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PostPosted: Thu, 25th Jun 2015 20:25    Post subject: Oriental Empires (Iceberg interactive)

http://store.steampowered.com/app/357310/
FULL release date: November 2016

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Oriental Empires is a turn based 4X style civilization-building game set in ancient China. It will feature both single player campaigns as well as a multiplayer mode. Oriental Empires covers the period from earliest recorded history, until the widespread adoption of firearms (roughly 1500 BC to 1500 AD) and aims to realistically depict the world of ancient China, with a focus on the unique aspects of that civilization. This extremely deep strategy game includes both an historic scenario on a realistic period map of China, and skirmish-style scenarios on random or user generated maps.

Development of Oriental Empires is being led by R.T. Smith and John Carline, two veteran strategy game developers with more than 30 years’ experience between them. Previously they worked together on the Total War series of games, in roles including Project Director and Lead Artist, and have credits on many other AAA titles from studios including Crystal Dynamics, Pandemic, Frontier Developments, and Slightly Mad Studios.

Step into the world of the ancient Orient. Control a city or tribe from the dawn of Chinese history, and turn it into a great empire. Develop your land, create great cities, raise huge armies and fight epic wars. Advance your technology, culture and religion to create one of mankind’s great civilizations. All the action takes place on one spectacular game map that brings to life the mountains, forests, plains and deserts of China. Zoom in close to review your troops and see your peasants toiling, or zoom out for a strategic overview. Plan your battles, end your turn, and then watch as your armies obey your orders, with hundreds of soldiers battling right on the game map.
The game is currently set for a Summer 2015 Early Access debut on the Steam Platform.

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The game is said to take place on one seamless strategic map, which will allow you to zoom right in or out of the world. That’s a feature I’ve previously enjoyed in the Hegemony titles.

As is befitting of a 4x game, Oriental Empires will include building construction, research trees (for culture and philosophy, as well as weaponry) and the ability to set edicts, laws and decrees in your realm.

The battles will be “large” in scale, with hundreds or even thousands of soldiers taking part. I’m going to just copy what the press release says about the battles, because it seems as if you give orders ahead of time and then watch the clash unfold (so not really turn-based or real-time,) but it isn’t entirely clear. Here’s the line: “Watch skilled armies and reinforcements go to battle, according to the battle orders and formations set by the player.”


Key Features
  • Start out as a single nation or tribe, starting from humble beginnings with a single settlement and expand your empire and develop your culture with the aim of becoming the universally recognized Son of Heaven and ruler of the world.
  • Persuade the other factions to recognize you as such by either military force, or by diplomatic persuasion.
  • Play as one of 16 different factions each with their own special bonuses or penalties.
  • Vast beautifully rendered map featuring an attractive and authentic depiction of the landscape of China and Mongolia.
  • Large scale battles with hundreds or thousands of soldiers, depicted in detail right on the game map. Watch skilled armies and reinforcements go to battle, according to the battle orders and formations set by the player.
  • Fully animated 3D models, with variations in face and clothing for each model, including infantry, cavalry, chariot and artillery units, as well as naval forces.
  • Long seamless zoom range lets you step right into the game world or zoom out for a strategic overview.
  • Develop your settlements by constructing buildings and developing the landscape around them, build markets and ports to enable trade by land and water.
  • Elaborate research tree including technology as well as cultural, philosophical and religious developments.
  • Many other elements will determine the outcome of you quest for dominance such as Leaders, Sieges, Unrest and Rebellion, and Authority and Culture ratings.
  • As Emperor, set edicts, laws and decrees to balance power and move into a glorious new Era, with new technologies and military units that change the game!

Some screens:
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PostPosted: Wed, 31st Aug 2016 12:38    Post subject:
steampage live and Coming to Steam Early Acces on September 20, 2016

http://store.steampowered.com/app/357310/

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Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?
    “The Early Access period is estimated to last a maximum of 2 months.”

How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?
    “The [url]only major change planned for the final release, is the addition of multiplayer mode[/url]. We will of course be eagerly listening to user feedback, and making improvements to game balance, AI, UI and of course fixing any significant bugs that are uncovered. In addition we will use the Early Access period to localize the game to several other languages, while also adding Steam Features such as Trading Cards.”

What is the current state of the Early Access version?
“The English language single player version of the game is feature complete, although it may still contain some minor bugs. The game has had several months of beta testing to achieve a reasonable state of balance and tuning, but it’s likely that this can be improved further with feedback from Early Access players.”




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PostPosted: Wed, 31st Aug 2016 17:57    Post subject:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/357310/discussions/0/352792037326823551/

Nothing new at all for this type of game but it looks like some other Asian civilizations could be added in via DLC, unlikely for anything outside of Asia to be added though as that would be more fitting for a new game due to the work required.
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PostPosted: Wed, 31st Aug 2016 17:59    Post subject:
prudislav wrote:
steampage live and Coming to Steam Early Acces on September 2, 2016


Sept. 20th according to Steam.
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PostPosted: Wed, 21st Sep 2016 07:24    Post subject:
Out in EA now.
Reviews so far are very positive.
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PostPosted: Wed, 21st Sep 2016 10:05    Post subject:
Looks neat. Anyone here tried it ?
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PostPosted: Wed, 21st Sep 2016 12:19    Post subject:


Gave it a very short sneak peak. Not my cup of tea (I drink coffee, thank you very much).

Now, I am a very big Civ game, it's maybe that fact, that kinda blurred my view when it comes to civ-like games. I maybe try too much to compare them to civ, so I maybe sometimes get lost, when playing a civ-like.

It's just, that it feels too familiar and when things are different, it kinda irritates me.

With that being said, I found the game, for the little I've seen, remember, to be rather bland, to be honest.

It felt like I was playing a "Civ-light" made for the chinese market. But then again, I only played for about 20 minutes and then just kinda stopped and moved on.

So, yeah, that is just my opinion of course and feel free to have your own Smile
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PostPosted: Tue, 12th Sep 2017 09:24    Post subject:
Oriental Empires to Launch 14 September 2017 http://steamcommunity.com/games/357310/announcements/detail/1441569378498087538

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PostPosted: Thu, 14th Sep 2017 14:05    Post subject:
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PostPosted: Tue, 13th Nov 2018 13:36    Post subject:
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