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Announcement blog post : http://www.theastronauts.com/2017/12/new-game-witchfire/

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As someone who really enjoyed Ethan Carter, I am excited to see more of this game.

Thoughts?
 
glad you made a thread for this. Looks great, (looks a bit too great? - i'll wait to see actual confirmed gameplay videos, too many pre-rendered vids doing the rounds)

and fingers crossed for VR support
 
Rasseru said:
glad you made a thread for this. Looks great, (looks a bit too great? - i'll wait to see actual confirmed gameplay videos, too many pre-rendered vids doing the rounds)
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The game will be using Photogrammetry (using real life photographs to make models). The Vanishing of Ethan Carter also used it, and that game looked amazing! Here is an interesting blog post that the developers wrote about it from when they were making Ethan Carter http://www.theastronauts.com/2014/03/visual-revolution-vanishing-ethan-carter/
 
Ah cool, didn't know know that. I've done it before with small objects for a personal project.

It still looks pre-rendered. The smoothness of the turning doesn't look natural
 
Hope you can turn down/disable that head bob/roll simulation even just the videos make me go urgh never mind actually playing it if it is like that.

I have no idea why some developers persist in head motion simulation that can't be disabled or adjusted - sure some people need a small amount of it so they don't feel like they are gliding around on ice/floating head but IRL you automatically cancel it out so for most people it makes zero sense to simulate it.
 
I think we need to see a bit more footage later on but it's an interesting and compelling start. As someone else mentioned, Painkiller was a great game from the mid-2000s.
 
Wasn't too impressed when I read it was going early access, but it makes more sense given that they're going for something resembling a roguelite. They mentioned Hades, Returnal, and Dead Cells in their latest blog post. Fingers crossed it's of similar quality!
 
I only noticed this the other day, and watching some videos it looks promising, getting destiny 2, vermintide and the hunt sort of vibes. Seems a bit expensive for early access though.
 
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sgavan said:
I only noticed this the other day, and watching some videos it looks promising, getting destiny 2, vermintide and the hunt sort of vibes. Seems a bit expensive for early access though.
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I got it through Steam last year and put 123 hours in, it's really quite good, although I found it very meh initially. Once you get a little progression and open up more areas and weapons, the combat loop is great.
Have not played in a while, but there is a new update coming Monday, with an entirely new area, and I believe something approaching a tutorial, which is something the game really needed.
 
I played this about a year ago on a friends account and loved it, gunplay is literally top tier.
€40 for an early access game is a bit much though.
 
I watched several reviews and gameplay and even though early access and I generally dont buy into it, this seems to be one of those that seemed to have really great content and focus already, and I'm not dissapointed, just started but really like this. The graphics are amazing, the gunplay and magic are great. There's a lot to learn about the upgrades etc and it can be tense trying to extract with some decent stuff without dying.
 
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