Achron Alpha Demo 2 - Multiplayer

[veracityfilms]

I guess everyone's hear the latest breakthrough as of a few days ago saying time travel may be possible at least at a subatomic level.

I wonder if something I've stumbled across could open new doors in scientific research. If you follow my link to see my first upload "Witness a Miracle" you'll see what I'm talking about. The first few moments after it comes into focus are key to watch, and it easier to see full screen. I swear this footage is genuine. p.s I'm not selling anything.

[sodin6]

Wait.... what

[Xerxes4242]

I will get this:D

[h0tie]

Teamliquid brought me here

[Immutablyme]

Question: Does all this time travel affect the world? If not, would you consider it? An example: The more time abuse occurs on both sides has a negative impact on the geography and time and space itself, causing rifts to open. Rifts could suck units in, swallow buildings, or spew out random beings, hazards or events.

[fuunguus]

Very interesting concept. Gotta try this game!

[ScottZirpolo]

This is genius.

[YorickMesch]

This is genius :D

[Nodle66]

What is this program/game?

[PeterDivine]

I wonder if we can get TimeSplitter units...

[UOweMeABuck]

personally, graphics such as these would be good, because of the higher frames per second and ect low quality graphics bring to not so great computers.

[xBiocide]

This is trippy shit. I want. Now!

This game has great potential, but I really do hope the bump up the graphics atleast a bit. I don't care for crazy-awesome graphics, but something decent would do wonders.

[DaBakerOfCake]

There is a limit of how much you can go into the past, something like 8 minutes, anything after that is permanent and unchangeable

[unit3727]

I wonder if there will be AI and how the AI will even do this.

[Freecell82]

There's AI, and the AI does do all this stuff. They've mentioned that on the highest settings, it'll go as far as deliberately creating paradoxes.

[MrCrow314]

Multiplayer offline ? or u play offline or u play online

Multiplayer = Play Online

And u can play offline and online :)

Hope i helped u ;)

Bye

[Asbestos101]

yeah exactly

[SimonTheWookie]

this has potential. nice concept

[KadenXx]

I want an army of a single mech and it's dopplegangers... Then if the original gets killed all the others disappear lol.

I can't wait to play this game. The good news is as soon as the time wave from the future takes effect I'll already have mastered the game by this time.

Unless of course I don't like the game in which case I'll never buy it even if I did.... It would be rather unpleasant to mass as assault in the present only to be attacked in the past and have that assault cease to exist...

[acountddd]

I cannot wait to play this game in the future and wage war with people in the past from the future.

[StoneCypher]

I cannot having been waited to have been being plays this game.

[DONTGOTHERE124027451]

Oh noes, incoming mind fuck >.>

[PeterDivine]

You could just go back in time and make sure you never see the video. Eventually, the mind fuck will have never occurred.

[sanguinius01]

mind over loading

[chimpy72]

same here :O

What's to stop people just repeatedly going back and changing the battles in their favour? I mean, his "chrono energy" replenished pretty quickly.

[LJDouglas]

Their website says they set the regeneration speed for the chrono energy really high for the demo.

[GuardMarcellus]

Firstly, the chrono energy in the actual game will refill more slowly. They sped it up so they wouldn't run into problems while doing the video.

Secondly, the timeline only stretches 8 minutes back, I think it is. So you cant affect anything beyond that point.

[Marzen64]

If you just keep going back and back and back, NO ONE is going to win. You'll be stalemating for the entire thing. But, luckily, the chrono energy replenishes itself slowly in the game, and you can't go that far back.

[MrQuizzles]

Ok, this is freakin' awesome.

[TheUnpleasantTMOG]

A game this fucking complicated won't succeed. It looks amazing as hell, but too many gamers will be scared away.

[Jahkaivah]

People said the same thing about Portal, these kind of ideas tend to only confuse when your shown it, once you play the game I imagine much of it will come off as common sense more than anything else.

Anyhow being complicated doesn't stop games from finding an audience, just look at the following EvE Online and Dwarf Fortress has.

[TheUnpleasantTMOG]

The difference is that Portal isn't multiplayer. A single-player FPS game involving portals won't be nearly as complicated / intimidating to most gamers as a multi-player RTS game involving time travel.

[FreakshowDK]

What? Where have anybody said that about Portal? Or Narbacular Drop?

[N1ddhog]

@Jahkaivah True about the portal thing, but I hope it has a very comprehensive tutorial, or even getting to the point of TRYING to play to get a feel might be close to impossible.

[vash47]

Mindblowing.

[Stairmaster9068]

Will there be a hitler unit that is immune to history changes?

[SnakeTheFox]

wat

[unacomn]

Amazing is too humble a word. This is the most elegant way of implementing time travel in an RTS that I have ever seen.

[psydrummerhead]

I guess units are not created from a building but form thin air... cause if not... heh... What if a unit goes back in time and destroys the building that generated it :giggle:

Grandpa, lala twist

Great concept, I'd love to see you develop a way for players to take advantage of the game system. That means "I hope you can make people understand how to play it".

Good job :D

[roetemeteor]

I was thinking that too. I figured if you opponet made a bunch of units, you could time-travel, and destroy that factory, or the worker that would build it.

Therefore, for example, all those 80 mutalisks that zerg player cooked up goes bye bye. (Just using starcraft as an example.)