Much better than 'Hostel Mars' where you would play a transfer student on Mars trying to make sense of the completely different culture, language, and daily life. :3
That actually sounds kinda interesting. Lots of Mars games are just about survival, but what if Mars had a fairly advanced colony with a different culture and such? That would be cool.
I was just thinking the other day about a game with exactly this concept. This is right up my alley, custom base building base defense sounds like a lot of fun.
The detail is really cool. I love the pop and spin of the enemies getting shot, and how they seem to crash in a random direction, still spinning, with parts flying. I remember having that sort of detail on just boss fights in most games. There's one thing I'd change, and one I might add. That hammer... I'd go with some sort of drill laser thing, vibrating the rock instead of doing the jello thing, and rather than absorbing the end product, have it blast out in random directions on the floor. The thing I'd add is mirrors to do some directional stuff with the lasers. I might even forgo the built lasers entirely, and have one automatically in each corner, just a little cylinder automatically shooting in one static direction, and the mirrors are the expensive thing you get to play around with, getting the beam to follow a specific path. You could even add some sort of prism for late game, bursting a beam into several... possibly.
Yes :) mirrors are unlocked in a later stage, but you understand the concept perfectly. Thanks for the feedback on the hammer! It is the first of many harvesting tools that are unlocked, and the most advanced one is basically what you described with a laser!
was originally going to say this sounded like a mindustry version of satisfactory... but after having watched the video? it's a sci-fi eden uprising with a little bit of satisfactory thrown in. I am 100% ok with this. Also, 150 enemies, with laser turrets shootind and traps and stuff around on top of it, and only a couple frames lost, on a full 3d game that has this level of graphics? the dev's level of optimization is clearly something all dev's should strive for. defenitely gonna have to keep my eye out for this one.
This version is actually extremely in-efficient. I've been working on optimization the last 2 weeks (due to many of the Discord users with lower end machines getting poor performance) and have improved the rendering (draw call count and tri count) roughly 900%.
I prefer civilization style pacing, where there's a fast pace for multiplayer, standard pace and marathon pace. I saw a streamer take 2 hours on the first 10 waves. Having too much time to horde and ruminate over your base design kills the sense of urgency.
For a game with that ambition, having an early demo this pretty and stable is more than reassuring. There seems to be a nice balance between exploration/gathering and base defence which makes me even more curious to see the game develop, another nice find Splatt', cheers.
I hope that, eventually, you end up with giant bots coming to play. Ones that stand as tall as the surrounding cliffs, or even one that steps over them is the same sort of mind-boggling scale as the planetary ring asteroid field up in the sky.
The Ork solution works well here: Hit 'em hard, hit 'em low and give 'em plenty of dakka. 2:25 - You're on Mars, the gravity is 0.376 g (around 38% of Earth)
Will have to keep an eye on this one. Also I'm pleased there's no annoyance layered on top in terms of like, an O2 bar and a food bar or something. Seems to focus on the important bits, the core gameplay.
This looks soooooo promising. At about 30 mins my brain just snapped into "Buy This!" mode.. then I went to Big Rook Games' channel and watched the intro vid.. Bonkers!! Those laser turrets... just bonkers. Hostile Mars is now at the top of my wish list :-D
One thing this game really needs is vertical building. Any game where you defend a base and build walls literally requires an option to shoot enemies BEFORE they get to the wall otherwise it just feels incredibly awkward. I hope devs are aware of that, cuz I'm very much interested in playing this game probly for a long time ;)
A truly minor quibble. But if we never do any mining on Earth in this game then there is no point in calling the rocks "Mars rocks." We are on Mars. They are rocks. We are well over 100,000,000 miles away from Earth; no one was confused about the origin of the rocks we're currently smashing to bits while standing on Mars. Cool concept though and I look forward to where this game will go. Ton of potential here and seems like a lot of fun.
This reminds me a lot of Riftbreaker but with some added logistics, but less emphasis on the RPG character upgrades. I think I may like this one better!
i like riftbreaker but lack of logistics makes it just odd tower defense , it looks like it wants to be RPG but all character progression are save bound , and no coop
10:00 A lot of modern graphics cards, for some reason, seem to just waltz all over game-side FPS caps and instead do their own thing which can cause issues with games that are designed around a limited range of fixed framerates. Sometimes manually capping FPS for each individual game in the "Manage 3D settings" of the nvidia control panel can help.
My first thoughts are: We really need to have a wiki or list or something over useless (for when the game is out) awards. 1:33 I hope they fix the asynchronization between the audio and the subtitles - about 5 seconds is far too much. 2:03 I first noticed it around here, but the movements seem a bit stiff, especially when making small movements (E.G. from box to box). And I'm not too sure about the decision behind the running with the hands in a downwards position, but there might be a good reason for it. Overall, though, this is just me being picky, as I don't think movements as good or better than this are very common(?).
movement and enemy impact from player weapons looks good. this could be an alternate take on the sanctum/EDF wave/map-system given how well it's handling enemy numbers in dynamic environments so far. definitely want to see some scaled up stompy foes, a few weakpoint based ones to anchor attack forces would be nice (not bullet sponge mind you, weakpoints should be just that, you hit them a few times and the part the are attached to disables, preferably with a boom). games got potential, i hope it lives up to it and doesn't just become another cookie cutter sand-bucket with 4-5 enemy types an only one biome/map.
Seen the video on Hostile Mars's Steam page on a loop as Live. Was trying to chat but realized it was just a loop recording. Was trying to figure out what version you were playing as some of the stuff I was seeing was not in the current game or could be built with the demo version on steam. Interesting game but they closed off to much even for a demo version.
the game looks really cool right now. i very much like the concept somewhere between satisfactory and riftbreaker PS: video game with a not sucking shotgun? DOOM??? ... Eternal in particual!
This is a build I used for playtesting a few certain items and progressions. If you have any interest, there are a lot of dev logs on the Steam page that show a lot of the turrets, traps, automation, etc.. it is very heavy on automation and tons of traps and turrets.
@@BigRookDigital Sounds good. More interested in the planning&implementing base layouts and production chains aspect. Would love to see things like vacuums or roombas or whatever that would pick up scraps from enemies, resource nodes that you can deploy miners on (I guess that would require either a timer on waves or setting a certain amount of possible material per wave, though), etc.
The game looks really good and I cant wait for it to come out .... BUT you want the game on wave 20 to be like the opening scene to be like saving private ryan . Thats an old guy walking in a graveyard with his family following close behind as he walks toward a grave. So if I get what you mean wave 20 is the attack of broken washing machine toasters and old pooped out microwaves. :)
I think it's a weird mechanic to have everything process on a timer when you're free to build with no time pressure. It makes an artificial delay on what you can build with no real reason besides making you wait?
Yes, just the demo that was sent to Matt. If anyone is interested in joining us on the next playtest session then come join us on the Discord: discord.gg/Xd88eF8Teg
@@BigRookDigital Guys! I think the gravity is too high in your game ;-) Mars gravity is 0.375 that of Earth. But player can jump high... so... Maybe it's ok :-)
There is potential here. I hope there is a "Sandbox" version to this for the potential to develop massive bases / world bases. I didn't notice any assets such as iron / copper, is this game going to focus primarily on tower defense, similar to "the riftbreaker"?
i know it's dumb, but the backpack being distorted on the upper right corner bugs me. i initially thought it was a rigging issue, but it doesn't *move*
Hundreds of bots are all fine and dandy, but I would like to see intelligent AI enemies, like the bots from Unreal Tournament for example. Strafing, jumping, predicting, choosing targets, etc.
This game looks so awesome! I really hope that the devs stick with this game because I could really see this going places. Seems like a rust/nazi zombies/portal crossover
Originally it was set to be accurate, but it slowed down the gameplay and combat a ton. I wanted to keep the combat and player mobility fast paced so ultimately decided it felt best around 1G. Plus the suits had gravity adjustment thrusters added to them so that workers sent to Mars felt more comfortable with the environment which reduced workplace injuries (may have just made that last part up)
Much better than 'Hostel Mars' where you would play a transfer student on Mars trying to make sense of the completely different culture, language, and daily life. :3
But not quite as good as "Hoss Tile Mars" where you play as a man helping his good dependable friend setup a tile installation business on mars.
Or Hosh Style Mars, where fake people get exiled to, and continue their stupid fashion wars...
😂😂😂 or they get chopped up for jollies a la Hostel (the movie)
That actually sounds kinda interesting. Lots of Mars games are just about survival, but what if Mars had a fairly advanced colony with a different culture and such? That would be cool.
Hoe style mars is something to not show your parents :)
I was just thinking the other day about a game with exactly this concept. This is right up my alley, custom base building base defense sounds like a lot of fun.
The detail is really cool. I love the pop and spin of the enemies getting shot, and how they seem to crash in a random direction, still spinning, with parts flying. I remember having that sort of detail on just boss fights in most games.
There's one thing I'd change, and one I might add. That hammer... I'd go with some sort of drill laser thing, vibrating the rock instead of doing the jello thing, and rather than absorbing the end product, have it blast out in random directions on the floor.
The thing I'd add is mirrors to do some directional stuff with the lasers. I might even forgo the built lasers entirely, and have one automatically in each corner, just a little cylinder automatically shooting in one static direction, and the mirrors are the expensive thing you get to play around with, getting the beam to follow a specific path. You could even add some sort of prism for late game, bursting a beam into several... possibly.
Yes :) mirrors are unlocked in a later stage, but you understand the concept perfectly.
Thanks for the feedback on the hammer! It is the first of many harvesting tools that are unlocked, and the most advanced one is basically what you described with a laser!
@@BigRookDigital Oh, I love a designer that overshoots my ideas. ROFL!! Well done!
was originally going to say this sounded like a mindustry version of satisfactory... but after having watched the video? it's a sci-fi eden uprising with a little bit of satisfactory thrown in. I am 100% ok with this.
Also, 150 enemies, with laser turrets shootind and traps and stuff around on top of it, and only a couple frames lost, on a full 3d game that has this level of graphics? the dev's level of optimization is clearly something all dev's should strive for. defenitely gonna have to keep my eye out for this one.
This version is actually extremely in-efficient. I've been working on optimization the last 2 weeks (due to many of the Discord users with lower end machines getting poor performance) and have improved the rendering (draw call count and tri count) roughly 900%.
@@BigRookDigital Awesome to hear. What engine are y'all using if you don't mind me asking?
@@courtneyroach8881 I'm using Unity and taking advantage of the DOTS data-oriented programming methods to allow for tons of enemies
@@BigRookDigital than i can expect my rig than to run this on max or next to max setting no problem if i end up getting this. lovly work btw.
@@BigRookDigitalis the code mostly ECS then? Was always curious what games like Factorio use to run their sims so efficiently
I really like the control over the waves. It gives it a little more flexibility on the chill factor.
I prefer civilization style pacing, where there's a fast pace for multiplayer, standard pace and marathon pace. I saw a streamer take 2 hours on the first 10 waves. Having too much time to horde and ruminate over your base design kills the sense of urgency.
For a game with that ambition, having an early demo this pretty and stable is more than reassuring. There seems to be a nice balance between exploration/gathering and base defence which makes me even more curious to see the game develop, another nice find Splatt', cheers.
This looks good for a first look.Thanks for the vid Splatt.
I hope that, eventually, you end up with giant bots coming to play. Ones that stand as tall as the surrounding cliffs, or even one that steps over them is the same sort of mind-boggling scale as the planetary ring asteroid field up in the sky.
Am I the only one amused by Splatty humming the Doug theme?
I really like the looks of the game. Awesome terrain considering it’s a dust bowl, very well done. This looks hella fun. =]
The Ork solution works well here: Hit 'em hard, hit 'em low and give 'em plenty of dakka.
2:25 - You're on Mars, the gravity is 0.376 g (around 38% of Earth)
they're on mars.
that isn't an asteroid belt in the sky.
that's the robots.
I have some friends who would be absolutely obsessed with this game.
Will have to keep an eye on this one. Also I'm pleased there's no annoyance layered on top in terms of like, an O2 bar and a food bar or something. Seems to focus on the important bits, the core gameplay.
I do love the longer format reviews, I think imma need this game. :D
Most well developed Alpha I've seen in a long time!
That laser sound is CUTE! haha
Contrasts so well with the mayham.
Splat's Condensed Review: 40:00
Thanks for making it easy for me.
Looks as good as I was hoping!! My mate and I will spend MONTHS in this game for sure. Can't wait and great review as always.
This is the game I have been waiting for.
Quite impressed with the demo definitely gonna keep an eye on this one.
Thanks for showcasing! ^^
I've been looking forward to this game for a while. I saw it on reddit and it looked very promising!
This looks soooooo promising. At about 30 mins my brain just snapped into "Buy This!" mode.. then I went to Big Rook Games' channel and watched the intro vid.. Bonkers!! Those laser turrets... just bonkers. Hostile Mars is now at the top of my wish list :-D
Looks really cool, this is right up my alley. Needs work though, obviously. Definitely going to wishlist.
it's giving me satisfactory vibes, but with more guns. I love it!
One thing this game really needs is vertical building. Any game where you defend a base and build walls literally requires an option to shoot enemies BEFORE they get to the wall otherwise it just feels incredibly awkward. I hope devs are aware of that, cuz I'm very much interested in playing this game probly for a long time ;)
this looks like something i could sink my teeth into, im gonna keep my eye on this now
Oh yeah... Been waiting for something like this.
Count me interested in this title.
That ending was pretty rad, not gonna lie.
ouuuu i am excited for this one!!
If this game ends up multiplayer, it’ll have me sold.
Humming the "Doug!" theme tune while crafting XD
This looks great!
this is the first space crafting game that appeals to me
The answer was always more lube.
It would be so cool if each map was procedurally generated so every playthrough had a different scavenging/base defending experience.
woah! This is kinda dope!
2:30 Looks like you also come equipped with that CAKE!
Awesome game; loved it! Killing thin Clap-Traps is a plus!
A truly minor quibble. But if we never do any mining on Earth in this game then there is no point in calling the rocks "Mars rocks." We are on Mars. They are rocks. We are well over 100,000,000 miles away from Earth; no one was confused about the origin of the rocks we're currently smashing to bits while standing on Mars. Cool concept though and I look forward to where this game will go. Ton of potential here and seems like a lot of fun.
I love the mini hellfire droids they're so cute.
OK this looks pretty dang good! Hope it releases soon!
This reminds me a lot of Riftbreaker but with some added logistics, but less emphasis on the RPG character upgrades. I think I may like this one better!
i like riftbreaker but lack of logistics makes it just odd tower defense , it looks like it wants to be RPG but all character progression are save bound , and no coop
Great for drinking game, take a shot everytime splat says scrap
8:40 Wow, I have not heard the theme song to Doug in literal deca- years. I was going to say years. Yes.
This gives me decent battlezone II vibes of the base defence and when you are out on foot.
Just what I was thinking! BZII still a fab game too :)
5:30 Rogue Robots. 😁. I love "Wall-E " references 🤗
So this mars asset set is the new background we'll be seeing in all base building games made in Unity now I guess.
The damage he did to his own base with the shotgun was insane.
ngl this kinda gives me a satisfactory vibe
Very very promising ! = )
Love the games you play thanks for making my night Even more enjoyable :)
splatter getting so caught up in killing 130 robots he cuts short his goodbye spiel.
'just leave. i'm busy killing robots.'
This game looks extremely promising, especially for an alpha demo!
Came in ready to shrug it off.... but now want to see a fully fleshed out version to get...
Less potatoe farming but more robot farming.
That game look sick/ in good way.
This message is for the developer: SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!!!😍😍😍😍
if you insist
10:00 A lot of modern graphics cards, for some reason, seem to just waltz all over game-side FPS caps and instead do their own thing which can cause issues with games that are designed around a limited range of fixed framerates. Sometimes manually capping FPS for each individual game in the "Manage 3D settings" of the nvidia control panel can help.
My first thoughts are: We really need to have a wiki or list or something over useless (for when the game is out) awards.
1:33 I hope they fix the asynchronization between the audio and the subtitles - about 5 seconds is far too much.
2:03 I first noticed it around here, but the movements seem a bit stiff, especially when making small movements (E.G. from box to box). And I'm not too sure about the decision behind the running with the hands in a downwards position, but there might be a good reason for it. Overall, though, this is just me being picky, as I don't think movements as good or better than this are very common(?).
movement and enemy impact from player weapons looks good. this could be an alternate take on the sanctum/EDF wave/map-system given how well it's handling enemy numbers in dynamic environments so far.
definitely want to see some scaled up stompy foes, a few weakpoint based ones to anchor attack forces would be nice (not bullet sponge mind you, weakpoints should be just that, you hit them a few times and the part the are attached to disables, preferably with a boom).
games got potential, i hope it lives up to it and doesn't just become another cookie cutter sand-bucket with 4-5 enemy types an only one biome/map.
Seen the video on Hostile Mars's Steam page on a loop as Live. Was trying to chat but realized it was just a loop recording. Was trying to figure out what version you were playing as some of the stuff I was seeing was not in the current game or could be built with the demo version on steam. Interesting game but they closed off to much even for a demo version.
the game looks really cool right now. i very much like the concept somewhere between satisfactory and riftbreaker
PS: video game with a not sucking shotgun? DOOM??? ... Eternal in particual!
Shooter part seems fine. Needs more automation and interesting turrets though.
This is a build I used for playtesting a few certain items and progressions. If you have any interest, there are a lot of dev logs on the Steam page that show a lot of the turrets, traps, automation, etc.. it is very heavy on automation and tons of traps and turrets.
@@BigRookDigital Sounds good. More interested in the planning&implementing base layouts and production chains aspect. Would love to see things like vacuums or roombas or whatever that would pick up scraps from enemies, resource nodes that you can deploy miners on (I guess that would require either a timer on waves or setting a certain amount of possible material per wave, though), etc.
i was not expecting 3rd person :o
8:40 - 8:44 Were you humming the theme song from "Doug"? lol
The game looks really good and I cant wait for it to come out .... BUT you want the game on wave 20 to be like the opening scene to be like saving private ryan . Thats an old guy walking in a graveyard with his family following close behind as he walks toward a grave. So if I get what you mean wave 20 is the attack of broken washing machine toasters and old pooped out microwaves. :)
I get it that she has the trunk with the bump to make everyone go dumb, but... that doesn't means everything is stored on her prison pocket XD
I think it's a weird mechanic to have everything process on a timer when you're free to build with no time pressure. It makes an artificial delay on what you can build with no real reason besides making you wait?
very early demo...
Yeah I'd say I'm pretty interested
It would be neat if this game has co-op. Would be perfect for that.
Oh man! I got to play this at PAX East. Tons of fun but I really sucked. The developer was really nice and didn't make me feel like an idiot haha!
Does this have coop?
I've picked up several games because of your reviews, I don't know if you get a kick back but you should.
you say it's a demo but i can't find any demo
its a demo the developer sent him. its not realeased tp public as far as i know
@@genobeesrage8497 yea sadly i think so too, also wanna test it out :)
It’s a sad, sad day… Splatty hook is up! lol =]
Yes, just the demo that was sent to Matt. If anyone is interested in joining us on the next playtest session then come join us on the Discord: discord.gg/Xd88eF8Teg
@@BigRookDigital Guys! I think the gravity is too high in your game ;-)
Mars gravity is 0.375 that of Earth.
But player can jump high... so...
Maybe it's ok :-)
There is potential here. I hope there is a "Sandbox" version to this for the potential to develop massive bases / world bases. I didn't notice any assets such as iron / copper,
is this game going to focus primarily on tower defense, similar to "the riftbreaker"?
Oh I'm going to play the shit out of this.
It's something like Riftbreaker, but in 3D?
i know it's dumb, but the backpack being distorted on the upper right corner bugs me. i initially thought it was a rigging issue, but it doesn't *move*
I'm getting strong Sanctum vibes from back in 2011. More factorio, less tower defense but I still dig the vide of 3rd person tower/base defense
use vert sync?
Interested for sure
Looks promising, like Save The World. I’m excited
🖤
Oh okay, going to steal another 40 minutes of my life are you? Well have it then sir, I've got my eye on you...again. Productivity be damned.
Hundreds of bots are all fine and dandy, but I would like to see intelligent AI enemies, like the bots from Unreal Tournament for example. Strafing, jumping, predicting, choosing targets, etc.
3D mindustry like.
I want to see some verticality, even if it's just ramps to get on walls
i was digging the decent amount of enemy types.
This game looks so awesome! I really hope that the devs stick with this game because I could really see this going places. Seems like a rust/nazi zombies/portal crossover
where does he keep that hammer when he's not using it? probably best not to ask...
I think you can force vsync on with nvidia control panel.
Holy shit! Starfield is out!
really hope they add co op to this ! would be so much fun with friends! basically like a sci fi 7 days to die i love it!
Steam page says "Online Co-Op" 🤟
It will have 4 player co-op at 1.0. Unfortunately the beta is not co-op.
@@BigRookDigital will this be PC exclusive?
Gravity is less on Mars so it checks out.
One day we'll move on from Mars.
Weird that this version of Mars has 1G of gravity.
Looks like some developers know Mars by cartoons ;-)
Originally it was set to be accurate, but it slowed down the gameplay and combat a ton. I wanted to keep the combat and player mobility fast paced so ultimately decided it felt best around 1G. Plus the suits had gravity adjustment thrusters added to them so that workers sent to Mars felt more comfortable with the environment which reduced workplace injuries (may have just made that last part up)
@@BigRookDigital " (may have just made that last part up)"
no, I checked.
that is indeed what happened when we colonized Mars.
@@BigRookDigital LOL Thanks for the reply. Works for me. This isn't KSP, so realism can take a seat waaaaay in the back to gameplay.
@@BigRookDigital Fair point!
It would be nice to have some special events like space pirate invasion, not only robots. Me likey some flesh to shoot.
why he always says that he has limited time?
He mean 30 minutes
But in general - we all do... ;-)