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Title: Falling Frontier
Post by: Undercovergeek on December 20, 2021, 07:41:28 AM
It seems to have received a massive reworking recently, new art and a new story driven narrative - climbing higher on the wishlist

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1280190/Falling_Frontier/

Title: Re: Falling Frontier
Post by: bbmike on December 20, 2021, 08:26:10 AM
Hmm, missed that one. Is Martok slipping up?  :P
Title: Re: Falling Frontier
Post by: Undercovergeek on December 20, 2021, 09:44:15 AM
I like to think martok is the 4x guy

I’ll do my best to let peeps know about rts
Title: Re: Falling Frontier
Post by: bbmike on December 20, 2021, 08:09:37 PM
RTS?!?  (https://www.aarcentral.com/emoti/hide3.gif)
Title: Re: Falling Frontier
Post by: mcguire on December 21, 2021, 07:58:26 PM
RTS?!?  (https://www.aarcentral.com/emoti/hide3.gif)

Real Time Strategy?

Return to Sender?

Request to Send?
Title: Re: Falling Frontier
Post by: Martok on December 22, 2021, 08:47:54 PM
Yeah, this one is looking pretty good.  I've actually had my eye on it for some time now, but had been waiting for more substantive information and/or gameplay videos before posting about it.  I'm happy to see that geek beat me to it, though.  :) 




Hmm, missed that one. Is Martok slipping up?  :P

FWIW, I was going to start a thread on Falling Frontier today if no one else had already done so.  (Have been busy the last couple days.)  Half the posts on my Twitter feed since Monday have consisted of nothing but notifications about this one, so I figured something was up.  ;) 


Title: Re: Falling Frontier
Post by: Martok on March 07, 2022, 04:02:20 PM
A couple videos I keep forgetting to post: 










And a new trailer just dropped today: 





Title: Re: Falling Frontier
Post by: Huw the Poo on March 10, 2022, 06:46:53 AM
And a new trailer just dropped today: 

PHWOAR! Game looks absolutely stunning. I need it!
Title: Re: Falling Frontier
Post by: Martok on March 10, 2022, 06:22:10 PM
Just a couple more months (probably)...  8) 

Title: Re: Falling Frontier
Post by: Gusington on March 10, 2022, 09:19:36 PM
Couple more months?? :/
Title: Re: Falling Frontier
Post by: Doctor Quest on March 10, 2022, 10:00:37 PM
I am getting old.

I remember when it was "two weeks".
Title: Re: Falling Frontier
Post by: Martok on March 10, 2022, 11:17:45 PM
Well the game is slated to come out sometime during Q2 2022, and I doubt they're gonna release it the first week of April... 


Title: Re: Falling Frontier
Post by: Martok on June 16, 2022, 10:51:53 PM
I somehow missed this news, but the dev is delaying the game's launch to later this year (link (https://steamcommunity.com/games/1280190/announcements/detail/3329861552490006860)).  Release date on Steam has been changed to just 2022 (as opposed to a more specific date), which is probably a good move for the time being. 




That being said, this cool little story trailer just dropped: 





Title: Re: Falling Frontier
Post by: Martok on May 29, 2023, 12:25:28 PM
I wish they would at least give us an updated release date.  This looks better and better every time they put out a new trailer or update. 





Title: Re: Falling Frontier
Post by: Undercovergeek on May 29, 2023, 12:49:56 PM
I’ve got to put my hand on heart and be honest - I check the steam page everyday

Alas the discussion is full of angry entitled dicks who shout release it or it’s vapourware and it makes me mad for the rest of the day

This and manor lords and espiocracy and fragile existence - all weirdly hooded horse!
Title: Re: Falling Frontier
Post by: BanzaiCat on May 29, 2023, 03:01:06 PM
Oh boy, another 4x space game!

Sorry, I've had a few beers, I'm feeling a tad cheeky today.
Title: Re: Falling Frontier
Post by: Undercovergeek on May 29, 2023, 04:04:02 PM
Oh boy, another 4x space game!

Sorry, I've had a few beers, I'm feeling a tad cheeky today.

There are other 4x space games and there is falling frontier though
Title: Re: Falling Frontier
Post by: BanzaiCat on May 29, 2023, 04:27:00 PM
So, it's THAT GOOD, you're saying.

I've honestly not played a 4x space game that's appealed to me in a long, long time.
Title: Re: Falling Frontier
Post by: Barthheart on May 29, 2023, 05:08:07 PM
I’m really enjoying Stellaris with the latest update and DLC. Despite Martok’s whinging about the leader cap, I’m finding it fits well with my play style and am not finding it a handicap at all. There I said it.  :nerd:
Title: Re: Falling Frontier
Post by: Tolstoi on May 30, 2023, 01:26:12 AM
Is this a competitor to NEBULOUS: Fleet Command?
Title: Re: Falling Frontier
Post by: Undercovergeek on May 30, 2023, 01:36:51 AM
Is this a competitor to NEBULOUS: Fleet Command?

Falling Frontier is a revolutionary sci-fi RTS where ship design, recon, and logistics are critical elements. Your expeditionary force has just completed construction of its first space port in orbit of a new world, but you are not alone. Rivals from the old colonial wars between Earth, Titan, Venus, and the other lineages that divide humankind have also arrived in the same star system.


A New Star System
Explore a vast procedurally generated star system filled with planets, moons, asteroid fields, and nebulae. Build and upgrade shipyards, supply depots, refineries, and recon stations as you research new technologies to unlock ship hulls, weapons, orbital facilities, colonization options, and more.

That’s the blurb on the steam page

From what little I know it’s an immersive rts experience where you’re involved with base and crew management - going to battle over there? Well you’ll need your logistics wing to ship the necessary resources of war - you can’t just click anywhere and fight anywhere
Title: Re: Falling Frontier
Post by: Undercovergeek on May 30, 2023, 08:27:04 AM
I wish they would at least give us an updated release date.  This looks better and better every time they put out a new trailer or update. 




my apologies, i didnt realise this was a new video - holy crap it looks great and wow - pretty much WW2 looking ships with a space hull - nom nom nom nom

the 2 negative comments so far are from a space purist moaning about physics and explosions and a guy bemoaning the lack of the height/depth axis in battles - if im been honest, my old ass brain has never been able to get its head around forwards, backwards, left, right AND up and down - which is why i think i suck at Homeworld and i havent disappeared into Nebulous like i would like to everything on a 2d plane is fine by me

There looks to be crew management for some RPG elements, hopefully some boarding actions

please, just release it on early access and let us pay you to finish it
Title: Re: Falling Frontier
Post by: Martok on June 09, 2023, 03:43:20 AM
^ Given the route Hooded Horse is taking their games lately, I'm guessing this one *is* releasing into Early-Access...eventually.  They've just not deemed it ready yet.  (Just like Fragile Existence and Alliance of the Sacred Suns; sigh.) 




Oh boy, another 4x space game!

Sorry, I've had a few beers, I'm feeling a tad cheeky today.

More of an RTS game than a 4x, hence why I posted it here.  Still looks cool as hell, though. 




I’m really enjoying Stellaris with the latest update and DLC. Despite Martok’s whinging about the leader cap, I’m finding it fits well with my play style and am not finding it a handicap at all. There I said it.  :nerd:


That's it, you don't get to run my Science Nexus.  :nope: 




Is this a competitor to NEBULOUS: Fleet Command?

Not really, no.  Falling Frontier is an RTS, NEBULOUS is a fleet combat simulator (with realistic-ish physics). 


Title: Re: Falling Frontier
Post by: Undercovergeek on June 26, 2023, 11:05:02 AM
Dev has announced at some point there will be a demo at a next fest and the plan now is to release into early access - something theyve never actually denied but always stayed away from - since taking on an full time artist and seeing the improvements thats made im guessing hes realised its a bigger project than he thought without ££

if im not the first to sign up for it, ill be close
Title: Re: Falling Frontier
Post by: Gusington on June 26, 2023, 11:26:08 AM
You mentioned the evil magic words with 'Manor Lords.'
Title: Re: Falling Frontier
Post by: Undercovergeek on June 26, 2023, 12:41:05 PM
You mentioned the evil magic words with 'Manor Lords.'

It’s quiet over there at the moment - lots of people asking for early access or reenrry to demo
Title: Re: Falling Frontier
Post by: Martok on July 01, 2023, 03:53:50 AM
Dev has announced at some point there will be a demo at a next fest and the plan now is to release into early access - something theyve never actually denied but always stayed away from - since taking on an full time artist and seeing the improvements thats made im guessing hes realised its a bigger project than he thought without ££

I'm guessing that, combined with the fact that he actually *has* money & resources -- now that he's backed by Hooded Horse -- is very likely a guiding factor in that as well.  Not that I'm complaining. 




if im not the first to sign up for it, ill be close

Just borrow Barthheart's temporal vortex/time machine-thingy. 


Title: Re: Falling Frontier
Post by: Undercovergeek on July 01, 2023, 04:28:45 AM
Dev has announced at some point there will be a demo at a next fest and the plan now is to release into early access - something theyve never actually denied but always stayed away from - since taking on an full time artist and seeing the improvements thats made im guessing hes realised its a bigger project than he thought without ££

I'm guessing that, combined with the fact that he actually *has* money & resources -- now that he's backed by Hooded Horse -- is very likely a guiding factor in that as well.  Not that I'm complaining. 




if im not the first to sign up for it, ill be close

Just borrow Barthheart's temporal vortex/time machine-thingy.

He might be needing that for his PBEM
Title: Re: Falling Frontier
Post by: Undercovergeek on July 27, 2023, 09:04:14 AM


new combat update, unseen footage, new stuff, crew, weapons, ship types - im vibrating as i speak
Title: Re: Falling Frontier
Post by: Gusington on July 27, 2023, 09:34:37 AM
^You cheeky monkey
Title: Re: Falling Frontier
Post by: Martok on July 27, 2023, 01:54:43 PM
Every time I see coverage/footage of this game, it looks & sounds better and better.