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After a long night of wrestling with their video editing software, inXile have finally uploaded the long-awaited Wasteland 2 gameplay video. It's 17 minutes long and narrated by producer/design director Chris Keenan. The accompanying Kickstarter update explains:
In addition to the video and the aforementioned Mark Morgan track, the update also contains two new pieces of concept art.
After a long night of wrestling with their video editing software, inXile have finally uploaded the long-awaited Wasteland 2 gameplay video. It's 17 minutes long and narrated by producer/design director Chris Keenan. The accompanying Kickstarter update explains:
We are very proud to provide the first gameplay video of Wasteland 2, which will allow our backers to see how far we've come and how everything is coming together. The usual way of doing things in this industry would see us create a demo specifically for displaying to the press or at game shows, but we're very glad to have been allowed the freedom to create a demo video from an actually playable area, which ensures there's no wasted code. This is a straight video capture of Development Director Chris Keenan playing the game. The only element that is not running in code is the sound effects, as it was faster to do in post, but as you will hear, there is nothing being done audio wise that isn't easily replicated in engine. In fact, we plan to have many more sound effects in the final game than what is heard here.
[...] This first level you will see is one of the first areas you will encounter in the game. The agricultural center was also a part of Wasteland 1. It was an area that Chris Avellone had some affinity for and he did the design for the level. Also thanks goes out to Nathan Long, who provided this area’s clever writing. We had a chance to show Chris the level last week, and when we commented that it was coming together he said “not coming together … it has COME together.”
Our objective was to show off some of the HUD and how both the combat and skill systems work. There are many elements not represented here but to name a few:
- Minimal particle effects
- Minimal sound
- Mini-map not working
- Inventory, logbook and other character screens not shown
- Not all skills (in and out of combat) being represented
- No world map movement
- It needs more messaging in the UI
- And not a comprehensive list of all the combat variables
You will get to listen to the latest track from Mark Morgan (at the bottom of this update) that sets the haunting and often desolate tone of the Wasteland. And you will hear our first pass at the radio broadcasting which plays a vital role in communication, reactivity and mood setting. There will be a host of cults who are broadcasting their propaganda while other calls will be the locals who seek the help of our rangers. We have many interesting ideas on how to use the radio in novel ways.
Our vision for this game remains intact and you will see a number of examples that illustrate this. The customization can be seen in the examples of bringing in your own portraits and by the ability to set the user interface in a style that works for you.
You wanted a party and turn based RPG with tactical combat, and we are delivering that. The demo helps to show off action points, use of cover, enemy view cones, distance/height/enemy size/enemy speed affecting the chance to hit, ammo configurations, attributes changing the characters strengths and role, simultaneous party firing and more. And we are not done adding elements to make sure you are fully engaged in an interesting combat system. There is still plenty of time for you to comment on the combat system and to help us hone it in. Our goal is to build a very deep combat system, with the potential to dive in and fine-tune your damage-output and tactics, while not absolutely requiring that level of micro-management from all players.
In addition to the video and the aforementioned Mark Morgan track, the update also contains two new pieces of concept art.
from that rad-scorpion scene! Dialogue didn't bother me. I guess playing all the oldies but goodies like Wasteland and Ultima VI & VII make me used to it. Love all the descriptive text even as your walking by something and it "pops up" a description. I'm amazed how just that short video with the descriptions really helps with... dare I say it... IMMERSHUN!! Only issues I see at the moment are the size of the UI which I hope I can't make smaller and enemy perception of your party seems a little lacking. The flies and grub didn't seem to mind you walking all around them and that raider didn't seem to see very much except what was directly in front of him. However, I also really liked the three dimensional perspective when they shot the Supafly from the 2nd story. I hope this is something that increases your tactical options during intense firefights and isn't just an "easy kill" 
, I know this may be too early to make a definitive statement like this but with what I see here and have seen with Shadowrun well..... I believe we may really, really, super truly be seeing the beginning of the return of good cRPGs from that long lost era of the 80s and 90s.
