Miner Wars is a 6DOF underground and space shooter played in a fully destructible environment and is a combination of single player story game and MMO.
As a player, you operate an advanced mining ship in an open world asteroid belt area. You dig kilometers of tunnels, harvest the ore, travel the solar system, fight your enemies and discover deep secrets.
Game play is led by an epic story and is a combination of a single/multi-player game, cooperative, or you against everyone.
The story will introduce you to many types of missions: rescue, exploration, revenge, base defense, theft, transportation, stealth, search and destroy, pure harvesting, racing or just flying around and destroying everything you see.
[*]Multiplayer: Yes
[*]System requirements:
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* CPU: 2.0 GHz
* RAM: 1GB (1.5GB on Windows Vista)
* Graphics Card: NVidia GeForce 6 series or better, ATI Radeon R520 (X1300-X1950) or better, Intel GMA X3000 or better. Requires at least Pixel-Shader 3.0. More info
* Video Memory: 128 MB
* Hard Drive: 1 GB
* Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c Compatible
* Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Microsoft Vista
* DirectX: DX9.0c or DX10
* Network: Active internet connection during installation and during game play!
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Platform: Windows, Xbox 360 Live Arcade
Being a multi platform, I seriously doubt that this will be a space combat simulator. Alas, it seems to be more arcade than simulator.
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It looks not bad at all from concepts and the videos. Perhaps them being a small developer, they have not yet been tainted by the cash whoring known as console game development, so they make a port of the PC gameplay.
No joystick support, no way target hostile ships and no view controls... So far. It's still in alpha. They didn't have no option for a cockpit view and after some insisting from some gamers they implemented.
The atmosphere seems to be nice.
I've been playing the Demo for a bit now. It feels like Descent but I guess I was hoping for alot more. The controls are ok if very arcadish, which is fine if that's what you enjoy. The tunneling option is fairly novel but I think without some sort of extra stuff added to the world it's just going to be floating astroids with holes in them. It may just be because of the very early release but the entire thing just feels devoid of life or variety to me, and will wind up being a pure PVP game, which kind of confuses me how they're making that an MMO. The cockpit view is really a bit annoying, I guess they are going for gritty space vehicles because your windshield is fucking disgusting, kept making me want to clean my monitor or something.
When you're out in space, alot of the textures and lighting against objects reminds me alot of the look and feel of X3 without all of the coolness.
Because of how huge the 2 astroids are that I started near, when I did find them it felt like I was shooting at an ant while using a smaller ant, and when you do get close it just turns into a straffing war where you spin around each other. I saw that the options has an ability to disable engines and I was really hoping this was going to work similar to Freelancer where you disable the engines and can freefloat and spin yourself around to make yourself more manueverable and unpredictable in combat, however the way the movement in the game works is that as long as you hold down Forward you move forward, if you release, the ship comes to a steady stop; with that said, when you cut the power, the ship floats for a bit and stops, however it then seems to take a bit to restart it like i'm driving the Pigeot of spacecraft.
In conclusion, I have alot of hope for this game because you do not often see decent Space Games released and this one could possibly pull something out of its ass, but it's going to have to develop something more than 2Fort in space.
just tested the demo for few seconds (cause thats all i have for now:( (later will play more:)
it is looking good imo, i mean graphic is good(i like the lights on the meteorites and the shadows) and the idea looks fine, i guess i will have to play more
It requires XNA Redist, 3.1 specifically so 4.0 won't launch it as they're separate, in case you had that one installed already.
(Similar to .Net or VC++ revisions I'd guess.)
It's still in alpha status (Unsure how the demo works though.) so it's mostly a sandbox style test but with AI pilots and a number of locations like that space station thing and asteroid with various stuff in it.
I could be wrong though but it's some way still until it'll be ready as how the current version feels (There's a 3D like HUD now, wasn't in the previous version, we're seeing progress - that's sort of how it feels currently, AI is also being improved and some other smaller additions, haven't checked the changelogs so I am uncertain what's changed aside from what I notice while testing stuff.)
It's still in alpha status (Unsure how the demo works though.) so it's mostly a sandbox style test but with AI pilots and a number of locations like that space station thing and asteroid with various stuff in it.
I could be wrong though but it's some way still until it'll be ready as how the current version feels (There's a 3D like HUD now, wasn't in the previous version, we're seeing progress - that's sort of how it feels currently, AI is also being improved and some other smaller additions, haven't checked the changelogs so I am uncertain what's changed aside from what I notice while testing stuff.)
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well, i think there is potecial here and i like the craft features like the little iron arm to grab stuff probably and the digger and the lights on off.
we'll see if the final product meet the expectations.
Mine Wars 2081 was greenlit on steam in 2nd wave.
Release Date : 1st december
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Dear Miner Wars Alphans,
We just got confirmation on the official launch date – Miner Wars 2081 is scheduled to launch in a month from now. More detailed date will be announced in advance.
On this occasion we just released an update to the beta build – 31 missions, 100 hand-crafted space cities and billions of procedurally generated sectors.
We ask our community to report any problem they may find to our forums or directly to support@minerwars.com
Thank you.
Best Regards,
Marek Rosa & The Miner Wars Team
What's new:
- Voice-overs for all missions
- Chapters are saved on each checkpoint (until now chapters were generated only on mission start)
- Bugfixes and optimizations (hundreds of small fixes)
and SP/Coop(2-16players) campaign length should be around 15 hours
appered on steam now - date is 28th November Miner Wars 2081
Miner Wars 2081 is a 6DOF action-survival space-shooter simulation-game set in the year 2081, 10 years after the destruction of all planetary objects in the Solar System. You operate an advanced mining ship in a fully destructible and open-world environment, which remains persistent as you complete missions or play online with others.
Realism and survival are key aspects of gameplay. Inventory and the way you use resources such as fuel, ammunition, oxygen, ore, and weapons are important when surrounded by dozens of warring factions.
The gameplay is driven by an epic story and offers a choice of single player, co-op, and death-match multi-player.
Genre: Akcion, Adventure, RPG, Indie, Simulation
The story will introduce you to many types of missions: rescue, exploration, revenge, base defense, theft, transportation, stealth, search and destroy, pure harvesting, racing, or just flying around and destroying everything you see.
Open-world Environment
Fully destructible and persistent (dig through asteroids, build / destroy space stations ...)
Seamless transition between outdoor and indoor environments
Full Solar System traveling (billions of sectors)
Intuitive Controls
6DOF - six degrees of freedom
Skill-based game
Fast adrenaline-pumping action
Joystick Support
Rich Gameplay
Story campaign - 31 epic missions
Mining and Exploration – Players are encouraged to explore and harvest
Trading & Looting
50 weapons, armors, medicines, tools...
22 player ships
RPG-like / Survival game-play
Multi-player
Co-op up to 16 players
Death-match up to 16 players
Survival & sandbox
Factions (Fourth Reich, Euro-American Confederation, China …)
Devoted community which crowd-funded the development
In-game editor
Only now do I notice this...I apparently don't follow games that actively anymore. :/
But this looks very good and after watching a few trailers and gameplay videos,I'm hooked.
saw this on steam just now, so is this fully done and playable now? I remember not all too long ago I played a techdemo which was mostly just that a techdemo.
Figure there will be a scene release for this or is it online only ?
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