Days of War - new WW2 online shooter coming out this year

snow patrol · 29 Feb 2016 at 08:24

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/drivenarts/days-of-war-early-access

"Days of War is an online multiplayer shooter that aims to revive the style of classic WW2 shooters from the 2000-2010 era using Epic Games' Unreal Engine 4."

The only thing I'd say by looking at the pre-alpha footage is that the player movement does look very fast. But graphically it looks very detailed and intense. And it's coming out several months before battalion 1944, which obviously everyone has gone crazy over.

I've pledged $19 which will get me steam early access. Reckon that's got to be worth it...

snow patrol · 29 Feb 2016 at 09:06

Swifty55 said:
Looks better than Squad on the same engine...

They also need to lower the prices for Alpha access, £71? No thanks.

$79 = £56 but agreed, does seem fairly steep

snow patrol · 11 Mar 2016 at 10:55

Looks like they're really listening to feedback and have promised to lower movement speed (especially the strafing speed) and increase recoil etc.

Also, the map editor looks good and very easy to use. It even has a first person mode a la minecraft!

snow patrol · 12 Mar 2016 at 09:49

32v32 would be great...depending on map size of course.

snow patrol · 15 Mar 2016 at 09:25

They've redone it with a lower funding goal and basically removed the console part (or they'll develop for console if they reach 80k or so). I think it's good that they've done this. I've backed $29

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/drivenarts/days-of-war-early-access

snow patrol · 15 Mar 2016 at 09:27

new gameplay looks really good. They've lowered movement speed...i'm rather excited about how this is shaping up

snow patrol · 30 Jan 2017 at 10:08

i've not played this yet as i don't have a pc unfortunately. I did back it though, with high hopes based on the initial kickstarter videos. However, from all the youtube footage i've seen of the early access version - it really doesn't look that good at all to be honest. Very buggy and rough, and far too fast.

Why do companies feel it's fine to release games that clearly aren't ready?

I really hope battalion 1944 will stomp all over this. The devs seem to be taking their time with that though...hopefully a good thing