Luftrausers by Vlambeer - Aerial momentum combat, PAX 2013
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·2014-05-07
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Linus Tech tips coverage of pxs 2013 is brought to you by Western Digital Intel
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and steel series hey guys I'm here with a company from the Netherlands called
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lambir with their game L Rouser did I say that correctly yeah LIF Rouser okay
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awesome um this game is really interesting because it's like no other
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aerial combat game I've ever played it's really really hard to describe actually
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pretty much impossible but the main way I can do it is to say that you're flying
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around and you can instantly change direction by flipping because you have
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to activate your thruster whatever the heck you want to call it you're the
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power on your plane and then you can let go and flip around however you want and
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burst in another Direction the whole time while shooting the whole time while under attack playing this game makes you
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feel like an absolute badass and when you're done you feel like you suck
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because you didn't hit anything that you actually wanted to and you didn't complete the goals you wanted to but
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it's so much fun you have to play it again it's one of those games that you want people to watch you because you
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feel so badass while you're playing is there anything else you can tell me about this game well no I I guess that
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is pretty that is pretty much the the idea of the game is to make you feel
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like the best fighter fighter in the world and then sort of make you realize
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that you're probably not it's a game about Mastery it's about a game about getting better at something um and it's
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yeah it's hard to describe the feeling of like changing momentum it's a game
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that we've been working on for a while now and to hear people get it like that is super exciting that's awesome and
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like he said it's a game to get better at that's for sure because the second I
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was done the first round I wanted to play again because I was like no I can
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do that better I I know I can dodge that in a different way I can flip this way
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burst back and I'll Dodge that and kill this guy and but then every time you
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jump back in it's different and the planes can be different too there's a
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bunch of customizability can you tell me more about that yeah so there's 125
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different airplanes you can build you can changee the engine the wings the weapons and the body and depending on
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the airplane you build you have a completely different play style some airplanes can go underwater some have
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homing missiles some have lasers some have body armor so there's a whole
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wealth of of airplan you can build every one of them has a unique soundtrack and
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a unique name so um if you build a different airplane the music for the
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game changed as well um it's really it's really a way for us to sort of play
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around with how people play a game and also allow them to get better at
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something they like instead of just forcing them to do this one specific
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thing so it's a fun thing it's a fun thing to play around with to experiment
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with that's that's so true because when I was playing I played a few different
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planes but my favorite one was as you were saying one that could go underwater
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and one that could shoot missiles because i' i' jump under the water flip
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around like crazy and shoot missiles and then run away and get back underwater again and I found that to work really
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well for me but who knows what'll work for you there's 125 combinations like
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you just said you should definitely try them all out how can someone get this
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game so the game isn't out yet but it's going to be out soon it's going to be releasing on PC Mac and Linux through
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Steam it will be available through the humble widget and it will launch on
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PlayStation 3 and PlayStation feedo simultaneously with the PC release
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that's awesome so you can pretty much get it almost any way you want and you should because this game looks epic and
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if you're one of those kind of people that play games with other friends this is an awesome spectator sport game thank
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