Clockwork Empires Steampunk game laden with WTF?

Gusington · April 24, 2014, 01:10:47 PM

Oh. What?

bob48 · April 25, 2014, 05:18:47 PM

I do so hope this game is not going to be on Steam.

Gusington · April 25, 2014, 05:58:38 PM

But...it's steampunk. Bawb.

undercovergeek · April 25, 2014, 06:26:11 PM

Quote from: bob48 on April 25, 2014, 05:18:47 PM
I do so hope this game is not going to be on Steam.

you still having steam problems?

Staggerwing · April 25, 2014, 08:51:45 PM

Quote from: undercovergeek on April 25, 2014, 06:26:11 PM
Quote from: bob48 on April 25, 2014, 05:18:47 PM
I do so hope this game is not going to be on Steam.

you still having steam problems?

He's pro'lly getting steamed up about it too.

Nefaro · April 25, 2014, 10:58:50 PM

Quote from: Staggerwing on April 25, 2014, 08:51:45 PM
Quote from: undercovergeek on April 25, 2014, 06:26:11 PM
Quote from: bob48 on April 25, 2014, 05:18:47 PM
I do so hope this game is not going to be on Steam.

you still having steam problems?

He's pro'lly getting steamed up about it too.

He needs to blow some Steam.

Not sure if they'd take him up on it, however.

bob48 · April 26, 2014, 10:31:06 AM

I've just had so many problems with Steam recently that I don't bother with it. I only have a few games anyway, and most of them I can play in off-line mode. I have made up my mind, if possible, never to buy another game that has to rely on Steam.

undercovergeek · July 17, 2014, 03:17:25 AM

early access tomorrow

http://clockworkempires.com/

Staggerwing · July 17, 2014, 05:47:43 AM

R' ye gettin' it, guv?

bob48 · July 17, 2014, 06:31:50 AM

Oooh..................ooh....oooohhhh!

Gusington · July 17, 2014, 07:10:30 AM

Uh oh.

undercovergeek · July 17, 2014, 07:12:59 AM

Quote from: Staggerwing on July 17, 2014, 05:47:43 AM
R' ye gettin' it, guv?

It's not often I say this but I'm ok for games.... I'm happy with what I'm playing and have other stuff in the pipeline.... I'll watch but I'm not in yet

steve58 · July 17, 2014, 08:39:54 AM

I've been watching this one for the last year (or two?) and was looking forward to it, but I think I'm gonna have to hold off for a couple of reasons. Not happy with $30 price tag for an early, early access game and the minimum requirements might also put it out of my reach for now. The min specs call for an i5 and I've got a Core2Quad 2.66GHz, so I'll still be watching and waiting... :(

Bletchley_Geek · July 21, 2014, 08:38:52 PM

I got this one over the weekend, and could devote something like one hour to it.

I liked a lot what I saw, but it's clearly work in progress - so not the best value for money right now. I could appreciate that the systems in it are as deep and complex as advertised, and I could also see the precursor of a strong AI driving your colonists (even with some blatant bugs/glitches, like them ignoring the accommodation I had built and sleeping instead in the cold damp ground).

My favorite moment was when I got to see my colonists repelling an incursion of fish people and then cutting their corpses for meat (I was trying to figure out how to kickstart food production, and they were hungry). This in particular highlights the AI as I perceive it to be the result of something like this:

1) Food levels in the stockpile are low, goal for idle colonists (the soldiers in this particular example) is set to bring up food levels
2) Options to achieve that goal were - from what I could work out from the interface - gather berries/mushrooms in the forest, slaughter fish people corpses
3) The AI evaluates its options and sees that the fish people corpses are closer to the stockpile than the berries/mushrooms
4) The AI commits to the fish people option, and a colonist executes a series of tasks (represented by the animation the character is playing) to gather food - pick up tool (knife), go to corpse, slaughter corpse, pick up meat, go to stockpile, etc.

I didn't see them hunting any wildlife, I am not sure that was because they were being thrifty about their firearms or because the AI has still to be programmed to consider that as an option.

Dread Rlyeh · July 21, 2014, 11:51:10 PM

Quote from: Bletchley_Geek on July 21, 2014, 08:38:52 PM
I didn't see them hunting any wildlife, I am not sure that was because they were being thrifty about their firearms or because the AI has still to be programmed to consider that as an option.

The work crews have the hunting option turned off by default. IIRC, it is the second option from the right. After I set my militia to hunt, they engaged the local wildlife.

I played for about an hour as well and would also classify CE as a 'work in progress'. I had some errors (resulting in a crash) related to patrol waypoints and also wasn't able to get my workshop sawing planks (despite queuing them up), I had to manually select each bundle of logs and chose the 'plank' option.

I'm thinking I will give this one a couple weeks before experimenting again. It has potential, but probably isn't worth the money for the 'early early access', unless you want to support the devs.