• Last Oasis: Steam Announcement Trailer
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https://youtu.be/5GNUc_fMGaM Well another survival game. But goddamn the art-style and atmosphere has already sold me on it. Getting some Kenshi vibes from its presentation.
Wow! A survival game PLUS vehicle building, that's insanely cool and very original. /s I can't wait for this survival/BR cycle of game releases to be over, should be any minute now...
Actually looking through it. Its more of EVE online, but with land-ships and such.
That's some Wild Wild West shit
Can't wait to buy this on Epic Store!
Some more details on the Game. Traverse the world on wooden wind-powered, walking machines. Walkers can be adapted for travel, transportation, harvesting, combat, or used as mobile bases. A multitude of structures, attachments and upgrades allow players to personalize Walkers to their needs. The world consists of many interconnected oases, forming a large open world. Potentially a thousand oases exist simultaneously - the number automatically adjusts to accommodate the size of the playerbase. Each Oasis is over 100 km2. Explore them to reveal new and unique biomes while plundering their limited resources. Some nomads may pitstop to refill their water. Others will settle for some time, but ultimately everyone will pick up and voyage east to escape the encroaching Sun. Trade networks stretch between the known oases. The global player-driven economy is based on real supply and demand. Smart and quick traders can make huge profits, but running trade routes always comes with a risk. Other nomads may opt to produce or hunt down rare and highly localized resources. It’s always wise to consider potential competitors first though. Challenge another clan’s monopoly, and you may become their next target. Become a political and economic power. Control a region and get rewarded with a supply of local resources gathered there by roaming Nomads. Grow your clan and make alliances to maximize and protect your income. Always be ready for conflict – hostile clans will challenge your control and come to take away everything you’ve built.
Wow can't believe they just ripped Theo Jansen's Strandbeests. Hope he is getting some money out of this. I searched all the media I could find and didn't see any mention of his name...
Or maybe they were just influenced by that design?
I understand being influenced by others work but the mechanisms/designs being used here are unique to his kinetic sculptures and to copy them so closely seems dishonest in my opinion. Hey, who knows, maybe he gave them permission or he is getting something out of it! It's just sad to see no mention of him or his work in the description of the Steam page when his work is being so clearly referenced.
Oh look it's a game revolving around the Theo Jansen mechanism
The small ones are not wind powered at all, why even make say they are when it's obvious they're not, they move at like 40 MPH and have nothing on them to suggest they'd be capable of moving even 1/100th that speed, the big ones at least have sails on them.
i believe the smaller ones operate based on weight. Like a wooden segway. Meanwhile the much larger ones have to operate based on wind power due to their size. You can tell that in the video that in order to make the smaller ones to go faster, you need to lean forward.
But then there's a guy in the back so wouldn't that lead to a counterbalance issue and just have the thing go backwards?
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