OUTCAST second contact. Sortie ce 14/11

[runner]

Outcast second contact, le remake développé après la campagne kickstarté raté du reboot HD sortira en mars 2017

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/outcas...-2017-release/

“Outcast takes place in the near future when Humanity has just discovered the existence of a parallel world, Adelpha. The American government, which was behind the discovery, sends a probe there to investigate. The experiment is a success but a native of Adelpha, a Talan, attacks the probe and causes a distortion of space-time that threatens to destroy the Earth.

You are Cutter Slade, a former Special Forces operative, assigned to escort a group of scientists sent to locate and repair the probe. Nothing goes as planned, however, and you find yourself embarked on an adventure on an unknown planet, with the future of two worlds in your hands.”

Présentation à la gamescom 2017

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la campagne Ks du reboot raté

Les créateurs de la licence regroupés aujourd'hui sous le studio DAOKA après avoir racheté la licence à INFOGRAMES ont annoncé le projet de reboot d'outcast qui a droit à une campagne kickstarter dès maintenant

Campagne kickstarter: 600 000 $ demandés avant le 8 mai
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...ot-hd?ref=more


Stretch goals

Initial goal 600k : Outcast Reboot HD, Windows PC

As a PC gamer you know this platform has always been a center for creativity, openness and innovation. This is the place Outcast was born in, and it is the place we will make this new experience happen first and foremost. Experience Outcast with gorgeous brand-new HD visuals:

All objects, textures, environments and characters entirely remade from scratch in hi-definition.
Targets 1080p @ 60fps, and supports beyond HD
Enhanced adventure:
. Annoying story bugs removed
. Improved HUD
. Improved inventory
. Improved notepad
. Improved dialog interface
New Cutter locomotion, control and animations
New camera control
Xbox and PS4 controller (and other compatible) support on Windows

Stretch goal 750k : Mac/Linux

Our friends on Mac and Linux will now be able to be part of this incredible journey.

But that’s not all ! Everyone please enjoy this new extra content :

Reworked animations for all characters
New facial rig and lipsynch for all characters
Introducing the Oil subquest in Motazaar
. Enjoy a brand new subquest that never got implemented in the original game.

Stretch goal 950k: DX11 enhancements

Now let’s talk some serious shit. Your PC is a monster and you can’t wait to show your friends how good Outcast can look when we crank the graphics up to 11 ? Check this out:

Introducing new dynamic weather effects
Snow in Ranzaar was quite good in the original game, but what about occasional sandstorms in Talanzaar, rain showers in Shamazaar, or even a good storm in Okasankaar. Enjoy a wealth of new dynamic weather effects all around Adelpha, and that, of course, includes awesome crunchy fresh snow in Ranzaar!
Geometry shader based grass and vegetation
Individual grass blades and leaves simulation to see and feel the breeze in the fields.
Rigid body physics objects simulation.
All decoration objects to behave with rigid body physics simulation. Imagine how a combat in the markets of Talanzaar would look with that feature !
Full HDR pipeline
High quality anti aliasing, AO and DOF
Post effects extravaganza

And that’s not all ! Because we think extra content matters, we offer you:

Introducing new exploration rooms inside Shamazaar temples !
Ever wondered what was inside the Shamazaar temples, where the paths ending at walls lead to? The ancients built an underground network inside and below the temples and it will now be unlocked for you to discover.
Introducing the Remote Camera.
A new gadget in Cutter’s arsenal. Sneak into a soldiers’ camp and place the camera strategically, now with PiP you can remotely follow enemies patterns and behaviors while attacking their weakest point.

Stretch goal 1M: VR support
Talk about immersion! Anyone who has tried the Oculus Rift will tell you, this is the next evolution in term of immersive gaming. What better reward for reaching this stretch goal and supporting VR interfaces than having:

Rideable Ventilopes!
See Adelpha from a new perspective, ride Ventilopes in full immersive VR and feel the void below while flying!

Stretch goal 1.35M: Next-gen consoles
You prefer gaming in your couch, on the big TV? We love that too. Help us move this fantastic game, with next-gen HD visuals, to the living room by bringing one of the best adventure ever on the new generation of consoles !

Wait, you dislike consoles? Then read about the great enhancements the PC and MAC versions get along with this nice stretch goal!

Cloth and ropes simulation
If we reach this goal, we’ll design all clothes and ropes using real physics real-time simulation.
Compute shader dynamic water
Swimming in Outcast was cool. Now forget about visual tricks, the power of modern GPU allows for computing actual forces and move bodies of water like the real thing.
7.1 Sound effects

New content is king, and for this goal we are providing you with:

Brand new introduction movies
. Forget about the old SD intro video. Using top notch motion graphics and the newly redesigned high-definition characters, we will make a brand new and classy introduction movie.
. Along with the intro movie, we will redesign a back-story movie (also using motion graphics) that explains, from the Talan point of view, the Coming of the Ulukai. This movie will be used for promoting the game when it comes out to the general public.
New game music !
Lennie Moore (the composer of the outstanding Outcast original music) will compose 15 minutes of new extra original music. The new music will feature (among others) brand new combat themes, and a new exploration theme for the Shamazaar undergrounds. The new music will be recorded using top notch studio samples.

Stretch goal 1.7M: A new world: Kizaar
We cannot help but think with your help we could build an entirely new world on top of the redesigned original. Designed to take fully advantage of the new technology and character designs, and providing you with an entirely new region to explore, discover and interact with, this stretch goal will also feature brand new quests and dialogs.

Let’s pave the way towards Outcast II, together:

A brand new world, unconstrained
The shapes of the original worlds will be greatly enhanced as we don’t have the same convexity constraint anymore. However we will need to preserve most of the ground terrain features to maintain some of the data for enemies covers and the like. This brand new region however can be build without these limitation. Prepare to be blown away by the new generation of Outcast environments !
New specific quests and gameplay
Kizaar the women island, and its wonderful city O-Lanta, is full of mysteries and legends. Immerse yourself into this amazing region and discover a new face of Talan society.
New recorded dialogs (audio in English only, with subtitles for other languages)

That’s not all ! The original orchestral soundtrack was awesome, and of course we want more !

Orchestral soundtrack
. 15 Minutes of new music specifically created for Kizaar.
. All of the 30 minutes of new music (previous goal + this goal) will be recorded with a live symphony orchestra (like the original game’s music was) !

Questions

Why Kickstarter, why now?
We recently acquired all the rights to the Outcast franchise, and that was a prerequisite to start anything Outcast related. We believe in a close relationship between the developer and the player, something only independent development can provide. We believe cutting the middleman and going through digital distribution allow for reduced cost of games, yet we think some people prefer having a physical object and that’s fine by us. We believe creative control must stay in the hands of the developer and we think publishers don’t add value to indie projects. We believe Kickstarter is a great platform for funding and promoting an indie product. For all these reasons, we think Kickstarter is the way to go for this project.

Is this Outcast 2?
No, this is Outcast 1, with graphic assets rebuilt from scratch in high definition and running on modern platforms using modern technologies. However, if the Kizaar stretch goal is obtained, one can say this is a first glimpse at Outcast 2 starting there.

Why a reboot, why not making Outcast 2?
While we would love to make a full fledged Outcast 2, we think expectations would be so high it would be impossible to fund it based on the current Outcast community alone. Modern AAA games typically require 20+ millions USD to develop. Such an amount of money is currently out of reach of a Kickstarter campaign. Even if we managed to bring down the required money to ‘only’ a few millions thanks to cutting the middleman, removing the often-excessive publisher’ share, and relying on digital distribution, the risk of failure is still quite large. Our goal with this reboot is to broaden the audience by bringing new players into the Outcast world, while rewarding the Outcast community with a beautiful modern version of their favorite game. When that is successful, we can start thinking about a campaign for a full fledged Outcast 2.

What will you make of the money if the pledges go through the roof and pass the highest stretch goal?
We will listen to the community and make our best efforts to implement their most wanted requests and fantasies !
We will add support for more languages (both audio and subtitles).
We will put all efforts into polishing the game even more.
Finally, we will make sure we are well prepared to develop the franchise further (Outcast 2 and beyond) by developing and expanding characters, locations, universe and back-stories even more.

Outcast was a PC-only game but you’re mentioning consoles in your stretch goals. I don’t want the PC version to be dumbed-down because of consoles.
We understand your concerns, and they may have been valid in the past few years. Now we are at a the start of a new generation of consoles that share the same set of features (not necessarily power) with the latest PCs. That means we will not have to compromise the PC version because of consoles.

As PCs will potentially always be more powerful than consoles, the high-end PC version will enjoy higher framerates and possibly higher resolution (consoles version will be limited to 1080p).
To make that clear, Outcast Reboot HD will not support PS3 or XBox360, this is new-gen only.

Note that the release of the console version of the game is subject to the console manufacturer approval.

What technology will you use?
We are always looking at using the best and most suitable technologies for a given project. We usually combine several technologies from various vendors and that includes FreshEngine, our proprietary cross platform, cross generation engine that has been in development since 2004 and used in several commercial games produced by our teams. Our engine has been used in published games on Playstation2, Xbox360, Xbox One and PC. It currently supports PC (DX9 & DX11), VITA, PS3, Xbox360 and Xbox One (PS4 is in the works). On top of that, we often make use of third party technologies such as physics, sound or post process engines. Our goal is to lower the technological risk by using flexible, robust, affordable and mature technologies that when combined together provide awesome results and are well known by the team.

[Taaank]

"Reboot HD" ...

Bon, c'est un reboot ou une adaptation HD ? En tout cas, vivement les premières infos.

[Catel]

Le même jeu mais avec des graphs d'aujourd'hui.

Question, est-ce que ça sera encore des voxels.

[BoZoin]

Le même jeu mais avec des graphs d'aujourd'hui.

Même si j'ai bien envie de jouer à un remake HD de Outcast, je participerai au kickstarter principalement dans l'espoir que si ce reboot fonctionne le studio développe une suite.

Je me demande s'ils vont pouvoir récupérer les mêmes doubleurs...

[Hereticus]

Ce qui m'a toujours frustré avec Outcast c'est que j'ai eu Franck Sauer comme prof et je n'ai appris que plus tard qu'il avait bossé dessus ! .

En tout cas je backerai !!!

[Diwydiant]

Je pense que ça sera le projet qui me donnera envie de passer par KS pour la première fois.

[Vyse]

Il y a pas déjà un remake HD Outcast sous Cryengine sur les rails ?

[BoZoin]

Si mais c'était un projet de fan je crois. Là c'est le studio qui a racheté la licence qui lance le truc.

[sebarnolds]

Autant j'aime bien Outcast, autant je suis pas convaincu que ça soit une bonne idée de faire un kickstarter :
- Perso, avec un patch non officiel, je trouve le jeu toujours aussi envoûtant (je l'ai refait en 2012 ou 2013)
- Je suis pas sûr que la santé financière de la structure soit suffisante pour assurer le bon développement du jeu (cf l'interview mentionné ici)

Même si j'aime le jeu et que je connais sans aucun doute certaines personnes prévues pour bosser sur le projet (ex-collègues).

[Vondudu]

Je pense pas que ça soit un remake, des graphismes hd avec une maniabilité et des animations d'un autre temps j'ai un doute.

Le reboot c'est plus qu'un simple remake il garde l'univers et l'adapte....

Enfin je joue peut être sur les mots

[MetalDestroyer]

Il y a pas déjà un remake HD Outcast sous Cryengine sur les rails ?

Oui, c'est Open Outcast.

[OraNN]

J'avais adoré ce jeu et j'aimerais le refaire avec des graphismes d'aujourd'hui ! C'est une bonne nouvelle que ce lancement de Kickstarter je trouve.

[Vyse]

Oui, c'est Open Outcast.

Du coup si le KS ce concrêtise ce projet risque de ne avoir de raison d'être ?
Cela risque de bien faire mal au fesses vu que cela doit faire quelques années qu'ils y sont dessus !

[Catel]

Du coup si le KS ce concrêtise ce projet risque de ne avoir de raison d'être ?
Cela risque de bien faire mal au fesses vu que cela doit faire quelques années qu'ils y sont dessus !

On trouve leur démarche vraiment super. Je ne pense pas que cela va faire de l’ombre à Outcast: Reboot HD. Au contraire, plus on parle de l’univers d’Outcast, mieux c’est !

[TFC]

Non, Open Outcast est une aventure "original" dans le monde d'Outcast normalement (et dont le dev. est autorisé par Daoka).
Par contre, le jeu qui va être annoncé est effectivement bien un reboot (et pas un remake).

Ils vont viser dans le demi-million de goal, de ce que je sais. Ils auront mes thunes mais j'ai un peu peur qd même (qu'ils aient pas les reins assez solides et surtout... qu'ils "changent trop" par rapport au premier opus).

[barbarian_bros]

Avec un cpu quadcore à 3GHz doit y avoir moyen d'afficher du voxel en 1080p non? Parce que quand j'ai essayé outcast il y a 3-4 ans, ce qui m'a vraiment fait mal c'était la résolution max ridicule : 512x384, même en 1999 ça piquait les yeux... mais de toute façon la démo ramait à mort sur mon vieux AMD K6 200MHz...

[BourrinDesBois]

Il y a un patch HD qui permet de monter la résolution et ça rend assez bien. Ca garde quand même un coté pixelisé.

[TFC]

Avec un cpu quadcore à 3GHz doit y avoir moyen d'afficher du voxel en 1080p non? Parce que quand j'ai essayé outcast il y a 3-4 ans, ce qui m'a vraiment fait mal c'était la résolution max ridicule : 512x384, même en 1999 ça piquait les yeux... mais de toute façon la démo ramait à mort sur mon vieux AMD K6 200MHz...

Oui et non...
Les techno. derrière le moteur, elles ne changeront pas (aliasing, illumination, ...) sans parler des textures ou modèles 3D.

[Lazyjoe]

Avec un cpu quadcore à 3GHz doit y avoir moyen d'afficher du voxel en 1080p non? Parce que quand j'ai essayé outcast il y a 3-4 ans, ce qui m'a vraiment fait mal c'était la résolution max ridicule : 512x384, même en 1999 ça piquait les yeux... mais de toute façon la démo ramait à mort sur mon vieux AMD K6 200MHz...

On peut surtout faire du voxel sur les cartes graphiques récentes ce qui n'était pas possible à l'époque.
Et ça dépote bien (exemple d'une thèse française sur le sujet : http://maverick.inria.fr/Publications/2011/Cra11/ )

[TFC]

Ca n'a rien à voir quand même !

[sebarnolds]

Le kickstarter pour Outcast HD sera lancé lundi !

[Monsieur Cacao]

Jamais fait, ce sera peut être l'occasion. J'avais essayé y'a quelques années mais le voxel piquait vraiment trop les yeux et ça m'a coupé l'envie.

[MetalDestroyer]

J'espère qu'il y aura du contenu in-game, si c'est comme Nexus 2, je ne sais pas si je vais backé même si j'ai adoré Outcast.

[Koma]

Puis le souci c'est les droits sur l'audio FR qui sera pas inclue.

Et jouer à Outcast sans la VF c'est pas possible

J'veux dire, c'est Bruce fuckin Willis qui double Cutter Slade

Et il jure et râle autant que John McLane qui aurait pris une navette spatiale

[MetalDestroyer]

Sauf si il y a un pledge pour avoir le doublage de Bruce Willis.

[Magnarrok]

C'est Patrick Poivey le doubleur ! D'ailleurs je recommande l'écoute de son passage en interview sur Arte Radio :

http://www.arteradio.com/son/5660/bruce_willis/

Juste excellent :D

[Catel]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...cast-reboot-hd hop !

[barbarian_bros]

650.000$ ? ils visent vachement haut pour un remake uniquement sous Windows!

Là où on peut leur faire confiance sur le respect de l'oeuvre originale, c'est que les 6 membres principaux de l'équipe de développement sont les même que chez Appeal.

[runner]

J'ai mis à jour le 1er message avec les stretch goals et la FAQ.

[Taaank]

J'aime bien le pledge à $500 :
"Redeem code for Outcast II whenever it comes out in the future.