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lineus Tech tips coverage of PS 2013 is brought to you by Western Digital Intel

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and steel series hey guys we're here at gala Z at the Indie Mega booth just

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checking out their game and I had to stop by because it looks so much fun

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this looks like asteroids but way later with all the advancements that it should

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have had what can you tell me about this game so this is a culmination of years

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of of shooter kind of experience and shooter inspiration I guess put together

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so I mean it obviously looks like a classic 16bit shooter game but it's

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actually under the hood it's more like a modern shter it's much more like something like Far Cry 3 where you've

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got you know very dedicated AI very dedicated uh physics the explosions and

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stuff all have actually physics bombs they'll send guys off flying the AI

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we've teamed up with a company called sentient they're a new uh Hardware or a new software company they're making

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middleware for AI for really high-end Ai and so we've got that plugged into the

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game where this is more like I mean it really is something similar to like Far Cry 3 and 2D these guys have Vision

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cones they can hear you they're out on random controls looking for you if they

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hear something fishy they'll go into an investigation mode if they locate you

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they'll call backup I mean they're very good at like pinning their fire down on

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you getting you in a trial position and like taking you down the weaker guys will stay out they let the the bigger

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guys come in after you um it's not a shooting game where you just pop them a

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couple times and they go down I mean some of the bigger guys it's like a real drawn out heavy duty combat so I love

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Modern Combat stuff like I love Halo I love Far Cry 3 and we really wanted to

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get that feeling of just like this intense combat experience perfect outer

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space dog fighting into this game where it looks like you're looking through the

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lens of a classic 16 bit you know space shooter but it's very much not a schmu

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it's not a twin stick shooter it's an action adventure game that's very combat

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focused and that's great and dropping names for AI like Far Cry 3 is big but

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if I and if I hadn't seen the gameplay so far I would kind of look at you in an

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interesting way but I've seen it I've seen what you're talking about you're definitely completely right some

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interesting things that I just saw a few seconds ago was actually he was hiding

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behind a rock and the AI was not able to find him because he wasn't shooting for

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one so he couldn't track down his shots and he wasn't using his uh his boost so

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they couldn't hear his boost that's really interesting you don't usually see

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AI elements like that in a game like this so it's it's awesome that you called that out um what other mechanics

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core mechanics do you find in this game um it's we kind of compare a lot to ice

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hockey where you're you know you're very aggressively moving around but you need to be as good moving backwards as you

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are forwards so they we've got forward thrusters side thrusters back thrusters

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you know you've got a very finite level of control over the ship so you're like boosting around shooting backwards is a

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big thing like you fly up on a guy lay into him you can jump over him for a

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second out of the gameplay plane land on the other side still facing him and lay

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into him as you're boosting backwards and then you like lock on with your missiles and let him have it so you know

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the combat is just very intense it's super engaging and it's it's organic and

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it's evolving all the time so every combat experience is different and it's always engaging one thing that I've

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noticed about the Indie megao so far is a lot of the games here just make you

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feel like a badass while you're playing them and being able to flip over people

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and jump all over the place and lock on missiles and dance around and Dodge

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around a boss and hide behind rocks and all this kind of stuff is just so cool

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because you're very active into the game it's it's a game that has a story but

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while you're really really action based the entire time anyways and talking

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about a game that has a story what is the setting for this game so the setting

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is deep space you're part of the kind of the Human Alliance you know Earth

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Federation uh I got to come up with a cool name which I haven't done yet but

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you're you're in deep space and there's a terrible Ambush by the enemy Imperials

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and the fleet is basically devastated and you are like one of the last

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Fighters you're kind of a green pilot you don't have much experience the guy

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who owns the ship that you're in was actually killed on the deck when they got hit so he jumped into one of the

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last remaining Fighters got out you can see the beginning of the the intro he

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sort of there a big battle there he kind of barely gets his way out of it and

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gets knocked out and goes flying off into deep space he's picked up later by

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one of the the last remaining sort of Mega craft and he's the last fighter so

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she's like get back here you know and so you get back to the ship and you have to

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kind of start you know exploring the Galaxy mining for resources powering

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back up your mother's ship and being able to jump further and further as you're repairing your ship you know

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you're very out gun you're very out man so it's just sort of you know going out on these missions doing some Recon

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finding supplies bringing them back to the ship powering it up and then being

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able to move on to further levels yeah like you're talking mining for resources

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finding all these supplies all this kind of stuff another thing I noticed is you can blow up the rocks and you can blow

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up shipwrecks to loot things what kind of stuff is someone expecting to find in

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these objects well these ships are the wreckage of you know Giant star Fighters

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that have been destroyed in these battles so there's all kinds of supplies on board there's Health packs there's uh

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you know fuel upgrades there's missile upgrades there's all kinds of of stuff

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to upgrade your ship and move on you're looking for the warp crystals which are

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really powerful for your engines to get back online so you guys can warp further and further trying to get home through

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deeply occupied enem enemy space um it's you know think of something like

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Borderlands too where you're upgrading your weapons you're upgrading your your abilities you know Metroid is a huge

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inspiration for this obviously so that sort of you know just this this genuine

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long ramp up of just getting better and getting new abilities and powering up

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and feeling like a badass the whole time a great a great reference that you just

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made Borderlands too the the loot hungry person in so many Gamers I've noticed

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will enjoy this game because while you're dodging around while you're actively fighting while you're trying to

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lock on missiles while you're doing all that stuff you're always blowing up

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rocks and blowing up shipwrecks and all this kind of stuff and also getting all

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these little objects like you're talking about the warp the warp core thing that you're just talking about that's that's

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great now as we can see in the background there's giant enemies and

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earlier we saw one of the reviewers playing and there was what seemed like a boss chasing him around and that took a

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long time but once he got stuck in a corner and was like okay this is it

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every once I'm lock on missiles just blow everything away is there is there

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more like boss style enemies in this game yes there's going to be some very large enemies to take down here you know

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uh you may need to take on with a friend we're going to be working on sort of the

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the network multiplayer like what that looks like yet um we haven't really done

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any testing but we've got some big Ideas uh you know we're still like I said

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we're about a year out still so we've got a lot of work to do but uh we intend

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to have the you know tiny enemies all the way up to massive scale stuff like

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really Dynamic epic space drama that's great and like to see that

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you're almost a year out and I know it's a kind of not the biggest demo ever but

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it's very polished as far as I've seen so that's great I'm really excited to

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see where you guys can take this in a year I know you guys are all about Innovation so I'm expecting fully to see

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a few extra things I know you said you haven't even named part of the game yet

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which is great because in a year from now that'll be named and there'll be

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other stuff in the game very excited is there anything else you want to add on

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um I mean I I just hope people can come by the birth this weekend and check it out if not you know we'll be launching

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on PS4 and on Steam uh we have high hopes for the game we think I mean the

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response has been phenomenal this weekend everyone loves it um and we're just having a fantastic time this has

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been a great weekend so thanks for coming down and thank you for showing me

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