[quote=www.crypticsea.com]A New Zero is a multiplayer vehicle simulation inspired by Red Baron, Tie Fighter, Mechwarrior 2, Joust, and some other stuff. It is currently in open beta.[/quote]
[url]http://www.crypticsea.com/anewzero.html[/url]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjQUhIWNfqw[/media]
(old video, the game has been expanded since then)
The main premise of this game was to make a game as small as possible through the use of procedural generation. Currently the main executable containing the game is 640 kB. Even if the main focus of the game was to make it as small as possible, they've managed to make a very simplistic, but also fun and addicting game. It started out as a game where the goal was to fly around in planes and score points by ramming each other, but has after a numerous of updates been expanded greatly into a naval warfare, island dominating game with bombers, fighters, missile boats, trading ships, gunboats and more.
[B]Gameplay[/B]
You have four different boats and four different planes to choose from. These can be used to attack other boats or planes, attack bases or trade. Each vehicle has a pilotbox on top of it. When this is knocked off or shot, the player dies. You can destroy enemies by either ramming their pilotbox, or shooting them with any of the weapons.
[img]http://1337upload.net/files/SS-2011-02-21_18.57.23.png[/img]
Attack with pilotbox on top
[B]Boats[/B]
Boats spawn at docks and can also be rearmed at docks. They are controlled with W, A, S and D, and their guns are aimed with the mouse.
[U]Cargo Boat[/U]
Costs $8. Can hold 8 goods for trade. Also armed with one gun for self defense.
[U]Gun Boat[/U]
Costs $32. Has two turret slots that can be fitted with cannons and gun turrets. To choose what armament you want, dock at a friendly dock, press tab and go to the vehicle tab. The Gun Boat is good at taking out both planes and boats.
[U]Missile Boat[/U]
Costs $48. Armed with a cannon and 4x64kg missiles which are excellent at attacking enemy bases. To aim the missiles, you hold down right mouse button. Moving mouse up and down changes angle, which you can see at the bottom right corner. You can also move mouse left and right to aim left and right. Takes some time getting used to the aiming.
[U]Missile Ship[/U]
Costs $256. Needs to be researched. Armed with a cannon and either 16x64kg missiles or 4x256kg peacemakers. The peacemakers needs to be researched first. Aiming is the same as the missile boat.
[B]Planes[/B]
All planes have a fuel meter. This can be refueled by landing inside a friendly hangar. Planes also has a afterburner which can activated by holding shift, but be careful with it, as it eats up fuel very quickly. Planes also have an autopilot which you activate by pressing E. The autopilot levels your plane so you maintain a steady altitude. Useful when bombing.
[U]Cargo Plane[/U]
Costs $16. Can hold 8 goods for trade. Unarmed.
[U]Fighter[/U]
Costs $64. Armed with a gun. Can carry 1x56kg bomb, 1x64kg missile or 1 drop tank to increase fuel. All of these needs to researched first. Armament can be dropped by pressing space.
[U]Attack[/U]
Costs $128. Needs to be researched. Armed with a cannon. Can carry 1x56kb bomb, 2x64kg missiles or a drop tank.
[U]Bomber[/U]
Costs $96. Needs to be researched. Can carry 4x56kg bomb or 1x192kg tall boy when researched. Is equipped with a bomb sight. Bomb sight is activated by pressing 2. Press space to drop bomb.
[B]Victory condition[/B]
The game starts out with two teams, the Eagles and the Condors, controlling an island each, and with zero, two or three more neutral islands depending on which map is played. To win the game, a team has to destroy all the enemy capitols. This is done by attacking it with bombs or missiles until the core is exposed. When the core is then damaged, the building is destroyed. This will cause the influence of the island to slowly go down, until it turns neutral. A neutral island can be captured by a team by building a new capitol on it, which slowly increases the influence until the team owns the island. When a team is not in control of any island, the team loses. When a capitol is destroyed, the influence slowly goes down, so the team still has a chance to rebuild a capitol if they have enough money.
[img]http://www.1337upload.net/files/SS-2011-02-21_14.17.26.png[/img]
Eagle capitol
[img]http://1337upload.net/files/SS-2011-02-21_14.27.29.png[/img]
Eagle capitol with core exposed
[img]http://1337upload.net/files/SS-2011-02-21_14.29.50.png[/img]
Islands map. Blue islands are controlled by eagle, yellow by condor and white islands are neutral. The bar at the bottom shows who has the influence over the island.
[b]Trading[/b]
The primary way of getting money is by trading. Trading is done by buying goods at a friendly or neutral island where it's produced, and then selling it on another friendly or neutral island. To carry the goods, you need to buy a cargo boat ($8) or cargo plane ($16). Cargo plane is quicker, and therefore gives you more profit.
In the trading screen you can see which islands produces which goods. To get goods on an island you need a mine and a factory. The mine creates raw, while factory converts it into goods, which is what you trade with. If you're running out of goods on an island you're trading from, you need to buy a new factory ($128). If you're running out of raw material, you need buy a new mine ($192). To trade you must be in a dock or hangar, and then open the trading screen (tab). You then buy the goods at the island, and then set off to the island you're selling it to. When you arrive, you need to go into a dock or a hangar, open the trading screen, and then selling it by pressing "Sell All" in the trading screen.
[img]http://anewzero.wikispaces.com/file/view/trade-screen.JPG/113359295/trade-screen.JPG[/img]
Trading screen
[img]http://1337upload.net/files/SS-2011-02-21_18.49.06.png[/img]
Mine
[img]http://1337upload.net/files/SS-2011-02-21_18.49.31.png[/img]
Factory
[B]Research[/B]
Some of the vehicles and weapons can only be unlocked through research. To start research, you need at least one laboratory ($192). The more laboratories you have, the faster you research. To choose what you want to research, press tab and navigate to the research tab. Then click on what you want to research.
[img]http://1337upload.net/files/SS-2011-02-21_19.29.27.png[/img]
Research screen. Note that not everyone needs to research the same, but the research is shared for the whole team.
[img]http://1337upload.net/files/SS-2011-02-21_19.31.00.png[/img]
Laboratory
For more information, refer to the wiki: [url]http://anewzero.wikispaces.com/[/url]
Join our steam group so we can arrange games: [url]http://steamcommunity.com/groups/ANZPS[/url]
[highlight]Read the thread before you start playing, else you will have no idea what to do!
The server we're using is Profan's New Zero Server.[/highlight]
[B]Videos[/B]
Eagle bombing run. Filmed by Profanwolf and edited by Lordloss.
[media]http://youtube.com/watch?v=BgNYbJnZCHs[/media]
Just played some and got utterly destroyed. :v:
I preferred the old zero. :<
BUT WHAT THE FUCK LETS PLAY.
Set up a server! I would join the vent, but my microphone sucks.
I'm down. I've got the day off from work so let's roll.
Come on OP, you wanted people to play with ya, we're all here. :3:
This seriously needs a in-game tutorial.
Installing now
Well if OP won't host a server, I will try to.
[editline]21st February 2011[/editline]
Server is up, can you see it?
We have a server up already.
[QUOTE=SeamanStains;28187956]We have a server up already.[/QUOTE]
You could have said that when we were in the thread looking for a place to play?
Runs sort of shitty in my laptop. I'll join you guys when I get on my desktop.
Server's up on versus now.
Restarting the server on Versus.
It doesn't really help to just tell us you have a server set up.
What's the name of it?
Server now fixed.
Join Profan's Server.
Thanks OP, I was looking for this game a while ago and forgot what it was called.
Joining, let's see what this game's about. :dance:
More people!
ohgod that bomber run half a hour ago :v:
[QUOTE=scratch (nl);28189310]ohgod that bomber run half a hour ago :v:[/QUOTE]
I almost shat my god damn pants when I saw AND heard them.
Uploading bombing raid videos in a sec
[QUOTE=Fussy!;28189430]I almost shat my god damn pants when I saw AND heard them.[/QUOTE]
It was funny that I was flipping at the missiles flying trough the sky at first, but then I saw a bunch of black lines in the right corner of my eye, and I totally freaked out by it. It also made me love this game a lot.
[editline]21st February 2011[/editline]
probably coming back in half an hour/less, need to finish learning for German first :barf:
I stopped playing cause I'm probably do a revive-raid in NEOTOKYO with some Personal Skin/Screenshot Section dudes soon.
Oh god I love this game, thanks for the server profan.
This is really interesting-- joining now...
Agh, just traded myself up to 700 monies, and then boom, server crash.
Awesomely I managed to land directly into a hangar though. :3:
And that earlier bombing raid was fucking scary.
We need a list of everyone playing and their icon, it's so confusing.
Is there a tutorial about what the hell you have to do?!
[QUOTE=Jacko245;28189634]Is there a tutorial about what the hell you have to do?![/QUOTE]
Theres a wiki, longy or staines was writing up a guide but theyre lazy cunts.
In game, i'm the red and blue icon with like, a box shape in the upper right corner
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