Каскадный · [ Стандартный ] · Линейный Daemon X Machina/Daemon X Machina Titanic Scion, От создателя Armored Core

[dimm0505]

Игра выходит 13 сентября 2019 года

nA BRAND-NEW NINTENDO SWITCH TITLE WITH THE STRATEGY OF A MECH
GAME AT THE SPEED OF AN ACTION GAME!

A brand-new, fast-paced mech action game from Kenichiro Tsukuda is coming to the
Nintendo Switch system. Take your Arsenal, a fully customizable powered suit, out for
an array of missions to surmount the enemy at all costs. Choose and equip your
Arsenal with a multitude of weapons, obtain more from downed enemy Arsenals,
and swap them on the fly to suit your strategy in the face of ever-changing threats.

FEATURES:

• Kenichiro Tsukuda is well known for his work developing the Armored Core series. He
and his talented team have developed this brand-new title with the goal of making it
“the best mech action game” out there.
• The character designs were created by Yusuke Kozaki, who also worked on the Fire
Emblem Awakening and Fire Emblem Fates games.
• Mech concept designs were created by Mr. Kawamori, who also worked on the
Armored Core series and the Super Dimension Fortress Macross series.
• Arsenals can battle freely in the air and on the ground.

Сообщение отредактировал dimm0505 - Суббота, 27 мая 2023, 01:30

[dimm0505]

Немного тех и общей инфы:

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- many of its developers worked on Armored Core
- dev group headed by former AC developer Kenichiro Tsukuda
- carry a host of weapons, from laser swords to bazookas
- unlock new mechs, pick armor, and customize for durability, mobility, and more
- missions revolve around "Orders," which are mercenary missions that will earn you variable amounts of money
- orders you choose will determine how the story progresses as well as your allies
- money you earn can be put toward new weapons
- destructible environments
- send buildings tumbling down upon enemies if you get the timing right
- pick up cars and throw them
- rip out sign posts and use them as swords
- pick up weapons from fallen enemies and use them
- there will be hidden items on top of buildings, encouraging you to explore and make use of your surroundings
- the game was made easy to get into, but holds a lot of depth
- will be a retail release
- uses the Unreal Engine
- the team is "thinking about ways for everyone to play together, but we'll introduce how the plan to do that at another time."

[dimm0505]

На трихаусе разложили по полочкам нежданчик от создателя Armored Core - Daemon X Machina:

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-The game is made by people who worked on Armored Core, a well recognized mech game franchise developed by From Softwares aka as the Dark Souls guys, and also has a character designer who worked in several Fire emblem games.
In the game you control a giant humanoid tank, a robot or a mech as you wish. This robot will be fully customizable.
It will have multiplayer modes, but weren't shown yet.
Your mech can have up to 4 weapons.
Among the different weapons there are assault riffles, rocket launchers, guided missiles, katanas, or laser swords.
You can walk or fly freely all around the mission map limits.
The missions maps are big but with limit that you can’t pass. The buildings can be destroyed, and the debris can damage nearby enemies.
You can grab and use/throw different elements of the maps, like cars or pillars of buildings.
You can customize the pillot appearance because you can play as the pillot outside the mech (I don’t know if it’s just at the end of the mission or during the mission too). Also there is a lobby where you can walk, and see your mech and probably talk to other characters.
You can loot fallen enemies to find weapons and parts to customize yout robot.
The game loop is. Roam around the base where you can customize your mech or buy parts, customize the pillot, and as there are some NPC there, probably you can talk to them. Then select a mission, enter the mission, complete it, return to base.
The game will have some kind of companion system. I don’t know if only AI or maybe it has some coop mode. In Armored core were just AI as long as I remember.
The customization possibilities look pretty good although maybe not as complex as in the Armored core games, we can see it has a lot of options in the treehouse demo:
There are 5 main options in the console. Orders, Hangar, Shop, Factory.
Shop is where you can buy new parts and sell old ones.
Inside Hangar, you can change your mech equipment, paint it (probably even create a logo) and test the loadout you have equiped to yout mech.
When editing your equipment you will have two options, Swap armor or Swap weapons
Swap weapon will allow you to equip a weapon for left hand, right hand, shoulder, an auxiliary weapon.
Swap weapon will also allow you to chage this body parts: Head, body, processor, right arm, left arm and legs.
The weapons can be of different types: Bullet weapons, Bazookas, Laser weapons, close range, special weapons, and shields.
This changes will affect to the next statistics: Durability, firepower, ammunition, mobility. It doesn't seem to be any heat or energy management.
Orders is where you can select your missions.
Factory probably can be where you craft things? Or where you can customize the HQ? I bet for crafting things.

Сообщение отредактировал dimm0505 - Пятница, 15 июня 2018, 13:37

[dimm0505]

Куча интересной инфы для интересующихся игрой. Судя по всему это новая веха в играх про мехов. И знаковая игра для нашего любимого Сыча:

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Daemon X Machina is looking to be something quite special not just for the Switch, but for mech games in general. The title has been getting a good bit of buzz coming out of E3, and Famitsu has capitalized on that with an interview with Daemon X Machina producer Tsukuda Kenichiro. You can see a summary of the interview below.
- Kenichiro came up with the idea when thinking of how interesting the Switch’s portable and table modes were
- he wanted to make a project that would be able to make use of these
- Kenichiro wanted Kawamori to do the mecha designs, and when he asked, Kawamori accepted
- the player assumes the role of a mercenary known as an Outer
- the Outer uses a powered suit type mecha called an Arsenal to fight enemy AIs
- the player can take weapons from defeated enemies and equip them immediatel
- choosing the right equipment loadout for where you fight is important
- the game's title is derived from the Greek mechanical gods known as “deus ex machina”
- as the player advances in the game and becomes an ace pilot, they become “something like a god or demon” to the enemy
- Kenichiro purposely went with “daemon” instead of “demon” due to its use in computing, but can't share more details yet
- the game takes place in a world where half of the moon fell to the earth on a day known as “the day of awakening”
- a new particle and energy source known as “femto” was found in the shards of the moon, and humans fight over it
- the place where the shard of the moon fell also becomes a dangerous area
- humans built a wall around it to keep something inside from getting out
- the inside of the wall is filled with crazed AIs
- people in power want femto, and hire mercenaries to fight over it
- the Arsenals also run on femto, and Outers are people who have gotten powers due to the influence of femto
- the design requirements for the mechs was “large humanoids like suits of armor"
- Kenichiro wanted them to be closer to powered suits than giant robots, around 5 meters tall
- making them fully armored would make them too close to giant robots
- some parts like the thighs and waist are designed to look like muscles, to help with the “powered suit” motif
- lighter versions of the Arsenals have more of these muscle-like portions, while heavier versions have less
- weapons in the game range from realistic ones to more sci-fi designs
- you can throw cars as projectiles, or use street lights as temporary weapons
- the soles of the feet are able to leave an impression in the ground
- differentiating mecha designs is difficult, especially with the head and legs
- Kenichiro adds that the test concept design he first saw was comprised entirely of parts from other mecha
- Kawamori says he wanted to make use of the slit-type nozzles on the test design’s rear boosters
- Arsenals in-game are seen from behind, carry weapons on the back, and fly bending forwards
- the team decided to add crests with holes extending backwards to make the head identifiable from behind
- the holes in the crests are how the Arsenals absorb their power source, femtos
- pylons extending and parts on the shoulders and arms opening up were Kawamori’s ideas
- the arms open up when weapons are used while the legs open up while the player is dashing
- this also helps to give the player the impression that they are controlling the Arsenal
- while photorealism is mainstream in games, Kenichiro says there is no need to follow in that vein
- the game has a comic/anime-style because he wanted the game to have its own identity
- Kawamori says that mecha in photorealistic style works better with more mechanical movements
- he also says comic-style designs are better when it feels like the player is in direct control
- when they first began development, many of the staff were not used to the comic-style graphics
- this made things like shadows end up still looking realistic
- once the team was told not to be afraid and to try things differently, they came to reworking shadows
- projectiles were originally realistically small, but this was changed to make them bigger and more colorful
- Kenichiro says that his ideal is Macross-style missiles, but he’s spent years unable to reach that
- while powered suits are controlled directly by the people inside, the games uses more exaggerated motion

[hateternal]

Пока что из того, что тут написано, в ACore не было возможности подбирать предметы типа автомобилей и не было "персонажа". Но там было и много такого, что очень сильно вряд ли будет в этой игре.

Игру жду конечно, даже, наверно, больше всего остального из объявленного на е3. Но не думаю, что она выдержит хоть какое то сравнение с Кормами. Особенно 4\4 Answer. В ее какую то уникальность(по сравнению с ними, не говоря уже о под\жанре в целом) и вовсе не верю.

С другой стороны, если где такое и выстрелит, то только на консоли от Н. На остальных же платформах провал Коров говорит сам за себя.

Сообщение отредактировал hateternal - Пятница, 22 июня 2018, 17:25

[dimm0505]

Разрабы поделились деталями о мехах в игре (здесь они называются "Arsenals"):

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Daemon X Machina developers Kenichiro Tsukuda and Shoji Kawamori sat down with 4Gamer to talk about all the intricate details that are going into the creation of the game's mechs, known as Arsenals. You can get a full breakdown of the interview below.
- Kawamori wanted to work on a Switch game
- his team came up with the idea of a mech title
- the goal became to create a mech action game which would make full use of the hardware's specs
- they also wanted to have graphics that have never been seen before
- Arsenals are close to an exoskeleton or powered suit
- this is why the team moved away from using the word "robot" and instead went with "mech"
- Arsenals are 5 meters tall, and the size was chosen to make battles look and feel spectacular
- the original idea was creating medieval armor with a modern feel to it
- musculature is the key characteristic of the Arsenals' design
- Arsenals are designed around concepts such as "wearing them to fight" by using multiple weapons
- they wanted to create a mech that would move like a human being, despite all the heavy weapons it was equipped with
- the team made the armor lighter to compensate for the heaviness of the weapons
- this lead to multiple drawings and designs to find the right mix of ideas
- the most difficult part in mech and robot design is the feet
- the head is also hard in the sense that you need to convey the character's personality
- the foot design was inspired by ski boots, which was then expanded upon with boosters, thrusters, and more
- when you use weapons, the hatches open on the feet.
- you can pick up weapons laying on the ground, and the mech suit opens/closes based on your interaction with these weapons
- the back design of the mech is very important because you spend most of the game looking at the mech's back
- the Arsenal's "spine" plays a role in the world design and settings, which is why it has a "gleaming back"
- Arsenals fly in a forward-leaning posture rather than an upright posture
- the team put a lot of thought into making sure the designs could exist/work in the real world, but didn't take things too far
- shadowed areas on the Arsenals are completely black
- the open parts of the Aresenals light up, so when you're in a shadowed area, you only have a skeleton-esque view
- the team is working on associating a musical instrument with each weapon,
- the team also wants the Arsenal head to show which manufacturer or period each is from

[dark-uler]

боюсь сглазить, посмотрим ближе к демке для всех. Почему-то кажется что не вытянут.

[Hellrazor]

Компания Nintendo разместила на своем официальном сайте интервью с японским геймдизайнером Кэнитиро Цукудой, приложившим руку к играм серии Armored Core студии FromSoftware. Он продюсирует эксклюзивный для Nintendo Switch меха-боевик Daemon X Machina, анонсированный на выставке E3 2018.

Игра готовится на движке Unreal Engine 4 коллективом First Studio, принадлежащим японскому издательству Marvelous. Концепты боевых роботов создает Сёдзи Кавамори, известный по вселенной Macross, за образы персонажей отвечает Ёске Кодзаки, хорошо знакомый фанатам Fire Emblem и No More Heroes.

- Daemon X Machina - динамичный экшен, в котором игроки в роли пилотов-Аутеров сражаются в мехах (роботах / роботизированных костюмах) - Арсеналах.

- Прямое управление мехом осуществляется как на земле, так и в воздухе.

- Сражения происходят в режиме реального времени. Новое оружие можно добывать как в битвах у врагов, так и за пределами поля боя. По словам Цукуды, потенциал мехов не ограничивается одними лишь схватками с противниками, но об этом - в другой раз.

- Мехи-Арсеналы передвигаются, отслеживая движения Аутеров, которые их пилотируют. Это означает, что сила меха зависит от физических возможностей пилота. Таким является одно из условий игры.

- Вы сможете настроить внешность своего героя (мужского или женского) в редакторе. В ходе презентации на Gamescom 2018 Цукуда расскажет больше о геймплейной составляющей за людей без мехов.

- В игре будет представлена одиночная кампания, а также локальный и онлайновый мультиплеерный режимы.

- Комментируя сюжетную составляющую, Цукуда рассказал, что действие Daemon x Machina разворачивается после падения Луны. Человечество воздвигло барьеры (Овалы), чтобы ограничить масштаб катастрофы. Была создана уникальная строительная техника и сети, управляемые искусственным интеллектом, но под воздействием энергетических частиц Фемто, образовавшихся после падения Луны, ИИ мутировал и стал врагом людей. У этого врага есть общее определение - Arms of Immortal.

Вскоре появились могущественные личности, решившие использовать потенциал Фемто и вытеснить ИИ из барьеров. Некоторые пилоты получили от Фемто особые способности и отправились на противостояние с ИИ в Арсеналах. Главный герой является одним из наемников, открывающих постепенно тайны нового мира.

- В игре появятся "самые разнообразные персонажи". Некоторые станут вашими союзниками, другие окажутся врагами. Цукуда отметил двух братьев, собирающих на полях сражений оружие и запчасти на продажу, и некоего человека с темным прошлым. Будет еще "кое-кто", кто придет на выручку главному герою в трудных ситуациях. Ёске Кодзаки сейчас активно работает над дизайном персонажей, и Цукуда надеется, что скоро сможет рассказать больше.

- Цель команды - создать лучшую игру про мехов.

[Hellrazor]

новый тизер:

[dimm0505]

От RedCube:

[AleriF]

По первому трейлеру выглядело непонятно, а сейчас смотрю — занятный проект, и красивый, и динамичный.

[dimm0505]

Различной инфой об игре стали потчевать на постоянной основе и это не может не радовать.
Кроме того, что вы можете кастомизировать своего перса и свой Arsenal (то есть меха) сообщили, что над дизайном персонажей в это игре работал Yusuke Kozaki из команды Fire Emblem Awakening и Fates.

- at the Lab in the Hangar, you can alter your physical appearance
- options to alter include gender, body, face, hair, eyes, eyebrows, makeup, scars, and tattoos
- you can also tweak abilities like speed and jumping
- unlocks like this are applied to your Outer, so you'll retain them inside your Arsenal
- browse and accept missions at the Hangar
- missions are separated by Rank (difficulty), offer monetary rewards, and contain side objectives
- side objectives for any mission might include things like keeping your health from dipping below 50 percent
- in-game storms will turn the game monochrome for a split second as thunder claps
- cutscenes will be voiced
- if you're playing alongside a friend, you can add two more computer-controlled Arsenals to your team
- through research back at the Hangar, you'll be able to earn (regular-sized) boss weapons for use with your Arsenal
- after beating a boss, a minute-long countdown initiates before you're kicked back to base
- this aspect will play a "key role" in multiplayer
- many of the game's sound effects were made with musical instruments
- on the equipment screen, you'll swap in new parts for your Arsenal, paint, register loadouts, and launch the testing grounds
- there are parts for right/left/shoulder weapons, auxiliary, and right/left pylon
- compare parameters side-by-side and sort your list
- manage your Arsenal's Femto energy, as it interacts with the game in many different ways
- Yusuke Kozaki of Fire Emblem Awakening and Fates is handling the character designs

И интервью портала 4Gamer с продюсером и дизайнером игры:

4Gamer: The fact that you were able to make them resemble a suit of armor is impressive too, but their musculature in particular is impressive!

Kawamori: The Arsenals’ muscularity is something that would become characteristic of their design. When I was thinking about the game’s “identity,” I wanted the mechs to be representative of that identity. Rather than just having them be a suit of armor, I felt that it’d be better if they were modeled after the musculature of a living thing and were covered with reinforced parts.

Tsukuda: And that was what gave birth to the “fighting while exchanging equipment” concept, in which you can switch out your Arsenal’s weapons and equipment mid-battle. Kawamori-san was able to convey the image of a mech laden with bulky weapons yet still have it be able to move as if it were human.

Kawamori: I tried to take into account the fact that the player would most likely be fighting with a good deal of weapons. Again, this isn’t the best way to say this probably, but an object’s weight is something you can get away with skirting around in things like games and anime. There were times where I wondered if that kind of thing was okay, but in the end, we decided that it’d be better if the Arsenals’ movement felt light despite being burdened with heavy weapons.

4Gamer: Next, I’d like to ask about the graphics. When I think of mecha, more realistic visuals come to mind – but I’d say this game is closer to anime. Mr. Kawamori, how did you feel when you first saw the game?

Kawamori: I think a work’s “look” or visual style is of incredible importance, so I thought it was very interesting that the team deliberately went for a more “graphic” style as opposed to realism.

Tsukuda: Thank you – we almost “painted” the shadows in such a way that it made it look like it was animated; that was something that Kawamori-san mentioned he thought looked good. It was quite a while ago that he said that, but his advice stayed with me this whole time.

4Gamer: And what exactly was his advice?

Tsukuda: We were making another 3D game, and he asked me: “Why are you showing every nook and cranny of the buildings’ passages?” It wasn’t necessarily that something was there, but because those things were within the player’s field of view. He told me, “If there’s nothing to show, don’t show it.”

Сообщение отредактировал dimm0505 - Суббота, 25 августа 2018, 17:26

[dimm0505]

DF анализирует частоту кадров в игре:

Большую часть клипа кадровка скачет в диапазоне 20-30 fps, с просадками до 10.
Будем надеятся, что игру оптимизируют как следует до ее релиза.

[Hellrazor]

видос с дайректа

[dimm0505]

И еще «углубленного геймплея»:

[Kart]

Попробовал дэмку как в доке, так и в хэндхэлде, картинка приличная (в доке по-чище\ симпатичнее), управление удобное, интерфейс понравился с общим дизайном. Музыка вроде и бодрая, но особо не вдохновляет, ожидал большего, как на первом трейлере. Движуха тоже не особо занимательная. Летаем, наводим на врагов огромный прицел и стреляем автонаводкой по всем, кто в него попал. Не то что бы скучно, но как-то пока не очень понятно, будет ли и в дальнейшем та же схема или геймплей станет более разнообразным и ситуативным. Но тем не менее первое впечатление вполне не плохое, игру буду брать, а там уже видно будет.

[Manwe]

В портативном режиме UI мелковатый - например, в меню настройки управления очень трудно разглядеть как называются кнопки. Ну и повсюду такое.

Первый уровень бросает сразу в пекло, без пристрелки. Никаких тренировок à la Metroid Prime. Порог вхождения высокий, нужно прям очень захотеть освоить игру

[SavitarSvit]

Поиграл в прототип миссии в портативе.
В целом игра выглядит достойно и играется так же, но что то не то...
Дизайн игрового мира не впечатляет со своими странными цветовыми решениями. В игре море текста и диалогов, даже в миссии напарники продолжаю чесать языком, поэтому отсутствие русского языка сильно портит впечатление и погружение в игру. Управление вроде четкое, но экстренно спуститься вниз за лечилкой или сломанным скеллом бывает проблематично. Бесит чувствительность наводки прицела, может в полной игре ее можно будет уменьшить.
Можно апгрейдить своего робота, можно апгрейдить операциями своего персонажа (портя его внешний вид) добавляя ему новые навыки, но все это выглядит и играется картонно, как новый Йоши в картонных дикарациях, из-за порой странных цветовых решений и не покидающего чувства, что ты в рамках, как в ангаре, так и на миссии, в которой есть поля за которые вылетать нельзя.

И все бы нечего, но игра не цепляет. Поиграл чуток и отложил. Я прошел 3 или 4 миссии и мне надоело. Игре просто нечего вам предложить и нечем увлечь. Все эти сражения напомнили серию игр про Гандам, среди которых есть хорошие игры, но кто сейчас сядит в них играть?

P.S Про порог вхождения я не согласен. На первой миссии вам объясняют назначение 6-ти кнопок и вперед. Ничего там премудрого нету.

Сообщение отредактировал SavitarSvit - Пятница, 15 февраля 2019, 19:00

[Manwe]

Про порог вхождения я не согласен. На первой миссии вам объясняют назначение 6-ти кнопок и вперед. Ничего там премудрого нету.

Я избалован трёхмерными Метроидами на Wii и 3DS, там объясняют: вот есть одна кнопочка, понажимай её 10 раз. Молодец, получилось. А вот вторая кнопочка, она делает то-то, попробуй 10 раз. Молодец. А теперь попробуй их одновременно. Десять раз. Ура, получилось.
А тут - сразу в бой. Пока понял, что камера управляется не так как я привык, уже половину здоровья потратил. Потом в настройках еле нашёл как инвертировать ось Y. В общем, явно неказуальное начало.

[Hellrazor]

Что-то вы меня расстроили. Одна из немногих игр, которая мне была интересна на свече