Comments on: Battleswarm: Field of Honor, Bushnell’s Revenge

By: Snakebite

Snakebite — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:45:39 +0000

This game is alright, granted it is still in beta.

By: a

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:06:41 +0000

Of the two download links, one’s timing out for me and one won’t go faster than 30 kbps. Shame, this looks like fun. I guess I’m waiting for it to finish,

By: Dominic White

Dominic White — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:05:37 +0000

Okay, I can say this: This is actual beta testing. It isn’t ‘pre-release demo with everything active’. They seem to have disabled a lot of features, and are going through things one by one to test them out. At the moment, they’re bombarding people with seasonal (easter, christmas, valentines) quests to see if they work.

The equipment/creature upgrade systems are currently disabled, and loot drops seem downright weird at the moment, so I don’t think we can really judge the final gameplay based on this.

By: Savage Designer

Savage Designer — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:05:01 +0000

its a RTS/FPS/Action frankenstein. But this incarnation has less guns, looks like.

They need to release Savage 3.

By: Player2

Player2 — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:05:11 +0000

Yar, double post. I blame the lack of edit buttons :P
@Savage- How does it look ANYTHING like Savage 2?

By: Player2

Player2 — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:03:54 +0000

@Dominic- Ooh, that sounds incredibly intuitive. I recall I only ever played as humans in games such as Tremulous or Natural Selection as I found shooting things more fun, but now I’ll be forced to play as some bugs so my marine can be the buff badass he should be :D

By: Savage Designer

Savage Designer — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:24:35 +0000

Looks like Savage 2

By: Dominic White

Dominic White — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:48:37 +0000

Seems that there’s actually quite a few clever design decisions in this. To heal, marines have to play a risky game, and pick up the glowing blue crystals that aliens drop. This’ll get you random health/armor/loot. However, the bug players can call down slightly delayed artillery strikes anywhere on the map – that big pile of crystals that a wounded marine is running to is a very good target. I’ve been caught out by this a few times.

Also, you get Bug upgrades when playing as Marines, and Marine upgrades when playing as Bugs, so to progress you need to alternate between the two games.

By: Tei

Tei — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:23:49 +0000

Sounds a bit like Sacrifice multiplayer :-)

By: Howard

Howard — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:21:11 +0000

Hmmm, also it looks unlikely it will get fixed. The forums are a ghost town and there is no other way to provide feedback.

File this under “amateur hour” and move on me thinks…

By: Howard

Howard — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:17:02 +0000

I’m guessing that’s ‘cos your *is* a widescreen monitor maybe?

Odd to have an issue with normal aspect ratio and widescreen support for a change lol

By: Dominic White

Dominic White — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:06:23 +0000

Weird – it identifies all of my monitors supported resolutions. I’m running quite happily at 1440 x 900.

Well, this is a beta – tell them the problem, and hope it gets fixed.