The game is much more beginner-friendly than you would imagine. Now, admittedly, I'm a long-time junkie of mech games, but after a minute or so of initial fumbling, i had a good grasp of the control scheme, and managed to win both my first and second playthroughs without feeling like I was fighting the controller. It really works very well, very intuitively, once you get used to it. In that sense, it's a lot like Virtual On's twinsticks - with a little practice, moving with them becomes like second nature.
Unfortunately, the reason for the hasty demise of our server wasn't the slashdot effect. We could have handled that traffic - some kind-hearted git apparently read the article and thought it would be hilarious to hit us with a zombie client DOS attack.
This is the best picture we've got of the Tekki controller, so I've hosted it up on some personal webspace. If someone wants to mirror it, feel free. Steel Battalion Controller
I couldn't IMAGINE playing Tekki/Steel Battalion on a keyboard/mouse combo. It would be an utter nightmare trying to coordinate all the degrees of motion the game offers on that kind of rig. You control your aim independently of your motion which is independent of your vision. Can you imagine doing that on a KB/mouse?
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Agreed. Playing the game has (unsurprisingly) only made me want it more. It's unquestionably the most realistic mech simulation I've ever played (ironic as that is), and the brief demo mission they whipped up was absolutely fantastic.
Yeah, the capcom reps we spoke to at E3 flat out refused to speculate on a price point. All they'd say is "it will obviously cost more than a game without a controller." Not too useful. I speculate it will be in the $120 range, simply because much more than that would be insane from a sales standpoint.
Believe it or not, it's actually fairly easy to control. It takes a couple tries to get the hang of it, but the learning curve is much less steep than you'd imagine. Don't be intimidated by all the buttons - 80% of the time, your hands are on the joysticks. Most of the buttons are optional functions - switching weapons, adjusting communications, starting up the machine, etc.
The thing on the left is the throttle. As I indicated in my article (if the server was still up for you to read it, at least), you set your speed with that throttle, and then control accelleration with a foot pedal. Another foot pedal controls strafing.
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The game is much more beginner-friendly than you would imagine. Now, admittedly, I'm a long-time junkie of mech games, but after a minute or so of initial fumbling, i had a good grasp of the control scheme, and managed to win both my first and second playthroughs without feeling like I was fighting the controller. It really works very well, very intuitively, once you get used to it. In that sense, it's a lot like Virtual On's twinsticks - with a little practice, moving with them becomes like second nature.
Unfortunately, the reason for the hasty demise of our server wasn't the slashdot effect. We could have handled that traffic - some kind-hearted git apparently read the article and thought it would be hilarious to hit us with a zombie client DOS attack.
This is the best picture we've got of the Tekki controller, so I've hosted it up on some personal webspace. If someone wants to mirror it, feel free. Steel Battalion Controller
I couldn't IMAGINE playing Tekki/Steel Battalion on a keyboard/mouse combo. It would be an utter nightmare trying to coordinate all the degrees of motion the game offers on that kind of rig. You control your aim independently of your motion which is independent of your vision. Can you imagine doing that on a KB/mouse?
This game, obviously.
Agreed. Playing the game has (unsurprisingly) only made me want it more. It's unquestionably the most realistic mech simulation I've ever played (ironic as that is), and the brief demo mission they whipped up was absolutely fantastic.
Yeah, the capcom reps we spoke to at E3 flat out refused to speculate on a price point. All they'd say is "it will obviously cost more than a game without a controller." Not too useful. I speculate it will be in the $120 range, simply because much more than that would be insane from a sales standpoint.
Believe it or not, it's actually fairly easy to control. It takes a couple tries to get the hang of it, but the learning curve is much less steep than you'd imagine. Don't be intimidated by all the buttons - 80% of the time, your hands are on the joysticks. Most of the buttons are optional functions - switching weapons, adjusting communications, starting up the machine, etc.
The thing on the left is the throttle. As I indicated in my article (if the server was still up for you to read it, at least), you set your speed with that throttle, and then control accelleration with a foot pedal. Another foot pedal controls strafing.