So HDR rendering , which most games now support is a different animal from supporting HDR Screens which is a bit more engine and GPU dependent.
HDR rendering is what the falconeer is doing at its core. And I believe HDR screen support is also available in unity3d now, so I don't see a reason not to support it. Platform restrictions not withstanding (xbox one supports HDR screens tho;)
Let me amend that, "I'll do my best, but cannot guarantee it at this stage, but it looks likely"
Actually that should just be my general quote;)
Just a quick tease of some of the combat in the game. I haven't had time to upload anything proper on the action yet. I'll see if I can add a youtube version later. I'm in the process of getting some video gear for doing devlogs and such as well ;)
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In the video I'm just doing some basic combat, but I'm also controlling the camera between its 3 modes, default 3rd person follow, TargetLook and right-stick orbit. They all interpolate smoothly so you can have quite a bit of useful situational awareness from using it. Normally when I dogfight It gets a bit more hectic, but toned it down for the video. ;)
Also this is a placeholder mission,spawning a fairly simple X vs X amount of defenders and attackers.
You can also spot stuff and debris falling off from the larger and smaller airships, some of this is just debris, bits'n bobs falling off from the explosive splash damage, but you can also target specific sub targets and destroy them and have the remains drop, such as turrets or engine parts. Additionally these have a critical hit chance of exploding themselves upon destruction, causing damage to the parent ship.
On rare occasions you can actually have a cascade of exploding sub components.
Enfin, a look at the harder action , for the people that felt the trailer was a bit too light on it.;)
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Absolutely adore the camera movements; they make the game look incredibly slick.
And thanks for posting the youtube version, Twitter compression certainly did a number to that clip.
yeh twitter is quite good for games industry stuff, but I wish they'd allow fractional better video quality. it's horrid. and the audio,, brrrr....
