Recent discussions on War for the Overworld Forum. Recent topics on War for the Overworld Forum. Topic (» jump to last post). In April 2015 when we first unleashed War for the Overworld, our take on a modern Dungeon Management Game, we could not have foreseen how incredibly.
Scharmers:Based on the videos from the sources above, this is not going to be Overlord, Dungeons, or Evil Genius. It looks like a HD-skinned DK. This makes me happy. I think these folks aren’t fucking around with the “well, it’s INSPIRED by DK,” we’re getting a “this IS DK”.Which normally I’d be irritated with, but with the complete lack of all things Dungeon Keeper since DK2, I’m awfully excited about just a “HD remake”. They can branch out into new and innovative things in a sequel, if they’re successful enough to fund it.:). OK, “Bedrock Beta” is out for this over at Steam, $20.
Quick look shows:. Slavishness to DK2 design, which is good. Look, I don’t want a “reimaging” of the old girl. I want the old girl’s direct descendant. Heh, heh, heh. Some core components in and working. Imps dig and improve.
NOT.Battle strategy: Jump on top of.Melee to death.The room on the right has a Croucher and a syringe. Cry of fear padlock code. A formidable foe. The room on the left has a Glock clip.By far the best melee weapon in the game, the Nightstick is slightly slow, but is fairly powerful.A bunch of Croucher decide to ambush you, they are not very powerful.Unless of course they look like a bunch of spiders, then eugh.Right on through to the other siI don't know the code:cMaybe this paper has something useful?Lets call that phone number.Wait.
Monsters show up if you open up a portal. There’s a long, long way to go left for this game. The UI is programmer UI. Rooms don’t really function (build a treasure room; imps continue to deposit around dungeon heart, etc.) Most of the content isn’t there yet, including most audio.Recommendation: buy now only if you have a hard-on for DK2 and absolutely release you are seeing a WIP and want to save a little money over the final release price.
Everyone else should stay away until it is cooked. I briefly wrote about WFTO as part of my:“Of the two existing Dungeon Keepers (no, the iOS version doesn’t count) War for the Overworld seems to be channelling the sequel the most, what with its brighter colour scheme, horizontal UI, lighter tone, and (my favourite) the micropiglet slaughterpen. It’s a generous and honest update judging from the time I had with the tutorial and first level but it wasn’t obvious what the major differences and presumably improvements were over Bullfrog’s seminal do-badders, so I grabbed a developer and threw him on the rack to torture some information out of him. He’d done this before (no doubt on camera with a mic in his face) because he knew exactly what to say. Branching specialisations instead of linear research, minion and group allocation and multiple call-to-arm flags for more strategic manoeuvring and control, no mindless dumping of your minions on the enemy edit: mana is depleted for dropping minions I believe, in addition to the ‘stun’ mechanic, special chambers on each map to discourage turtling and I’m sure I spotted some sort of way of stopping minions from moving into certain areas — a very welcome addition if so.
If you’re a fan of Dungeon Keeper (and why the hell not eh?) then this is one you should definitely be keeping your eye on. It’s currently in ‘Bedrock Beta’ (v0.3.2) and available to purchase and play from Subterranean Games’ site.”I thought it looked a little garish in the same way as DKII and after playing DKI recently, will be surprised if they manage to pull off the same level of personality, whether down to the script and delivery, or the animations and behavioural AI quirks (like spiders having a penchant for freezing prisoners or hellhounds urinating on corpses in the graveyard to aid decomposition). Either way, it’s looking really promising.