Silent_Buddha
Legend
I could have sworn I'd posted about this here before. [Edit - found it, had to look in my e-mail archive to see that it changed its name]
I kickstarted this back in 2015. Back then it was called Umbra. This was the thread I created back then (https://forum.beyond3d.com/threads/umbra-kickstarter.56864/ ).
For the first 3 years or so the project was pretty janky and I wondered if this indie studio would be able to pull off such an ambitious project. They gave out alpha/beta keys back in 2016 to those of us that Kickstarted the game and it eventually opened up to more people through early access on Steam.
Well, the good news is that it appears they have. The game is fantastic. Looks great and the control feel is fantastic. I've popped into it from time to time just to see their progress, but have tried to avoid playing it until release.
Well, for anyone interested in a Diablo style ARPG, the game officially launches tomorrow. So, that's when I'll try to come up with some time to play through the game. Been hearing good things about the campaign so I'm excited.
So, this means that the only remaining games that I've crowd funded that hasn't released yet is Wasteland 3 and Star Citizen. I think I know which one will have a retail release first.
Anyway, I just wanted to let people know about this and give a huge kudos to Wolcen Studio (formerly SolarFall Games during their Kickstarter) for getting to the release milestone. Also a huge kudos for not launching early (other than early access) and for the game being so relatively well polished.
That's not something you see too often with indie Kickstarter games. And honestly, at the state the game was in after 3 years of development, I was thinking this would be another failed project by an Indie developer with ambitions larger than their ability. I'm really happy to see them persevere.
PS - the graphics are really good for an ARPG. And for an indie CryEngine game, the performance is great and the controls are very responsive.
Regards,
SB
I kickstarted this back in 2015. Back then it was called Umbra. This was the thread I created back then (https://forum.beyond3d.com/threads/umbra-kickstarter.56864/ ).
For the first 3 years or so the project was pretty janky and I wondered if this indie studio would be able to pull off such an ambitious project. They gave out alpha/beta keys back in 2016 to those of us that Kickstarted the game and it eventually opened up to more people through early access on Steam.
Well, the good news is that it appears they have. The game is fantastic. Looks great and the control feel is fantastic. I've popped into it from time to time just to see their progress, but have tried to avoid playing it until release.
Well, for anyone interested in a Diablo style ARPG, the game officially launches tomorrow. So, that's when I'll try to come up with some time to play through the game. Been hearing good things about the campaign so I'm excited.
So, this means that the only remaining games that I've crowd funded that hasn't released yet is Wasteland 3 and Star Citizen. I think I know which one will have a retail release first.
Anyway, I just wanted to let people know about this and give a huge kudos to Wolcen Studio (formerly SolarFall Games during their Kickstarter) for getting to the release milestone. Also a huge kudos for not launching early (other than early access) and for the game being so relatively well polished.
That's not something you see too often with indie Kickstarter games. And honestly, at the state the game was in after 3 years of development, I was thinking this would be another failed project by an Indie developer with ambitions larger than their ability. I'm really happy to see them persevere.
PS - the graphics are really good for an ARPG. And for an indie CryEngine game, the performance is great and the controls are very responsive.
Regards,
SB
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