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'Into the Breach' promises more pixellated sci-fi action.
If you've played FTL: Faster Than Light, you know that it's a sublime gaming experience, well deserving of its high ratings and devoted fan base. Developer Subset Games has just launched a teaser trailer for its follow-up title, Into The Breach. FTL provided players with perfectly-balanced chaos-management activities that made building, defending and upgrading a spaceship and its crew incredibly fun. Into The Breach looks to be as enjoyable, and the gameplay on display has even more of the same retro-pixel sci-fi mayhem.
Once again, the art-style looks adorable, with an isometric viewpoint on a small gaming grid that's populated with darling little monsters and heroes. The music is by Ben Prunty, the guy that made FTL's distinctive soundtrack (which you can buy on vinyl, you hipster), so you know it's going to rock.
Source: https://www.engadget.com/2017/02/10/ftl-successor/
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 13 2017, @05:08PM
Like fuck.
It's almost impossible.
Hardly. I finished the first game I ever played, albeit on easy mode. This isn't meant to brag as I know countless people are better than me, but the "this is like Dark Souls hard" is an exaggeration. The game is just balanced as games in the 2000s were, where "normal" is a challenge and "hard" is actually hard, not the hand-holding "normal means easy, and impossible means hard" games have evolved to.
If you figure out some basic tricks (visit as many beacons as you can and never run away from a fight, shoot all your weapons at once at a single subsystem, rather than using autofire, when boarded put all your people in the medical room and vent oxygen everywhere else, if you get overwhelmed or confused you should immediately pause the game), you will be 70% to finishing an easy run right there.
If you have time, just watching 15 minutes of a successful player play you'll get most of that right away.