Author Topic: From Dust - out on XBL (Read 2248 times)

naff · « **on:** April 14, 2011, 07:23:05 AM »

Eric Chahi's finally made a new game and it looks hot

Achievements are out, it's coming July 20th PSN, XBL and Steam

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From Dust is about a tribe that has lost its memory – a tribe devoid of culture, of history, of tradition, the foundations of identity and civilisation– and at the mercy of hostile forces of nature. In an effort to reclaim their history, the tribe performs the only ritual that it can remember and summon you – a mysterious force known as the Breath – to aid them by manipulating the very earth they stand upon.

http://www.vg247.com/2011/03/16/ubisoft-reveals-more-of-eric-chahis-from-dust-with-a-proper-hands-on/

http://www.gamesradar.com/xbox360/from-dust/preview/from-dust-the-best-new-sandbox-game-of-2011/a-20110316152818341029/g-2010061418197293040

1200 MSP

E3 360 gameplay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NojgdcEAETM&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8oQMg740ps&NR=1

magus · « **Reply #1 on:** April 14, 2011, 07:48:50 AM »

i understand that he's another world creator and all but this really kinda looks like an artsy fartsy game

naff · « **Reply #2 on:** April 14, 2011, 07:52:41 AM »

Yeah, like a stoners Populace

It looks great, the idea is cool and the gameplay is getting some good impressions.

demi · « **Reply #3 on:** April 14, 2011, 07:55:49 AM »

Quote from: magus on April 14, 2011, 07:48:50 AM

i understand that he's ~~another world~~ heart of darkness creator and all but this really kinda looks like an artsy fartsy game

another world is poo

naff · « **Reply #4 on:** April 14, 2011, 07:57:15 AM »

Quote from: demi on April 14, 2011, 07:55:49 AM

Quote from: magus on April 14, 2011, 07:48:50 AM
i understand that he's ~~another world~~ heart of darkness creator and all but this really kinda looks like an artsy fartsy game

another world is poo

I wouldn't say poo but I love Heart of Darkness

demi · « **Reply #5 on:** April 14, 2011, 07:58:42 AM »

I would say poo. It's cool up till you start playing Fugitive Escape from the Aliens.

chronovore · « **Reply #6 on:** April 14, 2011, 10:01:15 AM »

Isn't this the tech from a demo a year or three back? I recall there was something that looked a lot like this, an engine built around realistic depiction of real-time terraforming, lots of progressive texturing I think.

This looks really sweet.

Himu · « **Reply #7 on:** April 14, 2011, 10:24:01 AM »

buying

naff · « **Reply #8 on:** April 14, 2011, 10:29:19 AM »

All the tech for this game was shown off early last year (That tech demo above might've been what you watched Chrono?) and it was briefly talked about here in the E3 thread or some such

chronovore · « **Reply #9 on:** April 14, 2011, 09:38:24 PM »

Yeah, I think so.

I remember saying at the time, "Wow. That's pretty. I wonder how the hell they're going to build a game around that..."

naff · « **Reply #10 on:** June 14, 2011, 10:27:11 PM »

New stuff in OP

Himu · « **Reply #11 on:** June 14, 2011, 10:31:17 PM »

Quote from: Stringer Bell on April 14, 2011, 10:24:01 AM

buying

still buying

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #12 on:** June 14, 2011, 10:53:30 PM »

still buying twice

naff · « **Reply #13 on:** July 27, 2011, 06:11:14 AM »

downloading...

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #14 on:** July 27, 2011, 09:00:33 AM »

7.5 from Gamespot, but the main complaints were the AI pathfinding and some issues with console controls.

AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #15 on:** July 27, 2011, 09:11:09 AM »

Is this strictly mission based or is there some kind of free play mode to extend the ezperience?

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #16 on:** July 27, 2011, 09:19:56 AM »

waiting for pc version

naff · « **Reply #17 on:** July 27, 2011, 09:29:16 AM »

I was showing a friend this and went to zoom in on a village, I still had a little bit of lava left which set the village on fire promptly killing them all :'(

So far I don't understand the control issues some of the critics are having, I think using a pad is really nice and intuitive for this game, if a little imprecise but that seems more like an intentional mechanic than a problem. No problems with AI either, a line shows their intended path and if you want them to take shorter routes you can make paths up craggy cliffs and over rivers with sand and they modify their routes accordingly, it's a little like lemmings in the regard that they'll just go for objectives even if say to get there they have to walk right next to the mouth of an active volcano, it's up to you to make safer paths before they get to the area. Sometimes you can order them to go back, but not always.

Quote from: AdmiralViscen on July 27, 2011, 09:11:09 AM

Is this strictly mission based or is there some kind of free play mode to extend the ezperience?

The regular stages have no time limit you can mess around and do extra stuff at your leisure, I haven't tried challenge mode yet, but every new story stage unlocks the challenge mode variant for that stage

AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #18 on:** July 27, 2011, 10:19:09 AM »

Demo is pretty awesome, but I still have to play Ms Splode Bastion and Duke so I'm not in a hurry. Will def buy though.

demi · « **Reply #19 on:** July 27, 2011, 10:20:59 AM »

If anyone here has a Facebook you can try to win From Dust (and future summer games) from this little game

http://apps.facebook.com/xboxsummerofarcade/?type=discovery

The Sceneman · « **Reply #20 on:** July 27, 2011, 10:44:16 AM »

just played a few rounds, no luck. Will try again tomorrow. I want From Dust as it's pretty hot

chronovore · « **Reply #21 on:** July 27, 2011, 06:17:04 PM »

Quote from: demi on July 27, 2011, 10:20:59 AM

If anyone here has a Facebook you can try to win From Dust (and future summer games) from this little game

http://apps.facebook.com/xboxsummerofarcade/?type=discovery

It told me I was out of turns without even letting me play once. I think it's broken.

drew · « **Reply #22 on:** July 28, 2011, 12:35:35 AM »

worked for me, it let me play once, then i had to pester a friend which gave me another shot, and now it's telling me i'm out of turns for the day

naff · « **Reply #23 on:** July 28, 2011, 08:18:08 PM »

Finished all the mainline stuff, secondary objectives memories etc, I spent quite a lot of time in the main game (8-10+ hours? Not sure really) but I also just messed around a lot as well as did all the extra stuff. Loved the game, hope they do bring more mainline content and a level creator, they kind of give you a demo of user level creation at the end of the game... Won't spoil it any more than that, and they have mentioned bringing the feature later (PC version?).

Throughout the game you unlock challenge levels, there's 30 all up, they chuck you in a situation with an objective to complete like 'save the villages from the lava only using the power of water', the challenges are really good and actually require good skills and/or problem solving. A couple of them so far are seemingly really difficult but actually have simple solutions which are clear if you interpret the challenge description correctly, the seventh challenge called Xuenylom

(the description reads 'a well disguised hommage to one of our main inspirations') seems to be stumping a few people, but it's actually trivial, though I guess the wording of the challenge is cryptic enough to obscure the solution....

AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #24 on:** July 28, 2011, 10:47:07 PM »

Will get when I'm done with Bastion

chronovore · « **Reply #25 on:** July 29, 2011, 12:13:33 AM »

Played the demo today.

First level was peachy.

Second level said, "Make a bridge for the villagers to reach the icon."

I did.

They didn't.

The Sceneman · « **Reply #26 on:** July 29, 2011, 12:22:14 AM »

I would lick someones ass for a code

Don Flamenco · « **Reply #27 on:** July 29, 2011, 09:43:53 AM »

This looks pretty cool but it sounds like there are some issues that make it a game to wait on. Got Catherine and 3SO coming, then Deus Ex, then the Fall/Winter release craziness, so I'll wait for a sale on this.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #28 on:** July 29, 2011, 02:12:51 PM »

Is this coming to PC too? Look like something you´d want to play with a mouse.

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #29 on:** July 29, 2011, 03:16:41 PM »

august 17th

pilonv1 · « **Reply #30 on:** July 30, 2011, 01:52:42 AM »

PC version comes with a TF2 hat so it's the superior one

AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #31 on:** August 01, 2011, 11:57:46 AM »

This game is kind of fucking annoying

AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #32 on:** August 03, 2011, 09:00:23 PM »

I really enjoy the world building but if they are going to make it so a fire can wipe out the whole map, they should give me a mini map or some other better communication. I lose whole villages witout realizing it on larger maps.you can park 4 water trees around a fire tree and still not have a blaze take care of itself and it is hard to build fire walls.

Throw in an achievement that promotes lots of plant growth and you are fucked

naff · « **Reply #33 on:** August 04, 2011, 06:22:43 AM »

Try making fire breaks in the sand (suck up the sand till theres rock making lines where trees can't grow hence fire can't cross) and putting fire trees out of commission as soon as you can, i.e. fire tree on a beach, suck up the sand around it so the water rises and floods the tree. Remembering to use the abilities efficiently like 'put out fire' is pretty key, and getting dem fire protection flags quickly too. I found fire trees a problem on my first playthrough but on my second I've found them pretty easy to deal with.

AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #34 on:** August 04, 2011, 11:45:58 AM »

Yea, but its trial and error. They will have the lava come down a new way,or a new water source spurt from the ground, or surprise rainfall and wipe out a town before you know it. Its easy to do when you have tried it already but you have to keep resetting the stage to figure out what is coming.

Great idea having a cheevo for not losing 5 towns. Without constant resets that wont be happening on a first run.

Also second attempts take fucking forever. Even if you know exactly what to do, you have to pick up lava 80 times to rebuild that wall again, then the new wall you found out you needed on the last attept. It takes so long. I guess i should be saving more often, but sometimes that traps you too. Shit design

naff · « **Reply #35 on:** August 04, 2011, 06:52:57 PM »

Yeah I found disaster management the most exciting part, I never had to retry a stage until the last few stages (though I did get fucked up a number of times, I wasn't gong for the < 5 villages cheev), also if your going for full tree coverage wait till right at the end of a stage, or you can just finish the stage and it autosaves so you can pick up at the end and finish off if you need to later.

The Raging Earth stage ruined my shit, wish I saved during that. I retried that about 5 times, 2 of those times I reset because the ooga boogas insisted on traversing a sheer cliff and wouldn't change course no matter how many times lava kept killing them. Going back for my second attempt now and the < 5 villages destroyed achievement, already 1 village down on High Tides, don't know if resetting a stage resets how many villages you lost on it too though

AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #36 on:** August 04, 2011, 09:57:40 PM »

Im on raging earth i think

Reset before you get a game over and it doesnt count

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #37 on:** August 17, 2011, 09:01:54 PM »

i spent about an hour on the third level where it introduces lava. i had the level beaten within like 15 minutes but i spent the rest of the time diverting the water around in different ways. eventually finished with this:

really enjoying it.
however it sucks that the keyboard/mouse controls are awful and i need to use my controller anyway.

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #38 on:** August 18, 2011, 11:14:13 PM »

the sandbox nature of this game is weird because the only real objective is to populate all the villages then get to the door way out. how you do it is completely up to you. it makes it feel like i'm... like, doing it wrong? i get by a stage but i feel like i may have gamed the system or that i'm missing a key gameplay element that would have made the map make a lot more sense.

right now i'm on a map where there's a big volcano and it's dumping lava rivers down the side of a mountain so i'm trying to divert it around so i can get by.

naff · « **Reply #39 on:** August 19, 2011, 01:08:29 AM »

Quote from: fistfulofmetal on August 17, 2011, 09:01:54 PM

really enjoying it.
however it sucks that the keyboard/mouse controls are awful and i need to use my controller anyway.

Wait whaaaat? Haven't read any impressions of the PC version. How'd they fuck this up? I was thinking of double dipping for mouse support and laptop play :'(

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #40 on:** August 19, 2011, 07:04:21 AM »

It's still better on pc... Just not a lot better.

Also the framerate is locked at 30 fps

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Author Topic: From Dust - out on XBL (Read 2248 times)