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#4303712 - 10/16/16 09:52 PM Badiya?!!!!  
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Lawrence of Arabia simulator! Set between WW1&WW2. I just learned of this today and it sounds awesome. Apparently it will come to Steam Early Access first. I don't know much about it but it looks awesome. Procedural world, survival, character customization, trains, camels, tanks, hunting with a falcon! Man this could be cool.

http://semaphorelab.com/en/badiya/#overview



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#4303720 - 10/16/16 10:44 PM Re: Badiya?!!!! [Re: Coot]  
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It looks interesting. Will have to wait and see on release though. It could easily go either way.

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I agree. I'm hoping it turns out well though because this is just really cool. Reminds me a bit of Codename Eagle with all the different vehicles and stuff. I heard something about it having a procedural narrative which sounds good but if not executed right there's not much of a story to be had. I hope they are able to give the player purpose as well as some background and lore.


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#4303769 - 10/17/16 08:45 AM Re: Badiya?!!!! [Re: Coot]  
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Codename Eagle.That's a game I've not heard mentioned for a while.I used to play it over LAN with my son.It was pretty amazing as I remember. Tanks,planes and ships all in the same game,a precursor for the BF series.


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#4303821 - 10/17/16 01:34 PM Re: Badiya?!!!! [Re: Coot]  
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Someone trying to compete with BF1 I guess?

I would like to see it, BF-style gameplay is limited.




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Yeah I loved Codename Eagle. It was a great game and I spent so much time in it. There was one mission in particular that I recall that had our character up in a zeppelin that is on fire or is crashing or something and you have to jump out with a parachute. I think it was one of the only missions that had that high of a jump or even a parachute.(I don't quite remember) I played that mission over and over again just so that I could enjoy parachuting out of the crashing zeppelin.


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#4304218 - 10/18/16 10:14 PM Re: Badiya?!!!! [Re: Jedi Master]  
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Originally Posted By: Jedi Master
Someone trying to compete with BF1 I guess?

I would like to see it, BF-style gameplay is limited.


Procedural world, survival, loot, etc, game is completely different from BF style, things in this games are slow.
This game proposal is more close to DayZ style - fortunately without the BS of zombies.





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#4304353 - 10/19/16 12:46 PM Re: Badiya?!!!! [Re: Coot]  
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Oh. I don't care for DayZ-style, zombies or no, so that's a strike against it.

Survival games hold zero appeal for me.



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#4304361 - 10/19/16 01:08 PM Re: Badiya?!!!! [Re: Coot]  
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Let's face it, any game with a World War I setting will have very limited appeal.


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In this video - first part, a bit of what is the gameplay, notice the guy collecting wood, interacting with NPC...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GwsBb-i-Tc

In this kind of game players waste more time customizing their personage and moving here and there than in "action".

"Badiya is an infinite procedural survival and exploration game set in the desert.
Players must explore and discover the supplies needed for survival while taking the opportunity to discover outposts, villages, camps, and ancient ruins."


The game propose don't mention to be "WW1 FPS game", just that is set in Arabian deserts in a era between WW1 and WW2, the Thompson looks a M1A1.

For WW1 "pew pew" stay on BF1. wink









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So it's just Ark/Rust/DayZ/insert word here.

We have ONE "pew pew" WW1 game, and no WW1 tactical FPS, but we have so many survival games you can't get away from them.

I don't understand the appeal of these things. It feels to me like a first person spreadsheet.



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Verdun don't fit in this "tactical FPS"?

http://www.verdungame.com/

#4304753 - 10/20/16 01:22 PM Re: Badiya?!!!! [Re: Coot]  
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If it doesn't have SP, no.

MP-only is just as pew-pew as BF.



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#4305356 - 10/22/16 03:33 AM Re: Badiya?!!!! [Re: Coot]  
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It doesn't look like Rust or DayZ or any of those kinds of games to me at all. To me it looks like Codename Eagle/Red Dead Redemption-like world with animals/Hitman and so on. I guess we shall see. No need to complain though. At least there is someone out there pursuing more unique times and locations for their games.


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This features are typical from DayZ style games.



Notice that even corporal temperature is need control.

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I don't play DayZ as I don't like zombie stuff save for the Last of Us. Those look like good features for a survivalesk game especially in this setting.


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#4305906 - 10/24/16 01:27 PM Re: Badiya?!!!! [Re: Coot]  
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I think we have a disconnect on the meaning of the word "looks".

Screenshot shows unholy trinity of hunger, thirst, and temperature = looks like typical survival game, be it zombies, vampires, Huns, Egyptians, or Martians. It can be cartoon cell-shaded like Borderlands or colorful Overwatch or drab DayZ--it still "looks" the same to me.

Survival games are up there with train, truck, and farm sims for "things I don't want to spend my few precious gaming hours per week doing."

I would like something like WWI/WWII tactical Far Cry/Assasin's Creed/whatever. Ghost Recon Wildlands looks like a modern day version of that but without worrying about sleep, or water bottles, or building a tent out of papyrus and spit.

Hidden and Dangerous was a great series and though it never went that far, it almost went far enough.



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Games with survival elements don't necessarily need include Zombies or similar BS to be good.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/305620
http://store.steampowered.com/app/282070

This Bardiya have good chance to be one - just is not another WW1/2 "pew pew" game, although the guy in YT use the actual BF1 hype to name their video according.

IMO although DayZ give your initial success to Zombies, will be a better survival game if instead Zombies have a aggressive wild life in their place.

BTW - After COD World at War what game based on WW1/2 have good singleplayer campaign?

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Sniper Elite 2 and 3.

Unfortunately, other than those no devs want to make them anymore. Apparently they believe that a large number of games coming out in the last decade is sufficient reason to avoid making any in this one.




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