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Trailblazers - Announcement Trailer (F-Zero x Splatoon)
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Interesting concept, I'd need to actually see a match to see how it works. In my mind it seems like you'd want to always be in last place, to be able to paint your color.
Why is it every time I see someone make a comparison to F-Zero the actual car physics are always closer to Wipeout. I know thats grumpy of me, but I'm so thirsty man. it's been 15 years.
Just slightly :P
Game looks pretty inky btw. In for Switch version probs.
painting the track looks like a fun gameplay mechanic. graphics look quite nice, the tracks modeling and colors especially. the handling of the cars seems basic and plain tho. a fun sense of weight and inertia is really important to me in a racing game. would have to play to find out for sure of course.
Considering that there is ultimately an optimal way to move through a track, I see a situation where:
A. Everyone takes roughly the same path and the floor painting mechanic is made useless
B. People swerve around everywhere to avoid A and the racing ends up feeling kind of sloppy.
A. Everyone takes roughly the same path and the floor painting mechanic is made useless
B. People swerve around everywhere to avoid A and the racing ends up feeling kind of sloppy.
Really interesting concept, though yeah the sense of speed looks oddly inconsistent when it comes to crashes and such. The sense of momentum doesn't seem there. This could be pretty cool if it gets a little polish.
The talk of "the track lines change with every lap/race" is cool, it reminds me in a more abstract way of some of the terrain-morphing stuff from ExciteTruck/Bots that I wish got expanded on and never did. Things that can make you adjust your usual lines to keep a track from feeling redundant is a welcome mechanic.
The talk of "the track lines change with every lap/race" is cool, it reminds me in a more abstract way of some of the terrain-morphing stuff from ExciteTruck/Bots that I wish got expanded on and never did. Things that can make you adjust your usual lines to keep a track from feeling redundant is a welcome mechanic.
I thought this was actually some sort of Nintendo title involving Splatoon and F-Zero what a disappointment. That's not F-Zero either that's Wipeout crap.
You're not alone, it makes me grumpy too. Especially when the sense of speed isn't even close.
It looks like a balance mechanism If the color boost can match or even surpass a perfect racing line
This is neat, but I have no idea how this could be balanced heh. Seems like last place would always have an advantage of covering the track, unless that's only a race mechanic and not the actual scoring system
You wouldn't be able to make use of the boost from your own paint line until the following lap during which the opponents in front would be able to overwrite your line
Honestly, the fact that you compared it to F-Zero, and it's nothing like F-Zero biases me against the game. It looks okay-ish.
Yoooo, if this turns out to be mechanically solid, I am super in!
I know Nintendo's stated they don't wanna do F-Zero for now because they don't know how they'd improve on GX, but this seems like a step in the right direction. They should pull inspiration from their own games, haha.
I know Nintendo's stated they don't wanna do F-Zero for now because they don't know how they'd improve on GX, but this seems like a step in the right direction. They should pull inspiration from their own games, haha.
It looks interesting.
Because maybe they never played Wipeout and have no other frame of reference, I guess.
Indie devs inability to just make a straightforward-ass racing game without any "WHA-HACKY INDIE GIMMICKS<3" is amazing. Like, jesus guys, just because indie games are stereotypically gimmicky as hell doesn't mean you have to shove some unneccessary gimmick in your game
Also echoing the sentiment that this is pure Wipeout and looks sloooooooooooooooooooooooooow as shit, like sheesh even WO is faster than this by a large margin
Also echoing the sentiment that this is pure Wipeout and looks sloooooooooooooooooooooooooow as shit, like sheesh even WO is faster than this by a large margin
Well
its 3v3, so you at least want 1 teammate ahead of you painting the way
Interesting character design:
That alien just left of center is straight outta Lilo & Stitch
Thanks for the feedback you guys. Feels great to finally talk about our game!
Don't know where the F-Zero comparison came from - it wasn't from us, although I'm flattered by it!
Regarding speed, most futuristic racers rely on speed as a core part of their gameplay to make it exciting. Trailblazers isn't really like that. We are about second-to-second strategy, first and foremost. Our core gameplay and track design tenant is about giving players real strategic decisions to make every few seconds. The game throws decisions at you every 5 seconds or so, for example: do I drive on my paint and boost now, or instead paint a fresh part of the circuit and get more boost for later? Do I take the left or right split-route, based on my knowledge of which one was captured on my last lap? Maybe I veer off course to paint off-line for a teammate who is coming up fast behind me. Do I paint over the enemies colour now because I know there's a bad dude following me closely, looking to overtake... But if I paint, that cancels my boost... giving the other guy the potential to drive smart, avoid my paint and boost around me. Do I blast the guy in front of me with a forward-firing paint attack, or save my paint supply to cover the big straight at the end of the circuit? Anyway, you get the idea...
We're injecting a level of strategy into the core gameplay that's pretty different to other arcade racers. Speed is obviously a factor in this, but it's not the only thing that makes our game fun. Hope that goes some way to explaining our thinking!
Ben (Supergonk)
Don't know where the F-Zero comparison came from - it wasn't from us, although I'm flattered by it!
Regarding speed, most futuristic racers rely on speed as a core part of their gameplay to make it exciting. Trailblazers isn't really like that. We are about second-to-second strategy, first and foremost. Our core gameplay and track design tenant is about giving players real strategic decisions to make every few seconds. The game throws decisions at you every 5 seconds or so, for example: do I drive on my paint and boost now, or instead paint a fresh part of the circuit and get more boost for later? Do I take the left or right split-route, based on my knowledge of which one was captured on my last lap? Maybe I veer off course to paint off-line for a teammate who is coming up fast behind me. Do I paint over the enemies colour now because I know there's a bad dude following me closely, looking to overtake... But if I paint, that cancels my boost... giving the other guy the potential to drive smart, avoid my paint and boost around me. Do I blast the guy in front of me with a forward-firing paint attack, or save my paint supply to cover the big straight at the end of the circuit? Anyway, you get the idea...
We're injecting a level of strategy into the core gameplay that's pretty different to other arcade racers. Speed is obviously a factor in this, but it's not the only thing that makes our game fun. Hope that goes some way to explaining our thinking!
Ben (Supergonk)